The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-08
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.


There are only three healthy kings and queens
in Europe.
New Hampshire bankrupt handed 81, 900 in
Confederate bonds to his astonshed creditors.
Cstnip celebrations in honor of the frst-born
are now in order
The richest evening dresses recently made and
worn are without paniers.
The Philadelphia Press asserts that E. B. Wash
burne will be made minister to France.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers I. G. Har.
ris and Josephine.
Bennett did not have a paralytic attack, as
reported.
Several negroes have been elected aldermen in
| Wilmington, N. c.
Senator Pomeroy is styled the father of eleven
| Pacific railroad bills"
In New York 296,574 head of cattle were
slaughtered in 1868.
| Thomas Afleck, much esteemed and very USE
full citizen of Texas died in Brennan recently.
The "white trash' of Brennan, Texas, are
building schooIhouse for colored children.
Butler opposes a specie currency. He would
have the costly metals made into spoons.
$4,000. goo are wanted to run New York this
| year.
$500 buildings were put up in Brooklyn last
year.
Houston is overrun with counterfeit silver and
greenbacks.
Gen. Jubsl Early announces his intention of
remaining 10 Canada for the present.
The rent of the Fifth Avenue Hotel is 500 GAO
year.
One Lynch sues the Chicago Tribune for $40, 900
damages for saying he kept disorderly house.
theatrical circles are " down " on PATHS hus.
band.
The liking of Pain exhibited his muscle and
pluck at Lexington the other day.
Twenty-seven thousand immigrants arrived at
Chicago last year.
Carpenter and Washburne are struggling for the
Wisconsin senatorship. Carpenter has the pole.
Rumors that Vanderbilt had slipped up on the
ice depressed Central.
The New York letter carriers wear gray uni.
form.
When an engineer has run loo, 900 miles on the
Cleveland and Toledo road he is made a conduc.
tor.
In Florida land is worth fifty cents an acre, and
a $500 house is as good as $500 one at the
North.
If Gen. Pillow should have an important law.
suit, would it be the great Pillow. case ?-[Mem.
phis Sun.
The drawing room of a Madison avenue New
York; mansion is furnished entirely with gilt fur.
niture.
suburban park of 1000 acres is projected in
the vicinity of New York; in the Highlands of the
Hudson.
Sir John Simeon is the only Roman Catholic
elected to Parliament from an English constitu-
ency.
Be not all sugar, or the world will swallow thee
up; nor all worm wood, or it will spit thee out.
LEX.
A young lady in New Albany received sixty
calls on New Years day, and sang Captain
Jinks " ffty.ive times.
The Grecian bend is achieved by throwing the
chest forward and the trunk backward. What is
done with the rest of the baggage lex.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York World gives what purports to be the opinion
OF Gen. Grant of several political and other mag.
mates. 1t will be found in another column.
Years ago, our ears were charmed with strains
of the Swedish Nightingale" and the " Black
Swan," and now We are treated to those vf a
Hauck."-[ Punch.
England has rejected the Armstrong gun after ex-
pending upon it millions of pounds, and knighting
the inventor. The breech-loadng guns are also
to be replaced by muzzle leaders.
A sister of Gen. Grant, Mrs. Mary Grant era.
mer, is the wife Of our consul at Leipzig; she is
also an amateur artist, and used to paint in the
art galleries.
Postmaster General Randall is preparing re-
port for Congress, in which he will advocate the
union Of the postOffiee and telegraph. To that
end he is collecting facts, figures and arguments.
Preston Fowler, exhilarated by typhoid fever,
jumped from a third story window in Washington
to the ground. This completely cured him of the
fever, and he il now conValescing from the acci.
dent.
Weston, the wslkist," is said to have received
for Christmas present copy of the bright
Lexicon of YOUTH" in which "there is no such
word as fail bound in calf, with foot notes, and
illustrated with view of the high road to success
One of the Chicago papers gives the number of
new buildings erected there last year at over
5000. Another says the actual number is 4ilO.u
The difference in that city between figures and &C.
tual figures is often illustrated.
Information wanted of Kate Murphy, who mar.
ried Henry @. Clark, in New Orleans, ia Novem.
Der, 1858 by her mother, Eliza Murphy, care of |
r. @. Hopkins, surveyor generals Office San
Francisco Herald Personal.
At recent temperance lecture Beecher re-
marked that Ireland grew no wines. One of his
hearers reminded him that the Green Isle grows !
whisky. "Oh, yes" said Beecher a" acknowl- |
edge the corn"
Rossnis tailor keeps emblazoned on his siun the |
Information that he was " Tailor to Rossinin |
This must mean either that to compose good |
operas implies nice discrimination in coats, or |
that the wearing of coats of a peculiar structure
conduces TO the composition of good operas. II |
he bad been Rossini's 3" Barber " it would have
been something to the purpose.-[Wo
A widower writes to the New York Sun that his
daughter of fifteen grew coarse and insolent, and
laughed in his face when he only chided her; but
one dey he fastened her to the bed removed her
and gave her a severe castgation
with rattan cane, since which time she has been
very traetable. Hence he favors corporal punish
ment
AT IL o'clock yesterday Gen. Butler proceeded
to the presidential mansion, marched through the
he'd room to the Blue room, shook hands cordially
with President johnson, and passed out by way Of
the East room. The spectacle, in all its aspects,
was fne one. We know of nothing quite 80 fine.
10 the Butler line, since his sffectionate conflict
with the president in the impeachment trial last
spring.-[N. Y. Times, %.