The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-03
EDrronIAL PARasRAPHs. Ere.

Good sleighing in Washington the 3Oth ult.
Denmark contains 1000 Mormons.
Carlotia's condition is unchanged.
Missouri owes nearly 100000.
Olives are raised in southern Utah.
The new back gammon-the Gre@ian bend.-LEx
The new color in Paris is called caroubier. IL
is a red.
Bowles declines dinner rendered to him by the
governor and other citizens of Massachusetts,.
Swiss immigrants settled near Goldsboro, N. c.,
are suffering from restitution.
minor has been elected to the Massachusetts
legislature.
A New York jewelers. window is beautied with
sic 600 lump of Colorado gold.
The World wants the president to pardon every
body.
Isabella is going to see the Queen of Bel
GUM.
Dix is not liked at the French court. where the
courties sneer at him and his diplomacy.
Train was received by his Irish friends at Oms-
la on the 10th ult.
The Countess walewski has become Eugenie's
first lady of honor.
The novelty Of a civil marriage has just taken
place in Spain.
Episcopal bishops now get-six thousand dollars
per annum.
An exchange says Thurlow Weed has gone
South.
London paper says " what Ben Butler opposes
must be intrinsicslly good"
Fernando Woed has bought an elegant house in
Washington
Disraeli and Gladstone are personally very init.
mate and friendly.
There is a little "onpeasantness" between
Messrs. Phillips and Garrison.
Fisk has published card defending his trick in
arresting Bowles.
Mary Waters, aged lO2, died in st. Louis on the
18th ult.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Mata.
gorda.
The oyster war between Virginia and Maryland
is ended.
Albany and Binghampton are now connected by
rail.
The st. Louis Democrat says Mr.. Highly left
that city for New Orleans on the 3Oth ult
In Great Britain thirty thousand Of the people
are blind
The testimony in the Busted case is not to be
made public.
Archbishop Kenriek, of st. Louis, is visiting
Bishop Duggan. of Chicago, who is unwell.
The Indiana blacks are sgtating for share of
the school fund.
Grant is said to oppose the election Of Schurz
to the Senate.
Applications for the governorship Of Alaska are
numerous at Washington.
The Memphis Bulletin is defunct and is sue
ceeGed by paper called 1.-The Sum-" by l.. J.
Dupre & Co.
The New York Times and the Post urge the re-
| peal of the tenure of Office act. The Tribune
| opposes it.
Cfeecy reports at Washington that the New
Orleans whisky ring is the most formidable one in
the country.
Bztler's nevyy is out in letter about the
| Bowles arrest. He thinks Bowles was served
right.
In reply to an allusion to the recent interview
between Grant and Mcclellan, the former remark
ed, Mcclellan is an able man and soldier"
| Grant has received letter recommending the
appointment Of Jefferson Davis as secretary of
war.
Ii is said that Dora Shaw, who writes the
Menken's life, is good judge OF that sort OF
life.
The New York Tribune Gays ut may be con-
sidered certain that the Forty-irst Congress will
| meet and organize on the 4th of March"
meet me by moonlight slOne," is rendered
| now at the north, "Meet me on skates at the
Rink."-[Ex.
A carpenter in Washington has the following
autograph letter "If you have piece of board
TO spare please let Tad have ii. A. LINCOLN"
Two St. Louis firms recently purchased an IT,
tire cargo Of coffee, shipped direct from Rio Ja-
metro Mobile. it being the first shipment that
ever reached that place from Rio.
We Learn by note from our friend, Mr.. Scan
land former editor and proprietor of the Nstchi-
toches Spectator, that Gen. Mclaughlin was " ac-
Quilted by the civil authorities"
The Round Table ridicules the idea of COM
pairing any of the Booth family with Garrick,
Kean or any Of the other great actors Of the En-
glish stage.
Gen. Blair is of opinion that Grant will drive in
stead of follow that he will be more likely to
demand new powers than to relinquish the exer-
else of a single prerogative.
ais that marble ~ inquired gentleman, point
ing to a statue of Kentucky's great statesman
"No sir that's Clay" promptly replied the
dealer.
"If you must get drunk, my good fellow" once
remarked Tom Corwin to an inebriated youth
"be careful to co so on good whisky and amonE
gentlemen. In this way you will escape headache
and censure."
The Ouachita House is the name of new hote
on Lafayeue SquaIe. IL seeWs al unnhppiil
chosen name, for no stranger putting up at thu
Ouachita will be able to tell where he is stopping
or if be loses its bearings, to inquire alter it
location.
Major Nicholas Vedder, paymaster U. 5. A.
stationed in this city, has recently been brevet
ted lieutenant colonel. Col. Vedder has just re
turned from long and arduous journey 10 Louis
lana and Eastern Texas, where he has been pay
ing troops
Several hotel keepers threaten to prosecute thu
World for stating that an analysis by ProfessO
Draper showed their whisky to be of bad quality
The World promises further exposure Of tn
whisky frauds. Out Of nine frst-Class saloon
reported the Aston House sold pure whisky ant
was the first on the list, while the Fifth Avenue
and Delmonico's were next.
Paris bouquet for the hair consists of a gar
land of vervain mixed with green rushes, al
shades; a wreath of currant-shaded geranium
with velvet open green leaves and trail yelloV
water lily and closed bud, with crystalizad verdur
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