The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-15

Gold closed in New York yesterday ss 1904 70
1855.
Dickens WIN not write Christmas story this
yesr. rsl..
The republic of Hsyti ought to be well gov
erned. II now has four presidents in the field.
A premium Is offered on the hsndsomest baby
at the Little Rock fair.
"Oiiyer Opticu has been elected to the Massa'
chusetts Legislature. .
Cuba. with 1900. 900 inhabitants, is taxed $685.
10000 annually.
There are six different railroads now in process
OF co Instruction in Oregon. :.
Jenny Lind is reported to have become soureo
and vixenish.
Thsnks TO the officers Of steamship hasgoroa
for late Texas papers.
There ia a man in Southwestern Pennsylvania
who has walked ninety years on crutch.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Mary for late
Galveston papers.
The officers of steamer Louise have favored rs
with late Mobile papers.
A school to teach velocipede riding has been
established In Paris.
The new sleeves in Paris are styled engage
antes."
Large monogram handkerchiefs are now in
fashion among young gentlemen.
Very pretty and stylish walking suits are now
made Of tartan cloth-a thick and snowy material.
Mr.. James T. Shelton, formerly mayor of Mo-
bils died IN that city on Monday last
The prevailing disease ct Montgomery, Ala, Is
negro bighvaymen. -e
1t is fashionable now to have ones breath smell
| of onions, for the empress eats garlic.
| Horse stealing O. Q disease, and hanging as 0
| remedy therefor. prevails In Grant county, Ind.
In Milton comfy, Ca, rich discoveries of gold
| are reported to have been recently made.
| Spain has Is All manufacturers, and l54 200
The Macon and Brunswick, Ca. Railroad is to
| be completed by November LIST, 1869.
Colorado county, Texas, produces so bushels of
castor beans to the acre.
A typographical survey Of the Gettysburg
battle. field is now being made by the War Do
| partment
The "Holy Land and Paradise Lost" on IA, ).
| 600 feet of painted canvas, is travelling west
through the Canadas.
Rev. PIP. Nicely, pastor of the st. Francis stree
Methodist Church, Mobile. died in that city on the
| 9th inst.
Lancaster county. Pa, has chestnut tree TWEEN
ty-seven feet in circumference, with cherry tree
growing from one of its branches.
Three strikes are now in progress in New Yoli
city, viz: The cigar makers, shoemakers an'
piano forte makers. -
w. L. Jamison, an actor and son Of the lat
George Jamson, died on the 9th in New York
aged thirty.three years.
Arrangements are being made in Nashville TO
the ore anizatiop of large manufacturing estab
lishment.
Every farmer ought to know that cut nails
heated red hot, and dropped into cold water, vii
clinch as well as wrought nails. ..-,
Walton, Me-, has dwelling house inhabited b.
four families with forty eight children. Thing
get mixed there sometimes.
| Several of the bakers in Troy have reduced th
price of bread from ten to eight cents per loaf,
consequence of the decline 10 the price of .fou
Two old bachelors Of Indianapolis made now
bet on the election. The loser was either
marry within six weeks or forfeit $500.
An ANIMAL farmers supper, ct which they fea
on pork and beans. brown bread and pumpk
pies, is the delight of Orland citizens.
The store OF the Workngmen's Co-operati'
Society, in Halifax, England, Is bandsom
stone building, erected at q cost of 100000.
Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has given up h
project of going to Missouri to live, and will 7
main in the former State. ..1
A Mississippi editor, in praising favori
candidate, says: " He Is as fine fellow
ever lifted hat to Q lady or boot to blsc
guard"
' The Journal Of Chemistry states that pint
! permanganate of potash turned into mus
barrel will make 1t as sweet as new In I'VE mi
D utes rinsing. good thing TO remember.
l Mr.. ]. H. Lick, Lick's mills, st. Clara count
> CAL, planted acorns of the cork oak in 1858, a
. now has IS trees, from Is to 20 feet high and fro
q to 10 inches In diameter.
9 During the month of September, the Nation
y Freedmen's Savings Bank and its twenty-t'
, branches received $3.50 .26l deposits, paid $23'
. 26s on drafts, leaving 1857 SIC due depositors.
. During last year in England and Wsles l3s pe
D D sons ere committed for trial for murder. and
! many as 50, considerably more than third, We
g women.
d Otto Hollinger, son of the editor of the News
!; volksman, operated q hand organ all of Frid
n afternoon in the streets Of that city. in fuflm'
# of a wager on the presidential election.
The total expenses Of assessing the inter-
a revenue tax throughout the country for the Il
|. fiscal year was s5,lsl,l 79. The amount paid
n counsel fees and as rewards to informers
70 &4s, sos.
2 Aurora, Illinois, is to have an immense roll
Is mill. All the iron for the Michigan Cent
E. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Burlington
,. Missouri and Hannibal and ST. Joseph railroa
!. is to be manufactured there.
The Amador (Cal.1 Dispatch says that the
e. nous old Texas ranger, Colonel Jack Hays,
q bought about fifteen thousand acres of land
"a Tulsre for his friends from the South, and is
g. done buying.
* The emperor Of Austria is a hard worker.
!, Is very systematic in his labors, and clears
at the days business before he leaves 1t; and
d, way he cuts through the red tspe is an
al tonisher to the old grizzly heads which surror
ar him.
Il. We have received from Haley, No. 20 Comm
III cal Place, the following papers, The Irish Peo
OF the Sporting Times, the Pilot, the Banner OF
=. South, the American Artisan, the Irish Americ
the Chimney Corner, Saturday Night and the
lr- York Ledger. - .
To TIE LAp1Es.-There are few things sb