The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-17


The close of the war-uniforms.-[Ex.s
Senator Yates has fallen from grace again.
Nothing official from Maine.
Gen. Hatch left here yesterday for Washington.
Political rows multiply in the North.
John Bull is afraid of American hay.
whelsn asks for new trial.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Mata-
gorda. assoc
Butler is reported to have failed in gsttag NOM
mated for Congress. rf
Bismarck has been ordered to England for his
health. .
quorum of the Senate is not expected in
Washington on the 2lst. . ....-
The Alabama Legislature met in extra session
yesterday to make registration law.
Bob Lincoln is to marry daughter of Senator
Harlan.
Thousands of English women are asking to be
registered voters.
The cost Of the Lincoln monument at Spring.
field. Illinois, will be 100000
Apersonsl in the London Times wants i young
woman with coffee celored eyes,
New Jersey promises enough crsnberries to
match so 900 barrels of sugar.
The Horseshoe falls at Niagara have receded
six feet in the last year.
from coming to this country.
Jasper Blackburn has diminished the length of
the title of his newspaper.
However green Holsters may be when they 90
to pot, they graduate well red.-[Ex.
English railway rugs are coming into vogue
here.
The Sorosis of Chicago proposes to have
weekly after the style of the Revolution.
At Napoeon's fete q, 900 rockets were fred of
at once.
New York city expended 50 .O2O,Ss2 for school
purposes last year. -.l
A machine has been invented which will spin
the silk from the leaf.
Is bsughty-cuture commeudable in farmers,/
daughters lex.
One of the finest plantations on the Arkansas
river recently sold for five cents an acre.
Mile St. Elmo Evans is busily engaged upon
another novel, to be issned during the winter.
Fifteen servants form the retinue Of Cuban
family at Saratoga.
William Lloyd Garrison is hard at work upon
the History Of Slavery in the United States.
The costumes Mrs. Lander wears in Elizabeth
cost 5000 in gold.
Jasper Blackburn intimstes that he will roar
like sucking dove hereafter, but that he wants
it distinctly understood that he is not " sksert."
The Sentinel is the name of a new mi-weekly
paper at Brownsville, Texas, edited by John s.
Ford, and published by James Dougherty.
In Raleigh yesterday son of Governor Holden
made most incendiary speech to a great mass
meeting Of negroes.
Some Democratic negroes from New Orleans
have been roughly handled by Radical bklcks in
Mobile. The assailants were arrested. 5
Gen. Longstreet has denied the correctness of
the conversation attributed to him by the, New
York Tribune's special reporter.
The proprietor of the Ocean House, New
port, made twenty thousand dollars clear in two
months
The Nail says red jackets. embroderedtin Per-
sian fashion, are in vogue for house wear and for
riding in The country.
1t is said that the fashion at weddings tits win
ter will be 10 give the groom presents as gell as
the bride.
Montana galows is three rails, set ap like
a tripod, with a man hanging between like a
pot.
A contemporary wants to know IL the hominR
man will eat horse. We should answer " Seigh."
IEx.
Connecticut people have found corned seef in.
fected with worms that only become more lively
by boiling.
Bergh has bad an unfortunate poultereriIocked
up for having '' ten chickens hanging on lis left
shoulder, contrary to law"
New York intends to put up $4,000 mosument
to the late Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, by do.
lar subscriptions.
The colored girl who is scupng at Rome has
had an order for q statue Of Clio from Prince
George of Prussia.
Queen Victoria had to engage all the horses and
in In ord IN aka hal
without being dogged by q multitude on theels.
The French Empress is very partial to yoloci-
pede exercise, and rides In the park and takes
long excursions into the country on ner mechani.
Cal steed. H.t
The rain storm swept away nearly every dam in
Salem county, N. J.-lEx.
All the peoPl. thee have to do is to sind for
Ben Nsde.--tN. Y. Express.
The Victoria Falls on the Zambesi Rker. in
South Africa, completely eclipse Niagsrsj being
1850 yards wide and AGO feet deep. MID CARA is
The Houston Times is the name of aIlivey.
spicy. new paper by s. Kinney & e. Caudbn. It
predicts that in less than ten years Housf fon win
be the grapdest railroad center in the Soli
young lady, in speaking of her daifty ap-
petite, said she took cup of strongi coffee
for breakfast, ate peaches for dinner, and kiss
for tea.
At one OF the watering places the other eYeBing,
Gays the Mal, lady not having pair of sitaire
earrings wore her husbands diamond shh} studs
in her ears
an English writer says absence OF coIot is the
greatest dsfec, in modern dinner ware. Gdwhere
he may, the same dead-whte is toned srtinst a
dssdS hite tabe-cloIh, and he protests ast the
chilling uniformity.