The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01

GENERAL ITEMS.

The Eale of the Nashville Water Works, adver
tised by the United Slater marshal, did not "a K,
hands amounted to upward of 100000 The au
thorities paid sac, 000 and the creditors gave Ar
extension Of time on the remainder.
The locomotive attached to a freight trair
which LEFT Louisville on the 18th for Nashville,
exploded her boiler quarter of a mile beIo v
Memphis Junction, killing the engineer, the fire.
man, wood passer and two brakesmeu Six
freight cars, heavily laden, were completely
NEW YORK, Oct. 2s-Horace Greeley has bee n
nominated for register as the Republican candi.
date, in the place of Gen. Sgel, declined. Mr..
Greeley sccordpely vacstes the nomination for
Congress in the fifth district. James NJ McCsrlen
10 the Democratic candidate.
O. 4. Dumont, vice president of the Union
Pacific Railway, telegraphs from the Black Ford,
on Green river. as follows: Seven miles and
1910 feet OF track were laid to-day. The twelve
bridges in the next ten miles will be finished TO-
morrow. large force is working day and
night" la
A series of extensive frauds on the part of the
carmen Of New York, which have been in pro.
eress for the past two years. have come to light
The nl0dts operdndi has been to obtain cars of
goods for transportation to other parts of the
country, chiefly TO the South. and take them to
fence shops, where they were opened, and the
contents replaced by something Of small value,
after v hicb they were taken to the transportation
lines. and receipts obtained for the boxes as IL
they were original packages. Three men named
Michael Teen. and John and Augustus Mckee
have been arrested, and one of them confessed to
having been concerned In robberies amounting 10
$40, 00G.
Commodore Matthew F. Maury delivered an ad.
dress on the 18th before the Valley Agricultural
Fair TO an immense audience. He warmly urged
the immediate establishment of q line of steamers
between Norfolk and Holland, in order that the
South might reap the advantage of direct trade
and emigration, which would spring up by this
connection: Ten thousand people visited the
Taa A.
at the fair he was enthusiastically cheered.
The consolidation of the American Express
company and the Merchants Union Exoress.
under the name of the American Merchants
Union Express company, has at length been &C.
complished. The general terms are fully agreed
upon, and the directors met few days ago to
perfect the details. II Is understood that an
agreement is made upon terms of perfect equal.
yIsiS,0oo; COG OF stock Of the new company is
to be issueds9 900 900 TO the stockholders of the
American, and So 900 to the stockholders of
the Merchants Union. The officers agreed upon
are president, W. G. Fargo general superntend.
emf, jas. Z. Fargo. and assistant superintendent,
Q. T. Higgins. This arrangement is not expected
In any way to disturb the relations the two com.
panes hold to the other express companies with
which they are now In virtual partnership
=, WEALTHY man in Berkshire, Mass. got drunk
the other day and shamefully abused his wife.
The sight SO exssperated their son that he broke
chair over his fathers head causing the blood
to flow freely. but doing no serious injury
III nHoley, MASS there Is lady seventy. nine
years old who has never taken a ride In a stage
coach car. steamboat, or any other species of
public conveyance.
The following Is the latest sensation nonsense
from PSris: Every year. on the same day and
at the tame hour, lady comes to the Freres Pro.
vencesnx on foot, and selects room No. to be
servedivith dinner She is in second youth, and
handsome still. Knowing her habits, the propri-
etor serves the dinner she Is accustomed to order
The ga CON having deposited the plats etc. with.
the lady then bolts the door, remaining |
Tor two hours thus enclosed. On leaving she de-
posts on plate a plendid black pearl in paw. |
ment for dinner hardly ever touched. She |
carried her secret thus for the last twelve |
years.
Natural history furniture, as 1t is called, is be.
coming fashionable. A chair Is described as fol- |
lows: II is covered with the skin of Royal Ben.
gal Tiger, so put on as to give the idea that the |
herce monarch of the jungle has possession of it,
The chair, as seen from the back side, presented
q peculiarly savage aspect, the head and fore
paws OF the sDimal reaching over the back of it,
while the tail curled up from the bottom.
There Is another new industry in San Francisco.
A party there is making Ransomes concrete stone
OF any size and shape, TO order, ornamented &C.
cording to the taste Of the architect. IL is COM
posed OF sand and a solution of soda and the
blocks when put in the building are joined by ce.
ment. II Is moulded into any form. and beasts or
birds OF any kind can be embossed upon it in the
Bee.