The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-13

"Volunteer wheat" = ohooting h Texas.
First Aost 1t Lynshburg on >hs sth.
TIE queen Of Spain has become acsrpet-bsggsr.
There are 81 feet on the bars to Shreveport.
Spain enjoyed $50 bull lights last year.
Dumas viii embalm the Nsnksn in . novel.
Brick Pomsroy has been stamping Pennsylvania.
The weather yesterday was very summsry.
Ole Bull IL In Maine.
Tostee's Grand Duchesse costumes cost $4,000.
Bob Lincoln ID In Boston with Ms. Bob.
John b. Cough ID ripe for the rostrum again.
The Black Swan ID singing in Canada.
Gold In New York 1871.
The Spanish junta has declared more reforms.
The cable OF 1866 10 ct work again.
Aemphis will take $500 900 stock In the Selma
railroad. soe-.rtr f0
Stripes on psntaloons win be considered fash.
ionable this winter.
Sculptor Ball has gone to Europe with his peck.
cts full of commissions. 80
Miss Dora Shaw is writing the Menken's autobio-
graphy.
Brigham Young has thIrty-nvs manageable
daughters.
Elections to-day in Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana and Nebraska. ar
John Tyler wants to row Walter Brown for
$1,000 or $4,000.
Over thousand Washington clerks are looming
home to vote"
Women are to attend the Peace Congress at
Berne, as delegates. msn f go
The Texas border Indians still evince fondness
Tor horsefesh.
The New York French thester re-opened with
eclat Monday week. Opera bouffe. f
st. Louis is to have combined Italian and Ger
man opera, under Max NJ. on the 18th.
Mcclellan had splendid ovation in Philadel-
phis on the 9Th. fs Doom
The Missouri State Fair opened grandly in ST.
Louis on the Sth.
The sum of 100000 is annually expended in
Gaming the streets of London.
Onenbach is writing new opera, "MIle do
Perletipan."
The pope is said to be the only European SOY.
ereign who does not smoke.
Houston and Galveston are contending for the
palm on the pretty girl question.
/ England has large crop of acorns this year.
They are fed to farm animals.
Tie latest Paris velocipede carries two persons
and footmsn to propel it.
IDdianola is sending great quantities of mer.
chandize into Texas and Northern Mexico.
The sun was obscufed by fight Of grasshop.'
pers last month in Belknsp, Texas.
Mr.. A. l.. Hay, editor of the Shreveport News.
is stopping at the City Hotel.
Registration is proceeding quietly in Caddo
parish.
Planters are preparing for sugar making. The
late storm did not iDjure the cane much.
Greeley was nominated in John Morrissey's dis.
trict, and will have to run against the latter and
Geo. Francis Train.
The receipts at the fair gates, in st. Louis, on
the sth, were nearly $4,000. There were fully
10000 people on the ground during the day.
Grace Church, New York, has been sold for
$600,o0 The church will be demolished, and Q
dry goods store erected on the site.
]. Smith Of Boston, has flied for seventy years,
and has fourteen stripes on his military coat.
sleeve.
Geo. W. McCranie, ESQ.,, commenced the publ.
cation Of campaign daily Telegraph at Monroe
on the 9Th.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company and
the officers of the steamers Clinton, Louise and
Josephine.
We had the pleasure of call last evening from
Mr.. p. K Mayors, editor of tho Handsboro, De-.
mocrat.
The French journals manifest more cordially
for the Burlngame Chinese mission than the Lon.
don Times and its co.laborers have seen fit to do.
The United States minister has recognized the
Spanish junta, and was the first foreign repre-.
sentative to do so.
Paris dispatch says the captain general of
Cuba has given in his adherence to the new
government.
The preliminary notes of the Pennsylvania
election were rather loud in Philadelphia yes.
terdsy.
The result of the presidents order, contained ia
our telegraphic dispatches, will probably be an
unobsructed presidential election in the unrepre.
sented States of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas.
playful horse, while taking its rider through
the inundated district. Sunday morning, quietly
laid down In the water for the purpose of enjoy.
ing roll in the refreshing element.
The Alexandra (ya.) Advertiser says that
Mayor Conway, of New Orleans, has presented to
the city of Alexandra handsome edition of the
laws Of the Crescent City.
After Brick Pomeroy's organ grinder had played
=" Dixie" a reasonable length of time in front of
his office, in New York, similar artIste was set
at work in the vicinity at "sherman's March to
the Sea-" The opposition created much amuse-
ment.
There was disgusting prize fight in q room in
Williamsburg, on the 9th. between brute named
Dolan and another named Wagner. Thirty two
rounds were fought, when DoIan nearly bit
wsgner's thumb Off The fight was then declared
in favor of Wagner. Both were shockiugly mutt.
lated, and had to be carried away in the arms of
brother brutes.
Washington dispatch says an English letter
lately from leading member Of the executive
council of the Reform League, reflects severely
upon the course pursued by Minister johnson.
This writer says that johnson has snubbed every
Liberal leader who has approached him, and that
he will be completely bamboozled by Disrseli and
Stanley.
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