The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

d. sweeny's grain elevator and warehouse, in
Bloomington, ILL.,, was burned to the ground Fri.
day night. Loss unknown.
Another jobbing firm in West Broadway is re-
ported to have failed for 100000. The assets are
not more than $200.000.
News from Alaska states that Sitka Is nearly
depopulsted, the Russians having departed for
their mother country.
The schooner A. Crosby was wrecked, with a
loss Of all her crew Give lives) of Santa Cruz,
recently.
The dry goods firm which failed in Boston Is
stated TO be Lowrie, Blood & Hammond.
McDevitt declines Dion's challenge TO play
three push-shot American games of 1900 or 1000
points-the first in Chicago, the second in Mon
tresl, and the third in New York-for $1,000 or
$1,000 side, each game. He will only play the
push-shot game of l5O0 or 1000 points, for $4,000
side, in Chicago, which he knows no sensible
player will accept. s mn.
A young German named Adam Titus, living
near Shippensburg, Nd, recently hired fellow
countryman named Henry Stemm to help him
chop wood. While the two were at work in
forest, Titus murdered his companion and robbed
his body of $50, which he expended in buying
Christmas presents for his young wife. The body
was discovered and Titus arrested. He confessed
the deed, and said thstwhen he went to put Henry
into the grave he had dug for him, he felt 30 bad
that he knelt down and kissed his mangled body.
new series OF postage stamps is in course of
preparation by the postofice department. They
will be smaller than those now in use, but of
haDdsomer finish and design. On the two-cent
stamps is an engraving OF post-boy on horse
back, and on the three cent locomotive under q
full head OF steam. The fve-cent stamp contains
head Of Washington, and the ten.cent stamp a
picture Of the Declaration of Independence On
the twelve-cent stamp an engraving of an ocean
steamship is seen, and the thirty-cent stamp is
decorated with the surrender Of Burgoyne.
John Scott the coming new senator in Penn
sylvania, was once, like Grant, q poor tanners
boy. His accession to the Senate is new tri.
umph for that chieftain of Philadelphia politics,
Simon Cameron. There were three prominent
candidates before the Legislature, the Hon. Calu.
sha A. Grow. the Hon. ]. K. Moorehead and Mr..
Scott. The chances between them were supposed
to be pretty even until Tuesday last, when Mr..
Cameron arrived in Harrisburg, and at once set
tied all doubt.
Honolulu sdvices of December 25th say: 1.-THE
funeral cortege of his royal highness, NJ. Keku-
ansa, on December "a, was imposing, 1t being
thirty minutes in passing given point. The ma
rines and sailors of the United States steamer
Ossipee were in the procession. Guns we're fred
from the Punch BOWL Battery during the forenoon
and the Ossipee fred twenty-one guns.u
G. Brewer & Co. and W. L. Green, were ap-
pointed assignees of O. 81. Lewens, in San Fran
cisco, iDsolvent. His liabilities are sI35. 900.
Major Charles o. Rogers, of the Boston Journal,
finds the climate Of California unfavorsble to his
disease, which is In the nature Of bronchial con.
sumption, and will return at once.
The light from the great fire at Bangor, Me-,
was seen at distance of sixty-two miles
Deer were never more plentiful in the North
woods, New York, than they have been this win.
ter. One hunter named Milo Baker employs about
thirty men to hunt for him during the season, and
sends the product of their guns and skill to mar.
ket. Thus far he has sent upwards of five hum
dred carcssses to New York and other cities-a
considerable number having been shipped to Troy.
The price of deers meat, by the carcass, is from
twelve to fifteen cents per pound.
Professor Horsford, in his lecture at the Amer
lean Institute, Wednesday evening. on the "Phil-
osopby Of the Oven" stated that the best oven
known is the Eeathean, first introduced in Paris.
1t consists OF an iron cylinder built In brick. 1t is
perfectly alright. fame from q tube beneath
heats the oven. Along the upper surface another
tube runs which communicates with the interior
OF the oven. When the proper chemical changes
have taken place in the meat or bread placed in
il, the door of the fame tube is opened, and the
air rushing in forces its way to the upper tube.
and thence into the oven. thereby giving the red
crusty appearance, TO whatever Is thus baked.
Mayor Shurtlef. in his inaugural address, urges
Boston to embrace CkarlestowD, portions of
somervie,. Dorchester and Brookline in its
civic suburbs.
The gallant tilt of Madame Parepa.Rosa
against certain Western clergymen has been
and we. have now the pleasure of re-
cording still prettier fight between the same
lady and reverend bigot in New England. Mad
anne Parepa and her troupe were engaged to open |
a new opera house ct Rutland, Vermont, on the |
10Th OF December. The people all bestirred them.
selves; fashion got out its richest garments, and
there were Dedication 0des" and such things |
printed in gold on cresmIaid paper. A clergyman
Of the town took alarm, and in opposition to the
concert started prayer meeting on the same
evening, remarking from the pulpit on the pre-
Vious Sunday that sit would be of the greatest in.
ierest to him to see who Of his people stayed
away from the meeting" and that concerts and
operas were no better than snsres Of the Evil One.
Pulpit prose not being eloquent enough for the
Of his feelings. he gave vent TO poem
n q local newspaper, In which he drew a forcible
contrast between "Parepa's concert and the mar.
isge supper Of the Lamb" For the evening of