New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-03-10
Something for Every Body.

There are nearly thirteen hundred Methodist
preachers in England Eighty new chapels built
| last year.
A Partisan journal announces that the female
foot has made its are worn
shorter.
The love of ruling and the love of accumula.
ting the two Fures which torment mankind beyond
| all others
| ]. A. Woodside, the we'll known artist. died
in Philadelphia recently aged seventy years He was con-
sidered one of the best sign painters in the country
The Government of Wurtemburg have awarded
medal to Professor Morse testimonial their appre
citation OF his merit as the inventor Of the telegraph
The Burlington Sentinel says Mrs Forests
heavy receipts at Broughans theatre grow out OF the
ta.p and the pfofts.n
The number Of American vessels which az
rived at st. Petersburg for 1851 was ss tonnage 24So2
| seamen in American vessels 66s, foreign 127,
II is found by calculation that at s2s yards a
man has the appearance Of onethird his height ut 47
yards one-tourth and at SAC one.ffth,
It is said that the annual pay of Prince Ma
poleon will be fixed at $4,000 snug sum for repubii.
can President
Miss Fanny Mahony, d nun in an Irish con-
vent has eloped and concealed by her friends among
the Derrinane mountains.
Gen. Wool is opposed to Kossuth's doctrine of
inervention opposed to and in favor of Gen Wool
as candidate for the Presidency.
An exploring expedition, sent by the English
into the interior of Southern Africa has returned and
reports the discovery large rivers fertile valleys and
powerful tribes of blacks.
Commander Francis B. Ellison has been Or
dered to the Navy Yard NewYork Inspector of pro
visions and clothing. vice Commander Edward W Car
penter, detached.
Talking about women voting the BURLINGTON
Sentinel says Cradles the ballot boxes tor women
in which they should deposit votes voters That
makes Warwick ofevery mother of 'em.''
About three ffths of the children in New
Jersey do not attend school, Common schools in that
and havor
an average, about nine months In the year.
The residences of two citizens of Davenport
Iowa pelted with stones few ago by set of
outlaws for having informed Germans who were
selling liquor without license.
The following knotty question claims the at
tention of one or all Of debating societies If man
has tiger by the tail which would be the best for his
personal safety-to hold on or to let go.,
Samuel A. Smith was shot dead in Amelia
county Virginia recently by A. L. Tucker Smith opened
his bosom and told him to shoot and Tucker took him Mt
his word They both of respectable parents but
Incorporate.
Arrangements are in progress for the forma-
ton OF an English railway company in the Empire of
Brazil line been projected from Rio de eneiro to the
interior Provinces Of San Paule and Minas Gcraes A
special grant has been obtained from the Government
The age of chivalry is not gone. We see that
Marshal keyser in Philadelphia calamity surrendered t.
miniature engine which he had conscated in the streets
upon the entreaty OF charming young girl friend of the
delinquent boys Rise, Sir Marshal Keyser.''
Liz oHoboySbu LakG journal makes the fol-
lowing charge against the Wisconsin Legislature now in
session at Madison Most of the time of the Lepisln
sase Ia" III been employed in prefrg foolish charges
theatre, and drinking whisky
private letter, dated Paris February II,
1852 says: Paris is dull and dsheartened The rich
are Furnishing the working classes by employing them as
little as possible and by diminishing the demand for ar
ucies Oh thelr production in every way in their power
Messrs. Van Zandt s. Livingston, Custom
House brokers, NewYork, have commenced suit against
Collector Maxwell for part of the proceeds of the prop
ery Of Mr. j. X. Herrick conscaed for enormous and
long continued smuggling, Messrs v z. & L. claim to
have been the real dctectors of erricks gigantic
frauds and entitled to reward accordingly
The taste for high sounding names which dis
tnguishes western friend when they take to christn
ing towns and villages is strikngly shown in proposal
issued by the Postoice few months since for running
one horse mail from Hiniostau' to Palestine hy
way Of Golgotha' and 'Hookemsnfey
The winter, which has been so severe here.
has been very spngike in Europe In Paris at the be-
ginning OF February acs hyacnths filed the
flower markets According to adyices from the north -
iuer season mas not been experlenced-even far as
Norway--sinee the commencement OF the century
The Italian journals state that in the village
OF Femu short distance from Bergamo a terrible fire
broke out during the night and two hundred dweInrs
were consumed The old women and many cattle ner
ished and nearly forty persons were more or less hurt
whilstendeavoring to extinguish the flames.
The Paris Constitutional complains with
much asperity of the blockade established on the
of Africa account of the affair at Lagos This nnnrr
says that inasmuch the English trading settlement of
baagry Is exempted the object is to the French
settlement of Whydah where iourishing trade which
exciteS English jealousy, is carried on
The mine Of Vallecillo, in Mexico, which was |
abandoned by the Spaniards in 1920 has been reopened
ana now being worked with great success The water
mas all deem pumped out by of Il steam engine and
the mine put in good order again It yields silver in
aoundance ana small quantity of mercury The yield
per Jay reaches $1,000 and expenses amount only TO SOU
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News
says; There is established in The department of the
censorship OF the particular bureau for the exam
nation of the English paper and expert LAWYERS arc
to read the London Journals the object of
u VT eaumnous news, upon which trial libel
may De instituted before the British courts of law
Inc hudson is closed as far rs the Highlands
At Newburgh foot passengers cruss At po,sbkeans;e
NY re yet heen inches thic In IIaverstraw and
wb ay the Ice on the flats prevents to the
20 as far as permont Here III, ice is solid enablin
ts leans TO cross The earliest permanent opepins
afss years was about thu 23d February the
iaeest was the 18th of April, 1913.
David Young, whose name is fom;,;o,. 70 ,hos,
nv nave ever seen an almanac within the half past CEN
tury died at Hanover, in Morris county n I hi mo-
ave village a short time since at the are of as Mr.
nom Inc greater part of his life in making astro-
Tor ulnanacs for various parts of tis
Union including California and we believe even for TN
icy anu France In return for almanac calculated for
ne meridian OF Consantinoplc some wears since be ~
'eived valuable present from the sultan His srt ~
nanac was published about 1904 '' '''' ~
In Iunls, a girl after she is betrothed i.
ooped up in small shackes of gold and s,yor az.
aeed upon her ankles and wrists piece of dress If
ne Is TO DC married to man who has DISCHARGED ii
atched or lost former wife the shackes which the for
ner wife wore put the brides limbs and Sbo
led TILL they are filed up to proper thickness The
'ou used Tor this custom worthy of the Barharians /,
aed trough, which is of extraordinary fattennr Quail
ana also famous for rendering the milk of the nur.
zen and abundant. With this seed aud their national
sh cnscaSco the bride literally crammed and many
ctlally die under the spoon 80