The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-01
Editorial Paragraphs, Etc.

Dlckens is 10 READ IN Brooklyn.
Austria is artifcially propagsting Holsters.
Bread riots are feared in Quebec.
Butler says he is the hero of New York, not of
New Orleans.
What Christmas lacked in seasonable frigidity of
atmosphere, New Years Day is likely to make up.
The editor OF the Charlottesville (va.) Chroni-
Gle has Benjamin Franklin's tobacco box.
When last heard from Owens was playing in
Washington.
When Chinamsn becomes beggar in Califor.
MA, his countrynen send him home
The New York Jockey Club is to have house
that will cost $500 600.
Gen. Sherman has The silver bull'seye watch
carried by Roger Sherman.
The amount Of restitution in New York is pro-
badly unexampled in that city.
Thanks to the steward of the Wild Wagner for
o late Natchez Democrat.
Thanks to the officers OF the steamer Mary for
late Mobile papers
Judge Davis OF the Supreme Court is talked of
as the Democratic candidate for the presidency
King BeDazet," lessee Of the Baden Baden
gaming tables, is dead.
Henry Ward Beecber's London publishers make
him d. D.
Portland crows over Boston for losing the Gu.
narders.
Queen Isabella, of Spain, is unable to find
prince that will marry her Oldest daughter.
II is said Geo. Francis Train is seriously on the
track for the presidency, and that he is going to
canvass the South.
At one Of his late receptions, Gen. Grant re-
minded the wife of Congressman Blow that he
used to haul and pile wood for her husband.
The Missouri river at Omaha is now spanned by
pile bridge, over which train from Chicago
was to pass for the first time on the 9th.
Two hundred and twenty thousand bushels of
coal by the Bosz and barges were TO leave Pitts
burg for New Orleans on Saturday.
An actor calling himself ]. F. Booth, and
claiming to be an American, has been playing in
London.
At the fair in Memphis there is a cane to be
presented to the ugliest man.. Four candidates
Gre in the field
Alanson Palmer, who used to roll through the
streets Of Buffalo in his coach and four, was SEN
fenced to four months in the poor.house recently
for stealing shirt.
Robinson's circus and menagere, with male
and female riders gorgeously attired, were pass
ing through the streets yesterday, to the great
delight of thousands of spectators.
At the Salt Lake Theater, a Mormon elder
poked young lady in her back with his cane
because she was looking through an opera glass.
The young lady went into Mysteries.
The Kennebec river is to be damned at Water
vile, Me. The Mssissippiand its tributaries have
been treated in the same way frequently of late
by steamboatmen.
Larry Barrett, now on his way from Europe, |
will play an engagement at the Broadway theater,
when he will sail for California, accompanied by |
Mr.. Harry Wall.
AT the dinner of the New England Society in |
Sew York, Gen. Sickles said when we acquire |
Ireland as an offset for the Alabama claims, we
Vhl then be able to furnish Irishmen with Offices
Within their own country, and reserve a few in
New YORK FOR New Bnslanders.
The system of laying railways without the use
" sleenn-s,. ~ placing the rails directly on the
belfast, which has been in operation for some
time past in Prussia, is said to be quite successful
In that country II is rule on the railways that
every fifth wheel on train must have brake.
London Times JenDings's book about the United
States is out Itpitches into the said United States
The London Athenaum reviews it, pronounces it
" one -sided and ungenerous," and makes home
application of Mr.. Jennings's criticisms in way
which, for an English journal, is a little remark.
able.
miniature mammoth cave is the latest novelty
in New York in the spectacular line of theatrical
amusements. Grottoes, cascades, crystal chapels,
star-roofed chambers, gloomy winding passages,
druidical affairs, shining columns and all the fairy
pbantasmsgoria of subterranean splendor are
grouped with wonderful fidelity.
Mayor Hoffman attended the late annual dinner
OF the New England Society in New York In
speech on the occasion, he said he found when he
went to New England church, neat mixture of
piety and politics. (Laughter.) At a New Eng
land dinner he found peculiar mixture of politics
and pastry. CLaughter.) He felt no disnclina.
ton whatever to the piety or the pastry, though
he found both, at times, somewhat indigestible;
but he had a decided aversion to the politics.
(Renewed laughter.)
The New York Tribune, of Thursday, says
''The eel brsted Jacob Barker, of New Orleans
is before the courts a bankrupt Mr.. Barker
has been millionaire in his day. He is over
eighty years of age, we think, and long before
the present generation looked upon ledgers and
bank books, was one of the leading Commercial
powers OF the country The rebellion lin which
we believe, he was only passve) brought him to
bankruptcy, but yet it would seem that the old
fire is in him, and he is trying TO shake off his load
of debt, to take chance once more in the lot
terry of trade.n