The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-20

Gently to Gen. Thomas Price, of Missouri, for
A Boston cigar dealer sells 800 cigars daily for
LADIES' use, and thinks 1000 are smoked daily by
the ladies in that city.
st. Petersburg has Chimes library containing
II ,607 volumes, lis wood engrsvings, and 40
manuscripts. .
The aggregate daily circulation OF the Berlin
papers is 10000 copies; of Vienna papers Ss'oOo
copies. .r 30 't
the Everett mills at Lawrence. Mass, consume
10000 pounds OF cotton and 1000 pounds oil wool
per week. ......l p
New York city, las. year, supported 1854 pau
pers at daily average cost OF tWenty-three Genus
each.
The annual cost of the Freedmen's Bureau is
1926 427. Louisiana has % agents, IL surgeons
and "a clerks. whose salaries amount TO SISJO0.
The steam knitting mills at Utica. ny. employ
IS hands and turn out daily geo dozen pair ladies'
fine stockings.
During the year ending August 3lst, Cincinnati
shipped to New Orleans, 4S OS9 boxes candies
During the week ending 9th inst, 69O cases
boots and shoes were shipped from Boston to Ne"
Orleans.
In 1867 Chicago manufactured boots and shoes
TO the value of 81 $3.50 900, and sold OF eastern
manufacture 81 S5S $40 worth. .
Cincinnati shipped 2944 dozen chairs and 1918
packages furniture to New Orleans during the
1t Is estimated that in the last twenty years
Europe has expended S., 900, 100000 for canals,
railroads. steamers water powers, coal mines, etc.
Palmer's marble palace in Chicago is to be oc-
cupied by q dry'goods firm, who pay S52,OOO rent
ner annum for 1t.
The ship Ariel, the first of the tea feet from
China, made the voyage from Foo Chow TO Lon
don in 95 days.
A peach grower near gainesville, Ohio, sold the
present crop Of his orchard of seven acres, for
5000 on the ground.
A siIk grower in California says it takes twenty
tons Of leaves to feed 100000 weavers. 1t takes
s25 eoeoOns to weigh pound. %
A gentleman in North Haven, Conn.,, planted
six pounds of early rose potatoes, and gathered
Al Eelden's Ridge. near Knoxville, Tennessee,
on the Sd inst, Mr.. K. Young and ms three sons
| killed 1874 rattlesnskes in two hours.
The manager of the Great American Tea Com
pany spends $l20 600 annually in advertising, and
| thus built up his large and profitable business.
| In ls44 Prussia consumed cwts OF oeet TOOL
in the manufacture of sugar. Last year 80 ,OOO,OO
| cwts. were consumed.
| The Ward cabinets in Rochester, n. Y, contain
| 40, coo specimens in geology and mineralogy, all
| A bim in New York city employs over twenty
| five hands in carving and ornamenting meer'
Between the years 1929 and 1859, both inclusive,
the monthly expenses of the National Intelligence;
| were $1,000.
| Paris paid s47s,OOO last year for lighting the
streets squares, ETC.. of the city, consuming LILO,
| OOO, COO cubic feet of gas.
| A British vessel sailed from Wilmington, N. u
recently, with cargo of 34U0 casks OF turpentine
valued at $50, 600.
A farmer in Champaign county. H., has al
| apple orchard of l35 acres. He made last yea
over rs, eco gallons of cider and vinegar.
| The value of farms in New England Is estimated
at s474.3C5 COO; Implements used on the farms
sic, 1855 GOO; live stock S6S, sos ,000-making ar
aggregate of 1858, 470O00.
During the ten years ending May LIST, 1868. thu
United states exported to Great Britain S55, Isl.
L do NJ DOuQda
| butter. .... ....- .
| The Entomologist Of st. Louis says: Takinl
one year with another, the United States los
$500, OOO, coo annually by the depredstons OF IN
sects.r
| A machine has recently been invented for cut
ting and shaving barrel slaves. They are wrough
out of the solid block, and finished at the rate OIL
sixty per minute.