The New Orleans crescent., 1868-03-17
NUMBER lss.


Spring meeting at Nashville, Nay 9Th.
IL is said negroes never have delirium tremens.
Yictoria's book is done in French.
The best crop for raisn'-the grape.-[Ex.
| Dan Rices sacred COW is about to die.
Mark Twain has sailed for California.
Joe Jefferson closed at Memphis on Saturday.
Hiram Powers is coming over this summer.
The New York Tribune says New York has 100
| Smiths named John.
| henken is in debt and in trouble. Her turnouts
| in London were trife too bang.up for her purse.
| Tickets Of admission 10 the impeachment trial
wonld have brought $40 each, the other day.
| star is used in poetic figure because ii COM
| poses node OF its own.-Louisville Democrat.
Six nurderers and three horse thieves released
| from the Tennessee penitentiary.
James z. Coad, g distinguished physician OF
Philadelphia, died recently.
For rarity the streets of New York are said to
be in horrible condition of filth.
Feis is told that the man who took picture
was put into gilt(y) frame of mind.
kessrs. oai,away sna o~nPbeH, Menu
phis Avalanche, have been released from jail on q
writ OF habeas corpus.
The French table of State-The emperor's etat
(est at ,)-[Louisville Journal.
Song Of the harvest-Agriculturalo Ibid
Little lunches OF vegetables which used to bring
twenty-five cents are now sold for a dime In Gall
weston.
party Of Pinte Indians out West. got hold OF
an old printers roller made of glue and molasses,
and thought IT a toothsome confection.
The New York Tribune, curlously, for that
paper, characterizes the present age as one Of
moral quackery and wrong headed philanthropy.
The notorious Madame ResteIle. of New York,
returns an income of $4,000, mainly derived from
professional services.
Ex-Governor Henry 8. Foote was received into
the communion of the Methodist Church, in Nash
vile. recently.
Samuel veazie, eighty-one years old, banker
of Bangor, Maine, died in that city on Thursday
evening.
At the last ball of the French embassy ct
Berlin, the French ambassador presented the
queen Of Prussia nosegay Of violets, from Paris,
which cost him $2S.
f" Agate" says there is no doubt that Mr.. Wade
means TO maintain the constitutional right of the
State Of Ohio to be represented by both her sena-
tors in the Court of Impeachment.
During the absence from the Senate Chamber,
on the 18th. Of the court of impeachment. Thad.
Stevens regaled himself with a lunch before the
vast crowd.
1t has been reported that Dickens has sent
$4,000 to his sisterinI law, in Chicago. Atlast ac-
counts that lady had not been put in possession
Of any facts confirming the report.
Mr.. George strodell Of Huntingdon, Indiana,
aged sixty-six. Is the father OF thrty.three chill
dren--and local sheet intmates that looming
eventsr continue to "cast their shadows before"
The boy George Stephenson, who formerly
Travelled with Artemus Ward as q companion, and
for whom the latter evinced such strong afsc-
tion, has been arrested in Toronto on charge of
stealing money letters.
The largest and most brilliant audience which
has yet attended the presentation OF ssThe Grand
Duchess,n was at the Opera House Sunday night.
For Sunday in Lent the scene and enthusiasm
were remarkable.
shooting affay took place In private box at
the Varieties Theater, Galveston on the night of
the l4th. between E. R. stapp and WIN. Brennan,
Of Houston. The latter received bullet in one
OF his arms.
The Galveston Bulletin says IL believes that no
less than three several separate and distinct EN-.
bassies are now tugging at the buttons of Ham
cocks coat, in order to gain his ear on matters
relative to the government Of that city.
Ben Wade is reported as saying that two
thirds of the present tax officers, men without
credit at home Men that couldn't get trusted for
pipe Of tobacco in their own towns, are selected
10 cOhect the revenue OF tne government
fairylke bonnet is composed Of rows Of
fnted blonde and white satin folds. vine OF
verdure, with creeping mossy tendrils, covers the
top, and falls over the scarfs at the sides. Over
this verdure little humming bird futters, as
though slipping the dewdrops. The strings are
white, with lace falling over them. H
The Galveston Civilian, alIuding to the accident
TO the steamer Josephine, says il anticipated that
the extra dead weight she carried from Galveston
in tie shape Of officials and local reporters would
fetch her up In some undesirable locality aad that
they would desire to tarry at every "barp they
reached.
One of the reporters of the Purm ball in New
York tells this good story. which may or may not
be true:
remarkable Transformation occurred in the
windmill, probably owing TO some defect in the
machinery Awel known aldermen was induced
TO enter, who, when properly ground. came out
on the other side an ass. Some people laughed
heartily at the hit, but there were not a few
cynics who said Pooh. dc you call that trans
formation? You can see that any day at the City
Hall; there. as here, these fellows only come out
as they 60 in, save that they make their exit on
| all fours, having greater load to carry"