The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-13
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Brignoli is engaged TO be married.
Beef is tough and blue In Galveston.
Eastern ship building is revivng.
Boston is to have ladies' club house.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamer Matagerda-
The governor Of New Hampshire. recently re-
elected, Is Hartman, not Harrison.
The New York underwriters have voted that q
rebate Of Is per cent. be made to assured.
agate" is again writing Warrington letters to
the Cincinnati Gazette.
ST. AIbans. Vermont, is the butter metropolis
Of the United States.
1he late General Asbosh came to this country
with Kossuth.
Thanks to Purser J. j. Johnson, of the steamer
Lizzie.
The Bee reporter has lost silk umbrella and
advertises for its restoration. Good Joke.
Morris Riley. an aged and respected citizen
Of Rankin county, Miss, was recently fatally
poisoned by q negro.
New Orleans has its full share of admirers OF
" that noble ANIMAL the horse" Dare any one
Of them try the quality Of equine steak!
The Paris school Of beauxarts was closed for a
week because the scholars Kissed Napoleon and
Eugenie.
Victoria has twelve grandchldren.-[Ex.
The above statement is probably made upon
the authority of the Prince of Wales.
How is the subterranean gas supply likely to
effect the stock of the company which deals in
the manufactured article
Colonel Charles Q. Clapp, wealthy and enter
pTising citizen Of Portland died suddenly Tuesday
morning week.
Broad negro wenches jostle people on the CAL
weston promenades, and ailict the soul OF the
"local' of the News.
DR.. J. W. Crawford put pistol bullet through
the hat Of Dr. ]. II. Keller in Louisville, on Satur-
day. An old feud.
The World says Barnum's museum decidedly
outshone all its rivals in the spectacular drama on
Monday night week.
Geo. Francis Tram writes about page a week
for the New York World, and also contributes
to Mrs. Stsnton's Revolution"
Alger, the chaplain of the Massachusetts, legis-
lature, spreads himself beautifully in his pray
ers, that some admirer has them Photographed.
The plum and peach trees are all abioom on
the GENTLY Road beyond the Fair Grounds.
The road is in good condition, and the drive q
pleasant one.
II is suggested that the police devote little Of
their time, while leisurely promenading the
streets, to knocking orange and banana peels off
the sidewalks.
Edwin Booth sent an old undershrt for a Dat.
tern 10 Boston manufacturer, and ii was torn
into fragments and distributed among lot of his
female admirers.
81 have seen enongh Of this world, and am
curious to know what there is in the other one,D
was the written explanation of q man in this city
who ended his earthly existence yesterday.
Mr.. Joseph II. Barrett, once q leading editorial
writer on the Cincinnati Gazette, is managing edi-
tor Of the Cincinnati Evening Chrorcle, new
Republican paper.
What's in name, A religions paper an
nounces that Rev. a. Conntryman has resigned
tells about Rev. Mr.. Prettyman.-[N. Y. Mail.
There is Rev. Mr.. Foreman down In Texas.
II is suggested that the New Orleans mer-
chants would be pleased to rid the city VI q
nuisance by making a bonfire OF its currency.
One gentleman is reported to have offered $1,000
for that purpose.
Congressman washburne, of Indiana, who had
his trousers captured at Memphis during the war,
decately describes Democratic speaker as "a
man so low down that II would require miracle
of the Almighty to raise him to the level of total
deprsvity."-[W World.
conspicuous form Of New York snobbery is
disclosed in arriving late at public entertainments
and disturbing the audiences for the sake Of dis
playing grandeur Of manner and toilette. The
New York papers pitch into it, and Fanny Kem-
bic closes the door on them.
The late Julia Dean was first married to DR..
Bsyne, from whom she was divorced, and
afterward to Mr.. Cooper. She had earned
much money, but it had been squsndsred by
others. and she died poor. In Boston, ia 1916,
at the very commencement of her cereer, she
was overwhelmed with distress by a desperate
ott NJ 1ar 20 A.
by a fit Of mania a potu.
The New York Times remarks:
We should Ike to ask not intrusively, but
merely for nformaton--what has become Of all
the enthusiastic friends OF the South who, in the
political excitements of eight or ten years ago,
used TO hi the great halls Of the city with crowds
on every occasion! On Monday night meeting
was called at Cooper Union for the purpose Of
raising funds to aid in more firmly re.es:ablshog
Washington College, Lexington, Va, of which
Robert L. Lee Is president and of generally aid
ing the cause Of higher education ia the SOUTH
The call was signed by prominent citizens of all
shaoes Of politics and profession, aud ndorsed by
all the journals, and yet the hall was not half full
and hardly one OF the signers Of the call was
there except Mr. Beecher, who, merely expecting
to speak, bad Unexpectedly almost the whole bur-
den Of the meeting thrown upon his shoulders.
Where are the Southern sympathisersr'
In her last batch Of Washington gossip, Mrs.
Stanton says that Butler has an indescribabIe
face; that stevens's " youthful wig does not set
well on his aged head 4" that Brooks Is a :" hand
some mani" that Sumner Is looking sad and
/" more subdued than Of yore 4" that Senator
Wilson is poitic practical, prosaic, prejudiced
and acrimonious ;"that DOolittle is "sound on the
woman question !" that Mrs. Julian Is a daugh-
ter Of the late Joshua r. Giddngs; that Wade
"scorns receptions, fashions and WOE IN who
have no sense Of their own rights and true dig
Dity,"p and that Johnson will soon be out Of the
way" She says that two-thirds Of the set
speeches read from manuscript are not the pro-
duction Of the men who deliver them, but are
prepared BY newspaper reporters and other liter
ary gentlemen in Washington.
Free reading rooms are now being established
in all parts Of London, and with good effect upon
a certain class Of population. The plan adopted
is to rent room large enough to accommodate