The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-04

The latest thing In dress--Night dresses.-IExl
% Richmond Is enjoying religious awakening.
The latest ia q "yelocipede quadrile."
Anew Haven barber brushes hair by steam.
Mulberries are ripe at Tampa, Fla. Iar r. I
Gen. Lee is writing history of the war.
Wolf scslps cost Ontario $3.50 last year.
Farragut has the rheumatism.
Busteed's case hangs fire. f
John Bright advocates ocean penny postage.
Banks is likely to be a candidate for the speak.
ersbip. a-0 aI
We have Mayne Reds brilliant Magazine for
March, 1f lfsL.a -I
Rhode Island cannot witness the Elimination Of
her clans with calmness. -t eF
An exchange wants to know if a darby can
have q white swelling. 3rat
Mr.. Sweetser's newspaper, The City," was
sold out at auction. rar.a r.ls8.
Gen. R. F. Hoke, formerly of North Carolina,
has settled in Lynchburg.
The Turf, Field and Farm acknowledges the
gift of a six-pound spotted trout.
The shortness of life is very often owing to the
irregularity of the lver.-IEx.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamers Matagorda
and Frolc. --....... 4
Mr.. John e. Owens sailed for San Francisco on
the 10th. O.
The Spanish forces in arms on the island Of
Cuba are said TO number 70. 900 men.
Kioyte Bskin has written LOG Japanese novels.
il has taken him SO years.
A comet superior in size and lustre to Encke's,
| is nightly expected.
1t is feared that Madame Rossini will not long
| survive her husband.
Csr.driyers will persist in hating on the cross
| ipgs, to the annoyance of pedestrians.
Prudent housekeepers should lay in a stock of
sugars. ~
Yates is not writing "Rec elections of a Booty
Life."
The London Spectator thinks that the United
States has " that greatest of evils-an arstocracy
of jobbing politicians"
1t is said the most magnificent religious edifce
| and the largest club house in New York belong to
| the Hebrews.
The mischievous Richmond boys are seized with
mania for chaking buildings and fences with OBJ
scene and blssphemous inscriptions.
Two Shetland ponies belonging to President
Johnson passed through Lynchburg, recently, en-
route for Tennessee.
The Avalanche says Memphis il destined to be-
come the commercial center of the great South.
west.
Governor Wise has two sons now living in
Richmond, Va-one a physician, the other a
lawyer.
contemporary thinks "pretty girls are great
blessings, but they cause a great deal of folly
among the sterner sex"
Second hand clothing is said to sell well in
Alaska, the natives are very fond of the Yankee
notion of wearing coat tails.
The Richmond Enquirer says it is q safe rule, if
you don't remember snybodys name 10 Richmond,
to cell him Colonel"
New York paper mentions q railway conduc-
tor who keeps two wives, one there and one in
Boston.
Sister Of Mercy has sued the superiOrs Of
convent in Hull, England, for persecution and
libel, and places her damages at $4,000.
The Chinese are said to be great for secret so.
cieties, some of which exercise almost despotic
control over their members.
In the recent trial in New York of the Round
Table-Reade libel suit, Vandenhof read the story
of Grifnth Gaunt" aloud to the court and jury.
Toe performance was not thrilling.
A very cold snap has nipped vegetation in
Southern Italy, and tie novel spectacle is pre-.
scented Of orange trees laden with ripe fruit and
the ground covered with snow.
Harpers Bazaar thinks it economy to purchase
refined sugars in preference to the raw. The for.
mer do not contain moisture and foreign sub
stances like the latter.
Geo. Ellis has the American Agrculturist, "a
magnificent work., Hsrper's Bazaar, Yankee No.
tons, PhunDy Fellow, Chimney Corner, Comic
Monthly and Budget of Fun.
A New York special says it is admitted in Re-
publican circles that Grant got the worst of il in
his first round with Mcclure, and there is dispo-
sition to soften Grants fall by attacking and i'm
peachiDg Mcclure.
large number of citizens, among them many
fremeB, will leave to-day for New Orleans, TO wit.
Dees the annual parade of the New Orleans FIRE
department. With their usual liberality, the pro
prietors Of the mail line have reduced the passage
to 81 so for the round trip Mobile Register, 2.
Halleck was so great favorite with women that
one of those charming persons once said eff
we're on my way to church to be marTied-yes,
even if were walking up the ssle-and HaIleck
were to offer himself, I'd leave the man I'd pro.
missed to marry and take him."
NJ. Theirs, eighty years old, has commenced the
study OF botany, the better to complete his work
on natural philosophy. It's strange he has not
bought any knowledge subject before.
But Theirs time for him yet.-[New York Demo-
crat.
writer in Harper's Bazaar says "there are
houses to which can not make up my mind to 90,
although like the people who live in them, be.
cause / do not wish to lose all the pleasure OF a
visit in hearing wonders why / have not been
there before"
Gen. Harvey, while in New York, on bis way TO
Washington, denounced the late campaign under
Sheridan as murderous in its character and dis
graceful swindle in its expenses and it is rumored
that he prompted the attack upon it in the House
by Mr.. spaulding, OF Ohio.
Was Hannibal negro! Is a question under dis
cussion out West. We are not sure about Hanni.
hal hutt harQ ia nj ont nf aho hat
colOred gentlemen bearing such heroic names as
Pompey and Caesar have from time immemorial
been residents of the SOUTH World.
The Charleston News of the oath ult. prints the
farewell Of R. B. Rhett, Jr., to the subscribers OF
the late Charleston Mercury. There had been
hope up to this time that the suspension of the
Mercury was only temporary. and that its publics-
ton would be resumed on q strong and durable
basis, but that hope is no longer entertained.
The foreign military journals are now discuss
ing the absolute necessity Of entrenching field