New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-20
Something for Every Body.

A new daily paper is to be commenced in Gin
cinnat in few days by Judge Warden
In South Dedham, Mass, within a circuit of
ten miles there reside twelve persons whose united
amount to one thousand and sir years!
The old sugar house in the rear of Trinity
Church. NewYork, is being demolished to make room for
new stores.
Mr. Paris, the newly elected Mayor of Port
land has pledged himself it said maintain the Maine
Liquor Law"
An editor out west says ladies wear corsets
from feeling OF instinct having natural love for being
squeezed We won't give the fellows
Railway Official You'd better not smoke
sir ~ That's what my friends say But you mustn't
smoke, sir ~ " So my doctor tells men But YOU
shant smoke, sir y! "Ah just what my wife says"
The colossal statue of De Witt Clinton, in
bronze the foundry Of Messrs Aes Springfield
nearly completed The figure fifteen feet in height and
will stand pedestal twenty feet high It ia in
tended to be erected in Greenwood Cemetery,
1t is ascertained that the insurance on prop
ery destroyed by the recent fire in Philadelphia amount
ed to $540000 Of which $3.50 600 companies out of
that city The loss it said is double the amount of in
surance.
The Montreal Herald of the Sth says that the
crossing the south shore is becoming dangerous Tho
ice bridge has stood firm for three months but on
Wednesday several horses broke through opposite the cr
and were saved with difficulty
The copy Of the Bible used on the occasion Of
the admission of General Washington to the order Of
Masons was exhibited to the brethren assembled at
meeting of the Lodge Virtue held in the Albion Hotel
Manchester on Wednesday evening week.
In 1916 the military post. of the United States
were only seventy eight in number the Westernost nf
which Fort Washita Red river now there are one
hundred and eighteen military posts the Pacific forms
the western limit of our territories.
The Burlington Sentinel is responsible for the
following: Sartan's Magazine contains pocm entitled
Our Baby-by Phoebe Carey A pretty thinr-but il
don't compare with babyby the editor of the SEN
tnel
The quantity of opium entered for home con-
sumption in Great Britain in 1850 amounted to 1874 lbs
and during the past year it had increased 5O36S lbs
being increase OF S0 lbs that preceding year..
1t would therefore appear that dram drinking de-
creases, opium eating increases
A writer in the Charleston, Is. CO. Lit.
Gazette, gives this epgrammac counsel to Mr. Wikoff
All Chevaier when Genoas prison gates
Unfold and suffer thee at will to ramble,
Methnks, instructed by the adverse Fates,
Thou shouldst go forth-no more inclined to Gamble
Capt. Henry, of the ship Mary, Of New-Bed-
ford states that mis- passage to the Japan Sea- in
"A NJ long 13l 10 E. he passed near small island low
and apparently covered with trees of small growth He
knows of chart book in which reference made to
any land in that vicinity.
The spiritual Rappers have begun their knock
ngs rappings in Mount Holly N J. The Mirror saws
person of that neghborhood, who is firm believer
gives out that he will convince the people Of the
truth of this discovery He intends to call upon the
spirit of Samson to two-story house for him which
he wishes placed about fifty yards from whore it
stands.
When a man, now a-days, wishes to communi-
the intelligence that daughter has been added to
the family, he that his domestic affections have
reached cry-ss
The perpetrator of the above arrested aud tried
but let off on the ground of insanity.
The family Of Kossuth, victims of Austrian
tyranny are is said in great disressoblects indeed
OF charity, The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times narrates that small sum- f120 having been
forwarded by philanthropst for their relief the I'M
per1al authorities after satisfying themselves that it
really intended for their support consented tn its being
paid into the hand of the aged mother who has third
daughter and the ID children of the two daughters who
are in prison dependent her for their daily bread
MIR. O'Flaherty undertook to tell how many
were at the party The Crogaus one mesef
two. Mike Finn three. and-and-who the devil was
four! Let me see-(connting his fngers)the Gro
cans was one Mike Finn was two mesef three-and
hcdad there was four of but Saint Patrick couldn't
tell the name OF the other Now its mese that has it
Mike Finn was one, The t,go Crogans ro mesef
hrce-andand by my sowl think there was but three
of us, afther all !"
Of Madame de Marguerittes, who is now in
Boston, the Times records that name has for the
of Newly ork most successful and spirited writer
Her Souvenirs of the Opera " will be remembered by
every they copied into almost every paper in
the Union, The - Home Book of Beauty" q coinedetta
pete with sarcasm yet devoid of personality play
eighteen successive nights at Brougham's Lyceum in
Newiork and pronounced to be the best local dra
matte sketch yet written Miss Cushman brought in
Madame d. Marguerttea with unprecedented success.
She has played it, since ~ productions aaas o. twice du'
ring each engagement