The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.


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Bismarck has an estate covering 100000 acres.
Madame lie Vert Is Q member of the Soross.
Washington scarcely ever made speech.
Rev. DR.. Bellows has denounced planchette In q
mild sort of way from the pulpit.
widow Of rs and spiDster of so. have splced
in Connecticut Their united Weights 700 pounds.
President Johnsonh lost twenty -one pounds
of flesh since he became president.
man was killed recently in Arthur township,
Canada. by an umbrellas thrust b.
Cleveland Dutchman drank log layers in one
day.
Hamburg has just presented Boston with four
swans. 4,.s...
The first American vessel went to China in
l7s6, and the trade has increased ever since.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship l. G..
Harris for late Brownsville papers.
We are indebted to the officers Of the steamer
Louise for late Mobile papers.
Tbanks.to the officers Of the steamship Morgan
for late Texas papers.
Memphis has taken $500, 900 stock in the Mem
pbis and Selma Railroad. -
Louis Napoleon has made IL dukes, counts
and q barons.
The worlds crop of tobacco is estimated at 49,.
400 tons. r...
The Asheville IN. CO. News publishes forty.
seven Withdrawals from the leagues.
Z Arthur Helps is writing another life of Co
lumbus. .... r.I.
In England one thousand women will vote at the
next election. .s--..,
. The commissioner of patents viii issue on Tues
day, November Sd, 254 patents. s
Mr.. Ellis has just received large invoice Of
new and popular books for his circulating library.
The Egyptian cotton crop for this year IL re.
ported at 400, 900 bales, against 100000 last year.
The value of smoking pipes made in France last
year was 81, 100000 francs. f
The Rappshannock Canal was recently sold for
$3.50. rlrl rrrf
In England fifteen miles per hour has been
made on the velocipede. -se.e
The Calcasieu oil well yields 1--WE barriers per
day. e U.
Mr.. Longfellow is ransacking the libraries aud
book stores of Paris for rare works to enrich his
library at home.
Two citizens of Chillicothe, Ohio, have, one
twenty-three, and the other twenty five living
children. br.-..
new insurance company in England compen.
safes those turned out in consequence of voting on
the wrong side. -.c,a...
Miss Clara B. Clark, of Parma, New York aged
Is, was awarded special premium at the State
fair for the best tenpound lot of butter exhibited
The Swedish steamer, which left Gottingen in
July for arctic exploration, at last sdyces was
making satisfactory progress.
One of the Grant electors in Alabama is an ex.
Confederate captain who took the oath never to
take q prisoner alive.
The official returns of the exports from the
United States for the year 1867 sill thirteen large
octave volumes.
The Boston and Albany railroad is building a
grain elevator at deep water in Boston, which will
hold $50 600 bushels and cost 500, 600. -n
The agricultural statistics of ireland show de.
crease of 81 ,2s7 acres in the land under cult.
walton. a- .f
c. Mrs. Lucy .Osgood died at Mexico, Me-, last
week, aged one hundred years eight months and
eighteen days. rsI ..
The Notun Panjika, nautical astronomical
almanac, published in the Bengal language at
Sersmpore, meets with an extensive sale.
Before the war the Norfolk navy yard employed
1000 men at present the number does not exceed
400.
From statistics compiled some years since. il
was ascertained that on an average there were
born in London seven children day who must
inevitably lead life of crime.
Philip Phillips, now in England, says the singing
in the churches is universally congregational,
without any nterludes of instrumental playing be.
tween the verses.
The centennial anniversary of the dedication of
the first Methodist church in America was held on
the 10th, at the old church in John street, New
York city.
The Mississippi valley contains 76s 600, 600 acres
of the finest land in the world, or space for one
bundled and fifty States of the size of Massachu.
sets.
The Prussian arctic expedition, when last heard
from, had already penetrated beyond the eightieth
degree oflatitude, and had q long range of clear
water ahead.
China has $1,000 square miles of coal fields
is rich in all the metals except platinum; and
people can travel as safely through the north of
China as in any other part of the globe.
The new railroad bridge across the Kentucky
river, at Coonskin, fell down on the 22d with
terrible crash. One man was instantly killed and
three others were badly wounded.
A firm in Midlebury, VT, have obtained YER
dict of 1000 in the circuit court at Rutland,
against the Hartford Live Stock Insurance Com
pany, for insurance on their blooded buck, which
died not long since.
A remarkable cavern has been recently discov-
cred in Salisbury, in the northwestern corner of
Connecticut. which promises, when fully ex.
plored, to take rank among the natural wonders
Of our country.
There is young man named Treadsway in the
treasury department. who has for his personal
qualification, made a collection of six thousand
printed sermons by American preachers, six hun
dred of which have reference 10 the late "unpeas
antDess." .-...----
From tire literary depot of Geo. Ellis, No. Old
Levce, opposite the Post Office, we have received
the Pail Mall Gazette, Punch, Scientific American
American Artisan, Chimney Corner, Frank Leslie
Harper's Weekly, Merryman's Monthly for No
yember, and Phunny Phellow for December.
The total importation of cotton into Russia for
1866 was to the amount of Al 1882 1881 rubes, of
VI hich K 7QS 06Q came from pareia ana Ca,traI