The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-18


for the purpose of passing the night. Some time
during the night Cleveland arose and cut Georges
throat from ear to ear, nearly severing DIS nead
from his body. His.mother, an old lady 20 years
Of age. then helped him to conceal the body IN
the cellar, after which they robbed the house and
fed. The murder has but recently been discov-
cred, and has created great sensation from It's
brutal nature. The old lady was arrested q fey
days since. and young Cleveland was spprehendsd
In Boston on Friday night.
George P. Sanction, late cashier Commercial
Bank of New Brunswick. Canada, was arrested In
Brooklyp, on complsiot Of the president and trus'
tees OF the bank, Who charge him with having en-
bezzled over one hundred thousand dollars. He
was locked up in default of bail In one hundred
thousand dulars.
A Cincinnati dispatch. of the 10th, says: tine
remains of victims of the recent steamboat disas-
ter that are not recognized by friends are being
brought here for interment Among the bodies
recovered is that of the late Mr.. Fahnestock, of
Philadelphia, also an Italian named Domeso, who
had large amount of gold on his person. The
body Of Mrs. Pearce, of Louisville, was found 10
good condition. John MoleDgraft, of Louisville.
supposed TO have been lost, has turned up all
right. Mrs. Eliza House, aged 60, and her son, OF
Birmingham, Pennsylvania, are among the lost.
The steamer Graham is working at the wrecks.
and has thirty men with nets and drags to operate
for the recovery of the bodies"
The Mississippi river is frozen solid at Prairie
du Chen and passengers are crossing on the Ice.
The river reporter OF Western paper says;
passenger from the Tennessee river. He paid his
fare in hard money, paid hard money for his
drinks, and handed porters, boot-blscks and bar
bers silver half dollars with looseness truly re-
freshing. He did not seem to know that such
things as ereenbacks were In existence"
II is rumored that Caleb Gushing has gone to
Europe on secret government mission having
reference, it is thought, to the subject OF the Ala
bsma claims or the purchase Of Cuba.
II 10 said that Mr.. Charles 0'Conor, the eel.
ebrated lawyer, had his pocket picked Of $3.50
few days ago, on one of the steamers which run
between Washington and Aqua Creek, when he
was bound to Richmond. He mentioned the fact
to gentleman travelling on the same boat, who
informed him that be recognized among the pas
sengers a man who robbed him of $1,000 about hf-
teen months before. The man thus recognized was
put 10 corner by the captain. searched all over.
and tie missing pocket book discovered in sn out
OF the-wsy part Of the apparel There being neither
detectives nor policemen in the neighborhood OF
Aqua Creek, the thief escaped after landing.
James Fisk prints card to show that Wander
bilt was paid million dollars last July TO discon-
tipue the suit against the Erie Company.
The Illinois river is reported frozen over its
entire length, and the Missouri Is supposed to be
porged at St. Charles, few miles above its mouth.
The theory with some is that the Mississippi will
gorge at the Quincy bridge and all the ice below
will run out leaving clear water from that point
to Cairo, and navigation south will be resumed In
Q few days.
The weather at st. Louis on the night of the
10th and on the 1lth was colder than known In
December for thirty.tw0 years. The mercury
sunk to fourteen degrees below zero in exposed
places. Navigation was suspended on the llth by
the underwriters' putting embargo on steamers.
The river was bank full of heavy ice, but the
water being five or six feet higher than is usual at
this season but little danger was felt of gorge.
At recent meeting of graduates of Harvard
College, in Boston, 1t was resolved to raise among
| the alumni of the several classes fund OF
$780, OO the interest of which is to be placed at
| the disposal of the college corporation. Harvard,
though rich in funds for special objects Is greatly
| in need Of money for general college purposes.
Hugh Craig, who attempted to kill his mother in
| Philadelphia on Wednesday, is deranged. He
was a compositor on the Daily News, and has
| lately been studying photography closely, sitting
/ up late nights and this is believed to have I'M.
| settled his reason. He said to his mother
! "Mothsr, am commanded by God to kill you"
| Parker. of the Parker House. in Boston, has
taken his dsughter-in-la to Europe to be married
to the French Interpreter Of the Chinese embassy.
The lie Forge property, known ss the Southern
Hotel. on Broadway, was sold by auction, on the
| Providence, R. l., dancing master has seduced
three girls between the ages OF fourteen and sew
4 enteen.
Weston has postponed his walk from Bangor to
| st. Paul until the 9th of January. He was taken
| lame at Biddeford, Me.
| TIE fortune of the late John L. Mcknight OF
Bordentown. is estimated at 100000. He left
$4,000 to the Odd Fellows for charitable purposes,
1
Hon. George Gould, ex mayor of Troy, and
former justice of the Supreme Court OF the third
judicial district of New York, died at Troy, on
Sunday week, aged sixtyone years.
Hon. Vim. Rodman. formerly mayor OF Provi.
dence, was found dead In his bed on the llth.
An enterprising storekeeper at Martha's Vine
| yard, Mass, announced in the advertising columns
of the Gazette, fifteen years ago, the arrival OF
the Golden Gate With fresh supply of groceries
| which advertisement has appeared in each paper
without change ever since, although the Golden
| Gate has |, ng since gone to the bottom.
The following have been nominated as Coch.
leeureati of the Yale class of 20: Henry Angus
tus Cleaveland, New Haven; John Waldo Stat
Pa. Henry jackson Faulkner. Dansville, N. Y.
EDWARD Griffin selden, Norwich; james Gore
King Mcclure, Albany, N. y; Samuel st. John
McCutcheon. Paipfeld. n. j.; David Mccoy
Bone, Petersburg, III. Rodeiick Terry, lrvington
N. Y. The following have been nominated a.
Yale editors, class of 20: William Curtis Gull
yer, Knoxville, ILL., Thomas Joseph Tiney
Brooklyn, N. Y; lothian Henry Cummings, Wor
cester Mass; Edward Perkins Clark, Yves
Springfield, Mass. Charles Hall Strong, New Or
| leans, La. -
In reply TO vanderbit's denial of having re
ceiyed money from the Erie to suspend the suit
| last summer, Fisk and Gould publish copies of th'
checks for 81 600 900, signed by the treasurer
the company and bearing Vanderbilt's indorse
ment. They say that they have paper In Van
derbilt's own Wi ing. stating that he place
500 eco shares of Erie stock with Work. Davis
Barton. TO be delivered on payment of s3,5000OO
The Erie Company has leased the Atlantic an
Great Western Railway for nineteen years, pay
able thirty per cent. of the gross earnings of IN
leas ed road or a minimum OF SIS 900 600, yearly
In the event of thirty per cent. of the earning
falling below that amount, the Erie Company Ell
cages TO keep the track stations and rolling stoc
of the Atlantic and Great Western in repair, an
gives that company the option of renewing th
lease at its expiration.
The Winthrop me- Bulletin tells story OF
cot 80 years old. The animal H. in the family Q
| Nelson Norcross, OF Windham, Mass, and durin
her early life she went three trips to West Indie
before the mast. She has been the mother Of Is
kittens. .a ..fanlll 20 nna III
Daniel T. Dickinson. q nephew Of Hon. DAME
S. Dickinson, has been arrested for robbing sal
in ElicottvIlle, N. Y.
The Union Pacific Railroad oas been blockade
with snow since the 4th inst, between Bryan an
San Francisco.
Lord Young. the new governor general Of tn
7 Dominion OF Canada, is person OF apparent
about fifty FIVE years of age, Of about medu
height and erect figure. HIS hair is plentiful
sprinkled with threads Of silvery gray, and b
short side-whiskers are almost white. He has
mild. blpish-gray eye.
fire at Rocklsnd, on the 14tb, destroyed tn
dwelling and auction store Of F. W. Wolf. B. Ii