The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

Elias Sudduth, of Harrison county, Ohio, who
is los years old, reads without spectacles, aad
chops his own FIRE wood. Z
The receipts of the New York customhouse for
the four days ending Saturday were s., 1884 900 in
gold. lL o-Fl
The loss by fire at Gloucester, New Jersey, is
reported at 100000, with an insurance of
Several farmers on Long Island have lost IRON
one hundred to five hundred dollars worth of crops
each, within the last fortnight, by grssshoppers.
father and son, named Turness, were suffo-
Gated by foul air in well twelve miles from Mad
Phelsn;s billiard table factory in New York was
burned on the 18th. Loss 1920, 900. Three hu,i.
dred workmen are thus thrown ont OF employ
ment. - -.
A sandbank caved in on several children in Nil
ford, Mass, a few days ago. Three were taken
out dead, and the fourth has since died OF its u
juries.
= The funeral of the late Bishop Fulford, the Me-
tropolitan bishop of Canada, took !, place at
Montreal on Sunday evening. and was attended by
an immense number Of persons.
A new young millionaire has been discovered in
New York. His name is Louis E. Nugent. He is
the heir TO the great Nugent estate has 500, 900
in cash, and Is not engaged. % cal
Rev. Charles F. Robertson, the bishop elect Of
Missouri Is only thirty -four years old. he gradu-
ated at Yale College in 1859. and at the General
Theological Seminary in 1862. a5f3le
tub race from Buffalo, NJ :, to Albany, com
mences next Monday. Wash tubs and paddles
are the outfit Charles Thorne, Of schenectady,
bets $1,000 that be can do ii in eighteen days.
A fire at City Point, Va, on the 18th, destroyed
the railroad depot, four warehouses, six wharves,
and the James River Hotel. The loss is estimated
Jean Inglelow is the daughter of an English
country barber, and of Scotch woman. Her
first poems were published in 1868, and nearly
two hundred thousand copies OF her works have
The Kentucky State fair closed on the I4th,
after successful run of six days. notwithstand-
ing the wet weather which prevailed during the
most interesting days Of the exhibition. Tho at
tendance was very large.
DR.. J. B. Clayton was arrested in Memphis, on
the 14th, and lodged in jail bail being refused, on
the charge Of poisoning Lawrence Kraft, one OF
his patients, who died suddenly, post mortem
examination showing that he had been poisoned.
Mrs. Frank Gilcrease was shot In her own house
in Port Gibson, Miss, on the evening of the 9Th
inst, by some unknown villain II Is thought that
she was mistaken for her brother, and was shot By
one of his enemies. -r-rrfa.lf nrlrt
Panama advices Of the 4th, state another revo.
linton there had bloodless end. 1t resulted in
President PONCE being arrested and deposed by
one Correso. The latter proclaimed himself pre-
sident forming new cabinet.
silly rumor is circulated, bat not credited, at
Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that United States
general has offered from fifteen to twenty thousand
troops TO help Nova Scotia secede from the do.
minion. l.Il -' elt l.l.la
1t is agreed on both sides that John surrstt's
trial shall commence on the 2lst. The witnesses
Surrstt has been down in lower Maryland since
he was released on bail, but Ia now IN Washing
ton personally attending to the details Of his COM
ing trial. 80
tain that the United States government entertains
the project Of acquiring an unknown Island in the
eastern seas, near the settlements Of the English,
Spanish and Hollanders in the Indian Archipelago.
Borneo, sumatra, Java and other large Islands are
in its neighborhood.o -..--.-- -H~
Quite q sensation was created in the new school
Presbyterian Church in Jefferson City, Mo-, on the
18th. II seems that by previous arrangements be-
| tween q carpet Dagger and Mr.. Whitaker, the
pastor the front seats ia his church were reserved
for negroes. At this junciure fifteen or twenty
man in Albany has invented "union self
heating sleigh" which carries a heating appa-
| rstus IN 'front.' consisting of oil lamps supplied
| with smokeless burners, which admit the heat to
| the feet through perforated sheet Of metal pro-
tected by wire gauze. The forward motion Of the
sleigh causes the air TO circulate as il 10 needed.
The street robbers, with whom London IA
| infested Just now, have hit upon a new dodge. A
| rufian stoops down, as If In the act Of tying his
shoe, and then suddenly bouncing up butts his
| head violently into the stomach OF a pedestrian
| who is passing by, and sends him heels over head.
Confederates then pounce upon Their victim, ard
greeley. in his Ledger Recollections,n says Of
| the American Conflict " The sale Of 'ny his
| tory was very large and steady down 10 tie date
of The clamor raised touching the bailing Of JEFF.
Davis, when it almost ceased for q season thous-
ands who had subscribed for II refusing 70 take
their copies, to the sore DISAPPOINTMENT ana 1888
/ of the agents. r.-r r-.r az
InteIligt nee has Just been received at Nashville
! of the dabolical assassination Of Democrat by
the Radicals in Hardin county. Three despera-
| does named Gallon, Young and Courtney, who
| were bushwhackers during the war, and have
since kept the conservative men in that section In
| a constant state Of alarm, sWore that any person
who wore gray clothes az certain religious meet
ing should be killed. A Democrat, named Worth
Hardin, attended the meeting in y gray cost, ana
the cut-throats were only prevented from Carrying
out their saDguinary threat by friends Of tae ior
brother IF the person Aforesaid, was wayllid and
shot BY the trio he received eleven balls IN ms
body and died almost instantly Inc mef 20 ,..
man was not in the least implicated IN tne oilcuy
| between his brother and the assassins, but va
killed. as is universally believed, on seopeat o.
his being Democrat