The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-21


and himself.
Weston is offered 5000 year to travel for a
rubber house.
Ben Wade says he will not take Gsrheld's place,
but retire to private life.
Seward is preparing proclamation about some.
thing or other.
The remains Of poor Macmillan at last rest in
Vienna.
Tram says he is not Fenian, but correspond
ent of the New York World.
Fernando Wood pays $1,000 q month for his
house in Washington.
VIM. B. Astor pays 1900 900 city tax, and A. I.
Stewart follows with s250,00O.
sickles made speech at Philadelphia in favor
of Grant,
Rights and lefts for stockings is one Of the
latest novelties.
The American Dairymen's Association are for
Tin milk-pails instead Of wooden ones.
senstor Tumble appears for the governmental
the McCardle case, at the request Of Grant.
1t is said Grant and Sherman both advise STAN
ton to resign.
1t is said the president will send in the name Of
Ewing, Of Ohio, as secretary Of war.
Grant and Stanton issthe presidential ticket of
the G. A. r.
The cholera, at last accounts, was prevailing in
British Honduras.
New England manufacturers have convention
in Worcester on the 22d.
Bismarck's ducal title will be the duke Of
Pomersnia."
Alexander Dumas is going to write historical
novel on Abraham Lincoln.
great many Catholic priests in Italy are profit
ing by the civil act, and marrying.
The advantage of having corns is that then you
always stand on your own achers.-l Mail.
The country has 27s 1862 orthodox Congrega-
tiOnalists.
The metal diggers have nearly undermined vir-
GINA City.
Napoleon is crusty because of the Roman
troubles.
The Boston blacks protest against the con6rma-
ton Of Thomas as chief justice.
Mercury SO degrees below zero at Fort Ripley
on the llth.
Georgia, N. H., has pork-tub which has been
used every year since the revolution.
The wool production of California was $780,
eco pounds las: year.
A horse in Vermont bit of cows tongue
while mulley was reaching to steal his hay.
The Opinion Rationale urges Austria. France
and England to combine against Russia.
Our excellent friend, Mr.. Edward F. Schmidt,
president of the Howard Association, has been
bereft of a much beloved and very promising son.
reporter of "this convention" in speaking
of Crane in q fit of oratory, says che showed
his teeth and tied his forehead over his eyes,"
While Victoria was at Cowes, recently, she was
specially guarded against the Fenlans by strong
military force.
The New York Tribune's correspondent says
the president denies that he said Grant violated
promise in resging the war office to Stanton.
HfuiHa nOr.
ton of the profits Of his business among his en-
ploy6s.
Mark Twain says Washington could not lie. bat
il might have been different il he belonged to a
Newspaper Correspondents Club.
Capt. Morrill,, of the steamship Trade Wind, has
our thanks sor copy of the Honduras Chronicle
of the llth.
The Massachusetts, Eclectic Medical Society
have concluded that no substitute can be foun(
for alcohol.
Grant was In the Senate on the l6th, urging
senators, it is reported, to go slow, if they hat
any mercy for the general.
II is reported that Grants excuse for surrender
ing to Stanton is that the latter would otherWis
have run an outside war department.
The president says Grant has outgeneraled him
There is a question Of veracity between tn
president and the general.
A downtown lodging house keeper persist
that no ledger Of his shall have more than L"
blankets. let the weather be as it may. Roug
on the dodgers.
Charles Francis Adams styles Boston. in tn
North American Review, ga great satellite
New York" and an outlying province OF Wa
street, Hard on the a" Hub"
Dickens's Dolly got jolly and into New Hor
lockup. Don't let it get into the papers, 20
trov he said. "By JoVe! Upon my word
realy-you know"
Gen. Cary the temperance aPosue' mas 'aAe
a. smoking since he took his seat in Congress-
Uronbetic journalist says cocktails and
nunches are in the immediate future.
A Washington special to the Cincinnati raalc
neners saws that Gen. Grant thinks the passaI
NJ HE supplementary reconstruction bill unnece
sarv. and believes that it can do no GOOD.
The Southern papers must think judging tro
heir exnressions, that General Butler is so nam
because he takes such eAVeheH' N" ~ -
spoons.-[N. Y. Mail.
A club has been formed in California the me
hers of which have bound themselves not
marry any woman unless she comes up tosspe
6ea standard Of physical development, and
willing 10 be seven times mother
Al the late press banquet in Washington, h'
r.a,n ,esponded TO the toast in honor Of won
Ne said: In whatever position you plsc
1xoman. she is an ornament to society and
,roosure 70 the world. As q sweetheart she
few EQUALS and no suPeriors-tlsughterl--a
cousin she is convenient; as wealthy gta
mother. with an incursble disease. she Is Prec 10
as wetnurse she has no eqnai anh'ns l"
(Laughter.)p ,o,
An old bachelor who had become melanSI
and poetical wrote some verses for the viz
nsnsr in which he expressed the hope that
time would soon come when he should
Rest calmly within shrsud .,
With weeping willow BY my sae'
But, to his horror, it came out in print
"when shall calmly within q SHAWL
With weeping widow by my SIDE
- - r.,o- rnina,on sis,srs Billy