New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-14


KILLED BY A STARK, We End In Baltimore
paper that o pilot named Samuel Ashoomb,
while in the water near Old Point Comfort, was
seized and pulled under by shark. He was
heard to utter q cry and then disappeared.
His body was afterwards recovered in man
gled condition.
DISHONEST CLERK.-George Wood, boy,
clerk Of broker in Wall street, New York,
was sent to bank few days ago with $1,000
in small bills In short time he returned to
his employer and stated that he had lost the
money. Upon being arrested, however, and
closely questioned by police officer, confessed
that he had concealed it under door stoop in
an adjoining street. The money was returned
to the owner, and the boy was permitted to 60
about his business
HEAVY RoBBERY.-Mr. Malone, President of
the Farmers Bank of Lancaster, Pa, was
recently robbed Of $4,000 in Philadelphia by two
Germans. He had been paying out money, and
left his carpet-bag at the hotel. The thieves
had been watching him, and they succeeded in
carrying it off, with the $4,000 in bills Of the
Lancaster Bank, which they exchanged for gold
in New York, and then sailed for Europe in the
steamer. str0.. 1-| ~
LIGHT UNDER WATER AT the depth Of 720
feet, through SEQ water, according to Bougour,
light ceases to be transmitted; and probably at
three times that depth there is perpetual dark
ness Only one hundred thousandth part of
In &ha tn hall
forty seven fathoms. The depths of the ocean
are, consequently, involved in total darkness,
SO far as the present means of scientific pene-
tration extend.
SINGULAR ACCIDENT Milford, Mass,
few days since, little girl, Amy Frances, be-
tween three and four years Of age, daughter Of
Mr.. g. W. Bosworth, came to her death in the
| following singular manner She was sitting on
tho doorstone playing with her dolls, and occa-
sonally swinging them in q loop Of the clothes
| line, loose end of which hung from q nail at
the side of the door. In some way she got her
own,peck into the loop, and slipping, as is sup
pos5d, from the end of the doorstone, became SO
suspended by the neck that when found life was
| extinct.
The fly wheel of rolling mill in South Bos-
| ton burst on the night of the 3D. inst with ire
mendous effect. 1t weighed 16 tons, and broke
into hundreds Of fragments, doing great damage
| to the building. A piece, weighing 8 tons, was
thrown across the yard and descended through
the roof of the main building, where 200 people
were at work, but no one was injured. The
damage amounts to several thousand dollars.
| ANOTHER DEADLY AFFRAY.-We learn from
the Holly Springs Times that, on the 18th, two
citizens of Marshall county, named Bogard and
Baukman, had come difficulty in reference to a
settlement Angry words ensued and Bogard
being at the house of Baukman was ordered to
leave the premises. Bogard then drew his knife
and threatened to kill Baukman, who rushed
out into the yard and, Selling paling, struck
two or three blows over Bogard's head, which
felled him to the ground. Mr.. B. proceeded to
town after the occurrence, but died from the
effects of his wounds on the following evening.
HEAVY RoBBERY.-Mr f. McMullen, mem
Der of Congress from Virginia, was recently
robbed of about $500 near Richmond while or
his way to that city ta..., .-.
| WHOLESALE BuTCHERY AT GREENvILLE.--We
have been shown letter from Greenville, Butler
county, says the Mobile Tribune, of the 18th
inst, which states that in q general melee OF
Monday last, Felix Gafford had his throat cu
and died the day after J. Williams and Johr
Caldwell were both cut up shockipgly and art
probably dead, and VIM. Williams, Frank CAT
ford and Henry Caldwell were all seriously