The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-21
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SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH u, lsss.
General Items.

Advices from ST. Thomas show that the yellow
fever hiss again broken ont on board the United
States squadron. Ensign Ford died January "a.
After the adjournment of the Republican rat6
cation meeting in Memphis on the 10th, while the
storm was raging, some four hundred negroes
marched through Second street, discharging fire.
arms, and yelling Ike demons, causing great con-
sternadon., About twice the number marched ont
Union street, proceeding in the same manner. No
attempt was made TO arrest them. Many feared
another raid had broken out.
The Cleveland papers mention an alarming pre-
valence Of insanity there. The number OF mani
acs belonging 10 Cleveland and Cuyahoga county.
10 the asy ium at Newburgh, the county jail, and
known 10 be at bsme in the care Of their friends
is reported At one hundred and eighty.
-Four or five wolves have been preying upon
the sheep IN the neghborhood Of Waukeegan,
Illinois, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, for several
years; and lately 1t was determined 10 get up
grand hunt. and exterminate the marauders. Ac-
cOrdiDgy, ON Saturday last, five hundred men
assembled, and forming in line, swept across
the country. The wolves were found but thew
charged squarely through the hunters' line, aud
escaped unframed. The net result Of the DAYS
hunt were skunk, three rabbits and prairie
In Buffalo, the other day, John Riefert. his
wife and three children were taken in charge by
the police. The parents were in the habit OF
spending all they could earn or beg for liquor,
and the be brute was accustomed to catch and
roast rats for the Eustenance Of the family. The
children were sent TO the poor house, and their
father and mother obtained quarters 10 the work
house.
The colored person has mixed himself up 10 the
school question at Hartford, Connecticut. A
separate school has been established for negroes,
but they very generally refuse to send their
children there, and for some time past have been
in the habit Of sending them to the white schools
This has been objected to by the school commit
tee Of one district. and the teachers we're in
structed to advise the youthful woody to 20
-bome and, il they refused to do that to let them
cit in the room without instruction. This has
aroused the sleeping lion in the breast Of Raw. NJ.
i. Scudder, who is school visitor. He has re-
solved to maintain the inalienable right of cuhse
and his picannnies to mix with the white folks at
all hazards; and so there is lively prospect Of a
law suit
Colonel L. B. Greggsby, of Kentucky, has been
appointed Inspector Of customs for the United
States at Panama.
The Ohio legislature has passed the bill to sup
press prize-6gbting. Under its provisions the
principal performers in prize fight are punisha-
bic by imprisonment in the penitentiary, aud
spectators and reporters are liable to fine aud i'm
prisoument in jail.
On Saturday shortly after a Grand Trunk train
left Prescott, drover named Sykes, from Can
ton, New York was attacked ON the platform OF
Car by three men, and robbed of his money aud
tickets and was thrown from the train. Sykes
laid where he fell until found next morning by
the trackmen. His Injuries are very serious.