The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-06
SOUTHERN. NORTHERN AND WEST.
TAN ITEMS


Three of the fsSst farms in the Ksr,r,kv R,,,
DiaAs region hfs.atA been purchased BIZ Ohioans
me Model ia 2 of the late Thos. 5marr, nes
eleelonn' ceSsSnieg 500 acres sold at tl2
Pe, seie, 10 Joisl~ hilRonr, of Cincinnati. JOh
~. nickmsns faf. Of $50 acres near Paris wa
putCnateo Dy Lev ndrews, OF Cincinnati at tl3
per acre, but, slS2 his suicide, has been occupie.
by Hon. A. G Myers formerly member of I'm
gress Of PenDsy3y6nIa. q Cisteton-' ;, the COM
Try seat OF the lste .dcbard Higgins, near Licking
c0p; conialnlng oiSacres, was sold to Mr.. Inskip
q ssehla, Oblo, igSslll per acre.
Inc Boston psRsrs publish the statement Of
W, ne heml-ahhnaL Di1idends payable in that city
The aggregate ,ar,0unt pavahle on the vario1s
classes OF stocks: snd securities is sl3 $50 49,
GonsloeraDle lnerSse over the July dividend.
Inc amount OF iissSrest 70 be paid In gold at the
OnIeo States snlN 3essury In Boston, in January,
IL about 81 COO ,C0st The State OF Massachusetts,
VIII psy the DtereYt on ITS State bonds in specie
and also the intefeS on the Eastern Railroad lean
and the interest. q; the Norwich and Worcester
Railroad loan. 5fS city of Boston pays interest
IN com, except ;s1She currency loans. The rail-
road dividends shGw little change from those last
paid. The manufacturing corporations have gen.
orally done profitable business, but several of the
changes have beertoward smaller profits.
party OF ArizgniaDs, in a recent hunt for In.
oians, came upop camp suddenly that they
had time TO take nothing with them. Ia this camp
was found the bsdy OF an American that was VET
warm. His feetwere worn to the bone, as though
ne pad been compelled TO walk barefoot over
rocks, and his bo.y xfs one solid blister. He had
evidently been driven naked for some fifteen days
under broiliDg si!n. From the description given
no doubt exists lare that this was the body of
nsrles Hadsen mail carrier, whose relatives
sgee fifteen days before.
The New York Board of Excise has followed the
iesd OF the World. IN having made careful chem
zeal analysis of Che liquors sold in that CITY aa
IS Bourbon" whisky, and the result il pubIisbed
for the benefit OF whom it may concern. Dat of
thiTfyei specimens subjected to test, ouIy two
were found pure. The ingredients of which most
OF this 9 fine old whisky" Is composed are as fol
lows Fusi oil, rancid lamp OIL green tea, prussic
acld, winter'green and strychnine. The cOmmo.
oiues sold as biEndy and gin were found to be
made up OF compounds equally vile.
Two citizens o! Pennsylvania have invented a
snow melting machine forremoving the snow from
railroad tracks. II is simply an engine boiler
placed in car wij a tender on top of the boiler.
from the boiler pipe leads down TO within anew
inches OF the rOaf-bed, and is perforated with
small holes 10 permit the Jets of steam to act on
me snow while The machine is being pushed by a
locomotive or cy,rsilwsy car drawn BY horses.
Iehabod Wsshbhrne. who has acquired great
wealth at Worcester Mass, in the manufacture of
telegraph and other kinds of wire, died last We'd
nesday of paralfsS, aged 20.
The tTansfornat lon of Tammauy Hall has been
competed TIC tfammany Amusement Com.
pany" has secuted lease of the building AT a
yearly rental OF SIS 900. and remodeled It's inte-
Tior at an expsnse Of SIS 0O0. The large h ali
where the eonse;tion of last July m % is made
grand tbeaier, capable of seating 300 persons.
mchay Adds. snip builders in Boston, have
failed. Liabilities heavy.
The election for Congressman in the Second
Arkansas DstrItt vice Kinds, assassinated. has
resulted IN the choire OF Hon.. j. T. Elliott Re-. |
publican, OF the Camden Journal The Demo.
cratic vote was very light
Margaret Merrell died at Williamsburg. recent
y, Ia her one hundred and thirteenth year she
IS believed TO be the Oldest person in New York.
The wheeling and Piusburg packet New State
was sunk at CoX's Ripple In the Ohio river three
niles below Steubenyille, on Thursday night. AZ
ler lower deck II seven feet under water she will
doubtless prove total loss.
Ibe report that the New York aud Erie Rail. ]
DAD Company bias leased the Ohio aud Missis.
lppl road is denied. IL is stated as a fact. now.
yer, that col sOlIdatiOn Of interests in a per.
nanent through broad Ruage line between the
iusnuc and the Mississippi river has been
nsctsd, and the change of guage of the Ohio
20 mississippi road. has been stopped. A system
! through trains TER passengers and freight will
I once be insugursted, aud a third rail he laid
ON here to Odu, illinois, the elton of the
mo and Mississippi and the Illinois Central
Dads IL is alsO stated that the entire route be.
ween here and Nek FORK will be furnished with
double track.
losfer who assaulted ex Governor Arson p
Iorrill at the Biddetord. Maine depot. the other
ay' while ne was In the company or his wife. {
as shocked down by the plucky politician.
hip. :
The celebrated Russian artist the Count de {
eeiski, died at the residence of relatives 10 10.
lester, N. Y, Oh Sunday week. r
rev. Dr. Hall, OF Washington, has been called D
ine Iectorship Of the Church of the Holy Trim r
J, 10 brooklyn, sacated by the election of DR.. b
'ueJohn 10 be bishop OF Long Island. p