The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-10

eive look on her downcast face. The music ceased,
and the audience, wild with enthusiasm. was de-
handing an encore, when my beautiful compan-
III .s s ess % aa .sS S. saS
melancholy chord. - ;" Oh, nonsense " she ex.
claimed: "I don't mean thstl You know very
well don't pretend to appreciate this kind OF
many young men in California bald headed! I
wonder II it's dissipation, or trouble, or the OH
mate, or what? Do you know that have been
picking out bald heads down in the parquette,
and, would you believe n, I actually counted
twenty-ninei "-(Letter from San Francisco.
George William Curtis. In his Gen. Sedgwick
Grafton at West Point the other day, used the ia.
miliar Latin quotation: Jbi 65ertds ibi pdt,id. !"
{" where liberty is, there is my country.") which
was rendered ~ an enterprising sho hand
be bertss, be pstria." r., ~ 81. 49, 3 n ?
B xteen years ago physician In Esslingen.
Wurtemburg, was murdered In broad daylight.
All efforts to discover the assassin remained fruit
iess. But Re. weeks nee letter written by .
Catholic priest in America informed the authori.
ties in Esslingen that locksmith, who in 1858 had
emierated from that city, had confessed 10 him on
his death bed, in August last. that he had commit
ted the murder Of DR.. Rsmpold.
Under the name OF "Jumperso new sect has
been formed in West Prussia. At their ''Mar-
riage with the Heavenly Bridegroom" as they
call 1t, they fall into ecstacies expressed by wild
jumpings. The whole congregation rises at
certain moment in order to initiate Dayid's dano-
ing before the ark. This new sect Is chiefly re-
cruited from q village near Ssltzig. where some
years ago virgin commenced prophesying with
great success, until the government sent her to
Cyrus Rnndiett, of Pittston. Me-. has some val
liable ancient coins. One, is . spanish dollar, or
crown, bearing the date of l726 another is old
English piece, bearing the date OF 1872; and still
another, sn old Massachusetts, coin, bearing the
date of 1874. Mr.. Rundlett has had these coins
in his house for over fifty years.
Dr.. Simon Smith. at the time of his death. sixty
years ago. bequeathed $1,000 to West Haven,
Conn.,, to be kept at compound interest till this
time. when il should be expended in establishing
grammar school In that town. Notwithstanding
some unfortunate investments, the fund now
amounts to nearly $4,000.
An Austrian statistician, named Brachelli, has
written work on the various peoples of Austria,
and gives the proportion which the races bear to
each other. In every thousand, he says, 254 are
Germans, ls6 Czechs and Slovacks, l54 Msggysrs,
IS RutheDians, SO Croats and Serbs. 50 Wallachs,
6s Poles, "a Stevens, 80 Israetes, Is Italians and
not classified. rgL r',r u ~
Among the persons who recently received gold
medals from the French government. for deeds Of
great courage end devotedness, was young ma
iron, Frar coiee Triadou. who was bitten by mad
dog, in the midst of q crowd of children and wo-
men, and who was elfpossessed and noble hearted
The furious animal would otherwise have bitten at
least fifteen or twenty other persons. Madame
Triadou was fortunately saved. .ft s1i-
Dick King, of Santa Gertrudis, the big stock
man of Western Texas. has offered to build the
railroad for Louisiana from New Orleans to the
Sabine, and give the carpet bag ridden State any
length of time to pay for the road. The truth is.
Dick King wants TO find an outlet for his beeves,
and sees no way of accomplishing his object but
by building the railroad in question.