The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-15
ITEMS By LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

Boston pays twenty cents a quart for green,
sicEly-looking tomatoes.
Napoleon has established his court for a short
season at FOntanbeau.
The fear of diseased meat is spreading at the
North. Providence, r. l., was last agt4ted
wealthy stock broker of New York Is about
to erect mammoth stock gallery, for the use of
the public, az an expense of nearly SO 0OO000.
sherman. the highest point on the Union Pacific
RailIoad, is 1892 feet above the level of the sea-
AND 1922 feet above Omaha.
Ninety locomotives now in use on the Union
Pacific Railroad, and l07 Others have been or.
dered.
A Massachusetts youth sold, this year. 800
worth OF pond lilies, at a cent apiece in the cars
al GTOton Junction.
New York merchants are revving the project
for an American canal around Niagara fails. Sub
scrip ions 10 the work are promised.
Deaths in New York last week from diarrhea
exceed those from sunstroke during the heated
term.
The Episcopal Church in St. Paul, and four
frame stores adjoining, were burned on the SIN.
Loss $50 eco.
10 the Quimby pond, in Rangely Me-. the
beautiful speCkied front drift ashore il large
quantities, having been killed by the hot weather.
White bechens's Touring mill at Stockton,
Minn. was struck by lightning on Thursday night,
and was burned TO the ground. Loss $50 900.
Elmer Walden, while practicng upon the bars
OF the Williams College gymnasium. in William
ston, r. l.. fell and dlslocated his neck and died
almost instsntly.
European papers say there is q prospect Of the
Ie-optDiDgs OF the dispute about the French aud
Prussian boundaries during the present month,
but no trouble is spprehended.
Washington dispatch of the 9Th ,avs: Adj
vices received here from the cotton States rela.
tive TO the crops continue to be unfaVOrable. In
FLORIDA and south Carolina the cotton worm has
caused much destruction. Estimates for the entire
Southern crop do not now exceed two million
bales.
a man named Melville. in Nuskinghum county.
Ohio. while out hunting blackberries on Saturday
last, got tired and lay down with his head on a
cross tie of the railroad and in a few minutes A
passing freight train unceremoniOusly knocked it
of-with no other injury than a short period Of
insensibility, followed by a sore head.
The steamer Matte Burns from Cincinnati TO
81. Louis, struck snag, four miles above Cairo.
10 The Mississippi river, the night of the sth
and sunk in two minutes. She lies on the snag
and there is great danger Of her breaking iu two
No lives were lost. The value of the boat is not
known.
The gossips of Paris are reporting that in Sep.
TENDER the emperor will publish two manifestOes
OF highly Important character. There will be
letter TO The minister OF foreign affairs which will
doubtless be viDdicatiOn of the foreign policy of
the empire, and the other proclamation to the
french people, appealing TO them for a continu-
anee OF their confidence in the dynasty of Napo-
leon.
Canadian papers say that private letters. re
ceyed from S. Dawson, state that be has made ex.
ploratiOns Of The country west of Lake Superior
lately and has discovered that il is practicable TO
open navigation from the Lake Of the Woods to
within about forty miles of Lake Sue ior. This
can be effected by dsmming lakes and rivers. and |
car aliDg for q short distance.
larger breadth OF crops was planted in Colo
RADIO this year than ever before. Seasouable |
rams, and the early departure of grasshoppers
insure large yield. 1t is estimated that sixty |
thousand acres are under cultivation in Colorado
Of which threetent are wheat and three.tentbs |
corn. Corn is estimated to yield thirty bushels |
per acre.
A few days ago, a robbers cave was found on |
The Sangamon river, near Decatur, Illinois. Mr., |
Halieck, city marshal of Decatur, and "a party of
citizens, made thorough examination of the /
cave and, to their horror, they found the bodies
81 four men carefully concealed in a grave In the /
rear of the cave, with heavy rock as a covering.
scouts are out TO catch the robbers.
At Kansas City, Mo, on Friday evening, a man
named ID. G. Shields, of Fredericksburg. Va, |
ent into the jewelry store OF +. Jdceard AZ Co |
With friend, and were waited on by w. HerR |
IT., partner Of the firm. While the parties |
we're in the store, berg missed two plain ring., |
no accused Shields OF takirg them. Shields de-
ned the charge high words followed and Shields |
struck berg. The latter then produced a revolv.r |
md ordered the parties to leave the Store. More
lngry words ebsued, when Herg shot Shields
through The head killing him instantly. The affair
re ed much excitement.
salt Lake dispatch gives the following az the
estimate of CROPS in Utah: Wheat $50 600
bushels; com, us 600 bu hels; potatoes, 700 600
)u,hels; sorghum, 10000 gallons. The grass. |
loppeTs caused more damage this year tnan auy |
,revioUs season. The entire crop in som, coun |
les has been destroyed, while ia other counties
ne-third has been lost; but, owing 10 the large
uantity OF land under cultivation, the cereSs |
re estimated 10 be equal TO last year, while cot.
on will be IN exc, IS Of last years product.
A Terre Haute dispatch says: The marshal OF |
iutsonville, Illinois, on Friday night went out four
niles into the country, with formidable posse to
Trest gang of desperate robbers four ia nan.
er. He placed most of his men outside, 90
uard. TO prevent the escape of the robbers, and |
niered the house with two or three men. tie |
egan TO read his warrant, but had read only A |
Nv words when the robbers fired on him aud his
zen, killing man named Tapscott. The whole
lrce then rushed iD and shot the scoundrels xiii.
g three and fatally wounding the other"
The body found Saturday in East river, prov IS
be that of Charles Elliott. formerly a Judge IN
aliiornis, but for Zine months past a member of
he hrm OF Benninger Co.. OF this city. He il
nderstood to have received 81, 600 on Friday aud
; there is wound on his head, and neither ,
atch nor money on his person, there is no doubt
lat be was murdered. The body of another man ,
as found decompOsed, in his house on Hud, m |
venue, Brooklyn, on the llth, and proved 10 he q
Re remains OF Hugh Cunningham, who wa.It
en- on Saturday. His family were on a visit TO l.,
lends at distance. n