The New Orleans crescent., 1868-11-20

4utIe are eeVeuty-tWO uhuOuoi CtmcLerlc5.
The Province of Ontario has a surplus of 81 500.
900 in the treasury and is out Of debt.
A negro preacher in London accompanies psalm
tunes On the banjo.
Madam Anna Bishop has found fresh husband
\ in Australia.
Many persons have arrived in Washington from
varions States seeking government employment.
; Manufacturers in New York claim to have made
great improvements in the French velocipede.
Cincinnati paid $4,000 for its amusements
during the month of October.
fire in St. Louis. on the 18th inst, destroyed
property valued at sl47 900.
The citizens of wilkinson county Miss. pro-
pore forming an agricultural society.
Long cloaks and three-cornered style Of wear
ing shawls are out of countenance.
On the suez canal 1853 laborers and 5S dredg-
ing machines are employed.
Drawing is now taught in all the public schools
of New Haven.
The foundation of Jewish synagogue has been
laid in Richmond, Ind.'
Rothschild has cleared 1920, 900 in year of his
Chateau Lsftte vineyard.
San Francisco pays 81, 100000 year in gold
for State and municipal taxes.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Jose.
phine for late Galveston papers.
Cincinnati expended s417 $50 in It's public
schools during the year ending sUth June Iasr.
There is to be a convention of editors in Calves.
ton on the lst December.
lynx, measuring FIVE feet nine inches from
tip to tip, was killed in Charlton, No., few days
since.
The sslectnen of Meridien, CT, are establishing
a workhOuse in connection with the town poor
house. tU
The czsr has issued ukase, in virtue of which
nine-tenths of the drinking saloons now existing
in the Russian empire are TO be suppressed.
The Omaha market is overstocked with ante.
lope, deer and other game, brought in by hunters
from the plains and mountains.
part of the great fortune of Espartero was
acquired by gambling in Turkey. His winnings
there were 100000
The lumber business at Burlington, Vermont
which is carried on by few firms, requires about
three millions of dollars of floating capital.
| Swede arriving at Minneapolis, Minnesota, the
other day, had with him chest, the construction
| of which dates back to l7l6.
| Gen. Sheridan says that he lately saw herd of
bufaloes ninety-6ve miles long and twenty. five
miles wide.
The United States quartermaster general re.
ports as now in service, 29l horses s65 mules
and 2ll oxen.
.R. W. Jsques, deputy revenue collector at Col.
umbus, Ca, has been indicted by the grand Jury
for attempting 10 swindle merchants of that city
After strike lasting four months, the shoema.
kers of Liverpool have returned TO work at the
old rate of wages.
bridal bali" was given at Canton, Miss,
few nights ago. All the newly married folks
were IN atte2dance ard the ball was success.
Horace Mann, the eldest son of the late Hon.
Horace Mann, died in Cambridge, Mass, on the |
llth inst, aged "a years.
The News thinks that in proportion to populs- |
ton, Galveston supports more drinking solOons |
than any other city in the United States.
The New York Methodist sffirms that many a |
good sermon has been spoiled for the want of fresh
air wherewiih to enjoy it.
An ocloth factory and other buildings were
burned in Brooklyn on the 10th inst, valued at
$1,000.
AT Davenport. Iowa. last week. young lady. |
Miss Holmes, escorted Deacon Gilbert to the polls
and saw him vote. Deacon Gilbert voted in 1883 |
for Washington, and is over 100 years old.
The VenaDgo Oil Transportation Company have
sold to the Erie Railroad Company for the sum Of
81 900 900, water front of 1000 feet at the venan
20 oil docks. in Weehawken.
Mile Karoly, the French tragedienne, who has
lately performed Hamlet and Romeo in Paris was,
until her nineteenth year, poor seamstress in the
city of Saumur.
The Cunard and IDman steamship lines have |
contracted with the British government for seven
years, 10 run three mails weekly between Eng
land and America.
The Mormon elder, George D. Watt, has been
appointed to travel throughout the Territory and
lecture on silk culture, and to organize societies
for the cultivation of silk.
About one hundred and sixty barrels of ale |
were run of into the sewers of Buffalo the other
day, the night watchman having been drowned in
the vat containing it.
The citizens Of Harrisburg and of the towns up
on the Susquehanna river above that city, are
making arrangements to stock the river and its
continent streams with black bass.
There are twenty-five persons in the Jail, and
twenty nine in the Muscogee, Ca, poor house.
mostly negroes Of course. That countys bonds
are barely worth Go cents on the dollar.
John Mccall was sentenced, in the county
court of Chesterfield, Va, last week. to be hanged
On the 18th of December, for aggravated horse
stealing.
We are favored by Geo. Ellis with Frank Les.
hS NhA'oAhion iOtOiioi anu tuc 6lDlOu IOr NOV.
Ia, just received. All the choice literary issues
Of the day will be found on his counter.
Porto Rico correspondent says that from
eight hundred to one thousand prisoners are held
in Arecibo, some of them being the most promi.
nent men il the island.
The average annual emigration from Italy is
stated 10 be about twenty thousand. About three
thousand left the port of Genoa for tue United
States during the last year.
The operatives in the cotton and wooden mills
in North Adams, Massachusetts,, work eleven
hours per day, and the average wages is six dol
lars per week.
1t is stated upon good authority, in connection
with the notice of the decease of a modiste in
New York. who gave the name to one of the
leading French houses in the city, that though the
family lived in profusion, and had large income,
and their styles were the perfection of delicate
taste, YET OF the family could reau or
write.