The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-12

Col Harvey, of the Louisville Democrat, was
buried with all the honors Of Freemasonry.
4 1t is said that the recent practical joke played
upon Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis, has been traced to
q near relative.
George Sand is quite rich. Her fortune is esti-
mated at nearly two million francs. Her copy.
rights yield her an income of two hundred and
fifty thousand francs year.
Gen. Sheridan on his return to Washington
from Ohio, where he had been attending the fu-
neral of his sister, had a narrow escape from q
dangerous railroad accident.
Rev. Dr. Humphrey, pastor Of the First Presby-
terrain Church of Chicago. has resigned, and will
accept the pastOrship OF Calvary Church, Phia-
delphia.
Since Yates appeared in Ithe dning-room at
Wizards clothed only in one garment, aside from
his inveterate habit of insbriation, his consttu-
ents have been trying to get him TO resign.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes Smith proposes to turn
the coming centuries into one eternal and uni
versa leap year-proposes, In fact, that the ladies
have the privilege in society Of suing and being
sued-prop posing as well as being proposed to.
Poor Sir Morton Peto, in 1868, had a private
estate worth sl92.567 and his partner (hr. Betts)
had another valued at f3ll ,475. Moreover they
had a business balance Of s54S, 942-every six
pence OF il gone!
II is related that near Dantzig young man Of
twenty-four, who married a widow Of forty
two, has discovered since the marriage that his
wife was his wetnurse. French paper com.
ments: Thus it is! One always returns to his
first love.n
The New York Mail says: "Robert ]. Walker
and Henry A. Wise are soon to enter into letter
writing contest for the championship Of America.
The one who is defeated will be compelled to read
his own composition. Terrible penalty"
II is said that there is no hope Of curing Robert
johnson, of the president, OF his habit OF ex'
cessive dissipation, which amounts to q positive
insanity. The keepers Of the lunstc asylum in
which be has been placed have no expectation
of benefting him.
a. Bismarck has been out shooting, with what the
reporters call brilliant shooting party and
killed one hundred and fifty hares with his own
hand. His shot was unusually certain, aud his
bullets hit the flying game, though he had but sell
dom taken time for aiming, at distance of one
hundred and twenty PAGES.
Miss Mary McVicker, who accompanies Edwin
Booth, is seriously i'll, and has been compelled to
discontinue her engagement in Chicago. The
Times, Tribune and Journal each had an elaborate
critical notice of her playing Monday night week,
when in fact she did not appear at all, owing to
her indisposition.
The gold medals issued to the successful exhibi-
tors of the Paris Exposition, are severely criti-
cised by the French press, and pronounced shabby
and utterly unworthy of the occasion. The
caskets in which they are sent" says the Paris
Steele, "are such mean looking affairs that no
gentleman would deem them ht TO encase his
meerschaum pipe.n
Apropos of the Fejeean business g, an anecaots
Is exhumed Of Commodore Biddle, at Jeddo Bay
in ls46. One day he attempted to visit Japanese
Junk, but IS he clambered over her bulwarks
sentry pushed him back into his gig. The com.
modore returned in rage TO his ship, and sent
peremptory demand for an apology and indem-
nifty for the insult. Within q quarter Of an hour
e came back an answer that the sentry had acted
without orders, and that his head had been
promptly cut of, and was now at the service Of
the commodore.
The "last man" of the revolutionary war is
John Gray, who lives with his step daughter, Mrs.