The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-02
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The patent for the Nicolson pavement expires |
on the 9Th Of August next, and tbs right 70 LAY |
this pavement in Albany, New YoIk. during the |
period covered by the patent, is offered to the |
city for $50 90.
4 s.. Louis special dispatch says: /" Belmont |
has telegraphed here that delegates, and other
persons going to the National Democratic Con
vention, will be carried by railroad from st. Louis,
and return. at the round price OF $40"
monkey, whose usual business is TO collect
pennies for an Italian organ grinder 10 Detroit
oscar ed from the quarters OF his master on Friday
mis- IT. and was discovered the next morning upon
ii e steeple Of ST. MAry's Church, from which
D Tch he was cosxed wi'h considerable Difficulty.
crowd of women rushed TO the statlon. house
In New York to gaze upon the bodies OF those
who were killed By the explosion of the steam frs
nline on the Bowery, Saturday add one OF tnem,
who came only TOR curiosity, recognized son
smCng the dead.
The New York Anti-Gambng Society reports
favorable progress. They have closed several OF
the vilest gambling dens in the city by prose-
cutting tie landlords for letting the places for such
purpose. aud their system OF spies has fright
eD6d away the patrons. i
TIE Owensboro Monitor is informed that in
Mclean county Kentucky, there resides family
10 which are two children, one aged three and
half years that weighs two hundred and ffty
pounds, and a younger one, that is called the
baby. makes the scale beam kick at one hundred
and fifty pounds.
the Judd divorce case. Judge Granger refuses
the petition of Mrs. Judd. and grants that of her
husband to whom also is given the charge and
custody of the two minor children. The mother
| is to have the privilege of visiting them Of
| reasonable hours, at least four times year, for
| the present.
The work on the tunnel under the Chicago river
| ! pressed with great vigor by the contractors,
| operating from each side toward the center.
| Something over five hundred feet Of the arching
| has been completed, and four hundred and eleven
ieet mostly under the bed of the river remain 10
| be excavaied and arched.
| Twenty.tbree disteres in Chicago manufac-
| tuIed STAT barrels of whisky between the LIST OF
January and the LIST OF June, according 70 the re-
| turns made-a fraction over two barrels dag
| ON the average. Some of the establishments
could probably have made more than that if it
had been thought advisable, but then the tax
would have been higher, so they didn't.
A GAINESVILLE paper describes a monstr0sty to
| which q woman gave birth in that neghbOrbO0d
lately. The body of the child is naturally formed
ard perfect in all respects; but the head, instead
of mouth, has a well formed trunk, like an ele-
plants proboscs, through which is received all
The nOurishment that the child partakes. The
yOungster IL said to be as intelligent as children
of its age generally are, and enjoys good nealt1
On Wednesday week. Mrs. Boyd Mercer, living
In Mansfield Ohio received what purported 10 be
a telesrsphic message from Sewickley, Penn
sylvsDia, saying that her brother there had been
killed by fall from horse. She proceeded at
1 y
AID well. On her return she found that the house
hld been robbed of two CT three hundred dollars
IN money, and some valuable property. Nc.
Mercer was at home, but being aged and very
indTm, was not in the way of the thieves. The
b gus telegram was sent, of course, to decoy Mrs.
M reer from home.
The life Of brakeman on the Rome. Water
{ Wn and 0swego railroad was saved by a curious
circumstance the other day. He was formerly a
| s ldier. and while in the service was bucked and
ga ged by an officer. He then swore that he
would berevenged. Last Monday the officer hap.
p, ned to be passenger on the train, and at one
Of the stations stepped upon tue platform.
| Brakeman saw him and Immediately sailed in. "
The brakeman was arrested, and during his ten.
porary retirement another man. who took b.
place on the train, was k lied by cOlso
Captain Anthony McMullen was lost at sea some
| time during the latter part of the last century,
leaving surviving him only one child, Charles, who
hsd been absent from home for long time pre-
| vous to his fathers death, and did not return
| until years aftewards-in his old age. 10 the
meantime Captain McMullen's property large
tract OF what is row a very yalu able property il
| New York city-had been taken pOsses sion of by
| the brothers of Mrs. McMullen, aud converted "a
Their use without any legal title. and It Is II
the posses OF their descendants to this day
| The case has lately been put in the hands of law
yefs who are confident of early success in re
| claiming the estate for the rightful heirs.
| At Fort Ripley, Minnesota. on Wednesday even
in. Of ast week, the quarters occupied by Ord
nance sergeant fTanAhee were uiscoVoteu On h.o
and before any assistance could be rendered by
the garrison were totally consumed, together will
Sergeant FTsnzkee and his family Of four chit
| dren-his wife alone by some means escaping
| thr, ugh the window. The unfortunate lady ha
become insane in consequence OF the terrible ca
. lamity. The origin Of the FIRE is unknown. Ser
| geant Frsnzkee was about fifty five years of age
| aud had been in the military service Of the United
| States for twenty-five years or upward. havini
served in the Florida war, and also IN the Mexican
war, and was serving his sixth term of enlistmen
; | at the time of his death.