The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
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on Tuesday, in single steamer, all bound West.
Fifty dollar counterfeit Treasury notes are in
circulation in New York. eftn -
Italians are emigratiDg to South America by
| the thousands. II F. fflH sH
Burglars stole $4,000 worth of hair from New
| York barber the other day.
Five men have gone over the Niagara Falls this
| season,
The late fire at Oil city beat all its prede.
| cessors. .........r .f ~ -
Nearly one thousand clerks have been dismissed
at Washington within the last two months.
II is reported that large fires raging on the
| north shore of Lake Superior.
| Mr.. Rhind, manager of the Quebec bank has
l. been arrested on the charge of perjury.
The Opal glass works of East Cambridge, Mass
have been totally destroyed by fire.
| Ground was to be bI oxen for the Mo0sehead lake
railroad at Belfast, Me-, on the 4th Of August.
Tae receipts Of the Chicago Saengerfest were
| s27 Az, and the expenses S24,l 73.
Five spans Of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge
| at Harrisburg, destroyed by fire on the l7th have
been rebuilt and trains are again crossing.
The shoe business at Lynn for the past year Il
estimated at sly 600, and the prospect is good
| for an excellent fall trade.
Mr.. Edward Churchill, aged one hundred vears
walked two miles TO church in Erie county. Penn.
sylvsnia, last Sunday week.
1t is said Juarez has defeated the insurgents
against his government. at Queretaro. but his
situation at the city of Mexico Is precarious.
The citizens Of Baltimore are talking of chang
ing the channel Of JOness Falls and turn it outside
OF the city, which would cost seven or ten millions
Of dollars.
About one half only of the crops in New Mexico
have been harvested in consequence of the dam.
age done by unfavorable weather and the grass
hOppers.
Judge Blstchford has decided. in New York
that mortgage upon distillery, given prior to a
seizure Of the premises for violation Of the revenue
laws, did not exempt them from seizure.
A Washington dispatch says the commissioner
OF internal revenue has decided ia favor of the
nj IL fnrt ho
frauds in liquor distilleries.
New York gas company has discovered that
OXIDE iron destroys the odor of gas much more
efectuslly than lime, and are consequently using
it in their works.
A ten-acre field of wheat. near Platte CITY. Mo-.
recently harvested. yielded five hundred aud
eghty-three bushels and twenty-five pounds Of
wheat.
There is a lodging house in Blocker street New
York, where homeless young girls are furnished
with meals for five cents, and lodging for five
cents.
Great preparations are making for the annual
cruise of the New York Yacht Squadron, which
will rendezvous at Glen Cove on the Sth of August
Seventeen yachts are already entered.
Six Normandy stations we're received at New
YORK on Tuesday, from France, on the steamer
st. Laurent. They were imported by Duck &
Stewart, of Crawford county. Ohio.
About $500 has thus far been contributed for
the sufferers Of the recent food in BALTIMORE. The
loss of property foots up to 81 900 600, aud at
Frederick City and the surrounding country to
81 ,000,0O0
At Richmond, Ind, United States Detective
Quinton arrested w. II. Rogers and James
Walker, also the mother and sister of Walker-all
for counterfeitlng. The press, dies and paper of
SOC. fractional currency were found in their posses
sion and captured
An engineer named Kelley, on the Hudson
River Railroad, has invented an attachment to a |
locomotive which catches the sparks as they |
emerge from the smokesta and conducts them |
to the ground beneath the locomotive. II is In |
use on the Hudson River Railroad.
Thomas Mccarthy, brother Of Charles Mccarthy, |
OF the Washington House, Urbana Ohio while on |
his way East, on the 22d ut.. to be treated for in
sanity IN the New York Asylum, jumped through |
the car window, near Meadyille, Penn, and was |
instantly killed.
Robert Beckley, living in wyandotte, Kansas.
took his step-son, two years old, out to the sub /
urbs Of the town, last Sunday and deliberately
Killed him. beckley was arrested and IL was L
feared that the people in that vicinity would take
the law in their own hands and lynch him.
Measures have been taken in Chicago to ascer.
tain the facts in relation to the Texas cattle dis
ease, alleged 10 be raging at various places in the
interior. IL is believed by many that the reports
are exaggerated, and that they are circulated by
stock growers, in order TO discourage the new
competition in their business
In Boston, on the 18th ult. a fire occurred in
large marble front building, No. AZ Summer
street, which destroyed property to the value of
about $4,000. The sufferers are Lewis Bro gn & |
Co., loss $25 coo; Levy, Foster & Bowman, $50,
90; Porter Brothers, 5000; Lewis & Cohen.
SIS 600. All are believed to be fully insured
Capt Plumacher, of Switzerland, has purchased
forty Thousand acres Of land in the vicinity of rul.
lsbOma and Meanwhile, in Tennessee. The frat
ibstalment OF immigrants, designing to establish |
themselves upon this tract, passed through Lynch
burg, Friday, en- route for their new homes. They
are men OF means, and will make excellent citi- |
zens. They will engage in the planting of vine.
yards and in stock raising on an extensive scale.
prisoner named allen attempted to escape
from jail IN Manchester N. H., on Wednesday, by
knocking down Mrs. Fairbanks, who was tempo- |
rariy acting as turnkey. The lady grappled
with him, however, threw him down and when |
he got up sgain so belsbored him with al UNI
brella and otherwise impeded his fight that help
arrived in time TO recapture him before he got
far from the prison.
Hon. Francis ROdman, secretary of state Mis-
souIi, has brought suit against Messrs. Knapp q
Co., proprietors of the st. Louis Republican for
libel. He claims $50 600 damages for a statement
made in that paper-that on Sunday Mr.. Rodman
and others went into drinking saloon 10 Jefferson
City. and there had burlesque imitation of he
Lords Supper.
letter from Joneshoro, Tennessee. dated JnIv
18th, says: Yesterday morning Mrs. Colonel
cams OF Millwood, Washington county, Tennes.
zee. wss seriously burned by attempting TO kindle |
! fire with kerosine oil. In the evening she gave
birth to a child. At P. NJ. she died from the ef-
ects Of the burn. The infant also died, and a
little daughter three years old died 10 a few
hours fIom whooplng cough.
At Memphis on the Sd while constable Day
With guard of three men, was bringing two
orse-thieyes, named Christopher A. Bender and
Benjamin Whitfield. from Raleigh to that city, for
Commitment TO jai!-they having been found |
idIDg stolen borses-when within two miles of
be city the guard was suddenly surrounded by
bout forty masked horsemen. who took the pris- |
neTs, and ordering the guard not to follow, left
0 the direction of Raleigh. Next morning the
len we're found near McCullum's mill hanging To
tree. with paper pinned on them inscribed
Horse thieves-huDg by an outraged commu-
ity."
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