The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-07
Editorial Paragraphs. Etc.

General Hooker is Going nicely at Nice.
Train calls Grant a gigantic sell.
There are 900 shade trees in Paris.
Gen. Ords wife is i'll.
The Busy Duffy fight has fallen through.
Logan, hitherto for Grant, is now against him.
The weather is alike facilitating to men and
horses. The latter sweat in their stalls.
On Sunday sunshine and showers aternated as
In April.
Perambulatory ice.cream saloons were out Sun.
day.
A. Head is at Richmond, en- route for New
Orleans.
1t is said that four New Orleans centennarians
departed this life last week.
Are balmorsls revived Something Of the kind
famed along Camp street yesterday.
The mocking birds think spring has come, and
are building their nests in the city squares.
Bear ard buffalo steaks are served in several OF
our eating houses. Who will introduce horse!
Pitkin thinks "the blood of 100000 martyrs has
washed 4,OO0, 900 black faces to political white"
Is there anything very fine In the humor of ask
ing journalist what church he goes to!
Ristori returned to New York from her Western
trip on th2ste ult.
EIihu Burrtt is to edit new London magazine,
called Preside Words.
The Potomac is alive with wild geese, swans and
ducks.
Paris continues to half bury Patti with bou-
quets.
New York correspondent asserts that Max
milan still lives.
Dolly Davenport now signs himself "Yours
truly, A. H. Davenport, deceased"
The First National Bank, Bay City, Mich. has
gone under.
il her an IN n Ia,t 81
friend Of Juarez.
The Senate committee exonerate Stanton against
the charges of the president.
Mummies have been found with their teeth ex.
quisitely filed with gold.
Marshall Kane is at the head Of a manufactur.
ing enterprise in Danville, Va.
Minnesota has less wheat than last year, but has
sent 900 coo bushels to market.
DR.. Field, fNew York, says no man ever cured
fever but it will often cure itself.
Rev. Thomas Baker and six native missionaries
have been eaten by the Feejee Islanders.
Pitkin has consented TO make "yotiye offer
ing" Of himself by running for Congress-
National commercial convention in Boston, Feb
ruary 9Th.
New England manufacturers propose a CONVEX.
tion.
The father of sewing machine Howe Is also
dead.
DOne.ho-ga.wa is Colonel Parker's original and
aboriginal name.
The Louisville Democrat wants the National
convention to be held in Boston.
Mr.. James Bruster Of that excellent publica.
ton. the Maryland Farmer, Baltimore, is now in
the city, and has favored us with call.
The Sugar Planter man aspras to be chip Of
such pecunious blocks as Cakes Ames and Fer.
nando Wood.
DR.. Livingstone, when he returns from Africa
will find himself well advertised for the lecture
field.
The Springfield Lincoln monument fund now
amounts 10 s "a 900. The monument is to cost |
quarter OF a million.
Robert Preston left Dorchester with $4,000 and
frail woman, aud was arrested in Charleston.
South Caroline.
Shocks is a sociable soul. His wife says she |
wakes up in the morning and finds him talking to |
her.
A man has been arrested in the Jardin das
Plantes. Paris, for stealing the blanket Of the boa
constructor.
Antelope meat is sold in the English markets. |
Chasing the antelope over the plain will begin to
pay.
"Old Paddy Smith, the milkmsn," of Cairo, is |
its first settlement.
Az the last performance Of the "Grand |
Duchess in New York, bon.bons and toys were
showered upon the stage in place Of bouquets
Some Of the Western papers intimate that their
Southern correspondents have been on bust
lately. We shouldn't wonder.
The Vermont legislature have caused mex.
tingushable laughter by enacting that psupers
strayiDg into towns in which they do not belong
shall be punished with fine.
The st. Charles Hotel register shows that we
are honored by the visit of quite a large excur-
sion party from Paducah, Ky. We suppose that
they will visit the Fair Grounds.
The Demopolis (Ala.) New Era SAYS that good
horses and mules have been lately sold in that
town, at auction at from sixteen to thirty dollars
each, cash.
Hon. Alexander Stephens is visiting a friend
near Baltimore. His journey North is undertaken
TO superintend the publication Of his book about
the war.
The London Spectator has an article which Is
nothing less than a wholesale indictment of the
entire middle class of Engishmen as a pack of
thieves.
DR.. J. G. Holland (Timothy Ttcomb) says he
thinks marriage rather than suffrage is the pan
acea for the grievances Of woman. All the young
women agree with him.
Colonel J. o. Nixon, Judge Alexander Walker
and Mr.. Marion Baker have been appointed
committee to receive and attend to the accomno.
dation Of members of the press from abroad visit
ing the Fair Grounds during the State Fair.
AT the close Of Dickens reading in New York.
on New Years Eve, he made his only speech in
America, as follows: Ladies and gentlemen
with you, from my heart of hearts, happy,
happy New Year."
Young Smithers, who had q sea-faring turn,
commenced printing the names of his glrsh d.
whites upon his arms in India ink, bat the neces.
sary tattoOing proved too much for Smithers, and
he soon gave it up as bad job.
lnapublic speech, on New Years Day, Victor
Emmanuel declared il was the unanimous decree
of Italy that Rome should be the capital of the
nation, but the treatment of the question de-
manded patience on the part Of the people