The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-04
FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4, 1868.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

Gold closed yesterday in New York at l35.
Disrae" has resigned the premiership.
j. Gibson has sold the Meridian (Miss.) Gazette
to Messrs. J. J. Shannon and W. G. Grace.
A Bremen bark arrived o. Charleston, on the
9th ult., with 300 immigrants.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Jose.
phine for late Galveston papers.
Peacock feathers in bandit hats - are the
latest female display in New York.
The Legislature Of Kentucky meets on the 5th
January next. The State has little or no debt.
Forty-three thousand seven hundred and forty
one is the sum total of the United States army.
The Austrian expedition to explore Oriental
Asia, has sailed from Trieste.
Geo. Ellis has laid on our table copy of Christ.
mas Fun. Have your buttons well fastened-then
buy copy and read it.
The Greensboro N.C.) Times has received q
pumpkin weighing seventy-two pounds, and in
tends to have it made into a pie for Christmas.
Mrs. Pattie b. johnson demands SIS 900 of a
railroad company in Indiana for killing her late
husband.
Newell A. Foster, who died suddenly at Boston,
where he was attending the woman's suffrage
convention, was husband of Abby Kelly Foster
All the cotton mills of Nexburyport pass the
October dividends. The balances are on the
wrong side of the ledger.
Schuyler Colfax, vice president elect, spent
thanksgiving day in Brooklyn, the guest of BENZ.
W. Delamater.
The st. Louis Democrat thinks that that city
will do more in the pork packing line this season
than either Cincinnati or Chicago.
Superintendent Defrees disbursed for the public
printing. binding and paper, during the last fiscal
year, 81, 27s $780,.
Troy, New York, conductor found deserted
baby in his train the other day, after the passen-
gers had left.
A fellow in Portland paid seventy five cents the
other day for the privilege of eating all the oys.
tiers he could. He ended with stew after fifteen
dozen raw.
The dentists of the United States have been
holding convention for the purpose, as the
chairman said, of devising some means whereby
they can pull together.
There is now a considerable movement towards
resuscitating the North Carolina copper and gold
mining interests. Parties have recently gone
down to the mintes from New York, Baltimore,
and elsewhere.
Abraham Burrel, the veteran printer of Ohio.
died al Eyria, on the 23d ult., in the SEVENTEEN
year of his age. He has been daily employed at
Aio Oonc MY sA years. anu lor tne last eleven
years has been foreman of the Elyria Democrat
Gov. Hayes, Of Ohio, has written an annual
message Saying to the Legislature all that needs
to be said and saying it wel), which only occu.
pies single column in the newspapers. Long
live Governor Hayes, and may his tribe increase.
William Long, the champion long distance run
ner Of England, and w. E. Harding, the champion
three-ruile runner of America. have signed artis
cles Of agreement to run one half mile for the
championship of the world, December 20, at the
Fashi'n Course. New York, for $1,000 a side.
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New York, we have the December number of the |
Old Guard. Contents: What Next! Democratic |
Battle Song; The Princess Orsini The Effects of |
the abolition Policy, so far as Developed; |
Ulyssss 8. Grant; Dead Under the Roses; In |
MemOtiam-Cleburne Financial and CONNER |
eisl; Our Book Table; Editors Table.