The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-06
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The recently discovered gold diegings at Aux
land, New Zealand, are said to be the richest in
the world. One reef $50 BY SO Is estimated 10 con-
tain FL 100000 in gold. Rich gold discoveries
China.
The wife Of Stephen G. Lee, of New York, re-
Gently instituted and gained Q suit for divorce
from her husbane on the charge of adultery, SCI
curing also the custody of her children and the
year. Before her marriage with Lee che worked
board.
Mr.. John Routledge, engineer, Of Durham, six
feet two or three in height, and Of great personal
strength, is traffic manager ct Cordovs. The bat
tie Of Acolea going on be went out to see it, and
seeing 1t, saw the wounded necessarily neglected.
he could not help the battle, but he could help
that incident of il, 80 for hours he went in and
out under the fire. steadying the ambulance corps,
bearing the wounded in bis arms to the amb1-
lances. He seemed, says the writer who described
HIM, to bear charmed life. Marshal Seranno.
who seems to know q man when he sees him.
went up to him, embraced him. and decorated
him with his own order, that of Isabella the
Catholic. which bauble Routledge quietly put in
pocket, perhaps the most characteristic feat of all
ne had done that day. Clearly, hero of the
simple. unconscious, best sort, luckier than other
heroes in this that he has found his sace Gates in
the modern form Of newspaper correspondent
He will find himself famous on Tyneside, the re-
ward he would most prefer.
A large zinc establishment is now In operation
at Messy Creek, some twenty miles or more from
Knoxville, on the line of the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad, at which already more than
500 600 have been expended In machinery and
buildings, ETC.. which affords considerable
amount Of tonnage for the Virginia and Tennes.
see air line railway.
recent letter from London says: "Shadows,
clouds and darkness still rest on the literary future
OF the year. The approaching election and the
st<.xxr Al.
system introduced by the late reform bill, are
occupying most of the attention Of people, and few
important enterprises will see the light until the
status OF the present government has been de-
cided by the political complexion Of the next
A Sabbath observance committee, consisting of
twenty gentlemen, has been formed in Cleveland.
whose object is by personal Influence. by the
aid of tbs pulpit and the press. in all judicous,
prudent and practicable methods, to promote the
proper observance of the Sabbath"
The following from late California paper Is
peculiarly Californian: "A few days since q
couple of gentlemen residing in Gibsonville
Plumas, who were expecting their wives from
The East, went to La Porte to meet them. When
the stage arrived there were several ladies' among
the passengers. but the men aforesaid were sadly
disappointed in not recognizing their loved ones
among the number, and went back home expect
ing to 60 down again the next day, but much to
Their surprise, when the stage went to Gibson the
next morning. il carried their looked-for wives
They saw each other at La Porte but failed to re-
cognze one another; and strange to relate, one
couDle had been separated only eight month";
Alhe Bay ST. Louis Miss Gazette, contains the
following suggestive paragraph: 1--WE saw few
days ago, during trip up Bayou Lacroix, large
tracts along the bluff lined With wax myrtle. The
berries are now ripe, and ready to be melted and
moulded into candles. IL this country was settled
by Yankees, We would have large moulding es.
Adjustments in our midst that would torn out
thousands Of pounds Of excellent candles for the
use OF aristocratic households, Of churches, and
export to tropical countries The candles burn
clear, are very hard. and are not affected by
heat
Here are some of the fruits of Radical rule in
North Carolina; In Fayetteville, two-story
brick store, which rented since the war for 1915
per annum, was sold under the hammer for
$lU50. A dwelling which sold In other days for
$4,000, sold under Radical rule for $7S5 so. va
cant lot which rented under former rule for $40
per acre, sold under Radical rule for 500 per acre.
and would have gone lower, but was desired by
other parties whose lands it adjoined.-[R Raleigh
Sentinel.
A teegrsphic dispatch from Norfolk. which ap-
peared In yesterdays Herald. announced that
Governor Wells, of Virginia, had commuted the
sentence Of Benjamin Jefferson, q negro. to i'm
prisonment for life. The negro had been sen
fenced to be hanged on the sth of October, for an
outrage upon Miss Sarah Ford. Perkins. white
atty for bis participation 10 this outrage was
hanged yesterday. Thus the white man was
taken and the negro was left. A political pretext
for the difference In the fate of the two men has
been assiRned-the congressional district in which
the outrage took place gives a seven thousand
negro majority. In view of this extraor binary
case W no shall say that the negro has no rights
which white men are bound 10 respect ?-[New
York Herald.
The Tarantula, of Conception, gives US an &C.
count OF another extraordinary phenomenon at
the port Of Talcahuano. 1t says: "On the 18th
September the police impaired the information
that the waters Of the sea were hot and that the
tish cast on shore were cooked. The sea was per.
fecty calm at this time, but in the morning much
agitation was noticed, for which reason his excel.
Iency would not embark for the capital. The OBJ. |
servation of the police was verified by the eyi. |
dence OF the whole town il was A. NJ and no |
me cared to sleep for fear of another nundation.
On the night OF the 18th, shortly after midnight.
the wind suddenly fell calm, the tide rose to the
and a strange noise, dull and pro |
onged, was heard, and though it appeared sub
erraneous and distant, II perceivable 10 every
Erection. and though there was not air enough to
'tir feather, the sea swelled and the tides ran
With great violence. The ships swung round rap |
dly, and the anchor chains, shaken by powerful |
orce, produced sharp metallic sound. The cur
enfs were from the Quiriquina Island to the river
Andalien, and rice Ue7'sd and were so strong that
hey carried away quantity of the coal of the
hip lately wrecked on the island.