The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-11

The barrooms OF Montgomery, Ala, pay into
the city treasury SIS 900 Q year.
Booth has made 900 in two weeks of man.
agement in Chicago.
There is now about three hundred millions Of
national bank currency in circulation.
John George killed Hosea Towery about dog
in Lincoln county, Tennessee, last week.
The oil wells in Barren county, KY, are said to
be yielding well.
Grants majority in the six New England States
is 153 994. Lncoln's majority in 1864 was l2o $685.
Hon. Joseph Law, styled by the Argus the
Father of Bainbrdge," died there on Sunday.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Louise for late
Mobile papers.
The Toledo Blade says q printer In that city has
fallen heir to $500 600 worth of property in Canada
A party of distinguished Italians are on visit
to the United States.
The panier dress is now called the "drome'
dairy" style.
A Massachusetts editor says that Thanksgiving
week always gives him feeling of"mince- piety."
Artemus Wards estate is now estimated at
$4,000.
A Milwaukee lawyer gave his wife $500 silver
tea seat, as birthday present. last week.
Horace Greeley lectured to the New York Afri.
cans last week.
Four of the Pittsburg press gang" were mar
ried on Thanksgiving.
A black fox was seen in Maine lately. 1t is the
precursor of negro suffrage there.
A Habn.d organ-the New Orleans Republican.
louisville Democrat.
private hospital for the cure Of irebriates
has just been established at st. Louis.
The uniforms of the New York letter carriers
cost Sal OF per suit.
Wild ducks sell at fifty cents per pair in Peters.
burg, Va. 81. 81. IretL
The ten Western States give Grant q majority
of $50 $50, in a total vote of 2,244,732.
The people of Iowa have stricken the word
white from their constitution.
The post Office clerks of Cleveland, Ohio, are all
females.
OF eight Texas editors who lately met, the
heaviest weighed lbs pounds.
The New York Times calls the style of stock
jobbing now prevalent in New York "Jsygould-
ing.n
train with five hundred barrels of oil, was
burned near Fitchburg, Massachusetts,, on the 9TH
instant.
The Annecke Jsus heirs have found more evi.
dence, and will conspire against Trinity once more
next month.
Mrs. Beecher Stowe told her Florida friends that
she wished to write one more book TO do justice to
the people Of the South.
Admiral Wilkes is reported to be in Washington
looking after prize money for the capture of the
Peterhof during the war.
Nearly 1000 hogs were slaughtered in Bowling
Green last week. The hogs killed averaged 225
pounds.
An open winter in Kentucky is predicted, be.
cause the woods are filed with red headed wood
peckers, which usually migrate.
That Mrs. Disraeli should receive a peerage,
while her husband remains q commoner. may be
taken as proof of the queens regard for him.
Sixteen regular army officers resigned last year.
thirty died, seven were dismissed aud nine were
cashiered.
The Southern Industrial Herald is now the name
Of the newspaper heretofore known as the jackson
County Herald, of Scottsboro, Ala.
A Mississippi paper says the crops that have
not failed this season are pumpkins and boy
babies. I r
Precepts are like cold buckwheat slapjscks-
nobody feels like being sassy to them, and nobody
has q desire to adopt them.
There is a rumor that there is lake visible from
the Adirondacs, which, according to tradition. no
man has ever been able TO reach.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has adapted the penny
post system to advertising, which it does for ten
cents.
The old cemetery at New london, Conn.,, where
lie the remains of the founders OF the city, has
been turned into COW pasture.
The actual payments for the army, less repay.
ments in each year, for eight years. from 1861 to
ls6s, both inclusive, were s., 24l COO, 900.
The sweetwater miners are beginning to turn out
gold dust. The Cheyenne Leader has seen hun
dred ounces from there recently.
II is reported that Moses s. Beach is to pur.
chase building p Bond street for the Working
women's Protective Union, for SAC, 900.
Miss Tucker says il is with bachelors as with
old wood-it is hard to get them started, but
when they do take fame they burn prodigiously.
A tax collector at Waterbury, Conn.,, has been
fined $3.50 for having locked up man who refused
to pay his taxes.
From George Ellis. Old Levee, we have the
last number Of Punch, the Spirit of the Times, and
the Albion.
The deposits in the New Orleans branch of the
National Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company.
during the month of October, were s67l9 and the
the drafts 5000, leaving s57 .ll6 due depositors.
"A etINdut III NOll utIu OuiO, las ulcu VI c6t-
ing onions the tops of which had been ravsged
by the Colorado bug" Other members of the
family were made violently i'll.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, sailed in the
steamer Iowa. fer Glasgow, on the way to Paris,
where the cord which has so long united them is to
be severed.
The Democrats of Walls Walla, Washington
Territory, have presented Brick Pomeroy with a
solid gold medal. 1t calls him the Hero of De-
mocracy."
The New York Chamber of Commerce has
adopted the recommendation of the New Orleans
Chamber that tare on hogsheads of sugar be
fixed at twelve per cent.
The San Francisco. directory contains nearly
63 GOO names. The business directory of the same
city has the names of $1,000 firms. The pOpula-
ton lie l47. $50.
Heinrich Heine said How fortunate the Ro-
mans were that they had not to learn Latin gram
mar! Because, if they had done so, they could
never have found time to conquer the world"
The house in which Percy, author Of The
Reliques Of Ancient English Poetry" was born, in
l727 in BridQeyOrth, England, has been restored