The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-12
ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS NAIL.

Heber Kimball left sixty-seven widows.
Human bones have been found sixty-eight feet
below the surface of the ground IN digging
well, $50 miles west of Omaha.
The assessed value Of taxable property in ST.
Louis, Mo-, has increased from $11,1l3 800 IN 1854
to SI44 ,260, 600 in 1868.
The Nicolson pavement patent ha0 been ex-
tended seven years longer by the acting commits
sloDeT Of patents.
81. Johns College, at Annapolis, Maryland, con-
ferred the LII. ID. upon ReVerdy johnson, Tues
day. He Is the fifth person who has received the
degree since the foundation Of the college IN lIS4.
AN interesting tTOt took place on tAe 9th on the
Fashion Course between the stallion SPIDER and
the bay mare Nancy Fat. II required five heats
to settle it, the stallion winning the first fourth
and fifth heats, and the race.
The Nashville Banner, Sd inst, publishes a
rumor that a mob surrounded the Louise of Judge
Fielding Hurst, at Purdy, Tenn, sew nights ago,
took him some distance iron hone, and cut his
tor que out.
Ouagle at Warrensvllle, Ohio, or June 9th, cut
his throat, Mondays night, in his cell, at Cleve-
lsnd, with sTazor borrowed from fello ~-prisoner
Coale's companion in the cell WAS awakened by
blood dripping on his face, and found Goale dead.
| His iIal commenced on Monday.
The Venezuela rebels have met With some re-
verses. Gen MOnagas Was very popular. There
! were three candidates for the presidency, bat
MCnagas had the lead. All assemb,Gges Of citi-
! gems we're forbidden by decree Of the cOumandsr-
in-chief. The amount Of eN-Presidant Falcons
defalcation Is stated 10 be immense
Havana specials of the 10th sg1te that the
| peasantry in tue neighborhood Of Jacmel, en-
tered that town recently and pundered the place.
4 me 8 meJIeau UUu-uf Cats U..itsa Dtatoa
/ man Of war TO be stationed at that point. So far
salusve ia reported to have been successful
| against tie insurgents surrounding Port al
| tdnce.
Sugar csndy, il is estir1sted, is consumed in the
United States 81 the rate Of about $4,000 poulds
| per day, OF GOO per year. OF tins amount
| New York manufactures abO1t 26,O0O pOuods per
| day: Philadelphia, Il 900; CHI ago, l4,0O0 ST..
| Louis, l0,500; Cincinnati, 10000; Baluuore,
| 5000; Boston, 1900.
Gen. Samuel Hays del at his residence 10
| Franklin, Pennsylvania, on the "a Inst, n tho
| SSH year Of his age. lie served in both branches
of tie Pennsylvania Legislature, was at one time
tie United States marshal OF the western district,
| and was member Of Congress from 1913 70 3tj.
| His SON. Gen. Alexander Hays, was killed in the
| battle Of the Wilderness.
MIR. storrow Higginson, Of Cambridge, Mass, a
graduate Of Harvard College, in 1863 has been APP
pointed president OF the Colegio NAtional Tor
| National College, of the South American Repub-
lie Of Uruguay, with salary of $24JO in gold, be-
lies quarters snd rations He is a con Of stephen
II ggiason, Of Cambridge, and nephew Of I. W..
City OF Mexico letters say that Revora has been
deserted by many Of his followers, and several Of
n officers, whose names were signed to his pro
punc an DtO have denied the authenticity Of the
signatures and disclaimed al sympathy with the
affair He himself has disappeared, aud, it is re-
ported fleeing toward the north. Canales, Carava
ia, and others are said TO be in Texas, preparing
for raid on the Rio Grande States.
, The Marietta (0.) Register announces the dealt
in that place, on the list Of June, of Mrs. Rhod
| Hldreth, widow OF Or. S. z. Hndreth, the histo
risn. She was born in New Bedford, Msssschu
setta August Is, 1885. and came to Ohio vita he
husband in 1900, In the same paper We fad IA