The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-13
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The telegraph line 10 santa Fe, New Mexico.
was completed and opened for business on the
Sth inst.
The steamer OTegOnian, which sailed from San
Francisco July 8, carried S2l3OO0 in treasure for
New York.
The Democrats of the tenth Indiana congress.
sional district have nominated A. Ellison, of La.
grange, for Congress.
An extensive saw mill at Bonsecours. Canada.
owned by Mr.. Maynard. and valued at 500 600
| has been destroyed by fire.
Peter Phillips, tried for the murder of his wife
was convicted at Richmond, Va, of murder in the
first degree.
A Hundred thousand dollar Gre occurred at Or.
bana, H., on the 9Th. Nearly whole square
was consumed.
A TOpewslk in Trenton, n j., has inst turned
out the longest wire rope ever made in one piece
IL Is 500 feet in length its diameter is over q
inches, and its weight 20 tons.
Martha SandeTsOn, q servant girl. was deceived
on Sunday night into a building in Chicago when
after being drugged she was rayished by six or
seven men, and then was badly beaten and killed.
I portion OF the wooden mills of Boyd Haskell
& Co., at Decatur, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on
the Sth. Loss 100000; insurance for $4,000 in
home companies
The Denver board Of trade report for 1867 gross
sales of merchandise az s., SAG, 900. Value of lum-
Der sold, $3.50 600. Gold manufactured az Denver
$50 eco. Gold shipped by Wells, Fargo Co.,
$l560000. '--.~
The wheat harvest in Illinois is over. Tie crops
are the finest ever gathered. The same may be
said Of Kansas. There have been liberal rains
throughout Illinois during The lastfew days. CJrn
looks most promising.
Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad now run
to Wadsworth, one hundred and ninety miles east
Of Sacramento, and five hundred miles from Salt
Lake. The company have nine thousand men at
work, and intend to lay twenty miles of track
week from Big Bend eastward.
The entire block Of frame buildings on the west
side of Main street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, Kansas City, was destroyed by fire on the
Sth. The principal losers are Mc(iOwan & Co.,
Jas. A. Walber, Missler Bros, and c. Frank. The
loss is estimated at about 500 600; insurance
about $4,000.
sleeping car on the IntEfad gisTI aches, and the
road, near Cambridge, above Troy, were thrown
from the track early on Tuesday morning by the
displacement of a rail. Ten or twelve passengers
were injured, three of them, an old lady and two
men, probably fatally. The passenger coaches
were considerably broken and the baggage car
wholly demolished.
Honduras letters Of May state that the colony
Of GecTgians, who had co!onzed near the town OF
San Pedro, had mostly departed for the United
States again, their cotton crop being almost
entirely destroyed by the cotton worm, which
Pedro before. small colony from Louisiana
had taken possession with fair prospects.
The water has been pumped from the pond in
the cemetery at Kingston, Mass, and also from
another pond near the railroad, but no trace Of
the sharp instrument WhiChlt was thought Deacon
Andrews might have used in numbering Mr..
EOues, has been discovered. 1t IS not believed
that he used any implements but the stones to &C
complsh the deed of murder.
The New York Republican convention gave
Horace Greeley 95 votes for governor against q
for John "A. GTiswOld. Marshall D. Roberts AMI
Henry r. Selden were nominated for elecsors at
large; &. i. Cornell was nominated for Lieutenant
governor; Alexander Barclay for canal commits
silner: Henry A. Barnum for State prison in5pec-
ter and Campbell II. Young for clerk Of the
Court of Appeals.
Ground was broken on the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad, at Springfield, Mo-, Saturday, the ith,
with imposing ceremonies. large number Of
people were present, many coming from Kansas
and Arkansas. Miss Mary G. Fisk, daughter Of
the president, removed the first shoVelful Of
earth, after which speeches appropriate to the oc-
casion were made.
The race at Dexter Park, Chicago, on the sth,
was a handicap hurdle race. two miles, eight
hurdles. It was won by g Lobelia," entered by
Mr.. H. Engers, of Salem, Ohio. lime 4:053.
There were four contestants, Pantagenet,"
" Aderban" "iMary Winn,n and :" Ruth" for
Dexter Park Jockey Club prize of $1,000, four
mIle heats, for all ages. 1t was won by 90 Plan
tageneti entered by J. II. Davis, of St. Louis, in
two straight heats. Time, as I:.j7f, A dash of
q mile and a quarter, for q consolation purse
OF $50 for the beaten horse, was won by j.
Coulisk's MACK" Time, 2:ljl.
Ger. Howard with the approval of the secre
tary of war, has initiated measures for the early
withdrawal Of the freedmen's bureau from South
Carolina. Gen. Scott, commissioner of that state,
having been elected governor, it will be necessary
10 put new man in his place but he will remain
connected with the bureau until a proper officer
has been selected. Gen. Howard directed him to
recommend a suitable person for commissioner,
and TO reduce the number of agents Of the bureau
as soon as possible.