The New Orleans crescent., 1868-04-21
FREsH JoTTIN0s.

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Me-, is estimated at 81, 500 900.
Mrs. Morris, wife of the American minister to
Constantinople. is dead.
Twenty of the horses participating in the late
Metairie races are expected in Memphis, where
the spring turf sports commence next Monday.
An attempt to remove the capital of Pennsyl
vania from Harrisburg to Philadelphia has been
defeated in the State legislature.
The Illinois Democratic convention, held at
Springfield, on Wednesday, resolved in favor of
greenbacks and Pendleton.
The Baptist church and large stable in Hollo-
well, Me-, was burnt. on the 18th. Loss sl5,O 900;
insured for s45OO.
The Journal des ST. Petersburg has pacific
article on the state of Europe, in which it says
general disarmament of the European powers is
probable.
Theopbus Aryessa, one Of the guards at the
Baton Rouge Penitentisry, was killed by some
convicts last Wednesday. The felons maie their
| escape.
The negro convict, johnson, who was under
sentence of imprisonment for life, for the murder
of J. NJ. Lancelot, of Baton Rouge, made his es
cape from the Penitentiary last Thursday.
The British postoffice department is about to
send to the United States Mr.. a. Trollope to re-
adjust the details of the postal convention with
that country.
railway between Hungary and Galicia, run
ming through highly fertile district, and of great
strategic Importance is to be built by the Austrian
government.
II is reported in Florence that Gen. Gsribaldi
has left Caprera and gone to Naples. The rumor
causes some unessiness, as the generals move.
ments are unknown.
Alex Swift & Co., of Cincinnati, have bought
the two U. S. iron. clads, Catawba and 0eneta-
one for $780, 900 and the other for 1915 900, and
| paid the whole sum into the Treasury.
Mr.. Ward Hunt, new chancellor of the British
exchequer, is six feet six inches high, and proper
tionatey stout-the tallest and heaviest man in
the House.
The notorious Stephen H. Branch, found wan
dering about the streets of New York, suffering
from deliriqm, was on Monday week consigned to
the care of the Commissioner of Charities and
Correction. 1t is believed he cannot live.
Chicago thieves cover their canes with glue,
and marching into drinking saloons plunder the
till by reaching over the counter into the piles OF
currency, while the attention of the barkeeper is
engaged in compounding beverages.
Abraham Knowlton, of Wilbraham, Massachu.
setts, was recently examined at Palmer, and COM
mitted to jail in New York city, to await trial on
the charge of numbering an ilegitimate child of
his daughter.
The widow of the late Senator McDougaII, of
California, has gone to law in Chicago 10 recover
possession of land that is now worth million
dollars, which, she alleges, was fraudulently OBJ
tanned from her father.
A Michigan father, having exhausted the classics
| by giving eleven children such names as Chryste-
/ maa And EnaminondaS knanhroditna
etc., has nipped the twelfth with the name of
Wendell Phillips.
Ore of the severest epidemics of scarlet fever
ever known in this country has prevailed in the
city of Boston during the past year. and still con-
tinues, though the number of deaths is gradually
diminishing. The whole number of deaths from
scarletina, from the lst of January, 1867, to the
lst of the present month, has been AIS.
A special says the final result of the impeach.
ment is beyond conjecture there are twelve
radical senators so reticent that their views are
entirely unknown. During the trial on the 18th Mr..
Butler read the following: "Butler-Prepare to
meet your God. The avenger is on your track.
Hell is your portion. (Signed) KU-KLUx."
The Montpelier, VT, Argus says that Sylvanus
Morse, of East Montpelier is the maple sugar king
of that State. He has 275O trees tapped, and thus
His total product this year will probably be from
five to six tons, and he excels as much in the
| quality of his sugar as in the quantity.
Australian dates Of March s, state that Prince
Alfred's visit to Sydney was more agreeable than
his visit to Melbourne. Heavy gales and destruc-
tive river foods prevailed in the colony. Very
disorderly scenes, attended with assault and bat
terry, were enacted in the legislative body at sgd.
| Tha faIo NJ of ond
| be applied to Fenianism.
| The horse " Ivanhoe," which was matched TO
be driven from Brighton to Worcester, against the
horse Empire State," few weeks since, died
on Tuesday at q stable in Boston. Ivanhoe gave
out on the way, but Empire State went through,
winning the race, and died that night.
warrant was issued by a Bow street police
magistrate, on the 18th, for the arrest of exGov-
ernor Eyre, of Jamaica, on a charge of illegally
procsiming martial law during the disturbances
in that island. 1t is believed that by this means
the legality of the action of Eyre while governor
of Jamaica, in adopting extraordinary measures
to suppress the insurrectiOn, will be finally and
satisfactorily tested.
Mayor Tsmppert, of Louisville, regarding as un.
constitutional the police bill, recently passed by
the Kentucky legislature, which places all police
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elected by the people, has directed his chief of
| police to hold the station house, and retain the
present police force. As soon as the commits.
soners receive their commissions, they will put
their force to work, and bring the matter to an
| issue.
English cricketers are excited over the ex.
pected arrival of a band of Australian aborigi-
mes, who are said to be marvels of skill 10 that
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English resident of the "bush" Of the island cont
nent. They are very expert, too, in the special
art Of their countrymen, the throwing of the
boomerang. One Of them hurls that singular
weapon nearly aquarter of mile and brings it
| back to his feet.
Tie secretary of the interior has received a
telegram from the chief engineer of the Union
Pacific Railroad stating that on the 10th inst the