The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-07

oriy scalps, which he wore for q necklace. AL
were those Of white people-some taken from
raybeaded men and women, aud some from
very small children. piece Of the chiefs own
party who killed him. r ~ .rrf-F--
The Paris magazine contains the following
item: Madame Lincoln, widow OF the late
president of the United states. is travelling through
France, in order TO take up her abode at Nice.
We do not know If the honors to which she is In
titled as the widow of great citizen have been
paid 10 her in our country. Ah If Madame LIN.
coin Only were a japanese! But, unfort una,ely,
everybody is not a Japanese !"
A couple of farm servants on plantation in
the southern part of Alabama, who had been
asleep in loft of large barn, were awakened
one morning recently by a great commouon IN the
haymow beneath them, and on looking down saw
a scene which probably is without parallel.
Swarming in through an open window was per-
feet cloud Of wasps. who were attacking young
army of rats, whose squealing had aroused the
two farm hands. The rats stood upon their hind
legs in perfect paroxysm OF rage and rear. and
CRASHED their teeth at the wasps: who stung them
remorselessy. The bodies OF the rats were ter
ribly swollen by the poison of the insects, and in
their rage and fury they turned and bit each other
The hay-lof was strewn with the dead bodies OF
the raIs, until at last the survivors fed from the
scene and left the wasps masters OF the situation
At the University Of Virginia there are over 500
students. At Washington College. over which
Gen. Lee presides, there are nearly 400, and at
the Virginia Military Institute over ESQ. Emory
and Henry, in Washington county, opened its fall
session with nearly 300. Hampden Sidney has
nearly or quite 100. Randolph Macon at the latest
accounts had about 75 and daily accessions were
being made. Richmond College has largely over
leo.
An exchange says: An old deformed negro
woman was passing the street. A fashionable
miss, troubled considerably with the 'Grecian
bend,' turned around and looked after the poor
old negro woman, and was rather disposed to
make fun Of her deformity. The old negro woman
stopped and looked at her minute or two, and
very truthfully remarked: Lor, Miss, you needn't
be pokin' at me, kase de Lor almighty knows
you's bigger curiosity to look at dan l is.' The
young lady bumped herself"
EDMOND About says that in lS47 he and Victo-
rien SardoQ often dined together at a miserable
little restaurant in the Rue Mont Parness, aud
that most frequently they had not money enough
to pay for their dinner. Then," says About,
"we treated the waiter with SO much politenesS
that the young man had not the heart to be rude
toward us: but merely said, | think you are
honest gentlemen, and will not cheat me- Well,
we did not cheat him, although he had to trust Us
good while."
The United States engineers, stationed at Pen
sacola, Fla. are now engaged in a series OF ex-
periments relative to the defenses of that harbor.
A number of ffteen-nch guns are being raised on
the parapet of Fort Pickens, the fort having been
strengthened TO bear them. Fort McRae, on the
opposite shore, is entirely dismantled. the sea
WdsnlDg IN several places through ls Walls.
Chsse's shore battery is also in ruins. 1t is sup
posed that the harbor can best be defended by
iron turrets and Martello towers. number OF
new workshops have been completed within the
navy yard inclOsure.
Ibe chief industry of Italy is that of silk. Be-
fore the silk worm blight, few years since, the
profits accTuiDg from the silk industry were more
| ibaD forty millions year. Those profits have
diminished, owing to the disease of the silh
worms but still there were 1902 silk factories open
| in Ifolu in 0f VII vi In I0mhardV
and of these latter l72 were driven by steam
power. The silk spinners of Como stand first IN
the amount of their products, doubling those o.
| Bergamo, which come next; then comes those o
Milen, so that Lombardy Is the principal silk pro
ducing province. The other northern provinces
follow in their turn the further south the more
| the production dminishes. The expectation Of
raw silks tends TO decrease, while that OF silk tbs
sues IL increasing. In Lombardy the industry sup
ports 10000 people, many of whom grow rict
/ IRON il.
Tie Legislature of Arkansas, at its last session
| passed carefully guarded law, drawn up by the
best railroad men then in the capital allowing the
State TO issue bonds. ten thousand dollars pei
mile or in all over S. 100000. This bill had to bt
ratified by the people before it could take effect
| and by a special dispatch we learn, with much
| pleasure that it was ratified at the ballot box bJ
large majority. IL is a splendid investment, auc
will do more to develop the resources of the State
and invite capital and muscle than ten times al
| much laid out in any other manner. prosper
GUS State in the interior without railroads is sim
ply an impossibility. according to the soirit ant
standard of the age. Arkansas has a great anC
glorious future. She is destined TO be one OF tht
richest States in the Union and powerful in po
| tical and financial influence 10 proportion. M
State, perhaps, has as great variety of resources
or such advantages Of position and climate. AM
as Arkansas prospers, Memphis may expect to b'
| prohttd.
A recent note from Mr.. j. R. Dodge. of the de
partment of agriculture, Washington, to Ih'
| Country Gentleman, contains the following inter
eeiiug statements: The October monthly repor
will not show more than three per cent increas
over 1867, in the wheat crop OF this year. Wit
our present population, and the marvellous IN
crease of wheat production on the Pacific coast
we should make 260 000, 900 Of bushels, but W
shall fall at least 600 short Of it, afte
counting from 25 900 COO to 10000 600 for the Pa
ciic States and the territories. To have full sup
phes, we should have at least five bushels pc
capita for consumption, etc., as follows:
For 3s GEO people five bushels each 0C
For teeoing ~ OtU lOO acres SVuOOh
Surplus expor waste, loss by fire etc.. 4OOJ "