The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-03

The health OF the Emperor Napoleon il again
reported very miserable By Paris correspondents
De Lamartne has Just celebrated his seventy
eighth birthday. He is completely in his dotage
The price Of a good velocipede, medium size
with no extra fancy work. ;" is about s65.
The London Times has had to cut down It's prices
to head of the Telegraph.
Duke de Leuchtenberg has Just married, at st.
Petersburg, maid of honor.
Forney's feelings are to be lacerated by new
Grant organ In Washington.
1t Is reported that Garibaldi is about to come 10
this country to live.
Several thousand brides are honey incoming in
New York, and say they like it.
Game is almost too abundant in the vicinity of
Columbus, Ga.
Cheap religion is announced in New York.
That is, it isn't worth much
A Mobile Niger preacher has been arrested for
horse stealing.
Thanks to the officers of steamer Louise for late
Mobile papers.
Thanks to the officers Of the Southern Express
for late New York papers.
Geo. Ellis, bookseller and ststioner, Z Old Levee
has favored us with the New York Albion of the
18th ult. Call on him for a copy.
"The anti-Butler campaign cost State street,
Boston, not less than one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars" says an exchange.
| Veal Is now called unfinished beef,n lamb
"incipient mutton" and sucking pig Fremont
tory pork"
Patti is reported to be busily engaged in paying
of her husbands old debts; and he, in contract
ing new ones.
The Memphis papers record the death of Judge
VIM. L. Harris, formerly of Mississippi, on the
10th ultimo.
Cincinnati thief stole the poor box from the
church door while the minister was performing
the ceremony of baptism within.
More than thousand maple trees have been
planted in Lexington, KY, this fall, and more are
yet to be planted.
Miss Emily Shonberg, the most beautiful wo-
man in America" is reported engaged to Mr.. But
terfeld, of Paris, a widower. ----.
The bark Swallow. over one hundred days
from Bankok, for San Francisco, is believed to be
lost.
Geo. Wilkes has gone abroad, for an absence Of
two years, because he can't get an office, it is re
ported in New York.
1t is calculated that the Indian wars Of the last
forty years have cost this country eight hundred
millions of dollars,
Frederick Fraley, of Philadelphia, was yester.
day elected president of the National Board of
Trade, now in session at Cincinnati.
At the election for municipal officers Yesterday
in Augusta, Ca, the Democratic ticket was elected
by ll36 majority.
famine is threatened in Egypt because great
portion of the land bordering on the Nile has not
been overlooked and cannot be cultivated.
burglar at Bridgeport stepped into large |
rat-trap, yelled, and was caught, thereby putting
his foot in it.
A Chicagoan locked his wife up when she
wanted to go to church, and now she asks a
divorce.
Spruce gum gatherers in the vicinity of Choco.
rua Mountains, in New Hampshire, obtain from |
thirty to forty pounds and sell it for seventy.ve
cents per pound.
Levi Pickering, of Gilmanton, N. b., has trapped
twelve mnks and one hundred and fifty muskrats
the past month, the former selling for IS each and
the latter for Is cents.
An old river man on the Mississippi, who care
fully observes the signs, predicts that navigation
on the upper Mississippi will be open nearly all
winter.
Forty-eight whslers have arrived at Honolulu
the present season, bringing 26Os barrels sperm
oil, 29,SSs barrels whale, and 392, 200 pounds of
bone.
When the cattle are fed on straw, the BOYS on
skinned milk, the old man on fat pork and the
hens are obliged to scratch gravel, the breath of
the beaux of the girls will smell of whisky.
Commodore John Patty. a well known naviga-
tor. died at Honolulu on the 10th of November.
He had been q resident of the Sandwich Islands
since 1884.
Fun says that in consequence of his well.known
amiability and adaptability, Mr.. Horace Greeley
is to be raised to the ashley appearage under the
title of Lord Dssgreeley.
The librarian of Congress has caused to be
placed in the rotunda of the Capitol a statue of
Alexander Hamilton, executed in Italy b. Horatio
Stone, under an order of Congress.
Senator Doolittle was not one of the money
making sort of congressman, and will be Obliged
to earn his living by his profession after his term
expires.
A training school for domestics has long been in
by benevolent persons in New
York, and il is now asserted that such an insttu.
Jon will soon be established.
Twenty-Five years ago George d. Prentice took
sboy, W. N. Hademsn, into his office as clerk.
The clerk now pays his former employer $40 q
week to write.
One hundred and two rats-just exactly one
oushel-were killed by terrier at Bloomington,
H., recently, and all inside of twenty minutes
ime.
Politeness to a lady is never thrown away. II
he seed doesn't take growth at once, it never
heless starts in time. Let those who invest
'ear this in mind and be patient.
In Hendersonville, Tenn, on the 2Sth, an ARRAY
ook place between Mr.. Sam Doxey and Col. Bob
Vithers, in which the latter was shot and almost
Instantly killed.
ounty, Texas, last week and put in prison at |
'ulaski for trial. On the morning of the 9th nit.
ONE sixty or seventy men forced their way into
be prison, and took him out and hanged him.
Riley, the colored man who was so bitterly de-
ounced and prosecuted by his brethren for voting
be Democratic ticket, has been presented with
purse of s63l by the white citizens of Charles
on.