The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-27
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New York punches billiards az 1000 saloons.
Banks, too lie mentioned for tie speakershIp.
Beecher's flock numbers 1897.
Gsribsldi is sick at Csprers.
Prime butter sells in New York AT 90 cents.
Ofsnbach has two more operas on his anvil.
Morton Is invited to talk finance in New York.
Arkansas largely supplies Texas with apples.
Jacob Spivey. banker, of Savannah, is dead.
1t was Bonner, not Barnum, who bought the
horse Bruno.
Phillips opposes the repeal of the tenure of Office
law.
Thumb and Mutt and Minnie Warren are in
Charleston.
Rossini was the son of a strolling horn-player
and his singing wife.
Mississippi OK, six years. old, and weighing
260O pounds, is to be cut up in Mobile.
The white bait of the Thames is only young
herring.
The president is expected to veto the militia
bill.
Cyrus W. Field has given $4,000 for a home.
stead in Westchester county, N. Y.
The siamese twins have concluded not to dis
solve their union.
s25 coo for his first volume of " The War Among
the States" has been offered to A. Fl. Stephens.
The word boufe is derived from the name of
Mare Boufe. q French comedian.
SevenJews, all Liberals, will sit in the new par
lament
The city physician in one of the Washington
wards is negro.
Bryant, at seventy five. still writes leaders for
the Evening Post.
Chicago receives ten-pound brook trout from
the Rocky Mountains.
Pennsylvania has nearly five liquor shops to
each school teacher.
theodore Psrker's congregation have secured
the ministrations of Rev. j. Villa Blake.
Lapgston the colored orator, expects Grant to
give him the mission to Hsyt.
Maiden, Mass, had policeman who was ga
highly respected CITIZEN" but he was killed.
In Philadelphia $3.50. 100000 are invested in
manufactures.
The Bible is now printed in over 200 different
languages.
The railways, it is said, don't charge Gen. Grant
any fare.
I'll. White, of the Tribune, has been offered an
editorship on the Chicago Democrat.
The lotus flowers and pink cameliss are very
fashionable for wreaths for the hair.
Chicago has discovered that Cincinnati capital.
lists own 81, 900, 900 of Chicago real estate.
snails cooked in their shells are said to taste
very like clans. but are not so tough.
All the cigar makers are sending cigars to
Grant.
O'Conor has engaged to defend Grant, Pol
lard's slayer.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Era
No. o.
Alexsndre L. DebIieux, OF Rapides parish, died
recently al tie age of "a.
Thanks 10 the officers of the steamship jose
phine.
thanks to the officers of the steamer Mata-
gorda.
Dickens's sister.in-law committed suicide in
Chicago yesterday.
Sumner wants the word I" white " knocked out
of the naturalization laws.
The largest audience ever assembled at dra-
matte performance in Buffalo went to see Edwin
Booth play Hamlet"
The Cincinnati Enquirer has resolved to have no
holiday, but hereafter publish s65 newspapers a
year.
For several years, Hon. Caleb Gushing has en-
ployed Spsniard as secretary, who accompanies
the general on his present European mission.
Velocipeies are so common in Paris in the even
ing that the police compel the riders to ax lamps
to them to prevent accidents.
A. Head writes from New York to friend In
this city that be is on his way to "the land of the
orange, the magnolia and the Niger"
Sypher drew Thad. Stevens's seat, but SUISSE
quentIy surrendered it to the successor of the
/" Old man sarcastic
Mrs. E. Keckey, the negro dressmaker and
author of the pert and injudicious book about
he Cd 0fo
Jewish firm of dressmakers in Washington.
Col. Dsniel Mcclure, assistant paymaster gen.
eral, stationed in this city, has been breveted
brigader general for faithful and meritorious
services.
In Paris, high tortoise shell combs are not only
invading the cbignon region, but cresting so high
that nothing but toquet rims and aigIettes will
soon honor ladies' eyebrows.
Northern emigrants and Union men may come
among us with the full assurance that they can
speak their opinion anywhere and everywhere
and not so much as a hair Of their head will be
bsImed.-tWsco (Texas) Examiner.
We are indebted to DIR. ]. j. Hays for copy OF
bis very interesting address on "The Progress of
Arctic Discovery" read before the American
! Geographical Society, New York, November II,
| 1865.
The city OF Lynn, Mass, the great shoe manu-.
featuring place, was nearly all destroyed by fire
yesterday morning, causing loss of many millions
and great suffering among the inhabitants. Lynn
| is situated about ten miles below Boston, on the
| sea shore. In Essex county.
One of the best jokes of Christmas day was a
row on Lafayette street, caused by an ioebristed
individual hitting a negro on the head with an
| orange. The eolorsd individual would have IL
appear that he had received severe physical
| damage.
One Of the empress most elaborate toilets du
ring the stay of third series st Compiegne is an
| apricot silk, pulled all round the bottom with
| apricot tule fOuDces worked with silver, fuchsis
pattern, and trimmed with Venetian fringe oil
white silk. Over this an immense train of white
sstin softened by apricot tulle, worked with silver
| fucbsias and fringe round the borders.
NoS-ExPLosIvE sEPToLNE OIL.-The atten
ton Of cur readers is directed to the advertise
ment in another column Of this mornings CREs
CENT concerning the value of this celebrated oil
Il is non explosive, gives clear and brillian