The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-18
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-Four thousand Cretans are still insurgent.
Farragut is suffering from op,halmia.
Charles Dickens is ffty-siN years old.
Cincinnati has City Council corruption case.
Earis has lost his voice.
Madame Ristori has left Havana for Matanzas.
Egg -nog Is the latest novelty in PSsis.
Real estate is jumping up in New York.
Domestic sls-Backbiters.-tEx.
New York has mosphthechrOT1okrene."
A st. Louis paper announces the lsst Of the
beer jerkers" in that city.
Extensive ice fields are reported in the middle
otthe Atlantic. of Newfoundland.
Fanagut's feet is expected off the coast Of
Crete.
shad have appeared IN the North Csrolns
rivers.
New York has laid in 75O, 900 tons of ice for SUM
uer juleps of 1858.
Mile Adelina PATHS proposed union with the
Marquis de Csux is irrevocably broken of.
Gen. Forrest has filed petition of bankruptcy
in Memphis.
The remains of Poe are to be inferred st Green
Mount cemetery, near Baltimore.
Brick Pomeroy takes up the hatchet for VAL
lsndghsm.
General Grant is a regular attendant at the Wes-
ley Chapel in Washington.
General Fremonts beard is white, and he still
parts his hair in the middle.
The radicals assume that the president intended
10 snub Grant by honorng Sherman.
Charlotte Cushman has sent three beautiful
works of art to the Boston Music Hall.
Boston has lost over $50 900 900 since 1861 by
speculations in mining stocks.
In our civilized, sedentary life, be who would
have good health must fight for IT,
When is a man justified in calling his wife
honey? When she is bee-loved.-[Ex.
Greeley presented his "Self Made Men" to the
Cincinnatisns, on Friday.
The Prince Of Wales Is said to owe $25O, 900 to
his Upholsterer alone.
We are still threatened with another week of
reconstruction convention,
Horrissey wears diamond pin as large as a
coat button.
Pike has opened beautiful music ball at
Cincinnati
There are one thousand five hundred and sixty
eight lakes in Maine.
Nova Scotia gold miners averaged sl660 last
year.
scientific paper states that the pulse of Ma
poleon never indicated higher than fifty pulsa-
tions q minute.
Thsd. Stevens-says Grant is a bolder man than
he thought him to be, and may now be admitted
to the church.
The st. Louis Democrat calls Forrest unnatural.
Barton Hill stacy, and says Miss Lille has no
special merit.
One of the editors of the CRESCENT has discov.
cred nest Of hen eggs in his private office.
Until the mysteryis otherwise solved, he will per-
sst in thinking that "plot is hatching."
The Chinese rebellion has been going on for
somewhat more than eighteen years, during which
il has been estimated that from thirty to forty
million lives have been sacrificed.
At masquerade, on the ice in Cincinnati, the
other day, Billy Emerson was personatsd by a
young admirer, who danced the essence OF Old
Virginia.
The celebrated race horse Kentucky has been
sold to Charles Bathgate skiddy Il Custable, for
$4,000, the same price paid for hin two years
ago by Leonard w. Jerome. de is to return to
the turf.
The lady proprietors Of the Revolution in New
York, have employed Madame Demorest to at out
squad Of little Irish girls in the Fenian colors,
and send them into the street selling the " woman's
paper" They call on the police to protect the
little newsgiIs.