The New Orleans crescent., 1868-08-28
ITEMS BIZ LAST NIGHTS MAIL

FIFTY policemen organized and made deseen
On dance house on Mulberry street, late on the
uight Of the z3d. They cap ured ffry inmates
| bOose. ~
The town Of Rindge, New Hampshire. eele
brates the one hUndredth anniversary of its incor
poraiion on the 18th of September next An ora.
tloD poem, public dinner and leVee will grace the
| day. W
FAY, one of the witnesses In the case OF Cant
| donaldson, OF the Great Republic, and who. for
some time has been missing from St. Louis was
arrested at Saratoga the other day. He was fully
| lcenthed, and an officer has been sent from 81
Louis to take him back to that place.
Peter Wilson was sutocated in a diving bell At
Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday. He was en-
gsgeo, with companion, in cleaning the mouth
. 1l lever, onoer water, and becoming faint gave
| reached the surface he was found to be dead.
iitile boy, son of Mr.. John B. Daniel. of St
Lous, was sitting on the curbstone the other dav
estog a piece OF bread and butter, when a negro
"omsn came along and stepped upon his hand
mashlDg 1t terribly, from the effects of which the
died of ock jaw. -'
The Chicago Tribune gives long account of a
reverend hermit in the town of TnTner Jnnctirn
named X A. watkins, with his daughter EIizs
beth, who has been living twelve years in enlire
seclusion, In house remote from the village. eat
Ihg nOthing out cakes OF corn-meal and water, and
neither having used water externally for six
years. " ~
A citizen Of Louisiana, No., who lately ysited
IRAN at hls prison in Great Britain writes baek
Ihst llaln intends soon TO declare himself can.
oloate for The presidency of the United states
Train also claimed that John ID. Perry. pre,ident
OF the Kansas city branch OF the Paci6c railroad
owes blm $500 600, aud asked him to write TO
feiry 10 send him check for the money. His in.
sanlly is considered well established.
A Porto Rico letter states that The island was in
sueh STATE that rebellion or revolution against
" ePsnsn government was probable at any
m9ment. Ihe taxes were enormous and their
cole ctlOn was rigdly forced The governor
gei eIal IN the meantime was seviating the suffer
ngs ss much ss possible by succession of
ADJUSTMENTS, and bulfghts had been Introduced.
9spy atrocities, however, were committed by the
authorities. Wv
Mayor Thomas, Of St. Louis. has returned from,
his excursion over the Omaha branch of the Union
Psehc Railroad. He says that fifty. seven miles
OF me rack were laid IN nine days, and that the
road will be running through to San Franscisco
by next August. He thinks however that n will
pe impossible for trains to run through the Rocky
mountains during most Of the winter seasons on
account Of the snow drifts.
A correspondent of the Cairo Denocrat bas
visited the iron mountain. at Golden in Southern
IL mos, about forty miles north Of Cairo IL isa
Ildge, extending about five miles in length To |
Jonesooro, Is about two hundred feet high, and
tne IRON ore crops out all along the eastern ado
The ore is said TO be of unusual puritv Tho |
Iidge is less than three miles from the illinois
Central Railroad, and large part of the land be.
ongs TO that corporation.
communication TO the Utica Morning Herald
rom Z. +: Peters, Of the Litchfeld Ooserya
oTy Of Hamilton College, New York. dated An
Inst 4, In which he says a new planet of the
'roup o. asteroids was discovered by him on Satur.
Icy night and its position and motion ysyi6sd y,
I'm this Monday morning. Ii is in the constelIs
lon OF Piscas. and had al O'Clock this morning
degrees'Ss minutes Of right ascension, and i2
eefees "a minutes declinatos, moving slowly 10
leventh msgni ud4 ~ VIC