The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-24

| to Salt River.
Balance in the sub-treasury yesterday $780,
600.
| NJ. Dulentours, native of Orleans, France, has
made large fortune by dealing 10 leeches.
The Texas editors will hold q convention at Gal
weston about Christmas time.
Apples are selling in Milton, N. c., at 81 per
bushel.
Four hundred marriages are celebrated in Paris
every Saturday.
There are extensive salt mines in Rockingham
county. N. c.. near Madison.
Thanks to the officers of the R. Z. Lee for late
Vicksburg pspeis.
A convention of cotton planters will meet in
Macon. Ca, on the 10th prox.
Thanks to the officers of the Josephine for late
Galveston papers.
We are indebted to the Southern Express for
late Northern and Western papers.
Thanks to the officers of the Judge Fletcher for
late Shreveport papers.
The small pox is prevailing in Nil yankee to such
an extent that the schools have been closed.
Henriques, vice president of the New York
Open Stock Board, gets salary Of $40 900 year.
Gresham has just received the Land We Love
for December.
Manton Marble, of the World, is erecting house
on $50 COO lot.
It is said Drew has lost 81 800 900 in stock spec
ulatons within the last two weeks.
The factory operatives Of Cohoes, N. Y, have
nearly $780, 600 in the city savings bank.
Utah musician lately refused barrowful of
bricks for an admission ticket.
The Schenly estate in Pittsburg yields $72 900
in gold yearly.
/ oft ara IN ha az q
cost of $4,000.
Out West the plains are almost literally covered
with herds of buffalo moving southwark.
The citizens of Jackson, Tenn. are crowded and
wish the boundary line of that town extended.
The Washington street tunnel at Chicago will
be formally opened on New Years day.
In India and Africa the inhabitants make use of
ants as q food.
Already is careless farming wearing out the
rich lands of California.
The Art Journal says pianos should be tuned at
least once a month.
Salmon fishing on the Ohio has been unusually
| good this year.
| Three hundred thousand dollars worth of pre-
sents were given at q New York wedding last
week.
The Illinois State Grape and Wine Growing AS
ISOLATION will have their annual meeting and ex-
hibition on December /, in Bloomington.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Glasgow, of st. Louis, celebrated
their golden wedding on the 10Th. Representa-
| tives Of four generations were present.
very pereeptible shock Of an earthquake was
felt in Paducah, Kentucky, on the morning of
the l4th.
The new steamship Neshaminy, just finished at
Brooklyn, can make twenty five miles an hour and
| is the fastest vessel in the navy.
man in Hartford carries an umbrella that was
bought in ls47, and has never been stolen but
| once.
| Ex.Kng George, of Hanover, denies most en-
phaticaly that he intends to take his seat ia the
| British House of Lords.
| Scarlet fever of the most malignant type has
broken out among the French population near
| Shedac, New Brunswick.
European physicians, it is said, have success
fully used electricity to restore persons who have
| taken an overdose of laudanum or opium.
California proposes to hold worlds fair in 1870,
ard the Pacific railroad agrees to carry psssen-
gers at half fare.
During the delivery of sermon at Cleveland,
Sunday night, the gas went out, and the congrega-
ton Gang the doxology in the dark and dispersed.
abandoned his idea of fetching his Italian opera
troupe to this country.
| 1t is stated as a curious fact that the nations
| the-coal in the world.
The Water Valley Eagle suggests that sx- Pres.
dent Davis be made chancellor of the Mississippi
| State University.
Water Valley, Miss, which three years ago was
not more than q wheat field, and contained less
than two hundred inhabitants, is now town OF
over three thousand souls.
The New York Express thinks that long before
the 6libusters start for Cuba, the annual American
thanksgiving raid on Turkey will have been sue
cessfully completed.
The Boston Transcript says Mrs. Scott Siddons
Is the handsomest lady that has appeared in public
in Boston, during the remembrance of the present
generation.
The superintendent of public buildings in New
York is overhauling the condition of places Of
amusement in regard to facility of egress in
cases Of fire.
The king of Saxony has a civil list of six hun
bred thousand dollars, one-fourth of which, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, are spent an
nually for the royal theater of Dresden.
Thanks to the officers of steamships Austin and
Matagorda for late Galveston. IndianoIa and
Brownsville papers, and to the officers Of steamer
Louise for late Mobile papers.
Geo. Ellis, Old Levee, has laid on our table
the last number of Punch, the Scientific American
for Nov. rs, and the American Artisan for Nov
Is. The latest scientific and literary publications
are always to be found on his counter.
James Ashbury, owner of the yacht Cambria
which defeated the sappho in England last sum
| mer, has sent a note to the New York Yacht Club
challenging all America to yacht race for the
queens cup, won by the yacht America in 1851.
The Land we Love, for December, has the fol
lowing table of contents: "Diary of Lieut. Col
Hubbell,- of the third regiment, Missouri infantry
| G. 8. A." "ADits," " The Duty Of the Hour,
"The Beautiful Snow" Letters from Noun
Vernon" "St. Louis, No." Beast Butler De
Tended" "Pen Feather" 81 The Washington Ar
tillery of New Orleans" Elm an Old Drawer
Hsversack," "" Editorial" Book Notices"
We have received from the publishers, Sheldon
q Co., New York, the Galaxy for December. Con
tents: Cipher" " Poe and Hawthorne" TIT