The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-31
Ghe jim Orleans Crescent.
THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 81, lsss.
AND wEsrEns NEWS

A"oDAA AOnNiNo, DECEAbEh 81, 1865.
NORTHEAN AND wEsrERH NEWS
The lumber regions in the northern parts ofywis.
consin are infested by mice a. II Q plague of Egvpt
bad come upon the country. They have overrun
the lumber campo, and even driven the horses aud
cattle from their feed boxes, eat clothing, boots
socks and caps, nest in the beds, etc. Every SUP.
ply team now going into the pineries" has box
of cats upon it..
washburne, C. B.. who is talked about 80 much
ss in i Of Ss %ssSburns s%1
next younger than Ehhu and Cad sallader. He
early left bis homo In Maine, and settled IN Cali.
forBia, where he became an editor. He was en-.
gagged IN political and personal quarrels in early
life, end fought one or more duels therefore with
B. F. Washington, Virginian, wherein he was
severely wounded In the hip, and another with
Austin Smith, o son Of Extra Billy Smith, of Vir-
ginia. These wounds have annoyed him very
much down to the present time. He 10 in his forty
There is Q family of 1--WE persons in New York
who require three brown-stone houses to live in
and sixteen servants to wait on them. They keep
no carriages in the city, sowing to their houses
being too small to accommodate the necessary
servanfs.n
A lady of Oxford, Me-, aroused her husband q
few nights since, saying that she heard some one
knocking. He arose, but could find no one, and
The women Of the Universalist denomination
in Illinois are pledged 70 raise $50 900 with which
to erect Q collegiate building for the accommoda.
ton Of women students at Galesburg. u.s.
"WarrinRton,n WIN. g. Robinson, ESQ., the
Boston GORE spondsnt- of the Springheld Repub-
licsp, with the above uomme de plume, was cap.
tured the other day In Boston with his wife and
daughter, and compelled into the acceptance of
one silver) watches, Q thousand dollar government
bond, with whole envelope full of greenbacks
beside and ell for no crime or oiense, that he or
anybody else knows Of, bat bis having dared to
live to the age of dfty years.
A Cheyenne dispatch says that seventy.seveu
head of horses and mules have been run off by
the Indians from the neighborhood of Lsporte,
since the Esd. The Indians are believed to be
from the north, and to belong to Red Clouds
band.
A Salt Lake telegram Gays the Central Pacific
railroad reached All miles east of Sacramento, on
the 9th. lt.il
The Kellogg House and contents, the post Office
and newsroom buildings at Bath, In SteubeL
county, New York, were burned on the 2sth.-
Loss, $4,000. trfrr.tI
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has de.
cided that the enactment of the liquor license
law last winter did not repeal the law known as
the s7th chapter Of the general statutes, which is
as follows: " All buildings, places, or tenements
resorted to for the prosecution Of lewdness or
illegal gambling, or used for the sale Of intoxica
ting liquors, shall be deemed common nuisances."
This law, II is well known, allows the prosecu.
ton Of both the occupants and owners Of buildings
80 used. The decision il quite surprise. and an
unpleasant one to many parties who had been
complained Of under the act, and whose cases
have awaited this decision.
Roberts, the old negro, who was formerly presi.
dent of Liberia 10 In Washington, and is about to
lecture on that country.
Forty thousand copies of the post.obit asttery
layished upon Thad. Stevens, In Congress, the
other day, are to be printed at the public cost.
Miss Susan Caroline Godsey, aged twenty .seven
years, VII o lives six miles south Of Hickman, KY,
has elept nineteen years with the exception of
or twelve times each day. A correspondent says
there il nothing repusive In the expression of her
features; she has mild, sorrowful, yet sprightly
looking oountenence, end oonvessss ON common
topics with correctness and intelligence which,
considering her condition, is surprising.
In the California valleys the beds of ancient
rivers may be readily traced for hundreds of
miles, showing that the river system Of the Pacific
slope was much more elevated In the geological
ages than at the present time. A system of mir
ing has been introduced Of late, which promises
to be attended with great results; that Is, driving
tunnel up the beds of these ancient streams,
and taking out the gold along the surface Of the
General sully sent detachment of cavalry
from Fort Harker on the 26th inst, to scour the
upper valleys Of the Solomon, Republican and
Saline rivers 10 Kansas, 1t being reported that
the Indians have recently been seen 10 that region
Gen. suIly thinks that Gen. Sheridan will return
from his campaign in twenty or thirty days, and
will suspend operations until March to give his
horses rest.
curious case Is now on trial before the Su-
preme Court at Bath, Maine, in which Marianne
Robinson contests the will of Mrs. Mary Greene,
late of Topsham, on the ground that 1t was made
under the control of the spirit of Mrs. Green's de-
ceased husband. A large number of commun ica-
tons, said TO have been received from the spirit
world, have been put into the case.
very wealthy old Hollander, says New York
dispatch, died here about one hundred and twenty
five years ago, without will, as it was supposed
and his property was disposed Of according to
law. Recently, his will has been discovered, and
his heirs have employed able counsel to get pos
session Of the immense fortune of which they
have been deprived. Some of the most valuable
lots on Broadway and Fourteenth streets, valued
now at thirty or forty millions, and much other
importance the famous Gaines case, and must i'm.
pQYerish persons at present very wealthy.