The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-15
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editorial Fnrnxrspns. Ese.

Anna Dickinson has been scolding in Chicago.
Cincinnati has skating carnival"
Mr.. Bergh is out against dog and cock fighting.
Grants favorte hampagne-Mumm's.-
They had heavy snow storm at Centerville,
Texas, on the 4th of this month.
The purser of the Frances has our thanks for
the Mobile Times of Monday.
The Canadians have been trebling their sentries
at the parliament buildings.
Chesapeake Braine is TO be tried on the 9th
instant.
Philadelphia millionaire has drawn $4,000
prize.
Prentice says rectifers of whisky are not likely
to be rectfers of society.
They have irstclass ghost in Handsboro,
Mississippi.
An exchange says frozen potatoes make nice
cake. Ice cake, of course.
Pixies Opera House in New York was opened
by Strakoschs troupe the 9th, with great eclGt.
Maximilian's remains have arrived at Island
Corfu, on their way to Trieste.
The officers Of the exploded steamer Harry
Dean are charged with neglect.
Belle Boyd does not take ~ well in New
York.
The st. Louis butchers are making war against
the meat shops.
The idea of the Prince of Wales writing book
of poemsl
Chinese cooks stew their ducks alive to improve
their favor.
The New York Mail says Mrs. Bierstadt was one
of the loveliest women in New York.
The debt of Wisconsin is over two and half
millions.
The governor and treasurer of Georgia have
been almost literally drummed out of office.
British Minister Thornton is to have salary of
0OO Rruce'a SnO
The First National Bank at jackson, Mississippi,
is closing up its business.
party Of thirteen Jsps visited the mayor of
New York, and presented sword to him.
AloDzo G. Jackson, once the 4" All Sorts" man
of the Boston Post, 10 dead.
General George II. Thomas is president of the
6 East Tennessee Marble Company"
A bore-the man who persists in talking about
himself when You wish to talk about yourself.
The tax-gatherers never were popular persons
but friend Of the Boston Post calls a New York
collector Of internal revenue an in come-poop.
The purser OF the steamship Matagorda will
please accept our thanks for Galveston papers of
the 18th.
One of Robert Burns's bed.fellows still lives on
the Island of Arran at the age of one hundred and
five.
Brick Pomeroy pitied little boot black in New
York, took him TO dinner at a restaurant and re-
placed his thin, torn rament with new.
When does London housewife improve her
pickles by travel! When she goes to Turnham
GTeen.-IMan.
An exchange remarks that the race of negroes
in the South is fast exterminating the races of
cattle, swine, sheep and poultry.
Republican convention at Knoxville, on the
9TH, nominated Gen. Joseph Cooper as candidate
for Congress, and Endorsed Grant for president.
Young Rev. Mr.. Tying, charged with too much
religious liberay is to be sustained by his reve-
rend father.
We dislike, says the Pic, to see our country
friends talk of the possibility Of starving when it |
is so easy to raise potatoes, if nothing else.
Just so.
The Natehitoches Times, of the 4th. says that
Red river is still very low, and that in many
places there are only seventeen inches of water in
the channel.
General John Beatty has been nominated for
Congress, In place of Hon. G. s. Hamilton, de.
ceased, by the Republican convention for the
Eighth Ohio District, at Gallon.
In case Washington and Georgetown are
united under city government. proposed,
will the name also be combined-George Wash.
ing Town ?-[Exchange.
FrsIe5is Claude de Jussen, the Oldest printer
in France, died recently at Autun, at the age OF
GARNER assisted at his funeral.
A Mississippi contemporary accounts to an ex.
change for failure to send his paper by the state
ment that the mailing clerk has been on a big
drunk.
The Jackson Clarion says that It will be some
time before Gen. Mcdowell will take command.
and that Gen. Gilem will continue to serve as mil
AIRY commander.
MIR. George Francis Train sailed for Europe yes
terdsy TO take charge of the affairs of all the
kingdoms and principates Of that unhappy coun-
hy.-GNew York Tribune, sIh.
Mr.. Charles A. Peabody, of Lee county, Ala,
is said to have raised thousand pounds of cotton
to the acre by using for each acre one hundred
pounds Of guano.
The Bee remarks, with some force, that cit
is no time when your house is on fire to refuse to
cooperate with large and well-equippsd fire
company because its appelation does not suit
you, and initiate proceedings towards the organ
ization of a company with a more acceptable
name"
The Natchez Courier states that Gen. W. T.
Martin an old Wing, has suggested that the or.
ganization, known in Mississippi as the Constitu-
tional Union party, should alter its title at once,
and declare itself constituent part of the Demo.
cratic organization Of the country"
The English, says Head since our late un-
Pleasantness,n of four years standing, (srmies)
never speak of us as the United States, but al
ways America" Agentleman from New Or
leans, in England, is characterized as Q South
American, whereas gentleman from " the hub"
is called North American.
Mr.. Ferdinand Mendoza, respected citizen of
Mobile, who formerly lived in this city. and was
well known here, died suddenly in Mobile last
Sunday morning. Mr.. Mendoza was a native Of
Pensacola, and was of Spanish descent. He was
the brother in-law Of Commodore Brent Of the
late Confederate States navy.
TON" p. o., who went over to see the
'nephew of his uncle" complains that the CON-
positofs wouldn't read his writing right. When
he wrote that he had been to the "Jardin Ma
ble,n they set up Sardine Mobile!" And