The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-21
sDIronIAL PAnAaRAras, srC.
The Mobile Tribune has been concentrated.
Decker is In Savannah.

powder explosion.
Senator sprague paid 1000 for his 5000 acres
on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
The New York World is again after the New
York liquor sellers.
Gen. Mower has been assigned to the command
of the district of Louisiana.
Chicago has been favored with concert BY its
newsboys and bootblacks.
Maximilian's extensive library is advertised for
sale at Leipsic.
Mr.. o. L. Grant, q brother of the president
elect, was in town yesterday.
The Peruvian iron-clads were at Pensacola on
the l4th.
The Mobile Tribune is trying to brighten an UNI
brella thief by pretending that he was seen.
MatrimoDy in St. Landry has been largely pro-
NOTED by the late bountiful crops.
Thanks to Senator Morton for copy of his
speech on the resumption of specie payments.
Richard Grant White contends this month that
English is Grammarless Tongue"
The sugar crop of Terrebonne is now estimated
at 5000 hogshesds.
Wisconsin is the only Western state in which
dissection is legal.
The president has Withdrawn the nomination of
Perry Fuller ard nominated W. Ii. Wisener for
collector of New Orleans.
The president has nominated Gems Buchanan
and Glem for the vacant brigader general
ships.
Robert Bonner's Flatbush Maid" recently Wis.
| tied Hartford, Conn.,, under an assumed name,
and took all the wind out of the horse fsnciers.
Eugene Is going to the sulphur spring at En-
ghein, which has never been fashionable because
it is only four miles from Paris.
Alexander II. Stephens will enter at once upon
his duties as professor at the University of Geor.
gia.
A GAINESVILLE young lady requested a photo
grapher to make her picture look Gas If l was
writin' pome."
The London Spectator doubts 'if any English
writer now living writes so pure classical Eng
lish as was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne"
The members of the Galveston bar have recently
| given testimonial supper to Judge Scott, of the
State District Court.
Carrollton has evidently secured the services of
the artist who painted street signs with super.
fuous punctuation points for Jefferson City.
The Houma Civic Guard says people there
about travel in boats now. The roads are under
| water.
The Pic learns that 100000 have been sub
| scribed by downtown citizens for a cotton mill in
this city.
"Ihe little Pontchartrain railroad" remarks a
contemporary, twas, and is now. we believe, the
Oldest existing railroad in the United States"
A New York paper calls the Boy of the Pc
Rod " a "dirty, lawless lying, conscienceless,
unbearsbe barbarian and nuisance"
An individual in Chicago, for small salary, al.
lows " good pistol shot - to put ball through
his hat the ball passing within inch of his skull
The Houma Civic Guard says plantation labor.
ers ere generally very willing to contract by
the year, and from what it can learn, good hands
are getting better wages than last year.
The Franklin Banner thinks the planters who
have passed resolutions against leasing or selling
lands to certain negroes, committed mistake.
We have no laboring men to spare.
The Franklin Banner laments the low spiritual
condition of the churches and people of Louisi.
ana, and also the Indifference to education in its
vicinity.
George Ellis has the Scientific American, Amer
lean Artisan, Harper's Weekly, Round Table, the
illustrated sporting papers, Harper's Bazaar, Comic
News, Literary News and the Hearth and Home.
St. Louis has new patent velocipede. The
back of the rider is supported By clamp, which
acts as a tiller. Ii has two back wheels five feet
in diameter and is moved by both the arms and
legs.
BY order Of Fisk, the large Sunday school which
has met fer long time at Pixies Opera House,
was locked out last Sunday. Condemnatory reso.
lutions were passed by the school while assembled
on the sidewalk.
The celebrated race horse Kentucky has been
finally withdrawn from the turf, and will in future
be devoted to the stud. He has won in purses and
stakes $40 900, aud is now owned by August Bel.
mont, and kept in his stables at Brooklyn, Long
Island. Mr.. B lmont paid sl5, 900 for him.
Charles A. Dana, Of the Sun, and John Swim
ton OF the Times, appeared yesterday with hair
cropped in the style known as +" fled" This neat
and uDpretendng style, II is reported is likely to
become popular among the editorial profession,
entirely replacing the long locks introduced by
the Tribune people.-tN. Y. Mail, 18th.
The watch owned by Major Andre, the revolu.
tionary spy, is now in the possession of an aged
widow, residing in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who
wants to sell it. The name of Arnold and the date
IVA are engraved on the back of the watch, and
its maker was Thomas Campbell, of Albany,
England.
An economical family moving west, from |
Youngstown, Ohio, packed an aged grandsire in a |
latticed box, covering him loosely with bed quilts.
The drsyman hired to convey the 'freight" to the
depot, thought the packing of the box improper
ly done. and proceeded to mend it with so much |
vigor that the old gentleman squeaed.
We find recorded in the Romney Infelligencer |
the fact that Mr.. G. A. Halteman, aged sixteen,
was married to Miss Barbara j. Wagner, aged |
twenty-four. The interesting ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Stephen Smith. on horseback, in
the big road, at Crab Bottom, Highland county, |
West Virginia.
Innis, colored barber 10 Jersey City, takes |
hair from the head of another person, aud ex. |
amines it with a microscope. TO ascertain whether /
it is perfect and healthy. This hair he inserts ]
into the cavities of a premature bald scalp, and
secures it to its place by bandages, which are
allowed TO remain few days, until the hair takes
root.
According TO the Paris correspondent of the
London Queen, the hair is now usually dressed
high, and rich spray Of flowers placed across
the crown of the head resting against the coil or
plat Of hair. Dark hair is now all the rage thsre.
fore blondes are dyeing their golden tresses, and