The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-07

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The finances of Feliclana parish are healthy.
Cora James has moved for new trial. f,4
Yonkers has had q horse flesh banquet.
Wade has written letter in favor OF protection.
Barnum viii give himself to farming.
Chicago has had q charity " calico hop"
Mrs. Burdel Cunningham is a clarivoyant physi-
clan at Mszatlan.
Hoop skirts are now restricted to street wear in
Paris. 4- ai il31 islaellli - s.l.
The water in the Cochituste lake Is rising, much
to the joy Of Boston. I'D .A t1a) .dsirr 81
1t is reported that Concha viii succeed Lersundi
as captain-general of Cuba. ts .,.,, f,,-...
Frsniz, of the Brandon Republican, calls the
old viking" Admiral Catgut.
The residence Of Mrs. B. T. Hamilton, Of Clin-
ton. and contents were burned last Thursday.
Judge Wood, Of Selma, who wouldn't tolerate
negro jurors. has been expelled from the bench.
Our Valley Of Virginia exchanges ell speak In
flattering terms of the growing wheat crop. ~
St. Louis has just received q direct importation
of Carrara marble, via New Orleans.
Mrs. Crow, Of Little Rock, sent four bullets into
Mrs. Kilburn, causing death.
Queen Victoria has over thirty tons of silver
and gold plate. l,sttasf.t y 4
The Memphis springlraces have been postponed
until the 9th inst. 'a aty ae7a-t
E. H. Butler, wen known Philadelphia pub
Usher, is dead. aii5 ~ .t.s4 r
The cantata of "Ths Haymskers," pleasant
picture ofrural life, was recently sung in Chicago.
April was the hardest day of the season in the
New York money market. 51 n,ssss4 ~
jerusalem has only twenty-five thousand inhab-
itants. it9'fi'sl
Judge B. 7. Pope. of Alabama, is under mill.
tary duress for nonattenton to military rule.
A Chicagoian compelled hisyoune wife to lead
q life Of prostitution for his support. ~
The Chancery Court in Memphis has appointed
receiver for the radical Post. foa ..t 49, Z
The United States artillery school at Fortress
Monroe was formally opened on Wednesday.
d. h. Evans, liquor dealer in Memphis, has
been arrested for whisky frauds. ,i3anU slE
Winter wheat in Central and Southern Illinois
promises an unprecedented harvest. ~
Elastic boot-heels are among the latest Yankee
inventions-
Melvin Foster, who is to contest with John Nc
Dewitt for the billiard championship Of America
on the sth Of April, has arrived in Chicago.
A Buffalo dispatch says Weston has walked one
hundred and three miles in twenty three hours and
eight minutes. afid>eii ~ f
duct his wife from service as cook, was shot and
captured.
Capt. j. F. Whitfield, of Montgomery, has been
appointed general agent Of the Montgomery and
Eufauls Railroad. Ply
young lady in Chicago was recently enticed
from her home and nearly beaten to death BY q
supposed jealous female. es auss
Dexter H. Follett and Arther Cheney, the pro-
prietors of Selwyn's Theater, Boston, have gone
to Europe. m
Samuel Elder, worthy young man of Louis
vile, accidentally killed himself with overdose
OF laudanum.
The New York and Brooklyn bridge is to be
so feet wide, 5000 feet long, and will cost s9OOo.
O00 4lF s-ti ir
The National Intelligencer is rather comp-
mentary to Anna Dickenson. but says she has
something Of the sing song of camp meeting
exhorter. ssc. ~, fs. f.-s.4,., ,.sl .s
The Avalanche has information that General
Gillem telegraphed to Little Rock that If frauds
be shown in the election q new election win be
ordered t4 20 70 'iI ~
Senator Wade has taken steps preliminary to
bringing suit for libel against the Cleveland
Leader. The thing complained OF is Washing
ton letter written by George Alfred Townsend.
The French empress, at recent reception at
the Tuieres, was sttred altogether in black, with
clusters of diamonds on the shoulders and along
the sides of the dress.
The railroads centering at Nashville are all COM
planning Of q fearful decline in freghts, and the
coming summer viii be a sort of famine season
with all sorts of transportation lines n5 q
The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South. will hold their annual meeting this year in
ihe city Of Louisville, commencing on the 7th Of
May.
Boston numsmatist recently purchased
silver dollar OF the coinage Of 1904, for the sum
of seven hundred and fifty dollars. Only three
dollars were coined in that year. h sai 3.
In West Baton Rouge. on Saturday, young
man named Cleophas Tuiler. was murdered by
Henry Lewenberg. while in the store of the latter
The assassin fed. .
| The radicals in Connecticut have been import
ing voters to "work" on cranberry lands. Two
hundred are advertised for in one township. They
earned the name of cranberry patch party.n
sataniello, the Italian bandit has way of treat
ing prisoners which may be considered effective.
Thirty Of bis men at once plunge poniards into the
BODY of the victim, while another splits him
through the head and down the back with an enor-
nous ba,chet- The wounds frequently prove
fatal.
The telegraph omitted to state that General
Harry Wells, Of Alexandria. was, on the 4th. ap-
pointed governor of Virginia by General Scho-
field. Wells has been residing in Virginia since
1852. He is from Michigan, and was brevet
brigadier general in the United States army. He
enters upon the duties Of the Office at once.
A letter from the North Platte, dated the I'd in
stant says the Brules. under Ten Strike and Spot
ted Tail, are ready for the treaty bat the OgaIlas
under Turkey Leg, and Cheyennes, under Dull
Knife, numbering one hundred and seventy five
lodges, demand that work be suspended on the
Smoky Hill route, and refused to come in.
An Omaha dispatch says Gems. Sherman. Eheri
dan, Terry, Harney and Forsythe arrived with the
Indian peace commissioners on the lst. On the
Sd, the commissioners left for the North Platte
Gen. Sherman has returned to Washington 10
testify before the impeachment court, having re-
| ceiyed . telegraphic summons to appear.
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