The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-05

Humpty Dumpty is at Mobile.
Canada is deem buried in snow.

Humpty Dumpty is at Mobile.
Canada is deep buried in snow.
Chrome Prang has struggled into fortune.
Thanks to the agents OF the steamer Bavaria and
the officers Of the steamer Louise.
New Workers now talk of tubular iron tunnel
under East river to connect them with Brooklyn.
An exchange thinks that " Grants favorite' is
"Mumm."
At Hodston, Massachusetts,, colored boy aged
seven has been commissioned to preach.
George d. Prentice and James Guthrie are dan
gerously i'll at Louisville.
A Boston paper says that the Massachusetts,
Legislature is as corrupt as Z" the one at Albany"
The senior wrsngler" of Cambridge is not
member of the P. R., but mathematician.
The Rev. DR.. Joshua Lesvitt Of the Independent
has been awarded the Golden Climb gold medal.
The Revolution states that Mrs. Fanny Kemble
long ago set the example to the women of Massa
chusetts of riding astride on horseback.
1t is said that Mr.. Gladstone was first induced to
demand peersge for the late Lord Mscauley by
an article in an American newspaper.
In the Griffith Gaunt case the reading of the
novel was stopped. Edward II. House was on
the stand, for the prosecution, all day.
III. Raymond Theodore Tropiong, president of
the French Senate, died on the 9th ult., aged 81
years.
The senior Grant appears to have an unfortu-
nate facility for stumbling and getting hurt. May
his son escape like misfortunes.
Turkey, il is said, has offered to sell the island
of Crete to Greece if the great powers will guar.
sniee payment.
Before deciding abruptly whether the coming
man will drink wine, il might be pertinent to asa
whether the present man drinks wine.-TNew
York Tribune.
At Peoria, ILL.,, recently, convention of grape
growers sat down to repast which was washed
down by native wine furnished from two hundred
and twenty five samples.
a duel was fought in public house in Williams
burg between Spaniard and Cuban, over the
events in Cuba. The former was slightly
wounded.
Whittier does not think nearly so well Ofhis bal.
lads and idyls and lyrics as the public does, and
in bis heart prefers bis prose writings to his
poetry.
The Hon. Edward JOrdon, c. B., Island Score.
tsry of Jamaica, died on the Sth ult., and was
buried with great pomp on the 9th. He was
brown man, and greatly idOlized by the colored
people.
One of the results of the new velocipede excite
ment, remarks an exchange, is that it takes the
young men away from the drinking saloons, aud
gives pleasant and beneficial turn to their minds
and bealthful exercise Of body.
The Germans Of New York who love the men,
DRY of Alexander Won Humboldt, propose to eel.
citrate the centennial anniversary of his birth by
erecting q monument to him in Central Park.
A report is current that the present Spanish
r. L.
Madrid to proceed to Washington, to settle any
difficulty which may arise in consequence of the
Cuban instruction.
A Buffalo genius has constructed a velocipede
with four wheels that will carry a lady besides the
driver, with carpet bag, umbrella, a lunch
box and g whisky bottle. 1t is propelled by the
feet working in leathern stirrups.
Men hsbitually indulge 10 a straw colored bev.
eTsge which they mistake for sherry, and 90 down
TO their graves as little conversant with sherry as
the maTchiOness was with beer previous to her
acquaintance with MIR. Richard Swivelier.-[New
York Tribune.
We are very much creatures of Imagination. A
plain dinner nicely served is infinitely better to
most men than an expensive meal with unudy ar
raDgements OF tie table. No woman ia her
housekeeping, can make bricks without straw
and husbands should bear this fact in mind. But
there are Injuries which money alone cannot buy
skill and tact Of the mistress of the house. lex
Washington special to the Louisville Courier.
Journal Gays it has leaked out that Gen. Grant
rome weeks ago rendered the collectorship of the
port of New Orleans to Walter Q. Gresham, of
Indiana, major general during the late war.
Gen. Gresham. who is now agent for Kentucky in
New York, has declined TO accept.
A Radical journal of this city published, the
9TH DO Of
Manhattan Club, of this city, to Mr.. John C..
Brt ckinrdge, at which the editor of the World,
the chairman of the National Democratic Com.
mIttee, and other Democrats of this city were
described as present. The Manhattan Club has
6 ven 10 dinner to Mr.. Breckenridge, and none Of
u persons named happened to have the honor of |
dinlug in his company there or elsewhere.-lN. Y.
WOrlo, Feb. 9th.
The Jewish Messenger is much chsgrined at the |
public exhibition made lately in Chicago of the
ceremonies attending the conversion of Christian
maiden to the Jewish faith, and her m lrriage the
same Gay in The same synagogue. Ii ungallantly |
remarks: "Our space forbids US from enlarging |
pa the subject OF conversion generally, or we |
would place on record the facts of our experience
mat where one ia converted for the sake of reli.
yson at least one hundred are made Jews for some |
marriage speculation"
The Springfield Republican suggests Governor
Clifford of Massachusetts, for cabinet position. |
{ says "He is very attractive msn, with none
If the GOODNESS of an Adams or the overlooking
.gotism of a Sumner, and General Grant must
AVE liked him very much on their long ride to-
yether over the Boston and Providence Railroad. |
asst December. he has all the best manners of
be BostoDians, and none of their bad ones-and |
he best are very good and the bad very bad-and
f,st 4bo
De very favorably impressed with him."
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