The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-30
Ghs Hin Orleans Qrest,ul.
TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 80. 1893.


Virginia has GAO, 900 acres Of oyster beds.
Two New York editors are opium eaters.
Hector Berlioz, the French composer, 10 dead.
wsshburne is reposing in Gslsna.
Gen. Gillem arrived in Galveston on the 26th.
The newly nominated president of Harvard
College is only thirty-six.
sckles has been ordered before the retiring
board.
The Plsquemines planters have put in good
many Irish potatoes.
The Empire Parish says Plaquemines viii this
year raise larger crop of rice than ever before.
Stanton is 90 feeble as to be unable to leave his
rom.
Lee Hudson is about to do Mazeppa In vicks-
burg.
white kid gloves, double.stitched with black.
are worn at receptions and the opera.
Cornelius O'Dowd il Charles Lever in dis
guise.
During the last twenty years Lsmartine spent
200 900 francs in charity.
The old bell.t top hat, lit is said, will soon be In
vogue again.
Mrs. U. s. Grant has been visiting Bishop Simp.
son in Philadelphia.
A lady resident of Ames, Iowa, repented Of her
sins in her one hundred and nrst year, during
recent revival.
A woman in Americus, Georgia, has married
two brothers and il now betrothed to the
third.
The Council Bluffs Bugle says that within
year that city will be the terminus OF eight rail-
roads. sa 1as- l-n1
"Col. Greene of the Boston Post" has slung
ink for that paper thirty-four years. What do
you think Of that?
The pope has invited the sovereigns to send &C..
clesiastcs to represent them In the general coun'
Gil Of the church at Rome.
Ten female physicians were graduatedi in New
York on Tuesday.
The New Orleans Tribune condemns the action
of Governor warmoth In the matter Of the State
auditor.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Mary,
Louise and Josephine, and to Mr.. W. NJ. Evans.
for fsvors.
Geo. Ellis has Harper's Weekly, Moore's Ru-
raj Cultivstor, Round Table, American Agricul-
turist and Phunny Fellow.
We are indebted to our friend Mr.. W. N. Con.
ner. who returned to the city yesterday, for late
Louisville and Memphis papers.
The upper East Tennessee people propose to
get up great uceunS, onu no'o 6Aees sfseSA
BY ex President johnson.
What is the difference between duck with one
| wing and duck with two? 1t is merely differ
| ence Of G-pinion. Elk.
Tennyson has again declined an invitation to
| come and be q member Of those Rollicking
| Rams" the English House Of Lords.
| We witnessed an interesting combat few days
| ago between mastiff and COW. which termina-
ted strange to say. by the dog retiring cowardly,
| the COW pursuing doggedly.-GN. Y. Mail.
One Jouvin writes that Nilsson Is twenty.four
and has dreamy smiles which shed floods Of ligh
| over her countenance, which is highly satisfac
tory description.
| II il contended that our iron.clads are healthy
vessels. That may be, but there have been som'
/ very sudden deaths on beard OF them.-lClncin
| matt Commercial.
A s25O,OO0 mansion, modelled after noted Euro
pean castle, is being built by Mr.. Cunningham, a
| Irvington, New York. The cellar is hewn out o
the solid rock and the partitions in the building
| are all of stone.
The Council Bluffs telegrspher came within
4 nineteen of the truth. when he flashed the a-rivs
| there of twenty wives of Brigham Young. 'Twa
| only the fair Amelia, the prophets fayorite. ant
his latest save three.-lCincinnsh Commercial.
1t is claimed by the friends of Gen. Brown, frs
assistant paymaster general Of the army, that tn
revocation, by Gen. Grant. of ex-President John
sons retirement of Psymaster General Brice
also illegal.
| In late conversation ex-President johnson re
marked: There are two very bad classes Q
men in the country" and continued, ''and they ar
what might be called rebel Unionists and Yanke
rebels"
The death of ex.Mayor James Harper. Of Ne'
York, is announced by telegraph. On the Goth
was thrown from his carriage, and his deaf
ia probably due to injuries then received. Il
belonged to the firm of Harper Brothers.
Colonel John G. Presley, Colonel Jas. Pres
lev and Captain Dwight Barr, with their respet
tive families, numbering altogether company {
eighteen, have left South Carolina to reside
California.
The Republican complains that the colore
lieutenant governor was lately obliged to trave
over the jackson railroad In q second-class ca
Senator Lynch was so indignant about 1t that
returned his own free pass over the road to Gel
Besuregard.
Bishop Wilmer, in his chat with Sunday Soho
children of Trinity Church yesterday evenio
| said that in one of the country parishes which
visited recently, he asked bright-looking lit
girl if che had ever been baptized; whereupon 81
| Looked ut quickly and replied: No, SIR, but IL
been d."-[ Picayune, 10Th.
We are indebted to Mr.. John Parsons for ne
pamphlet comprising the proceedings of the "Mo
worshipful Eureka Grand Lodge of the State
Louisiana" from its organization, Jan. 5, 1868,
Jan. IL, 1869, together with the constitution al
bylaws, compiled by Mr.. Parson, Grand Maste
Samuel Thompson, Of Boston, has a gran
daughter who was endeavoring one evening
entertain two Simultaneous lovers, when they II
into dispute, and Samuel, issuing from his be
first nutila,ed them with an old saber, and tn
| had them fined for assaulting him.
The daughter in.law Of Parker, Of Psrker's
tel, in Boston, was not married to the secreta
of BurIipgsme's trained troupe In Paris, after a
the account of the wedding by cable TO the &C
trsry notwithstanding. De Champs was too gree
about the dowry for human endurance.
Morton and Fessenden had round in the Sc
ate on the 26th, and rubbed pretty hard. Mort
said something about Fessenden proposing to
that which would be nonsense. Fessenden
n q