The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-12
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versity OF Virginia BY handsome donation.
II cost Smith. the newsmonger, SIS 900 to beat
John Stuart Mill.
Four Vermont clergymen recently killed six
deer in four days hunt in the Adirondacks.
vapderbilt's property has been attached in
lump by Fisk, to secure little bill of $4,50oOOO
Hon. James Arnold, the Oldest and wealthiest
citizen of New Bedford. Mass, died last week.
In the island of Jamaica there are g, 800 Epsco-
palian and I04 ,0l3 dissenting church goers.
The French prince imperial has taken to the
velocipedes.
The gas Jets in A. T. Stewards new store are
lighted simultaneously by an electric battery.
Only IS majority sent Thomas Hughes {" Tom
Brown") to Parliament from Frome.
Several large salt furnaces are in successful
operation in Mason county, West Virginia.
Turkeys sell at Is cents per pound now in New
York markets.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Louise for late
Mobile papers.
There are about 1000, 900 bushels of coal now
on the way from Pittsburg to this port.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Celeste for late
Alexandra papers.
An iron bridge is to be constructed across the
Tallahstchie at Panols, Miss.
Fine, large red fish sell at five cents piece at
Pensacola, Fla.
Alaska. like all the rest of the country, now
has budget Of " frauds" to report.
The revenue of Canada for November was
sl.2l4, l54, and expenditures $s77, 44s.
Vast numbers of wild pigeons are visiting the
49, -. ho UI.;s~ a~S A -bs-~~~ -:-~--
The Long Island people are amusing themselves
by Devastating.
bridge over the Missouri river at st. Joseph
is talked Of.
An organized band of robbers are operating in
the vicinity of Raleigh, NC.
baskerville, Tenn, is to have complete wool
factory.
The fall of snow on the mountains in West Vir.
gnia is heavier than has been known for years.
James Flake, Jr., of the Erie gang, began life
respectfully as peddler.
Postmaster Kelly, of New York, has four hun.
bred and twenty.four soldier clerks in his office.
Gen. Kinks, of Massachusetts,, wants to be Con.
gressionsl printer in place of Defrees.
The Terre Haute postofice starts off with 1900
boxes.
The Empress Eugenie has lately abandoned
amethysts, and now wears only diamonds.
New York churches are declaring their seats
free at the evening services.
Lowell (Mass.) factory hands now work twelve
hours day.
The Houston and Texas Central Railroad clear
ed during the month Of October, So. GOO.
Paris velocpedists grease their wheels with
cockroach oil.
The force employed in the treasury department
was reduced on the 9TH instant by the dismissal OF
twenty five lady clerks.
We have been favored by Mr.. C. J. Boardman,
the courteous clerk of the Richmond, with late
Shreveport papers.
The young men OF Stockville. Mississippi, are
giving concerts to raise money to lay plank walks
along the streets of that city.
Pork is selling, in Choctaw county, Mississippi,
ct 10 cents per pound and corn at so cents per
Dushel.
Since November 1868, the United States treas
ury has been made the recipient of $1,000 toward
the conscience fund.
Montana has capital of 81 9ls 900 invested in
manufacturing pursuits s24O, 900 of the sum is
represented by breweries and distilleries.
A petty punster in New York says that city is
now governed by Oakley Hall, Tammany Hall and
alcohol.
The General Society of Mechanics and Trades.
men, in New York, contemplate opening reading
rooms for young men of those callings.
Bets to the amount Of two millisn dollars are
said to have been made on the electoral vote of
California.
Mr.. Fields began his career as errand boy in the
Boston publishing house Of which he is now the
head.
There are 10000 oil wells on the eastern shore
Of the Caspian Sea, that yield 10 900 900 pounds
of the fluid annually
Two Boston vessels have been racing to Africa.
Boston always had penchant for the African
race.
The latest novelty in wedding entertainments is
a crockery wedding, which has just come of in
Me.
The Madison, Wis.,, Democrat says some Indian
mounds near Third Lake were recently dug into
and human bones of enormous size exhumed.
A son has been born to Gen. Steinmetz, the
bravest of the brave at the battle OF Sadowa.
The father is " years old, and the mother Just 49,
A private letter from Paris says the French gov
.rDment is about to make proposals to VIM. n.
Webb for two new ironclads similar to the Dunder.
berg.
Caleb Metcalf of Boston, aged ninety. seven,
celebrated his golden wedding recently Few
tich WIN DoAAg a. -scNcu eau eAptCt u like
opportunity.
letter has been published by Gen. Barnard
citing forth the ineficiency of the forts about
Few York at present to compete with the service
rdDance of our own and other countries.
carpetbagger in North Carolins has sold
ract Of poor land worth less than $40. 900 to the
oil State government for 100000. A penitenti-
ny is to be built on the land.
In Harnett county, N. c., last week, two negroes
rent 10 the house of q Mr.. Hatcher, who was
bsent, and cursed and beat his wife. Her son
anne to the rescue and killed one of the negroes.
Professor VIM. S. Jillson, Librarian of the Boston
ublic Library, and formerly of the Congressional
library and the Smithsonian Institute, died on |
he Goth, at Boston. |
A movement is on foot in Washington. looking 1
} the establishment OF q national school OF art, |
milar in all its features to the schools of Flor
nee.
Capt De La Mesa, agent of the Freedmen's
uresu, at Rome, Ca, is under arrest for certain
legal and unlawful acts, the intention of which
as to put money in his pocket.
The friends of Gen. Forrest in Memphis have
resented him buggy and team of horses to
na hia him 70 az throuUh he oouptrv in oanuoaa