The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-03

EDEroRIAL PARAe8APus, HrC.
Leap year is extensively honorsd in Utah.
We are again indebted to Mr.. Charles Bruf for
California papers.
Stages continue to run betVsen San Antonio
and Monterey.
.'Dossticks' has just lost his father in New
York. ~
General Asboth was assisted out Of the world
BY sixteen physicians. ia .|t.., s (
The Hsytien govemmsnt has sent 6fsy bronze
cannon to the United States.
William B. Astor paid, last year, tax Of $2l5,
900, and Stewart paid $lls 900. +
A grain elevator, oosting $500 900, II 70 be
erected in Jefferson City. No. Fee ~
Evarts has the most intellectual face ct the
counseIs' table in the impeachment Court.
wsshingtons mother never could remember the
charming hatchst and cherry tree story.
The New York telegraphen send and receive
messages upon the same wire at the same time.
Archbishop Manning has ordered the discon-
tnuance Of the choir singing Gregorisn chants
Legal strangliDg in England ID hereafter to be
done In private. IN f, ,1II4 ~ Is..t (
The Rev. DR.. Lindsey, Of Connseticus. aged 90,
is dead. s. ...... 8, 4 (. &, -s.... ~. 4.
Somebody sdvsrsises in an EdInburg paper for
young lady to 60 TO ball.
The purest red and white compile xions are said
to lock CHASTITY before footlights hence the neces
sity Of rouge and rice powder.
A wicked newspaper reporter says the short
dresses might be called " free and kneesy."
The Louisville Courier announces prospective
eating house in that city where real coffee will be
served. 6tt
The Galveston Bulletin is much pleased with the
French Opera troupe which opened In that city on
Monday night. The house was not full.
Ben Wade has been accused BY three Journalists
of using profane language, but Ben says they
are all i'd liars 10 7s
The Chicago Tribune calls on Senator Yates 10
vacate his seat on account of his Incorporate
habits. 5l Il ~ .'fo
woman, in Vermont, gave large party the
other day to children under one year Of age. Her
own young son was host.
More than eighty fishing vessels arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, last week, their "fares" rang
ing from twenty TO ifty thousand pounds each.
Iilton says that Michigan is sitting with her
finger on her forehead, pondering the question,
is the negro man y" ftn
The Brooklyn Union thinks Parton's article IN
the Atlantic Monthly will frighten Protestants out
Of their boots.
Messrs. Hoe & Co., Of New York, ere making
six eightcylinder presses for English daiIies.
Iiey will soon begin building presses in London.
10000 bushels of wheat were dumped into
pond in winona by the giving way Of q ware
house. at w 50 1.aes tee
kev. DR.. Collyer. of Chicago. says to witness
Booths Richelieu or Hamlet is as good Is prayer
meeting. 1
As we 60 on in life we fnd we cannot afford ex-
element, and we learn to be parsmonious in our
emotions. t1 o4f IL 1laHat
Prof. Blot has accepted the directorship Of the
Rumford Food Laboratory of Boston, and pro-
poses to send warm victuals to any point within
ten hours distance from the laboratory.
The wealth of the great Welsh family Of Craw-
shay is larger than that Of the Astors. Vanderbilt
AID Stewart combined.
A Washington correspondent reports grand
Child Of the president saying that "Grandpa says
we are going to move back to Tennessee in
April.n ~ ress 81. a IS
The Fenisn sisterhood of Chicago are to give 9
festival for the purpose Of raising money to
alleviate the condition Of the families of the men
who have recently suffered and died in Ireland.
Bandmann was annoyed in Londsn by the con-
duct of some young men Of high degree behind
the scenes, and refused to play unless the nuisance
was abated. he carried his point.
Cache river, little coffee colored stream that
empties into the Ohio five miles above Cairo,
wastes one hundred and forty -four miles In reach
ing point thirty six miles distant.
Klopstock, the German poet, engraved on the
| tombstone of his wife two sheaves Of wheat,
thrown, as it were, carelessly together, with the
words: 1--WE shall ripen in heaven"
Episcopal Bishop Eastburn. of Massachusetts,,
recently oficiated in the old South (Congrega-
tional) Church, Boston, and made an extempo-
raneons prayer. it1 zr ~ ~.
Brisbin remarks that Grant does not seem to
have been remarkable baby or wonderful boy,
and despite the stories told Of his early life, We
are constrained to believe he was much like other
boys. little smart, pretty bad and very lazy.
The New York Worlds Washington correspon.
dent says "Ben. Buffers appearance nowadays
is unbearingly ugly. His lop eye seems at times
as if, Ike an overrp enut il were about to fall out
| of its shell over his cheek and rebound from his
| protuberant belly TO the hoor."
Madison used to tell an snecdote about Wash.
ington cursng furiously and kicking his servant
down stairs one morning because the unfortunate
darky set Georges new portrait 90 close to the
fire. in his desire to dry it, that be blistered the
| oil upon the illustrious face.
Brisbin says Grant once whipped Kanuck
school-mate for calling Washington rebel. After
they had grown to be men the Kanuck reminded
Grant of the circumstance, and the latter remarked
that he couldn't get . fight out Of him again on
that question.
TIE MOBILE RAcEs.-From the Register, oi
Wednesday, we take the following:
| SUMMARY.
srcoxp Dir-russday. March sist-Purse ssoo-rwo Mil
Heats for sgess
l. u. G. Moores fr,nv che afhas, ~ o. By Lex
ington, IN Laura by Lew zthHn. -
| p l., r. kmf hs A Su,ilh'ai IA ChscIytn,o,t9o