The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-08
ITEMS FROM LAST NIGHTS MAIL

Denver now gets Chicago papers in three days.
Weston, the walkist proposes a trip from New
York TO st. Paul, against time, for $4,000.
New York has paid s65O,OO0 for ito constitu-
The 81. Louis brewers pay 100000 for hops
Thatcher, the New York weather prophet, says
this will be hot summer.
The Pitsburg bolt factory was entirely des-
troyed by fte on Sunday. Loss, 500 900; insur-
ance $40 600.
A coal fleet with 500 900 bushels of coal, left
pi,tsburg on the 4th. About one-third OF the
amount is for Cincinnati.
The overdue North German steamer Smidt,
from Bremen, April 4, arrived in New York on
The duel in Baltimore on the 4th was between
Count de Lotum and General A. G. Lawrence, Of
Rhode Island. Both FREQ in the air.
Hon. Isaac Keller, ex-congressman, died sud-
denly on the 3Oth, while riding in his buggy in
Mattewan, New York.
vein of iron ore was discovered on the Gar.
ret Mountain, near Patterson, New Jersey, about
fourteen feet below the surface, extending mile
and quarter, and from eight to thirty feet in
width.
s. T. Clarke, in letter to Erastus Brooks aud
| published 10 the New York Express, says General
Buffers entire statement in the House. on Satur-
day, relative to that paper, has not shadow OF
| Truth to rest upon.
A girl OF sixteen, and four small children of
| Patrick LaUghlin were burnt to death by a fire
which consumed his shanty at Great Bend, Penn,
| on the Sd. The girl saved two children, and re-
turning Cor the others suffocated.
A walking match in New York by Geo. Topley,
! an English pedestrian, TO accomplish fifty miles
| in ten hours. terminated by Topley falling in tit,
| on the foTty-third mile, with one hour and forty
minutes TO spare.
The fortyfourth annual report Of the New York
Bible Society shows that the society has dstribu'
ted, since January, 1867 s6,943 Bibles and resta-
| meuts. Its receipts have amounted to $4,000,
! and its disbursements to s3l 800
| Mr.. August Belmont has written letter to the
| Democratic executive committee announcing that
| il would be impossible to get the national execu-
tive committee together in time to change the
day for assembling of the National Democrats
| Convention. The day and place originally desig-
rated, the 4th of July. at New York, will, there
fsre, have 70 continue.
| General Candy has issued an order announcing
the result Of the election, and the names OF the
new state officers members Of the legislature and
| Congress- and providing for the meeting OF the
next legislature on the 18th inst. The order also
provides that laborers discharged for voting con
trary to the wishes Of their employers shall be
maintained az objects of public charity BY the
| levy of an additional poor tax.
The Irish Canadian newspaper. published al
Toronto, has been suppressed by order OF th'
| government. Patric' The editor, ant
several leading membeND. 6 dibernian Society
were arrested, and papers OF : reasonable char
scter belonging TO the society were seized. AM
parties arrested who are supposed to be impli
Gated in the Fenisn conspiracy.
| The Fenian convention in Worcester, Mass, OF
| the 4ih was largely attended. Several regiment
offered their services, and $50 900 were subscribed
for expenses. An address TO the Fenans OF tn
State was adopted, stating that Ireland will hsv
20 be rescued by force OF arms, and resolution
were adopted reprobating tie assassination a
eOwardly, and denouncing the murder Of Thoma
darcy MCGEE.