The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-31
IrEMs BIZ LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

The receipts at the st. Louis custom house for
the fiscal year ending June go were 81 1872 33l.
The receipts Of internal revenue, from the LIST to
the 25th of July; we're $2l 500 900.
The shipments Of specie for Europe footed up
to little over a million last week, making total
of 6fty-nine millions since the lst Of January.
Over six hundred thousand acres Of land along
the Hannibal and st. Joseph railroad have bean
sold TO immigrants during the past six months
John Thompson, revolutionary soldier, died
at smithtown, Long Island, on Thursday week,
aged l04 years.
Saratoga county, New York, has a wild man
that wears nothing but q long striped shirt, and
lives, squirrel like, in the trees.
Rev James Rodgers, ID. D., one OF the Oldest
clergymen in that vicinity, died at bis residence,
in Allegheny City, on Thursday, in the sixty.
eighth year OF his age.
Rev. w. A. Wilder and wife, and two children,
have just arrived in New York from Natal,
Africa. He is missionary OF the American
Board, and went out in lS49 TO the Zulu mission.
A grand pigeon shooting Is to come of at De-
troit on the 5th OF August. About 1900 birds have
been secured, and some Of the crack shots OF the
country will be present.
three per cent certificates, to be used in redeem
ing compound interest notes, has been signed BY
the president.
from the quartermssler generals Office, fof lack
of appropriations to pay them. They were nearly
Cheyenne dispatch says several thousand
longing to the Union Pacific Railroad we're burned
on Saturday night.
John M. Wackerman, an old citizen Of Buffalo,
cut his throat ct the Clifton House, Niagara Falls
recently. Domestic and business troubles pro-
Yoked the suicide.
In Montreal, last week, two hundred and nine
persons died mainly Of sun-stroke and apoplexy.
Prayers were offered for rain, on Sunday, in sew
eral Of the churches.
Gen. r. D. ID. Mussey has applied. In the WASH
ington courts, for an injunction to restrain st:
Marie from receiving ten thousand dollars reward
for the information which led to Surraits arrest.
Museey claims fees for lobbying the resolution
through Congress.
The Merchsnts' National Bank, of Memphis,
which was closed about q month since for an al
legged violation Of the national banking act, AFTER
an examination by a special agent Of the treasury
department, has been turned over to Its ohcers
and reopened.
dead in WaverIy, Missouri, last Friday, by q
party Of armed men, and his body hung upon q
tree in the woods by the perpetrators. His mouth
was stuffed full of tow, and the rope by which ne
was suspended was passed through his mouth and
then around his neck.
A correspondent of the Scientific American
commends onions as SPECIFIC against epldem mics
not as esculent, but sliced and kept IN q SIGH
ROOM where they will absorb any atmospheric
poison. They should be replaced by fresh oneI
every hour. 1t ia noticed that in the room of
small pox patient they blister and decompose witt
great rapidty, but will prevent the spread OF til
Can't Sylvester Wright, of Northampton, Mass.
a lumber dealer, has failed for s45 600; and for
peries amounting to $28 coo have been traced q
him, he owned steam saw mills az Northampton
at Holyoke, and at South Vernon, Vt; was stlr
ring business man, and q member OF the Board
Selectmen aud OF the First Orthodoxy Church o
Northampton. The forgeries extend oVera perlo'
of three or four years. =
The footings Of the Congressional appropriation
hills passed are as follows: Military academy
s276,G OO diplomatic service, 81, HO, 600; post
office 800 279, O0O ocean service, $500 900; army
s33 Os2 OOh navy SIT $40 900 legislative, execu
tive and judicial, SIT $50 800; civil service, ~
$50 900; pensions, $50, $50, 600; Indian service
"a leo 700; Alaska, Tin coin) 81 200 900; dehclen
cies, SIT ACC, $50; charities, District OF Colum
bis) s2l6 900; charities, (privste) $4,000; ms
celiAneous, $3.50, 900, making total OF aDou
3l6I, 400, 900. There's economy for you.
The Minnesota Wnnebagoes, who were remove
to the Upper Missouri five years ago and place
on q sandy, barren reservation, destitute OF wool
water and game, are returning to the vicinity Q
La Crosse. They number only about 800, and ar
led by "Short Wirg," an old warrior, VINO was
sort of commissioner to Washington In 1916, vine
the treaty was made with bis tribe. In appear
apce he very strongly resembles Andrew Jscl
son. and is q man of strong mental power.
saws that more than 500 Of his people died
starvation on the Upper Missouri
The Terre Hauts (Indians) Express describe
two persons, a male and female found in Greer
county in that State, by Snowman who was
search of curosties. They are respectiVel
twenty one and twenty-five y Of age, and OIL
twenty nine inches in hight. One OF them=h
male-s said to have no spinal vertebr@. Inc
have been reared in wild state-the parents ma
ing sixteen other children, let this singular pa
take care of themselves. They are possessed
little intellect, and yet seem 20 understand mo
that is said to them. They eat but once q "a
never before any person, and only tne simple
food.