The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-12
SUNDAY MORNING. JASUARY l2. 1868.
Editorial Paragraph. Etc.

King Theodore's minister Of war is German.
Colonel Tom Florence has turned tee-totaller.
Yesterday was the dreariest day of the New
Year.
Proceedings at the rair Grounds are postponed
until Monday.
German emperor took for his motto, "Better
please one good man than crowd of bad ones"
Hannibal Hamlin would go back to the United
States Senate.
The receipts of Bass, the London brewer, for
beer, are IS, 500 600 year.
The Louisville Courier says Townsend is des-
tined TO be the first of American lecturers.
Snow in Norfolk on the Sd instant, four inches
deep.
Thanks to the attentive purser of the Frances
for package of Mobile papers.
The reported sinking of Recluse Island, in Lake
George, proves to be hoax.
DR.. DiO Lewis says tea is the bane of women as
tobacco ia Of men.
The State debt of New York, over the sinking
fund. is $44, COO 900.
Cheyenne pedestrian became delirious and
gave up the job.
Brown says his Only morning cocktail is a taste
of his wife's lips No mere triple is half SO in
spring.
G. A. t. says they will no more eat cod in New
foundland than a Pennsylvania collier will eat
coal.
Three bridal parties left Louisville on the new
steamer Dexter for New Orleans on last Saturday
night.
Western editor advertised for boy and his
wife promptly responded by presenting one TO
him.
Rev. VIM. r. Alger Is about to engage upon a
new work, &" The History Of the Devil )" taking the
ground that his Satanic majesty is myth.
An exchange says the country is sick from the
effects of Copperhead bite oh, mol it is just
recovering from Rdgtr ht!-l Lacrosse Democrat.
The express messenger between Mobile ard
Montgomery, has been arrested for embezzle
ment. He has shown symptoms of insanity.
Some spiritualists found personating Adam and
Eve, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and other sa-
cred characters in state of nudity, and in the
State CT New jersey, have been arrested.
II, says the Louisville Courier, the curtain could
be drawn and the nightly carnival of crime in our
city held up to the public gaze, society would
stand sgbast in holy horror.
AS the Empress Eugene has foolshly manifested
extreme irritation on learning that some Of the
Liberals had cried, Down with the Spanish wo-
man !" the Parisians now call her only "rEspag.
nole."
Mrs. Lncoln's $50, 900 wardrobe was offered for
sale in Providence Rhode Island, on the eth, with
what result we have not heard. For several days
previous the irrepressible old clothes were exhb-
tied at twenty-five cents for ticket of admission
Six hundred by two hundred miles 5twiee as large
as the State of Pennsyl the great bank of New
foundlsnd lies, more valuable than any gold mine
in the world. In two hundred and sixty years six
hundred millions of gold dollars worth of Goldfish
have been cured and sold in Newfoundland alone.
The New Orleans Tribune hauls down the name
of Thomas J. Durant for governor, and replaces
il with that of Major F. +. Dumas a newly en-
franchised citizen. Mr.. Durant declines TO be a
candidate. The Republican reports a street ru.
NOR that those two shining lights of anti-Liu-
colnism. Flanders and nurant. have mot and had
friendly interview in Washington and formed a
State ticket to be voted for by US, humble citi-
zens, with Flanders at the head for governor and
Durant for attorney general"