The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-10
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THURSDAY HoRNING, DECEMBER 10, les.


Chicago has two thousand Scotch citizens.
Pittsburg wants en- art gallery.
The State debt Of North Carolina IL $40 900 900.
There we're 800 marriages and Isl births in New
York last week.
matrimonial agency has been established in
Louisville.
In New York all the ARRAYS of late have been in
oyster saloons.
A San Francisco banker has erected SIS. 600
monument 10 memory of his wife.
Baltimore is glad that it has no fancy stock with
which TO speculate.
NJ. Hsvin, the editor of the Paris Steele, left
fortune Of fourteen millions of francs.
Thirtyse seven cents, 10 coin. is the price of
shave on a California line of steamers.
There were ninety two applicants for bank
rupt benefits filed in Montgomery, Ala, last week.
A brides cake" six feet high, was a feature
Of a late Western wedding.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Mata-
gorda for late Galveston papers.
1here are eight more convicts in the New Hamp-
shire State prison than there are cells.
A home for the aged women of the Central
Church, New Haven, c., is to be built.
fossil horse, it is stated, has recently been
discovered in the tertiary deposits of Nebraska.
.
Illustrated " of the 18th.
Brigham Young was stricken with paralysis in
the midst OF business, one day last week.
Boston has 35l musicians and teachers, includ.
ing 65 at the thesters.
An old woman IN London was thrown down and
killed by a child's hoop.
One hundred and twenty six Custom House EN-.
ployes were discharged yesterday by orders from
Washington.
One thousand two hundred and one persons se
cured employment at the Castle Garden Labor
Exchange last month.
The bonded debt of South Carolina at this time
is q, 400 900 at per cent, except small amount
of stock which pays 3 and 5.
The new statue of Hamilton at Washington, by
Horatio Stern, is pronounced by European critics
to be his chef d'euure.
Mr.. Field, late collector at Brownsville. Texas.
has been acquitted of the charge of misapplying
government funds.
The Pennsylvania Poultry Society will hold their
first exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia,
from the 2lst to the 26th inst, inclusive.
Fery-boats, at Montreal, have ceased running,
and the harbor is quite deserted. The canal be,
low Wellington bridge is completely frozen up.
Two rich Binghampton farmers. worth about a
quarter of million, have gone to law about
county fair premium Of s25.
The recent strike of the New York coopers for
an advance of twenty-five per cent. on whisky
barrels has been successful.
The fashionable colored people of Milwaukee
are making extensive preparations for grand
ball.
A lady in Vermont has had triplets, and named
them Faith, Hope and Charity. She neglects to
report whether Charity is the greatest.
Fort Lafayette, the Yankee Bsstile during the
war; is now a mass of ruins from fire. 1t will cost
the United States $3.50 900.
RossiDi says Paris letter, died worth 500 900
year. and has left Legacy to build the wing of
the Academia of Pesaro.
A Grecisn bend which arrived in st. Albsns.
VT last week, was found at the custom house to
consist Of 5000 worth OF silks.
The new proprietor Of the Albion newspaper.
Mr.. CORVALLIS, drives TO his editorial rooms in q
handsome broughsm.
Thanks to Capt. Neynsber. of the steamship
Bremen, for files of European and Havana pa.
pers.
According to the Home Journal, the doctors of
New York city are proud of their horse flesh, al.
though they are not horse doctors.
The Duchess Of Sutherland, recently dead, was
a fat woman, nearly 60. who wore low-necked
dresses, and had ten children.
Pennsylvania emigrant farmers are making the
valley of the Shenandoah the most prolific re-
gion in Virginia.
John Stuart Mill was defeated for Parliament by
William Il. Smith, the London news-sgent, who
has made fortune by selling newspapers, and
takes 80 900 copies of the London Times.
Winthrop, Maine, has q cat said to be fifty
two years old, which has made three trips to
the West Indies, and been the mother of 255
kittens.
An exchange says "Old Dog Tray" is so sfec
tinely played by some hand organs. that groups of
pups will squat before the machine and wipe tears
from their eyes with their paws.
1t being mentioned tn our members Of Con-
gress, in order to "retrench." intend giving up
the frankiDg privilege. an exchange says. "then
the millennium must be approaching"
An Indian was hanged for murder in Wisconsin
q few days since. His whole tribe came to see
the execution.
New York appropriated $40 600 three years
ago for "hall Of military records" at Albany.
The commissioners in charge have done nothing
since but draw their salaries.
The artificial island now in course of construc-
ton in the lower part the bay Of New York will,
when completed, comprise an area Of about two
acres.
The cambridge Georgian has received sugar
cane measuring nine feeti length. having twenty
two joints. and weighing seven and one-fourth
pounds. grown in Decatur county, Ga.
Alta sale 10 Halifax county, N. c., last week,
cattle brought as low as 81 per head. fodder five
cents per loo pounds, and other things in proper.
ton.
A negro was arrested in Monticello. Jasper
county, Ga, some days ago, and on his person
were found skeleton keys that, upon trial, fit the
lock OF every store in the place.
November has witnessed the death OF three men
in Paris who were first In their profession: Ros-
sini, the great composer. Rotbschild. the great
banker, ard Berger. the great orator and sdvo-
cate.
"Frsnk Leslie's Budget Of Fun" for January,
1867, has been laid on our tale by George Ellis,
news dealer, Old Levee, opposite the Post
Office.
Twenty.four "young bloods" of Exeter. Eng
land, were sentenced to pay fine Of Eve dollars