The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-09
EDuTonIAL PARAGRAPHS, Fro

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Ba'ance in the s1b-treasury yesterday $780,.
500, goo.
Mrs. Boomer, who painted for costumean hon.
ors years ego, now lives at Omaha.
Austria raised SIS COO, 900 worth of beet sugar
this season.
Henderson, KY, has sixteen firms engaged in
buying tobacco.
Patti gave her first dinner and party as Mar
quise de Caux few days since.
Chicago has built twenty-five churches the past
yes, at cost of two millions Of dollars.
The British flag floats over about 5000 steamers
OF about l 100000 tons in all.
California fears the introduction of leprosy by
Chinese coolies.
Lynxes are again at work among the sheep in
Durham and Haddsm, CT.
Providence, in the year 1867, had $50 deaths,
sos marriages and 1924 births.
Dickens, Jr.. has followed Edmund Yates and
George Augustus Sals into bankruptcy.
The young men of New York who wish to be in
the fashion, now dye their moustache yellow.
Canada has nearly four million acres of surveyed
crown lands.
May his heart be as light as his bread, ;" says
contemporary of benevolent baker.
Tie latest " aids TO digestion ~ are blue satin
| bills OF fare, WI gold fringe.
Many farmers do not raise enough epples to sup.
| ply the home demand.
A Philadelphia lady has recently explored the
sewers of Paris.
Chicago is now packing over rs, 600 hogs per
week.
drove flour hundred turkeys passed through
Carlisle, KY, last week. en- route for Cincinnati.
There ere 424 solder-clerks in the New York
postoflice.
Thanks to the officers of the |. c. Harris for late
Brownsville papers.
Grant says that if any one knows who is going
into his cabinet they have an advantage over
him.
English farmers are paying twenty-five cents a
bushel for gathering scorns, and twelve cents for
chestnuis. both for feeding swine.
The senior class of Amherst College presented
DR.. Hitchcock with costly fernery on his crys-
tai wedding.
An Altoona contractor has erected in that city
one hundred and fifty houses within the last three
years.
Practical jokers annoy Harrsburgers by' trans
ferriDg the contents of clothes lines to church.
door knobs.
Tweniy-three thousand stands of muskets we're
shipped from Rock Island arsenal for New York
last week.
s. o. Rogers and P. W. Spencer, two fellows
hailing from Boston, are under arrest in Hartford
for robbing clergyman's house.
& The National Photographic Association of the
United States was organized at Philadelphia last
week.
The annual revenue derived by the Italian |
treasury from the government lotteries is sixty |
million francs.
Commodore Vanderbilt owns over two thousand |
shares in the Hartford and New Haven Railroad
Company.
Weather prophets east of the Aegheuies are
predicting severe winter; in the Mississippi val
ley they argue mild winter.
Goldfish weighing seventyfo pounds was
caught within sight of the Boston light the other
day.
The secret of getting rich, | take ii, all lies in a
nut hell: "Spend less than you eafn."-l Tim
Bunker.
A gentleman in Americas, Ca, has discoveries
preparation which destroys the taste of alcoholic
drinks.
Baltimore paper urges the male dry goods
clerks in that city to throw down their yard sticks
and surrender to the women
grand hog killing aud packing tournament.
for the " championship has just begun between
the cities of st. Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati.
Gustave Dore is among the first party of sixty.
seven guests invited TO meet the imperial family
at Csmpegue.
Boston has Young women's Christian Asso-
citation" with fifty boarders, who pay from So rs
to 81 a week.
On the Doth ult. the -four dealers of Portland,
Maine, had stock on hand amounting to 100000
barrels.
In the upper portions Of Piscstaquis county,
Me-, the snow is said to be very deep and badly
drifted.
A pugnacious Liverpool woman pitched i'm
to clergyman whs reproached her for not at
tending church.
A joint stock company has been organized for
the purpose Of erecting an immense hotel at
Cape May.
A floating saw mill is being built on the Ocmul.
gee river, Georgia, to get out the ine timber on
the banks of that stream.
In New Hampshire a cove what gets raving
drunk and beats his mother within an inch of her
life is called dipsomaniac.
There is a crow roost in Lancaster county Pa,
where at least hundred thousand Of these black
warbers spend their nights.
The total expense of assessing and collecting
the internal revenue during the last fiscal year
was IS 549, 400. The assessments were s270 0S9,-
ssh, and the total collections 1854, 500 GA.
During the past year 924 American seamen left
destitute 10 foreign ports have been sent back to
the United States, by our consuls, at an expense
of s12,l3s.
A large black bear weighing $50 pounds was
shot a short time since in Rerkimer county. New
York, which had dragged hunters trap six
miles before he was overtaken and dispatched.
A billiard tournament in aid of the Working
Mems Relief Association is announced to take
place in Brooklyn, New York, on the SOth Of De.
New Jersey is called by contemporary the
" Garden Field of Methodsm." The Methodist
churches are among the handsomest in the State
and have So 600 members.
A clergyman reports that he has visited twenty
thousand families in New Hampshire The past
year, and found only fifteen hundred families with.
put the bible.
During the month of November 6fty-eight clerks
IN New York who frequented gambling houses