The New Orleans crescent., 1868-01-14
EDITORIAL paragraphs. Etc.

OarlDaQl Is OF OeIluau ucoSoH~
Prot Mitchell. Of Union College, Is dead.
The English have an improved game of euchre.
A cold bite-a cake OF ice.
Oyster Downing is going to open in Washington.
Col. F. A. Starring was still in Paris last month.
Jeemes Pipes is putting in Yokohama.
The Stetsons will run the st. James in Boston.
The editor of the Tobacco Leaf likes puff.
The debt Of Missouri is nearly s24 900, 900.
The purser Of the steamship Crescent has our
thanks for Galveston papers Of the 9th and 10th.
The drama Of Lies Miserables' is pronounced
miserable.
Major Tom Ochiltree has arrived from the
North.
Victor Emmanuel Is nearly broken. hearted over
his broken statue at Turin.
The discreet Brick Pomeroy allows his EN-.
ployes TO use no improper language.
Mercury 81 below zero at Helena, Montana, on
the 7th instant.
Italians die younger than any other European
people.
Edwin Booth is playing at the new Memphis
Theater.
Commodore Vanderbilt is said to be worth
thrty.one millions.
Rumor retires Bryant from the New York Eve
ming Post.
A sale of sheep is reported near San Antonio
Texas, at rs cents head.
Sheridan is said to be paying attention TO
4 young lady in Albany.
Bellows calls Bismarck a combination of Sc.
ward and Grant.
Wendell Phillips has never received dollar for
his contributions to the Anti-slayery Standard.
The Randolph Scorcheri is the name of an Illinois
Democratic paper.
Ex.Assistant Secretary of the Navy Fox is in
ST. Louis.
The flowers of speech spring from the root Of
the toDgue.-lEx.
The bull tight is abolished by executive decree
in the Mexican capital district.
Vslandigham has been iecturing in Ohio on the
inspiration OF the Bible.
The "Red Crook Crook, or a story of the Lost
Cause" is to be produced at Nashville Theater.
The steamer II. A. Homeyer, with 900 bales of
cotton, wSs burned at Trenton, louisiana on Sun
day.
Felis says the Cincinnatians don't celebrate the
anniversary of the battle Of New Orleans. They
are too much devoted TO Packin-ham.
II is predicted that a swimming furore will sue
ceed that of baseball. Friends of the latter game,
however, promise to keep the ball moving.
Mr.. Charles Walsh has been reelected to the
position he has long held president of the Bank
of Mobile.
The Guard. in Terrebonne, doubts whether an
acre of land will be planted in cotton in that parish
this year.
W. c. Bryant says it Is the December of life
with him, and he is only trying to keep few now
ers in pots.
Mobile must be one or the healthiest cities on
the Continent. Last week there were only five
deaths there out of a population of sixty thou
sand.
Commodore Mutt is about to marry Minnie War
ren. His weight is twenty-five pounds hers
twenty pounds. Their combined fortunes amount
to S25OOC0.
OF the three negroes who tarred and feathered
Aaron Hurt, the conservative freedman of COlum-
bus, Georgia, two have been sentenced to the
penentiary for three years, and the other is dead
Mrs. Cobb's husband denounces Ashley an
"infamously unscrspulous slanderer,' ~ and brands
him coward for attempting to perpetrate mid
night assassination upon soldiers character"
Washington special says: "Among the arri.
walls here are Gen. Pope and Mrs. John Morrissey
in the evening papers," They must have come
in the Evening Post or in +" walking papers,"
Since the death of Bishop Hopkins of ver-
mont the oldest bishop Of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the United States is the Right
Reverend Benjamin Bosworth Smith, of Ken.
tueky He was consecrated in 1882.
The French students at the Lycee Imperiale de
Tours ape the cOnvivial and boisterous manners of
their American associates at that school. The
latter literally invest in the wines Of Ia belle
France, and the young Frenchmen are not ayerse
to be asked" although rarely returning the
compliment.
The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter says:
New York, by general consent. is conceded to
be the worst governed city in the United states,
but New Orleans is marching IN her wake win
giant strides. The public good is now centered In
individual pockets, and the greatest plunderer Is
the staunchest patriot.
McDevitt beat Goldthwaite at billiards in New
York on the sth. When Goldthwaite stood at ll3
and McDevitt at IL, the latter got the light red
and white in the Jaw and ran out the game. The
whole number of points scored by McDevitt of
the jaw was 1900, the balls being still fast when
he stopped. The number OF innings was nine.
An occasional correspondent writes US from
Washington the following dialogue, which we
print as a good joke, without at all vouchlng Tor
Its authenticity:
Inuuiring Republican TO Gen. Grant)-"Well,
general what do you think will be the effect Of
negro suffrage, fairly carried outY"
Gen. Grant" Have you seen Marshal Browns
pups? They are the finest in the district"
Exit inquirer, quite satisfied with the peril,
nence of the answer, and leaving the general
smoking I'm. Y. Tribune.
The Boston Sunday Courier has a special dis
patch from New York which announces positively
that the Herald has been offered for sale within a
day or two, and that certain partners in the Tri-
bune association are negotiating for the purcnase'
The price is understood to be sl,OOO,OOO, exclu'
siye Of the new building, but including the four
new presses, which cost 100000. This sale is moi
on account Of the trouble with the Associated
Press, but, if rurnor can be believed, is caused by
certain family perplexities of the senior editor
which have for some time been the subject o.
gossip.
The agents of the Associated Press, as we nav
more than once had occasion TO remark, nave
way Of their own in making up dispatches, whiel
is anything but cheerful to the general reader