The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-27
NORTHERS AND WESTERN NEWS.

The Cold Spring trout ..worksr at Charlestown,
Mass, received recently two hundred ana nity
thousand salmon eggs in good order, from the
Miramichi breeding works at New Brunswick
They were packed in baskets of wet moss, had
travelled one hundred and twenty miles on sleds,
three hundred and twenty by rail, and two hun.
bred and eighty by water. carefully protected
from the cold, and are sufficiently advanced to
hatch early in January. The Canadian govern
ment was quite IN willing to let them have spawn,
and finally yielded, on condition that one-half OF
the ova taken should be left TO hatch al Miramich
for the "beneft of the crown" This Is the larg-
try. and he only lot imported this year.
The Green Bay Wis., Gazette reports very IN.
teresting services in that place, in commemora-
ton of the two hundredth anniversary OF the ar
rival of the first Catholic missionary there IN 1868
The French, German, Holland and Irish Catholic
churches participated, and the priests of the Bay
Settlement. Maple Grove, Holland, Little Chute,
Appleton, Oconto, and New Franken churches,
were present, also the chaplain OF the church OF
Notre Dame OF Milwaukee, who preached an inter.
esting discourse in German in the afternoon; and
Father Mazeaud. of 0c0nto, in French, ia the
evening. The first attempt TO establish Catho
lie church there was made in 1912. A chapel was
opened in La Pointe in 1860, and Father Claude
Alouez came to Green Bay IN the isii OF 1905,
dedicating little bark chapel December 3.
The late terrible disaster on the Ohio river,
when the steamers America and United States
were burned, IL is stated, will bring up nice
point of law for the consideration Of the courts
After the collision, the America, through the hu-
name impulse of her captain, was ran up along
side of the burning boat United States. and she
too caught fire and was burned, and the question
is raised whether. the policy OF sl3OOOO OF ID
surance against fire upon the America was not
invalidsted by this course.
The trustees of the insane asylum at Augusta,
Me-. will ask the legislature to enlarge their build
ings and buy them farm. and have elected as
officers for the ensuing year iOr. William b. Lap
ham, of Woodstock, president, and DR.. John L.
Gilman, of Portland, secretary.
An Evansville dispatch of the 24th says Sew
eral outrages have been committed within the
past few days by armed and masked ku- klux in
Union county, Kentucky. On Friday night from
ten to twenty of the Khan shot three negroes, two
at Sulphur Springs and one at Morgandeld. At
the latter place they entered the Negroes house
and shot him while in his bed with his wife : and,
in return, he shot and dangerously wounded one
of the Khan. He was afterwards shot three or
four times, and beat with shovel and left appa-
rently dead. The other negroes are not MORALLY
wounded. On the same night five men were al
the house of q negro, 10 the same county, and
made him get out of bed and then outraged his
wife. The sheriff Of the county has succeeded,
with the aid of a posse, 10 arresting five sof the
supposed Ku.Klux. The county is greatly ex
cited. and Morgsnfeld Is guarded nightly sby the
citizens.
Reuben Pattison, son of Col. Geo. Pattison. Of
Memphis was seriously and it was feared fatally
injured in one OF his legs by rocket, on the
evening of the 24th.
A private dispatch received from Augusta
Ark. on the 22d reports that the colored militia
will be disbanded tomorrow; also, that the whits
militia will probably be Withdrawn from tina
| vicinity in a few days. The report circulated
| that the United States troops would occupy ths
| places vacated is entirely unfounded. Govern
| ment has not taken any action in Arkansas
| affairs and is Is not likely it will. The citi
| zens of Augusta who left are returning to thei
/ homes, and business is resumed.
| frightful murder was committed on the out
skirts Of Memphis Sunday night, the victim beint
| colored man named John Shaw, who boarded
| with Jim Owens, also colored. 1t seems Givens
| suspecting improper conduct between his wifi
and Shaw, and being ma1dened by jealousy, crep
/ into Shaw's room Sunday night, and, while tn
latter slept. dealt him several blows on the hea
| with sharp ak I; then dragged the body to a.
i slley forty rods distant. Givens was subse
| quently arrested and committed to Jail, bail be
ing refused.