The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-30
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 80. 1868.
EDIToKIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Oysters in England sell for $40 per bushel.
Lady Franklin returned to France.
Illinois pays IS bounty for killing prairie wolves
Paris has seventy.fve marriage brokers.
Small pox is prevalent in Montreal.
A FIRE in Cincinnati on the Gath destroyed pro-
perry valued at 1000.
Thanks to the officers of the mail steamer
Louise for late Mobile papers.
New York city expended sS,O2o,s32 for school
purposes last year.
A Cincinnati physician, 70 years of age, dandles
his twenty first baby.
The amount of fractional currency issued during
last week was s54l 600.
d. R. staller, an old printer and soldier, late of
the Lagrange (Ga.) Reporter. is dead.
The debt of Virginia lie aboat SAC, 5000, of
which West Virginia will pay about one-third.
A Kansas woman adyertises that she shall pros
ecu,e any one who sells liquor to her husband.
The Boston Society of Natural History specially
invites ladies to attend its meetings.
The Brazilian government has opened subscrip-
tion books for new loan Of s30,000.000.
The Spanish revolution set free Madrid editor
who was serving term of lO2 years in prison.
The second number Of the Statesman, a sixteen
page quarto, published in Baltimore, is at hand.
equal to half the United States.
Florence Nightingale has been confined to her
room for eleven years.
London supports ten schools Of art, which are
attended by 5000 Students
A single baker in Green street, Boston, bakes
weekly at least thousand losves of brown
bread and barrel Of beans.
Official notice has been received that Texas
4 I'd 70 Ia NJ ind md
SstDis, in future.
The crown princess Of Prussia has given ten
theusand dollars to the ladies of the Berlin mid
night missions.
The daughter of Count Bismarck is to be led to
the altar by young Polish diplomatist in the
Russian service, who is impecunious butclever.
The board of trustees of Cornell University
have purchased the private neurological cabinet
of Prof. Silliman, Of Yale College.
a relic of the famed ram Merrimac in the shape
of an immense anchor, weighing 5000 pounds, ha:
been raised, and is on exhibition at Norfolk, Va
The Mail says Greeley, without doubt, is to day
the hardest working newspaper man in New
York city.
An entry thief 10 New York was recently
caught By a servant girl and drenched with pal
of boiling water
The Mkado of Japan has appointed an English
mon "lord high admiral" and another superin
tendent of miues for that country.
One Of the French papers prints an exact des
cfiption of the present style of velocipede takeI
from paper published ninety years ago.
ian Iowa girl of sixteen recently killed larg'
lynx with a corncutter, after it had whipped twt
Digs.
British India contains an area Of near hun
died thousand square miles, and q population Of {
hundred and fifty millions.
;Macmillan's Magazine says that " roast donkey
~ one Of the most delicious of meats" 1t suseC
largely in making Lyons sausages.
More than four hundred thousand life policie
ere in force in the State of New York, represent
ing upwards of 81 600 900 900 in risks.
Robert Dick. Buffalo, N. Y, the inventor of tn
addressing machine that bears his name, is a Bap
tist clergyman.
The New York Post says well known head o
q banking house was arrested in Blocker stree
for striking his wife in the face, because sh
INSISTED upon following him up town.
The official register of the wrecks on the shore
df Great Britain and Ireland, during 1867, show
q loss of 25l3 vessels of an aggregate of 46i,OO
tons, and 1888 lives.
We are indebted to the publishers for Whit
locks Horticultural Recorder for October, issue
at PAS Broadway. N. Y. 1t is a valuable publica
ton for horticulturists and nurserymen.
One hundred and three women in st. Joseph
Mo-, a few days since became honorary member
OF the Public Library Company Of the place b.
subscribing slO each to its funds.
wise observer said that English women talke
OF each others looks, and French women of eacl
others dress. The latter we're the more charita
BILE.
The trustees Of William and Mary College, Va
have received this year from England $4,000, tn
proceeds of legacy left in l742 by an Englis
lady.
The deepest artesisn well on the Pacific coast
-. stockton, CAL, being 1902 feet deep. 1t dis
charges $4,000 gallons Temperature " deg.
every twenty-four hours.
We have received the Southern Journal o