The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-06

GENERAL ITEMS.

cay, between ward, OF Toronto, and Klein, OF
Calumet, Illinois, one hundred single BIRDS ground
trap, for $500 a side, Ward won by eghty-three 10
eiphtyope. The pgeon-shooting match on Thurs.
day, between Captain John Francis, of Chicago
and Jsmes Ward, of Toronto. fifty birds, single
rises, from plunge trap, for 81 900 side resul
| " entg -four.
Nehemiah Ball, lately sentenced to the Mas.
sachusetts State prison for forgery, is a graduate
| Of Harvard College of the class of 1856, though
tor serious ofienses his degree was held back till
| 1867. He was one of the best scholars of his
class for the first half of his college course but
| graduated without rank. Among his class mates
was E. ?. Jeffries, whom Gov. Andrew pardoned
out Of the State prison.
Capt. Travis has issued a challenge to any one
in the Union for shooting match at $500 a side.
and Ward makes a similar challenge for $1,000 a
side The proposed match between Capt. Travis
and Edward Thomas, for 500 a side, to shoot at
pennies tossed in the air, the first with rife and
the second with shotgun, is postponed till after
Christmas.
Mr.. Merry was candidate for Parliament from
the Falkirk district of burghs in Scotland, and
was taken to task for running one of his race
horses on Sunday. He admitted the offense, but
set up four pleas in extenuaton: First that was
seven or eight years ago, and he never did it
again second, that it was In Paris, where the
people would be the none the worse for it; third,
that be was not present at the race itself; and
fourth, that his horse won the grand prize. The
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te Of confidence.
The serene md majestic figure of George Wash
ington has made an impression on the world more
profound and enduring than that of any man of
modern times. "Mslakoff" writes from Paris
that The journals of that city are "sawng the air'
with the question, Who is to be the Washington
Of SPAIN" and he adds: "The grand man, Wash
ington. Is made to promenade before the perplexed
eyes Of the Spanards as the only model for imita-
tor. Never did the glorious form of the warrior
and sage rise higher above the heads of men than
now."-[New York Times.
The old Spanish padre who foretold some two
hundred years ago the existence of great city
upon the bay where San Francisco now stands,
may not have been out in his prophecies after all.
he said that this future city should be four times
laid in ashes and once destroyed by an earth
quake. -Four destructive fires have already swept
the city away to make place for newer and better
structures. Do the small shocks lately felt give
premonition of the rest of the old priests fore.
bodings!
Plus IX bids fair to outlive many more reports
of his approaching death. Although in his sew.
enty.seventh year, he Is still robust, and goes
through his Easter performances with little ap.
pearance of fatigue. His large, fresh, amiabe
face Is almost unwrinkled his voice ia still pow
erful, and his muscles so elastic that he mounts
the manifold staircases of the Vatican on foot,
RATHER than be carried about on his portable
throne. But, in the belief of the people, his
singular semi-opaque blue eyes have a power of
harm, which increases with his years. Babies are
Kept out OF the way when be passes through the
streets of Rome, and the most of those upon whom
his glance happens to fall make "horns" with
their fingers held behind their backs, to ward off
the evil influence. Plus TX is now in his twenty
third year Of his ponufcate. and there is a good
prospect that he may rule for a quarter of GEN.
tury, as no pope has ever done before him. The
people contemplate this possibility with degree
of superstitous interest which surprised me. It
is well understood in Rome, however, that no in
terregnum will be allowed to follow his death.
An intelligent Roman nobleman said to me: "We
are now living under double rule-thst of Plus
TX and that of his successor, who is already
secretly chosen." "Who is the latter ?" asked.
81 can only tell you," he replied, "that it is not
Antoneli."-GB. T. Correspondence New York
Tribune.
Friday last white girl named Kennedy, living
In De Soto county, Mississippi. while crossing the
woods to a neghber's was seized on by a negro
and horribly violated. The next morning he was
found by citizens, taken before the child, and
identified by her. Other circumstantial evidence
clearly showed his guilt. He was taken to, the
scene Of violence and hanged.
The first of the series of billiard matches be.
tween Foley, of Chicago, and Frawley, of Cleve-
land. takes place at the latter city on Wednesday,
I'd inst. The game is the regular American push,
caroms, on four pocket table. Matches have
been arranged to take place on December 22d,
23d and 24th. in Chicago, between McDevitt and
Goldthwat, Rhines and Vermeulen and Foley and
Frawley.