The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-21
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.
Louisville has q " Dickens Club"
Grau's opera troupe is in Savannah.
Paris opera IauCuizhes without Patti.

Louisville has " Dickens Club"
Graus opera troupe is in Savannah.
Paris opera Ianguishes without Patti.
Weston was at Auburn, New York, on the 18th. |
Gen. Steedman arrived at Havana on the 18th. |
Expresident Pierce is gradually convalescing. !
Selma has beaten Mobile in a cock-hght.
Smith county, Miss, Jail is burned.
Judge A. B. Citherell, of Alabama, is dead.
New York is excited over real estate.
Psrepa Rosa is rapidly recovering.
Jacob Barker has recently invested $4,000 In real
estate in the First District.
The classic Mullins Grated in Nashville Monday
night to gaping crowd of admirers.
Portland has sheet parties" the guests being
arrayed entirely in bed linen.
velocipede race near London, for one hundred
dollars, was won by dash Of two miles in $3.50.
Msjor Thos. II. Shelby, son of the first governor
Of Kentucky, has just died in Lexington, aged so.
The prince imperial skates and velocipedes, and
rubs his bruised parts Economically.
Mr.. Washburne was worse on the 18th, and bis
friends were becoming alarmed.
Grant is to give large party before his inaugu.
ration.
A three years old piano prodigy, Willie Cofman,
of Norfolk, died in Richmond recently.
The average price of productive land is highest
in New Jersey, lowest in Florida.
Dr.. A. snowden Piggott, of Baltimore, died in
Virginia recently.
II takes ten thousand acres of growing pines
each year to supply the English railways with
sleepers.
Magv,e. Miset.n,. 100 --.--s~s a,..s How. - !.
rfr. Paddock, of Toledo, merchant OF near fifty.
The attachment has lasted through many years.
In letter to Northern Methodist paper, Bish-
CD Simpson has much to say about the Ku-Klux
OF Louisiana.
"Mack says Schuyler Colfax rooted himself in
the affections of his constituents by sending gar
den seeds to them.
The editor of Mississippi paper is the father
of baby weighing only five pounds, bat she filled
whole column of his paper.
Hon. Moses Bates, prominent Democrat and
much esteemed citizen Of Massachusetts,, is in
town upon important official business.
Captain Bingham, the Englishmen who rescued
Admiral semmes when the Alabama was sunk by
the Kearsarge, is in Richmond.
The most widely circulated paper in Madrid is
called the Nightcap, and issues at the remark
able hour of eight or nine in the evening.
James Gordon Bennett has given $4,000 to the
to be used in the event of sickness or disability.
There is one Washington correspondent who has
not seen Grant. Dom Pistt is the man, and con-
| fesses it.
The next play at Booths theater, at New York,
| will be Winters Tale" and after that has had a
run, Joe Jefferson will play an engagement.
| The Hsnlons announce velocpede reception
and hop" in New York. A velocipede hurdle race
will come soon.
Giles NJ. Hilyer, late the able editor Of the Nat.
chez Courier, has assumed editorial charge Of the
yicksburg Times.
The Duke de AumaIe, Louis Phillippes son
writes for the London Times, on French affairs
for money.
Mrs. Rossini thinks no small beer of the unpub
lished works of her deceased lord. The good oil
lady asks 81, 400, 600 for the copyright of them.
A special to the Picayune says Col. Hoxie, o
Kentucky, is sn applicant for the New 0rean
collectorship under the Grant administration.
The conference Hat" is the latest Pari
style. 1t is an Astrschsn fez, with the beak an
eyes Of an imperial eagle in front, and Grecia
benders al round.
Dom Piatt was quite smitten with Mrs. Gran
to whom he was presented, because she remen
bered his name, and didn't cali him Pratt, Platt O
Spratt.
lady Washington correspondent says Mr.
Grant is not pretty. Her features are well enough
but abe is "a roly.poly little woman" and eros
eyed.
By private letter from friend in New o.
leans, says the Grenada (Miss.) Sentinel. there
no doubt but that place is being fitted up for rel
dezvousing large army for descent on Mexic'
An enthusiastic young lady, fresh from Gel
Buffers grand Washington party, remarks that
could not have been more gorgeous if the gentl
man had been contractor during the war.
The assassin of darcy MCGEE was buried
midnight in the prison yard. When bis wife -four
that she could not get his body, her language vi
, decidedly not choice.
Brick Pomeroy states in his Democrat that
pays taxes en- s250,OOO, and that he has mao
! every dollar of it by bold, firm, persistent
, voton to principle.
} Barnum is engaged in writing book, which W
| bear this characteristic title: Struggles al
! Triumpbs; or, Forty Years in the Career of P.
r Barnum. Written by HIMSELF"
4 We are assured by one of the Wisconsin pape
/ that not all the members OF the legislature e
? their mucilsge, and that most of them are lear
ing that it is easier to turn Off the gas than tolblC
out the light. .--.-.--...
Some Yankee, says Washington letter,
stigated by sin, with heart prone to evil, on
!, accidentally struck his cane in a pumpkin, o.
conceived the idea from it of a monument
!, Washington, like the one commenced.
h A Boston SERVANT gal ;" who hsda follower
told the lady with whom she sought SITUATE
!. that she preferred that be should be kept in
}, norance of the fact tina, che was doing hous
# work, as he supposed she was g boarding."
It Mrs. Frances Kemble Butler is on trial in Pt
/. adeIphia for having closed her doors after {
performance had been in progress certain tin
The penalty is $500, of which the informant g
half.
}. One lot of Hutchinsors are advertised to wart
If | their native wood-notes wild in Chicago, a
another lot simultaneously in Minnesota. Each
the only genuine lot. The Minnesota songstS
take oats, wheat and corn for admission, and col
prise three Hutchinsons and one Hatchindaughtt
n IWorid.
IT A young couple of Rockport, Maine, VII
counting, walked out together arm-in-arm. a
fell through hole in the sidewalk, each bret