The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-18
NUMBER 263.
ITEMS Br LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

Two companies Of Fenians were mustered into
service at Nashville on the 18th.
A federal soldier was poisoned, Friday night, in
bagBio in Nashville, and has since died
William B. Clafin OF Massachusetts, was srobbed
at a "panel house" in New York, a few nights
since, of 5000.
A new railroad, to run between Detroit and
Mackinaw, Mich, has been commenced. Capital
50 900 900.
Timothy Heenan, who was shot few DAYS ago,
died at Philadelphia, on the 14th. He was a
brother of John G. Heenan.
Brigham Young has the contract to grade the
Union Pacific railroad from the head of Echo
Cannon TO Salt Lake, and has begun the work.
The Western Union Telegraph Company laid
cable across the Missouri, al ST. Joseph, Missouri,
The national musical convention, representing
all the German societies in the United States with
attending delegates from foreign societies, we're
to meet in Chicago on the 18th inst.
Jennie Burokhart died ia Chicago on Wednes-
day, from swallowing the point of a needle.
which broke off while she was picking her teeth
with it,
On the llth the steamer Daniel Drew ran from
Yonkers to New York, distance fourteen and a
half miles, in thirtyfour minutes and fortyve se-
conds. Fastest time on record.
The extensive pail factories Of Henry Wood.
house, Sons Co., in Wellesley, Massachusetts,,
we're burned on the l4th, causing a heavy loss.
Insurance, S76, 900.
1t is said that Mr.. J. c. Derby, the well.known
New York publisher, who purchased an Aiken
fair prospect OF paying for it with the peach crop
of this year alone.
The strangest elopement yet is the town talk of
Lowell. sappy youth of fifteen has run away
with stout Irish woman Of fifty years who has
the slight incumbrance of five children. The
woman was employed by the boys parents.
On the sth instant two ladies of Gratiot, La
fay ette county. Wis, Mrs. G. d. Tuttle aud Miss
Doyle, were drowned in the Recatoniea river.
They were driving in buggy, aud, when trying
to cross the river, the current swept the buggy
down stream, and both we're drowned.
The Orphan Girls Home, at Newton Center.
Massachusetts,, was destroyed by fire. on the I4th,
while the inmates were at church. barn. be-
longing to the establishment, was also destroyed.
The fire is supposed to have been the work OF an
incendisry.
New York dispatch of the 18th says: The
bark Orleans, from New Orleans, bound for
HavTe, was wrecked off Hateras on the night of
the llth, and the captain and fifteen Of the crew
drowned. -Four were saved by elinging to por.
tions of the wreck.
The loss by fire in Louisville on the l2th will
amC unt TO $1,000 Mr.. Card estimated bis loss
at S25 900. Mr.. Van Seggern, whose loss was
wholly in lumber, has not yet made an estimate,
fine gray horse and two mules belonging to Mr..
Gard were consumed in the condagration; also,
several wagons.
Che National typographical Union reports give
the following statistics for the past year: 1l7S
members Initiated 220l admitted by cards, IS re-
jected 1895 Withdrawn by card, Ill suspended,
232 expelled. 2l7 reinstated, SO died. 1894 in good
standing, 69O9 members, s2l 500 95 received,
81 6l7 so per capita tax.
Louisville has about twenty-five tobacco fActo-
ries large and small, also five or six stemmeries,
and ninety-fve cigar makers. Several of the man-
uiactories of chewing tobacco are very extensive,
with capacity TO make 700 boxes OF choice manu-
factured tobacco per month, one concern recently
filing an order for 1000 boxes of navy pounds,
each box to weigh 100.
The commissioners Of emigration report that
rs COZ emigrants arrived at New York up to June
3, and during the week ending June 10 the arrivals
numbered 6l74, making total Of 81 ,7Sl, which
shows a decrease compared with the arrivals
up to the same date last year of 1876. The dis
buTsements up to June amounted $242 ,2l2 %,
leaving an amount on hand of s4l els 7S.
At Naperviie, Illinois, on Sunday. a whole
congregation was poisoned by participation in q
love feast, the bread OF which had been prepared
in a copper Kettle, and allowed to remain until
oxydzed. About one hundred and thirty persons
partuok Of The poison. Antidotes were aiminis-
tered, and the majority were likely to recover,
but several we're In very dangerous condition.
At the Chantilly races. near Paris, on the 2lth
ult., an American named Urban, aged thirty two,
ran across the track just as the horses started.
and was knocked down by one of ther1, receiv-
ing injuries from which he died i'm few hours.
The papers say that two hundred thousand francs
were found in his pocket.
An American adyen uress has been arrested in
Lyons for stealing goods in dry goods store.
Upon being searched at the headquarters of the
police. two large bags were foun1 tied around
ber body, both Of them well filed with stolen arti-
ces end in her trunks at the hotel were also found
a great many goods which she had stolen in Paris.
She will be sent for eight ten years to the des.
olate shores of New Caledonia.
A Mr.. Kerr, of Edinburgh, has invented a re-
fector for locomotive' by the means Of which
the engineer is able TO see the rear of his train
the conductor and all who either getting on or
of, without moving from his seat 1t can be ar
ranged for any length Of train by sinpiy chang
ing the angle of reflection. 1t has been tried on
the Jefersonville. Ind, road, and pronounced a
TpgnACf.
The Mississippi liver is depositing ssnd-bar ia
front of the northern part OF st. Louis which
threatens 10 make that city inaccessib for oon-
siderable vessels, the channel tending more and
more toward ;he Illinois side of the river. Tho
measures hitherto adopted to arrest the mischief
have made it worse, and the water commission
ers with the approval of the mayor, recommend
that a competent engineer be employed to devise
remedy.
After The bombardment OF Huamita, the allies
made a combined attack on the of that post
ton gain possession Of the forest of Gran Chasco
and thereby cut oil the communications Of the
Paragraphs. The assault was repulsed after a
desperate engagement, and the allies compelled
to relinqush the attempt. The siege of Huamta
still continues, and the fortress is closely invested
by land and water.
The annual Harvard regatta for six .oared boats
took place on the 18th. Five thousand spectators
were present. The first race, for the beacon cup,
aud six silver gobIets to the second boat, distance
three miles, was won by the Freshmen crew. in
20:5S3. The Scientifcs were second, in 2l:29.
The second race, between the Junior second and
third crews and the Sophomore second crew, dis
tance two miles, was won by the Junior third
crew, l5:0S.
Az old man named Ward was killed in Te-
cumseh, Michigan. few days ago. He had lived
in that place. entirely alone, for thirty years;
one knew whence he came, and about the only
fact he communicated 10 his neighbOrs, was that
he was in constant dread of the Masons. Some
Ingenious theorst has started the story that Ward
was the original and veTitsble Morgan, whose
mysterious disappearance some forty years ago
supplied the materialfoT some Of the bitterest
political campaigns in our history.
Mrs Rhods Berg, a widow sevsnty.six years Of
age, died in Chelsea, Massachusetts,, a few days
since, from the effects Of slight scratch made
upon her hand by tame rabbit. At first nothing
was thought Of the matter, as the skin was
scarcely broken and no blood was drawn. A
short time afteTward the arm began 20 swell,
with excruciatng pain, and continued to do
until the skin burst and death ensued, ten days