The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-03

Mr.. Elliott, the artist. left 5000
Feathers are 10 be revived this seasnn.

Ahcie 10 6'tat DuliuluB dctVity IN monIeas
Gen. howard arrived in Galveston on Monday.
Gen. Mcclellan don't drink wine.
Gold closed in New York at l44f.
Pendeton is in the land of Penn.
Rosecrabs don't like Grant. 4 D.
Victoria denies that health is failing.
Nobody attended Mss Menkens funeral.
" Short end sweet "A baby.-IEx.
Bank Entries -Bnrglaries.-[Ex.
penal ofeuse-wrting long letters.-[Ex.
Napoleon has q clock, surmounted by a man
swallowing as many eggs as the hour hand strikes.
Colts revolving pistol has been made from
the wood of the charter oak
The merchants OF Boston have given up their
proposed dinner to the Chinese.
The Chinese in Boston are said 10 have taken
q quiet drive over the mill-dsm."
Another Gsribalj an invasion of the Roman ter
rtory is expected this fall.
ssshes are bound TO be great feature of dressy
winter attire.
Shot or changeable silks will be very fashion.
able fall wear.
One of the gardens on tie Hudson river is sur.
rounded by $4,000 fence.
The Houma Civic Guard likes the Crescent
paragraphs, and gives credit for them, too.
What can be thoughtof the taste of a legislative
body which prefers pinohbeck to a real Jewell
LoDg Island has Ku-Klux Khan, according to
the Tribune.
Jack Hsmilton-not Gen" Jacks the cham
pion bsnioist at Galveston.
Hon. Francis Granger, Fimores postmaster
general. died Friday night at Canandsigus.
ls Singing hair Of any advantage to the roof
1t is singular that the faster men become, the
more likely they are to be besten.-[Ex.
Can an account of naval engagement be called
the sea-news Of war.-lEx.
Brignoli, il is said, is TO be married to wealthy
Jewess Of New York.-[Ex.
Shouldn't the fork of river be near its mouth!
lex.
Many young men are so improvident they can't
keey any thing but late hours.-lEx.
Nine. Ameiie Strakosch (sister of Adelina and
Csrlotta PATTY is to make her d6but as a contralto
at the Italian Opera House in Paris.
1t may be stated as a general rule that persons
whose acquaintance II is most difficult to make
are best worth knowing.-[Ex.
Thanks TO the Texas Express Company aud to
the officers Of the steamships Josephine aud Har-
Ian.
The Chsrlestown navy yard has machine which
will plane mass Of iron forty feet in length.
twenty in width, and twenty feet in height. One
OF the bedpieces weighs over forty tons.
Tha Nav Orleans correspondent of the Calves
ton Civilian Justly anuues bacon, of the
Louisiana Senate. as one of the few pure men in
that body.
The Memphis Appeal Of Sunday announced the
separation of General Albert Pike from his edito-
rial management of that paper, in consequence Of
professional engagements demanding his undivided
time.
Artificial hair is made in Paris from the ibrous
material which grows through and proceeds from
the bark situated near the foot of the palm
known as the Levistonia chinenss, Roxb, or La
tania chineDss. Jscq.
Boston's fondness for beans resulted In dan.
gerous development on the 10th ult., when great
alarm was created in the north part of the CITY BY
the sudden illness of some seventy children caused
by eating castor beans.
G. A. T., writing from the Sulphur Springs, says
complaint was made this year that somebody IN
Governor Letcher's room did not sufficiently cover
his nakedness, but 1t turned out that the governor
was only leaning his bald head out of the window.
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, was in the
habit Of taking snuff, and as she always wore white
kid gloves, they were of course ruined each time
she SO INDUCED, and were Immediately replaced
by fresh pair.
Allen, the wickedest man, who has been pre-
pairing for reform, has made up his mind. On
Saturday be closed his Water street dance house
and attended the Howard mission services. de.
Voutly engaging in prayer, and on the evening of
August SOth held prayer meeting in his old Water
street den.
The guests at hotel at the White Mountains |
masked ball by the aid of sheets.
landkerchiefs, waterproof cloaks, etc. The North
ern troops in garrison at Newbern in 1928 used
70 smuse themselves in a similar way By the |
lid of shelter tents and jewels cut from hard tack
he boys managed to array themselves in very
stunning female attire.
Samuel W. Mason, formerly connected with the /
Boston press and of late years publisher of the
savannah News and Herald, died on the 29th nit.
Il his fathers residence in Tamworth. N, Fl. He
vas 81 years OF age. Mr.. Mason was q journalist
II rare industry and young gentleman univer-
ally beloved and esteemed. His death will be
much lamented.
Mr.. John A. Summons, well-to.do farmer, re.
iding at Collaburgh, four miles west of Mont
omery, New York, having lost two fayorite
orses, buried them on his farm, and has erected
Marble stones to mark their graves. The in.
criptions on the stones are as follows. each
eing the same except reversal of the names
s to priority, and the corresponding change of
ates:
YEA, YEA, AND NAY, NAY.
To the memory of two fsvorite horses:
Nary Jane,
Tho died in 1858, aged 81 years, and her mate,
Poanex,
Who died 1864. aged 81 years