The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-07
GENERAL ITEAs.


Columbus sailed to the American coast in a four
hundred ton ship, and first landed upon the island
Of st. Domingo. Last week vessel rom 81. DO,
minao unloaded in New York over four hundred
w" The New Albany Commercial says that John
r. Nunemacher, of that city, has just been paid
a debt by man In Louisiana which had been IN
curred thirty. one years before, Mr.. Nunemacher's
father being the original creditor. The debtor had
in the meantime moved to Tennessee, and proba
bly, availed himself OF his earliest ability to cancel
II is reported from Denver that Mr.. weine. one
OF the commissioners sent by Napoleon to exam
inc the Colorado mines, has organized French
compsny with 500, ,0C0 capital. TO build tram
way from the coal beds, with view to fur
nishlng cheap fuel for smelling works. They also
sqree to construct gas works there within ninety
days.
lished, giving the average number of messages
sent every DAY over the Atlantic CABLE ana M th the
different rates of charges When the communi.
cation was first opened between Ireland and New
foundland f20 was charged for message .of
tive enty words Of five letters. but this rate has now
been reduced to f3, and. in future the restriction
as to the length OF the words will be removed.
Under the original tariff, twenty-uine messages.
paving f505, were on an average transmitted
every day, and under the present tarih, one hun-
| dred and sixty.eight messages paying f50l. Al
| though the proportion between the reducuon OF
the rate and the increase of the business is not ex-
sc,ly the same, yet there is sufficient encourage
ment to still further diminish the cost OF transmit
| ting messages The American managers believe
that the price should be decreased until the point
is reached when both cables will be fully en-
ployed.
turer of leather in Warren country, Tenn, says In
| a card: :" will give premium OF i've hundred
dollars for the greatest variety ano best specl-
| mems of leather tanned in any one tannery In
Tennessee, to be exhibited in quantities of not
less than three pieces of each kind at the fair OF
the Warren County Agricultural and Mechanical
Association in le69-seven entries"
| The Figaro publishes account OF practical
Joke, which, unlike most practical jokes has the
merit of being amusing. An enthusiastic sports
man went to a breakfast given in sign OF the COM
mencement of the shooting season. The talk was
of game, when suddenly in rushed servant, ex-
claiming to the host that hare had been seen
moving about on the lawn. Out went the enthu-
sastic sportsman. gun in hand, fred at the hare.
and missed him. The hare, scratching his nose,
stood up on his hind legs presented horse pistol
at the enthusiastic sportsman, and fired in return.
No one was hurt, but the enthusiastic sportsman
was naturally astounded, until at last IL was ex'
planned to him that the hare was performing
animal which had been hired from a neighboring
show. The sportsman's charge had. OF course.
BET t3mpered with by the confidential servant
Sulphur forms acids by combination with
oxygen, the most important of which is suphurc
acid, more populsrly known as oil OF vitriol.
This substance may be called the Goliath of
| chemistry. No other substance known has sach
extended and diversified applications. There is
scarcely department OF the arts that does not
directly or Indirectly involve its use. From iron
founding TO the manufacture of gingerbread In
agriculture, in dyeiDg, in painting; indeed II
would be very difficult to suggest q trade, occu
patton or profession, that does not depend more
or less upon this most important substance. A
| friend asks over our shoulder Do you include
lawyers and cergymen 2" Most certainly we do.
The paper upon which, and the ink with which
| lawyers and clergymen write involve IN their
| mar the n of auDlurlC acid. lrV
something else. Hesitatingly-" boot blacks" !"
Out again. No backing without the immediate
OF remote use of sulphuric acid. Once more.
"No, give it up IL the two extremes are not ex-
empt. Ill none Of the s."-[ Scientific Ameri.
can.
brilliant meteor was observed in London on
the night of October z. Ii lasted about tve Sc
copds. Everything was as clear as day. the
cathedral and houses at the northwest corner of
Cannon street standing out in bold relief against a
brilliant sky. The lights in the gas lamps were
for the time invisible.
| The Powell Scientific Expedition ascended to
Longs Peak, in the Rocky Mountain range, on
the 23d inst After making the usual scientific
observations o monument was erected as evidence
ing a record Of the observations with date, names
of party. etc. A flag was planted and left flying.
This peak is a celebrated landmark. It's height,
however, is not remarkable, being only Is $50 feet
above the sea level.
Mr.. James Thompson, of Glasgow, Scotland,
has contrived new method OF producing photo
graphic negatives Of geological specimens. He
saws from the stones thin slices containing fossil
remains or other specimens; these when polished
are so thin and transparent that they may be used
as negatives for Photographic printing upon the
. usual sensitive paper. Beautiful prints are thus
obtained having all the fidelity of nature itself.
Large numbers OF these fossil negatives have
been prepared by Mr.. Thompson. and he has uu'
der'aken to supply the British Museum with du.
plicates.
A Washington correspondent relates the follow.
ing: "There is good deal of gossip going on
here about certain prominent official in charge
of very important department, who has inaugu-
rated a new system of social economy. The said
official has taken up his residence in an eligible
portion of his department and furnished it in good
style, thus at the time saving house rent and
permitting the government to defray his private
bills for curtains, mahogany and clean linen.
This same official. moreover, has been strong
advocate of retrenchment and on his accession 10
: office applied the guillotine without mercy to
, ma e and female clerks, causing the fact TO be
: proclaimed far and near as an evidence OF stern
devotion TO duty. Thus, while number of needy
young girls and men are sent adrift without means
, | Of support, Mr. Commissioner uxurates on hi:
government farm and Uncle Samuel foots the
/, | bilu
ME-. p. whippIe, popular New England lec-
t1rer, thus discourses of the people among whom
he has lived: =" The leading defect of the Yankee
consists in the gulf that separates his moral opn
ions from his moral principles. His talk about
! virtue in the abstract would pass SIS sound in q
/
Z | interests shall not suffer by the rigidty of hit
maxims. Your true Yankee, he gees on to say
has a spruce, clean, Pecksnifiau way of doing
= wrong that is inimitsble. Believing, after Ger
tain fashion, in justice and retribution, he still
thinks tbat a sly, shrewd, keen, supple gentleman
, like himself can dodge, in quiet way. the mora
laws of the universe, without any particular bother
: being made about IT,"
AS the mail ran bound east, approached Var
West Ohio, the other day, the engineer noticed {
small child on the track. To stop 10 time to save
.. it he impossible, and running out on the
. COW catcher, and reaching down he caught up the
child and lifted it upon the engine without injurinc
hair of its head. although he was in great dangel
OF losing his own life.
: At the Friends yearly meeting. (0rthodox
lately held in Baltimore. It was reported that $50,
0O0 was collected and expended last year for the
relief of Friends at the South. They have a com
/ pete educational system, with resident superin
tendent at High Point. N. c.. forty schools ant
two thousand five hundred and eighty EIGHT pupils
In the Supreme Judicial Court for Middlesez
county, Judge Foster. presiding, the case OF Sam
, uel B. Stone VS.. the Boston and Worcester Rail
! road, which had been on trial for several days