The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-06
EDITORIAL rAKAsnAras. erc.

Hartford, Conn.,. has twenty-five churches.
The Natcbitoches Spectator has suspended.
Thanks TO Purser R. s. Strobel Of the steam
ship Cuba, for Havana dates to the u instant.
"Grant collars" have appeared in he fashiOna-
BILE world. 4
The king of Siam was Buddhist monk before
his accession. and knew many Languages.
country newspaper advertises I"wanted an
honest boy to make devil Of"
Gold closed at New York yesterday at 1861 to
1861.
The Mont Gents tunnel is to be 8sished blythe
commencement Of ISL. =
Lee county, Iowa, was named sfter General q.
Z. Lee.
Passenger boats have stopped ru 1ning on the
upper Mississippi.
new building for the Mercanuf Library, is
being put up in Cincinnati.
The critic Of the Buffalo Express. says that
season ticket is "that which psssetht how.~
A railroad from Davenport to St. Paul will pass
through sixty miles of coal fields.
Iowa State University has s3O0k0O cash and
10000 acres choice lands.
In Pekin there are seven bells, . sch weighing
10000 pounds.
A daughter of Donzetti, the CONF bser, keeps a
second rate coffee house in Novars. italy.
Legacies ruin many a one, but ;labits of i'm
providence ruin more.
President Timothy Dwight, of Yal.s, was the first
man in America to cultivate Strawberries.
The annual products of Massachusetts, are valued
at s14 100000.
The treasury receives 100000 vlSrth of worn
out money every week.
The Harrisburg papers are still gi,ImbliDg about
poultry thieves.
Navigation on Lake Winnebagos and the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers is closed. :
There is an old lady in ColumbuS Ohio eighty
years old, who is cutting her third st of teeth.
The late Earl Of Normanton, OF, England, left
personal property worth 49, ,0OO..
Chicsgo sneeringIy points at cincinnati and
says, f" Belle Boyd played there" /
Minnesota pays $40 apiece for w9f scalps, and
in the past year has expended $40 oJ in such pur-
chases.
John Stuart Mill thinks plscesfof instructive
recreation ought to be open to the public on Sun
days.
A fool of husband tried to kill hs wife in Bath,
steuben county, N, y, week ags, because she
was baptized against his will. -
The husband of an expelled NeVt York church
member has sued the church for 5000 damages
to her character.
During the month OF November! Wilmington,
N. c., consumed 800 beeves. 272 thogs and IS7
sheep.
1t is currently reported in YirginiA that General
Gusts Lee, son of the old general IL soon to lead
to the altar daughter of Gen. W. E Wickham.
Mr. Elisha Riggs, of washingtot city, has OBJ.
tsned a judgment of $4,000 agsiUst the city of
Dubuque. Iowa.
Marshall o. Roberts has $500 900 worth of pic
lures in his gallery, and Auguste Bel snont s5OOO
worth in his gallery.
One actress in Paris wears sS30OO worth of
diamonds. Another has just bought house worth
$500 900.
Many are enlisting in the army d India to es-
cape from the famine which is s5rely impend-
ing.
William E. Jillson, head Of the cstaloguing de-
psrtment of the Boston public library. died on |
the 10th ultmo.
popular lady vocalist In Toronto, C. W., was
brutally beaten by her husband few days since,
becaute she insisted upon singing at a concert
against his wishes.
Stree 1870 the European States have furnished
this country with upwards of 6,500OOO of their
citizens, who, with their descendants, now number
above 20, 100000.
The present rise in the Ohio rives has let out |
large run of coal boats. The number coming |
down is % towboats and 2s5 baraas, containing |
1884 900 bushels of coal. {
Gen. N. D. EvsDs, late Of the lat$ Confederate |
army, died very suddenly, on the 2al, at Midway, |
Bullock county, Ala, where he had been teach |
ing.
The American entomologst says there are |
probably ten tines as many speciet of insects in
the world as OF all other animals pll. together"
The horse railroad in Rio JanqirG was opened |
by the emperor and empress of BSadl in person,
and is great success.
The Prussian ministry have taken away the |
ranking privilege from the membersiof the Cham
ber, as the first step toward reireicl;ment.
The keeper Of the New York: CITY Hall gets
$500 per annum. The governor pf lhe State re-
ceives $4,000.
Salem, Oregon, paper denies the rumor that
the steamboat owners had empldyed a street |
sprinkler to lsy the dust in the BED of Willamet
river.
The amount Of fraud now being developed in
New York, in Erie, election, whisky, petroleum,
Wall street and other departments bf fraudulent
industry, is astounding the world.
New Hampshire widow, who wants to sell
her farm, refused to do so to a Democrat, because
she did not want any more Of that party in the
town.
Louisville. KY, has a matrimonial agency, by |
means of which those in the marrying line are |
brought together. mated and united.st so much |
match.
Miss Knowles, of Mt. Vernon, Indilna. a school. |
mistress, sged 26, has recovered S 900 damages |
of Mr.. s. s. Dryden, of Kokomo, q widower, for |
breach of promise.
At present the shortest time froh, Liverpool or
London TO China is 60 days. on ithe completion
of the Union Pacific railroad July next, the jour
ney can be made, via New York tnd San Fran
cisco, in S5 days.
We have received from the Leo.ard Scott pub
fishing Company, New York, Blsekwood's Maga-
zine for November. Contents 4 Doubles and
Quits, - " Lewes's History of Philosophy" "Ma-
dame Aurelis," Disestablisl n.ent. and Dean
Afford on the Church of the Futhre," f" The Span
ish Revolution, "Cornelius 0'9oSd," Old and
~. ,, q. r-t,a Tanning Elections =