The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23
GENERAL ITEMS.

Gov. Brownlow, on the 10th inst, pardoned the
notorious thief, Mel. Zschery. who had been sen,
10 the penitentiary for horse stealing.
The city debt of Philadelphia is now about
forty millions of dollars, having increased in the
last eight years. under Radical rule, twenty one
millions of dollars. Radical economy,
Neville Bultt died al his residence in Louisville
on the 10th inst.
In South GleDns Falls, Mass, last week, q doc.
tor deserted his wife and two children, and rau
of with mechanics wife, who also left two chill.
dTen-the one ten and the other fifteen years old.
The smiable wife of a Hartford citizen made
hm drunk and then wolloped him severely to
make him sweet-tempered. She succeeded.
line Of steamships to Europe is projected by
the Pacific Mail Company, to accomm ldate the
trade between Japan and China and Europe,
taking the California and New York route. thus
completing the circuit all the way in the ships OF
one line. large proportion of costly light
goods, such es high priced teas, silks porcelain,
drugs, spices. etc., now take the American route,
tie distance being five thousand miles less than by
any other.
A New York paper says: "The indictments
against JEFF Davis might as well be sold TO the
paper makers for three cents pound. They will
never be tried. The eloquence Of Mr.. Evsris will
never be wasted on the living skeleton of q de-
funct Confederacy, with strong probability of a
disagreement of the jury, and pardon virtually
promhed beforehand in case of conviction"
Lieut.. Warren, the agent of the London Psles-
tine Exploration Fund. states that " the ancient
that jerusalem, is buried so deep under ground
that shafts sunk TO an enormous depth barely sue
coed in touching it,"
The designs for our new postage stamps are de-
scribed as very beautiful. The twocent stamp
has for a vgnette q mail-carrer on horseback;
the three-cent mail train under steam; the FIVE.
cent retains the miniature Of Washington; the ten
cent has copy Of the signing Of the Declaration,
from Trumbull's painting in the rotunda of the
Capitol. and the thirty-cent a surrender scene,
from the same artist familiar to all readers of the
history of the Revolution.
The East Florida Banner, published at Ocala,
complains of the cotton thieving that is done en-
small scale in that vicinity, in the nighttime and
says that several negroes have been shot within
the past week, in the act of stealing.
Thirty years ago a man in Massachusetts, plant
ed thirty acres with acorns, and the result is
fine oak forest with trees from twelve to eighteen
inches in diameter.
The making of shoe laces has become so import
ant that q company for their manufacture has
been established in Warren, Z. l.. and is doing
large business 600 braiders are in use, and a
large amount of new machinery has lately been
put in.
The female picnic association, composed of
number of pretty New Haven girls, who, for five
years have had ANNUAL pionics in the woods all by
themselves, with no horrid men around to modest
or make afraid, has been discontinued, but the
members are TO have re. union FIVE years hence
as " old maids or widows"
The petroleum of the banks Of the Irrawaddy,
10 DuIman, Is peing pumped up from depth OF
two hundred and seventy feet, by the English,
against the remonstrances of the priests and
people, who look upon 4 as q sacred oil.
A silver bell, weighing twenty-eiQht ounces
supposed TO be one of the lost chimes of st.
Mays cathedral, Limerick, Ireland, has been
accidently discovered by a diver in one Of the
deepest psols Of the Abbey river, In that city.
The queen Of Madagascar has presented to our
government several beautifully. wrought and very
costly fabrics Of heavy silk and other material,
probably intended for table or bedspreads. She
also sends silver plated coffee urn, but this Is Of
Inferior workmanship. The government will suit
ably acknowledge the compliment.
The average life of railroad sleeper is seven
years. There are 2ll2 in q mile. The average
cost Is fifty cents each. Thus our sleepers are
costing us $50 mile every year for each Of the
40, coo miles in the Union.