The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-10
EditoriaI raraEr.pa.. Ese.
Very bright and cold yesterday.

1he WIDOW OF the late Dr. ffa1ciS Is ueau
Bismarck is TO be made duke.
The Chassepot did nothing great, after all.
Fremont wants Chase for president.
Our Pope has lost his temporal power.-tEx.
General Grant has gone to New York.
Lawrence Barrett. has arrived from England.
Victor Emmanuel is in deep gloom.
This is weather which consumes bread and coal
Remember the poor.
Mr.. John z. Thompson, the Southern author, is
spending the winter 10 New York.
Lost-a blue Scotch terrier. See advertise.
ment.
The "Black Crook" receipts at Niblo's
amounted to over $3.50 900.
Hopkins, suspended in Cincinnati, owed Stewart
quarter of a million.
Portlsnd's " natural seaport has bar form.
ing across the channel.
Somebody suggests that melody and matrimony
are incom. PatI-ble.
There were se45 fewer deaths in New York city
last year than in 1866.
Rev. J. 8. C. Abbott is to lecture in Pennington,
Me-, on France and her emperor"
The New York World calls Stanton secretary Of
the exterior.
The purser OF the steamer Mary has our thanks
for Mobile papers.
Over % 900 people died in New York city last
year.
Heavy SHOWS have fallen throughout Northern
and Central Italy.
The receipts of the places Of smusements in
Chicago last year amounted to 1888 $50.
The pope has just lost, by death, favorite SER
want who had been with him nearly forty years.
Queen Victoria has more heather subjects than
Christian.
Mr.. Beecber's farm, up the Hudson, yielded
crops valued at s27OO last year.
The spruce gum trade Of Maine is estimated at
$4,000 year.
Mrs. Andrew johnson continues in very delicate
health.
Belle Boyd ia to appear at the French Theater
in New York.
The first horse dinner in England has been held.
The beast was eighteen years old.
Great Darlington, Mass, has a baby with a
natural chignon, ribbon marks and all.
In Kansas City, Mo-, last year, III new build
ings were erected at q cost of $692O0O
The national game. according to Dickens
splitting at mark IN. Y. News.
The steamer Mohawk. arrived from st. Louis,
yesterday, with over one hundred thousand
bushels Of corn.
Bryant says he is a poor hand at occasional
poems. How does $1,000 half column affect his
muse. we wonder!
The New York Herald suggests the purchase OF
the Sandwich Islands and the colonizing of the
Saints there.
Mr.. Charles Lassalle, editor and proprietor of
the Courier des Etats. Unis, is in town. en- route
for Havana.
A morning penny paper to be called the Globe
is now issued from the Office of the New York
Evening Mail.
The ChieaOO porraan0ndant NJ iha Navv York
Times Gays: Mistress-keeping is as much in
vogue with our rich men as it is in Paris"
Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts,, swallows
Grant. III very beefltting that the Msssachu-
sets radicals should swallow Bullock.
Sylvester G.. Sherman, associate justice OF the
Rhode Island Supreme Court, died suddenly on
Friday evening in Providence.
A. 7. Stewart has presented a house and lot |
worth $4,000 to Senator Dreamer, of the New |
York Legislature, for vndicating the former when |
assaled on the floor.
The Hon. Edward Thornton, British minister at
Washington, is Of the same family as Sir Edward
Thornton, who occupied the same position sixty
years ago.
An order from General Hancock's headquarters |
announces the appointment Of General Lawrence
T. Graham as acting assistant Inspector general |
of the Fifth Military District.
The Hartford Post tells Of an eightyear old |
boy who was killed by handling loaded gun,
and adds: 1.-The policy Of leaving loaded fire. |
arms where children of that age can get at them |
is open TO criticism"
A New York paper says the stories of destitu- |
tionin New York are simply sensational humbug. |
The theaters are crowded, new ores building, |
and good girls TO do homework for love or money
impossible TO obtain.
The London Times, charged with libel in n
parliamentary report gets verdict in its favor.
The Lord Chief Justice distinctly declared that in
his opinion a correct report of what was said in
parliament was privileged.
The little Dominion Of Canada struts its mem.
bers of Parliament in dark blue coat with stand
ing collar and gilt lsppets, collar covered with
gold lace, and trousers with broad lace stripe
down the sides.
Russell, as the London Times Paris correspou-
dent has $4,000 year in gold, besides a splen- |
didly furnished house, carriages, wines, servants |
and secretaries In its saloons the most celebrated
statesmen and wits of France and Europe assem-.
bic and are entertained, and the correspondent |
thus CLEANS from original sources the current |
news Of the day.
Dickens does not live with his wife, it is said, |
and this fact adds spice to this little story "A |
lady Well-knOwn IN literary circles, ana VINO SUI |
feIs from an organic disappointment, on the eve |
ming of the first reading sent Mr.. Dickens a hou.
quet. The floral Offering was returned, with the |
thanks Of the recipient, and the announcement |
that lady Of London supplied him with flowers |
for bis buttonh hole, not only in England but Amer
ica.n- Boston Cor. Springfield Republican.
when Bouccault agreed TO dramatze Rip Van |
Wrinkle for Joseph Jefferson, the terms were five
per cent. upon the gross receipts of the latter,
so long as the piece was maintained upon the |
stage. Jefferson, at the time he commenced his |
recent engagement at Cincinnati had paid to
the author the snug sum of $4,000, when he
wrote TO Boucicault, proposing to buy the piece
for the sum of $4,000. Boucicault consented, and
the money has been forwarded.
The Baton Rouge Advocate has q story about
curious coin being found twenty four feet below