The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-08

We received no newspaper mail last night.

We received no newspaper mail last night.
Brandon, Miss, has literary association.
New York is called the railroad murder State.
Gold closed in New York, yesterday, at l34i q
l34l.
connect them with the outside world commercially.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Matagorda
for late Galveston papers.
The officers of steamship Austin have favored
US with late Brownsville papers.
The FIRST train on the Selma, Rome and Dalton
Railroad reached Rome, Ca, on the 3lst ult.
Virginia papers are stirring up the people with
regard to q State fair next fall.
Recently 5000 camels arrived at Bokhara from
India laden with green tea.
Louisiana contains about 1000 900 acres of U.
e. public lands; Alabama about the same amount.
The United States has given u. OOO, 900 acres Of
land for educational purposes.
Madison county, Va, is celebrated for two
thiDes-lsrge men and apple jack.
Dipping snuff is being abandoned by the piney.
woods people.
Girardin is as thorough hater of tobacco smoke
as are Greeley and Parton.
The gentlemen of leisure smuse themselves
with canoe voyages in Wisconsin.
Wedding bells" were rung at a wedding in
New York church last week.
Alloy of eleven has just died in Switzerland
from the sting of q venomous fly.
Good srloin steaks it is said retail for l2I cents
pound in Indianapolis.
There were 800 weddings in New York last
week.
Paris consumes annually. about $50 bottles Of
wine per head of population.
Land four miles from Louisville sells at s275 per
acre.
A Russian has patented machine to navigate
the air.
The finest collection Of diamonds in the world
is that Of the Duke of Brunswick, who is now
being sued for his bill by florist.
Two horse thieves were taken out of the jail at
NicholasviIle, Kentucky. on Thursday last, and
hung.
Mr.. Nicholas N. Nixon, an old and valued citi-
zen of Wilmington, N. c., died in that city on the
LIST inst
Mrs. Henrietta Averill, formerly an Indiana
Editor, is lecturing in California on the Equality
Of the Sexes, Morally and intellectually
In four houses in Leicester. Mass, near each
other, are seven persons whose united ages foot
up 572 years.
The demand in Hartford, Conn, for every
variety of real estate is now greater than at any
period during the past four or five years.
A writer in Chsmbers's Journal says: "wo.
man, woman, take my advice and learn TO
cook"
Beecher persuaded $1,000 out Of his congrega.
ton, for the African Church South, few Sundays
ago.
The straw.plai.ers of Luton and Dunstable, in
Great Britain, complain of great depression in
Il cir business.
Brick Pomeroy is preparing and will shortly
issue first class political almanac, which will
contain reliable data useful to all parties.
Suppose Hsrper's Weekly should give credit
when they copy cuts from foreign papers;
wouldn't it look more like honesty?
George Ellis's news depot, Old Levee, has
favored us with the latest issues of the European
Mail and Punch.
The number of pudding furnaces at work in
Great Britain, last year. turned out 76l 900 tons
of pig iron.
Between l776 and 1856 about 900 900 choice
farms, of so acres each, have been given to the
soldiers of our various wars.
woman in Vienna is realizing q fortune by
means of trained goldfnches that draw numbers
from small bowl.
Canadian revenue derived from customs for the
month of October is said to amount to nearly one
million dollars.
Tie Philadelphia street railroad companies have
tried and discarded the plan of dividing the seats
in IL cir cars.
The Tampa Peninsular says the Seminole Indians
are about to leave Big Cypress and go to Lake
Okeechobie, where it is more healthy.
The Apalachicola Reporter is about to suspend.
Cause" stringency of the times" The Reporter
is now gotten out by twelve year old boy.
Brussels owes its origin to Saint Gerry. who, in
the seventeenth century built chapel in the isle
of Senne and preached to the peasaniry.
A garment was exhibited the other day on
Washington street. says the Petersburg Express,
made from the canvas taken from the back of a
duck.
Portland, Oregon, has about eight thousand in.
hsbitants, and is situated near the mouth OF the
willamette river. There are no beggars in Port
land.
Butter, eggs, fruit and other farm products
should be bought Of the farmer according to
value as much as when bought of the retailer in
the city.
The Iowa Agricultural College receives pupils
without distinction of sex. While the young men
learn farming, the young women learn to cook
and keep house.
Among the curiosities at the recent State Fair
In Vermont was an enormous gray Clydesdale
stallion, lately purchased in Canada. He weighed
nearly 1900 pounds, and his fore shoes weighed |
seven pounds each.
The high farming of England Is based upon
turpips and grass; with the first the land is kept
rich and beef is abundant in the spring with the
ast beef is abundant in the fall and the soil never
gets poor.
The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of |
he eminent German philosopher and divine,
schleiermacher, is to be celebrated on the 18th
'f November by his disciples and admirers in
Berlin.
"On the Beach a. Biloxi" new local comedy,