The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-06
GENERAL NEWS ITEMs.

montgomery ana refer JOlce, lOr ezVO sue
Thirtythree rounds were fought 10 hfty-nve min
utes. Montgomery was declared the winner.
sixty thousand dollars worth of smuggle
silks and laces were seized on Friday IN ware
house on Canal street, New York, and two arrest
we're made.
company has been organized in New York
and will sail shortly to raise two million dollars Il
specie from the Spanish ship sunk ia the Yves
Indies in l740.
Gen. Wymsn B. S. Moore. formerly United
States senator from Maine and consul general Il
Canada nnder Buchanan died in Virginia on Sun
day. BE hsd gone there for his health.
ID. &. Stckney an expressmaD, had thrty-twt
thousand dollars stolen from his dwelling in Bos
ton recently. Suspicion rests upon an inmate o.
the house, who disappeared.
John hcMiller, young man living near Clifton
Clark county, Ohio, left his home in q sleigh, snC
came home az 4 P NJ, lying dead in the sleigh the
horses having walked home of their own accord
From bruise on his right eye, and from Other
circumstances foul play was suspected hut q
post mortem examination showed that his death
had resulted from congestion of the BRAIN
Alaska advces are TO the 9th Of February. Two
white men, while on trading expedition, were
killed by Kaikee Indians near Sitka, in revenge
for the death Of their friends shot by sentines al
Sltka. The United steamer Saginaw, with Gen
Davis and staff. was about TO leave for Kaikee.
The revenue cutter Reliance is still st Sitka.
The Park Savings Bank, in Brooklyn, was rob-
bed Of small tin box, containing sl5 900 in city
bonds and 5000 IN money. No arrests.
C. ID. Robinson, Of the firm of Wood & Robinson,
brokers. 30 Bond street, N Y. is reported by his
partner TO have absc0nded with $4,000 in FIVE.
twenty bonds of 1867, three certified checks, of
$1,000 each, and 600 shares Of various kinds of
stock, valued at $4,000. Mr.. Wood offers a re.
ward OF 50 ,OOOfor his arrest and the recovery of
the securities.
There are several alum wells in LincoInton,
NC.
Numerous Jesuits expelled from Spain have
arrived on the istbmus.
The Broad Race Course, near Richmond Vi.
has been sold for $50 0O0
In Carroll county. Tenn, last week. two men
nsmed Fhppins were killed and another danger
ously wounded by q Mr.. Henderson and party
OF his friends. The Fiippins had taken a mule
from Henderson by force and he was in pursuit of
them when the sfray took place.
The British forces have made reprissl on the
New ZeslsI ders for the outrages at Poverty Bay.
Ninety natives were killed.
John Null, who lives near Iuka, Miss, is now
los years OF age. He is in good health, walks
erect, rapidly and without a stick. He suffers
slightly from dimDess Of vision. but hears scutely
and has good appetite. He has ou,lived his own
children, but his grand children constitute a nu.
merous progeny In fact, twO-thirds of rshomingo
county claim him their ancestor.
Miss Susan D. Thomas, of Brunswick N. c.,
only Ia years old, armed with a revolver put TO
fight band of robbers who had attacked her
father.
There is an orange grove of 500 trees at Piatka
tlords, which yields tremendous profit. IL is
owned by Northern men, who paid $4,000 for $50
acres. sold Oh half at good price, aud in the
hTst year cleared the original cost of the whole
place nom The nit raised upon it.
The son OF Gov. ThrOCkmOrtOn swallowed
poison at Bonham, Texas. the other day. from the
effects of which he suffered great deal, but did
not die.
William A. Bradley, assistant surgeon and bre.
vet msjor Q. S. amy, died suddenly, Ofapoplezy.
at Point San Jose. California.
Nathaniel g. Wood, matchmaker aud ieueler. on
Hanover street, Boston, Was robbed, On the 2Sth
ult., Of 5000 worth of property.
plumber OF Cubans, temporarily stopping in
New ork, held an informal meeting az the New
York RLtel on the 9th ult 20 take INTO consider.
alton the prop1iety of holding apablic meeting
al an early day, with view of saking aid for the
revolutonists.
President Grant has given benevolent society
the exclusive right TO publish for its benefit fac.
SinieS Of his certificate OF election which are nut
on sale in New York.
The old and new school Presbyterian assem-.
blies meet on the third Tuesday in May, when i
is believed that Union will be effected.
Glover, w., has had o case Of lpmestic intellect
tg. respectable young man some time since
fell in love with widow much older than he, and
msrried her. Everything moved smoothly until
r. Gently, when she sent him home 70 his mamma
on account OF alleged improper intimacy with her
daughter. girl about fourteen years old.
The Massachusetts Legislature voted almost
unanimously tor the bill TO allow husband and
wife TO testify for aud against each other.
The dual character Of husband and wife ia thus
eqGalized, and the women-righters have made a
point in the game.
In Chicago. the 9th ult., the west half of the
Empire Block and three buildings on West ave.
nue, kaDkaEee, Ills., were destroyed by fire.
Cause unknown. Estimated loss $75, 900. Insur.
ence large.
Nearly half the town of Chippewa Falls, Wis,
burned on the oath ult.
The paper mills in LyeIingham, Mass, occupied
by Watkins, Cassiday i Pro-. took fire az u
O'Clock on the 27th ult., and were entirely de.
stroyed. Supposed to be the work OF an incen-
diary. Loss S25, coo; insurance $4,000.
The Court House in Buckingham county Va,
was destroyed by Ere on the 18th ult. All of the
p9pers and records were lost.
DR.. Harris, Of the New York Health Board,
reports that small pox is rapidly spreading
10 the city, and general vaccination is recon-.
mended.
The receipts Of the Michigan Southern Rail.
road, for the year ending the 18th utimo were
s. COB S6S, an increase OF s256,660 over the year
previous.
In the deep valley YO Semitic, California, are
several falls far surprising in height the falls CT
Niagara. At the lower end of the valley is the
cascade called the Bridal Vail, the water pouring
over a rocky wall distance Of 900 feet. Two or
three miles beyond are the YO Semitic, where
the water falls, in three piunges a distance of
2So0 feet. the first leap being nearly $500 feet the
next 400, and the last coo feet. Ia looking from
the bottom Of The gorge at the imneuss height
from which the water descends, the stream. which
10 81 feet in breadth at the top, seems to be Ouly
a foot and half wife.
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