The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-29


The London Times now sells for three pence.
Ohio river is "blsck with ducks"
Kansas City contains % 900 people.
Old Salem, Mass. has gambling bells"
The note envelope of the season is square.
$4,000 people in New York wear wigs.
The strong minded sisterhood take to veloci-
pedes-susan and Anna, for instance.
Mrs. Barry, Boston singer, swallowed a pin,
but kept right on singing.
All the members of the Austrian Cabinet are
Freemasons.
A,Chicago dispatch informs the public that
Charles Dickens is celebrated novelist"
Baron Brisse has bottle Of wine four hundred
years old.
1t is said Fiske gave two deputy sheriffs $500
apiece to hurry Bowles of to prison.
Chase, &C. J.) is to preside at Morse banquet
in New York, tonight.
The residence of John Knapp, Of the St. Louis
Republican, was burned on the oath.
Commerce laDguishing and credit low In
Havana.
The mikado has gone to Yeddo. No mikado
had gone 30 far in two thousand years.
Gen. Comstock, of Gen. Grants staff, Is to be
married to the daughter of Montgomery Blair.
Bandmann's reported insanity seems to have
some foundstiop in fact: he is to be married.
Fiske is severely denounced for the arrest Of
Sam. Bowles.
A st. Louis tobacconist has paid $4,000 in
taxes since the war.
The car is having locomotive made to run on
ice.
Vesuvius emitted %, 600 900 cubic feet Of lava
during her last sputter.
II is said Patti and Caux will visit us next sum-
mer.
prize fighting beast ofNew York has just had
his jaw broken.
Greeley told the Montrealers that Webster, Cass
and Chase had the White House itch.
A nephew of Walter Scott is in charitable hos
pital in Montreal.
An exchange calls speech-making Colfsx Elijah
Pogram.
Charlottesville and Evansville, Indiana, have
had s25 900 and 100000 fire, respectively.
Very Rev. Doctor Dunno, an eminent Catholic
priest of Chicago. is dead.
Lenox, Mass, has unitarian top, which spins
half an hour and makes things.
Uncle Sam has beat whisky concern in Boston
out of $4,000.
Wendell Phillips would have been chemist
but for bis mother.
Gen. Thomas declines to be monumentally
busted.
The Lynn fire has been reduced to comparative
ly small proportions.
Lager beer is twenty-five cents glass in Salt
Lake City.
In the bank of Prussia no employee is appointed
until after close secret observation of the person.
President johnson, 1t is said, will 60 out Of Office
poor.
Napoleon thinks he will die of q hunting scci-
dent, a gypsy having thus predicted.
Abolish the Thanking privilege, says the Journal
of Commerce.
New Orleans, Mobile and st. Louis are repre-
sented at the Houston races now in progress.
Thanks to the officers of the steamships Mari.
posa, Louise and Josephine.
Mr.. spurgeon is getting up " children's reviv.
ais " in London.
Effort is making to induce the president and
Grant to 'mske up" before Inauguration day.
Ofenbach's wife has received a legacy Of
slO0, 900.
Salm-SaIm's Diary abuses Napoleon and b.
zaine.
The clerks in the Seville shops have the happi-
ness of pulling on the hands of the ladies the
gloves sold to them.
Impending Conflict Helper appeared in New
York the other day in suit Of Confederate gray,
with military buttons.
The New York Sun learns from good authority
that Elihu B. washburne will be secretary of the
interior under Grant.
Wilson'S Supreme Court bill Is well understood to
be for the purpose Of getting rid Of couple Of
conservative judges.
Count Luttum, of the Prussisn legation. is to
marry Pourtales, descendant of an aIistocratc
French family.
sae-Will you marry me Thursday noon
Baltimore on wedding tour, returning Monday.
Answer. scottie.-[ Herald Personal.
The Franklin Banner publishes what purports to
be letter from Rev. DR.. Newman accepting the
challenge of the editor of that paper for fight.
There is a story going the rounds that the pres
ent emperor of the French used to be an assistant
cook at the St. Charles Hotel.
a chameleon alligator is on the way from New
Orleans, as gift to Professor Agassiz. The crea-
ture is said to be very rare and very ugly.-(Ex.
1t is said that efforts were made in high quarters
| to prevent the appointment of Rosecrsns as min
lister to Mexico on account of his catholicism.
DR.. Bushnell says man must be next to devil
who wakes angry after Gods gentle discipline OF
sleep.
| champagne fIlIz spent tlo,VVU iOE Cnhu
payne, and died in Milwaukee, leaving $50 900 in
| Europe.
General Joseph E. Johnston is now acting a.
agent, for the States of Georgia and Alabama, o
the New York Life Insurance, and the Liverpool
and London and Globe Insurance Companies.
The Jeffersonian is the name Of a new weekly
paper Just started in jefferson City, by Elishi
Bell There are brain and "snsp" in the frs
number.
The petriied remains of o man nearly clever
feet high, have been exhumed near Sank Rapids
on the Mississippi. The sntediluvan giant is sup
posed to hsvs ~Aishad 900 pnnnds-
Tie men Of Illinois are called "Suckers" be
cause the pioneers in that State used to get waite
from the crawfish holes by sucking it through
reed
According TO q Washington special to the Her
aid Gems. Bsbcock and Porter were not only OF
dered to investigate affairs in Arkansas, but Il
Louisiana.
Hon. Charles S. Morehead, ex-governor of Ken
lucky, died on his plantation in Washington coun
ty, Miss, week ago Monday. The immedat
cause of his death is stated to have been a shocl
occasioped BY the burning of his cotton gin house