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

+. Is. WashDurne is SICK from naro Worh.
Isabella is sending emissaries to Spain.
Grant was literally beseged on the 18th ult.
Our peach trees are blooming.
Compressed coal is the latest novelty 10 fuel.
The jury box ia Lynn, Mass, was made in l736.
Washington, D. c.. has sixty nine churches.
Boston owes sis, 92s, 500 IS.
The upper Missouri Indars are starving.
They have II feet snow 10 st. Petersburg.
Liverpool owes $40. OO0, 600.
joe Jefferson is in Cincinnati.
Lewis Baker, comedian, is in town.
Nevada Nye is looking toward Copstsntinople.
The New Zealand rebels have had threshing.
Pollsrd's successor spells public without "k."
The prince imperial veloclpedes about Paris.
Mobile has negro Dogberry.
Reverdy is to dine with the Glasgow authorities.
BurliDgame and suite have been received by
Prince Napoleon.
Latest from Kentucky-No fat hogs 10 Mason
couuty.-(Pic.
Geo. Ellis has the Southern Farmer for Feb
ruary.
A new department for Indian affairs has been
agreed upon in committee.
Drake opposes Gen. Morgan Smith for the Mis-
souri, msrshslship.
A two weeks trace in Wisconsin ended in
death.
Burglars are operating on farmers houles in
Illinois.
Great rush for Kellogg tickets in Chicago on the
18th ult.
A Rochester canary is accused OF singing Cyan
kee Doodle"
Major Ben Hutcbins in 'orms that he bas pnr-
chased plantation on the reche.
1t rained SO yesterday the waterspout dolphins
fosmed at the mouth.
New York cannot get velocipeies enough. It
has nearly 5000 learners.
The La Crosse DemOcrat's pepper has gone in
to its New York nsmesake.
Buffalo steaks sell 10 Chicago at twenty-five
cents pound.
MenaTd still complains Of the Radical cold
shoulder.
"Fastsf."
Few papers tempt the editorial scissors so per.
sis:ently as the Cincinnati Commercial.
The Blister, the new London comic Journal is
to be managed by seceders from Punch.
Gottschalk made q success and money by a
festival Of $50 musicians at Montevideo.
Bonner is said to be negotiating for the pnr-
chase of the Herald.
Over 5000 were taken for kellogg tickets in
Chicsgo on the 2Sth ult.
A man in Greensboro, Vermont, nearly broke
his wife's neck, recently, by playfully shaking her.
The Kansas Branch Pacific Railroad bill is still
kicking.
Boucicault has gone TO reside at Passy, near
Paris.
Mr.. Ticknor, the EXPLOSION publisher, intends
locating in Paris.
Massachusetts, last year manufactured 500 OOO,.
600 worth of boots and shoes.
New Workers annually smoke OO,O00,OOO
cigars.
BufTslonisn whips his wife for fidelity to her
marriage vows. 1t is impossible to please some
people.
1t is said if hers are kept from their roosts and
made to hudde together they will lay eggs all
winter.
In Minnesota they have "torchlieht sleigh
rides" made brilliant by transpsrencies and en-
livened by music.
At the first ball of the season at the Tuileries
Madame slidell. says the Patrie, almost eclipsed
her charming daughter and Madame Erlanger.
The Avalanche claims that the Ncolson pave
ment in Memphis has in two years reduced the
number drays in that city from 1900 to 600.
never was rain more supererogatory than that of
yesterday.
Pluvius didn't stop yesterday to mould his liba-
tons into the customary globules, but sent them
down in sheets.
We regret to learn that our friend Col. ]. t.
Tucker, was yesterday confined to his house by
illness.
Florence, the comedian, has become partner
in New York copper house, and will soon quit
the stage.
There is young gentleman, in the employ of
the milliners, who does nothing but walk up aud
down Broadway taking notes of the ladies' dresses.
Weston, en- route from Bangor to st. Paul, ar
rived at Concord, N. H., on the 25th ult., day
behind his calculations.
The Bulletin advises the. Legislature to purchase
q printing establishment and thereby save fifty
per cent to the State in its printing.
Dahlgren swears that Rodman's guns are worth.
less, Rodman swears that Dahgren's guns are
worthless. and there is no one to swear that they
are not gentlemen of veracity.
The Sugar Planter Of Saturday SAYS the latest
news from the Grand Levee lie cheering in the ex.
treme. The effect of Mondays food of rain is vet
to be reported.
Our Northern and Western visitors may object
to the continued moistness of the climate but they
cannot charge New Orleans with being a dry
place.
DR.. Peasley says that business men should by no
means 60 without their lunch in the middle of the
day. DR.. W lizard Parker takes just the opposite
ground. Which shall we believe?
The Richmond ) low-pressure boat, and there.
fore will never blow up, but we want it distinctly
understood that the Head Light" ia high-pres-
sure, and will &c blow up" anybody on the slight.
est provocstion.-l Richmond Head Light.
The Washington Star says Mrs. Cady Stanton is /
a fine, gentlemanly-looking parsonage. with CON-
Portable double chin and white curly. hair, remind
ing one not little of the late Senator Pearce of
Maryland.
Mrs. Button, Of Chicago, wants q woman for
president in 1872. Mrs. Buffsm has issued another
singular manifesto. She advises all women to
become vegetarians, and abstain from all contact
with men.
Chicago is full Of miscellaneous theatricaI cele
brities, including Blind Tom. Adelaide Phillips,
lac