The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-05


Gen. Sherman has gone 70 Fort Laronie. ~ :.
The cooks of Paris have IN annual bali.
JEFFERSON ia still Rip Van winklng.
Anna Bishop has gone to China % sing Again
Menken and vinburne have been photographed
together. in London.
thatcher, the New York weather prophet lives
in little watch box on top Of q hotel.
The New York World Of Saturday Govern six
teen pages. ~ fHi
Cincinnati has wooden skating rink for sum-
mer use.
Vsllsndgham has bought into the Dayton Led
ger, and will be editor in-chief.
Hunnicutt nomiaatss himself for governor of
Virginia.
Salmon and trout have been successfully intro
duced into the rivers lndre and Grouse (Frsuce)
Old King Louis leaves fortune OF twenty mill
lion forms.
Eight dootresses were graduated BY the New
York Medical College for Women recently.
New York correspondent says Commodore
Vanderbilt is now the most unpopular man In the
United States. t N.r. re9
In the suburbs is q sign that reads, Adam
Strong, Boot and shoe Maker. He no doubt war
rants his woik.-[Ex.
The young man murdered in q haunt of the So
cial evil in New York. the other day. was son Of
ex-Mayor wescott, Of Jersey city, and inherited .
fortune of $4,000. bsi 81 f,5,f.
1t seems the question of veracity is not between
Wade and G. A. Townsend but between the lat
ter and Forney. who is charged to have made q
denial for Wade without Wsdes sanction.
Madame voInys; on retiring from the st. Pc
tersburg stage. played grandmother In piece
where she had once taken the character Of the
infant.
poor sisterin-aw, invented by the Chicago press
to offset Mr.. Dickens's refusal to 60 to Chicago,
remarks that I" He'll hath no fury like Chicago
scorned." fHtr ~
John Phoenix once said that when, from the
deck of an outgoing steamer, he shouted to .
friend, "0ood-by, colonel" two-thirds of the
crowd on the wharf raised their hats. and said,
Good-by, ole fel. Tekkar yerself."
The reporter of Q Dublin Fenian paper wss
kicked out of an Orange meeting, but stood on his
dignity, and announced that he would not return
unless officially requested and conducted by the
chairman to seat on the platform, al of which
was done. e9t
A liver at restaurants in New York writes that
1--WE can stand the frown of q superior, bat we
weaken, in dismsy, before the sneer Of q servant.
This is poor human nature. Why it should be 50
cannot understand. have struggled against it.
and, shall / confess. have struggled In vain. y
The Chicago Times complains that too many
public recitatons have sprung up since the ad-
vent Of Dickens. "Young misses lisp the deli
cate passages of Julius Caesar. and tooihless old
men drag out the balcony scene of Romeo and
Juliet"
The present year is said to be one for the reap
pearance of the seventeenyear locusts. 1t is
stated that these locusts made their FIRST recorded
appearance in Maryland in 1893. and returned
every seventeen years after that time, their last
appearance being in 1851. air - a,s
miser named Peter Hendrickson, seventy.six
years old, died in New York last week in solitude
and dirt. He abandoned his wife because she
insisted on having one cup of tea per day. For
thirty years he lived on bread and water
The miserable old wretch left property worth
$4,000. rfc tfe y left fif
puppy who occupied private box at Cros-
by's Opera House, Chicago, one night not long
ago, tossed q bouquet to well-known actress.
The lady picked up the nosegay and found card
attached, on which was written. % Room No. =,
Sherman House." She handed it to her husband,
who dashed It in the face of the conceited dandy,
much to the glee of the audience. 'i
A Hungarian officer who served In the Union
army, has written his experience In the Libby
Prison. He says: q" 1t was the law Of Libby "a
law. the origin of which is enveIoped in mystery
that whenever female was seen looming in the
distance, her presence was announced by the loud
call of 'guDboat; and on such occasions there
were desperate charges to the windows, which
would have extorted admiration from the most
unwarlike spectator" .t.
The African republic of Liberia has just had an
impeachment case, and pushed it through to the
farthest limit Chief Justice E. J. Roy, the Oldest
shipping merchant and wealthiest man in the re-
public, has been impeached and removed for high
crimes and misdemeanors. and G. L. Parsons is
chief justice in his stead. Roy's ofsnse consisted
in disohargiDg, on payment of q fine, an English
vessel, which the law required to be confscated,
for trading between the ports of the republic
without license. rs ta
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