The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-27
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Sumner is 10 have q bust In the Massachusetts
State House.
1t cost $4,000 to bury New York gentleman
who died recently.
Forney thinks " the app ointment Of Longstreet
. is id pretty way to make treason odious."
"velocipede carnival" is the latest reportorisl
monstrosity. rst4 t.le
Jenny June has been elected president Of the
New York Sorosis-
The Raleigh Sentinel calls the members of the
North Carolina Legislature 'hsnds."
Hon. T. D. Eliot is talked of as the successor of
Judge Hoar on the Massachusetts, bench.
Anneke Jams heirs have just paid their lawyers
s25 900 to keep pegging away q: Trinity Church.
II is said that Nasty I'd. r. Locke will be made
postmaster at Toledo, Ohio.
Elk Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, has
bought fine team in San Francisco.
Geo. Ellis has the New York Ledger, Literary
Album and Chimney Corner.
Twelve United States senators are to write
each an article for the New York Ledger.
There are fifteen SILVER bricks at Salt Lake.
destined for the East and worth nearly $1,000
each.
A great impulse to ofHce-seeking by women has
been given by Grants recent appointment of fe-
male postmistresses.
Haley, Commercial Place. has the New World,
Split of the Times, Chimney Corner, United Irish.
man and Boston Post.
Grants first expenditure on the White House
was for lock and chain to secure the main door
against unreasonable ofice-seekers.
1t was lively Frenchman who suggested that
in the abolition of capital punishment the assassns
should begin first.
During the past twelve months the French Gus
tom house returns show that million francs
worth of velocipedes have been exported.
Ossisn E. Dodge, the comic singer, has been
elected secretary Of the st. Paul Chamber Of
Commerce. fr
Chas. O'Conor has succeeded the late James T.
Brady las president of the Law Institute, New
York.
Fisk has turned cabby," and has contracted
for rs cabs wherein to convey people TO any part
Of the city at so cents per head.
Patrick's Commercial Bulletin is the name Of a
newspaper in Vicksburg for gratuitous disribu-
ton.
Crouch, formerly journalist in this city. is
drawing cartoons for the New York Telegram.
The Star says his journalistic fortune is made.
Horace is not prone to concessions, but last
night he admitted that he bought the Identical
white coat that he wears at this moment at q CO.
operative store in London twenty years sgo.-lN.
Y. Democrat, 20.
Vernon ("Historicus Harcourt, who re-
Gently made brilliant maiden speech in the new
British Parliament, has been appointed professor
of international law at Cambridge, with hand.
some salary.
The people Of Boston had grand quarrel over
the question of allowing building for the musical
jubilee to be erected on the Common. The
building, however, is to be put up on the sacred
spot. "a
1t is reported that Fisk is negotiating with Hugh
Hastings for the purchase Of the Commercial Ad-
vertiser Fisk says he is determined to own at
least two daily newspapers here; that his great
interest and enterprises demand that he should
do 30. 9-
Bald. headed chaps have taken to wearing little
black small skull-caps In theaters, churches and
| other places Of public assembage. In Plymouth
| Church choir Mr.. Zundle, the organist. and Mr..
| Hutchinson, the deacon, sport them, and look
| like couple of high old cardinals on stools. Mr..
| Beecher will have to come to 1t before long, or
| the draft will do for him.-GN. Y. Star.
| Two hundred Polish refugees in Switzerland re-
| Gently received box filed with earth from the
sacred soil of Poland. Two hundred small skeu
bags were filed with the earth, and each of the
enthusiastic Poles put one Of these bags on his
heart, pledgng himself to wear it there until his
return to his native country.
The late T. Bigelow Lawrence, consul general
at Rome, was gentleman of refined and elegant
habits, and used to live like prince on Beacon
street, in Boston. One large room in his house
was exclusively devoted to complete suits of an.
Gent armor, which he had purchased at great ex.
peDse in Europe.
Ledru Rollin. the great leader Of the decided
| republicans Of France in 1913 aud l849, lately
| said in letter to some of his Partisan friends
" Do not abandon the hope of seeing me again in
| Paris. | shall be there when we shall sit in
| Judgment over the robbers who are now plumber
ing the country. Their days are numbered"
| Mrs. Grant has given her personal supervision
/ to the refurDishing OF the White House. She was
warmly attached the residence she has just left,
| and she remarked. few days since, that she
| should 20 to the White House with reluctance.
| She proceeded 10 remark: g. intend to make
| Mr.. Grant comfortable there, and shall no doubt
| socn feel at homo. | am told that 1t has been
| customary to have the commissioner of public
buildings superntend the household 10 q consider
able extent but don't desire to have any gentle
man co that for me. / shall also engage the
steward and servants, and the ste ward's salary
is aid from the treasury, shall exercise great
care in selecting him-as under the tenure'of,
Office act shall not be able to get rid OF him."
| Washington Letter.
Anthony Trollope has always two or three
stories in his desk. His industry Is as amazing rs
his invention. He lives some miles from London,
and hunts ss eagerly as ever. The greater part of
his novels are written between and O'Clock in
the morning. He has guests frequently at bis
house, who enjoy his society and are articular y
| struck by the hour at which he leaves them for
| the night but If they are strangers, they are
astonished indeed to find at breakfast the follow.
ing morning that their host has been up four hours
| and has written mere than a dozen pages. Mr..
Trollope has one story ready-a short one, which
he is said to describe the most melancholy tale
he has ever written
must say, in all fairness, that do not wonder
that General Grant khrinks in dismay from g con.
tact with the crowd, and gets poor opinion OF
| politicians, from the specimens presented here.
| We have class of men belonging TO all parties,
| but especially to the Republican organization.
that seek TO live on politics, and, II possible,
grow rich in Office. Their entire time is taken up
either in holding or seeking Office. This is more
the case with the Republican than with the Dem
ocratic party. We have large number OF voters
who take no other part IN politics than 70 vote,
| and these delegate the business, SIS It were, 10