The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-16
GEN NERAL ITEMS.

There are nearly 5000 Americans in Paris.
The sensation in New York sporting circles is
the arrival of British Bob Brettie.
town, under covering of lava like Pompeil,
has been discovered near Chaco, Mexico.
Apples are now carried to China in good condi.
ton, by packing them In ice, and readily sell at
Hong Kong for 50 q dozen 10 gold.
Max Maretzek commences season of two
weeks at the Opera House, Chicago, on the 18th
inst, with his company Of Germans and Italians.
man In London kept the body or his dead
daughter in the house seventeen days, until he
could get up a rattle to pay the funeral expenses.
An epidemic, something like scailet fever, 10
prevailing among the children in New York, and
over q hundred critical cases are reported.
John Wheeler, foreman in the dry goods house
OF II. b. Clafin 4 Co., committed suicide on the
18th. ~
Tuesday week negro man living on the plan
tation of Mr.. o. Forbes, on the upper Sandy
Creek road. about Is miles east of this city, was
called to the door of his cabin and shot dead.
On Sunday night week harness maker named
$4,000 In greenbacks by burglars. Two thousand
dollars in gold were left by the thieves.
II Is believed that the great tidal wave on the
14th Of August. at San Pedro and along the south.
ern coast of California, was the result Of the
earthquake at Calao.> 10
The anniversary ofthe battle between the Ameri-
can and Mexican armies at Cherubusco was cele-
brsted On the 10th with great soemrity, on the
field where the engagement took place.
Eight prominent gambling houses were simulta.
ueously rsided by the police of st. Louis on the
night Of the 18th, and several thousand dollars
worth Of property captured.
The recent hail storm In Connecticut was so Sc.
we're ss TO ruin several fields of tobacco. In some
places windows were broken by hail-stones, and
the leaves were extensively stripped from the
trees. r1
The Ward Brothers, recent challenge to any
crew of four in the world, has been accepted by
the celebrated Bluenoses, of 81. John, N. B., who
80 easily won the international race at Paris, two
years sgo. The race will be rowed on the Con.
nectieut, within six weeks.
disturbance occurred in the Cincinnati Roll
ing Mill, corner Of Psrson and Front streets, Gin
cinnati, on the 18th, between j ohm Thompson and
John Kemler, when Thompson snatched red hot
iron rod six feet long, and IL through Kemer' g
body. killing him instantly. Thompson was ar
rested. 1ll Eeu aU
An old woman named Rephof. who drives
milk wagon, was waylaid on the fernando road
near Memphis, about dusk on the 10th, by some
negroes, beaten until nearly insensible, and then
robbed. She managed TO crawl to a negro cabin,
where assistance was given. She now lies IN q
critical condition. H.L.fH
The National Telegraph Union. at their session
in Albany on the 10th, elected for tbs ensuing
year: president W. II. Young, of Washington, D.
C.; vice. president, W. v. Merrill, of Portland,
Maine; treasurer, A. l.. Whipple, of Albany, n.
Y; recording secretary, John Duxberry, of
Boston corresponding secretary, f. l.. Pope, Of
New York. Portland, Maine, was selected as the
Some time since there WAC O deficiency OF
$4,000 or sl2,0 900 discovered in the accounts OF
the Springfield, Illinois, postofice, A special
agent was sent on, and reported TO the de-
psrtment that the postmaster's bondmen were
good men, and that the deficit was caused by a
clerk. The postmaster promised TO make the
account good, and the department has drawn
draft on him for the amount due on his re-
turn.
Dispatches from St. Joseph, Michigan, this even
ing, report the arrival there Of Capt. Brown, of
the Hipp0campus, and fourteen other Survivors
from the wreck. They report that the squall
struck the vessel about three o'clock Tuesday
morning. and she went down almost instantly.
The survivors were in the water thirty-hve
hours, and were picked up by a sail vessel
and carried to sangatuck, few miles from st.
Joseph. ...
An unmarried woman named Miriam Taylor
who was engaged IS hOuse-keeper by Mr..
Bartlett, Of Ashley, Delaware county, Ohio
on Monday week ohoked one Of his children, a
boy about eight years. TO death. and then at
tempted to commit suicide by taking poison. She
had conceived violent passion for Mr.. Bartlett
who had expressed his intention of marrying
another woman, aud it is supposed she adopted
this course as q means Of revenge.