The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-01

golden Wedding on the l5tn instant, ~ heuno'
Square, Pennsylvania.
The Cslifornis Chickory Manufacturing Com
psny turn out about 100000 pounds per annum Of
"healih Coffee" of which 100 900 pounds were
grown in caiiforpis last year. a-so1ls
Peter Henderson, of South Bergen, N. j., has
seven green houses. each 100 feet long. and is
now putting up another 300 feet long and 20 feet
wide.
The grand trunk railway of Canada extends
from the river Du Loup to Lake Huron. and is
1877 miles in length. The cost Of the road was
s97, 900, 0O0 in gold.
Last year the imports of wheat into Great Bri-
tain was something more than GA 900 900 bushels
this year IL is thought not more than 4S, 600, 900
or so, 900 900 bushels will be needed.
The American farmers In the province Of San
Paulo, Brazil, have made 1000 pounds OF seed
cotton to the acre, and corn yielded 6fty-four
bushels per acre. s7-,l -.rr 81 rrolrstt
Georgia has 80 $780, 900 acres of land, popula
ton of $4,000 whites and $4,000 blacks, and with
industry properly directed. can proddce food and
clothing for 100000 of people.
At Springfield, Ohio, q pillow flor blowing
corn, finishing one row at time, has been invent
ed 1t has four shovels, two moving on each side
of the row, and is without wheels or tongue.
John Toney, of Manchester, N. j., planted
seven acres of land with cranberries in 1854, and
has already realized a net profit Of two thousand
dollars from them. ...,. sfrlstfr
Reuben Walton, ESQ.,, living near Newport,
Page county, Va, has been offered $4,000 for his
orchard, which was planted only five years ago,
and covers IL acres and contains 1000 trees.
| A statistician says !" the world smokes aunu-
ally 4OOO 900 tons of tobacco so 900 tons Of cigars,
chews 100, 900 tons of tobacco, and takes 10000
tons of snuff" rr-s-1 :, .....,i5 .....
The British Museum has lately acquired col.
lection of 1000 caricature prints, humorous etch.
| ings, etc., from the earliest date to the time OF
| Hogarth. Buseburry and Gilray. -t..l.-
| of the amount of grain received at Chicago "a
per cent comes by railway. but from that city
only 10 per cent. is sent East by railroad, willis
80 per cent is sent by the lakes. r- ..,
| A carpet mandatory at Amsterdam, N. Y, CO
yers half an acre of ground, employs $50 hands
and makes 900 yards of ingram. two-ply, and ia
pestry carpets daily.
Mr.. VIII. Howe showed the Hopkinsville Ky.
Conservative, the other day, two cucumbers tina
grew on the same vine and measured each three
feet nine inches in length and fifteen inches il
circumference.
A Mr. Butler, Franklin county, Ohio, has grow
potatoes extensively, and goes in for the singl
eye system. By adopting this, eight bushels wi
20 as far as forty planted whole, and prov
equally productive.
There are in the whole of Germany not NOR
than forty journalists that make more than q thou
sand dollars year by their profession. Some G
the popular magazine writer's, however, make a
much as FIVE thousand dollars annually by thei
literary labors.
William GLAND Bourne now comes forward
. claim whatever credit attaches to the authorshi
of the "Joi" lines beginning " Tear down tn
Haunting lie." The "poem " was long ago n
mitted to {" that bourne" but never before to tn
one.
1t is stated that il every OK, sheep and pig
Great Britain were slaughtered, their flesh wou
! scarcely furnish one years supply OF food Il
the Inhabitants, and If the people were compelle
to eat no bread save that made from grain grow
on British soil, not more than three-fourths OF th
! population could be fed.