The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-04

Raccoon meat is . much sought delicscy in the
Boston markets.
The number Of shooting licenses taken out an.
pually In France Is 100000.
There never were SO many vacant stores in
New York as now. as -
"royal commission " has been issued in Eng.
land to find cheap oysters.
There are over forty tobacco factories in Rich.
mond, Vs., employing nearly $500 persons.
Elliott. the portrait painter, was born In saw
mill.
. Russell, of Bull Run notoriety, has married the
daughter of an NJ. P. in London.
western farmer has on his place 5000 apple
trees Imported from Russia.
Halt The territory Of the United States is drained
by the Mississippi.
Three negroes have been admitted to the bar OF
South Carolina.
chicsgo manufactures have yearly value Of
SIS, 006A00.
The Germa5 Cabinet Makers Protective Union
in NevfYork numbers ZOO members.
A German philosopher predicts that Europe and
America will be submerged in 500 100000 years.
The Aston House, New York, expends $l00
yearlylfor toothpicks.
The latest theory about the apple is that 1t had
its oriRin in Italy.
Grsfes of good quality are said to be selling in
New York for six or seven cents pound.
II in reported that an English firm has offered to
lend soau $loO, 600 900 at five per cent. interest.
Tbese are now 5S7 undergraduates at Harvard
College,
There was loud rejoicing at the court of Italy
vben che news reached Florence that Queen lisa.
bella had been compelled to leave Spain.
An agricultural journal, the Carolina Farmer,
has lust been issued at Wilmington, N. c.
Than Is to the officers of steamship Matagords,
for late Galveston papers.
There were $50 weddings in New York last
week
The s'ben fever" was epidemic in Chicago last
week.
A manufacturing company in New Hampshire
sold lat year three hundred freight and ten pas
senger GERS.
Minneapolis is infested with gang of despera-
does, who depend upon burglaries and thieying
for Q living.
During the year 1867, over ninety-two million
pounds sterling passed through probate in the
courts OF England.
Drunken men are allowed to sleep all night in
the CATS Of some of the best street railroads in
New York city.
DR.. Leonard Bacon has written letter denoun.
cling the Radical treatment of the Southern people
40 De- grant violation of public faith.
A society of negroes under the name and style
of the Virginia Home Building Fund and Loan
Association" has been organized In Richmond.
Ducks and geese are far more abundant In the
sloughs and rice fields Of the Mississippi than was
ever known before.
By the close of this year Odessa, on the Black
Sea, will be connected by railway with st. Peters
burg, On the Baltic.
A veia Of iron ore, said to be suitsble for the
manufacture Of steel, has been discovered in Gin.
ton county, N. Y.
One horse cabs are multiplying in New York. as
old maids are in New EDgland.-[New York Dem.
ocrat.
ExConfederate Gen. Bradley Johnson, of Fred
erick, Maryland. is said to be one Of the most sue
cessfui lawyers In Virginia.
Mrs. Ellington, of Wayne, Me-. entered her one
hundred and seventh year on the sth ult She is
in good health.
Thieves 10 Nashville, Tenn, carried of two
story erick chimney on the night of the 2sth ult
No clre to the thieves.
A farmer near Aberdeen. Miss, has made ss7 so
worth,sf tobacco on quarter acre Of land this
season,
The is now In Paris a movement on foot for
the purpose of breaking down the constantly in.
creasisg influence of the women of the demi.
monde
Hauasmann. the rebuilder of Paris and the most
unpopular man in France, has made serious
blunder by changing the name of Economy street
in Paris, to Haussmsnn street.
At the Alcazsr coffee-house. two pretty little
girls, Eve and six years old. appear every night
and delight the customers by their clever per-
formances on the violin.
Justus Liebig, the celebrated Munich chemist,
complains bitterly Of the number of foolish and
impertinent letters which, he says, he receives
every day from nearly all quarters Of the globe.
A Montreal caterer furnishes handsome lunch
for fifteen cents. New Orleans has more than
twenty men who furnish frstrate lunch and q
glass Of old Bourbon with 1t for fifteen cents.
Count Adelsvaerd, one of the weslthiest noble
men CT Sweden. is said to have refused an offer
of $40. 100000, made to him by an English com.
psny. for his copper mine Of Atrudaberg.
worssed was spun at q village of that name
near Norwich, England, cambrics came from
Cambry, dsmssks from Damascus, dimity from
Dsmietts, cordovsn from Cordovs, calico from
Calicut, and muslin from Moussul.
The Walters Protective and Benevolent Society
ofNew York numbers over six hundred members,
and has fund OF $4,000 in bank. aud during the
past five years has expended nearly sl2, 900 for
benevolent purposes.
An insane sdmirer Of Adelina Patti, in Paris, has
published pamphlet, printed in golden letters
and embellished with thirty photographs, repre-
senting the little prms donna in al of her roles.
1t cost him over forty thousand francs to get up
this pamphlet, Of which only five hundred copies
were printed.
History teaches lesson applicable to the pres
ent republic from ancient Rome, which had wise
senators. For example: "When Latium, Ro-
man prince. revolted, and the revolt was sup.
pressed, the question arose in the Roman Senate,
what shall be done with Larium and the people Of
Latium! There were some who cried 'disfran-
chise Then others said, 'confscate their prop.
erty.' There were none who said subject them
an rdssaldge to their slares.' But old Csmius, in
that speech which revealed his true greatness,
and made his name immortal. said: Senators !!
Make them your felow-citizens and thus add to