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

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Central India is troubled with grain riots.
Gold closed In New York yesterday at 1sl} to
1914.
Virginia journals are rejoicing over the revival
of cloth manufactures in that State.
They. grow onions in Arizona weighing four
pounds. .
In Chicago 1fty-fve business houses have just
gone up with 50 100000. 1888
The West India trade with Norfolk ID on the in
crease. ~.
An eighty acre tract Of land near Georgetown,
Ry. sold the other day for $50 per acre.
Ex-President Pierce was carried to the polls In
/ q hack.
In Washington, there is a drayman who speaks
seven languages.
San Jose, CAL, has discovered beds of man.
gsnese.
Isabella had the finest collection Of mules ex-
| tsnt.
1t is said that Harriet Beecher Stowe has son
in the Binghampton Insbriate Asylum.
In London 5000 in gold have been collected
for the South American earthquake sufferers.
"InitiaIed portmonnaies are announced in
New York.
Lawrence, Mass, it is reported, employs $1,000
factory girls.
|
hundred millions of dollars.
| There ere 1878 billiard rooms in New York city
| and Brooklyn.
The Muscozee and Southwestern Railroads Of
Georgia have been consolidated. a,f
There was light frost in Thibodsux on the
| mornings of the I'd and Sd inst.
Some euterprising gentlemen propose establish
| ing beef factory at Brennan, Texas.
| Breni am, Texas, has three churches, three
schools and two newspapers.
There are seven lotteries in Italy, yielding the
| government, annually, about G., 100000.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Judge
Fletcher for late Shreveport papers.
The Canadians have subscribed $1,000 for DARCY
| McGee's widow.
The North Carolina State Bank is going into
bankruptcy.
| Commodore Perry introduced the grape bust
ness among the Lake Erie Islands.
Charles 81. Morse, of vineland, New Jersey, is
the owner of nearly forty thousand autographs.
Forty Canadian girls have been imported for q
Massachusetts, rubber factory.
mortgage bond for $4,000 900 has been
stamped at Richmond, requiring $40 900 in stamps
Gov. Burnside dined $780, 900 900 the other day,
in the persons Of Stewart, Astor, Grinnel. and
other wealthy New Workers.
The newspaper stamps issued from the excise
department of Great Britain during the year end
ing March 81, 1868, amounted to q 1872 .769.
An anti tobacco club has been formed in New
Y,rk, meeting once week, it is supposed, for the
| purpose of not smoking.
Movable iron hospitals, so constructed as to be
capable of indefinite expansion, are attracting at
teption in England.
The wines and liquors belonging to the estate Of
the late President Buchanan were sold by auction
for $1,000.
The new process of depositing iron by electric.
ity. which has engaged the attention of foreign
chemists for some time past, is still kept secret
Shreveport received 9C37 bales cotton during
the month of October, 1865, against 500 same
month last year.
There were about 900 900 pounds of tobacco
shipped in bond from Richmond, Va, during
October.
The first of line of steamships between Liver
pool and Charleston, s. c., leaves the latter port
on the 18th inst.
Canada has young lady of twenty-three who
il seven feet seven inches tall, and weighs SIC
pounds.
The New York papers mention several suspen
sions of houses engaged in the grain trade, owing
to the heavy decline in breadstuhs.
A bet is rumored between two South street
, New York, merchants, the loser to wheel col
ored woman half mile through South street.
Mrs. sallie Sutherland, venerable lady of Au
gusta, Ca, died on the Sd instant, near there
aged lO4. $50.
Peter Ostrander, of South Serdach, New York
has voted at every election for seventy-thre'
years.
, The Duke of Modena, it is stated, has just res
stored to Italy most valuable collection Of coin
. and medals. l4,Oc0 in number.
Two hundred French factory girls will sail th
month from Havre for New Orleans, to work 81
servants.
The exports from the Hawaiian Islands durinI
the first eight months Of 1868 amounted in valu
, | to $99s .730.
The Frank Bell farm. on the Frankfort pike
J eight miles from Georgetown, KY, has been soil
for s72 so per acre.
: Whilst q house at Trenton, N. j., on Frida!
night, was illuminated in honor of political pro
cession, a thief entered it and stole $4,000 il
J bonds and jewels.
A remarkable curiosity near Kamakura, il
Japan, is q large stone, resorted to by womeI
from all parts Of the empire as cure for barren
nets.
The second annual fair of the Attala Agricultu
! raj and Mechanics Association will be held a
their fair grounds at Kosciusko, Mississippi, thi
week.
Maine has an area equal to that of all the othe
New England States. but has only 577 miles o
| railroad in operation, while the other five New
: England States have 1889 miles.
\ A French newspaper, speaking of the new
! cemetery opened near Lyons, says: IN. Gas
: coigne was the first person who had the pleasur
Of being buried In this delightful retreat"
: The shoemakers of Cologne have established
lottery to raise funds for the erection of a monu
, ment at Nuremberg to the memory Of Hans sach:
: the shoemaker poet.
British India, it is reported, is threatened with
dearth, which ii isfeared will prove destructiv
as the famine in the district Of Orissa, when tw
!, millions of persons died of starvation.
Pixies Opera House, at the corner of Eight
q | avenue and Twenty fourth streets. New Yor
d city, has been sold to the Erie Railroad Company
it is said, for $s50.O00.