The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-22
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.


There is q wine cellar in London extending
eleven acres under ground.
The belle OF Dresden is Chicago girl who sings
divinely.
Gutta percha houses are suggested for earth.
quake countries.
Huskipg corn is one of the sciences taught at
the Amherst, Mass, Agricultural College.
Balance in the sub treasury yesterday $50 $780,
0OO
| In England there are societies to assist dis
charged convcts to emgrate to the Uni ted States.
Texas claims TO be Gland of milk and honey"
because you can get cows there for $40 dozen.
Philadelphia has "School of Design" for the
| education of women.
| Gen. Writ Adams has resumed his banking bust
ness at vicksburg.
A SEQ 600 mansion for the lieutenant governor
Of Ontario is being erected in Toronto.
The prince imperial of France is to 60
through two classes in the next scholastic year.
1t ia estimated that ladies lose one.sxth of their
valuable lives in dressing.
The average number of deaths in London per
week is 1852 of births 2064.
There sixty-six churches in the city of Louis
vile.
Thanks to the officers Of the Southern Express
for late papers.
The Agricultural Fair at Montgomery. Ala, is
said to be great success.
Enterprsing merchants of Mobile purpose put.
tirg steamship in the trade between that city
and Cuba.
The Mobile Register advocates the selling of
cotton for gold only.
1t is estimated that the guano on the Chincha
Islands will be exhausted in another year.
Cologne has 1901 600 and Antwerp 100000 in
habiiants.
There were 1900 weddings during the month of
October in New York city.
fhurlow Weed will spend the coming winter at
the South.
| creasing.
DR.. VIM. Hereford, aged So years, died at his
home in Pontotoc, Miss on the I'd inst
schafer, the celebrated German traveller, is now
making tour of New Zealand on foot.
There are more than 1900 varieties of the post
age stamps of all nations.
hundred thousand dollars in fractional cur
reRcy is on the way here.
gentleman of Terre Haute has given slOO,O 900
to establish first class female seminary in that
place.
At Muhlheim, in North Germany, a married
couple had their twenty-eighth child, strong and
healthy boy, baptized few weeks ago.
A dead negro and bottle of whisky were found
on the railroad track three miles above Knoxville
last Sunday.
The East church in Salem, Mass, observed its
one hundred and fifteenth anniversary on the sth
inst.
Upwards of 100000 of the Scriptures are circu-
lated in Turkey, in spite of all official gobbling in
opposition.
London fruit merchant sdvertises fruit to
let for ornamenting grand dinner tables" They
are fruits, of course, to be let alone.
The Chinese ike the English missionaries be-
cause they can make shoe-strings from the bind
ing of the Bibles received by them.
The formation of Protestant church in Ma.
drd has been sanctioned by the provisional gov
eminent.
TeDnyson is opposed to the Englishman's in
exorable law of dress coat for dinner and
stove pipe hat for out-of doors.
The gold fields of Auckland are still drawing
diggers. On the Thames there are now estimated
to be IA, 900 diggers.
Prince Charles, of Roumania, is engaged to the
Princess Tbyra, third daughter of the king of
Denmark. He is TO wait for her to grow up.
Geo. Ellis has ADDED another invoice Of new
books to his already large and popular circulating
library.
A lady preacher in Chicago has announced that
she does not believe in the doctrine of mans de-
prayity.
California grape growers il is said get only
three quarters of a cent a pound for their crop
delivered at the wine press.
A quantity of Chateau LATTE wine of 1911 was
lately sold by auction at the chateau for the price
of twenty-four dollars bottle.
A stove pipe hat sixty five years old has been
discovered in Essex, Mass, and is said to be ex-
actly in the present fashion.
During the past week the commissioner of pa.
tents has received 30 applications for patents and
So caveats, and issued 224 patents.
An American pathological society is now in
course of formation by the professors Of languages
of the different colleges of the country.
Geo, Ellis, news dealer, Old Levee street, has
placed on our table Harper's Magazine for De.
cember. All the latest issues of the periodical
press will be found on his counter this morning.
Stonewall Jackson's only child is said to give
promise of great beauty and intelligence. The
good wishes rise from many Southern heart for
her happiness.
Mrs. Partington. being a Democrat, says she
doesn't see how she could run fifty votes shesd of
her ticket and not be elected. Hereafter she will
advocate female suffrage.
The commissioners of emigration in New York
city report l9l.O57 as the number of emgrsnts
who have arrived in that city from January lst to
November llth, 1868.
The people of Augusta, Ca, employ guards to
watch their milk cows while they are feeding
during the day to protect them from negro
hunters.
When q man is out of humor he should 60 out
of the house. A little open air and turn or two
up and down the street will make him feel better
and likewise look so.
A Methodist church ID the West asked the Con.
ferance to send it single man as minister. The
request was granted, but the designated pastor
stopped on the way and got married.
In Pittsfeld (Mass.) factory are three female
operatives, one of whom has been engaged there
forty.two years and the other two thirty eight
years.
John McVickar, one Of the most revered aud
honored clergymen of the Episcopal Church, died