The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-12

| De Soto county, Mss., has $50 dogs.
A plantation in Mississppi, which cost eco, ooC
ten years ego, was sold lately for 5000.
Flour ct st. Paul's, Minnesota, sells for Eve dol
lars barrel.
| Queen Isabella of Spain received during her
thirty-fve years reign, over $s9.0Oo0OO.
| The largest island belonging to Maine is Mt.
Desert, which contains $4,000 acres.
The editor Of the " Independence Beige" news.
paper gets salary Of SIC. 900 year. .gsl + Il
tChen5weth, Casey q Co. are prepared to pur-
chase all the broom corn brought to this market.
In the United States there are over 5000, 900
| freeholders. .1s f---t ~ Is "A
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Mats.
gords for late Texas papers.
We are indebted to the officers of the Southern
Express for late papers, 10 .rl
A prophetic writer predicts that Meridian, Miss,
will have $4,000 inhabitants in six years.
The marketat Cairo is flooded with game-wild
geese, turkeys and ducks being plenty.
The bank Of North Carolina has gone into bank
ruptcy.
The New York Postofice letter-csrriers are
uniformed. 5 @ -s sr1.
In New York there are loo, 900 women employed
in the various branches Of industry open to them.
Gerritt Smith has thrice expressed his interest
in Alfred Academy, Allegheny, N. Y, by hand
ing over, for its benefit, o 900 check.
James Stewart, Q truly loyal preacher in Geor.
gia, was caught stealing corn the other night, and
shot by member of his own congregation. .
Rich gold fields have been discovered on the
northern frontiers of Norway and Russia, stated
to surpass those of California. E.
Fifteen hundred negroes were imported into
Shelby county, Tennessee, from Northern Missis.
sippi. and voted for Grant.
The Anglo-Indian telegraph running through
Russia and Persia will, it is stated, be opened for
use in May, 1863.
A teacher in Detroit has been fined twenty dol
lars for chastispg a female pupil, fifteen years
old. asl.3 lal -
The lavas of vesuvius contain greater variety
Of minerals than, perhaps, any others in the
world. SOL 80 tslI
The late Isaac Barton. of Philadelphia, be-
queathed 100000 to the woman's Medical College
in that city.
The steamer Great Republic will be sold at pub
lie auction on the 9th inst, at st. Louis, by the
United States marshal. tvf
Rev. o. W. Whitaker, who has been elected
Episcopal missionary bishop of Nevada and Ari.
zons, is native Of New Salem, Mass.
II your scholar fails to recite his lesson, don't
scold. A neglected Lesson is soon learned, but
hard words bruse the heart of q child.
OF domestic produce exported from the United
States in 1867 more than SO per cent. belonged to
the Southern States.
The name of Mr.. B. s. Osbon, of this city, was
registered at the banking house of Duexel, Harjes
Co., Paris, during the week ending October "a.
In Bengal. India, 70 inches of rain fell during
frafp ipa fb1 NJ a., \
more than the annual average.
The Paris Steele gets nine hundred thousand
pounds year for advertisipg-more than any
other journal there.
There are about fifty private telegrsyns in New
York city, and the system is becoming very
popular. c
Geo. Ellis circulating library is becoming rap.
idly popular with our people. He has just added
an invoice of choice new books to it.
The Independent seems to be preparing to
bring Frederick Douglas into the next presiden.
tial candidacy.
1t is proposed to erect a monument IN honor of
Gui dArezzo, who, eight hundred years ago, in
vented musical notation.
We have received from the publishers, Harper's
Bazaar, for Nov. 81; Every Saturday, for Nov.
Ia, and the Southern Ruralist, for November
In Madrid there is said to be scarcity of news.
paper editors, nearly all of them having accepted
positions under the new Spanish government.
A 20inch Roman gun was cast at Fort Pitt |
Works, Pittsburg, on the 80 inst. 1t weighs
eighty five tons, and is intended for Fortress
Monroe
MulIet are caught in large quantities on the
Florida coast, and sell at three cents each. At |
he mouth of the Ocklockanee river 5000 we're
taught in two days.
The business Of the express compani at
bloomington, H.. which three years since was
$4,000 per aDnum, will now reach SIS 900 to
100000 per annum.
Maximilian's confessor has reached Mexico from
Austria, with the diamond crosses and other pres
nts from the emperor to the lawyers who defend.
d the prince.
Moses 81. Bentley, (oolored,) member of the
atlanta convention, has been arrested on the
barge of being one Of the iustigators of the late
lot at Savannah, Ga.
There are enc thousand women in st. Peters.
urg engaged in fortune.tellng. They deal in
Isatic perfumes, and allow gentlemen to stroll
1to their little temples.
Last year the English government revenue from
pirts Of all sorts was "a, 3Ol $50: from tobacco
6 500 ,2s4, and from sugar, molasses, tea coffee.
hickory and cocoa, fs, 1850.
shonkyonhoyhaus, which, being Interpreted
leans, He.that-buries-the-E Earth chief of the Six
ations, has gone to New YORK to engage in mer.
antie pursuits.
An interesting discovery has just been made at
arts of portrait of Marie de Medici, of the date
io2, when the Queen was twenty-eight years of
ye.
The Atlantic seaboard of the United States ex-
'nds about $500 miles, and the Mississippi and its
ibutaries open up an inland navigation of about
coo miles.
The students at the Amherst Agricultural Col.
&c have husked 2400 bushels of corn, dug 500
ishels Of potatoes gathered so barrels of winter
uit, made rs barrels of cider, and learned their
ssons like good boys, beside.
The recent earthquakes in South America and
ilifornia were not accompanied with volcanic {
options. This fact has given rise to the surmise
at these countries may expect recurrence of !
ese shocks. -.-..,-.l r
The second vein in the north coal shaft at Bloom.
yton, Illinois, reached on the Sd inst. at a =