The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-26
EDITORIAL paragraph. Etc.
10 is reviving at Harvard.


Calais produces pound oysters.
Chinese toys are all the rage in Paris.
Forrest plays again at the "Old Drury" this
week.
| An old bachelor contemporary has received the
! appropriate gift of pair of spectacles.
| The venerable and vigorous Pic. commencedits
| thirty second year yesterday.
| Canada has one hundred and forty-two thousand
militia.
Horses are so plenty in Aroostook that they can
] not be let for their keeping.
One hundred and fifty behring's for three pence
| in Scotland.
| The first performance of the E" White Fawn"
| at Niblo's was not concluded at 2 O'Clock A. NJ.
Edwin Booth will probably be the lessee of
Pixies Opera House.
Many EDgIishmen are discharging their Irish
| servants.
1t is thought George Francis Train bribed the
British police to arrest him.
| sun stroke is not uncommon in the short, hot
| summers of Siberia.
The Spectator says suicide is a sin unless one is
10 debt
! The New York Tribune recommends congress
men to study ice Miller, and improve their jokes.
| Seven houses we're destroyed on the goth inst,
10 Savannah by incendiarism.
| Anna Dickinson rode on ice from Winoua to La
| Crosse and nearly froze to death.
Thanks TO JEFF Posey, Esq., of the Wild Wagner,
| for the Natcbez Courier OF the 22d.
Gen. Mower is about leaving for the head
| quarters Of his regiment, (39th Infantry,) on
ship Island
The hospitality of the franklin people ia said to
| have been little too much for the late excursion
| party from this city.
The New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga
Railroad are laying of five acres of ground at
! Pascagoula as a site for their workshops.
Steam has been successfully employed at Vera
Cruz recently, to disinfect ship of yellow
| fever.
DR.. Newman says that not fifty dollars was con-
tributed by the cOlOred people to the erection Of
his church.
1t is said that Henry ]. Raymond is to write
history of Gen. Grant, assisted by William SWIM
ton.
The queens new book is to be Illustrated with
engIaviDgs of Scottish scenery and landscape
from drawings by herself.
State dinner recently given in Vienna con-
tirued twelve hours. There were twenty nine
courses and fifty different kinds Of wine.
The New York Herald's anxiety about the
d f1icuty Of passing He'll Gate is perfectly IN
necessary in its own case.
Whitney Haynes, of Bnghampton. drove his
horse a distance of twenty-four miles in one hour
and forty minutes.
Prentice speaks of young woman as a 4" three
leaved clover, combining in her 6ower-soul the
beautiful spirits of earth and sea and sky" All!
The New York Sun says Train has " not always
| been remarkable for mOnotonous regularity of
conduct"
Train says he has told the Derby cabinet that
the American ultimatum was the payment of the
Alabama claims, and the release OF American
citizens or war. Stand from under!
! The Washington correspondent of the Cincn-
natl Commercial reminds the Republicans that
"there is a tide in the affairs of parties, which
taken at the flood, leads to the devil"
Ore of the editors of the Pic. acknowledges
that some fair creature has presented an "angel 4"
| to him. That is what il is sometimes called. Our
congratulations to the happy father.
7. r. O'Conner, school teacher in Rchfeld
MINI was put Off the cars for failing to pay the
extra ten cents exacted for not procuring ticket
a. the Office, and was frozen to death.
On the New Canal, Friday, beautiful double
scull wherry was showing its PAGES between the
lake and the Halfway House. 1t was built in
Algiers. -Four men rowed it three miles and a
quarter in nineteen minutes.
Cough says it is difficult TO tell which is the most
disagreesble, the man who always disputes your
positions, whatever they are, or the one who is
perpetuslly agreeing with your opinion as soon as
he finds it Out.S
great religious demonstration is to take place
in the French Cathedral at Montreal before the de-
parture Of the Canadian corps Of the Pontifcal
Zouayes on the occasion Of blessing their banners.
All the Roman Catholic bishops of Quebec and
Ontario are expected to be present.
Disrael spent Christmas in London at work.
A LoBdon correspondent speaks Of him as fol-
lows:
Mr.. .Disraeli always looks the worst dressed
and most distracted man in England. No one
could have helped noticing yesterday that his wife
watched for omnibusses and cabs as they went
ever dangerous crossings-he looked neither to
he right nor the left.
George Graves. one OF the party of six, who
undertook to maltreat a new student named
Rrown, at the Amherst Agricultural College,
Massachusetts,, the other night, and was badly
cut with chisel, is still in a very critical con-
dition, and there is but a small chance of his re-
covery. The others will get well. President
Clark fully indorses the course pursued by
young Brown, the intended victim, and 10 re.
ward of his bravery, his presented him q
scholarship, the annual income of which is two
hundred and four dollars.
The burning Of the whisky warehouse Friday
night was attended by curious and novel scene.
The whisky escaping from the burning casks into
the flowing cutters, transformed them into actual
rivers of fire, the surface of which rippled and
glowed with Kaleidoscope pictures in blue and
orange upon black ground, presenting picture
at once weird, beautiful and suggestive of INA
niUgs in Dante's Inferno. In the immediate vi.
entity Of the burning building the cutters gloEed
and famed with the greater intensity, but the
beauty Of the ere pictures upon the water was
more marked atremote points, where the struggle
between the burning spirit and the water was
more evenly contested. A large number of peo-
pie left their beds to witness the unaccustomed
spectacle.
Two forms Of insects are always found, in
| greater or less number, 10 raw sugar-an acarus
or mite something like that Of cheese, and several
kinds Of small beetles or cleoptera, which, how
| ever appear to be there for the purpose Of prey