The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-10


: Mississippi ia to have new magazine, entitled
the "Colored Citizens Monthly"
"Ppching Shoes" is the title Of an article In
the Saturday Review. .e
The New england herring fishery is said to be
prosperous.
Sweet potatoes in Milton, N. c., are selling at
rs cents per bushel.
We are indebted to the officers Of the steam
ship Josephine for late Galveston papers.
An archbishop and five new bishops have just
been appointed for Mexico by the pope.
Brattleboro. Vermont, meditates $40, O00hotel,
to be called wantsstiquet.
A girl advertises in a New York paper for Q
position as "sales-lady."
John Bright il said to be the finest speaker in
parliament.
The Journal says Louisville Is the largest to-
bacco market in the world.
There are ALI male and IL female convicts in
the southern penitentary of Indiana.
The Oldest operator in Wall street is Aaron
Kemp, who has been at 1t for forty years.
There are one hundred and nineteen homopa-
thic physicians in the State of Indiana. @
Boston Corbett. the Wilkes Booth slayer, is
preaching In Connecticut.
Gounod. the composer, is one of the most indus.
trious men In Paris. N ~ 3
The Duke of Nassau recently invested 81, o0o, 900
in United States bonds.
At night London streets are Illuminated by
$50, 600 lamps.
There are said TO be over forty thousand Second
Adventists in the United States.
The first house in San Francisco was built just
twenty three years ago.
Book. keeping taught in one lesson-don't lend
them. "a ~f 0
Many tons of the Giants Csusewsy are yearly
shipped to America, and the English don't like it.
Georgia papers propose holding the next State
fair at Macon. ~
Billiards cost Parisians 1000 900 francs an.
nualy. H
Chicago had grand poultry exhibition last
week.
The cambridge, Ca, Argus reports very favor
ably of the sugar cane crop in that section.
The average decline in grain In Chicago during
the past month has been cent day.
Spain will have to import $5O,o0O,0oo worth Of
grain before the next harvest.
Thanks to the steamer Louisa for late Mobile
papers.
Dr.. J. W. Vance and Maj. W. D. Hilton, both Of
Bossier parish, died last week.
Thanks to Capt. Morrill,, of the steamship Trade
Wind, for late Belize, Honduras, papers.
A negro woman in Raleigh lately hung q child
for stealing spool Of thread.
The prince imperial of France is described as
"neither bright nor precocious child, but
good, merry. industriouschid such as all parents
might wish to have"
Young women now say their prayers before go
ing to ball. 1t saves time, and besidea they
haven't so much to repent Of.
The steamer Music. plying between Apalachi-
cola and cambridge, sunk on the 18th, in the Chat
tahoochee river. No lives were lost.
The editor of the Savannah Republican has been
luxuriating in Florida grown banana, weighing
one pound two ounces. 30
Mrs. Lydia Maria Child says she would walk
barefoot to California If such pilgrimage would
insure Charles Summers being president.
A Cleveland gentleman, whose daughter is soon
to be married, has had printed on the wedding
cards, " No presents will be received"
A new German daily newspaper, to be called
Die Neue Welt. Independent In politics, is to be
started in st. Louis about the 18th Of this month.
1t is said that rats may be effectuslly driven
from any building by sprinkling their places Of
resort with yellow ochre.
King George, of Hanover, in the next session
of the British parliament is to take his seat In the
lords as a member.
Royal R. Hinman, for many years chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, died In New
York lately, aged 81.
Jonathan Nixon, who settled in Peoria, ILL.,, In
1881, died at Cambridge, ILL.,, on the 18th ultimo,
aged IL.
The official shorthand reporters of the French
Corps Legislatif receive five thousand francs o
year. =
The Russian papers announce the death of one
Of the best known Of Russian literary men, N.
Egor Kovslesky.
The use of paper money originated with the
Chinese, and was introduced into Europe about
the year l45O.
Five thousand dollars insurance was paid last
week by Hartford company on a single sheep,
which died at Middebury, Vermont.
Paris has ll6 fountains, sos hotels, 200 streets.
rs $40 stores, 2l5O taors, 40 thsaters, lsO2 doc
tors, and SIC photographers.
The population Of Holland, at the close Of
1867, amounted to 1891, 4l6 souls, of whom 1884,
2l2 were males and $40, 204 females.
The horse railways in Vienna are said to be q
great success, and the companies are declaring
large dividends.
One of the Philadelphia engine companies
tie on the neck of its pet poodle every morn
ing.
Edwin Forrest signed a check on the Goth ult.
for t65 O00 in favor Of Mrs. Catherine Sinclair,
his former wfe-the proceeds in part of the old
divorce judgment in her favor.
Louisville merchants are setting their names
down for subscriptions to erect Q splendid mer.
chants Exchange. DIR. John Bull of sarssp arilla
fame, heads the list with $4,000.
In the recently signed Madagascar treaty the
queen was represented by two Of her devoted
subjects. Andriantsitohaina and Rafaralahibe-
malo.
The Maysville and Cincinnati Packet Company,
capital s24 600, and the Portsmouth and Cincin-
natl Packet Company. capital ss2 900, were incor-
porated on Friday.
The latest definition Of spade il, "that agricul-
tural implement of inventive genius admirably
adapted for revolving the superintendent mould
| Of the telluvian humus.n
The return of commitments for crimes and OF.
lenses made to the Board of State Charities of
| Massachusetts, for the year ending Oct. /, 1868,