The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-25

VIM. b. G11iIand, OF Charleston. Is dead.
Ole Bull played in New York on the 18th.
TN. Gales played Baptist preacher in Macon,
Ca, and run of with borrowed horse.
Waco, Texas, has q racing course, and there
was to be sport on it on the 2lst.
"Historicusr refers. in the London Times, to
the New York Herald as the Rowdy Journal"
which is supplementary. but graphic.
James johnson. nephew of A. j., is citizen OF
Brownsville, Texas. He is said to resemble his
uncle.
A critic in Boston paper, DESTROYS of conceal
ing what he had to say from his readers, spoke Of
Hawthornes genius as crepuscuiar."
The question was yesterday deliberately raised.
by wretch who came into our Office, whether
Mark 7tcoin was not Bismarck.
The Josephine excursionists visited Matamoros,
and we're courteously received by Gen. Pascios,
who honored them by ordering military review.
The Waco. Texas, Examiner hears Of the de-
struction by drift Of the Clifton Touring mill on
the Bosque river.
The liver of the hare is said to make as good
pates de foie 9ros as the liver OF the goose, and
foreign gourmands are jubilant at the announce
ment.
White men are putting their hands to the pillow
in Mississippi
{" he who by the pillow would thrive
Must either hold himself or drive"
Secretary McCulloch has suspended d. NJ. Field,
special deputy collector at Brownsville, for al
legged frauds in permitting goods to be carried over
the Rio Grande free of duty.
The Harvard University Boat Club are having
sx-oared paper boat built, the weight of which
will be only one hundred pounds-about one hun
cred per cent. lighter than wooden boats of its
size can be made.
The Washington correspondent visited A. II.
Stephens in his bed room. Mr.. Stephens says
we are tending to Capitalization, but says he
means to stay in the country and 60 down with
the ship.
Ii is said among the Massachusetts, members of
the radical Jacobins that it was Charles Francis
Adams who advised with his son John Quincy
Adams, and prompted him in HE late Demo
cratic contest for the gubernatorial chair 10 his
State.
"Where is the fire, sentry," inquired gentle
man of young Hibernian in blue, pacing the
sidewalk in front of military headquarters, at
late hour the other night, just as the fire bells had
struck an alarm. Sure. / Dunno" replied Pat
but faith an think it's in the Filth MiIitry Dis
tric'l"
Chicago is to have a purely literary paper. to
be issued next month and to be called TIE Chica-
goan. Rev. Robert Collyer is to have special
department; Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Harriet E. Pres
colt, E. P. whipple, DR.. Tyndall, of London. and
other prominent writer's, have been engaged to
contribute.
II is said that William B. Ogden, who is some
times called the Astor of Chicago, is about to
erect four hundred houses in Hudson City, at an
average cost of ten thousand dollars EACH he
owns property in the main avenue, valued at
from half to three quarters of million of dol.
lars.
1t is undeniable that the weight Of legal reputa-
ton is against the managers, and In favor of the
presidents counsel. No lawyer in the United
States can be named. with the approval of the
profession, before Judge Curtis. of Boston. VIM.
NJ. Evarts ranks with Charles O'Connor James
7. Brady and Daniel Dudley Field, the four being
held by common consent, the foremost lawyer,
in New York.
W. X. Mccoy 4 Bros, well known cattle deal.
ers Of Illinois. have issued a circular announcing
the completion of their extensive cattle yards at
Abilene, Kansas. This point is situated about
one hundred miles west of Topeka. on the line Of
the Union Pacific Railway, in the midst of an
extensive and finely watered district, where good
grazing may be obtained for the thousands
of cattle which will find their way from North
ern Texas and other portions of the far South
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