The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-24
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.


New Hampshire ia sll alive with squirrels.
Gold closed Yesterday in New York at 1854.
There are about 1900 failures year In Paris.
Collars wedding is set do IN for the 27th.
Brooklyn. from its numerous boarding houses,
is called "Hashtown."
Keys of gold embellish the rosewood doors OF
an uptown mansion in New York city.
The Little Corporal, published in Chicago, is to
appear hereafter in magazine form.
During the past month ifty-four farms, embrac
ing 1899 acres, were taken up In Florida.
AMI. w. Tsney, of Eufsula, Ala, estimates
the cotton crop of 1868 at ], 800. 900 bales.
A man in New York State was recently fined
s25 for shooting bird on Sunday.
We are Indebted to the officers of the steamship
Austin for file of late Brownsville papers.
Thanks to the mail line packet for late Mobile
papers.
Hon A. P. Hill, of Madison county, Miss, died
last week.
The Princess Kozioska, beautiful Russian
lady. has opened cigar store in Moscow.
"God save the Queen " was Kissed in Quebec
theater the other evening.
The school boys in Russia have only 225 holi.
days in year.
August Belmont's picture gallery is valued at
half million of dollars.
Thanks TO the Southern Express, and the
steamer Lizzie from Pensacola for late papers.
Boston annually expends fifty thousand dollars
for church music.
There are more men than women on Prince
Edwards Island.
Twelve hat factories of Bethel, Conn, employ
$40 hands, and turn out SCI dozen of hats daily.
in 1867 the city OF Berlin, with a population Of
2O5 600, Consumed 81 100 beeves, rs, $50 calves,
222, 1872 sheep and 1864 hogs.
during the ten years ending January /, 1867, and
457 during the first half of 1867.
II is estimated that 1898 400 geo of American
securities of different kinds are now held ia Eu.
rope.
No new sovereigns were coined in England in
1867; circumstance which has not happened
for years.
The Chicago reporters call prizefghts "ethno-
graphic" and cock fights pathological dis.
cussions.i
gust, 1869, visible in all parts of the United
States.
The London Times pays f3 per column for out
side contributions, but rejects ninetenths of the
matter offered.
A Salt Lake paper concludes marriage notice:
" The convivaliues of the evening, we are in
formed, were chsste and exhilsrating."
Several wealthy youths of Manchester N. H.,
are learning trades to secure themselves against
probable reverses of fortune. Sensible.
Buffalo horns are prepared in Germany and sold
in London to dress and stay makers as Indian
whalebone.
Prof. Blot, the cookist, Is experimenting the
Rumford Food Laboratory, at Boston, and putting
mp ready dinners for sale at the stores.
DeGirardns residence cost him 900 francs.
His wife, handsome German princess gives re.
ceptions second only to the Empress Eugenie's.
IN family of father, mother and seventeen
children, in East Tennessee, every one chews
tobacco except two girls, who dip.
A negro man calling himself Robert Williams,
has been convicted in Wake, N. c., Superior
Court, of stealing horse and mule, and sentenced
by Judge Watts to the penitentiary for ten years.
Two years ago Chicago lady in the absence of
her lord, snapped pair of family horses for five
acres of land south of the city. She Is now Of
fered $4,000 for the land.
DIR. Muhlenbert, the author Of the poem begin.
ming % would not live always, ask not to stay"
is nearly eighty years of age, and has health suf
cient for another decade.
An order has recently been issued from the war
department turning over the custody of the Chat
tahoochee arsenal to the governor of Florida, TO
be used for penitentiary purposes until Congress
shall provide for its final disposition.
Mr.. Geo. W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Led ger,
has presented the Typographical Society of the
" Quaker City" with a handsomely improved
burial lot in Woodland Cemetery for which the
generous donor gave $1,000.