The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-04
General Items.

The forty. six banks in Boston have about forty.
two millions on deposit.
The Chinese claim to have discovered America,
from the west a thousand years before Columbus
The Germans in Cincinnati have Waiting matches
for barrels of lager beer.
Printing with movable types was known in
India at least one thousand years ago, according
10 discoveries recently made by English Swans.
Speak of mems virtues, says Chinese moral
ist as if they were your own, and of their vices as
if you were liable to their punishment.
steam carriage for common roads has been
built in Edinburgh, the peculiarly Of which con-
ssts In having the tires for the wheels made OF
India rubber each being five inches thick and
two feet broad These tires spread over the
ground like an elephants foot" stones aud
other distractions sinking into them. The one
exhibited was built for the Island of Java.
One corporation in Massachusetts,, which has
81 500 600 capital stock. and consumes two per
cent Of the cotton used in the United states, and
which for six years previously TO 1852 paid sll 1854
tax annually, has since 1862 paid s32S 154 tax an
nually, OF % per cent on its capital.
The present average daily production OF the
PENNSYLVANIA oil regions is ii OBS barrels.
Al. Dresden, in what are known as the Green
Vaults among the curiosities. are necklace OF
diamonds valued at $3.50, 900, and a single green
diamond worth half million more.
The Connecticut Democrats have nominated
the State ticket, with English at the head.
At ST. Louis. on the 30th ult., while some two
or three hundred people-men, women and chill
dren-mainly passengers by the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad tram, were crossing the river on
foot the ice suddenly broke Loose from each
shore and hoated down stream. Thousands OF
citizens gathered on the leyee and watched the
scene with intense interest. Luckily the immense
field of ice did not break, and after floating dis
lance of a couple of blocks, it pressed against
steamer on the Missouri shore, from which
s,agings and gang plaDks were pushed out, and
all the terrified people were rescued.
A net hen has been travelling during the past
six months over the entire country east OF the
Mississippi. She has become a proteSe OF the
Merchants Union Express Company, and travels
from Office TO Office in her coop.
A Memphis dispatch OF the goth ult. SAYS: Gray
& Perzhoover sold Today, TO Martin Walt the
steamer Cleaner for sl2 900 cash. Dan Able sold
10 Captain John d. Adams the Centralia for $751;
Geo. Captain Adams also purchased the Fort
Smith Line comprising the steamers Van Buren,.
Ozark and Fort Smith. The Gen. Qnitman was
attached TO day by planter of louisiana, who
shipped $50 600 worth Of sugar TO this point on her
in iS62 The same wss cOnhscated by the Con
federate oficisls. The planter sues the boat for
the value OF the sugar.
Governor Jenkins has served notice on Genera
Ruger and Captains Rockwell and Wharton thai
he files bill in the United States Supreme Conr'
on the 18th Of February enjoinng the use of money
belonging 20 the State of Georgia.
Agriculture has assumed new phase in Ne
braska. The farmers are all planting forests
which will bless future generations, II not the pre-
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth
Of dried fruit-apples, peaches. plums and black
bsrries- have been sent North from Forsyth
connty North Carolina, this season.
Boston has revived project for bridging thu
hAIbor TO East boston.