The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-08
Southern Items.

The National Republican is the name of a new
radical paper at Augusta, Georgia. Except in
lis local column 1t presents very feeble appear
ance.
colored lady from Halifax county, ran of
with her "lovyer" to North Carolina last week.
where they were "splced." The Iasse, in reply
to the question, why she ran away to get married,
answered that " her nanny thunk she wur too
young TO enter the Matrimonial representation,
ILynchburg News.
A riot occurred in Lynchburg, Va, on Christmas
Eve, between soldiers and negroes, in which rocks
and brickbats few like hail stones. There were
about twenty soldiers and one hundred negroes.
Nobody as seriously hurt.
runaway couple were spliced on the cars
near Weldon, N. c., on Friday last. 1t appeared
that as soon as the cars Stacked up, the justice
(who was to make the twain one flesh, aud who
had been telegraphed to- jumped on board, and
before the train stopped had commenced to tie
the knot, and there at the depot, while the pas
sengers were getting off and others getting on,
he finished the job that made them man and wife
forever. And there was need Of such haste, as
the parientsn of the bride objected to the
match, and finding out that their daughter had
elOped, telegraphed to have the ceremony
stopped but Hymen laughs at telegraph opera
tors as Cupid does at locksmiths, and when the
representatives Of the "parients I" arrived at the
depot the twain were one.
IL makes us, with our coats Off, our windows up.
and our bodies swelteriDg with heat, feel curious
when we read about sleighing parties only 30 far
norm as BynchOurg, virginia.
The Charleston News takes credit to itself for
not having kept New Years day as a holiday.
The term of Office Of Gov. Pierpont, of Virginia.
expired on the lst, but he will, il is said, hold
until the State convention consummates its work
and orders an election for State officers.
There seems to be a quarrel between Virginia
and Maryland about the boundary between the
two States. The splendid oyster-beds of Chesa-
peake Bay are involved in the dispute.
The Planters Banner thinks the yellow fever
has disappeared from that region for the season,
and hopes it will never come back.
The Planters Banner says Of our new governor:
Gen. Hancock. last Thursday, appointed Judge
Joshua Baker Of this parish, governor Of Louis-
ana, in place Of B. +. Flanders. resigned. first
rate appointment. The judge is a Napoleon in
business matters, understands the levee question
thoroughly, is o Kentuckian by birth, las had
forty years experience In Louisiana as a sugar
planter, lawyer, judge, builder Of steamboats,,
levee contractor, and business man generally, and
has been eminently successful without swindng
the government, or swindling anybody. And the
judge has always been at heart straight out
Union man, before the war, during the war, aud
since the war; but never radical. He will work
in complete harmony with all such men as Gen.
Hancock and President johnson. IA e
The lndanola Bulletin. Of the I'd. has q very
generous and Just tribute to the virtues OF the
late /. G. Harris, for which we regret that We
have not room in our columns.
The Galveston Civilians opinions Of the New
Orleans press may be inferred from the follow
ing The Morgan brought no New Orleans papers
for Yesterday. The day before being Christmas,
our New Orleans contemporaries celebrated yes
terday as Blue Monday. Their issues Of this morn
ing, which have not yet reached US, will doubtless
contain much excellent advice as to the folly Of
dissipation, the beauty Of temperance, and the
best remedies for headache. The moral to days
indulgence in egg -nogg is more potent than the
eloquence Of Tully."