The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-11
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A marine plant-the beach of the sea.
Csrlotta is growing fat 81 - y -4.4-l =
Grant was to drive Dexter on the sth.
Preventives Of consumption-high prices.-[Ex.
Grant don't drink ct public dinners.
Mrs. Gladstane at the Varieties next Monday.
Rev. Henry A. Wise, Jr.. of Virginia, died yes
terday. ,t
Lively time in Congress yesterday over the cleo
toral votes of Georgia and Louisiana.
Three Boston philosophers we're observed bath
ing in the Charles river the other morning.
The Princess Royal Victoria has made life size
bust OF the late empress Of Russia
Thanks to the officers of the steamer W. G.
Hewes. .. a g.. ,frr es.a BID.
Married life begins with rosewood and ma
hogany, and ends with pine.-lEx.
The Southern branch of the Methodists has
5000 members. ,s
The best key for the Christmas box-a tur-
key.-[Citizen.
Torchlight sleigh-rides sre the fashionable
amusement in Minnesota.
Grant received the public at the Fifth Avenue
onthe sth.
Il Ia said General Thomas denies saying he
wouldn't believe General Pope under oath.
At Pixies Opera House, Q facetious youth called
on Grant for speech. ~
ImprudentIy charitable is the last title given to
those who bride officials. .,-f .
Harrison Stephens, q vermonter, resides at Mont
real, and is the wealthiest man in the Dominion.
Major Geo. Mcknight CASA Hsrtz) died We'd
nesdsy morning.
General Steedman has sailed for Cuba to take
look at the military situation. ..1
Washburne is reported to be sore because Grant
don't consult with him on the cabinet question.
DR.. Sickel, the Partisan oculist, wiled his corpse
to science, and forbade a funeral.
They say the rush for foreign missions under
Grant exceeds any thing known under any pre-.
yious administration.
Cousin Nourma has discoveries lineal descend
ant of Handy Andy at the New Orleans City
Hotel. His name is Ed. Watrous.
Three women in Iowa killed deer with five
spades. Who will now say that spades are not
tfumps?-[Ex.
A New Hampshire lass requested Weston to
take 9 ring and love message to her sweetheart
in Chicago.
We are pleased to learn from the Herald that
"vicksburg is becoming perfected" 1t certain
~ is an up and down old place.
Mr.. Henry Bergh will receive proposals for the
construction of four to six low wheeled trucks,
Ellis has the scientific weekies, the illustrated
and Harper's Bazaar.
Gen. Thayer, who is still living at the age Of
eighty.four, was the first superintendent of West
Point.
Pound parties " are the latest. Those invited
are expected to contribute one pound at least of
something to eat.
Gen. Mcclellan Is busily engaged in finishing the
Stevens battery. There is nearly two years work
upon it yet.
The members of the Rhode Island Legislature
are paid one dollar per day. They all walk home
every night and back in the morning.-[Ex.
kThe Tifin Tribune suggests that parties addicted
to snoring should wear clothes pins on their noses
while sleeping.
Aprinter in Pawtucket Rhode Island, spends
all his spare earnings in giving turkey dinners to
New England jails.
We understand that o velocipede, owned by
Chillicothe, gave birth to large colt the other
day.-IWaverly (Ohio) Waterman.
Wade is depressed in Dundee.-[CREscEsT, Tues
day.
Perfectly correct, all but " in Dundee, !" the trade
Of that place being referred to.
The New York City says that Mrs. Theodore
Moss, wife OF the treasurer of Wallack's Thester,
wore at the charity ball lace and diamonds est.
mated at $4,000. Her lace hounce cost $4,000.
Minnesota paper states that the ladies have
carpeted the church at Shakopee, and request
all gentlemen who chew tobacco to leave their
mouths at the door.
The diocesan convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, In the State Of Louisiana, will
commence its annual session in st. Paul's Church,
n l. a.;
General Sherman returned last evening from q
trip to the forts on the revenue cutter Wilder.
ness, and proposes leaving to-day for visit to
the State Seminary at Alexandra.
Senator Yates wants to be placed at the head Of
the navy department. But is man fit to be
secretary Of the navy who generally can't navi.
gate ,-IPrentice.
Fisk offers Nilsson $1,000 night for two hun.
bred nights singing in America. He will pay her
travelling expenses, and engage a company OF
nineteen artists to assist her In opera.
The religious newspspers-thev veteran and con.
sentative Observer among the number-are yield.
ing to the demand for serial fiction. They wisely
conclude to bring the novel into the service of
religion.
Extensive preparations are being made every
where for the forthcoming spring season, both in
boating contests announced for the opening cam
paign.
Benz. W. Hitchcock, publisher, 9s Spring street,
New York, sends MS q generous selection of his
bslf.dime series Of music for the million, with
words, including Capt. Jenks," " Champagne
Charlie" "Blue Eyes," Goodbye, Sweet
heart" etc., etc.
In spite of Parton, Tennyson smokes numerous
and consecutive pipes; Lowell also always has
his bsccy" at hand; Grant still continues his
cigar; Buwer yet enjoys long reed pipe I; but
Greeley doesn't smoke, nor does Raymond
neither Of the two latter ever did. And yet they
are all supposed to be great men, each in his own
wsy.-[N. Y. Mail.
Dom Piatt says "Parton is thin, queer, gen.
lemanly-looking man, who carries forty eight on
bis counteDance. Above the medium height he
is slender and ends in head, round and smsllish.
He has an of eye, hooked nose, prominent chin,
coarse, dark hair. that encroaches his forehead,
and whiskers to matchmaker thin and uncertain,
and struck me as resembling Don Quixote. In
youth, and in delicate health"
dsrkskinned youth in Mortified. Vermont,
son of French father and Creole mother,
handeome intellippnt and esfina hla waa recautlv