The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-27
rpIToxIA. PARAGRAPHS. ETo.

but 1868 ONCE holders IN tnls counuy'
boat building firm at Salisbury Point recently |
sold and shipped ten dories to Alaska.
Relatives take the greatest liberties, aud give
the least assistance.
Massachusetts has had nine snow storms
already.
Seven months salary is due the public school
| teachers Of Jersey City,
young women's Christian association has been
| formed in Cincinnati.
Home studies have been cut of from the Phila'
| delphia school system.
Twelve thousand rat skins have already been
purchased by the merchants of Paramount, Ind.
| An American citizen of African descent has
been admitted to the law school at Ann Arbor.
| Our American suptor, Story, has just finished,
| in Rome fine bust of Elizabeth Browning.
| The "Grecian bend cocktail " Is now offered al
| all the "sample rooms " in New York.
! There are 600 old clothes dealers in New York
| city.
The Methodist Episcopal Church South has 66
| preachers in Illinois.
Boston claims the oldest clergyman In the coun'
try, Father Cleveland, aged 81.
| Alaska covers $685. 600 acres, or 517,S9O
square miles.
| The peach trees are in blossom at Tallahassee,
Fla.
A hen in San Luis, Obispo, Ia raising litter Oh
pups. She is considered dog-on fool.
wild Turkeys and partridsos arc very plentiful
in Fairfax, Va.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Louise for
late Mobile papers.
The estimated school expenses of Philadelphia
for 1869 are 81 ,2l9, 900.
Thanks TO the officers of steamship Josephine
for late Galveston papers.
The Erie Canal is to DE closed on the 9TH OF
December.
stephen Massett (Jeemes Pipes) lectured on
"China and Japan" before the Travellers Club
in New York on the Goth inst.
Oliver Dyer is authority for the assertion that
200 600 people below Twentieth street, in New
York, live in cellars.
Wisconsin. it is asserted by the journals of that
State. has larger population of foreign born in
habitants than any other State.
Two hundred persons announced to be
anxious to obtain the nomination of governor OF
New Hampshire.
II ia said that liquor ammonia, diluted so 1t can
be swallowed, freely administered, forms COM
: pete antidote for bites Of poisonous snakes.
The census of 1870, it is said, will show
the population of the United States to be A.
600 600.
AnewIy invented rat exterminator is warranted
; bv one sniff to make the vermin sneeze OF their
heads.
' Southern markets make the boot and shoe
Q trade in Philadelphia and 10 Eastern cities
lively.
4 At Lowell, Mass, on the 2lst inst. three per-
a sons we're suffocated to death in fire at No. 96
Merrimac street.
Fractional currency printed during last week
q 1861. $50; shipments, s665 1868 amountredeemed
: $500, 800.
. In the Faubourg st. Martin, an Irish French
= man, who keeps a brewery, has placarded in his
d window, beer is served by female gdrcons."
g married lady of St. Louis is preparing for
q NAL application for the Office of postmaster -o
!. postmistress of the city.
3 A thief in Indianapolis was last week caught IL
It the rather heavy business of stealing five thousand
!. pounds Of iron.
!. The profits of the Portland memorial concert T.
Q Artemus Ward were one hundred dollars tn
wrong way.
n Buenos Ayres, at the mouth of the Platte, con
q tans 900 inhabitants, of which some 1000
y are English.
d Patti gave eleven representations in October
n which produced 147 ,9i2 francs, an average o
is IL. 450 each.
III The well knOWu lOIllldIust VI NcW 81
es building an establishment at Louisville for re dry
- ing tobacco. 1t will employ about loo people
Of The opinion prevails In Houston that it is des
to tined to become, in no great time, one OF tn
Q create II -four exporting markets in the world.
be The Paris Gsulois ntmates that the Emperc
as Napoleon is likely soon to have another heir I
T. his name and dynasty.
a Peru has forbidden the expectation of alpaca
~ l r,raoaadiD0 fror
ar | mixture of these breeds.
tn The ingram carpet weavers Of Philadelphia al
NJ on strike on account of proposed reduction
Oh wages.
to The Mohawk Indians in Canada have just ha
their general election, and have chosen Sc
~ Powles for head chief.
N. A bill is before the Vermont Legislature impo
nd ing penalties upon all parents and guardians ne
, lecting TO send their children to school.
ne A correspondent writes that he is opposed
-, "Riualismu because it drives female singers o.
of the church choirs.
The New England women's medical college
Boston is becoming a resort for intelligent your
ed women.
in Tampa Bay, Fla, is doing direct trade in snak
las with Cuba The last shipment was q cargo
se fine rattlesnskes.
an dence in Cape Town /; having emigrated to Il
er, co ouy in 1920. He was present at "the siege
IA New Orleans"
IN. 1t is now expected that our consul general
Syria will be able to obtain from the Turkish go
net eminent the release of the Americans held Sta
a. | prisoners at Damascus.
.ge There are reports afoat in Washington To
m more than 81 100000 of the Alaska purcha
no, | monav WAS expended in feeling congressman a
Mt lobby agents
In. The marriage contract Of Louis XVI with Maj
Ar Antoinette, with all the signatures of Witness
ms was recently sold for the extraordinary sum of
W. francs at the Hotel Drouet.
There are now in the avenue of the Cham
ma Elysees several chestnut trees in bloom for Z
to second time this year. and other trees have sho'
;n disposition to come out again. !.
u.s. The directors Of the Portland, Me-, board
Ing ! trade nave s~.-i~-. Leaking To q pub
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