The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-14
ITEMS rx LAST MOTIFS MAIL.


ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.
A brother Of Mrs. Geo. F. Train was murdered
at Fort Saunders on Wednesday last.
On the 5th inst. was laid the first rail on the
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad.
Eleven negroes are accredited as delegates TO
the Chicago radical convention.
II is said that four or FIVE hundred lives were
loet in the earthquake at the Sandwich Islands.
Prince Gobazye is to be crowned king Of Abys-
snis.
The Union Pacific railroad was to commence
running regular trains TO Laramie City, 615 miles
west, on the Nth.
A large number of Danish emgrants arrived at
Omaha on the 10th. They will settle in the Platte
valley.
The Democratic State convention Of Tennessee.
10 elect delegates to the national convention, will
be held at Nashville on the 9th Of June.
Twenty-epe Thousand ard seventy-seven emf
grants arrived at New York on the 9th and 5th
inst.
stephen Conroy shot and killed Albert Town
send Tor seducing his wife, and then tried 70 beat
his wife's brains out, at Heboken. He was ar
rested.
On Wednesday week a teacher in Pittsburg
whipped = scholar 20 that it fell dead almost i'm
mediately after Of heart disease.
The postmaster of Brooklyn has failed to honor
the drafts of the department for the last quarters
receipts. HIS boudsmen VIII have to foot the
Miss Beliads Ellins had the heartache cured to
the tune of $3l O00 in Bosten, Saturday, because
Daniel D. Kelly refused to have her name changed
| to his own.
The pipes are being rapidly laid to defeat Grant
| Chicago, il we are to give any credence to
| Washington rumors and gossip, and Ben Wade Is
TO '' do him unto DEATH"
Twelve small distilleries were seized IN Chicago
| on Friday. Some how or other. dstilleries are
generally too hot TO hold-or there is some other
potent reason.
The friends of General Hancock managed TO
| prevent an Endorsement OF Pendeton in the vir-
gnia Democratic convention; so that the dele
/ gates will go to New York untsammeled by in
/ structiens.
| An English elm, on Boston common which was
| planted in 1888, was cut down aud removed on
| Tuesday, having died at the age OF lA years.
| The old elm, par excellence Ia native to the soil,
1 and nearly centory older.
John G. Hamiltongso Of Alexander the Great,
| writes TO the Boston Traveller, in denial OF Mr..
Stsnbery's application of the doctrines OF his
father the constitutional powSrs of the prssi.
| dent.
| There are said to be strong reasons for believ-
| ing that Mr. Seward. charge d'afares at
| Monterey. will immediately demand redress for
the recent outrages on American citizens at that
| city.
The train which left Quincy. on Saturday even
| ing, from Chicago, was thrown from the track by
| broken rail near Alton, and Immediately after
| wards the wreck took fire, consuming the bag
| gage. mail and express matter. -Four OF the en-
| .plOyes were injured. one seriously.
The people OF Buffalo ciamorous for re-
| ducton of the whisky tax. The Niagara river
/
afraid TO use IL as beverage, and the two dollar
tax on the other fluid places it beyond reach as
| regular substitute. t-
A yery pious and considerate radical wag"
| went TO the White House recently and offered to
| bet the president ave thousand dollars that he
| would be impeached. Such glow OF radical
intellect and propriety ought TO be rewarded with
! | a position in Wade's cabinet, as no doubt he will.
| The tornado which visited the neighborhood Of
, | NASHVILLE last week, destroyed an immense
| amount of property. Forests were torn up BY
, the roots, houses barnes and fences blown away.
| In one spot acre of ground was scaped
to the depth Of eight inches and the surface soil
| carried away. A negro was caught up. and was
last seen two hundred feet n the air. He has not
been heard from since. Some eight or ten persons
s were killed outright and number wounded.
3 The secretary Of the treasury gives notice that
| all compound interest notes intended for conver-
sion into three per cent treasury loan certificates
must either be presented TO the assistant
> at New York, who has full charge and control Of
The issue Of such certificates, TO the treasurer
, | in Washington, who will issue certificates, which
on presentation TO the assistant treasurer at New
o York, will ertitle the bearer 10. receive such GER
G | tifeates in exchange. Compound interest notes
) intended for redemption in lawful money must bs
forwarded to the United States treasurer at Wash
r | iDgton.
, Providence dispatch of May says: "Th,
highest rate Of speed attained in telegraphit
| transmission In this country was made tins even
e | ing between Boston and this city. Mr. z.
m | Burns champion Of New York and New England
r hundred and thirty 0be words one hour whicl
Of was received by MT. Walter Phillips OF this city
u without making "break," and copied In re
Or | markaby legibe manner"
q. The Chicago papers publish The sales oil tn
A. leading merchants OF that city for the past wear
a Seventy-eieh return sales exceeding 81 600 O0
as each nine report sales exceeding 81 900 OOO each
= four s. 600 600; two exceeding 81 100000, and on
se 50 600 600. This last amount is reached by N
Z. arm of Fied Letter Co., the sales o. the hous
At for the year being returned at s9,6lS,l74 Ne1
he in the hist, and approaching nearest TO it, IN
lie Hrm Of J. V. Farwell b Co., whose sales wei
t. 81 353,02I.
100 Robert e. Lucas anj Thomas II. Duyer engage
in little uDplsasantDess In Centerslne. Maryland
nv / two weeks ago, in the course OF which one
N | DIVERS little 6ngers was bitten. The other fe
10 lows fangs appear to have been ss poisonous I
ret those of q TsttlesRake-probsb owing to u
ey | quality Of the whisky which prevails in that
lcs | gi0n-for Dayers finger became inhamed, and.
re- | day or two, the whole arm was similar
ei sflected. Amputation was resorted to, but II VI
in too late modification set in and the uniortuAs
Be- nan died on Tbarsdsy.