The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-01
ITEMS BIZ LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

/ New York is flooded with bogus fve-cent nick
i els.
The shipments of specie on the 9th from New
| York were over 81 100000.
Madame Lagrange, Nine. Tostee and Henry ].
Raymond sailed for Europe in the Vile de Paris
| on the 9th ult.
| Chicago on Wednesday night, aud was robbed OF
| 5000 by hack-driver named Kimball.
Three months leave Of absence has been granted
| to Second Lieut. Loyal Farragut, United States
army, who joins the squadron Of his father in
| Europe.
The granite monument in Mount wsllaston
| Cemetery, Quincy, Mass, was dedicated recently
to the memory of the soldiers of the town who
| lost their lives In the late war. John Quincy
4 Adams delivered an address.
| A personal difficulty between John Brownlow,
of the Knoxville Wing, and Mr.. Kirby, of the
Press. took place at Nashville on the 26th.
| Brownlow tried to shoot Kirby, but his pistol
| snapped. Neither were hurt.
Black Bess and bay mare Atlanta trotted
| match for $1,000 side at Fashion Course New
| York. Black Bess winning the first. second and
fourth heats, and the race. Her best mile was
| in 1885.
Gen. Sherman is reported to have said in con-
versation, that there is nothing TO be apprehended
! from the Indians on the plains, that they are
peaceable and quiet and that more murders are
| committed in any large city than by Indians.
| There were rumors sflost in Chicago, on the
| 9th, that the steamer Kalamazoo plying between
81 Joseph and Kalamazoo, Mich, sunk on the 10Th
inst, and that six persons (all on board) were
| lost
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the night
of the 26h ult., in Hartford. Conn, to throw the
train from the track on which over six tons of com
| was route for the sub-treasury here. IL was in
charge of the Adams Express Company.
The extensive nail works of the Pittsburg Iron
Company were totally destroyed by fire on the
27th ult. The loss is froI1 100000 10 Sl50000,
which is mostly covered by insurance. The fur
nsces, rolling mill and other buildings were I'M
| injured.
A special from Salt Lake city says the funeral
OF Heber c. Kimball was attended by several
thousand persons. His death is considered the
greatest loss since the death of Joe smith. The
Tabernacle and public buildings were draped in
mourning.
Vera Cruz dates of the 10th state that De Gas
tro, the minister Of justice. had insisted on
signing. Msrescal, formerly secretary of lega-
ton at Washington, has been installed as Judge of
the supreme court. Rivera has foiled the forces
sent az inst him by the government.
Col. Alfred 5. Hartwell, formerly OF the fifty
fifth Massachusetts (cOlored) regiment, has &C.
cepted the position Of associate justice of the
preme Court of the Sandwich Islands. The ap-
Iontment makes the whole Hawaiian Judiciary 70
c, insist of men born in the United states.
The case OF Captain Donaldson, of the Great Re-
public, charged with murder, will be further ill.,
vestlgated. Public opinion on the subject ID
greatly modified now, and many of Capt. Donald
sons 1iends assert that he is innocent, and was
not on The boat when the negro was killed.
DeTedVed vile, from ." down East" whose
consumptive husband died in Florida, where they
HAD gone for health, displayed an economical
spl by packing lot of oranges and sweet pO-
Iatots in the box with the corpse, that she might
pleas the folks at home and at the same time
save expense of transportation.
The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Yates
provides that territorial legislatures shall meet
but once in every two years, and the next session
Of said legislatures shall begin two years from
the date of the last session. The bill also fixes
salaries of territorial governors at $500 per
mum.
Dispatches from Victoria state that the sloop
Thornton on her last trip northwsrd, was attacked
forty miles above Fort Rupert, by three canoes
f0l of Indians. Capt. Warren and crew fired on
them with Henry rifles, killing twenty out of
twenty-tbree. Capt. Warren and one of his men
were severely wounded. The Indians fought oO-
stinately with fire arms. The colonial government
will send of gunboat TO punish the scamps.
1t has been found, while firing at the running
man target at Wimbledon, England which Is
scarlet on one side and gray on the other that the
scarlet daZzles the eye, and is hence the most
difficult 10 hit, from leaving red streak behind
it, which unsettles the aim. The gray side was
struck seventy-four times and the red only forty
two times. 1t is curious fact, too. that those
with gray eyes nit faiTer than those with eyes of
other cOlOrs.
The Judgment recently procured by default by
Ross, Steele Co., against the Kansas Pacific
Railroad, for four million six hundred thousand
dollars, has been stayed by the Supreme Court.
OF three suits previously brought for the same
claim, one was decided by Judge Miller, of the
United States Supreme Court, in Iowa, in favor Of
the company and the others were abandoned.
The value OF the services Of Ross, Steele & Co.
has been appraised by engineers in Kansas at less
than five thousand dollars. The whole proceed
ings will doubtless be set aside at the session of
the court in July.