The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03

eented with bouncing boy Dy DIS klnd -nearte
/" old woman" who is over sixty years OF age.
The clerk Of the Hastings Court, Of Lynchbure
Virginia. on Saturday week, issued q license I
Frank Goode. aged ninety, 70 marry Pheb
Thweatt, aged seventy years. The expectan
bridegroom sverred that he was one hundred an
seven years Of age, and his appearance plainly IN
dcsted that he was old enough to govern his owl
course in life-even to the choosing of bride
but the clerk put him down at ninety. He wante
to marry because, being an orphan, he needles
somebody TO keep HIM out Of bad company.
When an officer of the American navy reache
the age of sixty, and his further usefulness be
comes doubtful, he is placed upon the retired list
III be has attained to the rank OF rear-admIral a.
well as 10 gray hairs. his country bestows on hin
the sum Of two thousand dollars year if a com
modore, his income is eighteen hundred dollars
while il be has the misfortune to be only pos
captain, he receives sixteen hundred dollars.
Springfield, Indiana, bis discharged its entire
police force for completely with thieves.
A student OF the Assyrian tablets in the British
Museum places the date of Abraham at Z, 290 year.
before Christ, nearly 400 years earlier than Fish
er's chronology.
John Lane, Of Concord, n. H., has recovered
verdict Of sli53 80 against Comfort and Icha
bod, his motherin law and brother-in.law, fol
endcing bis wife away. This is the first action
of this kind ever brought in the New Hampshire
courts.
The Merchants National Bank of Little Rocl
..vry Heasy, ,hv grea.er disabilities are rennrtef
the government and New York.
The Paris Moniteur says the incessant encroach
ments OF Russia in Central Asia have led to repre-
sensations on the part of the English ambassadors
at st. Petersburg and Paris.
Mr.. Joseph Medill, of Chicago, has written a
letter to Gen. Rawlings, setting forth how very
much we need and want Canada, and insisting.
in the next place. that If Great Britain refuses 10
cede 1t to us on demand, on account of her hay-
ing aided the Southern rebellion, we must take
1t. And be then proceeds to show how easily we
could do this. He says the people Of Canada are
Of the same race and religion as ourselves
In reply TO letter from the Democrats of Pesth.
Garibaldi has written letter dated Caprers. De.
cember 3D. in which he advises the Hungarians
70 separate from Austria. by whom, he says, they
are sure TO be betrayed.
The president has sent to Congress the CORES.
poDdence between Secretary Seward aud Mr..
George Peabody. relative to the gold medal pre-
sented to him by order of Congress. Mr.. Peabody
says therein "Cherishing as do the sncerest
affection for my country, it is not possible for me
to feel more grateful that do for this cherished
memorial of their regard.n
A petition to the Senate of the United States,
signed by Hon. Geo. B. Upton and others, against
the confirmation of the Alabama claims treaty.
has been placed at the Merchants Exchange in
Boston. for signatures.
. The Hon. VIM. d. Kelley. of Pennsylvania. ia
iath'like man. with blood shotten and SCARED
eye, o head composed of knots that are vet no
organs, decidedly evasve expression, and a
whole culver of unhappy traits, with self con.
ceit most conspicuous. One of his attributes ia
voice Ikea hollow sepulchre's and with this
yawning voice Kelly utters commonplace SEN
fences making vehement SILVER of his hand
meantime, and mapping his head In expressive
grimaces. Thunderous Flatulency is the name of
his school OF oratory.-[ Wash. Cor. Chic. Trib.
A4 person, male or female, who is the head of
family, or over Il years Of age, and citizen of
the United States, or who has declared his inten-
ton OF becoming citizen Of the United States.
may enter land under the homestead act. The
party applying must go to the register of the land
once Wn1ra md III
ton, and make oath that he or she is 81 years of
age,lor the head of a family or has performed
service IN the army or navy Of the United States
and that he has never borne arms against the
United States, or given aid or comfort to its enc.
miles, and that such application is made for his or
her exclusive use or benefit, and for the purpose
OF actual settlement and cultivation and not for
the benefit, directly or indirectly, of any other
person; Inc applicant must pay $40, and is then
allowed to enter one quarter section of unappro.
prated lands, which are subject TO pre- .empton at
81 Is per acre, or so acres of those lands which
are subject to presumption at 81 so per acre. The
ianos must De occupied, and IL abandoned for the
space of six months they revert to the govern
ment: At the expiration Of five years the settler
gets bis patent
Alexander McRae's Liverpool Circular saws:
y one OF the most extraordinary features of this |
season is the rush Of barley from Great Britain TO
The United States. II appears that American dis
tillers. more especially those of Chicago. have |
suddenly discovered the superiority of our growth
and we are shipping from the LIST Of this month to
he present date some 100 900 bushels against NOT
, single bushel this time last year. If anv evil
tence was wanted of the constant necessity of |
Americans and English to try and reciprocate |
produce, it is here successfully afforded The va
ue Oh briusn barley for mating purposes is Is. to
Is. Cd. per bushel of 60 fbs.n
The savings banks Of Maine, twenty-elght in
lum n bold an aggregate of deposits amounting
The official report shows that the Portuguese
al in AOf Anhe /
! ozambique, on the eastern coast of Africa. II
lfied guns, 10000 cartridges, 200 barrels of DOW
Ter, and the flag of the first infantry regiment.
IIteen officers and several hundred soldiers were
Joyce, Stevens & Treadway. of New Haven
ave discharged their twenty employees because
be latter, being members of union, refused to |
'struct an outsider in the mysteries of heel
taking machine, of which the New Haven firm
Iere the patentees, and which some Boston pur
hasers had sent him to learn.
Russian troops are reported moving toward |
dessa and other points on the Black Sea- and the
oyernment is accumulating q large quantity of
ailway iron for completing the line between Mos.
ow and Odessa during the coming summer. All
esseis OF the Baltic fleet are to be ready to move
hen the ice breaks up.
bridgeport Conn.,, has sensation. III. Clifford,
young Englishman. a Sunday school teacher, |
ice, has run away to England, abandoning his
life, after robbing her Of government bonds |
in value to sl400. He was married only |
at Thanksgiving day.
A meeting of the ninth army corps officers and
the officers OF the Burnside expedition into |
orth Carolina, has been called by Gen. Burnside |
meet in New York city on the Sth day of Feb.
lary next. the anniversary of the capture of Roa.
BIKE Island. for the purpose of forming perma.
mt organization and taking measures for gen. |
al meeting at an early day.
San Francisco is to be supplied with ice from
q summit Of the Sierra Nevada, in a very novel '
az. party Of spectators have CONSTRUCTED an 9
house capable of holding 500 or 900 tons of ice.
ar the Pacific railroad track. From stream 2
the hillside above q fume has been run 10 the
p OF the ice.heuse, where the water is allowed
fall In small jets or spray into the building be-
W. In this manner they expect gradually to | 7
rm mass Of solo ice which will fill the entire c
Hiding. q
Two boys living near Meridian, Mississippi, aged
spectively ten and thirteen, while out rabbit. 1
nting, recently felled tree so awkwardly, that 8
Q arm Of the elder was caught, mangled' and p
pelessly imprisoned between the stump and the
ostrate trunk. He told his companion to chou v
the captured member. which was done with v
Q blow of the ak. The boys staunched the q
BOD as best thew could and hoth valkad hor,a Il