The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-30

working hard to be made general.in-chief.n The
cholera has broken out In Bayamo.
Henry Fitzherbert, while under arrest In Cbica
go, in Justice Aitt's Office for larceny as baiee
threw himself out OF window to the ground. ,
distance OF eighteen feet, striking his head on ,
stone walk, ffacturing his skull. He died in few
hours afterward.
Sarah Harris, colored, died in Chicago on the
18th, aged anywhere from one hundred and ter
years upward. She claimed to be one hundred
and thirty, and that her husband was drummer
IN me revolutionary war. in IVA.
"A deficiency of $40, 900 has been discovered in
an uptown collection district. New York, and the
officers are searching for the guilty party.
Adyices from st. Thomas to the 18th are re-
ceived. News had reached there from San Do
mingo mat President Bsez had sold Alta Vels to
French company. ignoring the previous sale of
the island. The American consul at st. Domingo
had protested against the transaction and sent
Tor United States man of-war. Baez remained
IN his capital, around which intrenchments had
been thrown up. He had invited ex-President
Cobral and his followers to return to their country
and they will agree 70 do so if Baez abdicates an
election is held for new president, and all po-
htleal prisoners are freed.
Robbers recently attacked the house of ex-
Snerin Reuben King, of Robinson county, near
Sumberton, North Carolina, and MORALLY wounded
Mr.. hing and visitor named 8. E. Ward. The
perpetrators Of the crime escaped.
AT Old Spring Dale, i've miles from Water VAL
ley. Tenn, last Friday. young man twenty-five
years Of age, named Frank Wilson, was killed by
his father.in-law. Mr.. Isaiah Goodwin, a respect.
able and wellto-do citizen. while in state OF in
A cable dispatch from Paris states that Cadiz
and Seville have declared for Montpenser for
king.
1t is estimated that that there are at least one
thousand distilleries in operation throughout the
country.
The extensive pork packing and lard establish.
ment OF Boynton, Swallow Il Co., in Brighton
near Boston, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
night The loss was $4,000, on which there is
partial insurance.
A Panama letter, dated January 10, says "Psy-
master Spalding, shore paymaster of the United
States navy lost his youngest son by fever on the
9th inst, and on Tho 9th his wife, Mrs. Martha
Breese Spalding. died of the same disease. Pay.
master spaulding's clerk, Mr.. Mitchell, is now
down with the fever"
The snow on the line of the Central Pacific.
among the Sierra Nevada mountains, has not at
tanned depth Of more than six feet this winter
Snow plows have been brought into requistion by
the railroad company, on the mountains, and thus
Tar they have been able to keep the track clear.
Cassius M. Andrews, aged twenty-five years.
hailing from Illinois, was arrested in Buffalo on
Sunday afternoon, when about taking the cars for
chicago, charged with passing some thirty forged
checks on business houses. His trunk was well
stocked with clothing. furs, etc., obtained by
means of forged checks.
Police Superintendent Kennedy, of New York.
has received dispatch from the chief of police
OF Montreal, stating that the reported arrest of
Bogert, the alleged defaulting paymaster in the
United States navy, was without Foundation.
The apparatus used in New York for analyzinp
the air inhaled and exhaled by public assemblages
is simply silk bag of large dimensions, which is
suspended from the roof. After the bag is infst
ed, 1t Is closed like balloon. II is said that the
exact proportions of the atmosphere can be as
certained. When the figures are exhibited, show
ing the impurities Of the air at places of public re-
sort, 1t will probably have the effect of bringing
INN rUnu 1nnff H.
latiDg such places.
Freight for Salt Lake is now sent from New
York City to the end of the Pacific Railroad with.
out change OF cars, 500 miles. This forms the
longest line OF continuous railroad track in the
world.
life insurance agent in New York has his life
insured for sl25 600, chiefly in endowment poll.
cies, and he is reported to have paid to one COM
pany recently cash premium of $l5 900 for a
Baisdell and Ecke. of New York, convicted of
illicitly removing spirits, have been sentenced To
three years each in the Albany Penitentary on
one count, and are awaiting another dose. Itnow
cuted.
The Office of Calvary Cemetery, on Mulberry
street, New York, was entered by burglars on
Saturday night, hole being made in the brick
wall, TWO feet thick, for the purpose. 10000,
partly in bonds, were taken from the safe, which
was battered open with hammer. The burglars
escaped.
kilograms were sent out by the Baltimore DO
lice recently, stating that a burglary had been
committed, last Friday. on the Bank of New Wind
sor, Carroll County, and sl25 900 stolen. The
property consisted of 50 900 in treasury notes.
81, 600 in Central Pacific Railroad bonds. Sc 900
in Union Pacific Railroad bonds, SO 900 in five
twenties, $1,000 in Washington County, Mary
land. bonds, $4,000 in New Orleans and Ope-
iousas Railroad bonds, s., 900 in New Orleans and
jackson Railroad bonds, and s25, 900 in Western
Maryland bonds.
The safe Of H: R. Morris. in weirtzboro sulli-
van county. N. Y, was opened at a late hour
sunday night by burglars, and robbed Of 500 600
in 81 and $40 bills. The stolen money belonged TO
the town of Wamakotine.
Several Indian chiefs, representing the Kiowas.
Sac and Fox tribes. arrived at st. Louis Oh the |
18th en- route to Washington. They claim to be |
authorized to make treaties of peace on behalf of
the Kiowas, Comsnches and other tribes, and saw |
that If the plan set forth by Gen. Harvey of with
drawing the United States troops from their hos |
tile attitude is adopted the Indians will return to
peaceful pursuits, and accept such terms as the /
government may determine. upon. They complain
bitterly OF the manner in which they have been |
treated by the Indian agents, in the distribution of
lnnuities, and desire that they shall all be with
lrawn.
Hon. ]. d. Cameron has addressed the minister
9f justice of his intention to apply for a reprieye
'or Whelsn.
Five stores on Monroe str eet, Lynn, Mass, were
completely burned and five others considerably |
They were occupied by manufactures.
A man named Fuller, who is declared to be a |
noted Chicago insurance operator, was arrested
n Bushell, ILL.,, by United States detective, on
he Esd, having in his possession $55, 900 in counter
eft currency. l
On the 25th recently discharged lunatic from
u. Johns Asylum, in Stephens, N. B., named
nnes, killed his sister with an ak, and afterwards
committed suicide by ripping his bowels and
tsbbing himself in the breast. His mother only
scaped by fleeing from the room.
IL is stated now that there is reason to believe
hat the parties implicated in the muder of Mr..
rogers have gone to Europe.
A prize fight between Mike Donovan, of Chi |
ago, and John Bauge, of Peru, Indiana, was
ought near Upton, Indiana, on the 25th, which
esulted in favor of Donovan on the thirty.
ound. |
The San Salvador ship Francisco Alvarez, Capt.
alexander, bound for Valparaiso, from Port
rambler, with lumber, was wrecked on Musgo-
ca Island, one Of the Gambler group, on the 22d
I October last The vessel was total loss. |
seventeen Of the crew, who arrived at San |
francisco from Tahiti, by the French transport
hevert, Capt Ralonce, have gone to Valpa- |
also. 1t is rumored that the ship viceroy, from |
liverpool, for San Francisco, was burned of the |
cast of South America. The rumor cannot be |
raced to any reliable source.
A convant0n of the n n uarr-o~: |