The New Orleans crescent., 1868-12-20
xDIron1AL rARAeRAPns. Erc.


Mn. Bowers b in Philsdelphis.
Look out for garroters. IS T D.
Thurfow Wedds pets are two small dogs.
Lotta is in st. Louis.
Mr.. Bryant has not sold the Evening Post.
Who win immortslze himself BY introducing
the first real velocipede into New Orleans,
Senator sprsgue is prospecting for cotton mills
in Augusta, Ga.
Good oxen bring thousand dollars a yoke in
Oregon. s a..4 r...sr sar
The London Globe defends Rsverdy Johnson's
pslicy in England. ssar rf s.s -..-.ffa
tbs reported that Young. managing editor of
the Tribune, is about to resign his position.
The monogram on p. T. Bsrnum's doorknob is
said to be translated " Pull the Bell.n
Great composers and musicians are generally
gourmands.
The Central Park lakes have been thrown open
to skaters.
Parepa Rosa and Charlotte Champion are in
Cincinnati.
Mrs. Hawthorne has gone to Europe with her
son Julian, who is to pursue his studies abroad.
Boston proposes to call the new q. S. building
the Hub-treasury.
There are twenty thousand oil wells on the Cas-.
plan Sea, yielding 10 600 900 barrels annually.
William Cornell Jewett has turned up as the
champion of Reverdy johnson.
1t cost $l250 to fit up the Galstea for Wales's
trip.
Beecher's Church has elected three deacon
esses.
1t is well known in England. at least, that
:. Ouids" Is the g idaian name of Miss Della
Four thousand invitations were sent out on the
aio off ha mt at fha
new park bank building In New York.
Two sisters, named Gottschalk, are creating
sensation by their pisnoforte playing in the west
Of England towns.
The chestnut tree Is dying out In North and
Rev. DR.. Tying is writing story for the Ledger,
and Bryant is transatng one from the Spanish for
the same paper.
Bonner says that SO long as Dexter remains the
fret horse in the country, there is not money
enough in Wall street to buy him.
1t is estimated that there are at least a hundred
thousand persons Of Spanish birth residing in New
York.
Private dispatches from Frankfort on. the Main,
represent Mrs. Lincoln in a very critical mental
and bodily condition.
H Rasin has been appointed United States
gauger for st. Louis. Most Of the appointees to
this position are Rasin H-.-tN. Y. World.
A Louisville steamer which arrived here yester-
day brought t,oenty dogs, consigned to gentle
man in this city.
ASt. Thomas letter says Santa Anna has pro.
ject to ally Cuba, Porto Rico and Hsyt with
Mexico, and place the whole confederation under
the "protection" of the United States.
Rotbschd's favorite dish was sourcrouttes,"
and his greatest delight going the 18th Of Au.
gust to the theater, when admission was gratuit.
| Gus. c ial
| Brick Pomeroy contradicts the statement that
his New York Democrat is Q pecunary failure.
On the contrary it has yielded him $40 900, which
! he has sent to La Crosse for investment.
The Galveston chief Of police got involved in an
alteration with an auctioneer of that city, who
\ true to his calling, knocked down. the city
| functionary.
| Every ship arriving in Brisbane and Rockhamp.
ton lands fresh cargo of Polynesians, and the
"vested right" In this traffic is constantly scquir-
ing greater strength and more serious importance.
| At a temperance convention in Boston the other
| day, Senator Wilson said that +" during the past
| year he had travelled ten thousand miles, but he
| had no'chere seen so much drunkenness as IN
| Massachusetts,"
1t is said to be firmly established that the labor
system lately called into being in the semi tropical
section of Australia under the name Of contract
labor" is simply a revival in a slightly altered
| form of slavery itself. ~
The doctor who talks about guzzling liquor
every day being healthy" is a perfect disgrace
to the medical name, and ought to be turned out
to break rock for the turnpike for the term Of his
natural life at shilling day, and find himself.
-[Dr. Hall.
At the banquet in Chicago of the Army of the
Tennessee" the following toast was proposed and
responded to by Gen. d. Ward ." The South-let
! us be friends" Among the table ornaments was
| Fashioned fort of "hard tack,n mounting "a
| guns.
At the closing banquet of the shoulder straps In
| Chicago on the 10th, the regular order Of pro.
| ceedings was interrupted by drunken orge,
| during which six military personages were ar
rested for endeavoring to carry bottles of wine
\ from the hall. t r
| The Monroe Telegraph complains that inmates
of the Jail st that place are not treated humanely.
For the want of sufficient bedding white prisoner
| was impeled to ask the negroes to share their
blankets with him, which degrading association
cuffee proudly spurned.
| One of our compostors set up yesterday, ga
| Texas bride,n when the copy was "a zebra's
hide."-[ Austin Republican.
| In reference to Mr.. Morgan Hamilton, we wrote
| "thinking himself patriotic =" the printer made
Us say. drinking himself patriotic.-[Galyeston
| Bulletin. I.-af atr
| The "plsy folk" of Chicago are very proper
| set of people. Three or four of the prominent
actresses are church members, two managers are
constant attendants at church. and several of the
leading ladies are attached to the most exemplary
and respectable families In the city.
| John Stuart Mill has written a letter on the re-
suit of the recent elections. He ascribes the de-
| feat of the working mems candidate to the heavy
| expense of q canvass as now conducted. AS q
renedy for this evil, be urges the government to
\ pay the necessary expenditures, and make all
| other outlay penal.
| The truth s-brdin is wanted to make a good
servant; and at present there is only MUSCLE
| Hence our gas is half-turned of. Hence our
| water is wholly turned on, till food comes.
Hence bits of stick and string and dirt are thrown
into pipes-for the benefit of the plumber, and
the Sepletion Of our pockets. Hence the devil is