The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-06

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Knoxville, Tenn, n to have city directory.
| There was hard freeze ct Chicago on the Id.
Cold closed W New York yesterday ct 1924.
Thanks to the officers Of steamship Josephine
for late Texas papers.
We are indebted to the Southern Express Com
pany for late papers.
Hunters are bringing to market large numbers
OF wild ducks. snipe. squirrels, 'possums, etc.
Five desperadoes we're hung near Gilmer. Idaho
territory. on the 30th, by vigilance committee.
New York jeweler has made gold chain
worth one thousand dollars for the president.
The freedmen's bureau in North Carolina.
issued los. 1873 rations last year.
The hnes collected in the Cincinnati police court
during October amounted to $l644.
There is rise in the Monongahela which
promises to float down coal.
Phladelphis paper announces the death of
Mrs. Linen Sheets, widow.
Charles r. Cornwell has been appointed marshal
OF New Jersey BY the president.
directors train made seventy -four miles on
the New York and New Haven Railroad the other
day in one hour and forty minutes.
An attempt to reduce their wages fifteen per
cent has caused strike by the workmen in q
large cabinet factory in New York.
Almost the first money which Verdi raised was
invested in the purchase of the house which had
belonged to his parents.
The first Presbyterian church 10 PHILADELPHIA.
has chosen and set apart five ladies to be deacon.
esses in the church. Q es -. ~ .
Prof. Swallow, formerly State geologist of
Missouri, is experimenting the quartz mills Of the
Hiehlsnd Gold Mining Company. in Montana.
kellogg. who painted the lifesized portrait of
Chief Justice fancy, has been commissioned to
perform similar service. for Chief Justice Chase
We are indebted to the courteous Mr.. Charles
Bruf for file of San Francisco papers, for which
he has our thanks. -h-a
new line Of railway, to form link between
Europe and Asia, has been recently organized
under grant from the sultan of Turkey. q
Peat is used in Fond du Lac, Wis, as common
fuel in stoves provided with CRATES, and is giving
satisfaction 80 far as heard from.
Switzerland is afflicted with horrible epidemic
disease, cretinism, which lie a state of idiocy, &C.
companed with an enormous goiter.
Two hundred cases Of struggled gin, brandy and
wine were seized by the custom.house AUTHORITIES
at Boston on the 3lst ult.
The MormoDs, it is stated, have Issued a large
amount Of paper currency, which circulates very
freely throughout Utah territory.
fine sulphur spring has been discovered in
Lyndon, w., which Is expected to make second
Saratoga of the village.
The Young Mems Christian Association, of New
York. laid the cornerstone of their new building
on the 3lst ult.
Advices from Frankfort state that the duke o,
Nassau has recently purchased s2,OOO,O 900 of
United States loans.
Among the architects who have sent In plans
and proposals for the erection of the Berlin
Dom" are two Americans.
Count Adelsvared, one of the wealthisst noble.
men of Sweden, is ssid to have refused seventy
million dollars, made to him by an English com.
paDy, for his copper mine of Atrudaburg.
The Duke d'Aumale, son Of King Louis Phil. |
ipe, is said to have sent very pressing invitation
% M. Henri Rochefort to come and live with him |
i his villa at Twickenham, England.
Chicago regards herself as the commercial
enter Of about 100000 square miles of very
me territory-rich in agricultural, mineral, pas
oral and other resources. ssr--
One hundred men and seventy five women were
ismissed from the treasury department on the
lat, though they will draw pay till the end of No
ember.
steamboat twenty-five feet in length, and
srryiDg eighteen persons, has been built on
0ashna Lake. Nevada 1t has a brass encine
eighing seventy-fve pounds
The Society Of Mines of Kausthal Hanover. has
'roidden the employment of children under six
Zen years OF age during the night in any mining
ork. and during the day they are not to be put
} any injurious lsbors.
Advices from Italy bordering on the southern
ope Of the Alps, report that serious floods and
undations have taken place in that region. in
onsequence of the heavy rains that had fallen
lring the month of September.
According TO official returns, the total area of
e British empire is seven millions of square
lies, which contain 200 900 900 inhabitants. To
ese East India contributes the largest shsre-no
IS than Sss,9Ol square miles, with l5O, 600. 600
,pulation. -.-......-...... Zoe. ~ fl-llrtf
Geo. Ellis, from his literary depot, No. 7 Old
wee, has favored us with the Southern Farmer.
ited by DR.. NJ. W. Phillips Every farmer and
rdener should have copy. Ellis takes pleasure
supplying his friends with the latest issues on :
riculture, horticulture. srborculture, floricul.
re, and all other useful aud ornamental cultures
good example for American courts and iuries q
just been given in the Papal States, where a "
ntence OF five years at the galleys has been
ssed on the station master at the Roman Rail. ,
y terminus, in consequence Of two trains start a
BY his orders having come into collision. and 40 y
using the death Of five persons. The ststion. =