The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-29
EDITORIAL PARAGRArns. EFT,

Portland. Oregon, has Chinese idol temple.
dexter " does his mile in Eli for exercise.
Miller feeds $50 men daily.
Gold exported from New York last weeb
$642 900.
Gold closed yesterday in New York at 1854 t
1853.
An ant-tebacco club, numbering 80 members
has been formed In New York.
Revenue officers seized 233 barrels whisky q
st. Louis on tn 18th.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Matsgord
for late Galveston papers.
The receipts OF cotton at this port since lst Sep
TENDER are 27s, sl4 bales. rr....s...
Thanks to Mr.. Sampson, purser of the steamship
Crescent City, for late New York papers.
Mrs. Grant will not receive presents of jewery
and silk dresses from members of Congress.
The duties collected from imports from the lGtt
to the 2lst inclusive amounted to 81, csc, 900.
Rev. j. c. Fletcher, the author of Brazil and
the Brazilians, has arrived at New York from Rio
There are sixty Masonic lodges Of instruction 10
London.
There are said to be 900 Baptists in the
United States.
Chicago's Inhabitants are worth, on an average
5000 piece.
Boston claims to have woven the first flannel in
America ninety years ago.
An aged citizen of Troy, N. Y, died there last
week whilst reading the Bible in family worship.
Preparations for the great Baltimore SaeDger-
fest in July next are already being made.
A "quack doctor 4" drives through Broadway
to his office in a superb coach aud four
Boston has had velocipede race on the Com.
| mon.
Manchester's new Town Hall will contain up
| wards af $50 rooms, and will cost $780, 0O0.
The minute hand of the British Parliament clock
moves seven inches every half minute.
Seven hundred and five million letters annually
pass through the British mails.
The average earnings of working men, during
| their life time, is SIS, 600.
Thanks to the purser of steamship Florida for
late Florida papers.
We are indebted ito our friend Charles Bruff,
ESQ.,, for late San Francisco papers.
Lieut.. R. H. Toule, United States revenue cutter
Morris, died at Key West, on the l3.h inst.
All northern radicaldom appears to be rejoiced
at the suspension of the Charleston Mercury.
In the Buffalo postoffice over $3.50 900 have
been recovered from the thieves.
Navigation on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is
to be closed December 10th.
Baltimore does an immense trade with Bra
zil and the West Indies, particularly the former
The New York Freeman's Journal comes out in
favor of giving women the right to vote.
-Four ladies had their pockets picked at a fire.
mans funeral in Brooklyn. New York, Sunday.
Mrs Secretary McCulloch has written a yery
nice puff of sewing machine.
Sir Percy Shelley, son of the poet, is one of the
best yachtsmen in England.
King George of Greece has reformed since he
became father.
genius in New Haven now takes photographs,
leaving out wrinkles and other bemishes.
Qnite lively business is done in New York. in
cat skins. which sell at ten to fifty cents each.
Lavender satin, at fourteen dollars per yard, ia
to be worn by Boston widow when she takes a
new name, which is TO be within few days.
Society is now discussing how long a widow
must abstain from parties after the death of her
husband.
Boston claims to have the Oldest minister in the
United States in the person of Father Cleveland.
who is 81 years OF age.
man in Guilford, N. c., has so many children
that when the school committee called on him for
their names he had to consult the family record.
Two thousand letters containing notices to cred.
Jackson, Miss, last week.
Benjamin Moore Dove, captain on the retired
list Of the United States navy, died at Key West
on the 10th.
baby in Massachusetts, is blessed with seven |
living great-great-great sunts, who take turns at
nursing it.
The Manchester, N. a., Mirror thinks it ere. |
msrkable fact" that citizen of that place |
should have lived In the same house eighty years.
A Boston paper says Of Mrs. Scott Siddons. |
that "as far as personal pulchritude is concerned,
the lady is an indubitable success"
One-6fth Of the West Point graduates in the |
late war were killed in battle and one in three |
were wounded.
The chaplain of the Boston jail has yery an. |
married the matron of the Reform |
School.
Out Of fifteen passengers per British schooner
Sonesuch from Nassau. at this port, on 18th inst,
live were He.Careys.-IKey West Dispatch.
The Five Points Mission in New York fed 2Oo0 |
people, and the ST. Barnabas House fed 5000 on |
Thanksgiving Day.
OF 100000 children in Missouri only 200 900
attend secular schools, and 10000 attend Sunday
schools.
The prospect Of trade with Asia over the Union
Pacific Railroad was discussed at q meeting OF
merchants in Chicago on the 25th.
We are in receipt of "Our Schooldsy Visitor ~
for December, published by Daughsdy & Becker
Philadelphia.
The citizens of Ca-.~-- A1a--., ere devisng
- ~ encourage immigration TO that section of
he State.
Col. Samuel n. Letcher. editor OF the Lsxipy.
ION (Va.) Gazette and Banner died few days
Igo.
The completion Of the Sc Ina. Rome and Dial.
on Railroad to Rome. Ca, will be celebrated at
selma, Ala, on the 10th of December.
The amount of money taken in Paris this
rear for crowns Of immortelles alone was over
4O, 900.
The Cour ier-Journsl proposes to fight the bat.
les OF Louisville against her rivals before the men,
lie of the South and Southwest.
FOur.ffths of the present rulers in Tennessee
re either broken-down rebels. or cast of rebels.
r spostate rebels. The remaining fifth i. com.