The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-28

EDITOKnA. PARAGRAPHS. ETC.
Are the office seekers going to kill Grant, too,
-Four Vermont women are shipbuilders.
Opals abound in Owyhee county, Idaho.
Stage drivers in Cincinnati are uniformed.
Grant was "indispoged" yesterday.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Matsgorda.
Mrs. Yelverton is in vicksburg.
Gen. Logan is to join the Methodist Church.
Does Sam Bard run the telegraph Office at At
anita!
Houston Ia taking up its street railway. Itdon't
pay.
The more 1t rains, the less 1t seems inclined to
dry up.
Our velocipedists are in digent training for
the forthcoming fair.
The picnic season win be inaugurated to NOR
row. May the skies smile.
Who is the luminous reporter Of the Associated
Press at Atlanta
Ex-navy agent Henderson is the principal owner
of the New York Evening Post.
There was rumor in town yesterday that the
Peruvian iron cIads had attacked the Moro.i
Great Britain has thirty million acres of uncul-
tivsted land.
Queen Victoria has spent nearly 81, 900, 900 in
commemoratiDg the prince consort.
twenty-five year old hen is still laying eggs in
Glasgow, KY.
society for the protection of sea birds has been
organized in England.
An elegant new Masonic Hall has just been
dedicated in Richmond.
The Sing Sing institution is not q musical
affair.
Mount Vernon is to be improved at the public
expense.
thief entered the house of Rev. Mr.. Lirield,
Of vicksburg, and stole suit Of that genteman's
clothes.
The Pic. has another interesting local romance
about q gentleman, an actress and o jealous
wife.
Humboldt was amazed at the liberality Of his
publishers, who are now charged with stingness
toward him.
George Ellis Circulating Library Is rapidly in
creasing in numbers and popularity. Quite Q
number Of new books have just been added to 1t.
Pierre Technic is much Disguised to find q man
who had deliberately swindled him out of about
$50, pulled in his favorite paper.
The Bulletin, Bee, Picsyune and Times are Of
opinion that Warmoth has no warrant in law for
his action in regard to the State auditor.
Mr.. bennett don't remember that the Banner
ever recommended the hanging of Governor
warmoth.
st. Charles street after dark, with all its gsmb.
ling bells in full blast, is very suggestive Of San
Francisco in flush times.
The Daily News Of London (England) publishes
an lode to the United States" Any reference
to fhe Alabama claims!
The applications for the consulship to Frankfort
reach eleven hundred, and for minister to Switzer-
and, fifty.
Ex-Postmaster General Randall has taken up
his residence in Elmira, New York.
Hamilton Fish IL said to have voted for Hoffman
for governor in 1866.
Lord Brougham's executor has refused to pay
for that nobemans teeth, and the dentist has gone
to law to get the price of them.
A Buenos Ayres letter states that 1t Ia reported
that Lopez has ceded Paraguay to the United
States.
The French government has refused to allow to
be printed Autograph representing Msximilian's
executoner.
II. l.. Dawes has declined the appointment Of
iustce of the Supreme Court OF Massachusetts,
rendered him by Governor Clafin.
An English fiunkey in Paris drives team Of
donkeys. and lately distinguished himself BY los
ing 81 900 at gambling in one night, and BY hiring
an entire rheater for himself and friends.
The bathing police of Dieppe, France. are in
ssructed not to seize drowning women by the hair,
as heretofore, since that sppendsge may be all
that they will thus rescue.
Some critic advises Q Broadway manager to
obewsre OF. rocks OF he will be wrecked" But
should he not also beware Of light housess-lNew
York Leader.
This stunningn sentence occurs in the latest
Galaxy concerning cows: "a good COW is likely
TO be wedeeshaped, of which the head is the
smaller end"
A Partisan journalist says; What between
snailesting, suicide, velocipedizing, Lent and
dueling, we are getting on a. wen - can be ex'
pected, for March,"
Geo. Ellis has the Round Table, Southern
Farmer, American Artisan. Illustrated Police
News. Illuminated Western World and New York
Clipper.
A 6sh lizard. two feet long, has been discovered
imbedded in quarry near the Central Park. 1t
has lungs, giIls and wings, and showed signs Of
life. The discovery creates considerable excite
ment among nsturalists.
A Georgia editor, indignant at the passage Of
the fifteenth amendment, can only say; Let
Congress ill its slop tub with denominations. the
Georgia Legislature can guzzle them without
blinking"
Statistics OF the recent English elections show
that the marquis of Harrington paid about seven
dollars piece for each vote he received. John
Bright got IN chesply. paying only about twenty
Eve cents for each Of his votes.
In the Goodman, Miss, burying ground. sur.
rounded BY an iron railing d grave, ct the head
of which il simple shaft Of white marble, bear
ius the following eccentric inscription: Here
lies Jack Shilcutt. an. old bschelor."
Two officers Of Tie Russian horss-guards vers
recently court msrtialed and sent - private sol
diers to the army Of the Csucasus. Their o0snse
was an outrage which they committed, while u