The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-14
QENRBAL ITEMS.

DR.. John Shepard, while calling upon patient
In New York, fen down stairs and was killed y 1
An incendiary fire in Pennington Centre, Mass,
recently. completely destroyed Esley's Block, oc-
cupied by L. Archer, jeweler, E. P. Kendall, gro
Ger. and others. Loss about SIS, 900. which was
partially covered BY insurance.
venerable pillow will be exhibited ct the State
Fair in Portland, Maine. II has q seven feet beam
shestbed with iron. ana pair Of ash hsudlss like
immense davits, projec log four feet in the rear
The wood is scanned and wrinkled, but tough and
sinewy still.
General Granger having declined to interfere
with the arms for Arkansas, the common council
Of Memphis appointeda committee to confer with
the president on the subject. II is said than an
effort will be made 10 have the arms shipped on
the ground that they are for the Arkansas militia.
The arms are said to have been procured from The
United States arsenal at Detroit.
Hall, Kimback & Co., importers and dealers IN
iron, Chicago, discovered lately some DIS
crepancies in the books Of their book Keeper ana
confidential clerk, Henry Wiley. Detectives
were put on his track, and the result OF their in
vestigations was the exposure OF long continued
system Of frauds on his part, whereby ne nsd
swindled his employers out Of $4,000. he Is now
in iail under civil process.
Mrs. Mary L. Hutchinson, the mother of the
Hutchinson Family Of singers, died OF paralysis,
ct Milford, N. H., September 20, aged 50. she
was woman Of cheerful temperament, OF strong
feeling, and Of decided character. She had the
psalms and hymns Of Watts by heart, so that she
never needed the printed page, and was 50 fond Of
them that lines, couplets and verses would IND
their way into her ordinary conversation, often
with amusing appropriateness. 'i s'-tt
The national convention of French Canadians,
ct Springfield, Mass, adopted resolutions in con.
domination Of the British. American Confederation
and the movement on the part OF the Canadian
government to force Nova Scotia into It.. Also
resolution approving Of the conduct of Nova Sco-
tia in the defense Of her liberties against the
usurpations of the crown. There was strong
feeling In the convention In favor OF the annexa-
ton of Canada to the United Ststes and the reso-
lutions recommend to Canada the adoption Of
republican form of government. is1r ulra
A pastoral letter from Archbishop Spaulding
has Just been published, in which We find the fol-
lowing paragraph ~ In their pastoral letters to
The faithful, the fathers Of the Council admonish
them to abstain in future from certain fashionable
dances. commonly called waltzes, round or Ger
man dances, which, as recently practiced, are
shocking to every sense of delicacy and danger.
Gus to morals. The more efectually to carry out
this warning, and to remove all pretext for view
ing such dances as harmless, We have strictly en-
Joined that they be neither taught, nor even prac-
ticed for recreation among those Of the same sex,
in any of our colleges, academies or schools,
whether conducted by Catholics or placed under
Catholic auspices.