The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER %, 1858.


Elmira, New York, is overrun with dogs.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1855.
Harvard College has 537 students.
Memphis has FIVE companies Of armed negroes
Grapes are ten cents pound in Chicago.
Lord Napier goes to India this month.
Bismarck's estate covers 16 900 acres.
The sea is fast encroaching on New Jersey.
There were 426 deaths in New York last week.
The tobacco crop in North Carolina has yielded
largely, and is of very fine quality.
Pears are selling in New York at from $l2 TO
$50 per barrel.
Ex-Governor Orr, of 8. c., will soon remove to
81. Joseph, Mo-, and resume the practice of law.
The fees alone paid to the coroners of New
York city amount to $40, 500 every year.
The official report OF the exposition of 1867
fills thirteen large octave volumes.
There are In Philadelphia about $50 printing
Offices, employing 1900 men and 800 boys.
The number of dogs in Constantjnople is est.
mated at 10000 nearly one to every inhsbitant
Arlington. VT. manufactures 5000 worth of
wooden ware year.
The Peru legation acknowledge sl4, 1872 Of con.
tributions for the sufferers by the earthquake.
Prim and Espartero are intriguing against each
other for the supreme power in the Spanish junts.
Bismarck acknowledges pictures of Grant and
Colfsx, sent by foolish Philsdelphian.
Prentice is writing love songs to show that he
has not grown too old for some things.
The immortal Brown has resigned from Grace
Church.
Smyrna is city of about $50 900 inhabitants, of
various nations.
A salt company has been organized at Miners.
vile, Ohio, with capital Of $4,000.
Meriden, CT, manufactures all the sewing birds
made in this country.
Paris has schools where the use of the veloci.
psde is taught
Twenty eight fires In New York last month in.
volved loss of s52s,OOo.
hast week 29,6so pounds of lead, and 1910
pounds of zinc were shipped from Potosi, Mo.
iClevesnd' largest oil refinery distils 500 barrels
per day, and fills the city with fragrance.
"A New Orleans minstrel company are perform
ing in Toronto. ~
A farm Of 3s7 acres, in woodford county, KY,
sIld recently for sll7 per acre.
Three millions of bushels of oysters are opened
yearly in Baltimore.
In England 270 acres devoted TO lavender farm.
leg produced 1900 gallons of lavender water.
Lemons are sold by the dozen in Boston at one
tsrd the price asked for good apples.
During the month OF September 1877 books were
issued by American publishers.
tPrairie du Chen ships one hundred car loads of
wheat daily.
John Brougham has taken out naturalization
papers.
The London omnibus company employs 1000
tbrses.
J A board of cotton brokers was formally organ.
lied in New York, on the 18th inst.
ta IN fha oH7carg Of tba .toou.lf. r..
] hina for late Galveston pal
"a merchant of Mount Airy, North Carolina. has
Itceived within the last few weeks more than
- 900 pounds Of dried apples.
Mr.. George Kleinpeter has presented the editor
Of the Gazette and Comet, Baton Rouge, with a
sweet potato weighing eight pounds.
October first, st. Louis had on hand about G 600.
900 pounds of bulk bacon ana hams, and s. 400
barrels of pork.
The Beet-root Sugar Company, Of Chatsworth,
H., is now turning out about two tons of sugar
Per day.
The savings banks of New York and Brooklyn
own 81, 900 in government securities, belong.
ing to over 100000 depositors.
The recent industrial convention at jackson
organized itself INTO the Planters, Mechanics
and Manufacturer Association of Mississippi,
A moose was recently captured at ST. Mary. |
Nova Scotia, which weighed 500 pounds. The
antlers extended nine feet apart
The young ladies of Cork have sent Mr. Train
green sash and cap, which he ia to wear in Con.
eress.
Horace Greeley thinks that at least ten thousand |
Republican speakers are cow stamping this Door
distracted land.
The net profits OF the publishing house of the
Methodist Church, South, for the year ending
June 80, 1868, were over $4,000.
An American wine firm has 800 900 gallons Of
pure grape wine in their vaults in San Fran.
cisco.
III said that Vanderbilt will soon start an On.
position line of steamers between New orleans
and Galveston.
The commercial convention held at Norfolk last
week. made preliminary arrangements to raise