The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-05
TDrroRIAL PARAsRAras. ETC.


Perfumed ink is introduced. -
A golden day yesterday.
The can can was recently Kissed at Bremen.
Montgomery was out Of ice last Monday.
The prince royal of Belgium is dying.
Gold closed in New York at l44.
The president Is after Rollins with sharp stick.
Forney says Rosecrsps is for Seymour.
G. A. 7. is down on Perry Fuller.
Reverdy johnson made his first speech in Eng
lard yesterday.
The Austrian minister was presented to the
president yesterday.
The English criketers are on their way to this
country.
Pierre Mogue says France is strong enough to
preserve the peace.
The New York Evening Post is severe on Perry
| Fuller.
Good news for the boys The Academy of
| Music opens next Tuesday night.
Natchitoches parish expects half q crop Of
/ cotton.
Major Pauline Cushman manages theater at
/ Yonkers, N. J.
Onenbseh has jest finished new opera, I" La
| Pericole."
There are 1855 water powers in Maine, or the
power of 100000 horses.
The cost of Nspoleon's stables for 1867 was
| $50 900.
The reports of the cotton crop in Mississippi
are lot encouraging.
/ Rapides parish expects little more than half a
crop of cotton.
The government cemeteries have cost 50 &c.,
500 80.
TIE Pic testify advises young gentlemen under
fourteen to go 10 bed, instead Of psradiDg through
the streets al night.
G. A. 7. says it is rather remarkable that the
only female whom Gen. Butler ever seemed to
have any pity for was one already hanged.
A law abolishing the New York Board of Coun-
clmen has just been signed by Gov. Fenton. Al
dermen and assistant aldermen are to be elected.
Thos. A Hendricks addressed an immense
Democratic meeting at Jefferson, Kentucky, on
Tuesday.
Frauds amounting to $500 900. by the blank
agent at Buffalo. have been discovered in the
postofice department.
The telegraph is little profuse. comparatively
speaking in its information of the doings OF the
Georgia Legislature.
Plon. Plon has sailed again for Havre. Nice
times has P. p, sailing about in his snug steamer
wherever he listeth.
A case of death from Indigestion caused BIZ eat
ing watermelon at dinner is reported IN Charles
ton.
A New York dispatch of the I'd says there is sp.
parently no truth in the statement that the dry
goods merchants have generally agreed not to sell
goods TO the South except for cash.
The Natchitocbes Times has reliable iuforma-
ton that at several points below, on Cane river,
the negroes are regularly drilling, and have been
for nearly month past.
The British admiralty, after endeavoring in vain
to construct an efficient iron-clad after their own
antiquated notions, have laid the keel of vessel
on the American monitor plan.
| little while before her death Menken said
& have lived longer than a woman of hundred
years, and it is time went where the old people
go.n
Jasper Blackburn has come TO the conclusion
that there are but two talented, open. csndii
and fsrseeing national politicians in this country
Wendell Philips and Charles Sumuer!"
contemporary says talking about rain. there
has too much fallen the past week." What will
he undertake. to run the weather for, by contract,
until the close of the picking season!
G. A. t. says Gen. Hunter has now resigned
from the service, and lives at Princeton, New Jer-
sey, the husband of a wealthy wife. He is a
strange looking man, dark yellow of skin, bilious
eyed, Indian-hke in hair, round and fat of body,
absent minded"
The Macon (Miss.) Beacon says Judge ("
Brown, lately of Ohio. now residing on the Bal
lard place, recently drove his carriage into the
village of sbuquslak with a negro on the front
seat the latter having his back to the horses and
coDversipg with the judges daughter.
The New York Express pertinenty asks
"why in the name of patience do DR.. yintou,
and Mr., Haskins, of Buffalo, want to squabble
over the long ago exhausted question of was
there Bourbon among us? Suppose there was
or there was not? What then They had better
turn their attention to decrease of the use of a
/ great deal of bad Bourbon among us.''
} A rustic youth at the Academy of Music, in
Nashville, the other night, tried to play joke on
a,dsnseu e by throwing her a bouquet to which he
bad a string attached. She saw the joke, or rs.
Their the string, and passed it by. Seeing that that
wouldn't take, rusticus pulled it back, detached
the string, and then flung it to her in good faith
She picked it up, advanced to the front of the
! stage, and threw it right in his face. Exit
country.
{ A lady renting at an unreasonable price board
ing house on Camp street, and whose lease has
nearly expired, has just been notified by her land
lord that the rent is reduced. Early in the sea
son, while boarders we're hard to be obtained. the
house half empty, and the rent money Almost
impossible to be obtained, this considerate land
lord sterbly refused any reduction. The near
} prospect of losing prompt paying tenant is the
secret of his recent ''liberaity."
Prof, L'pscomb, Of the University of Georgia
now travelling in Europe, writing from Berlin
, says: The dogs are put to work and kept al
work. They q race of business dogs-edu
Gated dogs-polte dogs. l watch them daily
|, How demurely they pull their little carts along
toIliDg in the harness! Hundreds of them may be
seen in the streets, making money aud saving
money. / have a great liking for these dogs
And / wish some dogs know, were sent over
4 | hare and tauoht Carman