New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-26


Kate Lawrence, daughter Of Hon. Abbott
Lawrence, has been presented with most
magnificent silver service of plate, by George
Peabody, Esq, the London banker. 1t is to
be manufactured in London, at the cost of
$4,000. Miss L., it is said, is about to be
married.
Mr. John G.. Waddell, compositor in the
office of the Democrat, at Columbus, Miss, was
seriously wounded on the night of the 18th, by
pistol ball, while in an ARRAY with Benz F.
Ford, compositor in the Standard office, of the
same place.
Mrs. Mowatt, the accomplished authoress
and actress, will be married on the 9th of June,
at Ravenswood, Long Island The marriage
ceremony will no doubt be very unique and
elegant, and the party a very select one
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Owing to difficulty which has occurred at
the State University at Tuscaloosa, Ala, be-
tween the teachers and students, the Mobile
Advertiser learns that about fifty students have
withdrawn from the University
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BY a telegraphic dispatch from Boston we
learn that the Hon. Edward Everett has resigned
his seat in the United States Senate, in conse-
quenee of i'll health-the resignation to take
effect in June.
Mr.. John Rowe, Of Chattanooga, Tenn, was
Instantly wounded on the 18th by the accidental
discharge Of o gun, in the hands Of another
man.
1t is rumored that Lewis Cass, Jr, our
Charge at Rome, is about to spouse Miss
Ludlam, of New York, at Rome, where the
fair .1fancee is sojourning.
Hon. Nicholas MeCarty, of Indiana, Wing
politician of some eminence, died in Indianapo-
lis on the 18th
The ship Progress arrived at New York on the
18th. She sailed from Liverpool with 757 pas
sengers, AZ of whom died on the passage.
Deaths by hydrophobia in the Northern
States are very frequent, too numerous to be
noticed particularly.
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A married lady named Virginia Potete COM
mitted suicide near Dahlonegar, Ga, on the
18th, by cutting her throat with a razor.
The fly" is ravaging the tobacco crop in
different portions Of Maryland, and already,
it is said, serious damage has been done.
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A Mr.. Edmonson, in McCraken county, XIV,
last week, on sitting down to breakfast, dis
covered the biscuit on the table of an unusual
color; he called his cook and required her to
eat one of them, which she did very reluctantly,
and died in fifteen minutes afterwards from the
effects of the poison she intended for her master
and mistress.
LIBERAL DoNAmoN.--Tke Hon r. F. W. All
ston has given $4,000 to the South Carolina
College, to educate poor scholars.
MORMON MISSIONARIES. elders of the
Mormon Church at Salt Lake. Utah Territory,
are now on their way to the British Isles
HYMENEAL INSTRUCTOR. -Somebody advertises
for agents to sell q work entitled Hymeneal
Instructor. cotemporary adds: THE best
hymeneal instructor we know of is young
widow. What she don't know, there is no use
learning"
DEGENERAoY OF THE FIRST FAMILIES OF V1R-
GINIA.-A Rev. Charles Brookes submitted a
paper to the American Statistical Association
upon the effect of interr1arriage between blood
AOiatAoho' LII ouo CuuESt VI II He STATED ~ some
of the first families of Virginia have degene-
rated to painful extent, on account Of the
repeated intermarriages of the members, in their
attempts to keep the property in the family.
Some of the best blood has thus so degenerated
that those who now represent it are dWarfs in
more than single sense
FRIGHTFUL Loss OF LIFE IN ENGLISH MINES.
From a statement in the London Times, we
ascertain that ssabout one thousand persons
are killed annually in the mines of this coun-
try (England.) This is q fearful statement,
when it is recollected that the total amount of
deaths in the British squadrons on the African
station, for twenty one years, was 1888, out of
20,6o4; so that one year and a half in the Eng
ligh mines destroys more lives than the casual
ties OF sea service and the climate of Africa
has done in twenty-one years.
A SLIP. --Holford, the American who amassed
an immense fortune by banking in London, and
who died q week since, was reported to have
willed all his property, worth $780, 900, mostly
in American stocks and real estate in New
York, to the Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's
Oldest son, and the future British King 1t
seems to have been mistake. The London Illus
trated News, of the 22d of April, states that
Mr.. Il g will, making the above bequest to the
young Prince, was fully prepared, but he died
before he was able to sign It'll That sends his
poor relations into high clover.
BABY Show IN CANADA-A correspondent of
the Burlington Free Press gives an amusing
account of baby show in Bytown, Canada,
on the I'd inst. The prizes were 500 each to
the three largest, latest and handsomest
babies in the town of March There were but
two babies presented, one 16 and the other II
months old, each of whom received prize
After some appropriate speeches by the judges.
one of the lucky mothers made the announce |
ment that 6 she should have another baby to
show at the same time and place next year, if |
there was premium to be given,'' which caused |
rounds of applause.
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