The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-03

unalterably opposed 10 railroads is the peculis
burial system which prevails there. As there ar
no public cemeteries, the dead are interret
whereyerft Is most convenient. and owing to TIL
great antiquity Of the empire the territory has be
come one vast burial ground. II would be slmos
impossible 70 find q route for railroad ths
would not disturb some graves, and this the Chi
nese would by no means permit.
A little black horse named Prince, which will
be remembered by visitors to the White Noun
tains, died few days SINCE aged thirty.nins
years, and the funeral ceremonies occurred two
days after bis death. he was drawn TO his grave
by six white horses, and followed by forty Of his
stable companions, led by the grooms. He was
buried at the foot OF Mount Washington, and next
spring marble monument will mark his resting.
pisce.
An Employer OF Women" writes to the Chicago
Evening Post that 1t takes about fifteen good fe-
male type-setters to do the work Of twelve good
men. Five women, he says, require az
much overseeing as ten men. He cannot
get extra female help, he says, as he
can male help by sending to the nearest
drinking saloon. Lastly, he complains that he
cannot swear at the women. Female compositors,
be insists, cannot compete with men at the same
I prices. Therefore they should not bind them.
selves to typographical union terms.
| The Pawtucket Or. H. Gazettee and Chronicle
published the following advertisement last week
NoTICE.-Whereas, my wife, Sarah A. Sheldon,
| has left my bed and board without due cause or
pTovocaton, this is to give notice that shall pay
no debts contracted by her from this day.
LOWELL sHELDoS.
NoTIcE ExTRA.-Whereas, my husband, Lowell
Sheldon, has posted me without lust cause OF pro.
vocation, this is to give notice that he never had
any ped or board for me to leave and that could
not 1.-Two with man that would drink quart bottle
full OF richardson's btters, sweetened with pint
OF OpodLdoc, in five hours. All persons are eau.
toned against trusting said Lowell Sheldon. as
shall pay no bills OF his contracting after this date
SARAH A. SHBLDOS.
The editor ofthe New York Commercial Adyer.
tiser. who saw John C. Breckenridge during his
brief tarry in that city, last week, says: ave
could not but remark the alterations which time
and exile had made in his personal aPPearauuu.
He does not look like the same man who years
ago presided with sc much grace and dignity in
tae Senate Of the United States. Thoroughly
jaded and careworn expression is upon his face.
and the once glossy black hair is thicky strewn
with gray. The urbsnity, gentlemanly breeding
and courteous air which made him shining figure
In the gay ranks of Washington society before the
war are still apparent, however"
In Arkansas Elder Knapp, while baptzing con-
verts at revival meeting. advanced with a wry,
shsrp-eyed old chap into the water. He asked
the usual question, whether there was any reason
why the ordinance of baptism should not be ad.
ministered. After pause, a tall, pc werful look.
Ing chap, with an eye like blaze, .who was lean.
ing on long rife and quietly looking on remark
ed; Elder, don't want to interfere in this yer
business any, but want to say that is an old sin.
ner you have got hold of, and if you want to get
the sin out of him, you'll have to anchor him out
in deep water over night"
sd. P" tells the following Tom Marshall.
the story runs, had some difficulty about the rul.
ing Of the judge. He said it was the most extra.
ordinary ruling since the days of Pontus PLATE.
The judge fined Tom SO for contempt The |
queer, eccentric lawyer rose solemnly, and said |
that it was the first time he had ever heard it con-
sidered contempt to speak Unexpectedly Of
Pontius PLATE "But, come, Bob" he continued
to the judge, you won all my money at poker
last night, lend me the ten." "Remit the fine Mr.
Clerk" replied the judge; "the State of Ken.
lucky can better afford TO lose ten dollars than l."
Dom Piatt illustrates protection" ss follows:
81 go, like an ass, into the sx-handle business
ind that IT won't pay. Ax-handes can be bought
cheaper in Canada than / can make them 80
hasten up to Congress and state my grievance. 1t
is great interest," says the sepulchral Kelley, and
must be protected. 1t is great interest echoes
Moorehead, Wilson, Sherman, Wade & Co. It
great interest, shrieks the Tribune, and forthwith
q law is passed forcing every man purchasing an
X handle to pay me fifty cents instead of twenty.
i've. This TO- called a protection to American In
iustry. That is, it protects my industry ct the
expense OF the poor vood.chopper. But then he
lad no business to be woodchopper. Why
lon't he make ax-handes? Serves him right.n
An English msgazine-Mc Millan's for Febru.
'ry-a temperate authority, mysteriousy says
The afectation Of school-boy slang, which was
q vogue ten years ago, is fast beins superseded
among lsdies) by conversation Of far more
dangerous type, and she who would learn the |
equation for being fsshonably fast must
tile every feeling Of delicacy, and smuse herself
y making good men blush while bad men laugh.
worse still, horried stories creep about limiting at
eeds worse than words, and scandal which no
ne seems able to contradict caps every story
nth worse.r
The critic Of Wilkes's Spirit touches upon the
oral lunacy which now afacts many of our thea.
srs, particularly those temples devoted to bur.
'sque, in which decorum and deoency on the
tage have been 50. trampled under that there is
longer any respect in the theater for the occu-
ants OF the stage: a party of horticultural q
mates invaded Niblo's Garden last Thursday Il
Vening and made themselves and the ladies en-.
aged in the performance ridiculous by deposit. 3
q at intervals upon the stage vast floral struc. a
res, too huge for beauty, and too cumbersome =,
be lifted and taken away without difficulty and !.
Tk~ardness. One Of these, thrust upon Miss Il
eber, was not less than six feet high, and its 81
'st was precisely 800. The pecuniary sufferers II
e said to be an association of green young shop. .
en-, who club together and contribute By shares 81
sums necessary for these fantastic demonstra- tr
ms, which are becoming intolerable to the N
bno.D "
A funny incident occurred many years ago in an
building used temporarily for the New York
ibune Office just after that paper was burned
t. The house was tumble-down concern, aud
E ragged floors were sieved with huge knot -
les. Among the compositors was one young
low who chewed half paper of tobacco at on.
ne. and whOpa ;,f-.