The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-27
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMs.
A bill has been introduced in the South Carolina
Senate TO charter the Manchester and Augusta
Railroad Company, for the construction of rail-
road from the Wilmington and Manchester railroad
to the town of Hamburg, which branches to the
city of Columbia, TO Millen on the Central rail-
read, and to such other places as the company
may find desirable.
The Jacksonville Floridian Of the 10th inst. 4
says: 1t is gratifying to know that, notwithstand-
ing theslate cold snap which extended through all
of East Florida, and npped the crop OF oranges
then on the trees. the buds for the coming crop
were not all injured, and we may count on an
other large crop this year.
The Marietta, Ohio, Times, of Thursday says:
We hear a rumor to the effect that, on Saturday,
9th inst. in the vicinity OF Cow Rum dog brought
In an arm and part of the shoulder OF woman.
The dog was tracked into the woods for some dis
tance when the body of female was found,
buried about six inches under ground. There
were marks upon the person which indicated that
she had come to her death by violence. The body
was identified as that Of young lady who had
mysteriously disappeared from Wood county,
West Virginia, some time last fall.
Several Of the minor restaurants throughout
New York city are reducing their rates for meals.
One announces ga regular dinner for thirty
cents" This includes coffee, and that includes
chicory, burnt peas, baked sweet potatoes, stale
bread, pulverized collins and charred horse
livers.
Merchants Hotel, at River du Loupe, Canada,
was destroyed by fire on the 22d. Three of Mr..
Merchants children and a Mr.. Wallace, civil
engineer. were burned to death, and number Of
others injured.
TIE Pennsylvania Railroad Company is building
twenty-four new passenger coaches, which are to
be heated by two stoves or heaters hung under
the floor of the car, one at each side. Pipes are
extended along the inside, with register, to permit
| the escape of the heat. The pipes extend the
whole length of the car and the heat first strikes
about the feet, where 1t is most needed. The
| temperature Of the car can be kept much more
| regular by this system of heating than by the
| ordinary stoves, which are placed at the doors,
| and usually kept SO hot that no person can sit
| near them. Another advantage claimed for this
improvement is that, in case of a smash-up, the
stoves can be readily detached from the car. The
| fuel is applied from the outside but the heaters
| are go constructed that they burn for several
| On Wednesday week there died in Putnam, o.,
| child aged twelve years, that was born without
| spinal column, and during its existence never
| gave utterance to an articuate or audible sound.
TIE GAINESVILLE Signal, which makes the statement,
| adds: " 1t was probably one of the most remark
| able instances of malformation on record, where
| animal life continued for so long a period, APP
| psrently in defiance of every known law Of physi-
| ologv.n
| A bold and adroit system Of robbery Is being
| practced in Boston. II consists of cutting out
| piece of window pane by means Of diamond, and
| removing the same with what is termed sucker"
| placed upon the piece cut out. On Saturday eve-
| ming jewery worth $3.50 was stolen from store
through such an aperture, and on Monday evening
| a watchmaker's Office was relieved Of watches and
| diamonds worth 1915.
On the arrival of q train from the North ct Sara
toga, New York, few evenings since, the body
| of a man wrapped in buffalo robes was found
lying upon the cow-catcher. Itproyed to be that
OF George M. Wilcox, prominent and wealthy
Stizen OF Colevie, in Saratoga county, who had
been struck by the train while driving across the
track near the village, and fatally injured.
At Dandy. Illinois, Hannah Waidmsn, wealthy
farmers handsome daughter, sixteen years Of age.
| was killed by throwing herself under moving
train on the Northwestern Railroad. The cause
Was her parents refusing to let her marry GER
tain young man.
| ed made a descent on a den Of counterfeiters at
| barber shop at No. 70 Cherry street, New York.
and arrested seven men, all Italians, on charge
| OF dealing in counterfeit notes. About t25 900 in
counterfeit greenbacks, currency notes OF nifty
cent stamps etc.. were found on the premises, in
Guiding $751; coo in two dollar bills of the Rhode
Island National Bank. Antonio DeDarco is said to
be the leader Of the gang. Three other arrests Of
| parties connected with the same ring were subse-
quently made. One, named Jose santrela, made
| desperate resistance, and slightly wounded an
officer. The names of the others, IS far as known,
are Antonio Sari. Antoine senore, Litero Mallitti.
| Rosanior Denere and Francois Stephans. The
prisoners were brought before the United States
| commissioner, and remandei for trial.
A thief smashed the glass panel protecting the
counter Of the Park Bank, New York, on the 23d.
anu BIdDDeu u pdChhRo Vi anu Icsuou outs
handing it to a confederate on the steps, and
escaped. The confederate was captured and the
money recovered
Several officers of the Cuban insurgent army are
in New York for the purpose Of purchasing arms
| and ammunition.
The London Shipping Gazette, of the 9th inst,
| says the brig Hannibal, Capt. Gyles, arrived at
Liverpool, spoke the bark America for New York,
| on the 30th Of December, in latitude AZ i3 north,
longitude 30 20 west, with thirty eight of the ship
| wrecked crew and passengers Of the steamship
| Hbernia on board. The account of Capt. Gyles
| is circumstantal, and there seems no doubt that
another Of the boats that left the Inflated steamer
has been fallen In with and the sufferers rescued.
Cheyenne dispatch says about $50 soldiers
and as many citizens well armed and provided
with eighteen days rations, left on the 22d, In
search of the Indians who stole stock from La
port a few days ago.
An Omaha dispatch says that Mrs. Capt. How.
ard was fatally burned by the explosion of q
| stove using gasoline.
| thousandth mile post on the 23d, and the govern
| ment commissioners are now examining the road.
The Central Pacific Railroad is completed
| Iwenty-one miles beyond Elko four hUadred and
| eighty one miles east of Sacramento, and within
one hundred and eighty miles of Monumsnt Point,
at the head Of Salt Lake. The track Is being laid
at the rate Of two miles day.
| Desbarets block, Ottawa. Ia which were situa-
ted the queens printing Office, the Royal Cana
| dian banks, Troters Hotel, the Offices Of the
Lawrence and Ottawa Railroad and several other
| places of business; also, small adjoipng build
ing. were destroyed By fire on the 2lst. Loss
General orders have been Issued dividing the
nine military districts into regimental and brig sde
| divisions. .
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