The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-08
PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Thanks TO the officers of Southern Express for
late Northern papers.
Texas has now fifty beef packing establish
ments.
Corn is selling q, Denton, Texas, for ten cents
per buskel.
There is growing interest manifested in the
cultivation of tobacco in Northern Georgia.
Thanks to the officers of the Josephine for late
Galveston papers.
Over ten thousand boxes raisins were shipped
from here to Chicago last week.
The citizens of Wilkinson county, Miss, have
formed sn Agricultural Association"
The "Oldsst Inhabitant" of Meridian is going
to publish history of that pucky little city.
There are 1915 Union soldiers buried in the
department Of the Cumberland.
Ckolono is sgiiating the establishment q. that
place Of cotton and tobacco factories.
Swiss immigration into North Carolina has been
attended with the most gratifying results.
large vineyard is to be established in Stafford
county, Va, by Mr.. Taliaferro.
A much larger breadth of wheat than usual has
been sown in the southern counties of Indiana.
Deer carcases sell in Western Missouri at four
or five cents pound.
At Goldsboro'. N. c.. they have organized the
tion."
Oliver Dyer says New York city has 524S liquor
shops, lG7S billiard saloons, and 40, 900 destitute
and outcsst children.
The Missouri river was frozen at Omaha, so that
that pedestrians crossed on the ice on the 10th
ultmo.
Rev. John Lamar and Susan Gilbert, negroes
convicted at Macon, Ca, of infanticde, have been
sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
carpet.bsgger aamed George Sarsen has run
of with $1,000 belong to the widows and orphans
of Newbery district, South Carolina.
Greeley thinks the blacks in this country, ike
all other men, are too willing TO have others pro-
vide for them.
The people Of Carrolton, Miss, have resolved to
build railroad to the Mississippi Central railroad,
a distance of fourteen miles.
The son.in-lsw of Brigham Young, and mansger
of the Salt Lake City theatre, bought $4,000 worth
of women 70 3 shoes in st. Louis on the 18th ut.
AN exchange states that Soutberners are the
best customers of the North SO far this season.
Western orders are backward.
Paris J. Tillinghast, an estimable Citizen died
near Columbus, Ca, on the 23d. in the S9th year
of his age.
Photographs of fAbyssiDianscenery taken during
the recent expedition, are on exhibition in Lon
don. They number between sixty and seventy.
The Boston Post thinks we might soon resume
epecie payments from the number Of ''silser
weddings" announced.
A number of " elegant and refined young gentle
men, in Missouri il is said, advertise for situa
tions as sons-in-law in wealthy families
Thanks to the officers of steamship Austin for
late Brownsville papers, and to the officers of the
steamship Agnes for late Indianola and Galveston
papers.
Miss Augusta J. Evans, of Mobile, the well
known authoress, was married on the night of the
I'd, to L. NJ. Wilson, the president of the Mobile
and Montgomery Railroad.
justice of the peace in Hudson City, N. Y, has
been arrested for sppropriating to his own the
sum of $50, the property of man whom the jus
tice had committed to Jail for an assault.
The Augusta, Ca, Constitutionalist, remarks
that "the best allies of the South are near at
home. They are the plow, the loom and the
anvil"
Large consignments of English game are now
coming into the New York market. At many of
the restaurants English pheasants and hsres are
displayed.
A little daughter of Mr.. John W. Brown, ofvin-
N.
Gently, and picked SO severely that lockiaw set in
and resulted in her death.
criminal III New York court recently boldly
offered the judge, in open court, sealed envelope
full Of notes, as bribe. The sentence was
doubled.
1t is estimated that twenty.seven tons of paper
ger day are used in Paris for journals, reviews aud
pamt hlets. The London Times uses eleven tons
Of paper per day.
The bill OF fare at the New Hampshire Hotel on
Thanksgiving Day was roast turkey, potatoes.
onions, squash, white bread, pickles and plumpud-
ding.
II is proposed to drain the Green river swamps
in Illinois, and enlarge the river. at probable
pense of SlO0, 900. The expense will be divided
between three counties, Bureau, Henry and Rock
Island.
negro policeman at Montgomery fred two
shots at a lad who was going TO his work, to make
him stop that be might see who it was. The ns-
gro was brought before the Mayor and dismissed
without replimand.
Baltimore publisher has completed five copies
of the proceedings of thePlenary Council, printed
on the finest paper and bound in watered silk, 10
be sent TO tie pope and four cardinals. The work
is said to be equal to any ever done in this coun
try.
At arecent public meeting in Maine, the presi-
dent stated that but twenty per cent. of the
popula ton attended church, and that the excuses
Of those who renamed away we're either that they
could not afford to rent pew or to dres0 well
enough.
Bayard Taylor writes from Rome: 4" An intelli-
gent Roman nobiemsn said to me We are now
living under a double Tule--Ihat of Plus lX and
sh>s "a Ais -snaesssax. IA alrsaAr, -Aasails
choseni' Who ID the latter?' asked. i can
only tell you,' he replied, e that it is not Anto.
nelli.'"
The Port Gibson Standard is "down on" the
"We Can't Club. BE gays We Can's" have any.
thing that other people have, nor do anything that
other people do. Curses on " We Can't!" Decay
and Death are IFS ministers. Desolated fields and
ruined towns are it's trophies.
Geo. Ellis, Old Levee, has placed on our
table Peierson's Ladies' National Magazine for
January, 1869; the illustrated Annual Register OF
Rural Affairs for 1869, containing $50 engravings,
issued by Luther Tucker & Co., Albany, n. Y. a