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

MORsfNs. DECEMBEa .. 1865.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Roast swan is favorite dish 10 Germany.
Chicsgo is TO have q new hotel to cost $3.50 900.
Mrs. Schuyler Colfax is thirty two years OF age.
jamestown, N. Y, is to have s2l 900 poor
house. I'D
The number Of Jesuits expelled from Spain is
about $50. Most of them have gone to France.
The daughter of ex Gov. Orr, of South Carolina,
has married Philadelphisn.
Two old ladies committed suicide in Sullivan
county, Tennessee, lately.
Fifteen drunken men in one street car was re.
cent midnight scene in Boston.
At recent public dinner IN Birmingham, Eng
land, Elihu Burritts pocket was relieved of $3.50.
Eight higb-liie weddings are to come of in New
York on December %. M
The - Devils Dishful." is the euphonious title
applied to q section of Danvers, Mass.
General Joseph E. Johnston is living in Augusta,
Ga.
Lord Stanley is the most universally popular
member of the British Parliament.
The postmen Of Lyons. France, make their de-
liveries with the aid Of velocipedes.
OF 800 convicts in Sing Sing Prison, s2s were
formerly Sunday School scholars.
Paris workmen 60 to aud from their labor In the
suburbs on velocpedes.
that of the type setter.
One million sacks of wheat are stored in the
Warehouses of San Francisco.
The National Board of Trade will hold its fir I
session in Cincinnati, tomorrow.
The Metternch rose, a violet purple, is the new
color In Paris. r
The Jersey City letter carriers have appeared in
gray uniform.
Thanks to the officers Of steamship Matagorda
for late Galveston papers.
The balance in the sub treasury yesterday was
$s7, SOC, 900.
More wheat has been planted in Warren county,
Tennessee, this fall than for many years past.
The Columbus, Ohio, preachers say they won't
pray for the Legislature unless they can use the
State library. a
The St. Paul Dispatch says the White Fawn +"
baliessirls in that place we're barefooted up to
the neck" ----....-
The Hudson Christian Association has voted to
admit checkers and chess to its rooms and to ex.
clude dominoes and back gammen.
Col J. B. Rogers. United States marshal for the
eastern district of Missouri, died at ST. Louis on
the 2sth ult.
The largest load of cotton received at this port
since the wsr-4O2s bales-wss brought by the
Magenta night before last.
A little girl fell down on the brick sidewalk
few days ago, and was injured SO severely that
she died on Sunday last.
The Bank of England has raised its rate of dis
count TO two and half per cent. The rate has
been two per cent. since July, 1867.
The high price of butter is attributed to the more
extended use of the piano than the churn among
farmers daughters.
The Boston Transcript says: "The hand that
can make pie is continual feast to the husband
that MAJ ries it." .. ..-. f......
The Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Company. of
Montana, declared a dividend of $500 900 few
days ago.
The son of schsmyl, the famous Caucasian
chief is a captain of the czar's guard. speaks Rus.
sian well and frequepts the theater and clubs.
Old Crsbtree, Lotta's father loses $1,000 by the
fire which burned out his liquor saloon in Broad.
way, New York, Sunday night.
The Spanish provisional government has con.
trscted loan for $40 900 900 with Messrs. Roths-
childs.
Bill Reese, one of the most infamous rowdes
Chicago has ever been cursed with, was shot and
killed recently.
In the Arctic the present whaling season has
been the .most unfavorable one experienced in
twenty years. 1sI. 1 ..l 81
Scovill, the defaulting cashier of the st. Ste
pheD's Bank of New Brunswick, escaped yester.
dsy morning. A reward of $780, 900 is offered for
him.
In Virginia no real estate can be sold to pay
debts until all the personal property is exhausted
aud not then if the rents and profits of the real
estate for FIVE years will pay the debts.
During the three months ending November 1,
IL ZIG lodgings were furnished Is 40 meals given
out, and PAT poor boys provided with homes by
the Newsbcys' Home. "a
very enterprising advertising agent lately
called on the superintendent of the U. 8. armory
at Springfield to inquire if ne did not want to ad-
vertise his ests blishment. ..t.s
The Boston Post says: A Sunday paper says it
is in fayor of women voting. If they want to. We
should like to see the man that could make them
vote. If they didn't want to.
Christian Gottfried Gutenberg, the great Ger
man naturalist, especially distinguished by bis in
vestigations through the microscope. celebrated
his fitch anniversary as doctor of medicine, at
Berlin. Prussia, on the 9th Of November.
The American College. at Rome. is represented
to be greatly in want of funds, and an appeal has
just been issued to the wealthy Roman Catholics
of the United States to contribute $500 900 for the
support of the institution.
II is stated that there are now over three hun
bred graduates Of female medical colleges in active
practice in the United States, some Of whom are
in the receipt of $40 600 per snnum from their
profession.
All the operatives, under fifteen years OF age, in
the knitting factory in New Britain, Conn, have
been discharged for three months, in accordance
with the statute forbiddDg their employment
more than nine months in the year.
p0oLo~.~- Tr-;o- S~~~-sh~a ~--L-t--s---
process, which simply consists in washing dead
body with a certain 1ud-the whole work not oc-
cupying fifteen minutes, and nsuriDg absolute pre-
servstion for an indefinite time.
The emperor of Russia has sent to this country
two civil engineers with Instructions to make
complete examination of the operations of the
Pacific and other great railways in the United
States.
Gossip from Washington says that Grant cuts
McCulloch, Welles and Randall on the street;
that Seward will not be asked to remain 10 the
cabinet: that ColfAx has already opened for the