The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-07

Colorado river. This line viii cross Central Ari-
zona in the vicinity OF Prescott, and will open to
mineral resources, with semi tropical climate.
Subsidy. or no subsidy, the Southern Pacific Rail
road is not likely to be long delayed.
Lieut.. Siddons, treasurer post Is, grand army
attacked in his Office by an armed man, day before
yesterday, and robbed of 5000 and sundry valu-
ables.
The wife Of the doomed young Twitchsll, in
Philadelphia, does not visit him In his cell.
One hundred and sixteen country newspapers
have one side printed at the Office of the Milwaukee
Wisconsin. The most of these journals are pub
lisbed in Wisconsin. Minnesota and Illinois; but
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan. Ohio. Kentucky, and
represented pU in the list The aggregate circulation
of the whole Is $500. This is o new phase of
cooperation. The paper with one side printed is
furnished for about the same cost as white paper
The Wisconsin makes it pay by inserting several
columns Of general advertising.
Mrs. F. L. keert the actress, better known as
Josephine Tyson, died ct her residence in New
York Friday week.
A verdict was obtained against the st. Louis
Anderson, for 1880. resulting from car running
over her body. A
The New York Sun has a correspondent in San
Francisco who gives an alarming account of the
ravages of smallpox throughout California. He
says the streets are hlled with funerals, and the
gravedgger has his hands and graves full. In
some cases burials are made by night. Despite
every precaution the contagion remains as deadly
as ever, and though it can scarcely be said to be
increasing, its decline Is hardly perceptible. All
the pest-houses are full. In some cases vsccins-
ton seems to have entirely lost its power, and
men, women and children, with vaccine scars on
their arms az large as twenty'shing piece,
have fallen victims to the epidemic. Whole fami-
lies have died, but the plague spot Of the State
thus far has been the town of San Juan, in Mon
terey country, one hundred miles from San Fran
cisco. Ont Of population Of one thousand, four
hundred were taken down with small. pox. and OF
these four hundred persons, one hundred and
sixty died.
Maine, by estimate, has now q population of
676 III persons, an increase Of 44.577, or about
per cent over the returns of 1860. Each person
In the State has an average Of $500. making the
whole property of the State $344 035 900 In gold.
The amount of capital employed in manufsctur.
ing is $40 goo COO, yielding an annual product of
ISL ,2s7.6s5. There are 446 municipalities in the
State.
John Brown, q Nashville detective, who for
month has been in pursuit of Q notorious charac.
ter named Webb, fugitive from East Tennessee,
arrived at Memphis last night and reports having
osptured Webb near vicksburg., The governors
requsition for him was approved by Gen. Gilem.
After ironing him securely, he started for Nash.
vile, but when near Sardis Miss, Brown fell
asleep, Webb got hold Of the key Of the hand.
cuffs unlocked them and walked of at Sardis
when the train stopped, leaving Brown asleep.
Webb.
raid was made by gang of pickpockets on
q passenger train on the Hudson Railroad on the
morning Of the Sd in the upper part of New York
city. Several passengers had their pockets re-
lieved Of wallets, watches, etc., while crowding
from the rear to the forward cars, In accordance
with an order Of Q thief who personated the con-
ductor.
The details by mail of the nitro. glycerine ex.
plosion at South Petersburg. New York, on the
30th ult., are frightful. The accident was occa.
stoned by the foreman Of gang of men tapping
q cartridge with q hammer. Three men were
killed and seven injured. The man whose care
lessness brought about the explosion was blown
into nearly q hundred pieces. The two others
who we're killed were also shockingy mangled.
Thomas Allen, the pugilist, arrived at st. Louis,
Tuesday, and was to 60 into training at once. The
third deposit was made last night, and the fourth
is felt in the coming fight, and betting is quite
lively.