New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-08-30
miscellaneous Mems Items.


of the people is excellent. An AHEMcAr.
o. miscellaneous Mems Items.
q A friend writing us from Port Hudson unde,
date 9th inst says: The rot is inuring cotton
crops severely in this neghborhood and many plants
ons nearly all the bo either OPEN destroyed by
= that readfu disease to cotton the s'dry rot"
!; TIL corn crop in Kansas, whioh at first
pr,em nothing but starvation represented grow.
ing wiz tn exceeding rapidy, and immense yield
pat ed. In ak weeks after planting the began to
tass,sl. 7o. 0.-- asu ~.=
. TEse Grand Jury of Erie county, Pa, have
recomm ended subscription by the County Commits.
sioners Of $4,000 to the stock of the Pittsburgh and
Erie Ra broad The counties of Lawrence and Mercer
have sch subscribed $3.50 0oo-snd Crawford county
e s2oo,oN , to the road.
Gem gus returns from various counties in Wis.,
consn 1--WE of 46s inhabitants leaving twenty
ountes to hear FROM which probably have 10000
inhabit ants.
@ correspondent Of the Newburyport Herald
tells story of SEEMING mackerel at the Iies of Shoals
rather too large for belief He says that ct
haul Of his seine brought in $1l00 worth of mseke-
rel, paid 50 hour for dressing them,
save Il lie great number from spelling. z9
Alb out three hundred miles Of telegraph
wires ire in operation in CALIFORNIA; Prices from San
Franco to Stockton Sacramento Marysvie 81 for
first e words, and ten cents for ee,h additional word
The ia riff is higher than in England where 81 50 paid
for wi rat would cost twenty five cents in this country
A writer in the New York Economist esti-
mates the wheat crop Of the States Canada at
Ooa0@ of bushels while the editor Of the Rochester Dem
estimates it at less than 2O2 900 bushels
which 1250O00Oo will be wanted for home consumption
leaving surplus for export and stock Of T72oooOo
! buahel J.
A 9 irl was talking Of the loss her sister had
recent sustained in the death Of devoted husband
Poor Mary m said she though George has been dead
months yet she gsits hr sh epea nov whenever
she thi nks Of him.
A boy Of eleven years of age, named Master
Noses has been playing Richard III. in Cleveland
Onl Sanford Tattoon, colored barber in COL
ch,sste g married Sunday evening the 18th inst.
to Mis- Mary Morris, blue-eyed daughter Of Erin
This Indignation was perhaps bad, but the Of
owdes in the place. mobbing the poor negro the
ght still Every tests how.
ever he country Is fresi
Tht number of cases of shoes transported over
the 30 ston and Maine Railroad during the week ending
the 18th inst $685. oontnring $50 PATS and
valued at S145,l20.
Thu Emperor Of Austria has conferred wpon
PROBES SOC Morse the large golden medal for arts and
OF VhuRbe
by hin to science by his system Of elegrsphs which has
been xtensvey applied the Austrian dominons It II
gratif ing to the merits of prominent men Of
scienc acknowledged by such Satisfactory tokens Of &
tinett abroad,
Th Q ship Bostonian, Capt. Mailing, on her late
passae from Liverpool TO Hong Kong in lat 25 long
IL W. experienced two shocks of earthquake sub
marin volcano On the afternoon of March H. 1856 at
afp asst O'clock 1t being quite and the sea smooth
lou rumbing noise heard, and the shin began to
ahake violently This phenomenon lasted about three
mimi tehe noise resembling long train of passing
over bridge. At O'Clock this following morning
snot shock felt, but loud or long "a the
hrss. The but slightly agitsted the time The
neare st land the coast Of Africa distant shout sxs
miles
r. ~. Mr. Constantine, formerly clergyman
of tn Baptist denomination at Lawrence Mass has be-
come convert to spritualism His conversion was in
this WISE He day expressing decided opinion
aga ist the reality of spiritual manifestations when he
was suddenly seized by invisible influence lifted mp
his chair and dropped upon the door, boots
ullt ID Of of which went up to the ceiling the
and slowly descended again These astounding per-
led him to investigate the subject he nov
lie yes in spirits We think 1t high time that the
end gentleman gave In his adhesion If by want Of
18th he was to b. bereft Of understandings but we
h,u Ia have liked to have that boot |
II on Albert Constable, Judge Of the Balti. |
,ors County Court, died in Philadelphia on the ed |
nsts mt |
ademsoiselle Rachel will open in New York |
dopday next Sd September in Comedies tragedy Of
Ior
7 he new Five Points House Of Industry will |
fine brick building, fre-proo and in all respects
lap the wants of the Mission with chapel school
nd work-rooms dormories etc The cost OF the build
~ and ground will be $4,000 including s11 900 paid for
Ia, hn,,fkh hu foat ,rd
zig BIT Of stories 1t stands the spot formerly known
J" Farlows Court" which occupied by q wretehsd
Of people, and according to the landlord
in I'd inmates It will probably be finished by the
It Of December. The old premises will still be retained
part Of the Mission property and leased to worthy
mi les
7 he following, which we extract from the
egraphic Of the New York Times of the Esd instant
We good account of the crops
il .sper County Indiana August II Our wheat crop,
st harvested, was an extraordinary fine The damp
ther succeeding the harvest, it thought, had
il fred the grain This fear Is dispelled crop
nearly double that Of any former year. Adjoining |
mites said to be equally fortunate. The crop
full average Of former years, and ID generally
RI yield In word our harvest will be q bountifzl
rand Traverse County Michigan, Aug 1s-The farmer
rospering this see9on also every class of business
d \. far can judge, the wheat crop has come
! bountifally. The yield il on average q bushels
Corn nov heavy, and Indicates large crop.
and potatoes promise abundant crop. This vii.
eouuty Is fast becoming settled.
HEALTH OF MoBILE.-It should not need the
ssent frightful mortality in our neighbor
les, and in others hitherto proverbial for sa-
! ority, to make us devoutly thankful to Divine
evidence for the fine health We enjoy amidst
Oh fearful intelligence as reaches US
lily from all parts around us. The noble
arted citizens of New Orleans, even while
cir own homes are 80 afflicted, find the heart
means to send far away their experienced
i'll to those who are almost suffering, and so
rely, too, in the dark They but too truly
Sow the plague they 60 to, yet neither danger :
toll stays them in their pilgrimage Of
,roy. Among many other medical men
ceady gone to aid the sick in Portsmouth and
rfolk, we note the arrival there of Dr. War
Stone Contrasted with the sad mortuary
lords of all these other Cities like
ose of modern Eden appear our own An
alysis of the list of interments last week,
blished on Sunday, shows most remarkable
,edom from sickness. Whites-6 adults,
lid, Infants, and 3drowned, etc. Colored-l
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