The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-06

The Cincinnati Republicans are for Grant
Three operas are going in New York.
Chase completely Hlls the eye Of Gerrett Smith. |
Horace Greeley never heard Lincoln tell q story. |
Lawrence. Kansas, has not single pauper.
The New York Sun and the New York Mail are |
tickling each other.
Dickens will have to pay $4,000 as an internal |
revenue tax. 1898 Itfl
Sheridan, being asked what wine he liked best,
replied, The wine Of other people,"
The last thing in the way Of jewels is the
Alaska diamonds They are quite abundant.
The annual production Of gold in Montana, so
far, has been nearly s2o,eOO,OOo.
Mareizek pays six hundred dollars night for
the use Of Pixies opera house.
Dickens has particular fondness for the Parker
House, Boston.
Bishop Potter has approved the "guity" YER
dict in the Tying case.
Edward A. Pollard is to become one of the edi-
tors Of ire World.
The Minnesota people are expecting grand
rush Of emigrsnts in the spring. !
Why don't somebody start society for the sup
preston of indecent literature!
Forty seven telegraph wires center in Chicago.
The daily receipts are about $500.
Young Prince MurAt has got into trouble by
swindng at cards.
Hon. Amasa Walker is very busy on his articles
for Lppincott's Magazine.
Ireland has population Of five and half NIL
lions.
Indiana Furnishes miscegenation with $4,000 hne
and imprisonment.
English paupers increase in number at the rate
of 1900 ayear. ..t..
Love is only a dream; bat. unlike the dreams Of
sleep, it brings no repose with it-lEx.
"Hot grog.," which is the French for rum
punch, have become the fashion in Paris.
Dickens went to see the :" White Fawn" IN
Boston.
Ben Wade was the youngest and uglisst Of ten
chldren.v
The down casters have been shaken up BY an
earthquake.
Yuba Dam continues to sparkle in the Louisville
Courier.
Kentucky wants monument to its Columbus.
DanI Boone.
The Louisville journals do themselves honor by
eulogizing Forrest.
Governor Grape, Of Michigan, spurs up the i'm
peachers.
The New York World advises the Harvard oars
men 10 stay at home and not tempt the beefy
muscle Of the oxford boys.
Utah has seventeen thousand children IN Its pub
lie schools. 1t has unlimited capacity for stocking
those institutions. tsttt
The New York Mail says some persons think the
doctors have Thought off, the Blot Club, and
some think the restaurants have tempted Mr.. Blot.
President Johnson's right arm is said to give him
good deal of trouble. TWAS broken some years
ago.
Few men like your minister" was the equivo-
cal reply Of a stranger when asked If he enjoyed
the service.
Mayor Hoffman vetoes the Stafford pavement as
well as the Nicholson. =" New, untried, and ex-
pensive, - he says.
New York correspondent says Bonner has
offered the prince Of Wales $500 column 70
write for the Ledger.
Another attempt is to be made next Monday to
I, open merchants exchange over the Loalsiana
National Bank.
Mr.. MediIl. Of the Chicago Tribune, says Banks
isaweak. vain man, with streak Of the trans
cendeptsl running through his composition, while
Sumner is an imprsctcsble egotist.
On a Chicago skating rink, recently, VIM
F,.ver ,kated one hundred miles in twenty-fou
consecutive hours, and completed the job eighteen
minutes ahead Of time.
hi, thought the Ksnawha valley is the hear
and center of the Allegheny Coal Field, which
without exception is the largest, richest and mos
available coal deposit in the world.
New York paper announces, with edtena
gravity. in large type, that " Mrs. Kemble wear
still the came nobly formed head which was s.
much admired when she made her first appear
.nce at the Covent Garden Theater, October IL
-fs 1927
.a few DAYS since the Memphis Bulletin saw 18th
strongest evidence of hard times in the fact Of
prominent steamboat agent borrowing two DO
lars from female fruit vendor on the levee Il
the purpose Of treating his friends She hande
it over in a manner that indicated that connaenc
is not entirely destroyed"
The constantly increasing expenditure 10 dres
iaa subiect of universal remark. There are .
~~cosy "tess," or parties, or sociaoles now,
which dressnis not required, and If we 60 on
81 This rate. saws Jennie June, we shall soon have
sleep in puffs and gold powder, and wear viii
kid gloves at the breakfast table.
lis not true that Minister Adams has resgnt
becanse the Oxford students declined TO acce
the conditions Of rowing match with the Hsrva
students which the latter proposed. Inc tneor
however that see n, Se sss ON tSs suSise
and hence he resigned his mission, is regarded
more probable. The secretary may not pull
strong oar but be swings the longest pen Oh a
living man. IN. Y. World
The heart is desperately wicked. Did any o.
ever see a frantic horse run away that he or 8
was not disappointed " the race did not termina
IN a Grand smash Or did any one ever hear I
alarm of fire, and not feel secretly hurt O.
rrieyed II the alarm proved falsel The plessa'
est reading, and the most popular, in da
iourral is the list of dead and, believe, the mi
unsatisfactory and aggravating, is the maria
column. So says a cynical but truthful writer.
Alta recent meeting Of the La Coterie Blanci
in Philadelphia the floor was covered with VIII
satin paper, marked of in red mosaics, at @
of three hundred dollars. For the decoratio
hundreds Of singing birds we're provided, q
groups Of beautiful flowers arranged betwe
each light. The programmes were printed
white satin, arranged in the form Of book, "
silver edges, aud ornaments with groups OF VII
and red roses and lilies Of the valley upon
covers.
some .cape-erace, writing for Western pap