The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-03
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TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 8. 1855.


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Deaths In the city last week ll9. a.
Bogus Democratic tickets look out for them.
The st. J mes Hotel was recpened on the LIST.
The St. Charles Hotel reopens tomorrow.
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1881.
Durant, Wisconsin, is called the City Of Onions.
Ounces are 81 peck in Boston.
Charleston is prosperous, having three times as
much trade this year as last.
The Herald of Portland. Oregon, thinks that
State better for silk culture than California.
Judy thinks that ''elder wine" may more ap-
propriately be called Father Claret."
writer in Putnams Magazine says he believes
insanity is pretty general maady.
An industrious negro, near Milledgeviile, Ga,
has made 1920 profit on his crop this season.
Gen. Lee has Bible class Of one hundred and
five members in his college in Virginia.
at Canton, China, the Catholics are building
cathedral which will cost So 100000.
Brown bread and baked beans are among the |
acknowledged institutions Of New England.
The Sandwich Islands expect to raise q, 100000
pounds of sugar next year.
The publication of q new map OF France has
been ordered by the government.
Mines of mica have been discovered in North
Caroiina, and aie attracting attention.
The pecan crop of Texas viii be unusually large
| this year.
There are over 60 nnn rrnfassinnal haesars in
| London. f-t f
| Truth cannot always be written in rose-water.
| Black ink is sometimes necessary.-lA. X. Hope.
Napoleon created princes, 50 dukes, tsSs
| counts, $50 barons.
The average price for wool in Vermont at
present is forty cents pei pound.
. -. a. tba of;cors M ste amahipa Agnes and
Clinton for late Indianola papers. o
Cleveland, Ohio. proposes hospital for " wo-
men who are disguised with their husbands"
Revenue officers seized $50 barrels Of Chicago
whisky at St. Louis, on the 2sth ult.
New York consumes daily 60, .0Co gallons OF
water, besides lager aud whisky.
Lancaster, Pa, has purchased twenty-one acres
of land for fair ground.
The London Times is printed on paper made
from Esparto grass.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamship Jo-
sephipe for late Galveston papers.
The officers of the steamer Louise have favored
us with late Mobile papers. - q $3.50
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Mari
posa for files of New York papers.
fire in New York on the 29th ultimo cost
$3.50 coo. -t 800 o., Is go
Grain valued at 100000 was burned at Bing.
hampton, New York, on the 10Th ult.
Touring mill at Waterford, New York, was
| burned Cd the 18th ult. Loss ST., 900. ..f.
Over 10 eco patents have been granted during
1865.
. Fanny Fern is expected to take the presidency
\ | of the New York Sorosis.
Bucyrus, Ohio, ships nearly 1000 bushels OF
apples day.
Never before has Europe contained so many
: discarded or disinherited sovereigns.
The twenty.fifth volume of the Correspondence
of Napoleon l. has just been published in Paris.
Brigham Young wishes to dispose of thirty-fve
manageable daughters.
Chicago has paid for amusements during the
last nine months the sum of 1926 1853 IS.
Skates have made their appearance in the New
York hardware stores.
President Buchanan's farm at Lancaster SOLD
lately at sl33 per acre.
The first printing done by steam was the issu
of ,he London Times for November 2s 1914.
The French fishery of Newfoundland has bee
=. bad failure this year.
flock of ants, ten miles in width, recent
: swept across Shasta Valley Siskyou county
Cal. i
William Bishop, of New Haven, Conn.,, is sal
TO have contributed $4,000 in aid Of the Demo
cratic national ticket.
During the (so-caled) riots last week 10 th
city, sixteen persons were killed, six whites an
ten blacks.
sh Brownlow thinks the members OF the comme
M cial convention at Norfolk exhibited quite n
n bellious spirit.
N. Thirty good citizens left Greensboro, Il. c
Al last week for Missouri, to get out Of Holden
negro government.
In New York city, 500 is sometimes paid
Journalists for writing newspaper adverts
ment. .f. .u al..
.a II is reported that in the South the schools ar
colleges for both sexes are at present more hume
ously attended than in any previous year.
= The pork crop of the approaching season W
probably be the largest ever raised in the Unite
States.
!, The Sydney authorities have proof that IL
shooting of Prince Alfred was the result OF
plot. .. ....
:, Tie vote Of man having one.sixteenth neg
blood in bis veins was refused at the late electi,
at Indianapolis.
Ninety three focks of sheep were recent
=. killed in Switzerland by thunder cloud viii
passed over the country. ot
AT the late fair of the Maryland Institute Gig
=, machine was exhibited, which made four ciga
o., per minute.
Of The commercial editor of the Chicago Tribu
ca has written Historical and Statistical History
ice. the Garden city which is quite popular.
,ua The Chicago Times says half million OF dolls
a., have been lost in that city on grain in the L
'As0 thirty days
a The San Francisco Young Mems Christian As
- citation has recently erected hall for its own
/, at an expense of $4,000.
. The Gardener Monthly says that great re,
luton has occurred in selecting fruit trees
,SE planting. Bushy plants are now sought for.
WestboroDgh, Mass, has eight sleigh manuf
turinr companies, nov making two thouss
sleighs, valued at $50 900.
II is reported that there have been but 4
OOp pretty girls at West Point this season, two at
atoea and one at Newport
What will be done with ten thousand Gilman
ana when the Central Pacific Railroad Is finish
Bars, Cut the canal at the Isthmus of Darien.