New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-26

The Boston Bee has discovered some grass
from the path of rectitude' We fear that path must
be sadly overgrown with grass it is little travelled in.
We once knew boy who said that he liked /" a
good rainy day too rainy to to school, and just about
rainy enough to go fsbing.H
An hour of honest labor will give any man
better appetite than all the roots between here
Egypt.
A man who marries a frivolous, snowy woman
fancies he has hung trnket around his neck but he
soon finds it u milestone
Stillwell's flour mill, Lorings saddle-tree fac
tory and Dalton and Baldwins livery stable Maysvle
KY were destroyed by fire on the 9th instant.
DR.. N. G. Barrabino a surgeon in the U. S.
after brief illness.
The NJ E. Church at Beverly, N j., was, a
few nights ago, robbed of all its carpets the second
time
Brazil, in opening up the navigation of the
Amazon. has invited Peru well Bolivia to Join her
III efecting that great end.
1t is said that of the three hundred families
introduced into Texas by General Austin only nineteen
heads of families remain
Spirit rappings seem to have become epidemic
in Ohio almost every neighborhood having number Of
rappers.
A new street -sweepng machine has been in
vented in NewYork. with which portion of Broadway
to be swept
The pay of the members of the Ohio Legisa-
ture has been raised to four dollars per dayby their
The town of Pittsfeld, Massachusetts,, con-
tanning about 5000 inhabitants has expended within
years in the building and repair of churches, s76555
Why is a woman's tongue like planet Be-
cause nothing short of the power that created is able
stop it in its
Why is a young man hugging his sweet heart
like an epcure who permits his wine to leak away? Be-
cause he is caisg what he loves The author of this
was sent to the Penitentiary
Mr.. Walsh says of Louis Napoleon that his
hIl t,all
there is no political Hobbs could unlock him when his
purpose is to be closc.'
Boston, a few days ago, young girl Is
years Of age a grand daughter Of New Zealand King
arrested and tried for larceny in the Municipal Court
Her fine Of $50 was paid by subscription.
The block Of native copper to be contributed
by Michigan to the Washington Monument has been COM
peted The designs and inscriptions wrought in Mic
gan silver.
The first step to love is to play with cousin ;
there is freedom from starch in intercourse OF
young people Of this relationship that rpens naturally
| into affection as buds into fruit.
A newspaper passed through the Portland
(Ne Postotce recently directed to Mr. Marston He
bron Me- with the following laconc announcement writ
| ten on the back = No liquor IN this package.n
The Green Mountain Farmer says that 5, $780,
4l pounds of maple made annually in Vermont
being 1913 1913 pounds than made in all the
of NewEngland.
The Akron (Ohio) Standard announces that
Gen Pierce has received donation of swords and pistols
for Hungary sufficient to a COMPANY of cavalry
They were from Portage county.
The Virginia Monument I'd Washington
which estimated to cost 100000 has already cost
ssls6I 50. 1t is estimated that the entire will
| be S143 5S3 81
man with large family was complaining
of the difficulty of supporting all of them Butt said
friend you have big enough to earn something
for you now The difficulty is. they big work
1t is stated that in the town Of West New
bury Mass. there raised and put up last year O.
and har SIS
worth about $4,000.
man in Maine applied for two gallons o.
rum for mechanical purposes " For what mechanica
purposes asked the agent For raising barn wa
| was the reply.
| In the north part of Herkimer county there
leghing the 10th of November last and it con
tnued without interruption up to the 14th Of Apr16
| days
buck, while being measured for a pair O
boots. observed; Make them the calf IIeav
ems " exclaimed the astouuded snob, surveying his
toner from head to foot 4 have not leather enough
s' If there is any body under the canister OF
amiabe Mrs Partngton lit is the sanderer going about
like boy constructor circulating his caomel about hon
| est folks
| A buffoon at the court of Francis I com.
planned to the king that great lord threatened
der him for uttering jokes about him If he does
sold Francis he shall he hanged in five minutes after
iwst your Majesty tcoh hang him fire minutes before g
| A general Convention of the Physicians O.
Virginia will be held in the city of Richmond Tuesday
April 81 for the purpose of efecting thorough organ
aton of the profession and foradyancng the interests
medical men in the Commonwealth"
| A country exchange of ours, in relating al
attempt at the Editors assassination in Western thea
tire. says "A gun pointed at heads but thinl
there was nothing in it, We would wish to inquire
which he means the head or the gun IN. Y. Pic.
| A company is forming in Mexico to work TIL,
gold mines of Sonora The scheme is favored by the Gen
era Government. who promised to send hundred
troops under the lead Of an experienced officer. TIL
/ frnn IDvn pfiD1l atan
The Portland Argus says that the issue of til,
late election in that place, by which Mr. Nea! Dow wa
defeated candidate for Mayor cannot be regarded
an antitemperanee verdict because Mr. Paris the
cess>fu candidate. is also temperance man.
There are six thousand children, it is est
mated in California and in eleven of twenty coune
there are no schools But energetic bein
taken to remedy this evil The State debt of California
is about two millions and quarter OF dollars.
d. P. Willis, who was discarded by Lolt
Montes and who then carded y her in the newspapers
has been her grace The Boston papers stat
that he stood motioness while che put the gas man GU
of the theatre the other evening.
| The tribe of Cafusos, of Brazil, have long hair
half cured rising from the head foot, and so tangle
that combing is out of the question. These natura
perukes round, prodigous and ugly-regular WOOL
| heads.
| Theodore Hook once dned with Mr. Hatchet
All my dear fellow said his host deprecatingy, 1
sorry to say you will not get such dinner to-day
friend Tom Moore gave u.s. Certainly not replie
Hook :" from Ratchet one can expect nothing but
chop
Marketing at Norfolk, Va, is unprecedented
y high. Firkin butter 81 4 40 cents per lb. eggs
quality rs cents gallon shad 25 cents each sturgeo
10 1917 cents lb fresh pork 10 cents h., and yege
tables in proportion.
Wendell Phillips wants somebody to shoot
United States officer engaged in arrestng fugitive slave
He don't about pulling trigger himself That is on
of the dues' which this conscientious patriot thinks
| wise for him to neglect.
Mr.. Forrest has concluded the ninth consecu
tive week of his engagement at the Broadway Theatre
Y, and nobody knows when he is to stop. 1t is under
stood that he has played thus long in order to afford MI
Marshall the manager opportunity to pay him bac
certain sums of money loaned last season.
Trunks are now manufactured in such shap
be small large at the pleasure of the travce
and the quantity of articles he may wish to carry wit
him The principle is very simple. The trunk is of tw
Independent parts, without hinges sliding tn
other and fastened with straps and padocks OF cours
its size will depend entirely the quantity it contains.
Mrs Huldah Sparkling died in the village {
Oswcgo NJ Y the Sth inst aged one hundred and to
years She was horn in Walpark, N j.. She distinct
her father and mother being driven from their homes an
she was wounded by the Indians.
1t is rslated of Manuelita Rosas, that he
father kept couple Of fools TESTERS and that when 81
required any favor from him. she used to make one
these fellows go down upon all foufs AMI then str
astride upon his back approached her father IN I'M
attitude with grOtesque air OF humility when new
failed to touch his heart and make him grant her reques
Bradley H. Kinney, and wife, of London,
H. have been mulcted in the of $500 for repeating
report adverse TO the chastity of Miss Almira H. Dan