The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-14


! EDITORIAL PABA0RAPHs, GTC.
The roads are again becoming passable.
Cushing's mission il reported successful.
Garibald speaks about fourteen languages.
Fog signals-coughs and colds-[Judy.
Captain jerks is at all the masquersdes.
Beecher says he is the happiest man alive.
Miss Nettie Sterling, the young American con-
trslto, is meeting with great favor in England.
Fred. Douglass says il he was not negro he
should prefer to be Dutchman. .r.r
Brigham Young says his must be odd poor
religion if it won't stand one railrosdn
People were pleasantly sitting at their open
| doors and windows last evening. stst'r
Dead dogs and goats were breathing incense
along Common street yesterday.
A. C. Hill has retired from the editorship Of the
| Claiborne Advocate. 3 M, 1s
Charles Reade is writing q new play for Kate
Reynolds.
The New York ferries carried s2l, s2l, 274 pas
sengers in 1867. ff-a s.a.
| The poet Bryant addressed the newsboys Of
| New York, last Sunday.
Thanks to the officers Of the.steamer Mata-
gorda. ofI M
The society to propagate the Catholic faith re.
| ceiyed million dollars last year, of which nine
teEtns WIS IIOln One Ccnt per Wcch nuDnCfiptious.
The stylish hat out West just now is prairie
chicken. A tsxidermist prepares them. and they
are stuffed with the young ladies' heads.
The sum of 1875 900 in city notes was sold in
town yesterday at from 24i to 2s per cent. dis
count.
Our Washington special reports Radical dissat-
| isfacticn at Grants continued retcence on the
| cabinet question.
The captain. general of Cuba has withdrawn his
| amnesty proclamation and re.established the GEN.
sorship of the press.
The stage effects of Booths new theater at
New York are worked by steam-power, the first
| attempt of the kind in the world.
Female laborers on the suburban farms, near
Boston, earn from one dollar to one dollar and
| fifty cents day.
Hon. Samuel wiliston has given s250,0O0 to the
williston Seminary, at Easthsmpton, Massachu
sets, since ls4l, and now proposes presenting
another quarter of q million.
The bride OF Gen. Edward Hallowell, who was
married on Tuesday at Boston, insisted on we'd
ding tour to Fort Wagner, where the general was
severely wounded.
The Houston Telegraph wants A. ]. Hamilton
| to be the next governor of Texas, on accoant of
| his conservative course in the convention. The
Galveston News tacitly expresses the same desire.
Life from the point Of view of beautiful
| woman, whose very smile makes summer where
| she moves, cannot be the same that 1t is to
| thoughtful man, who feels chiefly the burden of
| it's sponsibiliiies.-[Ex.
| J. G. 6houp and E. E. Overall announce that on
| the 25th inst, they will issue at Oxford Miss,
| the first number of 80 column newspaper, to be
styled the Weekly Oxonian. devoted to the mate.
| rial interests of Mississippi.
A hungry fellow in Bath devoured for his sup
per the other evening, one key of oysters, three
large sheets of ginger bread, one bowl of clam
| chowder, and drank two cups of tea and one
glass of water. He insults hygiene by being alive
and well.
A Washington letter says: An accomplished,
educated colored man, one of the employees Of
the House of Representatives, says: l shall take
my wife and daughters to the first Grant recep-
ton at the White House, and the question to be
settled is, whether these two opposite social in
gradients will chemically mix"
1t is related that when Henry Wilson, now so
distinguished, first entered public life he was a
very poor speaker, but by dnt of talking three or
four times every day In the Massachusetts Legis-
lature, he became good debater. Good for vii.
son. But what q trial for the Legislature
Ann Swami, the nine feet high giantess, in q
yellow dress and black velvet cloak, swept ma
jesticaly down Broadway yesterday, looking in
at the second story windows: She is as graceful
as a swan, and seems to enjoy good health, not.
withstandpg the partial roasting she got at Bar.
nuns Museum. She went to get her picture
taken. OF course 1t was not full length.-[The
City, N. Y.
Carlo, Dubuque dog-large and strong-is
said to have saved the lives of four persons. He
dragged q creeping babe from under the feet of Q
paving colt; pulled two drowning girls from Lake
Peosta, and gripped his masters coat.tail one
dark and stormy night, as he (the msster)
headed for q stream where the bridge had Just
been swept away. Carlo has the unmuzzled free
dom of Dubuque at all seasons.
There was meeting at Mobile, Thursday even
| ing, TO dsvise means to rebuild, and q. once,
| Spring Hill College. Henry ST. Paul presided.
and VIM. LeBaron was secretary. Addresses
were made by the chairman, by Father Gsutrelet
and Judge Delchsmps. A committee to solicit
subscriptions was appointed. 1t consists of the
following gentlemen: Right Rev. Bishop Quinlan,
honorary president; Joseph e. Murrell. G. M.
Parker, John Mcdonald, P. II. Pepper. Thos. M.
LeBaron. Jas. h. Caldwell, B. F. Yniestra, John
Lyons, Cbas. Friecke.
Writers should be careful to quote poetry cor.
| rectly or not at all. The lines at the end Of
communicated obituary eulogy in the CRESCENT
of Saturday, followed by correct quotation, are
given below:
| The flash Of w.t.
The blaze Of bright intelligence,
| The gem OF social elegance,
Sunk with his sun.
The fash OF wit, the bright intelligence,
The beam of song, the blaze Of eloquence,
| Set with their sun but still have left behind
The enduring produce of immortal mind
The editor of the Harrison (Texss) Flag,
writing from New Orleans, tells good story on a
young Texan in this city attending the medical
college. One evening an alarm Of fire was heard,
and in company with his room.mates he started
down the street to see the conhagration. Being
rather feetfooted he was soon in advance. and
gancing down by-street he discovered fire
engine getting up steam, which broaght him to a
stand still. When his comrades joined him he
very quietly and innocently remarked: "Oh,
pshsw boys, let's 60 back to bed; 1t Is only
street car on fire.'
Monumental Church, Richmond, says the Wing,
was crowded on the evening of the Sth on the