The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-15

Poultry and false hair have increased in price.
Menken is to have monument in Paris.
Consumption killed Menken.
Schneider wants $500 to come to America.
Beecher is worth $4,000.
Helen Western is +" French Spy"-ing in Boston.
The General inquiry-wiI Grant resign?
| Henry ]. Raymond's father is dead.
Gold closed in New York at IA.
Some charitable tableaux at the Opera House
are proposed.
The Pic. complains of slow work at the post
| office.
The steamer R. E. Lee arrived with 1850 bales
| Of cotton.
Charles Christmas, for many years the associate
of August Belmont, is dead.
Mr.. Bateman is in Louisville, arranging for the
production Of the Duchess"
Some of the leading publishers have lost on
every book published within year.
Mr.. Dickens is said by En- lish papers to have
cleared $1,000 by his visit to this country.
Some wives are more inclined to wear the
breeches than to mend them.-IEx.
| The Grecian bend has received the name Of
the fashionable double-up.
Rochefort, the La Lanterne man, talks of coming
to this country.
Thousands of girls have gone to pick hops in
Wisconsin.
The statue of Commodore Perry will be un.
yelled at Newport on the 23d.
Liberia Is prosperous- Ex-President Roberts
has recently arrived from there.
In Cambridge, Mass, they elect feminine school
teachers, on account of their comelress.
Twelve hundred thousand books were recently
offered at the trade sale in New York.
"What Answer, Story of To-day" is the
full title of Anna Dickinson's novel.
Ned Price, formerly Boston pugilist, is practi.
| cling law in Washington.
Ten thousand horse statues Of Grant will soon
be put on the market.
The Chicago Sorosis has split upon the elective
| franchise rock.
Ole Bull is engaged to play on the 25th inst in
| Boston.
White tulle is to be the most fashionable dress
| for brides this winter.
The odor of sanctity-pew.-[New York Com
monwealth.
Mrs. Scott siddons will be leading lady at
Booths Theater.
The sensible English fashion of carrying an UNI
brella instead of cane is being adopted in New
York.
/ L.
to his own immediate family: ave are all to-
gether.n
Was Hamlet thinking of his mother.in.aw when
he spoke of ian eye like Mars to threaten and
command !"-[Boston Bulletin.
Theater Royal, Montreal, advertises for fifty
respectable young ladies " for the white Fawn,"
but thus far has been unable to obtain them.
| A brother of Lolita. the actress, was run over
by a railroad train and deprived of one of his
legs.
mot for Joe," is taken from the popular song
of the same name and is prevailing slang phrase
| in New York.
Goldsmith is supposed to have referred to the
/ Grecian bend when he wrote "She Stops 10
| Conquer."-lE
Robt. W. Johnston, Of Arkansas, and Albert
| Pike are to unite in the law business in Washing
| ton.
The winter bonnets consist merely of q rosette
of lace with bud, bird. or butterfly in the
center.
The National Lincoln Monument Association has
adopted the design Of the American sculptor,
Larkin G. Meade, Jr.
II is said the clerical condemnation of pIanchette
was not pronounced until the subject had been
examined with careful study, nor was its prohibit
ton given until after mature elaboration.
Queen Victoria was charged 700 francs for a
plain breakfast by q Swiss inn-keeper. He was
demonstrated with on the ground that eggs were
plentiful, but countered with, Yes, but sover-
eigns are scarce"
"Jennie," said a fond but perplexed mother to
her three year old romp," il you behave so badly
you viii make the devil glad" " What would the
poor devil do il l should be good!" replied Jen-
ME. Jennie lives in New Orleans and is no myth.
The Boston journal of Chemistry referring to
"planchette," expresses the belief that there is
one power, impulse or force in nature, regarding
the character of which mankind are totally in the
in the dark"
The "wickedest woman " in Boston goes to
ride on Sunday, never goes to church, attends
from sixty 10 one hundred dancing parties during
the season, drinks up her husbands medicine,
whisky and smokes his fragrant Havanas.