The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-22
EDIToKIAL PAKAsRArms. ETC.

The Irish Church revenues reacn toolOOO.
New York has thirty Hebrew congregations.
New York State has 3245 miles of railroad.
Pork packing has commenced in Cincinnati.
Gen. Bragg was at Louisville ON the I7th inst.
Paris belle has a silver bathing tub worth
slO, 900.
There has been an increase Of more than s,,coo.-
0c0 900 to the worlds stock Of gold since 1850.
z Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has raised q thirty
five pound watermelon. a. - -rt
Massachusetts, charges two dollars cash to every
man that votes.
PIT. Barnum has recently imported from HoI-
land herd of cows.
1t is proposed to make Paris seaport by con-
structing canal by way Of Rcuen to Hsvre.
In the presidency of Madras, India, 1900 persons
died from snake bites in 1866.
In 1860, there were SIS paper mills in the
United states, with capital of $l4 100000.
A company in Iowa has purchased 5000 acres OF
land for the cultivation Of sugar beets.
Eighfy-eight cucumbers were gathered from
single vine recently, near Rising Sun, Nd.
A shin load of neannfs arrived from Bermuda 4
at New York the other day.
The New York city banks had sl2,ls7.3cl In
specie on hand on the 9th inst.
The family Of the late Nathaniel Hawthorne are
about to sail for Germany to reside.
The headquarters of the department Of the At
lantic have, at the request OF General Hancock,
been transferred to New York.
The women of Germany are to have conven-
ton at Stuttgart this month, to discuss the best
way Of managing babies.
A rich gold field recently discovered in South
Africa is supposed to be the 0phir Of King
Solomon.
The death Of General Jacquemont, cousin Of the
Il. nnaA hu fhA
papers.
Malcolm Mcfarland, of Union parish, has raised
some very fine winter apples and California sweet
potatoes this &c ason. a0s
corn harvester, the invention of Virglnisn,
has been tried in that State and is complete sue
cess. 1t is very simple in its construction.
Thanks to the Southern Express for late New
York and Memphis papers; also to the steamer
Louise for late Mobile papers.
Holland, Dutch city in Michigan, has 5000 in
hsbtsnts, and supports three papers publishsdin In
| the Dutch language.
The aggregate daily capacity Of the Louisville
| pork packing establishments is said to be about
| Is 600 hogs.
The Mail claims for New Haven q reputation a.
literary center, scarcely second to either Boston
or New York.
| Chicago paper thinks that total abstinence
| from cigars and liquor would after time pay the
| public debt
Tn the last twelve years, FOG ocean steamers.
/ eiebt wood and the rest iron, 343 500 tonnage,
have been built.
/ company of musicians In Paris called orgsno-
phones, initiate all musical instruments by the
nose and throat.
Aship just arrived at New York has made the
VOYAGE to Calcutta via Liverpool and back in ten
months and six days.
Among inventions lately patented is enc for
msking ginger snaps" by New Yorker, and .
bean. pot LITTER" by Bostonian.
After the recent execution at Macon, Ca, the
hsngman's rope was eagerly cut up by the ne
| sroes into bits to be used as charms.
| We are IndeDteu 10 inc cJiumn OF vvrvvr 70.
| breyities in the New Orleans CRESCENT, for many
of our best and most spicy cliPpings.-lLynchburg
Republican.
citizen of Clarke county. Wisconsin, has taken
| a contract to furnish ,500,0 900 feet CT logsfor
firm on the Mississippi. Besides this amount, he
proposes to cut down 1000, 900 feet for himself.
A Young and beautiful girl was married in our
| CITY q few days ago. and, strange as II may ap
| pear she is now cooking and keeping bouse al Ter
| the fashion of old folks.-ILouisville Courier.
English farm lsborers consume l6 ounces OF
meat per man weekly. Scotch laborers shoutth the
same amount, and welch lsborers but q ounces
. per adult weekly.
The commissioner of internal revenue, under q
decision of Attorney General Evarts, has ex.
| empted disters of brandy from grapes. apples
and peacbes from the payment OF tue s4Oo speciAA
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