The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05
SOUTHERN, NORTHERN AND WEST
ERN ITEMS.

The failure of Kinds. Allen & Co., hop dealers
of Richlsnd Springs, Otsego county, New York.
is reported. Their liabilities are placed at $780,
goo.
Brig Gen. Edward ii. Stoughton died at Boston
on Fri 'ay week Of lung disease. Gen. Stought0n
graduated at West Point with the class of 1859.
He was made brigadier while serving under Nc
Clean.
The new German Catholic Church in Omaha
was dedicated by Bishop 0'Gorman on Christmas
day.
4 ship, built 65 years ago, in Salem, Mass, the
first American ship TO pass through the straits OF
Magellan, is fitting out In New Bedford for another
whaling voyage.
There we're s5S fires in Chicago last year by
which s2,965,O00 worth OF property was des-
uoyed.
At meeting of citizens of Rutland, VT, the
town voted 10 aid in the building Of the Port
land and Rutland Railroad to the amount Of $500,
600.
snsgged and sunk in the Alabama river. three
miles above Mobile, on the 29th ult. The greater
portion of the cargo was saved, damaged. NO
lives lost
and Florida, near the mouth of the ST. Mays
river and also near Fernandna, it is stated, has
been purchased by Senator Sprague Of Rhode Is
land. 1t contains 5000 acres and is very fertile.
The probable object in making his purchase u TO
cultivate Sea Island cotton
James n. Morrison. one of the Oldest and
wealtbiest citizens of Chicago, died Of heart
disease on the 2sth ult. He left $T50,000, wife
and one child.
DR.. W. S. Bishop, surgeon of the Naval Asy.
lum, died at Philadelphia on the 2sih ult.
An old couple, Mr.. and Mrs. James Cooper,
aged eighiyf and eighty-nine years, died
calm and quiet death at their home In CedaTville,
Ohio, on the 29th ult., and within forty minutes
of each other. They had been married half
century.
George P. Rutter president Of the Tennessee
National Bank, was arrested in Memphis on
warrant from Nashville for an alleged defalca-
ton In the missing school fund, taken before
Judge Lee on q writ of ba beas corpus, and re-
leased on bail OF 5000 for temperance. II will
be remembered in this connection that the loss OF
| this fund, which was returned TO the present
| state government after the war by Gov Harris,
who had carried il South, caused the suicide of
Controller Sandford. II Is believed that the pres
ent arrest of Rutter and investigation will disclose
the disposition made of the funds. Rutter solicts
a searching investigation.
Three hundred coored militia occupied the
town Of Hopefeld, opposite Memphis, on the
10Th, at daylight. A portion Of them was sent to
occupy Marion and Mound City, and the citizens
| of the latter place say they commenced pllaging
! as soon as they entered. No reason Is known or
! assigned for their presence.
Police statistics show that during the year 1868
there was $275 900 worth of property stolen and
| 70 900 arrests were made in Chicago.
The customs officers at San Francisco have
| seized quantity of opium valued at $4,000 for
| violation of the revenue laws. The drugs were
brought from Chlna Dy the Oredl hepuOiic. An
| attempt was made TO smuggle them through.
The Providence Evening Press has been burned
out.
At the Illinois river Improvement convention,
| held in Peoria, the report of the committee on
resolutions was adopted, declaring that the nav-
| CATION of the Illinois river is unreliable and that
the State is now financially able to make the nee
| essary Improvements in that river, and advising
| the appointment Of q committee TO urge upon the
| attention of the Legislature the paramount I'M
| portance of the contemplated improvement. A
committee of FIVE gentlemen was appointed.
| whose expenses are to be betrayed by the towns
| along the proposed route. The Illinois and Mich
igan canal cost Sc 500 000 and it is estimated that
ii will cost 81 900 900 TO improve the Illinois river
from Lasalle to its mouth, as TO get seven feet
| depth of water for 220 miles.
A bill has passed the House Of Representatives
| in Dacotah Territory enabling women to hold
Office. The council will probably defeat the
measure. memorial passed both houses, asking
| the president elect, Gen. Grant, to appoint W. W..
Broadings the next governor Of the Territory
Chas. NJ. Rogers, formerly superintendent o. ,ne
| st. Nicholas Hotel. was murdered on lWeitn
street, near Broadway. in open daylight on tns
3lst nit. by some unknown person: 80, ~.
Stesrns's wooden mills, near Phtsnelo' a. So,
were destroyed By FIRE On the Slst ulHme' h''a
100000,