The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-27
EDIToRIAL rArAeRArHs. ETC.

lhree railways are consuucunB IA ureeoo'
Mempbis has fourte en- miles OF Ncoison.
PATHS income last year was $4,000.
The Middletown Comm Asylum fer the Insane |
has received ia patients.
The bronze figure America" surmounung
the Capitol, weighs 1895 pounds.
Philadelphia is to import $500 worth OF spar
rows TO Eight the measuring worm.
Forty. eight white men were put on the PONCE
yesterday.
George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger,
sailed in the Scotia for Europe on the 2Oth
Street cars commenced running on Broadway,
Galveston. last week.
mountain of magnetic iron has been discov-
cred in Lapland.
There will probably be ten Quaksrs in the next
British House of Commons.
Miss Felictas Juarez, daughter of President Jua-
rez, has been married.
Oliver Dyer is looking about Boston after WICK
edests.
The population of st. Thomas is Is 900, of which
10000 are coored.
Great Britain imported 765,7i3 head of live
stock the past year.
1t is estimated that the wool product Of Cali
ornia for 1868 will amount to 10000 900 pounds.
Vast numbers of wild pigeons are visiting the
timber on the White and Arkansas rivers.
The Oregon City Enterprise is now printed on
paper manufactured at that place.
Ii is calculated that thirty five thousand hats
were bet on the results of the late elections.
! statue of James Watt has been erected in the
town hall at Birmingham.
Coal has been discovered in Nevada, on the line
of the Central Pacific Railroad.
The leprosy is prevailing in portions OF the
Sandwich Islands.
There was six inches of snow in the Lake Supe-
rior region last week.
California is to have a race between Newfound-
land dogs.
Olney Arnold has been nominated for Congress
by the Democrats in Rhode Island.
Gen. Prim is one of the richest men in Spain.
he owns ten houses in Madrid.
A son of Santa Anna is q robber chief in
Mexico.
A Cuban lady at the Fifth Avenue Hotel wore
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
diamonds at dinner the other day.
A package ofnearly ten thousand United States
stamps was stolen last week from Pearl street
counting room.
Soap mines have been discovered in Nevada.
and SO there is no excuse for the great unwashed
in that region.
The first sewing machine was made by Ger
man named Madersperger, of Vienna, in the year
1915.
The three shortest postofice names in the
United States are T. B., (Md.) Ali, (Ohio) and Pc,
(Ind)
citizen of Pittsburg has given $4,000 to
build home for shoeblacks and newsboys in
that city.
The fifth q. s. artillery has been transferred
from Richmond, Virginia, to Fort Jefferson, Flor
ida.
John Quincy Adams has returned from his
Southern tour, and is at bis home in Massachu-
sets.
The Duke of Ednburg is announced to start on
two years. cruise. He will visit Africa, Poly.
nesa and South America.
DIR. Livingstone, when last heard from, was re-
turning to the coast of Africa, and was within
weeks journey of Zanzibar,
The Oregon Legislature has passed RESOLUTION
Withdrawing the ratification OF the fourteenth
amendment by that State.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Mr.. Leonard
Jerome. and three or four other gentlemen, have
gone 10 Florida on a shooting excursion.
Ross winans has shut up his machine shop in
| Baltimore, rather than make the improved kind oil
locomotives.
Prof. A. ]. schem is the foreign editor Of the
New York Tribune, and the compton OF the Tri
bune Almanac.
Fifty acres of land, unincumbered by any con
ditiou, has been given to the Moravisn Church, a
New Drop, Staten Island, by Commodore Wander
bilt.
Rev. E. Capers, brigadier general in the lat
Confederate army, was week before last ordaine'
an Episcopal minister By Bishop Davis, of soutl
Carolina.
The Mormon elders have been holding thei
annual conference at Salt Lake, and have re
solved that commerce with the " Gentiles b'
restricted to the actual wants of the MOI
mons.
We have received from the publishers Comp
toms st. Louis Musical Journal" of Octobe
18th, containing the two popular songs, Nc
body's Child " and Somebody's Child" 1t !
a ouarto of l6 pages, neatly printed on goo
paper. and should be popular with musica
people.
william J. Steele, c.nfidential clerk in tn
postoffce at Chicago, was detected last wee
purloining letters containing money. In his pr
yste room were found leo letters that had col
tanned from 10 cents up to sl2, large portion {
them addressed to the La Crosse Democrat II
had been soldier in the Union army.
The citizens of Asheville, N. c., as we lear
from the News, were startled on Friday nigh
the 18th inst, By very sensible shock OF a
earthquake, which lasted nearly minute. tn
noise was Ike the rumbling of carriage wheel
while the earth trembled with vibratin
motion.