The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-25

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| Eugepie banishes pretty maids OF honor.
New York State has s96 miles of canals.
Geo. Ellis has favored us with the Army and
Navy Journal for November 2lst.
The North Carolina Lunatc Asylum has 2l7
patients.
Norwich is building printng-press for Parson
Brownlow's newspaper.
The Anelo-Indian telegraph through Russia and
Persia will be opened in May. 1869.
A submarine cable is proposed from San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong.
The Boston Journal says lodging rooms never
were plentier nor prices higher in that city.
| It is predicted that in ten years the Neosho
valley Kansas, will contain million inhabitants.
Newton, Mass, claims to have a pear tree still
bearing that was planted in 1850.
Twelve per cent. of English criminals are said
| to be under sixteen.
The factory school at Fall River, Mass, con.
| tinues to be success. 1t has now 235 scholars.
Chicago spends over s., 200, 900 year on bill
| Iisrds.
One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's lectures is
Hospitality. or how to make homes attractive"
Two frma in PhiiAdsiphis employ 1l50 hands in
making gas fixtures.
Wonderful hieroglyphics have been found in
Chicago has "trotting matineesn instead of
horse races.
The Illinois Agricultural College abandons the
compulsory labor idea.
Eugenie's chief maid of honor, the Countess
Vergueil Cazenac, is fat. stupid, and forty-fve.
John Bright is said to be the finest speaker In
Parliament
Norwalk has taken several camels to board this
winter.
Chief Justice Tsney's daughters earn their liv.
ing as copyists in Washington.
The Paris Hippodrome attracts universal crowds
by its velocipede races.
Last year over Il. 900 letters and 1000 900
newspapers were exchanged with other countries.
North Adams, Mass, is to have q 5000 water
cure establishment.
There are 5000 mechanics and laborers of vari.
Gus occupations unemployed in Louisville, Ky.
The aggregate monthly pay roll Of the Meriden
Conn., factories amounts to $250,000.
Over one hundred thousand applicants for Office
under Grant have already appeared.
The city of Durango, Mexico, is to be lighted
with gas.
Pork is selling in Anderson county, Texas, at
2ac. per pound.
A farm Of l64 acres, near Leesburg. Va, was
sold lately for s64 per acre.
New corn is selling in Fulton county, KY, at
81 so per barrel.
Scott county, KY, has declared war against
sheep killing dogs.
The total amount paid to pensioners since the
organization of the government is sl6l, 04s, 900.
The internal revenue receipts from July LIST to
November 10th have been ffty-two and one third
millions.
Fourteen new locomotives, for the Iron Noun.
tain Railroad, arrived at st. Louis on the 10th,
from Patterson, n. j.
South Carolina contains nineteen million acres
Of land, of which only one.fourth is under cutiva.
ton.
We have received from the publishers, the
Turf, Field and Farm for November Goth, and
Frank Leslie's Illustrated for November 2sth.
The editor Of the Edinburgh Daily Review re-
Gently died in his chair while writing an article
for his newspaper.
Anew York paper says "the West is bound to
be the bread basket of the world, and to furnish
flour enough to feed all crestion.n
Lynchburg, Va, says 1t has the latest hotel
keeper in the South, and claims for him the cham.
pionship.
Stockton, CAL, has an artesian well a thousand
feet deep, which discharges 900 gallons of hot
water daily.
A collection Of thirty.eight old paintings was
sold at Boston last week, for prices ranging from
$50 to 5000, the aggregate being $1,000.
The toes Of gentlemen's boots are to be made
broad and square again. At least they say 80 in
Paris.
There is q volunteer company in New York
numbering seventy men, none of whom have
boards less than foot in length.
Only one man with white skin voted the Rsdi.
cal ticket in Caswell county, N. c., at the late
election.
Mr.. Jobson lectures in Philadelphia on "the
physiology and harmony Of female dress, with
models"
Count Wslewski's collection of "grand crossesr
and "orders" is worth 600 of precious metals
and jewels.
A Berlin canary, which says 1--WE Dist du mein
liebes Maetzekin ?" has raised storm of excite.
ment there.
There is more dancing in Concord, N. H., in the
winter season, so it is sad than many other place
of the same size on this terrestrial ball.
An English lady has been sent to prison for q
year for Q false claim against railway for lost
baggage.
At a late wedding at the Church of the Unity,
Boston, the pulpit was hidden from view by q
forest of plants and flowers.
Edward Gowland, an Englishman, has won the
great prize of thousand ounces of gold in the
last Corienies lottery.
Many Of the families In Gloucester, Mass, are
almost penniless on account of the failure of the
msckerel fisheries.
Married Methodist ministers in the Cincinnati
conference average 1925 year, and the bache-
lors $5l5.
fyou have money and nothing to do with it
buy -four and coal and send it to the poor fami.
lies In your neghborhood.
Chicago is to have some new gas works to cost
$400. 900 and consume As 900 tons Of coal per
annum. The gas-holder's capacity is 600, 900.
The new steamer Neshsminy, just finished at
Brooklyn. can make twenty-fv miles an hour,
and IL the fastest vessel IN tho navy
Commissioner Cox, Of the pension office, has
prohibited smoking or the use of intoxicating
liquors by his clerks during Office hours.
The marble being qusrried in Marshall county, |
Iowa, is said to be equal in fneness to any in the
world.