The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-10

Mark Lemon Is 60.
Tostee has recovered.
Nrs. Scott Siddons is playing in Washington
Virginia Hunnicutt is stumping for Congress.
Father Ryan is giving readings in Cincinnati.
Janauschek lie in Cincinnati.
Rev. Asbury Davidson, @ prominent Methodist
divine of Texas, is dead.
Charles Reade is building q new theater in
London.
strakosch is trying to purchase Rossini's last
mass.
Victor Hugois new novel will show up Queen
Annals reign.
Berger was only rs years old when he defended
Marshal Ney.
The late Sir Richard Msyne was chief of the
London police for forty years.
Gushing is expected back from Bogota by
Feb. /.
A flock Of New York politicians invaded Phila-
delphia to wish Grant happy New Year.
ain the nose it tickles me-" is Theresa's new
song, and 1t tickles Paris.
Mrs. Gladstone appears in Galveston tomorrow
night.
Zach Chandler is nominated for reelection from
Michigan.
Calcutta exported sS5, 900, 900 worth of opium
within year.
Sweetser has started four papers in New York
In five years.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Louise
and Matsgords.
Mayor Hall, of New York, has ordered that no
body address him as :" His Honor
The president is said to have weakness for
white cotton gloves.
There is an alarming increase in London pau
periEm.
Rev. Olympia Brown is about To take hus.
band.
Massachusetts has actually tried and convicted
prize fighter.
Gen. Ethan Aliens house at Bennington was
burned recently.
The WeDham Lake water was let into Salem,
Massachusetts,, on Christmas Day.
Rosa BOnheur is painting canine group for the
czar.
"What Answer?r (Annie Dickinson). 4" 90 900
sold." Of. Osgood Co., pubishers.)
Queen Victoria passed the l4th of December,
the anniversary Of Prince Albert's death, IN
weeping over his tomb in the royal mausoIeum.
Maine man has sued the husband of his
daughter for tea, cake aud candies consumed dur.
ing the courtship.
A new book has appeared in England, which is
dedicated to boys from eight years old to
eighty"
The receipts at the Paris Grand Opera, when
Patti sings, are about 1900 francs; on other
nights, about 5000.
A Kenebanker, Maine, was slightly wounded by
shot from revolver passing through his pillow
while he was asleep.
DR.. Kirkland, of the Pennsylvania asylum for the
insane, mentions dyspepsia as among the causes
of insanity.
Judge Evans told his fellow members OF the
Texas convention that If they did not divide the
State, Congress ought to make them do SO.
Gen. Candy has been waited on by several Texas
magnates, but the general reserved expression of
his views Of the situation.
At The ball of the "Hon. John Morrissey coto.
rie," Mrs. Morrissey appeared in pink silk
trimmed with black lace, panier and trail, with
very costly diamonds.
Employment so certainly produces cheer full
ness" says Bishop hall, f" that have known a
man TO come home in high spirits from funeral
because he had the management of it,"
Msyne Reid says Halleck is the greatest poet
America ever produced. and that his d" Marco
Bozzaris" is unequaled by anything in the English
language. Mayne also thinks this is the greatest
country out of-doors
Marriage" says MicheIet, sis the chief end of
woman" If such be the case, she can attain it
in no quicker way than by presenting a robust
physique, overlooking with animal life aud spirits,
in contrast to weak, puny constitution, bending
before every adverse wind.
Queen Olga, of Greece, walks the streets of
Athens with her baby In her arms, stops and
talks with all the mothers she meets, and praises
their babies as prettier than hers. She acts very
much like an American candidate for Office, seek
ing the good will Of his constituents.
The editor of the Houston Times has received
from some unknown friend the gift of bundle Of
highly wrought infsntile clothing, which, says the
editor by way of acknowledgment, "are wrap.
ping in close embrace the body of squalling
little brat christened and surnamed Pendleton
Kinney
The correspondent of the World asserts that
even Blair, while in Washington, recently, in.
formed his friends that he had come out of the
war o bankrupt, and even now his business was
gore, and he was solely dependent upon com.
missonership of the Pacific railroad for subsis-
tence.
Dom Piatt, Of the Cincinnati Commercial, made
calls in Washington on the LIST. At the elegant
mansion of our Senator Sherman, says Dom P,
was shocked to hear myself proclaimed as a
Damned Pirate" And the graceful inmates did
not laugh, probably, because they thought it no
bad synonym.
Next TO the police, says Washington CORES.
pondent. the hackmen here are the best organized
rufians and law breakers in the country. If you
speak TO one, he will insult you if you engage
him, he viii cheat you; if you complain. he will
whip you. And for insult, swindle and thrashing
there is no remedy.
The New York World, after showing up many of
the enormities of Gotham, has dispatched its
commissioner" to Massachusetts,, who reports
that commonwealth on the highway to the dem
milton bow-wows.m He finds " startling exhibit
of pauperism, crime, disease, insanity and general
debauchery, terrible mortality in the alms-houses.
fouIdngs, illegitmate births, infanticide, want.
wickedness, immortality and slavery"
Boston las programme for grand musical
festival, TO take place in June next, to commend
rate the restoration of peace and union. 1t prom
ices an orchestra of one thousand performers, and
multitude of vocalists, including the children of
the nublic echools The festival will last three