The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-19
NUMBER 264.
ITEMS BIZ LAST NIeHr's MAIL.
They have the potato bug in Illinois, bad.
The Virginia State debt is s47 ,OOO, 900.


The Virginia State debt is 81, 900. 900,
There aie 10000 spiritualists in Indiana.
The Kentucky wheat crop is coming on finely
Bogus 6vecent nickels are in circulation in New
York.
Two-thirds of the population of Chicago are
foreign born. |
-Four hundred Chinese arrived al San Francisco
on the l4th on one vessel.
A new party is organizing in New York to be
called the " Canslers.n 20. ...
FesseDden declined to eat with his Boston
frienos.
The legislature OF Massachusetts, has passed
law forblddDg the lighting of passenger cars by
Illuminating fluids that will explode.
Three bankers. two merchants and one minister
were arrested about two o'clock A. NJ. on the 18th
in bsgnio in Allegheny City.
VIM. Hancock, a lineal descendent of John
Hancock, died in Worcester county, Mass, on
The Montreal Herald believes the United
States will not permit any serious movement by
the FerisDs. ~.
Private letters state that Louis Napoleon has
threatened to suppress the new satirical paper In
Paris the Lantern, unless it cease to rdcule him.
Gentlemen who have converssd with Seward
say he will vote for Grant and sColfax, no matter
what other candidates may be in the field.
A convention Of the hedge. growers of Illinois
and Iowa will be held in Bloomington, H., on the
25th inst.
The project of erecting a monument ia Brook
yn TO the IL 500 revolutionary martyrs of the
PRISON tDlps N IN hglLdllOn. Fort Gfeen0 IS
gested as an appropriate site.
The ram StODewall was nine months in making
the voyage TO Japan, and sailed 70, $40 miles-the
longest distance ever made by an irOn-cad with
cut convoy. she consumed 2050 tons of coal.
Thirteen buildings are in course of erection on
Broadway. New York. below Uniol square. Their
aggregate cost is $3 ,345 900. Seven hundred and
ninety men are employed upon them.
The Northern Railroad freight house. with the
storehouse of Dodge, Davis 4 Williams, at Enfeid.
N. H.
wool and wooden goods, amounting to about
$40 900. =
The Russian government has again recalled to
Mr.. Seward's recollection the fact that Alaska
has not been paid for. IL is expected that the
committee on foreign affairs will reporta bill max
ing the necessary appropriation this week.
+. Ackermann was stabbed with an ice pick in
saloon on Poplar street, Memphis, Sunday
evening, by man named Bummer. Ackerman
is lying in dangerous condition. Blummer
escaped.
Whisky and tobacco raised as big row in the
House of Representatives on the 18th at Wash
ington, as it ever did in barroom. II was a
sweet little family fight, of which the Radicals
were the exclusive propTietors.
The naval cadets arrived at West Point Sunday
morning, in the practice feet of the Academy at
Annapolis. formal reception was to take place
on Monday, after which Gen. Grant was TO award
the diplomas, and Prof. Coppee, of the board Of
visitors, to deliver the Grafton to the graduaes
strike for ten hours wages for eight hours
work." among the woIkmen of san Francisco,
two or three weeks ago, did not result satsfac-
torily TO the strikers. Some thousands of able
BODIED men Glanced to arrive from the Atlantic
cities at the critical moment, and they promptly
accepted the wages refused by the old hands.
Still another ocean race is talked Of. The
mate OF the little yacht Red White and Blue,
which crossed the Atlantic year or two ago,
has challenged the survivor Of the crew of the
John T. Ford, another pigmy vessel, which cap
sized of the Irish coast last August, and drowned
two men and boy in attempting the same voy-
age, to race across the Atlantic In vessels Of
two and half tons each.
The Providence Journal says that Walter Ar
mold, the young clerk in the office of the State
auditor, who robbed the State treasury of some
ten thousand dollars, and devoted il to the
brothels and gambling houses that still open heir
doors in the cny's heart to entrap the weak aud
the unwary. has been pardoned and released
from the State Prison, having served scarcely a
month for each thousand dollars of his il-gotten
and ill-spent plunder. He probably belonged to
some first famiy.n
correspondent Of the New Albany Com
mercsl, writing from Providence, Iudana, SAYS
the locusts are very destructive. The branches of
the trees, after being probed to the center iu a
dozen places as receptacle for their eggs, are
broken of by the wind, the body of the tree is
splitting open in various places, scores and hun.
cred OF locusts are sucking the SAP the leaves are
fading and many trees are already dead. The fact
is, they almost destroy young orchards.
Mr.. henry Phillips, an old resident of Lima.
Ohio, returned TO that city from Cincinnati about
IL O'Clock Friday night, and after leaving the
ston was attacked by two men, Knocked in
sensible and robbed of tlT00, aud left on the
track, in order, as il Is thought that the express
train, due in short time, would run over and kill
him. He recovered bis senses in time to get off
the track and save his life. Mr.. Phillips thinks
the robbers followed him from Cincinnati.
Two girls at the Troy New York; Seminary
tried TO get up suicide sensstien, one day last
week. One took a small dose os-laaAanum and
the other swallowed some paint or other sub
stance containing poisonous ingredients. Their
Efforts were not successful, as they succeeded
only in rendering themselves temporarily sick.
1t was not necessary even TO call in the services
Of physician. The principal of the institution,
as soon as he was informed Of the occurrence
required the girls to walk of the effects OF the
DaIcotcs they had taken. One of the girls re-
sides in New York and the other in PHILADELPHIA
AT Jerome Park on the 10Th the sweepstakes
for two-year olds and fllies was won easily by
Jerome's Rapture, beating Inversoll Morrisis
Premium purse Of 500, for all ages, one mile =
furlongs; won by Lancaster, beating Metairie
length and Red Dick two lengths. Tme-2:574.
The Westchester cup, valued at $1,000, was won
by Local, beating Jas. A. Connolly; second, De-
courcy, Onward and Fanny Cheatham. Time
4:O33. The first four were close together at the
close. Selling race, all ages, II miles; won by
McDaniels's Urbsna. beating Jubal Lutte Red
Wing and Enchantress. Time-2:l5. Premium
purse Of 1880, for three-year olds, IL miles; won
by Floyds illy Nemesis, beating McDaniels's en-
try. Time-2;0l4.