The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-29
GENERAL ITEMS.

Tie Bots de Boulogne and Vincenpes are taken
care of by two directors, eight brigsders, eight
horse guards and seventy-six foot guards. 1t
costs to keep these parks and the different squares
OF the city in order the sum Of francs per
aDnum.
Dadanwala Maha walawwe wiiayasuudara
Senewiratna Wikkramasinha Navaratna Chan
drasekara Paudite Wasaamudiyanselage Madonna
Banda has been appointed deputy coroner for
Ysttinuwara, in India.
Messrs. Winterehelm d Co., who have lust
taken the contract for printing the Moniteur have
ordered five of Marinoni's new printing presses,
which VIII be used for this purpose. These
presses are used in France for papers of the larg.
est circulation. Every afternoon 2sl 900 copies
Of LIE Petit Journal are printed by these ma
chimes.
1t is reported that the Chinese on the Russian
border like the English missionaries very much,
and extend cordial welcome to them. The main
reason is that the missionaries distribute Bibles
bound in leather, and the Chinese make shoes
with the bindings.
little colony of Jews has been found in the
province of Honau, China. Though they differ
but little from the heather Chinese about them in
hS Hvsgp s hhh e possession co%Ses con1 hsS
the Old Testament, beautifully written on parch-
ment.
lady advertises for sale one baboon, three
tabby cats and parrot. She states that. being
now married, she has no further use for them for
the reason that their amiable qualities are all COM
bined In her husband.
Seven murderesses are in jail in Paris awaiting
their trial at the next assizes. Among them are
four widows who killed their husbands; Young
girl, Hubertine Xavere, not yet fifteen years old,
who straDged her baby; g prostitute who pois-
oned another frail sister in fit OF jealousy, aud
dress maker, who killed one of the young girls in
her shop during violent alteration.
The Lafayette Advertiser of the Oath says
: Our parish, last Friday night. was the scene of
another sad occurrence, in the death of Joseph
I. Hman and his mother, both colored. The sad
event Is to be deplored. not on account of the
killing of the first party mentioned, who by his
impotence and threatening attitude towards the
white race had outawed himself, but on account
OF the demise of the latter party, his mother who
mp to her advanced age had secured the esteem
and respect of the entire population, and whose
death must have been accidental
The Mobile Register of the 9th says: 1.-TWO of
the negroes arraigned yesterday in the mayors
court, Lewis Tomlin and Israel Beverly, charged
with the murder of young Mclaughlin and the
rsvishing Of Mrs Phelps, and who were Committed
without bail acknowledged their guilt to tue po.
lice officers taking them to jail. They and the
rest of the negroes implicated manifested great
ndnerence as to their fate, and amused them
selves by cursing all whom they met both white
and black, on their route to the prison. The bow
Tomn is not more than sixteen years of age, and
u, beyond doubt, the greatest scoundrel in the
-, A man named Ames, while attempting to forci.
bly, enter the house Of Mr.. Hartman. in Accomac
county. Va. on the night of the 9th inst, with
murderous intent, was stricken down at the door
with an ak and died in few minutes. This same
man has served a term in the penitentisry of vir-
ginia for manslaughter, has been 10 Accomac
county jail on several occasions, and broke Jail
inst the night previous TO his attempt to break into
Mr.. Harman's house.
Prince Napoleon has will, signed by the Duke
Of Reichstadt, son of Napoleon l. ceding TO his
son, Jerome Bonaparte his right Of succession to
the throne OF France. When Louis Napoleon dies,
the Prince Napoleon, armed with this document,
VIII be likely to throw the Prince Imperial out Of
employment as ruler.
A large grey eagle has been seen recently flying
around Lake Bombszine, Vermont, with bell 1T
tached to its neck. Mr. Cyrus Small, of Lawrence
Mass writes us that twenty-eight years ago he
caught large grey eagle in trap in the town of
Limngton, Me-, and after keeping the bird several
days and finding him untamable, he fastened bell
laround his neck and set him at liberty He thinks
lthe eagle seen in Vermont is the same one.
"A correspondent of the Charleston Courier
gives an account of young man who went to Bal
timore from Charleston last summer and tried for
weeks to get situation that would pay his board.
Failing to do so, he engaged himself to work on q
railroad at one dollar and fifty cents day. he
labored faithfully for three months, and never
finched even during the hottest Of the season.
One of the largest manufacturers of the city hear
ing of him, sent him message to call at his Office.
The interview ended In placing the young man In
responsible position In the house OF one Of the
best men in Baltimore, at good wages. He Is ell
ug the pitce hhe man, WIN pfospeces ci SIC
cessful future ahead of him.
The Galveston News says The otter day we
met distinguished planter Of Texas hunting en-
poyment in Galveston, who told us that he left his
plantation because he could not learn how to deal
with the negroes under the changed circumstances,
but that be had left everything in the hands of his
son, who he said, was able to manage the freed
men. make crops, and keep up successfully where
his father would only sink money every year.
The superior energy and adaptiveness Of the
young man were given as the great reasons for
his success.