The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-26
ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

st. Louis Is filed with burglars, and heavy rob-
berries are committed almost nightly.
An unknown woman committed suicide on
railroad train between Galens and Chicago re-
Gently.
The trial Of whean, for the murder Of Darcy
MCGEE, has been fixed for the I'd Of September
next.
Bishop Quintsrd, bishop of the Episcopal do
cese of Tennessee, reached Memphis recently
from protracted tour in Europe. 49,,
Robert Clemens, a teacher in Dayton, Ohio,
committed suicide by severng the arteries In his
wrists and cutting his throat. Unrequited love.
The Loew bridge, spanning Broadway at Fulton
street, has been ordered TO be abated within
ninety days by the Supreme Court as a nuisance
The master mssons of New York have takea
steps to resist what they term the oppressive de-
msnds of the brickla5ers, three hundred Of whom
are on a strike.
The German saengerfest, for Minnesota, CON-
menoed its annual session, en the I'D, and was to
continue three days. Ten societies were rep
resented.
The st. Louis courts are now occupied with
dirty divorce case between Britton A. Hill and
wife. Hill charges all manner of bad practices on
the madam.
Nashville has another buried treasure sensation.
A DYING ex.federa soldier has disclosed that
eighty five thousand dollars in gold, the proceeds
of his patriotism, is buried In that city, and par
ties are endeavOring to unearth 1t.
Boston Back Bay lands sold low at auction on
Tuesday-one lot at the minimum price OF 81 so
per foot, and twenty eight others were wIthdrawn
| from sale. Another lot, purchased in 1868 at
premium on the minimum price of 81 Is, was
| sold at 81 20 per foot.
The steamer Mary Powell eollided on the Hud-
son river with the schooner Mathew Vassar, Capt.
Butts, of Butler Hill, cutting the schooner in
| twain and sinking her instantly. son OF Capt.
| Butts, aged fourteen years, was drowned. All
| the others escaped to the steamer.
Albert W. Cushman and Steven Q. Hanson were
sentenced in Boston recently to fine OF two thou.
| sand dollars each with two months imprisonment;
Patrick Kirnan and Patrick Ryan twenty i've dol.
lars each with three months imprisonment-all
| for illicit distlllipg.
The election for directors of the Michigan Cen.
trail Railroad at Detroit resulted as follows: Jas.
| +. Joy, Of Detroit; J. W. Brooks, Nathaniel
Thayef, Sidney Bartlett, J. W. Forbes, of Bostoc;
| Erastus Corning, of Albany; G. F. rolman, Moses
| Taylor and Edward Jones, Of New York.
| The Sovereign Sanctuary of the Z. M R., of
| Memphis, being the grand body OF the United
States Of the ancient rite OF Masonry, held its
| nual meeting IN Chicago, on the I'D, q. q. Burt,
! seth degree, Grand Master, presiding George ID.
| Noble, OF Detroit, was elected Deputy Grand
| Master. The utmost harmony prevailed
Mrs. Pollard publishes card reiIeratiDg the
charges against her husband of ill.trsatment, and
TenOUneiDg ell connection with him hereafter.
She also Gays that the allowance which Pollard
falsely says was provided for her has been
stopped. New York dispatch says it is believed
that Mrs. Pollard made an unsuccessful attempt
| at poisoning herself Sunday night.
| DR.. Thomas g. Brinsward died suddenly on the
| 22d, Troy, OF disease of the heart, while pre-
siding at public meeting called for the purpose
| of aiding The Rensselaer, Institute. He was vice
| president of the State American Society, and
| president Of the State Medical Society in 1851.
| In 1867 he was One Of the delegates to the Paris
Scientific Congress. He was sixty-iv years old.
The superintendent Of the Memphis police force
in an order prohibiting the carrying of concealed
| deadly weapons. says within the last four months
SIX officers of the law, members Of the police
force, have been killed while In the discharge of
their duty, and six more severely wounded; 10 all
about twelve per cent of the average police force,
who have suffered death or manning at the hands
OF actual or would be assassins, unlawfully armed
with deadly weapons.
The latest use Of that remarkable legal process,
the Injunction was made at Rondout, New York,
| where a young woman endeayored TO prevent a
marriage last week by serving an injunction upon
the clergyman who performed the ceremony
| The Young man who was married had paid his
addresses to this young woman and engaged "a
| marry her, bat he suddenly changed his mind
The clergyman disregarded her injunction, and
the tW ain became one, while the forsaken is LEFT
to mourn her hapless state.
The seventeen-year locusts have, within the
past few days, made their appearance on Lo0g
Island, the trees in the woods at WhiteDost, about
a mile west of Jamaica, being literally covered
with them, and more are still coming out OF the
grouLd. Adviees from tho east end of the island
state that there millions Of them in the vicinity
OF Patchousene and Fsrmingdale. They deVou
everything green that comes in their way, aud
great fear is entertained that the present crop viii
be destroyed by them.
The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce ha
passed a resolution calling upon members Of Con
gress 10 eDdeavor to secure the prompt passage o
SO much of the appropriation bill now before Con
gress as provides for the improvement of Western
rivers, and has sent dispatch TO the st. LOui
Board OF Trade asking their cooperation in urgin
Congress TO make appropriations for the improve
ment of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. tn,
1 I'D irpun diofa 1uh alA and fala
grams TO the senators and representatives froH
Missouri earnestly requesting them to use thei
utmost efforts TO accomplish this object.