The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-18

A tree near Savannah has produced 40zO oranges
this season.
A Connecticut minister lately announced his
subject as He'll and Damnation."
whitelaw Reid (Agate) is now Of the New York
Tribune.
al fear must begin to feel DID," said Auber,
when he heard of Rossini's death.
In order to rehearse the music. Rossini's funeral
in Paris was postponed three days.
The latest device of young married folks,
anxious for presents, is q "crockery wedding"
Menard has received his credentials from War
moth.
Car loads of Christmas trees (spruce) are arriv-
ing in New York.
A correspondent says that "the greenest SER
want be ever saw was one entirely black"
Bierstadt is said to have refused $4,000 for
vesuvius.
Photography by moonlight 10 the latest novelty
in that branch ofsrt.
Thanks TO the officers of the steamers Mata-
gords, Louise and Selma. -.
II is said Mr.. Seward viii 60 to Europe 10 the
spring.
A Rochester lady found three pink mice in a
large apple.
| DIR. Hall Gays once q week is often enough for
| decent white man to wash himself all over.
Whittier urges Charles Sumner for secretary of
| state.
The queen has given Mrs. S. c. Hall, the moral
novelist, pension of fioO a year.
| Carlotta is so much worse as seriously to medi-
F! tate book upon Msximilian In Mexico.-lWorld.
According to French medical authority electri
city is an astdote for opium poisoning.
See On amusing Washington letter elsewhere
from Don Piatt.
In another column is copy of Senator Wilson's
Supreme Court BILL
We give in full Secretary McCulloch's report Of
estimator.
| Mississippi editor acknowledges the present
| of luscious red fish " which was borne into
our sanctum yesterday"
Anephew and nsmesake of Thomas Jefferson,
aged 50. was married in Virginia, recently, to
Miss Nancy W. Pollard.
The N. Y. Tribune is ungsllant enough to accuse
Mrs. Scott siddons of hopping about the stage
like chestnut on a hot shovel"
Eugene's neck has got new wrinkle, so she
wears a fresh row of diamonds, making FIVE
rows.
Gen. Cole paid his lawyers about $4,000 for
proving that be might have been insane for thirty
seconds.
The late Baron Rothschild said to visitor: A
would give all dat have Let you see If my boy
could be alive again"
A writer on How to be Comfortable in Cold
Weather" recommends keeping away from the
FIRE.
Old Major Pendennis once remarked to his
nephew that man might have " doosid good
pt digree, and yet be a COMPOUNDED blacsguard."
Former bosrders in the Marine State Prison sent
q lot of apples to cheer the present inmates On
Thanksgiving Day.
The bill authorizing militia organizations 10 all
the reconstructed" States, Georgia excepted
has passed both branches of Congress.
A Shreveport exchange announces that Jacob
Barker has paid his debts. Ii will be gratifying
news to a number Of our citizens.
EVERY Month"; new magazine Of universal
literature, may be had at Ellis's literary depot
opposite the Postoffice.
Men consume too much food and too little pure
air they take too much medicine and too little
exercise.-[Dr. Hall.
"No. - was Grants response to clamorous
demands for a speech of only two words, gen
eral,n at Providence.
impending Crisis Helper is in Cincinnati en-
deavoriDg to promote emigration to North Caro-
lima.
Charles Dickens has received thirty-nine thous
and francs as tantiemes for the performance o
"rAbinen mo Thoroughfare) in Paris.
Major Green, of New Orleans, with his corps o
engineers, passed through Moulton, Ala, las
week surveying the route Of the long -talked o
railroad from Decatur TO Aberdeen, Miss.
The winter meeting at the Magnolia Course
| Mobile, opened yesterday under favoring auspices
See special dispatch TO the CRESCENT, under tn
telegraph head.
An enthusiastic Washington critic says that Of
the occasion of Miss Kellogg's concert, in tina
city, can elegant auditorium crowded the hand
some ball."
, At the opera in New York, the other evening
twelve gentlemen were counted who had ga
golden mustaches and dark brown hair and eye
, brows.
| The conventional evening dress coat is goin
I out of fashion, and is to be succeeded by tn
double breasted blue coat. with large spac
open for the shirt bosom.
T prominent Radical senator says Grant is or
posed to placing military or naval officers 10 civi
. position. Perhaps Grant don't consider hmsel
!, much Of a military man.
/ The college debsters at Hamilton have decide
that married life does not confer more happnes
an -s-s.h;-A- than sinQle -lfe.-Eav----a1u u
Hamilton College debaters know?
Ullman, the manager, used to say that th
height OF his ambition was to make enough none
, out of an opera season to buy twelve white shir
r at time, and that he had never accomplished
up to tie time of the occurring conversation.
: Mr.. Johnson's message does not please the Ne
I York Trib une. That paper really longs for Oh
1 good, honest, unqualified lie" in the messag
7 (Which migbtbe knocked in the head without bur
|. ing anything else"
r According to Ben. wsde's own confession.
= we may accept the report of a pumping co
e respondent of the New York Herald, the failul
!. of impeachment saved us from war with En-
J. land, which his avowed policy concerning Il
d Alabama question would have plunged the natio
\, into.
v We are indebted to the publishers, W. d. Ric
le ardson & Co., Galveston, for the Texas Alman
re for 1859. 1t is bulky and invaluable haud-bo'
y, of information about everything important afet
"a ing the Lone Star State. The map of Tex
is which accompanies the almanac omits to indica
.everal important military posts on the froutit