The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-19
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Gen. Prim is German.
Lady Bulwer is 10 lunatic asylum.
Rossini left $500 900.
Hops are said to grow wild 10 Arizona.
The Marie Frederick opera troupe is coming.
Lemons are cheaper than apples in Boston.
Nine. Parepa Rosa is but thirty years old.
Santa Anna has turned up in st. Domingo
Victor Emmsnuel's nickname is "Guaff."
A 6ght for " stamps''-A revenue tug.-IFx.
Beecher is trying the velocipede.
The steam man is coming
Greeley was to dine with the mayor of Montreal
on the 10th.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers ST. Mary
and Josephine.
Full particulars of the loss of the steamer Era
No. 10 will be found in our river news.
Tournour is going to Memphis. Mrs. Gladstsne
will be there next week.
The Hsrpers pay from FIVE to fifteen dollars per
page for the proye articles.
Napoleon intends making his court like Bona
parties, by creating corps of pages.
The Prince of Wales was ENDORSED by stag
while hunting in France.
Brigham Young frowns upon the use of opera
glesses in bis theatsr.
Berlin is to have home for aged bachelors and
spinisters.
A young mother in Ohio recently bit of her
childs nose in dream.
The Courier Journal regards the release of the
irrepressble Train as a national calamity.
We present an abstract of the report OF the
controller of the currency.
Helmbold has given q reception " to his en-
ployes costing $4,000.
The stock of American cotton in Liverpool
yesterday was 81. coo bales.
There were not wanting spectators in tickets
to Rossni's funeral.
Beecher is mentioned es the probable editor of
rev magazine.
Colon Robinson Gays the climate of Florida s
the best in the country.
G. A. Townsend, who went TO Louisville to lee
ture, ana got snubbed by the Democratic press of
that city. gives Louisville particular its."
DR.. Newman's Advocate thinks Gen. Lcngstreet
will get Q fat thing under the Grant adninistra.
ton.
Grant has been weighed. He weighs $50. He
viii weigh less alter the politicians get through
with him.-[Citizen.
More people die prematurely from want of care
in any given year, than perish by plague, famine,
pestilence and war.
Some "reminiscences of Fort Lafayette, in
another column, are from the pen of George D.
Prentice.
An unsuccessful attempt was made IN Memphis
on he 18th to swindle the First National Bank out
OF s35, coo by forged draft.
Thad. Stevens is reported to have said that Ben.
Butler is destined to immortal fame or fame, he
did not know really which.
Many planters in Avoyelles parish are dividing
their estates into email FARMS and Offering TO rent
them to freedmen.
Rev. Edward Fontsine's address before the
Louisville Board of Trade, on the opening of the
Mississippi is reported ia fall ia the CourerJ our.
nal.
General Francis Fessenden, of the Fessenden
family, and W. W. Wiswen have relieved the
dearth of amusements in Portland by combat on
the street.
Senior Garcia Garcia. the Peruvian minister,
now stopping in our city. is to investigate the
public school system of New Orleans, with view
to establishing schools upon the same basis in bis
country.
Any man who can bound out of bed as soon as
be wakes of a mid. winters morning is worth
something; no fear of his not making his way
through the world creditsbly, because he has the
elements Of promptitude, decision and energy,
which guarantee success-lDr. Hall.
With January the Galaxy begins its eleventh
volume, and since its enlargement it claims to be,
with q single exception, the largest monthly
magazine now published, and it promises to be
one of the best Among the attractions for the
coming year is a serial novel by Charles Reade. to
be printed from the advanced manuscript.
Rossini was always gourmet, and for tossing
up dish Of maccaroni there was nobody in all
Bologna like him. He suffered intolerable an
guish for two days before his death. DR.. Nelaton
had operated on him for fstula. ErysipeIas su.
pervened. There were bad sores too, and his
whole body was in state of Inflammation. He
always wore amulets and scspulsries, never went
out without coral horn to avert the evil eye,r
and when he was i'll yelled to every saint in Para.
disc, calling them by name to come to his assist
ance.
Here is an item for the consideration of the
business men Of New Orleans. The river reporter
Of the ST. Louis Democrat, under date OF the l5th
writes: at The Silver Lake No. was to sail sure
at q late hour for Red River. drawing feet 4
inches, with $50 tons, mostly for Shreveport and
Jefferson, on Red River. She has -four, butter,
maccaroni. saddlery, stoves, hardware. tobacco,
pork, etc., some of the lots being for Memphis.
Rodney. Lake Providence, etc. She will get at
Cairo 700 barrels -four for Shreveport. We are
sure she will be heartily welcomed by the Red
River people,"
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