The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-05
FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY s. 1859.
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81 Petersburg has q Sorosis.
Omahs is now the capital Of Nebraska.
bTywnlows militia respond slowly.
"A single flea bachelor.--N. Y. Citizen.
An average wedding in Chicago costs 900.
The patent Office made $4,000 last year.
Alaska had tweniy-sx snow storms last year.
Laboulsye is not coming to America.
There is a row between the Chicago Sorosises.
Dix has received the Buringsme embassy.
Tom B. Florence still lives and Brigham Young
is hearty.
The Princess Mathilde gives reception this
week to the Chinese embassy.
II is denied that Dix protested honors paid to
Mr.. Davis in France.
Christine Nilsson has been engaged for a season
OF Italian opera in New York next fall.
Miss Leo Hudson is doing Mazeppa" in Men,
phis.
A number Of wealthy Cubans are in town with
q view of investing in Louisiana sugar lands.
Gen. Sherman is expected to arrive to-day by
the steamer Continental
The Memphis Avalanche thinks unreconstructed
Mississippi the hsppiest State in the South.
A Milwaukee velocipedist wagers $1,000 that he
can make forty miles an hour.
Disgusting meanness- TO tan dogs hide with his
own bsrk.-IJudy.
The Pope Noble Cadets, of Gretna, are to trip
the light fantastic.
Mrs. Stanton wishes Sumner to write her an
able article " on " The Sphere of Man."
The N. Y. World is now after the coal sdul-
terators.
Kentucky as well as Delaware, retains the whip
ping post.
The Bellows Falls National Bank, in Vermont
has a president "a years old.
Gratis letter sirangling the Inauguration ball
is called his first veto message.
The poorest farmer in the land, IL unable 10 feed
his calves, can always Craze his shins.-tEx.
writer in Once Week thinks John Brown
was negro.
Wendell Philips still wants Andrew johnson
impeaobed.
The youngest daughter of Governor Chatlin, of
Massachusetts, died at Rome few dsys ago.
There was a msn at late meeting of the New
York sorosis.
The weather has been unusually cold for two
days. Fires and overcoats have been in steady
demand.
John vsllsndiughsm, formerly publisher Of
journal in Madison parish, died ia yicksburg on
Monday.
The New York Times, in reckless moment,
calls Mrs. Swisshelm ga Dragon of the Hes.
perides."
Underneath each chair IN the new San Fran.
cisco theater is square hat box, in which the
chspeau is safe from injury.
Theatrcal-Professor Blot is organizing CON-
psDy in this city for the manufacture of soups
IN. Y. Democrat.
Rev. Mrs. p. A. Hansford has become the
shepherdess of an Universast flock in Port.
land.
The best OF Us being unit to die, what an mex.
pressible absuTdity to put the worst to death
Hawthorne.
&C. wasbburne, of Wisconsin. is to be Grants
secretary of the interior, says Washington spe.
cisl to the Mobile Register.
It has been discovered that 50 900, 900 of church
funds have been loaned for speculative purposes
in Wall street, and that several churches are
mortgsged for the same purpose.
Ii begins TO look as though the everlasting grab
for lands bonds securities, ETC., to build railroads
across the continent, would be choked of by Con-
gress.
Yes, love a Jew.-Would like to see the Jew
ess who was IN the Sixth avenue car at the oyster
house 10 Spring street, near Hudson.-[ Herald
Personal.
The Baton Rouge Advocate makes highly CON-
plimentary mention of DR.. o. Kratz, who has re-
Gently left Baton Rouge for a wider field of prac
tice in this city, where he formerly exercised his
profession with distinguished ability.
cannot doubt that If A. T. Stewart should
advertise for clerks at one hundred dollars per
snnum and board, he would have five thousand
applicants before the weeks end. And SO of
copying and music teacbing.-lG reeley.
Miss Katie Putnam disports on the bicycular
velocipede at the Davenport Qowa) theater.
During the performanca Kate wears h;cvorla-
| garment "she makes the machine zip,n is the
/; comment of the local papers.
If Mr.. Booth wished 10 get FIVE hundred young
men and women to play gratis in bis theater, he
+, would not have TO 60 out Of New York for them.
The girls especially would ask nothing better
than to hear +" melancholy Dsne.n-[New York
Letter.
jefferson City (Mo.) dispatch says bill will
be introduced, coming from the committee of the