The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-28
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY Is, 1869.


Tfaylata - tonight at the Opera House.
Dulce has seen dagger before him.
Thanks for better days."
Mobile is enjoying German opera.
Grant has donned q stiff hat and suit of black.
Langston aspires to Hayt.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Davis viii settle in Paris.
Oysters are cheaper. Good.
Iowa has ''shingle weddings"
Fisk, jr., is a sweet boon to the lawyers.
Randall has appointed a negro postmaster in
Virginia.
The Fair Grounds are undergoing smoothing
for the annual show, which takes place in April
Pic. telegram repeats the rumor that Sheri-
dan returns to Louisiana.
"Sturdy old Ben" will try to Wade into the
cabinet.
American affairs in Paraguay are pronounced
settled.
The magnificent basso, Van Hufisn, has bene-
fit next week.
The Pic. compliments the suave and generous
manners of Senator Kellogg.
A contemporary calls the opera-goers our
most elegant citizens.n
Shelley is said to be " out" with the Warmoth
party.
The Times objects to the designation Empire
of France"
One of the city recorders is accused of dis
pensing with justice.
Eyarts, who frequently dimes with Grant, is
said TO be eating his way into the cabinet
The United States is said to have ESQ, 900, 900
arabic acres.
Our printers yesterday put "Jeff. Davis in
prison. but Paris was the place intended.
The sun dares shine now from morning till
night.
The mud is drying up and sunshine is seen upon
the faces of the owners of horsehesh.
The demand for horses and mules is becoming
quite active in this market.
The river is falling, and the danger to the levees
less threatening.
Fannie Price, who succeeds Lolita, went to see
her play Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Gotthiel proposes to go to Paris and urge
the emigration of lsbOrers to Louisiana.
An imitator of Thoresu has set up as q vegeta.
rian hermit on Emerson's estate in Concord, Mass
Charlotte Cushman will play short engagement
at a New York theater.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company and
the officers of the steamers Louise and Clinton.
Mrs. Lander, Camilla Urso and Frank Mayo are
in Cincinnati.
srahan & Co. guarantee Tennyson $4,000 a
year for the privilege of publishing his poems.
The poet Browning is guilty of rhyming about
a"peacock's egg."
Philadelphia velocipedists exercise on the rails
of the horse car lines.
Thurlow Weed writes from somewhere South
that he is better.
Geo. Ellis has Hours at Home, Moore's Rural
New Yorker and the illustrated sporting papers.
II Banks was not ordered to supersede Grant
why don't he say so.
1t is laughingly said that Forney has withdrawn
all claims TO the cabinet.
One of the clover ten thousand " theaters
of London distributes bread and cheese as pre-.
MUM TO its patrons.
A contemporary says i" Miss Kellogg's slight
figure Is muscular enough to support several thou
sand pounds of diamonds"
DIP. thinks the witness Of the premier is well
illustrated in his deception of Paine, when be
rolled on the floor and POISONED dead.
1t was beautifully clear last night, and the
eclipse of the moon, which occurred according to
the programme, was distinctly visible.
Somebody babbling of Lolita, speaks of her
magnetic popularity" and the "piquant effect y
of the anachronistic banjo " in her hands.
The French citizens of New York have been
showing the Gothamites how to get up masque'
rade ball.
A handsome set of plate has been presented to
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln by the admirers Of her
husband at Frankfort-on.t the Main.
Burlngsme and his embassy occupy the apart
ments in Paris left vacant by Patti, who has gone
to Russia, and pay $1,000 month for them.
Schneider sued Paris paper for libel. She
estimated her character at $1,000, but the jury pui
il at SEQ.
Why was Mohammeds like q man in church
with bad cold? Because his coughin' had TO be
suspended-[Tomahawk.
The Herald states that last year it paid to the
telegraph companies $4,000 year more than all
the rest of the New York papers.
The "news'' by special telegram, in city con
temporary yesterday. of the death of Cutler
Baker, 9 Texas desperate, was week old to the
readers of the CRESCENT.
I'D. p" has recently seen Stanton, and say