The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-01
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MORNING, DECEMBER 1, lsss.
EDrToHIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC
The St. Louis Hotel opens to-day. reg
Gold closed in New York yesterday at 1851.
General Prim's father was butcher.
Bryant has sold out his Post.
Iberve parish has organized Property.
holders and Tax payers Association"
We are indebted to the purser of the steamship
Mariposa for late files of New York papers.
Expensive lunches have superseded matinees
among fasbionables.
Thirty thousand Swiss subsist by cotton spin.
nipg
Msdrid's governor prohibits begging on the
streets.
Mr.. Walter L. Newberry. an old and respected
citizen of Chicago, died in Paris recently.
Diamond rings have displaced plain gold for en-
gagement rings.
In France to one person who reads book 100
go to the theater.
The average daily wages of SO 900 Partisan wo.
men are two francs and fourteen centimes.
During the last three months the receipts of the
Philadelphia theaters were 100000.
Prof. +. Verdugo, Of Salamanca, Spain, died
recently at the age of los years.
Gen. Thompson, who in his day was quite
prominent politician, died in Tallahassee, Florida.
Poor Carlotta has been prohibited from reading
newspapers.
Linen Weddings" are the latest matrimonial
dodge to get presents out of friends.
Miss Nellie Chase is a candidate for enrolling
clerk in the Kansas Legislature. o.
Maidens are notified that leap year, with the
ladies' privilege, is drawing to q close.
Gen. p II. Roddy, formerly of Alabama. has
gone into the commission business in New York.
Mr.. Oliver Dyer was received in the new church
(Swedenborgian) by baptism, on Sunday last.
Mr.. Stone, paper manufacturer, of Brookville,
Indiana, got in debt $4,000 and then failed.
Fred. G. Gedney declines a European consulship
because his literary engagements pay him better.
1t takes nearly 100000 year to run the lum.
Der business of Burlington, Vermont.
The handsomest women on the Paris prom
enades are Americans.
Queen Victoria is in her fifteth year. and has
nine children and thirteen grand children.
A silver quarter is advertised for sale by auc.
ton at a Christmas fair in Springfield.
The Able Domenech is to be prosecuted for
libels contained in his book on Macmillan.
Bishop Bissel, of Vermont is visiting Detroit,
where he taught school thirty years ago.
with snuff in their beer.
The Louisville Courier says drunkenness among
women seems so be increasing in that city.
Springfield, Mass, gives its 5000 pupils all this
week to spend Thanksgiving.
A young ladies' Christian association has been
organized in Burlington, Vt.
They shoot swans in Virginia and sell them in
market for 81 so.
At an auction sale of paintings in New York
last week, a Verboechoven sold for $500.
Yesterday, s40O bales of cotton were sold in this
market.
BeveDue collected by be United States govern
ment for the month of November $500, 900.
Gen. Humphrey estimates the cost of a ship
canal around Niagara Falls at 81, 900, 900.
The crops of Egyptian cotton this year will az
gregate 1000, 900 cantars, 1884 pounds each.
missionary voted as college citizen 10 New
Haven the other day after an absence in India for
twelve years. ....-
Zurich letter dated November 18th, says that
the greater part of Switzerland was already buried
trees in some places.
Capt. S. A. Poche, of St. James, has obtained q
patent for an apparatus for evsporating cane
juice" ...
Impeachment" Ashley has issued ava!edictory
address to his constituents. occupying two columns
OF solid nonpsre in the Toledo Blade.
The Hartford Carpet Company has imported a
number of superior operators from Canada, to
work in the mills at ThompsonvIe, CT.
Rev. Allen Clark, of Seymour, CT, took part in
three marriages the other day, officiating in the
first two as minister and in the last as bridegroom.
J. Marshall Hanna, local editor of the southern
Opinion. was the author of the article for which
Rives Pollard was assassinated in Richmond.
S. NJ. Clarke, the United States treasury printer.
having been discharged, will go to New York and
manufacture paint.
Dulce, the newly appointed captain general Of
Cuba, sails for Havana. on the 30th inst, with
5000 men.
In South Shields, England, a college is being
erected in which sailors are to be fitted for the
highest duty of their calling.
party Of emigrants from North Carolina,
numbering one hundred passed through Richmond,
KY, en- route to Minnesota, on the 18th inst.
During the present year over 5000 buildings
have been erected in Chicago, at cost of
So, 600, eco.
The residence of Mrs. NJ. NJ. Carpenter, near
Clinton. Ala. was fred by an iucendiary on the
18th inst. and burned to the ground.
Napoleon has given Ludwig Will, a German
poet and teacher, pension of 1900 francs
yearly.
Iowa has 1880 miles of railroad. which cost
s5T SOC COO. 10 1864 she had only 800 miles, which
cost s26, 0O0, 900.
Thurlow Weed Is reported TO be as cheerful
as a tom.tit on pump.handle.-[Ls Crosse Dem
ocrat.
Two distressed American families in Brazil have
been aided TO return home by gift of 200 mireis
from the emperor.
white fswn was shot by Wash Lambert and
A. R. Prentiss, in Yolo county, California within
fifty miles of Sacramento city, on the 9th October.
An old gentleman 10 Nashville, while in night.
mare recenuy, prtCueu young man ont of o hotel
window.
Hunnieutt has discovered that the freedmen's
bureau is nuisance that should be promptly
abated.
Londouers want street thieves dashed at the
wbippiDg-post, that being the only punishment
they dread