The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-19
FRESH J0TTINGs.
Cincinnati had fifty I'd dollars hre on

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the 10th. o-
The Tyler (Texas) Reporter regrets to learn
that about forty of the best families ia Anderson
county are preparing to move to Brazil.
General sherman's residence, in ST. Louis, was
robbed Of quantity OF silver ware on Tuesday
night by burglars.
Little Rock special says the legislature has
unanimously adopted the fourteenth amendment
TO the Constitution OF the United States.
On the 10Th the Arkansas legislature elected B.
F. Rice and B. Mcdonald United States senators
| for the Arkansas congressional delegation. They
will leave at once for Washington.
The Massachusetts, Homeopathic Society, by a
vote of thirty.three against thirty-one, has re-
fused to admit a lady practitioner to its member
ship.
Hon. R. B. Hale died. at Plymouth, Mass, on
| the 10Th. His funeral Saturday, was TO be at
tended by various Masonic bodies with which he
was connected, he having attained the thirty
degree.
The Chicago Journals Washington special says:
"From the course recently pursued by Senator
Sumner many of the presidents friends already
claiming him as among those who will certainly
vote in favor OF scquttal."
| A large Fenian meeting was held at indianapolis
on the 18th. Gen. O'Neil addressed the meeting.
| The enthusiasm was unbounded Nearly two
hundred members. enrolled in the military organi
"a ion. A heavy rain prevailed. Many attending.
Pears are said to be successfully shipped from
California TO New York by way of the lsthmus Of
Panama. Grapes are also shipped in this way,
and the California fruit growers are rejoicing az
| the high prices realized on their ventures.
A correspondent Of the Brandon Republican is
advocating the building of a railroad-distance of
| one miIe-from the court house square to the
| Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad depot. He esti-
mates the cost of the road and necessary rolling
stock at $4,000.
Mrs. Harry Thomas, lady Of st. Louis, walked
ninetytwo miles in twenty. three hours and half,
ending at half-past IL on Tuesday. She started
to walk one hundred miles in twenty four hours,
but failed, as above. She will make another
trial.
Mr.. VIM. Wheatley, the actor and theatrical
manager has sold out his interest in Niblos Thea
ter to Jarrett & Palmer, his partners, for $780,
coo. He intends to retire from business altogether.
The arrangement to date from September next.
The residence of Judge J. c. Graves, near Yer
sailes, WOodford county, KY, was burned on
Sunday night A large amount Of personal prop
erty was consumed with the building, and the
total loss is estimated at sl0 600, which there
is no insurance.
At Dublin, on the 10th, the Prince of Wales, &C.
companied by a brilliant party, consisting, of
gentlemen of his suite and many principal officers
of the vice regent government, took a
special train for the KildareS Jockey Club.
He visited the Curragh races, now in progress at
Punchestown race course.
rr,fpc Of 4Ou oto hov haa la.
covered in Utah. few miles above the mouth OF
Salt River. The canals are from thirty-fve to
fifty feet in width, and the walls, which are from
five to eight feet high, have been traced ten OF
fifteen miles from the river. The ruins are at in.
tervals the length Of the valley. Cotton, tobacco
and castor beans are still found growing luxurant
ly upon the old farms around.
The Kirkwood Hotel lottery took place in ST.
Louis on Monday night The mayor of the city
allowed himself to preside over the affair, and one
hundred and thirty tickets were drawn from the
wheel by blindfolded boy. Four of the tickets
called for prizes of real estate, six of them gold
watches, twenty of them 500 in money each, and
sixty-eight of the lucky ticket-holders obtained
each balf-dozen of shirts.
The storehouse of the state constabuIary OF
Springfield, Mass, containing several thous And
gallons of confscated liquors, was broken open
on the night of the l4th, and large portion of the
contents removed. The liquor has been accumu.
atipg for a couple of years, and was under charge
of the deputy constable, Samuel Chaplin, who shot
Brooks in the Westfeld riot last fall. valuable
horse Of Constable Billings was poisoned, al
Westfeld, the same night.
company is organizing in San Francisco 10
build suspension bridge across the entrance tC
the harbor, from Lime point to near Fort Point
The object is to enable the projected coast an(
valley railroads TO reach the peninsula on which
the city is situated. An immense oval cut-watel
pier In the center of the channel, 200 by 100 feet
with light house, forms feature Of the plan
On either side of this reaching to the shore sbut
ments, the spans will be 1000 feet long, and II
feet above the high water line The bridge is tt
be built on the suspension principle.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says: 1.-THE way senators vote puz
zles everybody except themselves, perhaps
1t is impossible to anayze them. On
cay Sumner votes black and the next day white
One day sprague votes with the chief justice an
the next against. One hour Morgan favors, b.
his vote, allowing the utmost latitude in estah
lishment of the presidents intentions, and tn
. next hour be seems to have forgotten this littl
fact, and votes to confne the defense within tn
very narrowest limits. So it is day after day
but in all this strange confusion of voting, on
! feature stands out very prominent, and that
that the chief justice in his decisions always car
Ties a respectable number of Republican senator
with him."
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