The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-20
Personal Items.

Joe Columns headquarters are IN 10th street
New York. ana he is training himself up TO within
an inch of his life.
Tie emperor of Brazil has offered Rstori and
her troupe free passage to Rio JaneirO and the
use Of the Imperial Theater.
The New York World il informed that Young
Iturbide is not papal Z0uaVe for the suiii ,ient
reason that be is bat six years old. He lives at
the New York Hotel.
The story iha. Ole Bulls violin was seized in
Chicago for his failing 10 give concert in hall
he had engaged is wholly false. lie broke no en.
gaGCment and bis violin was not seized.
Mrs. Susan Johnes Clark has just died at Law
renee, New Jersey, upon property which has been
held in her family, by entail, for more than hun.
dred and fftv Years.
Governor Bullock has appointed James D. Colt.
OF Pittsheld, associate Justice Of the Supreme
Judicial Court Of Massachusetts ia place of Rem
ben A. Chapman, appointed chief Justice.
1t is announced that Lord Hobart is about to
proceed 10 ConstanunOple, in the capacity o.
resident director of the Ottoman Bank, with a
salary Of $1,000 year.
brother and biograpEer of Sir Humphrey Dsvy,
and eminent a chemist, geOOgist aud physiolo-
gist, which took place on the 24th Of January.
A yvandiere, who accompanied the armies Of
the First Napoleon, has Just died IN the Asylum
Of La SalpetTiere, at the age of l0l. She went
through the Russian campaign, and was a.
Waterloo.
il is said that the emperor of French, recently.
at the first ball at the Tuileries laughed very
heartily at the American minister General Dix
who was conversing quite seriously with one of
the secret pOlice-spies, who attended the bail in
the dazzling uniform of a Belgian officer.
The number of gentlemen who wish to be NJ.
Guthrie's successor is quite large; among them
Governor Stevenson, Judge Bullock, Oscar Turner
DR.. Norvin Green, Beriah Magoiin, Jesse d. Bright
Clate of Indsns), Col. McGerevy, Judge Phister,
/. s. Trimble and Edward Rumsey.
Diekens's oldest boy lives with aud takes care
OF his mother, while the other children live with
their aunt, Georgine HOgarth Mrs. Dickens's sis
ter, under their fathers roof. The friends of
both parties aver that incompatbity of tempera-
meBt was the sole cause of their separation which
had been earnestly advised long before il took
place.
After Fred. Douglass lectured at Ann
Arbor, short time ago, the son of a United
States senator attending college there, stepping
upon the platform, advanced 10 Sir. Douglass. ex.
tended bis hand, aud remarked: My name j.
-, am the son Of a United States senator"
Are your said Mr.. Douglass; al have reason
to believe that am too"
The father Of the great Calico was the first %
invent solo singing, or the arrangement OF music
for single voice. Before his time good music
was only cultivated for the church. and sung in
chorus. The experiment in solo singing was drst
tried in the house Of rich amateur in Florence
ana al once became popular, paving the way for
oratorio and opera.
Some Of the crowned heads of Europe receive
tsticisn has made tabular exhibit Of their sala-
ries, from which we learn that the Emperor Alex
ander II receives daily sum equal "a the annual
compensation OF the president OF the United states
Louis Napoleon gets 81, 2i0 day: Oleen Veto
RIA, S6O27 Francis Joseph. $40 $50: aad the king
OF Prussia, SS2l0. OF the nine sovereigns men.
toned, the smallest salary ia paid 70 the king OF
Belgium, and is only sl64o a day.
The Washington star reports that Mr.. Dickens
commenced hls first reading in that city on MOn.
day night. by an apology for the badness Of the
eas light, which should be remedied on the follow
ing night; meantime, the deficiency must be sun.
pled from the bright countenances of the audi
ence. which was pleasantly said by Mr. Dickens.
but he evidently wasn't pleased. Report has IL
mat MI Dickens was exceedingly wrathful be
hiud the scenes, az the mad light and at FIRST posi-.
lively refused 20 give the reading ia such a iuru.
brious shade. Report has it further, that. when
Mr.. Dolby urged him 10 go on with the reading
and make the best Of IL, he (Mr. Dicksns), in the
language OF bis own Scrooge, said TO Mr.. Dolby
that he would see him -; YES indeed ne did
He went the whole length Of the expression, and
said he would see him IN that extremity fist. Ru
be thought better Of il and made has appearance
az the proper time.