The New Orleans crescent., 1868-09-08
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Gold closed in New York yesterday at l44A.
Election in California to-day.
| The Academy Of Music opens tonight.
| The suez Canal viii be done in October, 1863.
Lsmartine is dying again.
Gossip says Eugene eats garlic.
Gottschalk returns to New York this winter.
PATHS troussesu cost 5000
Hungary has at last got coinage of her own.
Patti Csux's livery is green.
Gen. Sherman is on his way East.
Pareps comes home in October.
Verdi has throat disorder.
The nins have destroyed the Japan rice crop.
General Msgruder is lecturing at Saratoga on
"Maximilian and Carlotta."
The governor general of India gets SIC, 400 per
month.
Lady Thorn, the famous trotting mare, is adver-
tised for sale.
Bismarck only sleeps by the aid of heavy mar
cotics.
OF all the books in the Old Testament Daniel
Webster preferred Habakkuk.
The Radical demonstration in this city is fixed
for next Saturday.
The Memphis Post (Rsdical) defends Gen. For
rest against the charge of cruelty at Fort Pillow.
Missiles are thrown into political professions in
the North.
About 1900 Radicals made night hideOus in Mo.
bile last Friday.
Savannah is claimed to be the healthiest city in
the United States.
Train is growing tired of the Marshalsea prison.
He says the sensation is nearly exhausted.
Ristori is threatening the United States with an.
other visit. Now don't, Ris!
Theodore Of Bavaria is about to marry the Pran-.
cess Margaret Of Orleans.
The latest Partisan jewelry is in the form of
lanterns.
A new style of round hat has high crown and
a long plume.
Physiological inquiry-Isn't the lid of ones eve
disproporuoned to the trunk Of ones body lex
j. A. signiago, the amiable editor of the Grena.
da Sentinel, is no more-a bachelor!
Western paper says the Mobile Tribune is the
cuttingest and sarcssticussest" " paper 10 the
South.
Mile. Hisson, the new Partisan prima donna, it
is thought, will by and by eclipse both Nilsson
and Patti.
The wickedest man in New York is q little in-
coherent in his prayer meeting remarks, and gets
choked of by his clerical friends.
wellknown author hung up his stocking in
jest last Christmas Eve, and his wife, very much
IN earnest, pnt hahy in it: whereupon the author
said, My dear, darn that stocking"
Trains long imprisonment is beginning 10
awaken the sympathies of some of his country.
men, who think HIM a victim of the English Fenian
scare.
Jack Hale, the veteran horse thief so years
old, escaped from Norridgewock (Me.) jail re.
In Of -
walk, but he can steal horses yet.
In the evening after Victoria left Paris, there
was state dinner at Fountainbleau, in the rooms
Of the empress, at which the Duke of Edinburgh.
Lord Stanley, etc., represented the queen, who |
was then rolling toward Switzerland.
The artist Elliott at the latest conscious moment
of his existence, with the purpose of catching and
king in enduring form beautiful tints of color 1
which were floating before his eyes, (cobiured up
10 doubt by the brain affection of which he died |
'aled for his palette and brush
I. b. Thorpe proposes through the New York /
Tribune to have public exhibition of the pietures
'f the late Mr.. Elliott. Mr.. Thorpe was in New
orleans during the war, and is reputed to have
obtained several gems of the art of painting in a
manner entirely expenseless to himself. Suppose /
le give an exhibition?
The editor OF journal in q small Western town
fought five pounds of powdered sugar. He found |
hat It was mixed with plaster, and announced in
lie paper the next day that il the grocer who had
o shamefully cheated him did not make amends
e would publish his name. Before nine O'Clock
D the morning he had received five packages of
We pounds each. There were just five grocers in
own.