The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-24

The common sunn0Wer grows W VIC no'eH' VI
30 feet in Arizona territory.
The East New York Conference prohibits the
use of Intoxicating wines" in the sacrament.
The Memphis Bulletin has changed hands and
turned Republican.
fowl fair was given in Worcester, Mass, to
encourage henergy.-lEx.
The widow of noted hunter of Ohio died re-
Gently in that State, aged lOs.
blue heron, eight feet high, has been seen IN
West Virginia.
Yale clubs have been established in Cincinnati
and Chicago.
Cobb intimates that he is to forsake romance
for business.
An iron tubular tunnel from New York to Brook
Ign is proposed.
LopgfellOw and his family will spend the sum-
mer in Europe.
darcy McGee's brain weighed only half an
ounce less than Cuviers, the largest on record.
John Bright said lately: " If visited the United
States the excitement and the labor would simply
be my DEATH"
Ristor opens again ia New York on the I'd OF
May, in 4" Teresa "-the same piece which created
the excitement In Havana.
The editor of the Waco (Texas) Register has
been "To-wash." He performed the expedition
with team from mammoth livery stable"
The Waco (Texas) Register predicts that New
Orleans will yet be the great grain market of the
world.
The base ball players are making great prepar'
atoms for their tournament at Niagara Falls In
June. sixty.acre field is the playground.
In England, the fashion report Is, that black
dress coats are going out, and that the old-styie
blue coats, with brass buttons, are coming in.
cosy breakfast was given to Mr.. Dickens the
morning following the dinner, attended only by
few personal admirers.
Lieutenant Lloyd says Boston men have made
| one hundred thousand dollars by shipping rum to
| Liberia.
The editors Of the Herald gave dinner, at Del
monico's, recently, to Fred. Hudson, who SO long
and ably managed that paper.
Two underground railroad projects in New
York are expected to give employment to 10000
| Iaborers.
France, as well as England, is about to sond an
expedition to India to observe the great solar
eclipse in August. The French expedition is to
20 TO the Coromsndel coast of India.
Col. Charles A. Stetson has in his private libra
~ "a very valuable colection) the work in which
| George Washington studied engineering, with the
| autograph of the Father of his Country.
+ Robin pot-pies are the latest agony in Alexan
| dria. Va 1t sounds luxurious and succulent, and
no one out of old Virginia knows how to cool
fowl or birds.
Two cocks, called by their jocose owners, one
Wendell Philips and the other Horace Greeley
had mill in Detroit the other day. Naturally
Wendell won.
| unI1 fho rnan xuhn frat ma Ia
| Herald a newspaper. and whose absence for thu
| mast TWO years is the reason of the decadence o
| that Journal is now in town. He lives, when a
| home, at Concord, Mass.-lWorld.
country editor says of contemporary
"Tbe caption Editorial Correspondence owe
| the letters of Mr.. - is a misnomer, and Idiot
orial Correspondence is more appropriate an
suggestive"
Your American domestic il a sensitive cres
ture. He or she is to be taken up tenderly an
| handled with care. To call such servant is
mortal offense. Even the term domestic" j
offensive. The pastorals compromise on tn
word Z" help."-[Ex.
An old bachelor in New York offered youn
lady pony for kiss she gave him the kiss; h
refused her the pony; she sued him he plesde
"no consideration; )" the court decided that
kiss was a legal consideration, and made nil
"pony over"
Ministers with mustaches are becoming con
mon even in Wesleyan Methodist pulpits. Th
Methodist Recorder has received two communct
: tons on the subject of ministers wearing musti
ches. In one lady expresses hope that th
propensity to cultivate the mustache may NJ
spread among " our esteemed minister's"
A London paper says: "A young lady who ht
lately written pleasant little volume on Norwa.
describes her delight on meeting at hotel a
American lady, who, like many of her countr.
, women, was very beautiful; but the writer WI
l disenchanted as, in passing bowl of gold-fs
the Yankee belle called out through her nos
'Eh, pa amt they sloimyH"
According to Bayard Taylor, the managemel
9 of forests in Germany is assumed by the Stat
|, and even when trees are planted and owned
individuals there are regulations which preve
more than the annual growth from being use
This jurisdiction of the government is limited
mountain regions, and does not extend to Ian
9 suitable for growing grain; and it is found tn
f mountains thus cared for yield revenue as gre
t as the cultivated plain. The statement will
, noted that streams which formerly were navig
O BILE have dwindled TO brooks since the flores
adjoining have been cut away.