The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-09
EDITORIAL PARAsR Apis. ETC.


A bad omen-To owe men money.-[Ex.
The weight of fool-A simple ton.-TEx.
Madame Patti has recovered her voice.
The pope is 7s years old.
Hon. Levi Morrill,, of Maine, is dead.
Mosby is in Washington.
Bismarck's mother was Menken.
Ellis has Haney's Journal, Hearth and Home,
Punch ard the London Illustrated News.
Where will Pomeroy 60 when he dies? To
Brick-dust.
II is proposed to change the name Of Indiana to
" In-and-I-hangyer."
The lobby-that great army of bloodsuckers-
occupies Washington in force.
Ole Bull, grandly accompanied, played in New
York Monday evening.
Tye Kim. Chinaman, is teaching a school Of
colored children on Bayou Gouls,Ls.
The stock OF American cotton in Liverpool is
$4,000 bales.
as a stupid boy.
The Hebrews are the chief owners Of real estate
in New York.
Unpopular opera just now-The Trova-tory.-
Punch.
The seat of Rice, from Kentucky, is to be con-
tested.
Medallions of Grant are to be sent to numerous
big Indians.
Cary, Of OLio, says the Cincinnati Gazette is
incapable of sltHdering him.
Denmark is mad with Uncle sam for his slow
ness in the St. Thomas purchase.
The New York underground railroad project is
gone under for the present.
Butler says he don't believe in carrying political
disputes into social life, hence bis visit to A. j.
Gladstone is the most fluent and brilliant speaker
in the English parliament, but personally I'M
popular.
Strange that SO many people upon the fertile
soil Of Texas should employ their time in making
newspapers.
The examination of Busted is going on before
the judiciary committee. The testimony is dam
aging.
Our word map comes from the Latin n1dppd,
(handkerchief.) Charts were drawn by the Ro-
mans on linen.
Gen. Bsdesu has bad an interview with Gree
ley and it is reported that the postmaster general
ship has been rendered to the latter.
Several senators who voted for impeachment
paid their compliments to the president on New
Years Day.
Col. Stewart, paymaster U. s. A, for some time
past stationed at San Antonio, has removed his
Office 10 this city.
Geo. Ellis has Moore's Rural New Yorker. This
excellent journal has just entered upon its TWEEN.
tieth volume, having sixteen pages each week.
Japonicas were offered for sale on Royal street
yesterday at fifty cents apiece, and violets at ten
cents a bunch.
Paradise Coffee House" is among the celes.
taI attractions on the GENTLY. road, near the Fair
Grounds.
The reported conversation with Grant relative
to prominent men is, according to special to the
Times, a canard.
Mr.. Crouch, formerly connected with journal
in this city, is one Of the local editors of the New
York Herald.
Subject for an aFtist-Buter shectonately shak
ing hands with L" party by the name of john
son."
1t is Economically related of Carl Shurz that he
played the role of a wandering minstrel about the
prison of favorite teacher in Germany, until he
Yves enabled to assist him in making his escape.
Hon. James A. Seldom, who acted for several
years as Confederate secretary of war, has be.
| come member of the mercantile establishment
of George Lee & Co., Richmond.
The Radical printers OF the public printing
office in Washington have paid their compliments
to Gen. Grant in the, ,yXSs..gd %
The New Orleans Advocate, edited by Rev. DR..
Newman, says 1--WE deem mixed schools at pres
ent impracticsbe, and have assurances that those
known as the freed people do not think it best
for themselves and their children TO have such
schools just now"
A Washington dispatch to the New YORK World
says: The representatives from Louisiana now in
Congress urge the setting aside the whole elec-
ton in that State. Their allegation is terrorism,
and their complaint the success Of Seymour and
Blair, and the election of FIVE Democratic con-
| gressmen 10 the State. The proposed action in
the case of Georgia and Louisiana involves the re-
lection Of the electoral votes of those States. The
first instance Of the Sort after the electoral votes
| have been cast, on record.
a goslipg Of Mother Goose, in the Detroit Ad-
vertiser, quacks the following rhyme upon Cor
nelius:
| Vanderbilt Horner
| Got up Corner
| To eat with his Christmas pie,
And pulled out with his thumb
six million plum,