New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-26
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lllIDAY sfoRN ISi4. oToBER 4, lss8.
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Considerable progress has been made by our
farmers y hauling rice to their stack yards In
ylesn ana qnAty THIS years rice crop far exceeds
fhAt Of any preceding season.
Dns sugar plantations wiil produce bountifully. |
fhjs month
The WORMS have played sad havoc in MANY Of
our cotton fields.
The raccoons are 10 numerous Ut Csrande Prairie,
shat theg have nearly destroyed all the corn IN
g'he water il the bays back Of Pointe. Haehe
rose lately several feet high and caused some
damage 70 the rice stacked in the fields.
TIE inc, bright and cool weather Of the past
fortnight has much improved the sanitary condi-
sien III this community we trust that all those
of our people who have been taken sick vii be
soon restored to health.
NEw IgvESTIoN.- The IberviIle Pioneer says
MF Evans Shelly, y highly akiliful 1aachinist,
burner, has lately invented and put in practical
operation . Labor saving machine which promises |
to be OF the greatest utility. 1t is scFaper on
wheels, and one man, with single tenn, eanpe |
form the labor Of twenty or thirty men, This |
scraper is designed for building leyees, making |
roads, etc.
sLAHKs9 N Lou1sTANA.-0ur lawyers, dnring |
Sr1s sesslon OF court. are getting up some rather
novel ideas ii regard to the former titles to slave
property IN the portion of the United States pur
chased Of France in 1872 Its conteaded that
slaves in Louisiana were not property by law OF |
France at the time OF the purchase, and they
were never made such by4a law of this State, and
therefore slavery mas never had legal existence
III Louisiana since 1T came under the government
OF the United States II this conclusion issound,
Louisiana he's been freq State ever since 1872
and was equally free many years before that date.
Quite an imp ortant mistake
The Farmefsyille (Union parishl Record states
that sbey have had pleasant, agreeable weather
lately, ana the health Of the parish has greatly
inpreved
The same paper says the district jodge there
lJudge Natldnsl has ruled that prescription
ala not run during the war;
THE KsLIiSG or CARR. BGTTs.-says the Far
mersville Record
The killing, of Capt. EBtts. bureau agent of
Jackson parish, was Investigated by the police
Jury al That parish, aud it appears that he was
led r Vim parish while on his way 70 Nat hi
toeaes, probably by highway robbers Of that en-
slightenel parish, These same men, WHO, during
TIE war, declared themselves against the rebels
and professed to be good Union men, but whose
real purpose and acts were against both pal sies.
and tAeY systematically and constantly murdered
every M gtunate man rho fen into Their clutches
even for an ordinary saddle horse or good suit
of clothes.
Capt. Butts acted rashly Id travelling through
Here oa fine morse, with good suit Of clothes
on we would have asssoon started through the
JHnges of Africa 50 far as personal safety is con
Z csrned, as through Winn parish. During the W.T.
these same outlaws murdered two Of the soldie.5
Of the regiment 10 Which we belonged, while ps +
ing through their parish and stopping uususpeet-
fngly for The night Capt. Bntts was an officer OF
the regular army, ana Is spoken Of very highly by
the people of jackson as true gentleman, who
did his duty strictly without harshness, and d
courteous aud unassuFning in his department. We
regret to heae 81 the death Of such men.
CgoPs III UNIoN pARTsH.-The Record says:
Tile weather ms been just such as farmers like
foreotSon picking. but, alasl the cotton is not
here; the cold rainy and stormy spring, the long
dry summer and the worms eteetnally blasted
she cotton crop.
An UsF0R4HNATE hANAGER.--A play was re-
Gently produced ait tie Porte ST. Martin theater in
PaFs, under the title & The Parsians in London, Il
witch involved enormous expenses, and after all
proved failure The performances at the theafer
were suspended for three weeks in order TO re-
AeaTse tle piece and to mount it, and the actual
ontlaY WAS S2g900; so that loss and cost together
were estimated at 0G00. The system Of preim-
lazy 3uffarg WAS so thoroughly carried out that
every seat WAS taken up for the first night. at
78ffees w high those paid to hear Jenny Lind in
london. and the first performance lasted until e
O'clock Id the mornlg. he machinery, howeVes
did n0t work; the critics pronounced the piece az
rehash Of an Old inlay which had been produced
seYantaea years before; the dialogue was coarse
the dances were foosYoluptnous even for the easy
going Paiisians, and tue manager withdrew from
the field.
SAD aflieaion has fallen upon the family Of the
great surgeon, M. Aelatou. ~, de Basneyile,
whose marriage contract with n n Nelaton's daugh-
ter was signed last January by the emperor, was
standing in his farmgard giving orders TO his
steward, behind 4 cart 10 which three horses were
Iarnessed ". Dc Basneyilie happened % be
lssniBg against wall when the horses suddenly
hacked. nj, de Baskerville instantly stopped and
tried I'd get under the body Of the cart. in the
attempt, bis head was caught and INSTANTLY
crushed by one Of the huge back wheels wtl
such ftighffu violence that part OF the brain and
hair we're found aaheriug to the wheel. VI. de
BasnsYille had just entered his thirtieth year, and
leaves biz young wife e17caeitse No.. ~ i
y rare INES sept ".
III HI 10 secret that the marriage Of Senator
Sumner iii strongly opposed BY the lady's friends
whose afatoeFatie prejudees viii not be satisfied
even with q senator and statesman Of power ane
fame, II his fortune be only moderate and ms de
scent not from the New England BrahTnins AMI
le fact that the bride renqnishes the interest OF
fortune BY giving away her hand, adds th,
spice of heroism TO the event, BY the way
apronGs of Mt. Sumner, an old story is toldot hl
father who vas d county sheriff. and as suaye ani
polite as his sonis brusque and arrogant. Sber
Sumner nnee had to osieiate at an execution Nhel
the prayers were said and the moose txed, b.
bowed very low to the condemned, and nrbanel,
said ts(sood morning, sir,1 before he presset
foot npnn the spring which launched the man mt
eternity.
Aletter from st. Helena Of the 10Th Of Angus
says
The emperor,s 5eie vas celebrated here on th
I5th bg d 1e DslaB in the chapel Of LonSwoo
New House. The vice consul Of France, th
ofieers of all. .arms with their wives, and the ga
rison of the islaud we're present ct this reilgiou
ceremony, as vel as commander de .Rongemoni
conserHatoF of the French imperial domain Of 8
Helena and tho Ftepch subofieers, the guardian
of tAat celebrated SPOT. After the ceremony II
guests asseHlhed at a breakfast, at which Con
4nandeY 90 Roupemont proposed toasts to Napt
leon I'll and his august dynasty, TO Queen Victeri
and to the alliance between England and France
His words we're received with cries Of > t6r
nos s0uueraias Aaotre tatt0n Y
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I1s 4Rs,--ss When were cigars invented?
Columbus found the natives Of Hispanola smol
ftg tohacos' or tobHecos, which was u
original native name for cigar. very ~
n Mexican legend states that when the lord of Lii
descended to the internal regions, the devils trea
ed him 10 cigars. In Philadelphia newspape
some sixty nr seventy years ago, eigarros
were advertised as novelty from Cupa. II wa
about the year 1870 that cigars freckieoats 40
1oustaehias came into fashion In Paris. Previor
ia thatti tobacco was only fashionable 2
fle form of snuff while pipes were generally col
ffHed to the lower orders. except ~ German
Hungary and the South Seavonian countries.
last Nay a young girl named Hiss Greene q
NFa 5asi 1v~az natl ard