The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-11
General Items.

Four Canadian families crossed the line at Island
Pond, VT, the other day, who numbered Ga souls
all told, including sc children. No wonder that
the assembly is taking into serious cOnsidera-
ton means TO check the "lamentable emigration Of
the province of Quebec to the United States"
At MeTiden, Conn.,, last week, horse was
frightened by railroad train and ran quarter Of
mile race with it. Reaching a crossing at the
same time, the horse made dash upon the plat
form car, and was carried some rods before he
jumped of aud resumed his own powers of loco
motion. The animal was considerably but not
fatally injured by his wild adventure.
The most complete passenger elevator ever con-
structed has just been put into the American
House, Boston, by Otis Tufts the inventor of this
modern hotel luxury.
A Boston correspondent OF the Chicago Tribune.
states that Charles Dickens came to this country
under an engagement of Ticknor & Fields. who
pay him for his readings, some think, as high as
$1,000 night.
Near Laclede, Missouri, two families, named ST.
bert and Phillips, have been living on one farm,
and occupying the same house. A quarrel oc-
Cured between them few days ago about some
cattle, and Phillips shot Sbert with q heavy load
Of buckshot, killing him instantly. The wife Of
Sbert was standing by his.side, with an infant in
her arms, and single shot from the charge pene-
trated the child's head, causing its death. The
murderer fed, and had not been captured at last
accounts.
A Vienna dispatch of the 9th says: The Debate,
semoffical journal, asserts that the czar acting
upon the suggestion of Prussia, has protested with
armament going on in the principally of Servia,
The same paper says the recent appearance of q
number Of armed bands in the province OF Bull
gsria is calling attention TO affairs the Danube,
and the Prince Metternich, the Austrian smbas-
sador at Paris, has been instructed by the gov
erpment to press upon Marquis de Moustier, the
French minister Of foreign affairs, the immediate
| consideration of the subject. -r-% z
Adamss Block, in Biddeford, Me-, was burned
| on the 5th. Loss sl50,000.
young sailor wrote home that when he
| reached Honolulu he found the beach covered
| with sandwichesses."
Henry Clay Dean is stumping New Hampshire.
State election there 10th March.
The New York Tribune sums up its protection
doctrine as follows: We continue TO think that
freedom OF industry and production is Just as inn
portant as freedom of trade; that freedom Of in
dustry increases with every Increase in the wages
of labor and tie rewards of toll ; that the wages
Of labor in this country are not increased by being
brought into competition with all the pauper
labor of the globe, and hence that free trade, as
we are situated, would diminish the freedom of
industry; that both trade and productive industry
must bear their share of the burden Of the gov.
eminent, and the claim OF either TO be free from
| taxes is a myth and an idle dream"
There is a fish called the laf, which Is more Sc
TOus than funny in its effects. il bures itself in
the mud or sand, and is the most dangerous forits
power OF assuming the exact color of its lurking
| place. II is armed with a spine, OF which the
wound is only just short of deadly. An English
soldier, prcked by in the hollow OF his foot,
instantly seized with faintness. The pain was
| so acute that it required eight men to hold him
| down in his bed when the paroxysms came on
and, although he eventually recovered, he was
| two months in the hospital. The most remsrks-
BILE circumstance connected with the pain from the
wound Ia that il increases and decreases with the
rise and fall of the tide.
The president has signed the bills for the ex-
| animation of whisky METERS for the sale of thr-
iyfve iron clads and for the repeal Of the cotton
| tax.
Reverdy johnson, Horato Seymour and Mayor
| Hoffman, Of New York, are the candidates for
minister TO England.
The brother of the little Japanese "AnRight"
fell twenty-five feet, the other day, at the Chest
nut-street Theater, and escaped without serious
| injury. so
| A most bare.faced act Of piracy was committed
in New York the other day. Two men walked
| into the tobacco store Of BOttman Kern, 10 Riv-
iDgton street. and, planting red flag at the door,
procee ded 20 sell the concern at auction, against
| the will and protest Of the bewildered ownersl
To save the property, Kern bid $1,000 for 1t, and
| the auctoneer knocked 1t down TO him. demanded
ten per cent. as his fee got it, and walked Of with
| il.
Two of the worlds wonders are getting out of
| JOINT. The strssbourg clock Is giving out. and
the leaning town of Pisa is in danger of falling to
| pieces.
Eighteen men engaged in cutting wood in the
forest Of ROthwold. in Austria, recently met In q
| hut to take breakfast, when suddenly they were
| overwhelmed by an avalanche of snow aud were
| swept away, hut and all. Three days elapsed be-
| fore they were missed, and when a search was
| made for them, eleven were extricated from the
| snow seven of whom were dead, and the other
four so exhausted by cold and hunger that they
| are not expected 10 live. The other seven have
| not been found
An inquest was held n Cincinnati on the 4th, on
the body Of boy seven years old. named Doyle,
who died from the effects Of poison administered
10 the entire family, consisting OF six or seven
persons under circumstances the most mysterious
and unaccountable. The lads father Is dying, and
other members Of the family are suffering with fits
Of vomiting and purging. -,
| Salem, Massachusetts,, ia to be supplied viii
water at an expense OF 81 100000.
Mrs Beechet, one Of Gte Beecher family, isi
! Richmond, Va.