The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-31
SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 81, 1868.
EDirORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC

Gold closed at New York yesterday at l34s.
Yeddo, Japan, is city of 100000 people.
Tennessee has 1400 miles of railroads.
Boston has 1900 liquor sellers.
The Fairbankses turn out 100000 worth of
scales per year.
dispatch was recently sent from Boston to
Smyrna in two hours and twenty minutes.
Madagascar prohibits the expectation of mu-
nitions of war, timber, and cows.
Thanks to the officers of the Josephine for late
Galveston papers.
Thanks to Capt. o. A. Pittsfeld, of steamship
Mexico, for late Havana papers.
The Rockingham (va.) Register has just entered
upon the forty eighth year of its existence.
The Nova Scotia gold diggings produced about
$4,000 in October.
There are 2l0 miles of paved streets in New
York city.
More than half the population of New York live
in boarding houses and hotels.
Sam. Hanna, of Leon county, Texas, has killed
three very large wild cats since LIST October.
Programmes of music are distributed In some
London churches.
A bushel of bogus nickels have been found in
st. Louis.
A fire at Baskerville, British Columbia, on the
10th September, destroyed property valued at
81 100000.
q Over 100000 foreigners have sought home in
the United States since the war. They brought
with them an average Of $40 each in gold.
The largest cotton manufacturer now in Rus
STA is Mr.. Morocco, one of whose factories near
Moscow employs 10000 workmen.
In 1867 Russia imported cotton twist to the
amount of 4 742, 94s rubles, all of which came from
England or Germany.
In 1867 the United States imported from Russia
goods to the amount of 81 262 $50 rubles, and ex-
ported to Russia goods valued at 1905, 55l rubes.
From the third to the tenth Of January, 1869, a
week of prayer is besought, under the authority
of the Evangelical Alliance, over the whole world
1t is said that poor German mechanic of New
York city has just invented sounding board
which solves the long sought problem of the pro-
loDgation of sound in the piano.
BY arecent law in England parents who neglect
their children may be sent to prison for six months,
and similar penalty is attached to the husband
who fails to maintain his wife.
G. Goodwin Clark, principal Of the Lincoln
grammar school at Boston, has been sued for
$4,000 damages for whipping q pupil, as is
claimed, excessively. and the case is now on trial.
Henry W. Comstock, genteel scoundrel, who
had obtained $4,000 under false pretenses, was
arrested in Jefersonville, Ind, the other day and
taken 10 Peoria.
The Masonic fraternity of Georgia and Florida
have established polytechnic school at Balm.
bridge, Ca, which will add much to the educa.
tional facilities of that section.
A farmer residing in the eastern part of Taun-
ton discovered nine skunks under the flooring of
bis barn cellar one morning recently. He retired
gracefully.
There are 800 rumsellers in PENNSYLVANIA.
and l6,s79 school teachers. Cost of supporting
schools s5,s6s. 1853; value of Equor consumed,
1891 ,4s7 900.
challenge has been issued from Chicago to
billiardists OF New York to match seven, nine or
eleven of their players against an equal number
OF Chicago players, for purse of $1,000 to $500
Q side.
The exports of European Russia in 1867 amount
ed to 220,e000OO rubles, and the imports to 2s7,-
o0o 900 rubles "a ruble is now practically equiva-
lent to paper dollar, sometimes rising with the
exchange.)
At the border agricultural fair in Danville, Va,
q committee reported "that, after the blooded |
stock, they find the ladies in attendance the most
beautiful, attractive and necessary feature of the
exhibition
The stanton Virginian thus says: /" The wick
edest men We know of are those who have been
reading the Valley virginisn for the past three
years and have never paid cent for subscrip-
tion.r
Inc frankfort, KY, Yeoman has been favored
WIN some large ears of corn. One of the ears
mas w enty'eisht rows and thirteen hundred and
lorty-iour grains, and another has twenty rows
and eleven hundred and sixty grains. 1t is yellow
BORN.
The Norfolk virginian of the alth ssvs ga
gentleman representing the merchants of brennan
passed through Norfolk. few days ago. en- route
or Richmond, where. as he informs Ms. he IN.
ENDS - arrange, If possible, to introduce immi.
grants from the north Of Europe into Virginia
'her ss permanent settlers, or in transitu to the
yest.n. NJ