The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-19

$40,O0O Tor an exclusive copy Oh ner nuspenu .
| postbumous mass He is to produce it in Paris
with Alboni. and charge Sc admission.
A friend Of ours, wishing to get A. Head faster
| in the world has Just invested rather heavily in
| horse. He may be seen holding the ribbons upon
| the ''shelln almost any pleasant afternoon.
L. Alvin Hunt. late night editor of the World,
and New York correspondent of the London
| Herald and Standard, died of consumption. on
| Sunday, aged twenty-eight.
| Disuse Of envelopes is becoming fashionable in
| Paris. The sheet on which the letter is written Is
folded in the old style that was in vogue before
| envelopes were invented.
Dent does not want the mission to Chill, never
applied for it, don't know who suggested his name,
and will ask his friends nor to confirm the nomna-
| ton.
Opera bouffe has reached the antpodes. The
Melbournese nightly shower the leading actresses
with flowers and nuggets of gold in their wild en-
| thusiasm.
During PATHS recent visit to st. Petersburg the
orchestra chairs brought sll0 each in gold. After
1 tie performance of La Sonnambula' the en-
peror sent the diva fur pelsse. valued at SIC 0o0
| Elderly and anxious traveler-Do you think the
| 1850 train will be punctual, sir
| Party eddressed-Well l really can't say. II
| will be 10 to if it Study.
A paper mill in which was manufactured paper
used By Benjamin Franklin in his Office is still in
| operation in Delaware county, Pa II is called the
| Joy Mil, and was erected as long ago as 1772.
Miss Anna Dickinson told her audience at Ii
brary Hall that the Philadelphia medical students
are in the habit of insulting ladies' upon Chestnut
street in the most brutal manner every evening.
A Western genius gets bis liquor By rushing into
| drug store for whisky for " his dying son just
| trampled by a horse." He never has time to
pay.
recent Paris letter says: 1.-THE report was
current during the week that Jefferson Davis was
dying. He had severe syncope, and lies still in
| q weak state, attended by DR.. Smith,
In the case of Mr.. Henry V. Couch for the kill
| ing of Mr.. Harry Jacobs, in Mobile, Mayor
Price required bond of 5000 for his appearance
| before the City Court.
1 A paper published in Kendsllvie, Indiana, OBJ
serves: " If Mrs. Grant should happen 10 get the
| measles. every fool woman in the country would
l put fire red spots on her face, and commence tax
| ing epson Salts"
Il is said that Memphis young lady has made
l the singular discovery that whipping the back
between the shoulders on rising in the morning
will give the cheeks a rudy glow throughout the
\ day.
So soon as q man starts out for a reformer, he
let's his hair grow long. So soon as woman
starts in the business. she cuts hers on short.
Does not this show natural tendency on the part
| of these two-the one, TO approach the character
| of q man, end the other that Of woman g-tChi-
| cago Times.
"For my part said the late Jsmes T. Brady,
| al can say, in all sincerity, that would rather
feel sure that when come to die shall leave
friends to think Of me. after am gone, as poor
l Jim. Brady than win the brightest name for
| learning and for eloquence at the bar"
Gentlemen. this spring, says the oracle, will
wear coats with rather wide rolling collar, cut
| away to some extent and about as short usual.
| Vests will be mostly sngle-breasted, open low
| enough to admit fai- view of the shirt bosom.
| Pants will be as snug in the leg as ever. The
| new spring overcoat is something between the
1 regular overcoat and q cloak.
A new welding composition has been patented
in Belgium. 1t consists of loco parts ofron filings.
500 parts of borax, so parts of balsam Of copaibs
\ or other resinous oil, with IS parts of sal ammo
| MAC. These ingredients are well mixed together,
| heated and pulverized. The process of welding
| is much the same as usual.
The big OK, "Gen. Grant," weighing 1902
| pounds, is in New York. BE has contributed in
all not less than $4,000 to The Sanitary Commits
sion. He is going to Washington to be present at
| the Inauguration, when he viii be sacrificed as
"peace" offering, the meat consumed, the skin
stuffed, and his bones presented to Agsssiz for his
| museum.
The New York Sun has published statements
that political leade rs in the Manhattan club, early
| in February, determined to have the laws rig
| idly enforced and to break of from the
| sheriff and other county officials, who had been
strongest in sffiliation with thieves. Under this
change of policy Boyle received forty years in the
| pepi;entia.y, and other burglars had long sen.
l fences.
A N. Y. dispatch says: ''Gen. Grants speech
| on Saturday is fsvorably received By the press
| and fnanciers. Foreign bankers here anticipate
that that speech will have beneficial effect upon
the bond market abroad. The speech and the
financial bills in Congress had favorable effect
| upon the bond market and caused an advance.
| Foreign purchases to-day were chiefly sixty.
sevens, though alliissuesiwere in active demand"
The Enquirer Manual and Political Register for
4 1869, published by the Cincinnati Enquirer, fur.
1 nishes the many readers Of that valuable paper
| among otber f.cts. table of the various State
governments, in which Louisiana is represented as
having its capital at Baton Rouge, and as being
| governed by BENZ. F. Flanders. whose term of
Office it informs Us, expires in 1870. Is this cor
1 rect, Mr.. Wsrmoths
| The Washington undertakers who had the re-
mains of Mrs. Surratt in charge after they were
exhumed have been besieged on sll hands for
relics of Mrs. Surrstt. The partially decomposed
case in which she was originally inferred, now in
their possession, will probably soon be reduced to
chips, and wrought into mementoes for those who
are so eager to obtain them. Father Walter has
in his possession the glass phial containing piece
of parchment with Mrs. Surratts name thereon,
which was placed in the coffin in which she was
| first buried.
The Maidstone.