The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-25
NoRTHEKs AND WESTERN NEWS

A contract for building railroad bridge across
the Mississippi river, at keokuk, has been closed
with the Keystone Bridge Company. Of Pttsburg.
for one million dollars. The bridge is to be OF
iron, and ike the one at Dubuque, and is 10 be
commenced in the spring and finished within a
year.
The total number of buildings, public and pri-
vate erected IN St. Louis 10 the year 1868 exceeds
25OO, built mainly of brick and stone. Eight
churches have been fnished-two Catholic. two
Presbyterian, one Hebrew, one Methodist EpissO-
pal, one Lutheran. The aggregate amount OF
capital invested in building operations for the
year is about $50 600 GOO.
The following is a report of the receipts of lead.
ing articles at st. Louis, for the week ending the
18th 20,670 bushels wheat, q 535 bushels corn.
SSH bushels oats ii 40S barrels -four, 2l77 bales
hay. The total number Of hogs slaughtered this
season up 10 date is l73, 900 head, of which John
J. Roe killed 81 900.
Papers have been signed transferring the
Brownsville and Upton Branch Railroad to the
Pacific Railroad Company. The Pacific has
leased the new branch for thirty years. The
stockholders Of the branch get thirty-fve per
cent. of the gross earnings of their road.
Tie receipts Of the theaters in ST. Louis in the
past month were: Olympic, $l6.45S Varieties,
$4s47 DeBars, s46l3. TIE heaviest bank de.
posts in the past month were Boatmen's Saw
Dgs Institution, 81 800, 1888; Germans Savings In
stitution, 81 2ls SIG; Central Savings Bank, ST.
0l62; Peoples Savings Association, ssl2 2l0 ;
United States Savings Institution, 1851 ,433; Ma
Mr. Richard n. Dana of Massachusetts,, who
ran for Congress against Gen. Butler removed for
that purpose into Essex district from Cambridge,
just as Butler had previously moved into the dis
trict from Lowell. TheTeupOn the Radical authO-
rites IN Cambridge refused TO receive Mr.. ID ana
vote and be has sued them for $4,000 damages.
An informal meeting of the Buffalo Board of
Trade was held at Buffalo on the 18th. to consider
what me asuTes are necessary TO secure the en-
lsrgement IF the Erie Canal aud a reduction of
f.llu INN ont will ha EQn in fcr
days.
A negro named Alexander Mason was taken out
of jail at Pulaski a night or two ago by a large
booy of masked men, and ridded with bullets
he was a man of extraordinary size and strength
aud regarded as very dangerous. Thursday night
he robbed the firm of Fisher Co. (cOlored) Of
over $1,000. On this account it is thought that the
killing may have been done by negroes, am9ng
whom he was very unpopular.
During Helen Westerns funeral, at the Pitts
street chapel, in Boston, fire making raDd
head1ay was discovered in the basement. With
rare presence Of mind, the police exiDguished it
without creating any alarm, which would doubt
lees have caused disastrous panic in the crowded
church.
Mr.. Fernando Wood has purchased an elegant
house in Washington, corner of | and Fifteenth
streets. which Re is about to ft up in lavish style
as a private residence. Ii Is opposite Senator
Morgsn's. and is one Of a new row just finished.
after the pattern Of the most sumptuOus New
York residences.
the Kate Conner, the little steamer built on
Great Salt Lake, and the first steam craft that
ever foated in that mysterious body of water,
made successful trial a few days ago. She runs
eight miles an hour. Her machinery is from san
Francisco and Chicago.
Mrs. Anderson, wife of the Euglishman lynched
with the Reno brothers, has returned to her home
in New York. She is said to be q woman Of fine
nerve and spirit, and insists that on the night Of
the Seymour robbery her husband was in bed
With her at Windsor, Canada Money to pay her
expenses home was contributed by citizens Of
New Albany.
The artesian well of st. Louis has reached a
depth of nearly $500 feet. andis still going down
| ward. No one knows when the chase will be
abandoned; 1t has been kept up-or rather
down-day and night, for two years and more, at
-! the rate OF three feet per day. The Temperature
st the bottom is said to be two degrees colder
| than at the surface.
Governor Evans, of Colorado. says the large
number OF horses found by General Custsr ia the
Indian camp, at the recent battle Is evidence that
| guilty and not innocent Indians were alta ked
and tnat hostile bands of Cheyennes, Arrspahoes,
Kiovss. Comsnche and Apache tribes have run
| in that direction thousands of horses and mules.
taken from frontier settlers Of Colorado and an
| sas, emigTant trains and the government during
| the last four years. Governor Evans is confident
that General Sheridan will have proposition for
peace from these Indians themselves and that
| sitter their punishment the peace will be valu-
! able.