The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-27
EDITOssA& PARAGKAPHs. GTC.

Mane Blsine is pretty sure to be speaker.
The New York police sre Selling sWiil milk.
John Bright il against capital punishment.
George ". BsZin is a Boston printer who mas
worked sixty years at the case and is still at it.
Among the names to a petition for the pardon
of Capt. Braine is that OF Gen. Fremont.
Gen. Reynolds opposes the project of dividing
Texas.
The Chicago women's rights women are to have
On organ called The Agitator.
Brick Pomeroy will vibrate between bis La
Crosse and New York Democrats.
Heron, Shelley, Geo. q. Sheridan and others,
have gone 10 Washington.
The edict is announced in Paris that fashion has
determined to abolish the chignoD.
Tennyson was recently presented a golden
wreath in Paris.
The theatrical "Glrl Of the PeriOd"-"Dos."-
. tJudY.
Tie president has accepted the hospitality of
Baltimore.
George Ellis has Hsrper's Weekly an MOors's
Rural New Yorker.
Real estate sales in New York on the 23d
81 SEQ goo.
Some Of Grants prominent friends" propose
to do him and his horse in brass.
There is report from Spain that eeaeral De
Roda is to succeed General Dulce as captain. gen
eral Of Cuba.
The National lntelligencer says: The life of
Mrs. surrait was forfeited through the interVen.
ton Of spies upon the president
Tie New Englanders when they want 70 de.
scribe an i'll tempered beauty, say, "she is good
looking, but ugly."
President johnson has been invited to deliver
the annual Grafton at tho next commencement of
Davidson College, North Carolina.
While cooIed preacher was baptizing a con-
vert at Augusta, Geo, the other day, one of the
"deacons " stole bis boots.
Haley has the Boston Statesman, Home Circle,
Emerald, Pomeroy's Democrat, New York Ledger
and Chimney Corner.
Ger. Grant is reported to have remarked that no
one wanted the tenure Of Office bill retained ex-
eept the thieves and sc9undres and their friends.
a Washington special of the 26th TO lie Plea.
yune says: The president today ordered the res.
tora'ion to Gen. Lee Of personal effects captured
in 1851.
The Belgian papers say that the health of the
French prince imperial is faIting, and that Louis
Napoleon now despsirs OF making him his sue.
cessor.
Hon. John N. Washington died in NeWbern, N
c., recently. lie was a graduate of Yale College
in the class oils4l. His father was grandson of
Lewis, uncle of George Washington.
An English girl has obtained e5 damages from a
sweetheart who, while counting her, squeezed Der
hand so hard az to break finger. After marriage
be might have broken her head with immunity.
The Boston Post says there will be one adyan.
tage in the organization Of the next Congress,
namely: The presiding officer of the Senate will
be capable Of dIschargins his duties.'
Miss Kellogg gave the fashionable ladies' OF
Chicago a reception, the other day, and received
her guests seated. Probably, remarks an ex-
change, her Grecian bend was so bad that she was
unable to stand.
0ls Bull gave q concert in New York, at Stein.
way Hall, for the benefit of his fslIew.suferers by
the late disaster on the Ohio river. The audience
was small, and the receipts probably less than
expenses.
The London Telegraph calls the exhibition Of
the Siamese twins cOld-blooded contempt OF
ell that ~ reverent, all that is ptful, s that is
ordinarily human" and wants the authorities to
forbid il.
Tie vealihiest man ia America is said to be
young Stevens, son Of the late Edwin A. Stevens,