The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-26
EDIroKIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

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BROOKLYN is building seversl large churches.
Tyler, Texss, has been visited by immense
hocks Of hawks.
London f.es street musiciars end those who
encourage them.
The Chicago Dock. Company loses $4,000 to
$4,000 by the dishonesty of one of its employees.
Nearly every settled clergyman in Boston is at
home, actively engaged in his professional duties.
There are only two bar.rooms in Salt Lake
City.
A New York humorist is lectar ng about Mrs.
Grundy."
| beverage Comporndary" is the sign on
| New York tavern.
Macon has new bell for Chi st Church weigh.
| ing 1872 pounds.
Rev. Henry wsrd Beecher is repatsd to be
worth $3.50 COO.
| in New York.
| firm at East Boston use six tons Of iron
| per day in the manufacture of telegraph wire.
VIM. s. Mount, artist, died at Setluket, L. l., on
the 18th instant, in the SD year of his age.
Two fences, each l73 miles long, are building
along the Union Pacific Railroad.
The new cave at salisbury, Coru, Is now open
| for visitors.
/
| In all probability, be held in the United States.
| California hes produced an apple seventeen
a, inches in circumference.
The French empress paid the milliner with whom
| che recently quarrelled $4,000 year.
new toy called "the irrepressible conflict
has been issued.
A house built on large wagon is carrying an
excursion party through Indiana.
The Jefferson Times and Texas Republican lot
terry hes been postponed until March l, 1863.
| Ahundred prayer books were recently stolen in
Chicago.
The amount of national bark currency now in
circulation IS s299 ,9Ol 1888.
The New York cigcr makers have resolved to
start cooperative cigar stores.
The ci'izers of Jefferson, Texas, have sub.
scIibed $4,000 in gold towards the erection of
Baptist church in that city.
| Seven prisoners at Newcastle, Delaware, went
through the tortures Of the whipping post, on the
| 2lst instent.
The money panic in st. Johns. New Brunswick.
| is the most extensive that has ever occurred in
hat city.
grocer in France invited all bis neighbors to
his wedding, and presented each with box Of
ssrdnes.
The mining seeson IN Mopt,na has been brought
to close in consequence of the approach of cold
weather.
| 1t is said that there are scorns enough within
three niles of Jefferson, Texas, to fatten three
thousand hogs.
A convention of cotton planters, manufactur-
| ers and mechanics is to meet in Macon, Ca, on
| the 10th prox.
Capt. Jas, C. Stcneweil, of ship I7aac Webb,
died at sea on the Path October from injuries re-
ceived during gale.
| The expense Of putting up private telegraph
| il about $500 dollars. There are fifty Of them in
| New York.
/ Flour was recently passed on board a steamer
| at St. Louis from an elevator at the rate of one
hundred barrels in four minutes.
The three hundred and fitch anniversary Of
the Protss.ant -Rsfoi nation. thu seventh pc.
rod of fifty years, ended on Sunday, November /.
Six hundred men will be employed this winter
building a bridge across the Missouri river at
Omaha City.
The business of raising early fruits and vegeta-
bles for the Northern market is extending in
North Cerolina.
The Salt Lake Deseret News warns Boston end
ether Eastern cities that they are N danger Of
earthquakes for their opposition to Mormonism.
The aristocratic sociable in New York known as
the Cheap and Hungry" has been reorganized
for the winter.
A Hawaiian merchant. absent four months and
half, spent th'rty-three days in England, ten in
New York and rs many in San Francisco.
Boston he's been presented with two beautiful
antelopes by an officer Of The Slst United States
iufsntry.
The tax on gold watch worth one hundred dol
lsrs is one dollar; The tex on one hundred dol.
lars worth of tea Is at least twenty-five dollars
Who pays the taxes!
Fifty crippled soldiers arrived at the National
Military Asylum, in Milwaukee, from Philadelphia
on the 18th inst. The inmates of the institution
now number 227.
The Bear River city rioters and murderers made
an attempt to bum the town, at midnight, but
were repulsed with logs of two killed and many
wounded. Thus far eleven Of them have met a
richly deserved fate in death.
One of the most fashionable ladies in Wash.
ipgton has billiard room in her elegant house
and issues invitations for "billisrd breakfasts, "
at 10 A. NJ, when cues snd coffee are discussed
alternately.
Professor F.. verdugo, of Salamanca, Spain
| QeO recenIiv, ht 'nt aye Vi one uunureQ ana nVt
years. He Is believed to have been the oldes
physicisn in the world, end he prac'iced medicine
for eighty years.
The Dcs MONIES Register says that the grass
boppers recently ate up half an acre of tobacc'
for a men near that place, and when the owle
went out TO look at it they sat on the fence an,
squilted tobacco juice on him.
Rev. DR.. Scott said in bis pulpit. recently, tina
he would advise every youps at the ontset O
his career, first, to be good Christian; second
to insure his life end third, to get wife. Thei
he will be happy.
We have from the publisher, Ed. Warren, NJ. d.
| Of Baltimore, the Medical Bulletin" q bi
J | monthly qusrto of eight pages. The work
neatly got up, and contains q number Of origins
and selected articles of interest to the profession
: The Quarterly Review discusses the railwa
4 monoPoii.., ~.a sh~-. H.. 40 cnmpsnv has eve
| yet adopted the policy of very low pa,sengr
fares and carried it out persistenty for reason
ably long time without achieving great success
Rev. Mark Trafton, of Providence, during ser
: mon recently preached in New Bedford, called tn
=. attention OF the audience to gentleman as b
| Inf al, en1 &c