The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-29
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A West Point graduate says six months in our
great military school is enough to dsbauch any
moral young man. He also tells how the
"plebes" are aoRged, put through all sorts Of
trials, such working for the older cadets sing
ing ribald songs and making bad speeches for
their amusement, in fact tagged most unmerci-
1be Boston Post of the 22d inst. says: "The
dry goods trade in this city is reported TO have
assumed an appearance Of activity among the
commission houses, and there have bean some
large sales of drills and heavy sheetings for ex-
port The jobbing trade is better, and prices are
frmer with an upward tendency"
There Is skating in Paris, and that city Is de-
lighted The Seine is frozen over, an event that
has not occurred for twenty years.
Huge icicles and mountains Of solid ice, ii is
stated, have formed at the foot Of Niagara Falls,
from the constant sccretions Of spray, forming q
beautiful sight.
An American missionary writing from Harpoot,
in Asia, says "Come with me on tour among
the villages, and see women everywhere doing
the drucgery, even to carrying upon their backs
huge baskets Of manure, to be mixed with straw.
made into cakes, and dried for fuel while their
husbands do the knitting" and you will see and
feel, as we do, the necessity OF using some means
for eievating woman to her true place, not as the
servant, but as the equal, the "heipmeet OF
man,
The returns Of the New York theaters and
other places OF public amusement show that
about three millions of dollars were paid by the
The Baltimore Sun says that four gentlemen Of
Philadelphia have, within the past eighteen
months, invested over $4,000 in the purchase
and Improvement Of land in Somerset county,
Maryland, near Westover station, on the Eastern
Shore Railroad, q continuation of and generally
called the Delaware Railroad and the Wilmington
(Del.) Commercial has been shown letter from
one OF the parties: He says that up to November
26th last, he had planted two hundred and fifty
apple, two hundred aud fifty pear and sixteen
thousand peach trees. He had also set out six.
teen thousand blackberry, two thousand raspberry
and twenty-seven thousand strawberry plants.
He purposed planting last fall two hundred plum
and one hundred ounce trees. neighbor OF his
put out last fall hfty-iv thousand peach trees,
and will go largely into the cultivation of small
fruits. At the next station below another gentle
man has planted twenty thousand peach trees, one
thousand pear trees and will also engage largely
In trucking.
1t Is terrible fact that there are one hundred
thousand drunken women in the United States.
The London Telegraph consoles itself with the
idea that Fenanism IS not American, for the
Americans are always loud, open and above
board in hostility Irish either, for the Irish
man proper, though naturally full OF wicked fun,
is not up TO the diabOlical gramarye of nitrogly
cerine, gunpowder fuses and so forth, while the
Irish in Canada and Australia have none Of that
fierce Fenianism. No; IL is a compound scoun-
drel," the cross between the warmly imDulsive
lrishman and the subtle.contriyiDg American WHO
does all the mischief
Several beer barrels lately burst in Cincinnati
and flooded q street with their contents. The
beer froze over, and all the little boys and girls Of
the DeighborhoOd used il for a skating park.
John Flagg, Of Royalston, VT, who died few
weeks since. confessed a short time before that
he murdered peddler, who strangely disappeared
some thirty years ago, and whose name is sup.
posed to have been Nathaniel Kies. Flagg said
he chased the peddler across the road in front of
his house, and striking him with shovel, killed
him for bis money, but did not get so much as he
expected. W.