The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-07

IN Connecticut. The housewives are using 1t ex-
tensively for the manufacture of miuce pies.
The hiring Of hair has been instituted since
May, 1867, for parties, but now chignons can be
had per month.
Estelle, the Partisan fower-girl of the Jockey
Club, has been eclipsed by Mile de la Perine.
who now monopolizes the trade and the fsvors.
The Bombay potentate. Chimmlalee Mahary.
has married girl of ten years. he paid slO.0 600
for his bride.
William starke. black negro. who can neither
read nor write, has been appointed postmaster
at San Marine. Dinwiddie county, Va.
In Connecticut, a boy Of twenty has just mar
ried q widow of so who has seven children. The
eldest is six years older than his new papa"
In England they fine $500 and dismiss from
Office any revenue officer who takes an active part
in politics.
State fairs now have a new wrinkle. One In
New Hampshire offers three dollars premium for
''tbe best child" All that cry are counted out.
A block Of granite. 100 feet long, % thick, 20
wide, and weighing 5000 tons, has been quarried
at Richmond, Va.
The Tennessee Mounds" are being explored,
and human remains, pottery, shell ornaments,
vases and stone idols discovered.
Bolivia has given Brazil l6, 900 acres of land, in
return for various decorations" OF the Bolivian
president.
At the close OF 1867 there were over $500 miles
OF railroad open in Italy. At the close of 1870
there will be nearly 1900.
A statue was recently inaugurated at Brming
ham, England, to the memory of James Vert, the
inventor Of the steam engine.
In 1866 more than eighty-one per cent. of the
= O
came over on steam vessels.
Thanks TO the officers of the steamers Celeste
Leni Leoti and Right Way, for late papers and
other favors.
A negro, who had stolen horse, was shot and
killed few days ago near Spring Hill, while at.
tempting to escape from constable.
The Republican Congressional Executive Com
mittee circulated 100000 documents during the
campaign.
Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to
confer the vacant ribbons of st. Patrick upon
the Marquis of Waterford and the Earl of Erne.
Rev. Jeremiah Porter and wife, the veteran
pioneers of Wisconsin, expect to leave soon for
new field Of labor, to which they have been called,
on the Rio Grande, in Texas.
writer in the New York Citizen says :"If Ply
mouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrim Fathers it
would have accomplished something worth talk.
ing about"
The Journdlde Medicine of Paris, commenting
on the general state of health in Europe, men,
tons that at the present moment there is not
trace of any epidemic on that continent.
The cotton raised at the foot of Mount Vesu.
vius (called the Castellamsrs cotton, from the
name of the shipping port,) is only surpassed by
fha iola NJ ia
DR.. Aston, physician of the pest house in Nash
vile. has had one patient ia the last six months.
He draws pay at the rate of six dollars per day,
and desires "to be continued"
The portrait of Washington has been placed
under the grand canopy, in front of the town hall
of Barcelona, in place of the picture of Isabella
Segunda, torn down.
Prentice says the Southern carpet bsggers are
go haunted with fears of the Ku.Klux that they
temble at the clucks of every motherly old
hen.
The savings banks of the State of New York
report 4S7 500 as the number of depositors and
sl4l, OO0, 600 as the amount of deposits OF this
sum, $40 100000, or over one third, are invested
In United States bonds.
gray eagle was killed In Williamson county,
Tern, few days ago, which measured nine feet
from tip to tip. He had 10 be shot three times be-
fore be fell There are several others in the same
neighborhood.
Weston, the pedestrian, is now preparing for his
great walk of five thousand miles in one hundred
consecutive days. Starting from an extreme
point in Maine he viii cross several States east.
ward, and bring up finally at ST. Paul, MINI.
The newest trade for the fashionable world is
the hiring Of fruit for grand banquets. In the
same way as people hire crystal for balls. out
grown apples and pears, prize melons, etc., are
hired for the central piece.
A large number of miners from Montana have
reached St. Joseph within few days past. On
the night of the 9th there were three men at the
Pacific House with gold bars and dust to the value
of $4,000.
Nine young men who left Rouen on their We
locpedes at in the morning, reached Paris at 8 |
in the evening. They performed the distance of
thirty-two leagues in eleven hours, having rested
three hours during the day.
Miramon's wife, who lives now in Brussels, is a
tall, slender, black haired lady of thirty though
che looks much older. She speaks very bitterly
of the csurt of France and Austria for allowing
her and her children, as she says, to starve.
The old King of Han over, who was supposed
to be hopeessly blind, is really recovering his
sight, and has hopes of its complete restoration.
His children, even his handsome young princesses,
are all near sighted.
George Ellis, book and periodical depot, Z Old |
Levee street, has placed on our table the Albion
and the Round Table, of the 31st ut. George
takes pleasure in furnishing his friends anything
in the literary line, from first. class weekly to
$500 volume circulating library.
A woman was lately by mistake shut up in the
vaults of small village church in Sweden, where
she remained eleven days. When found she
merely asked for some water, and being treated
with great care, perfectly recovered in a few
days.
A gentleman who has been at Knoxville, and
who had an interview with Governor Brownow,
says that the latter is extremely feeble as to
forcibly suggest the idea of his early decease. |
he is barely able to talk, and is totally inadequate
to the task of walking.
The emperor of the Brazils has sent to Mr. John |
Miers the decoration of the rank of " Dignitoron
of the Order of the Rose. the highest civil distinc.