The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-23

record of the weather at Sitka. Alaska, kept
during the year ending October 81, 1868, gives
the following result Average temperature, 44.07
degrees rainfall. 6S.07 inches fair days. 1876;
cloudy days. 257.97 rainy days, l34 snow 70 /;
coolest day, February IL, IL degrees above zero I;
wsrmest day, June 20, II degrees. There were
but five days when II showed in November.
three in December, three in January, thirteen in
March and two in May. During the remaining
months of the year there snow storms.
The rains were most frequent Daring the summer
months.
citizen from French Bayou, Arkansas, some
ten miles above Marion. reports that body Of
mounted militia shot three mea near his house.
Yesterday morning. The officer IN command told
him they had been tried by court marital, on the
charge OF being Ku-Klux and ordered to be shot
TO death with musketry.
In Greenfield Saratoga county, New York. re-
Gently, an old lady and her two daughters were
married at the same time. The mother was o
widow, the first daughter was a widow Of two
months and her husband a widower of four
months the other was miss of sweet seventeen
AND the espoused OF q man of about thirty years.
who had recently obtained divorce from q
fo mer wife.
Frankfort correspondent Of the Louisville
Courier-Jo urnal, writes Zone Of the most Affect
ing incidents came of Friday IN the Court Of AD-
peals. When the case of Grgsby vs.. Wicklife
cane up Hon. Charles Wckllfe appeared in his
own behalf and, though feeble and entirely blind
made q speech before the court extending through
two hours, which was considered by those who
heard il as perhaps the ablest of the many able
speeches Of this veteran Kentucky statesman aud
lawyer. The distinguished ex governor, In the
course of his remarks. referred to his first
appearance in the court ffty-eight years before.
to his association with Ben Hardin and others in
the profession, and concluded with an apologize
the court in OBTAINING them so long in listening to
his feeble utterances and cracked voice, excusing
himself however on the ground that, in all ha-
man probability, this was his last appearance be.
fore that earthly tribunal"
Hartford voted. on the 10th, 2O5 yeas to so Maya.
10 lbscrbe $3.50 900 TO the stock Of the Connec-
ticut Western Railroad Company, in addition 10
100000 already sut scribed. This insures the
construction of the road, which will be put under
contract in the spring. and is TO connect that city
with the Hudson river and give It q new route 70
the West, much shorter than any existing road.
The road Will be completed in July, 1870.
At McGIegor, Iowa, on the 18th, E. Wright
druggist, while making change for a woman who
had been making purchases, was struck on the
head by DIR. Miller, who had subsequently entQs-
ed the store, and also attacked by the wD-
man. Before assistance arrived, the safe had
been robbed, and Mr.. Wright was very seriously
wounded on the head and stabbed In the slds-
Lynch law is threatened if the criminals are
caught.
An ingenious apparatus for giving an alarm IN
case OF the presence OF carbonc oxide OF coal lie
10 q room has recently been invented by ME
cbanic residing in Berlin, Prussia. IL consists Ola
galvsnic battery with a bell, and glass tube
nlled with LIQUID chloride of palladium. This mo-
tallic salt Is extremely sensitive to the pressure 81
carbonic oxide gas. A small quantity Of the gas
will at once throw down some Of the metal FROM
the solution. and this preciptate collecting at the
bottom Of the tube at once establishes q connec-
ton in the current Of electricity, and the violent
ringing of bell will warn the sleeper of Ills
danger.
An old man of Waterbury, CT, went, on Sat1r-
day before last to visit his daughter who left that
place four weeks since, and living In New
York as wife. BE found that her home was;a
masked brothel, and took the misguided gsrl
home.
Minnesota farmers are raising live fences They
use cotton wood, gray willow, white maple, black
oak and wild plum. From three TO five years are
Sufficient to raise living fence to protect tAe
fields from stock.
a mild looking black eyed woman was arrested
last week in Davenport Iowa, for " showing
counterfeit money. A leather sack was fOuLd in
her room at q hotel. The sack was divided into
six compartments, in each Of which from 5000 to
$500 in counterfeit national bank notes were Sc W.
ed up-s2090 of the 81 denomination, on the ST.
Nicholas Bank (national) aud $1,000 in KS on the
Union National Bank-both Of New York city.
Thd Live Stock Insurance Company, of Hart.
ford, Connecticut, find their losses exceed their
receipts, and will issue no more policies They
cannot contend against nature and fraud at the
same time, or, as they express it, no rate high
enough 20 cover the moral hazard" of this class
OF insurance can be obtained. Thus the ina1 ex
pertinent of insuriDg live stock IN the United
States comes to an end.