The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-17


elected mayor of Yokohama, Japan.
Mr.. John Rohrbacher, Of Jackson, Miss, Is the
owner of q six.legged calf. b ssi 81
A cabbage has been grown near Jackson. Miss,
with thirteen solid heads.
The oyster trade Of Norfolk, Va, will be
greater this season than ever before. f-.
A barber in Knoxville was fined IS and osts
the other day for shaving man on Sunday.
The publication of the Columbus MISSY Senti.
mel has been suspended.
Senator CONFESS viii soon marry Massschu-
setts girl.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan has been elected
president of the University Of California. ...r
: The officers of steamer Louise have our thanks
for late Mobile papers. -,.4
Geo. Ellis circulating library is daily growing
in size and popularity. .-..r-.,
The steamship Matanzas, from Savannah to
New York, was burned last week. Crew saved.
The property holders of Jefferson city have
formed an association for self protection.
The Mississippi Press Association will meet in
Holly Springs in January. I'D ra
The Scientific American cautions the public
against the use Of adulterated vinegar.
There are said to be Is 900 less pupils In the
schools of Maine than there were ten years ago.
Senator Morgan is not employed by Putnam
Co. to frank their magazine.
Thanks to the officers Of steamship Josephine
for late Galveston papers.
Gen. Grant will have control of 5000 Offices
and officers, whose annual compensation amounts
to thirty millions of dollars.
Miss Mary Mott carried of the prize saddle given
to the most graceful lady rider at the Union City
(Tenn.) fair.
Milwaukee prides itself on its importance as
lake port. During the month of October there
we're GAO arrivals and GAG departures.
Eight counties in Ohio have reported an aggre.
gate Of lie acres in sweet potatoes, yielding
IL 365 bushels, or about 9s bushels per acre.
Chenoweth, Casey & Co., are turning out 500
dozen brooms per week at their factory near this
city. In. -f-
A saloon keeper in st. Louis entertained large
party of his friends on the 18th, with fine lunch,
Of which the principal dish boiled hogs tails.
Drunkenness is terribly on the increase In Russia.
The number Of drinking places has increased
from 400 to 25o0 in six years.
The World states that Mr.. Griswold expended
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in securing
twenty-five thousand majority for his opponent.
The Oldest man in England has died, aged liz
years. "Her msjesty's bounty" allowed him SIS
year Tor the past nve years.
A company Of young men have gone from Rock.
land. Maine, to Virginia, to cut ship timber the
coming winter.
F. G. Foster, ESQ.,. of Raleigh, North Carolina,
has obtained patent for his type setting
machine.
A huge skeleton of the lizard species, known
as the mosasurus, and is eightysix feet long, has
been discovered near Sheridan, Kansas.
The prison choir at Sing Sing is said to be sur
passed by few chors in the country, either within
or without prison walls.
The senior editor of the Raleigh IN. C.) Sentinel
united in the bands of wedlock negro couple in
Raleigh few days ago.
A clerk in the Washington postofice depart.
ment owns the largest stereoseopic collection in
the country-sl5 600 worth.
Bismarck is a popular landlord. His estate
covers some $4,000 acres, of which he leases all
bus the castle and park
The New Albany rolling mill is now making the
iron for the track of the New Orleans and Ohio
Railroad, running from Paducah south. The con-
tract is q heavy one.
II is said that a New York insurance company
has rendered Gen. r. E. Lee the position of super.
visor of agencies for the Southern States, with a
salary of $4,000 per year.
In the reign of Charles I, of England, a mayor
of Norwich actually sent fellow to prison for
saying that the Prince Of Wales was born without
q shirt.
Among the candidates for parliament are five
generals, four admirals, thirty.six colonies and
lieutenant colonies. thirtythree majors, and forty
three captains military and naval.
Near Louisiana, Pike county, Missouri, q few
days ago, Mrs. Margaret, wife of Luther r. Ed.
wards, gave birth to three children, two girls and
boy all well at last accounts.
Mr.. Reayis, of st. Louis, announces that he
will soon publish pamphlet showing the absolute
necessity of removing the capital, and proving
that st. Louis ought to succeed Washington.
An old man and his son, boy of ten years,
reached Petersburg, Va, last Sunday, having
made the journey from Texas to that place on
foot.
Vast quantities of liquorice are brought to New
York city from Spain, to be ground up and mixed
with chewing tobacco. 1t is taken to Connecticut
to be ground.
Scientific men inform US that If birds gave milk
we could raise neither fruit nor grain but as IL
is they want insects for their young, and we are
saved.
California has within its borders l52 Lodges of
Free and Accepted Masons, with an aggregate
membership of 1900. The Grand Lodge was or
ganized April is, 1850.
A new process to open oysters is to nclose
them in an tight box, when steam is introduced
and the work is done. For one establishment on
the CT speake Bay, $500 bushels are opened and
canned day.
The Kentucky University has an endowment
fund of 100000, corps of 40 professors, and 700
students, $50 Of whom are receiving free educa-
ton.
The Mobile Register is trying to wake up the |
of that city to put their heads to-
gether to give the city population of $1,000 in
less than ten years."
new factory, at Lewiston. MAINE. turns out |
monthly 5000 square feet OF machine card |
clothing, besides q large quantity of leather
lting.
Ex-Governor Hiland Halls golden wedding was
at the house of his soninlaw, T. w.
Park, at Bennington, Vermont, last week. Gov.
Hall is the fourth gener alton by whom the golden
wedding has been enjoyed.
The secretary of the treasury has promoted the
special agent of the revenue department at New
Orleans, who captured o 'Rourke, the contraband.