The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-04

Bad weather for the cotton pickers.


Bad weather for the cotton pickers.
Gold closed 10 New York at l43I.
Memphis is trying TO get the Cairo drydock.
1t is proposed to run canal boats by steam.
Locomotives in Mexico are named after saints.
France produces about 275, 100000 gallons of
cider per snnum.
Prince Napoleon sailed with his yacht into
Hamburg on Monday.
Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, is quite
sick. His disease is Of typhoid nature.
The Chinese embassy viii sail for Europe on
the 9th.
SHIRLEY Darer confesses that abe is an old
maid and ugly at that.
Young men thus dead to shame are not confined
to the latitude of La Crosse or New York.
Prentice wants our lawmakers executed In
preference to the laws themselves.
James upper, formerly auditor Of South Caro-
| lima, died at summervile, recently.
Yuba Dam writes in much distress that his Mary
Jane has got the Grecisn bend
| The Grecian bend has been laughed out Of
fashion at Saratoga.
| Dessicsted fresh Goldfish is becoming an import.
/ ant article of commerce.
Forney is bawling for September session. he
is not likely to get it.
Gen. Grant has gone to Fon du Lac. He goes
thence to Galens, where he will stay until October.
The pope, whenever he appears in public, is
| dressed in white.
A Brooklynite has q collection of near five
thousand photographs.
John Brown accompanies Victoria on her Euro
pean tour in full II ighand costume.
| A London vocalist announces her assumption of
| the name of "Menken."-
The Grecisp bend may be appropriately called
| the Back Crook.-[Ex.
Bolts, says an exchange, will not attend the
horse banquet in New York.
Schneider charges $500 for the d" Grande
Duchesse " at private party.
A Minnesota farmer will clear sl0O,OOO from his
last two harvests.
Fun attributes the appearance Of mosquitoes in
England to gnat.mospheric change.
1t has been raining for the past two days in
Alabama and Georgia.
The Baptist Church edifce about mile from
Bsstrop, La, was nearly destroyed by fire on the
night of the 22d ult.
1--WE know girl" says some one, +" so indus
trious that when she has nothing else to do she
knits her brow"
Beeeher says every boy should know something
about sewing, cooking, and the management of q
mouse.
Mr.. Quilp is afraid Mr.. Buringame will forget to
show bis foreign friends style of our local in
stitutioDs not mentioned as yet-tbe junk shops
lex.
Robert Colyer preached In Boston on Sunday in
favor OF woman's rights. he was not sure but
the Office OF president could be better filed by q
woman than a man.
Farmers who would save themselves the trouble
of going after the cows, should give them arm
full of green fodder every night when they come
to the milking yard.
letter with the following superscription il
held in the Waterbury postofice " Miss Bessie
T., Waterbury, Connecticut. don't know hel
full name, but she is the prettest little girl in thu
city,"
The purbnd government has Just found on
that many of the custom house employees have beer
drawing salaries without rendering pubic services
and that their appointments were the result o
| mere favoritism.
The Georgia House of Representatives, yester
day, declared, by vote of so to %, that negroe
were ineligible to seats IN that body, and thereb.
unseated twenty-five negroes claiming to be
long TO that body.
Mr.. Duquercron, q native of New Orleans, bu
for the last eight or ten years resident o
| NndrleelOn, ana lOf ecNcrdl yodTs well kuOWu n
the purser of the Dictator, fell in . street Q
Charleston recently and died.
The New York Jenkinses having properly aire
The wickedest man in New York." have no,
! discovered and put on exhibition the best VIC
: man in New York; She is called "Auntie," an
keeps candy stand on the corner of Nassau an
, Cedar streets.
, DIED.-A young friend of ours named Bacon, fol-
| - III iata 49, NJ
is dead. BE borrowed Eve dollars Of us four week
ago. promising to return it in week il he lived
, | Being gentleman and man of his word. as he ha
not been near since, of course he is dead. Hi
age was about thirty Eve, and he was Democrs
in politcs.-[N. Y. Democrat.
The Cincinnati Commercial says one of its col
respondents had an interview with Gen. Forrei
Memphis, on the 18th ult., and that the gener,
informed him the Ku Klux Khan was fixed fact
that the organization was 10000 strong in Tel
nessee, and 100000 strong in the emit re South
) that he would consider the calling out of tn
: militia Of Tennessee declaration Of war. aud
the war commenced there would not be Radios
left alive in the State; that ne could himself ca
out 10000 men in five days. etc. This story
evidently got up for the campaign. Gen. Forre
is the very last man to divulge such facts, even
be knew them, to his next friend, much less to Il
: vsgrant and pumping correspondent of Radio
! paper.
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