The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-24
NUMBER .ls9.


Forrest il worth three quarters Of million.
Robert @. Winthrop is in Rome.
Swinburne is TWENTY-FIVE years old.
A man Of mark-Nsrk Twain.
Gov oglesby is not candidate for anything.
Pigtails are coming in fashion in Paris.
The manufacture Of cotton has been commenced
in Utah. levi
PhiladeIphia is assessed on sl45, 100000 real
estate.
Chalier, the new reisning tenor OF Paris, is q
hunchback.
John B. Cough recently paid sloo for five Dork-
ing fowls.
Edwin Booth is said to earn ninety thousand
dollars year.
Henry Clapp says Horace Greeley Isl seIf-made
man. and worships his creator.
Iowa is to have a new State House, to cost
1000 900.
The Prince of Wales has taken his wife to see
the " csn-csnr danced.
Cochiluate lake, from which Boston draws iss
water shows symptoms of drying up.
Nine barge loads of hay are on their way from
the Ohio river to New Orleans.
Robert Bonner has had horse named after him.
Such is fame.
A poor family in Buffalo have been living ON
roast rat.
New York city has loo. 900 tons Of ice stored
away.
Mr.. J. t. waldert. Of. Tyler. Texas, raises native
claret Cstawba and other wines.
Wash the backs of books with spirits Of wine
to prevent mdew.
Lewiston, Maine, is now said to have as many
spindles as Lowell.
The Portland city council has elected Nc
Clelan (Rep.) mayor by nineteen to eight for
Putnam.
The Democrats complain of Belmont for his
financial views and want Of energy and enthu-
sasm.
The church of St. Bartholomew numbers VIM.
B Astor and Commodore Vanderbilt among It's
pew-owners.
VIM. Darby, of Louisiana, has been appointed
receiver of public moneys for tho district Of New
Orleans.
The suffering among the fishermen of Nova
Scotia for went OF food is declared to be absolute,
ly appalling.
L. W. Jerome has been fined $3.50 for tapping
squeduct in order to supply his race course at
Fordham. lf,
Pere Naturel. famous Partisan cook. is sent
for 10 prepare all great dinners, and makes $4,000
every winter.
The st. Louis reporters have pleasant way Of
slluding to dead bodies found in the river as
" f0aters.n rsi
August Belmont, Of New York. is reported to
have paid s400 900 for the works OF art in his
private gallery.
Boston ia expressing great joy at the convic-
ton and punishment OF a mikdeaer there for
watering his milk.
Paul MoIphy has not added to his triumpbs in
France. Out of four games played with Mr..
steimiz, he has lost one and drawn three.
The newsboys OF New York are said to do more
business and to b. in more prosperous condition
than any other GLASS;
Msxirnilian's physician has been distributing
his memorials; emong the recipients Of which is
Queen Victoria, who gets gold medallion and
lock Of Carlotta's hair.
seymour's speech, says an exchange. reads as
if he were addressing Pendleton in the language
Of st. Panl: +" | would that you were both almost
and altogether such as | am, exceptthese bouds."
Thaddeus Stevens, whom asked II. as he ap-
preached the grave, he did not feel like forgving
his enemies, Strengthened back and replied Yes,
just as God forgves Satau."
The great sangerfest of the Nordamerikanische
sangerbundes will commence in Chicago on the
l6lh of June, continuing to the 25th Of that
month.
Mr.. Beecher devotes column in the Ledger to
an essay on 'Squeaking Boots" and shows very
forcibly the annoyance 70 which those, articles
subject all nervous persons who may be within
hearing.
The New York Evening Post revives story
that some years ago the bellies Of New Orleans
seized upon the kid glove Of q favorte piaDist.
tore IT into small pieces and carried away their
trophies. ..4
Rossni wears yellow overcoat dark trousers,
farmers hat, commonly has an immense ban
dana handkerchief tied loosely around his neck,
and bis head is covered with one Of the cheapest
commonest wigs to be found in Paris.
In sesrcy, Arkansas, pair Of twin girls were
born few days ago, each having twenty fingers.
The papers out there are sympathizing in ad-
vance with the poor husbands doomed to predes-
tined scratched faces with double the ordinary
allowance Of finger nails.
BY what might be cslleda happy expedIent. the
bishop of New York inflicted on Rev. 5. H Tying,
Jr., physical well as moral punishment in
the admonition,n as the latter was kept stand
ing while the former delivered himself Of an sd-
dress contained in three columns Of fne type.
The town of Franklin, Massachusetts, still re-
'airs in good state OF preservation the library
which was presented to II by Benjamin Franklin,
| in consideration Of the adoption OF bis name by
the town at the time Of its being set of from
| wrenthsm, in l7ss.
At recent performance of "Ernani," in New
York, the tenor, Pancani, appropriately killed
himself in the last act, but the curtain would not
| 20 down, and the dead man was obliged TO get
up and walk of amid the applause OF the
| audience.
Portland paper says that all along the shores
| OF the bay there immense numbers Of frozen fish
we're cast ashore, chilled aud dead by the almost
unprecedented cold weather Of the past winter.
| Such an event has not been known fot many
years. Thousands and millions Of cunaers are
| piled along the frozen beach.
During the past winter thousands Of crows have
been shot on Staten leland. The excessive cold
| weather and heavy fall Of snow prevented them
| from obtaining their accustomed food from the
swamp lands and they resorted to the beach,
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