The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-11

II
Gold in New York 1871 to lss. 20
vesuvius threatens to erupt.
Greeley ID nominated for Congress.
Seward does not contemplate marriage.
Queen Isabella is in an interesting oonoton.
Rossipi has written two new cadenzss ior "a.
August Belmont has been 70 Ne" nsmpsn"e'
Edwin Booths income last year was sso'ooo'
Janauschek il at the New York Aca1emy.
Tbe Spanish junta are going into reform with q
bound.
The president has ordered the restoration Of the
Louisiana statue of Washington.
The Cubans are snxious to get some news from
Spain. Cuba 10 poor place for news.
Philip Werlich, 81 Baronne street, has Mendels-
sobn's songs without words, for the piano forte.
Burlingame's Chinese title is prolonged sneeze,
Poo-au- Chen, Cbin-chi-choong-jen-tache
It is said that an obstinate man does not hold
| opinions but they hold him.
| The New York gold room enjoyed rumor the
other day of treaty for the purchase OF Cuba.
| The Montreal wrigse has attacked the ladies'
| Of Canada.
Part of the sea,wall Of San Francisco is sliding
out to rea.
The latest election question in England is. Can
q peer of the realm vote,"
Cbils and rheumatic pains are dis1greeably
prevalent.
Isabella has been forced to confess that her
ne 1ofk SO OF fseoSoss PsrIsrs translated into
Swedish, are in every bookstore in Stockholm.
An amateur velocipedist in England wants to
race locomotive.
Reversible dresses are the latest novelty for
ladies'.
Beecher says he used to wash dishes and hem
| towels.
Gordon Granger has established his head
quarters in Memphis.
vsning Bowers as Major de Boots took the au-
dience by storm Friday night.
With the approach of cold weather the Nash
vile Banner has become blanket sheet.
g.. d. McEnery has become associate editor Of
the Ouachita Telegraph.
| Kentucky under the undisputed escendency OF
the Democracy, is peaceful and quiet.
Col. Tucker, agent in this city of the Illinois
Central Railroad, estimates he lake corn crop of
} illinois ct $50, COO, 600 bushels.
VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain, Maggie Nit
chell, Laura Keen and Ole Bull, were in Hartford
recently.
Josie orion is bound to be o great favorte with
the veriet;es patrons, aud deservedy SO. She is
pretty, piquant and sensible.
Tender hearted keepers of boarding houses are
reminded that blankets are now more useful than
mosquito bars.
: Britannia rules the waves Could she not man.
age them 10 keep down the British swell ?
| [romskawk.
Some "cuten Americans from Chicago have put
9 up some money to build an Augo-Americar
: theater near the New Opera. in Paris.
: Western hes walked hundred miles within
twenty-five hours and half. and feels better
. doubtless.
q " .I1.,., t,t
. to Delmsr's. They know that truth lies in Wells
II Boston Pest.
s The members Of the Howard Association ar,
], nearly as busy among the sick and destitute o
,, the lately inundated section they were durni
n the last yellow fever epidemic.
Lydia Thompson, London actress IN New
!: York, IL said to be q pretty blonde with jus
: enough cockneyism to be piquant, and exuber
b ance of spirits sufficient for entire tea party.
The emperor has expressed himself delighted
3 with the modified Chassepot, known as Berdani
Mountain Boy against any horse in the world
mile heats. Mountain Boy has made haf mile
in l:075.
"spunky,"s female writer in the New Yorh
World, thinks the pdnier is more Objectionable
. IN woman than tight trousers IN man. Her objec
ZION to the latter is that they reveal the thinness
l Of limbs. "spUnky's" point Is not well taken
since the trousers only reveal the litteness OF
one paIt, while the pdnier exaggerates the great
j. ness Of another lex.
At recent tableaux party on the Hudson the
3 scene of Bluebeard's dead room was shown-siz
{ pretty heads all bloody, suspended along the
wall, the bodies, of course, being behind the
} canvas As the curtain descended one of the
heaes was observed TO smile. 1t was afterwards
ascerfained that some one had stolen behind the
scenes and kissed the hand of one of the wives
Mr.. Bateman, Jr., manager of the opera troupe
now performing at St. Louis, lost t4oO in gold re-
Gently at hotel in Chicago, and does not know
how it disappeared. He discovered the loss by
Mile Tostee applying to him for funds, when on
examining his trunk, be found that much def.
cheney. Tostee's salary is slsoO ia gold per
month.
young lady at Newport lost thousand dollar
ring. A young gentleman found it. On claiming
the privilege of putting it on her fuger himself
the young lady assented and held forth the fore.
finger Of her left hand. the engagement ring
finger. The young man ives caught but didn't
finch from bis doom, as the young lady's papa is
worth two millions.
Fine actirg every right at the Varieties Thea
tef We rejoice for all orr people of taste ia the
annual recurrence of this intellectual luxury. Az
school Of manners, conversation, society,
nothing can excel the well managed stage. The
auditorium Of q heightened theater, like the Va
rieties, is fine social exchange, where, beside
the attractions Of the play, we are brought in
contact with the best looking, best dressed and
most pleasing actors on the stage of every day
life.
If any citizen is improperly denied regis
tration by the supervisors, we trust that he