The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-18
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY IS. L
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Junction City would be the national capital.
Old Grimes il dead.-IEx.
General Grant Is called the "Great Dry Pump"
Carlyle has been made justice Of the peace.
The Indians supply Austin, Texas, with game.
Thanks to the purser Of the Frances for Mobile
papers.
King Cutters party is to have estate conven.
ton" on the LIST prox.
presidential ticket.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., is said to be the
owner of the Telegram and Weekly Herald.
The Pail Mall Gazette devotes half q page to
ga Morning with Mr.. Ward Beecher."
The wheat exported from San Francisco last
year was more valuable than the gold.
Grant refuses to write for the New York Ledger.
"Official business" ETC., etc.
Fine mutton comes from the islands on the
coast Of Maine.
New York journalists work for beggarly sala-
ries.
Geo. Peabody has erected q church to the
memory OF his mother.
Beecher's church is to have the Nicoison pave
ment in front Of it to prevent noise.
Anthracite coal is shipped to Louisville from
Philadelphia via New Orleans.
The man who buys tight boot is apt to put his
foot in It, says an exchange.
Louisville is distributing 5000 bushels Of coal
among its poor. .5
The modern standard dramatic "Black Crook"
and White Fawn."-lN. Y. Com. Adv.
The vote Of Governor Murphy, of Arkansas, has
been rejected by the registrars.
Lynn, Mass, has floating bridge which is six
ty-seven years old.
The New York Herald fsvors Johnson for presi.
dent and Hancock for vice-president.
sixty.four million miles of thread are made in
ten hours in Great Britain.
Meade is not so mild as the beverage Of his
name.
Grant is said to like Meade and Toodle's
oysters.
miners lamentation-" Vein! veinl give
ore PEEK.
A party Of Detroit burglars gagged woman
by stufing an apple into her mouth.
The crown prince of Prussia is said to be very
stingy.
There were nine fire alarms in Chicago on the
18th, and $25 600 worth Of property destroyed.
The last of the Cunarders turned its stern sternly
on Boston yesterday.-GPost.
Titus county, Texas, has had an inch and a half
of snow.
The Mobile Tribune Of Thursday says that
Judge Busted is not 80 well, and that unfavor-
able symptoms have developed themselves.
John Mullaly, the editor of that able New York
paper, the Metropolitan Record, is expected soon
in Mobile.
The French journalists say it's all very well for
England to talk about the objects of the Abyssin-
ian expedition, but they kno,o.
The lists of registration are to be opened again
in Mobile-to be kept open five days, commencing
on the 10th.
Purser George ]. Pitaeld, of the steamship
Mexico, has our thanks for file Of the Standard,
published at the City Of Mexico.
McDevitt SAYS DIR. walcott's "psin paint" put
his nerves in a condition which enabled him to
make 1900 points.
The editor of a paper in Indiana wants TO know
il Western whisky was ever seen "coming
through the rye"
musical dog in New Albany, Ind, plays on
the piano, and bowls. So does young lady liy-
ing next door.-tEx.
Salt Lake, which hss no outlet, is rising year by
year, and threatens to engulph the city of the
saints.
A teacher of vocal music undertook the other
day TO beat the time " made by Flora Temple,
and miserably failed.-tEx.
Gen. Geo. steesman, who foughto on the Confed-
crate side, and who was killed at Big Shanty Ca,
was brother Of Gen. James B. Steedman of this
city.
II is said by observers that women with dark
hair marry much sooner than others. Our ex-
perience. says witty typo, has been the contrary,
the majority of the marriages being among the
lghtheaded females.
The Paris ladies have gorgeous butterfly now to
loop up to their trains in the ballroom, so that the
term butterflies Of fashion,, hitherto used in an
uncomplimentary sense, msy now be considered
en- regle. ...-,.r
The following combination of the wisdom of
Upper and Bunsby is from the London Times:
"a free press has Its evils as well as its sdvan.
fages, and, it may be added its advantages as well
IL says what it pleases and all the world has the
opportunity Of seeing what it pleases to say"
Among the curious expressions in common use
among newspaper men is the phrase that man
who has been robbed has been "relieved, etc.,
We saw it stated q few days ago that a bank
messenger had been relieved" Of large amount
Of money. He could not say, with the man in
" Hsmet," For this relief much thanks.n
The New York Herald remarks that the leading
churches Of the American metropolis seem to be
the shrines OF fashion as well as of religion for
the most disti'agus toilets grace the pews, and the
rustic Of satin and the sheen Of velvet are as i'm
portant features to the ladies as the sermon, the
organ or the preacher. "a
by r'htjjttiJ d ssahEGY tpS6s
are affected, but social relations are so blended,
as well as political, that the mass of our citizens
stand aghast at the course of Congress-" He adds
with touching evidence Of despair that "itis not
OF much use to talk or remark what is the country
coming TO, or where legislation is drifting.n
member of the Mississippi convention wants
to change the name Of the State, because, as he
says, :" she has acted sobadly.r how viii he
manage about the name OF the rivsri II the
name has been disgraced he win have to change
That alan