The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-26
rpIToRIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

A New York belle received an $50 bouquet.
wasbbsrne is improving in health.
Silver dust for the hair is In vogue.
Geo. Sherman arrived IN st. Louis on the 23d.
Richmond is enjoying the can can.
Rev. Thomas Rand. of Calcasieu parish, is dead.
TIE Hanlons are in Richmond.
John Jacob Astor was in Richmond recently.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamers Mary and
Josephine.
Gallagher whipped Allen, near st. Louis, on the
Esd, In three minutes.
The New York Herald calls Fisk " the intellec.
tual porpoise of the Erie Railroad
Francis Pulszky, formerly Kossuth's private
secretary, attends court balls in Vienna.
The Freeman's Journal calls the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher's church Theology Boufe."
Paris journals credit Bnrlingame with speaking
French with purity.
Park Goodwin gave soiree recently, in Paris, at
which Nilsson sang.
Emile de Girardin says that France is being left
behind by England and Prussia.
Mrs. George Francis Train ia building pala-
tialresidence" in Newport, Rhode Island.
"stop your paIpitating heart with IS Tonic"
is somewhat startling advertisement.
"Old Pluto" is Brownlow's pet name in Men,
phis.
Senator Conness will soon marry beautiful
young girl.
Gen. A. NJ. West is mentioned as the next gov.
ernor of Mississippi.
Washington special to the Republican says
Rev. J. P. Newman will doubtless be the next
chaplain of The Senate.
1t takes ten Thousand persons TO wait on the Sun
day patrons of the two thousand drinking saloons
in Chicago.
Why is il that hogs are allowed to run, rip,
squeal and stink all over our beautiful town.
plymouth (lndiaha) Republican.
The brother of the Tycoon who came to Paris
to be educated has completed his education. He
absconded and left bis debts.
William W. Clapp, one of the editors of the
Boston Journal, has purchased the paper of its
invalid proprietor, Col. Rogers.
The remnant of the Maine colony at Jafa have
begun to ntermarry with the Levantine population,
and VIII soon disappear as a distinct people.
Kate Fishers flying steed, which snorted so
fercely in Mazepps, is now hack.horse in Pitts
burg.
The air of "Walking down Broadway" was
originally written ten years ago by Rabbi Sulzer,
of Vienna, for the use of his congregation.
Carlotta Patti has made 800 600 francs by her
professional travels in Europe, and Ullmann, her
manager, 500. 900 francs.
Two young English bloods, on q lark, cut and
otherwise defsced the fixtures OF railway car.
risge they occupied, and had to go to prison for
FIVE years for malicious destruction of property.
The Paris Gaulois is under cloud, being pro-
hibited from sale in the streets, because it insinu
ated that the prince imperial was not partcu-
larly bright scholar.
When Earl Mayo was received at Madras, the
streets were decorated with evergreen trees, as
local paper says, "both to afford an expression
of welcome to Earl Mayo, and to hide the filthy
ditches.n
At the funeral Of James T. Brady, just before
the body was removed from the house, Gen. Dan
lei e. sickies entered the room, and as he looked
upon the face of bis dead friend, burst into tears
and repeatedly kissed him.
Samuel E. Brown, well known popular co.
median, died last week in Boston, at the Msssa
chusetts General Hospital, from consumption,
which bad been slowly killing him for some years.
Every theater goer knew and liked Sammy, and
yet he died alone in hospital.
Bombino, as the Italians call King Bomba's
son, x-King Francis the second of Naples,
although young man yet, looks as wrinkled and
old as if he were over fifty. Smoking strong
cigars nearly all day long and gambling at high
stakes are said TO be the causes.
The Tribune believes in General Grant all over,
il believes in him so hard that it has forgotten all
it ever said against him it believes In him in such
fierce manner that it viii scarcely suffer any
one else to believe in him. But it will not hear
OF the repeal of the tenure. ofofhce act New
York Evening Post.
Alta recent representation at the Italiens, in
Paris lady, sitting alone in one Of the most con-
spicuous boxes, was so excessively decoHete that
she was requested by the manager to throw her
opera cloak over her shoulders. She Indignantly
left the theater.
The Ironton Register remarks "The poor,
old, dilapidated piece of flesh and bones, who
hangs hinaaslf every week in the Jackson
Standard. and who. by common consent. was
considered the jscksss of the Editorial Union,
has ratified his old skeleton at u.s."
Mr.. Breckinridge maintains a strict silence in
regard TO political sfiars, and declares that he
never again will mingle in politics. To use his
own words: " ceased to argue the matter when
The struggle took the sterner shape, and now the
battle is fought and lost, | cannot see what in
fuence can have in public affairs. .n-[New York
Tribune. February 20.
Governor McClurg, Of Missouri, has pardoned,
at one stroke, thirtyfour convicts in the peniten-
tiary, and published a card explaining" the mo
tives for this exercise of clemency. He concludes
with this cheering assurance: 81 have as yet
pardoned no other, and expect to be slow on
pardons."
A Cleveland wife conspired with cigar maker
to cure her husband of smoking. First, they put
| shreds of India-rubber in his cigars. He puaed
| them with his usual serenity. Then they tried
filing Of gunpowder They succeeded in ar
resting his attention. for his head was all but
blown Of. He intends to make the conspirators
"smoke."
Hundreds end thousands Of men, says Charles
Reade, take q share in the country's public mo-
rality, legislate, build churches and live and die
respectable, who would be jail birds sooner OF
later if their sole income was the pay of q bank
ers clerk, and their eyes and hands and souls
rubbed daily against hundred.pound notes as
| his do.
Lon John Wentworth, of Chicago, has written
history of the Wentworth family, which win be
printed in elegant style, in two volumes, at a cost
of about $4,000. 1t commences with Reginald
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