The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-16
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

California is planting olives in great numbers.
In Alabama the best beef retails for ten cents.
The Weakness are in Charleston.
Kossuth mplores Spain to become republic.
Sumner is opposed to Sue Murphy.
Monroe, La, is afflicted with burglars.
See Buffers currency bill in another column.
If Sue Murphy Is only "a years old, who is
she?
Bishop Simpson breaches at the Ames On. E.)
Church tomorrow.
The French mistress Of the sultan ia said to be
the most powerful politician in Turkey.
The five leading bellies at the court of the Tuil'
cries wear artificial teeth.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Bart Able,
Louise and Josephine.
'Cutting off coupon from the marriage bond
is the ornamental synonym for having a baby.
Menpbs has the White Fawn and Tom Thumb
and party.
Mrs. Lander is playing " Marie Antoinette" in
Cincinnati.
Park.
The police force of New York city costs 81 ,9OO,
000 year.
Patti has signed operate engagements up to
1871.
Elsewhere is a letter from Mrs. PartingtOn to
the president.
France lost 500 900, 900 by insect depredations
on crops last season.
Rspides parish wants five hundred plantation
lsborers.
MACK" is again writing Washington letters to
the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Our latest Louisiana country exchanges all re-
port heavy rains.
Butler says coined money is a relic Of bar
barism.
The Baton Rouge Advocate pleasantly remarks
that spring is approaching, but we don't see her.
Fusel oil and tannin are reduced to fifteen cents
a drink in Mansfield.
New York is less bibulous than before the ex-
positions OF the World.
At the projected musical festival in Boston IT is
proposed to bring out the famous chorus in Trova-
tore with one hundred snvis.
The Louisiana Baptist has new dress, and is
now edited by DR.. F. Courtney, assisted by Elder
p Z. Collins.
The Chicago Republican says Dix will be sup
planted at the French court by Gov. Bross, of
Chicago.
A Christmas goose sent by kind friend to two
prisoners in a Canada jail was stuffed with files
and steel saws.
The Advance says the Revolution advocates free
love. The Revolution says the Advance lies. The
Advance now has the floor.
Manchester, which is now the largest city in
New Hampshire, had only two houses thirty years
ago.
Cofax has received a present of a coupe aud
pair from Samuel Hooper, ex.member of Congress
of Massachusetts. 1t was a coup d'etdt.
A Portland mechanic has made fine cambria
needle which can be unscrewed, and which con-
tains, in hollow within, another smaller needle.
Is the Canal street shellroad ever to be restored?
Lovers of horse flesh and keepers Of livery sta
bles are anxious to know.
Rev. Mr.. Holland, who has for several weeks
past supplied the pulpit of the Unitarian Church
in this city, has just received notification that his
ministrations are no longer desirable.
VIM. G. Webster, son of Noah Webster, and an
efficient assistant of his father in the preparation
of his dictionaries, died in New York recently,
aged fifty. three.
In q recent speech of less than two columns,
Carl scburz used the capital l two hundred and
two times me, my, myself and mine one hundred
and seven times, aud Carl Schurz" four times.
The vicar of Elston, England, John BuDyan's
birthplace, asks aid to reft the village church as
monument to the memory of the author Of the
greatest alegory.
At recherche wedding in New York, baron
and city officials daughter of seventeen were
the principals. One wedding present was $4,000
silver set of twenty pieces.
Butler, abiding to his flank movement on Grant,
whereby he got into the White House first, is re.
ported to have exclaimed, triumphantly, 81 won.
der who is now the party bottled upr'
special to the Pcayune says: Minister
johnson writes to the state department that there
is an unexpected interruption to the progress of
the Alabama claims negotiation.
C. E. Creecy, ESQ.,, supervisor of internal
revenue for Louisiana and Arkansas, left Washing
ton on Wednesday morning and is consequently to
be expected here to day.
Four large manufacturing establishments in
New York are unable to supply the demand for
velocipedes. A school for those who would learn
TO ride them numbers over 200 pupils.
few of the journalistic friends Of A. Head had
the pleasure Wednesday evening of sitting down
with him to petite souper at Forgets restaurant,
by way of celebrating bis recent return to the city.
1t was an occasion of genuine fellowship.
correspondent of the Journal of Agriculture
has found that eight bushels of salt and one of
plaster viii cause an acre of clay loan to pro-
duce more than an equally expensive application
of bsrn-yard manure.
A Washington correspondent understands that
Gen. Grant, on being approached, recently, by a
prominent member of Congress. expressed the
opinion that, as the army is returning to peace
footing, it would be better to leave all vacancies
untitled.
"Wbat do you think of the rain, dear"
inquired an sffectionate spouse of her worser
half, as she peered cut of the window. 90"
hesrtlessly responded the brute addressed, "the
reindeer is a very useful animal in cold coun-
tries"
An ill.natured Frenchman has invented toy
which he calls the grimdcitOscope. You place the
carte de uisite of lady friend in the apparatus,
andshe appears distorted in a thousand hideous
ways, the innumerable combinations Of the kalei-
doscope being successfully applied to the art of
making ugly ones fellow creatures.
Brew. Major Gen. Frank Wheaton, lieutenant
colonel 39th infantry, formerly in command at this
post, but who went North after narrow escape
from death by yellow fever during the last cpl