The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-05
NUMBER SO.
sDITonlAL :FAHAeHArns. Ero.

sDIrORiAL :PAHAaHAPHs. Ero.
svelocipedes ere aow made IN New York.
| Gold closed b Ns1 York yesterday q ls2l.
A cyclone has devastated San Domingo.
M. Guizot il now sighty-two.
Horse stealing prevails In Grant county, Ind.
Tie largest advertiser in France Is man Who
| has invented psteatcd bait for fsh-books.
The Journal de P1rh says that Dors is worth
| 500 900 francs. - es
Nutting Parties and excursions are now the
order Of the day 10 the Northern States.
The srtesiaq VEL at st. Louis pow ss7s feet
deep, and no water. :. 81 20 "a
Psuperism continues steadily on the increase in
Scotland. Last yesr the csst was fsO7 .6sl.
East Tennessee Dnivsrsity, at Knoxville, has
100 pupils. .. - ,. a
Davidson College. in Msck'enburg county. N.
| c.. has over 60 stpdenf,.
Thanks to steamer Louise for late Mobile pa.
pers.E al ifrtr,.iis.ss: rsIa1r st.tz rl.1 - tlr
The Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
at Paleigh. N. c.. has eighty eight pupils.
vslocipedes on fhs shsll-rosd wiz ~ the nexs
novelty. - s.esrs1i. -. -~<tte ttatts
| Thanks to the officers of the steamship Florida
for late papers.
Iis proposed by:ioms Cubans to make Havana
free port. s la1.,s s4sl4 at.s ir-. 80
Promenade suits Of Irish plaid are coming into
fashion.
Victor Hugo predicts q revolution in France II
Napoleon lives two years longer.
Sea water contaiss about four ounces of salt ir
every gallon.
Australia has kind Of bee that does not
sting. and resembles large horse fly.
The elevated railway in New York city has been
erected for the distance Of half mile.
The Monte Disblo coal mines yield eleven thous-
and tons per month.
The salt springs of New York yield about s,ooo,.
000 bushels annually.
The grape crop On the foot hills of the 6ierre
Nevada will be immense this year.
A grape vine ir' Jouchecy, France, ffty.four
years old, yields three tons weight of grapes
Brigadier General Crook has. sued the editor
Of the Army and Navy Chronicle for libel.
man with a cold in his head may be said to
be very infueDza() character.
Berlin Is having industrial exhibition, oil the
articles in which, numbering more than q thous-
and. were the work of women. rtf1f1e
The sparrows ct Reservoir Park, New York
city, it s reported, have destroyed all the worma
and troublesome insects ct that place Of resort.
Two scientific expeditions to the North Pole are
fitting out in Europe-one at Bremen and one at
Havre. ss f.a
The pineteen leading ministers and soldiers of
the second empire receive a salary of 5000, 900
fraucs.
An American pathological society is to be organ
lied at the New York University on the 18th of
the present month.
For the last nine years the average ntmber Of
ehipwrecks on the British coasts has been 1861
annually.
DR.. Holland writes from England that he has
yet to be convinced of the physical superiority Of
the Englisbman to the American. .oi
Chas. A. Whitney q Co.. agents of the Morgan
line Of steamships, have our thanks for late pa
pers. m W .fst
DR.. Ninge, Of Petersburg, Va, who, under q
vow, had not shaved his beard since the defeat
of Mr.. Clay for president In ls44, diod on tie 18th
ult. s.8ss fs- s
Iowa has l22 lodges of Odd Fellows With q
membership Of 5000, of which loss were initiated
last year.
A marriage took place in Thomaston, Me-, last
Saturday, in which the bridegroom was eighty
Eve and the bride eighty.
The people of wsedsport. N. Y, have invented
a new church entertainment-a "mush and milk
sociable."
In the vicinity Of Pittsburg large number Of
coal degers have struck for higher wages, and
several coal works have stopped operations.
Nearly all the horses feeding on Q section Of
prairie two miles square, near Indianola, Iowa,
have taken sick. and most of them died.
In the small village of Holyoke, Mass, since
last june the lives of thirteen persons have been
lost accidentally or taken with murderous intent.
Nxy~ r~c r..
$50 pounds, IL turnips that ill barrel, so pota-
toes that also make barrel, and squash hve
and half feet In circumference.
We have received from the publishers, the
Leonard Scott Publishing Company. lao Fulton
street, New York, Blackwoods Magazine for Oc-
tober. 1t contains nine articles.
The French empress drives every day smsll
basket phaton. She wears neither silk nor velvet,
bat Scotch merino, called cashmere. The shades
she prefers are gray and dove.
Bottles are no longer on the table Of fashion
able dinner parties--all the wines, with the ex-
ception of champagne, being served In glass
pitchers Of handsome workmanship.
There ID Q rumor ahoat in Paris that Patti d
already dissatisfied with the sppendage to the
title she has married, and il about to demand .
divorce.
Some scamps recently elected an entrance into
the New Lisbon tOhio) postofics, and abstractsd
stamps, envelopes, etc., to the amount Of nearly
400,
Queen Victoria spent six thousand pounds ia
Switzerland, and yet nobody, not even the land.
lords that aeeced her, seem to wish for her 70.
turn. Hl
Mrs. Basil Williamson died recently in Tyler
county. Va, aged eigtty.nine. She signed the
deed to Gen. Washington for the Harper's Ferry
property-a site which he himself had chosen for
. national armory.
Archbishop Kenrick, authorized by the eccls-
siastical authority ct Rome to investigate the
charges against the Roman Catholic Bishop Dug.
gan, Of Chicago. has reported the complaints to
be unfounded, and the case 10 dismissed.
The little village Of Chamouni was first brought
into notice by two English travellers, Messrs.
Pocock and wyndham, in l74l, by report which
they made Of its wonderful scenery before the
Royal Society of London.
nsu.svs ~rffl oatuxatr~ forfo~v A.