The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-02

In San Francisco. All Wang was recently rob.
bed and plundered by George Washington. The
| one is Chnamsn and the other a negro. An
wang, considering that yellow man has some
ngnts which black man must respect, brought
| suit against the African who despoied him. Bat
IN California courts Chnaman Is not allowed to
TESTIFY against white man, and under the new
regime black man Is constructively white, hence
An wang was turned out OF the court and the
negro robber was dismissed. The case was car.
| RED to the Supreme Court, when q majority OF
three judges, Republicans, decided that All Wang
bad no redress and minority Of two, Democrats,
delivered contrary opinion.
One night recently policeman in San Fran.
| cisco halted q Chinaman who was carrying large
| package. The officer felt of the bundle, and de.
tecting heavy body in ii, ordered the man to
| put 1t down on the sidewalk. The Chinaman did
so. but took to his heels. The officer followed
him, ard drawing his pistol ordered him to stop.
The Chinaman stopped and returned On exam
ming the sack il was found to contain the dead
body of female infant eighteen months old. The
Chinaman acknowledged that the child had been
smothered to death by the parents. and that they
had employed him to dispose Of the body. II is
said to be the custom in China for parents to kill
female children whenever they consider them a
burden.
Two brothers named Luten, and one Dibble,
started to walk across the prairie from Carroll
Dis.ie we're found frozen dead. and the Younger
huSen SO sasy foIs1 that his feet and hands win
| A squalid old white beggar In Montgomery.
Alabama, was arrested and searched. bag was
| found on his person containing two hundred dol.
lars in silver, q roll Of greenbsoks amounting to
fifty dollars fifty dollars in gold, wrapped up In
/ newspaper, belt around his waist containing
over one thousand dollars in currency and several
hundred dollars in his shoes. The mayor gave him
! twenty four hours TO get out of town.
The Madison (Indans) Courier says: "Mr.
| Oliver Lloyd, Of Republican Township, this
| county, in splitting the first cut of large oak
tree, one day last week, found there inclosed four
nnfa naQ tha aaFfo Of f,a
| hundred and fifty years. growth of solid wood
over them. They were sound and SWEET
MIR. Charles Axt of Charlottesville, Georgia,
was found dead in his bed with his throat cut from
ear to ear and his skull crushed in. An illegti-
mate son of the deceased, by mulatto woman,
has been arrested as implicated in the murder.
when arrested, ne was at the door of the wine
cellar, about two hundred and fifty yards from the
house. In the cellar vest of the murdered man
was found, and his pocket book containing $47 in
the possession Of the youth arrested. The son
had been severely punished by the father on the
day preceding the murder.
disastrous fire occurred at Gsatin, Tenn, on
the 24th. Ii commenced at hslf-past 3 o'clock.
10 the grocery store OF Rodemer, frame house.
and spread rapidly, strong gale prevailing, until
the principal portion of the west side of the pub.
lie square was destroyed. Thirteen houses alto
gether were burned, some Of them the finest in
the town. The sufferers are J. G. Rodemer Miss
Mclean, 8. A. Wilcox, G. w. Moss q Co., j, v.
Strobe, Harris Hassell & Co, Mrs. 8. Levy Strong
Levy Co., W. Fl. Brown & Co., She'll Bro, Z.
3. Donnel and James House. The fire was ar
rested by tearing Oh the roofs of the houses. The
Odd Fellows Hall, in the third story of one of the
stores, was burnt. The resslia and other pro-
perry were burnt The books and papers were
saved. But one private residence, Miss McLean's,
on the north side, was burnt. The loss is est.
mated at s75 ,000 Insurance $40 600, exclusively
in Eastern Offices, none of the names of which are
reported. The fire was caused by a defective
fue.
A cargo of wheat from California which re-.
Gently arrived at Boston and was sold, returns
net loss to the parties interested of over 500 0O0
spring wagon has been invented BY gentle
man in Mayslick, Kentacky, which proposes to
run without any kind Of animal or steam power.
He has already perfected small model, which
runs up or down hill very rapidly: The power is
received from an immense steel spring, which
will run for half an hour without being wound up.
In going up hill the spring exhsusts itseIf. bnt In
going down hill it winds Itself up. The inventor
claims that he can carry very heavy loads nuAr
In M1 NOBLE q F FsR nights ago negro burglar
named Joe Chastang shot and killed negro who
was in pursuit Of him.
Mrs. Thomas Hill, wife OF ex.President Hill. of
Harvard College, died at Waltham, Mass, aged
81 She was q woman of much culture, and
girls. ..t
Brevet Captain Samuel H. Kinney, who commit
ted suicide at Sitke, recently by blowing his
brains out With pistol, was a first lieutenant in
the second United States artillery. He was ap-
pointed cadet from Utah, and graduated at the
military academy in 1864. He was the son Of
Chief Justice Kinney of Utah.
The doors of the Fourth National Bank of Phil
adelpbia were not opened on the 23d, owing 70
the defalcatiOn of Cashier McMullen, who ia in
custody, but refuses to give any information. The
capital of the bank is $225 600, deposits 100000,
and circulation $50 600, at last report.
Mrs. Sophia Royce, widow aged sixty, living
in Fremont, Ohio, while looking through atannery
there, with party of friends, had her dress
caught BY cog revolving rapidly on shaft, and
was instantly and horribly mangled to death.
Dalton, Georgia, is announced to be " in whirl
of excitement" over the discovery Of vast coal
deposits in Johns Mountain, few miles distant.
During the last thirteen years six hundred and
twenty-five homicides have been committed in
New York City. Ii has never been discovered
who perpetrated ono hundred and fifteen OF them,
which shows the extent to which murder will
The Californisns are dealing practically with
the woman question, 30 FAR sas labor is concerned
They have Women's Cooperative Union, which
has been In existence but six months and has
already cleared $1,000, having about $4,000 in stock
on hand. Their labor ia directed to sewing
children's and ladies' clothing, shirts, general
needlework, etc, and they have received
three diplomas for their work from agricultural
and mechanical State Fairs. They give employ
ment to over one hundred aud sixty women.
General John c.. Breckinridge was in Alexan-
6lis, Virginia. on the 23d, attending the marriage
of his other.in;law, Rev. DR.. Bullock of Balti.
more. He leaves for Petersburg.
Manager Smythe, of the American Theater.
Pittsburg, was painfully wounded, recently, by q
elected from the theater.
Cubans in New York declare that the nsur-
geEts of their Island will enroll the negroes and
that general massacre of Spaniards will ensue.
Dispatches from Havana indicate that the insur-
Tection is growing more formidable every day.
Five passengers from White Pine arrived in San
Francisco, Jan. 9th. each the possessor of about
500 OO0 the proceeds Of their seasons operations
in the newly discovered Silyerado. Three of the
number had grown rich by selling the proprietor
ship, or shares 10 well known Mines and the two
others by selling and by the proceeds of mines, in
which they still hold considerable interests.
ga desperate fight occurred at Highland Falls,
New York, recently, between some soldiers from
West Point and some citizens of the Falls. One
Of the citizens was badly beaten, and four Of the
soldiers passed north to-day under arrest
The Senate committee on foreign relations have
sgreed TO report in favor OF the ratification of the
Darien ship canal treaty recently negotiated By
Caleb Cushing.
Mr.. BesnY, Of 81. Louis, who lost three thous-
and dollars on the 22d and offered five hundred