The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-02

The steamer Germania took out for Europe, on
the 28th ult., 2S0, 900 In specie. 81
Ground has been broken for the B0 ston, II art
ford and Erie Road, neaS Waterbury, CT.
Two fatalities by Asiatic cholera are reported
in Hamilton, Canada. ID a. rI
The csulkers OF Boston are on strike for eight
hours.
John L. Tate. one of the oldest citizens of Rich
mortgage on the Missouri and Pacific Railroad
for 81 900 COO has been filed in the recorders Office
at 81. Louis. -.rr~rr ra-r~- n-e "a
There is no PROBABILITY that the president will
sign the funding bill, which, therefore, fails to be-
George W. Childs. of the Phisdelphis Ledger.
heads lst Of subscriptions with $1,000 for the
sufferers by the flood IN Maryland.
The freedmen's bureau, except the educational
work and the payment of bountes, will be dis
continued in Maryland after August 10.
The New York Tribune's money article says the
passage of the funding bill had effect on bonds
and it will probably be q dead letter.
Rev. G. H. Albert, of the Episcopal church, was
thrown from his buggy and killed near jackson
port ARK, the other day.
The warp factory Of Thomas Lewis 4 Co., at
Cotton Hollow, near Naugatuck, Conn, burned
Friday week. Loss SIS 900; insurance sl2 OOO
The Louisville Courier says negro killed
Judge" Ivy near Charlottesville last Sunday,
for taking undue liberties with the dsrky's wife.
The fax mills owned by Good 4 Ham, at
Stree tsyille, Canada were burned on the 2Sth ut,
the operatives barely escaping with their lives.
Loss $40 600.
At a meeting of the merchants on Change, at
st. Louis, on the 10Th ult., resolution was
adopted that after the first of August thirty two
instead of thirty-fve pounds shall constitute
The case of N. F. Deering, surviving trustee.
against the heirs of the Commodore Preble estate,
wac decided in the Supreme Court of Maine on
the 9th ult In favor of the respondents releasing
from trust near one million dollars.
Mr. John Hall, of And0ver, Maine, was stung
by bee which cansed him such pain that 1t set
him into spssms. Ii had the same effect as the
bite Of q Tattlesnake. There is now some hope OF
An immense skating ring on Third avenue, New
York, TO occupy thirty full lots, has been CON-
menced, and will be completed on the 10Th
OF October. Ii will be used in summer for pic
MICS, concerts, etc., and is capable of seating
10000 people.
The great Fenian picnic at Buffalo on the 9th,
was sn entire success. Some 5000 soldiers aud
civil members with bands Of music and banners
marched in procession. Between 20 900 and Is 900
persons were on the grounds. Perfect order pre-
vailed
man named Cunningham having been muir
dered IN a house OF Ill repute in Orono, Maine,
the citizens gave five minutes warning TO the mis-
tress OF the house to leave, and burned the place
TO the ground. The murderer had escaped 70
Canada.
The names of the Cuban young ladies drowned
OF Carthage landing, Hudson river, recently, were
Josephine Rafael and Justins Rafael. The young
ladies were between twenty and twenty-five years
of age, and this is the fifth year they have sum.
mered at Carthage landing. They have mother
and father in Cnba-the former being an invalid.
As l.. H. Coe was passing the house OF John
Hoyt, near ElmwOod Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn,
be wss attacked by bolt and his son. COe being
armed with shot gan, fred upon young Holt,
killing lin, and then fired at the elder Hoyt,
wOundirg him severely. Coe went to the city.
gave himself up, and was bonded in the sum of
eO0 IL cd that the HOVfa had freuuRnflv
threatened to kill Coe.
lady from Atlanta Georgia, arrived at the
Falmouth Hotel in Portland, Maine, last week
from witt to the Kenebec. On arriving at the
hotel she discovered that she had been robbed Of
all her money. not having enough TO pay her car.
Tisge fare. Informing some gentlemen at the
hotel that her father was Mason, and proposing
TO leave her watch and chain for security for some
money, the brethren sent her away with pass
home and handsome purse in addition.
Entries to the annual horse fair which opened
at Buffalo Tuesday, closed late on Saturday
Seventy entries had been made for the different
uots. The following nine horses are entered for
the 600 race: Lady Hamilton, Col. Maynard
Myron Perry, Victor Hugo, Geo. Palmer, Fear
naught, MOllie, American Girl aud Johnny Brad
ley. For the double team race to come OF on
Friday, eighteen entries have been made. Be
sides animals which have arrived to participate in
r. ees there will be on exhibition many stables Of
blood stock.
At the Jewish convention of the B'nai BIRTH
| in New York, on Monday, the folio wing commit
| tees were elected: Executive committee-Presi
dent, Julius Brenos. of New York; yice-president
| E. 7. Jones, of Philadelphia, secretary, - Mel
| linger, of New York. Members-N. Bloom, Louis
| vile A. T. Wolf, San Francisco; N. Simppen
| Baltimore; II. Reichmann. Milwaukee. Commit
tee on appeals-Hon. T. A. Rosendale, Albany
Alexander Renstein, Philsdelphis; Joseph Abra
ham, Cincinnati; B. Rothschild. San Francisco
7. Woolf, Washington, D. c.; DR.. B. Felsenthal
| Chicago.
There are twenty-five supervisors and two hun
bred detectives to be appointed under the new TAI
| bill: and since it was signed by the president q
| large number OF applications have been filed a
the internal revenue Office for appointment 70 SAID
| positions, many applicants being collectors AM
| assessors seeking promotion. The detectives vii
| probably be chosen from among the most efticien
officers of the late corps of agents and inspectors
| Under the provisions of the new bill, about thre'
| hundred inspectors, two hundred special agent
| and ten revenue agents went out OF office.
dispatch from Tolano, illinois, says that Their
was a large and spirited meeting of the citizen
Of that town on the 9th ult. to take measures u
stop the Importation Of Texas cattle.'N From ter
to fifteen thousand Of that class of cattle have
been unloaded at TOlona, and the result is tina
| the Spanish fever has broken out within the las
ten days and which 10 sweeping of the cattle II
great numbers. The mich cows suffer most Sc
verely, every case of attack proving fatal. Fror
fifty TO one hundred have died since the diseas
fist appeared, and the disease is spreadi0
| rapidly. Reports come from other stations on tn
| Toledo and Wabash and Illinois Central railroad
of the same purpOTt. The meeting resolved to Sc
the State law against the importation of cattl
from diseased districts enforced against ever