The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-15

Mn. feivertOn ~ et st. Louis.
Ex-President Pierce b able to ride ont.
Hon. Robert @. Winthrop 10 back nom Europe.
Chicago 10 assessed for t22s ,444,s7s.
T. Tennessee owes debt Of $50 .O00,00o
Paris has started steam omnibus.
Patti has bought Q house lot in Paris.
Bowdoin IL to have an observatory.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamer Richmond.
Camp street and vicinity were filed with glori-
Gus music last evening from serenading band.
Colonel VIM. Thofne Williams, Of Savannah, 10
dead. i-ro en- rfrsaf is- t8s lr 81 IA
Gen. Hancock left St. Louis for Washington on
the 18th. e.if e
A st. Louis bank messenger was robbed Of
nearly $4,000 on the 18th. - F. esH
The Grec,an bend is the Hellenic sinuosity 1"
in Boston. ..,,-.- .,......, : g..
Blondin 10 about to make another tour through
this country. -. s3 oatc4
Butler has gone to Kelley's Island to visit Jay
Cooke.
Two Of the Lawrences. Of Boston. have given
an Episcopal church, worth $50 600. to Longwood.
Isabells's manners, it Is said, are those Of q
shopkeeper's wife.
Farmer is to again dispense soup to the New
York poor.
AS0iCBOtp VI tu0 nOu my CduO0, un6 BOuO vi
to do the 6uez canal In his craft.
The New York Herald considers the annexation
Of Cuba as balm for reconstruction.
1t is said the Prince of Wales was the original
Champagne Charlie" fe1
Anna Dickinson was " stags-struck" long be-
fore she went into the lecture-feld.
Robert o. Murphy has been appointed general
postofice agent. -t
Council Blufs City calls herself the "City Of
the Sunfowers."
The latest from Utah. Brigham Young medi-
tates abdication.
A Southern Commercial Convention met in
Norfolk yesterday.
Seward has been exchanging kindly salutations
with the new Spanish government.
William Gray 10 among the persons named for
the vacant presidency of Harvard.
Over twenty cottage families still sojourn
at Newport enjoying the delightful weather.
cargo of wild, full-grown buffaloes is ON the
way from Kansas to New York.
The weather continues clear, mild and every
way beautiful. .
The Canadian Zouaves are returning from Rome
in bad health and temper.
"Seagram," to denote q cable dispatch, is the
latest atrocious invention of a New York Journal
The late General Gates captured the Indian
0sceola. s'
Saturday is the favorite day for marrying in
Paris.-Ex.
Because it is the last of the weak, perhaps.
Judge Grandin and Col. W. D. Mann, are men.
TONED as the Democratic candidates for Congress
rom the Mobile district.
The story is stated that Mrs. Lincoln went to
europe because abe wished to secure q sail for
ler clothes.-lEx.
There is furnished house on Fifth avenue
which rents for two thousand dollars month!
The occupants are Cubans.
Lace drapery falling low at the sides, and
'aught at the back of the cltignon by bow and
nds, is graceful fea ture of winter bonnets.
The Lanterne is printed in Belgium, on the
hinnest possible paper, 90 that several copies
nay be smuggled in watch.csse. E
Schenectady merchant smashed two hun.
red dollar mirror in trying-hic-to hit that man
q his room.
Baltimore has an "oyster polce,r who patrol
be oyster grounds" and sometimes indulge In
n "oysier war;"
Anticipating the annexation of Cuba, candidates
re said to be already appearing for collector at
Iavana."
French female thieves of laces. diamonds and
honey, now conceal their plumber in their
air.
The Ivy Mil, that made paper for Benjamin
ranklin's newspaper, is still in operation in Della
rare county. Pa.
The employees Of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad |
ave presented gold watch to Superintendent
ones.
Swearing on the Bible was first introduced into
idicial proceedings BY the saxons, about A. D.,
DO.
Double. breasted frock coat, tight trousers,
anadian hats and light gloves, is now the fash.
'nable promenade costume for Q New York |
we'll.
Mrs. Hannah Wick. of Tennessee, is I07 years
ID and still sufficiently energetic to draw pensions
q account Of the late Wick, who was q revolu-
onary father.-(Ex.
On solemn occasions the Sultan of Burnu has
lie equipage, presented to him by Queen victo.
q, drawn by the grandees Of his court, he him
If marching on foot by the side.
The British ordnance Office is about to make
irvey of the various mountains claiming to be
cunt Sinai.- lex.
Mountains sometimes make a climb" but
ever claim of that sort.
In garden in Lynn, Massachusetts,. is a pear
zee which was grated four years ago, and by
istake an apple scion was put into it. 1t has
Nv on it several ripe apples of new variety IN.
,own TO fruit growers.
A maiden lady now living in New York city, has
ade will, in which she directs her executors,
due process of time, to use her dust and entire
mains to make mortar with which to lay the
,rner stone Of church. l-rr
Jas. Freeman Clarke's church in Boston has
zen free for twenty-seven years. He has no
red salary and pays nothing for music. He has
Nv new church to hold 1900 persons, which
,st $50 GOO.
Miss Olive Logan has four sisters on the stage
ella Logan, at the Lyceum theater, London and
lice, Kate and Grace, at Woods museum, in
is city. The eldest of the six sisters Il Eliza, wife
the museum proprietor, George Wood Taey
1e in great elegance in Twenty.ninth street.
Sew York Mall.
The dog of J. G. Merry, Of Sherman, Me-, drove
couple of bears up tree. Mrs. Merry took her
hitting work and sat down under the tree to
atch the bears until her husband, who was at
ork on another part of the farm. arrived with his
In and brought them to terms.