The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-09
Ghe 9ew Orleans Grestent.
Editorial Paragraphs. Etc.

Ole Bull has been folding In Chicago.
Florence is overrun with Americans.
The car has written to the emperor.
Delaware papers stand by the whipping post.
Paris green kills cockroaches.
Lucille Western is at the Walnut, Philadelphia.
90 The world knows nothing of its greatest man."
Hon. Joshua Baker has accepted the appoint
nent Of governor Of Louisiana.
A city contemporary describes person as
light complicated" and calls him "gent."
The purser Of the steamship Morgan has our
thanks for late Galveston papers.
n For Mobile papers of Tuesday, the purser of
Die Frances viii please accept our thanks.
If North Carolina would find home market for
b. IOO, 900 bushels OF peanuts, etit erect theaters
Theodore Tilton fathers the Independent and
another son.
ostion of his party.
Two albino gray squirrels, white as milk, were
Recently killed in Missouri.
The loss by the burning of the Queens Theater
J estimated at $3.50 600.
On Christmas night the gas men at Yonkers
ent on a spree, and the gas went out too.
"The shows Of things are better than them
selves"
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On the LIST.
The Mail reminds the New York ladies', who
night have been offended by tipsy visitors on the
Ot. that it is highly aristocratic to get drunk.
y The crown prince Ut Holland il to wed Free
erika. eldest daughter of the ex.king of Hanover.
Signor Blitz is to participate.
Colonel Charles Todd, of Kentucky, veteran
ef the war Of 1912, aid de-camp to General Har-
rson and minister to Russia under his administra-
4on is in town.
new justice Of the peace in Kansas closed,
1narIying his first couple, in these words: What
have this night joined together let no man but
God Almighty put asunder."
III An incautious mouse, down In Name attempted
30 eat some meat which chung to an axe during
HE cold snap, when the animals tongue was
frozen to the blade, and he never ate again.
The colored organ Of this city says DR.. New.
man was great friend of equal rights. yet, after
HE colored men have assisted him in building
new church. be has come to the conclusion Of
placing them up stairs separate from the whites.
A. Head otherwise E. o. Halle, Esq, who has
been absent from the city since March last
beRmed upon US yesterday, looking as good as
hew. During his absence, as most of our readers
ere aware, be has visited London and Paris. We
bre happy to welcome him back to New Orleans.
The Westboro' (Mass) Chronotype warns one
cf the teachers of youth in that town that that
school cannot be said to be well kept in which
pupils indicate preference over their studies
Tor stealing one another's coats, glutenizing to.
gether the leaves of books, and passing live toads
around the schoolroom."
Charles Lennox, lord of the admiralty offered
cne Of the royal dock.yards to Mr. Bennett for the
repair of his yacht, If it needed any. The young
american replied and addressed the lord of the
admiralty as Mister Charles Lennox. The lord
received the letter, and pocketed the Mister as a
good joke.
Mrs. L. V. D. Martin, wife of the United States
district attorney at Mobile, who shot Judge Bus
teod says her husband was goaded to despera.
ton by Judge Busteed's uncessing insults and re,
morseIess unabsting mslignity towards Mr.. Mar
tin since the appointment of the latter as dis
trict attorney in his court.
One Of the features of Bonner's stables is long
wooden roller inserted horizontally into the par
tiiions between the stalls. Horses are fond of
rubbing themselves against partitions, and fire.
Quently thus rub off the hair and inure their
coats. When Mr.. Bonner's horses rub themselves
these rollers turn they rub, and so there Is no
Friction.
"Four white feet.
And one whie nose
And fling him TO the crews"
Dexter, the fastest trOtter, Lexington, the fast
lest runner, and Pocahontss, Sr. the fastest PAGER
in the world, have or had "four white feet and
one white nose" SO much for " old saws"
Between thirty and forty years ago a wealthy
Boston family, when about to embark from New
FORK for long residence in Europe, packed a
trunk of valuable heirooms and other rich
ARTICLES, and sent il to Boston bank for safe
keeping. 1t was placed In a bank vault, marked
with the name Of the owner, with a memorandum
that the trunk was to remain until called for by
the owner. The owner, after many years. alb
sence IN Europe, supposng the trunk to be lost,
or stolen, never called for IL; and nov, after a
third Of a century, when nearly every member of
his family is dead this valuable trunk has been
discovered, and restored in perfect order to the
surviving widow of the owner.
Horace Greeley having publicly admitted that
there is time to Dance" the World thus
addresses the philosopher:
To the BARRIERS, then, Horace, with those cen
trituga locks Buruish with benZine that ancient
claw hammer. Let unfamiliar backing illus
trate those hiQhows, and gloves of Paris, if
American industry be unequal 10 the proper
/" lrott ctionn of them, encase those honest
hands. DisemboEuo thy pockets of their news
papers, let prize strawberry plant dangle
q from thy button-hole as pendant 20 a ball card
call Susan Il. Anthony from the Vastly deep of
politics 70 be thy partner, and HE thee to the
Academy, or better still, TO the German wherein
thy kindred shoddy does homage to fashion. and
show us the vertabe avatar of TerpsichOre.
sui, ide OF "a New OrIean. Lady In New York.
New Yolk letter of the %, to the Phladel-
phia Ledger, says:
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