The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-12
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Dexter is said to like the gingle of sleigh-bels.
Senator Chandler was reelected on the 9th.
One of our camel visitors Is dead.
Toronto, Canada, claims So 900 inhabitants.
Florence Massachusetts, has female cobbler.
ST. Joe, Missouri, is to have bridge.
Bostonians have hot soda-water furore.
Maggie Mitchell is in Louisville.
Garibaldi is i'll.
Striped flannel for morning dresses is consid.
cred very distinqte in Paris.
The two vacant brigsdier generalships will pro-
| baby 90 over to the next administration.
There is project to have an Inauguration ball
in the capitol rotunda.
Banks wants Uncle Sam to exercise protecto.
rate over the turbulent West Indians.
The debt of Maine, not the main debt, is over
IS, OOO, 900.
The A. B. C. F. NJ. appropriated $4,000 for
the coming year.
Some gentlemen of Buffalo presented Bishop
Coke with check for $500 Christmas morning.
The late James Arnold, of New Bedford, be-
| queathed $4,000 to six clergymen.
There is a revival in the New Hampshire State
| prison.
Fourteen millions worth of ecclesiastical prop.
erty has been sold in Italy within year.
There were nearly 500 applications for divorce
in Chicago last year.
Stewart has been renominated for senator from
Nevada.
| A Republican senatorial caucus in the Maine
Legislature gave Hamlin IS votes and Morrill, "a.
The New Hampshire Republicans have nomina-
ted one Stearns for governor.
| Hyster Clymer declines mounting to the gov.
ernorship Of Pennsylvania.
I A ChicaOoan has invented n ona UhaaIad uaIo-
cipede.
Generals Babcock and Porter departed north
ward on Saturday.
The Denver board of trade indorses Sheridan's
| "Indian policy
| belle has arrived.
Adjourned meeting tonight of the friends of
the late Gen. Rousseau.
When does mans case lie in nutshell ? When
| he's colonel.-lPunc
The "bump OF destructiveness"- railway COL
| lison.-[Judy.
A church at Louisville has put up sign com.
msnding mo smoking"
| A 5000 veil figured at New York wedding the
other day.
GoldsborouRh, Maine, containing eighteen hun
dred inhabitants, las no house of public worship.
Ifmen will but smuse the world, it will freely
| forgive them for cheating it-[Ex.
When men are long Indifferent toward u.s. we
grow Indifferent TO their indifierence.-[Ex.
Prince Napoleon made visit to the chateau of
George Sand, to stand godfather for her grandson.
Black cherry blossoms were seen in st. Louis on
the 7th.
Some fellows never pay debt except when
they owe grudge.-[Ex.
Duce calls the late Bourbon dynasty ga plant
so poisonous that it purified the air we breathed.n
war is to be made on fac sinile stamps used
in the Thanking business.
The commissioners of Shelby county, Tenn,
have voted 100000 to the Mississippi River
Railroad.
On recent stormy day, in New York, Mr..
Bergh was seen in various places stopping cars
and omnibuses which had but single teams.
A codici has turned up to Rossini's will, which
gives all his property, after his wife's death, to
his native town.
Wales has had several interviews with Napoleon,
and rumors of victoria's intended sbdicatien are
revived.
The Desert News-the organ of Brigham
Young-encoursges the ''Sorosis'' with its best
wishes.
Seward was elected governor at the age of
thirty-seven, and Hoffman at the age of thirty
nine.
A moderately fashionable funeral in Chicago
mot by any means slap up one, however, costs
s547.
Geo. Ellis has the Artisan, Chimney Corner, Lit.
ersry Album, New World, (Leslie's new paper,)
and Leslie's Illustrated.
Bad for the local MISREPRESENTATION were
yesterday supplying the gap in the Lafayette
Square fence.
Rochefort estimates the income of the emperor,
empress and prince imperial at 5O,OOO.OOO francs
q year.
A New York paper says OF q famous singer.
that " she sings few airs and puts on a great
many"
mot guilty." said an Omaha jury, "but if the
prisoner is smart he will leave the territory before
night" He left.
Philadelphia critic, speaking of Mrs. Scott
siddons' beauty, says that sin personal pulchri-
tude she knocks Beau Ideal himself"
The Louisiana election, says the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer. is to be
set aside, the congressman sent back and the
electoral vote, like Georgia's, not counted.
The Second Baptist Church, of Newport, or
ganized in 1885, is the third Oldest Baptist church
in America. Six of its ministers have died in
Office aged so years and over.l
A Nashville mechanic is said to have invented
a shooting machine, which he calls the "Polyfer,D
which will destroy regiment of soldiers, distant
a mile and half, in four minutes.
five take cod-blooded creature to our bosom.
better that 1t should sting us at once and we
should de- rather than its chill should slowly steal
into cur hearts.-[Ex.
G. C. Haley. from his new and commodisus
quarters in Commercial Place, sends us the Liter
airy Album, New World, Nesie's new psper,)
Emerald, Irish People, Police News, Pilot, Artl-
san, Saturday Night and New York Ledger.
In q cave under the island at Rock Island, the
statue Of an Indian maiden. q copper pedestal,
seven foot high oDelisk of solid brass and other
Indian curiosties, we're found on the 9Th, says a
dispatch from veracious Chicago.
There was "scene" at the Houston Theater
few nights ago, not down on the bill. Belle
Boyd, who had taken the part of Miss Maud St.
Leon in quarrel with the manager, rushed before
the curtain declared she had been insulted and