The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-13
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Grant will attend the Inauguration ball.
Tomorrow will be St. Valentines day.
Chanfrau is playing in Galveston.
Wendell Phillips was lawyer in 1887.
The revolver trade is brisk 10 Gotham.
Charles Reade has consented to write his auto
biography.
The only daughter of the Ia to Dean Richmond
has Just married gentleman ofNew York city.
Canales has been defeated near Agualeguss,
Mexico. lsi
1t is stated that the Rothschilds purchased two
millions of United States bonds recently.
Whalen confessed that he was present when
MCGEE was killed but did not fire the shot.
G. A. 7. makes out Congressman Kelley to be
an egotistical jackass.
Blue and white satin bills of fare are used at
elegant dinners.
An exchange says some Confederate journals
were driven "to the wall " for paper.
Fish had Grant to dinner, and Grant probably
had fish.
Im.peacher Butler is to have peaches costing
50 at his forthcoming fashionable party.
Thanks to the officers Of the steamers Mary and
Selma.
ney Corner.
thousand.
Chicago calls aloud for great book publishing
house.
diamond studs at night.
The Mansfield Times wants somebody to pur-
chase the Sulphur Springs, in De Soto parish, AID
make a watering place Of it.
The empress was never before received SO
coldly by the French legislators as at the recent
opening.
Brigham Young's latest revelation instructs him
to build million dollar hotel at Salt Lake City,
and he proposes to do it.
Ballou, of the ST. James Hotel, IN Boston, has
| given $1,000 to the peace gIOrifcation musical
| jubilee.
Silence is the softest response for all the con.
Predictions that arise from impertinence, yugarty
and envy.
Twelve years ago q Newburg, New York,
brewer commenced business with peck of malt.
To-day he is worth 100000.
There is an old woman who for fifty years has
sold apples and candies at the entrance to the
| Queens Bench Court, Westminster Hall, London.
| The Princess Alice, of Hesse-Darmstsdt, has
invited Disraeli and his wife to visit her next
spring.
Queen Isabella closes all her letters with the
words, mo one loves thee more than thy queen,
Isabella"
| A son of Gen. Fl. P. Bee, lad of IA, is re-
ported killed recently by robbers, near Parras,
Mexico.
G. A. 7. thinks the Washington correspondents
rather low crowd, generally speaking. G. A. t.
| is not favorite among his fellow Bohemians.
Private letters from Paris state that General
| Dix will receive the ministry to France in the
spring.
| Brownlow rendered his resignation, yesterday,
as governor of Tennessee, to take effect on the
| 18th instant.
| The city government OF Baltimore has rendered
the Inequalities of the city to President johnson
after the 4th ofMarch.
| Generals Marmaduke, Beall and Basil Duke, of
| Confederate notoriety, are in st. Louis, the two
| former in the commission business and the latter
practicing law.
The custom in New York is for brides to fur
nish their attending ladies with complete toiettes
for the wedding-bouquets, gloves and all. In
return they receive costly presents.
The king of Bavaria has ordered q necklace Of
magnificent pearls, which will cost one hundred
thousand forms, and which he will present to his
affanced bride upon her arrival in Munich.
Maggie Mitchell is building an elegant three
story brown stone front in New York, on One
Hundred and Twentysixth street, near Fifth
Avenue, at a cost of $4,000.
Alexander Dumas, Sr., is at work upon the
history of that humble though useful animal, the
hog, whose character, the great romancist says
has never yet been justly appreciated.
In the spruce regions Of Maine the girls are
given to gum.chewing. man matrimoaially
inclined can go and take his chswess from the
young ladies down there.
MeIicent says the first two thousand times she
heard Captain Jinks Of the Horse Marines" she
thought it a very pretty thing, but after that
somehow, she grew tired OF it.
John Brougham is coming money and words q
his New York theater. He announces Ravingmad
rieals, Velocipedementia, Upinabaloonatics, Can
canibalistics and Humptumptyidotics.
Rev. DR.. Newmsn's paper contains more legis
lative portraits. In describing a senator it say
his right cheek sticks out with an immens
quid of tobacco, and when he speaks his mont
looks like a barnyard after shower" Graphic
| if not elegant.
The New York World of Sunday says: "Com
modore Vanderbilt made ten million dollars in on
day recently; so it was stated in open cou,
yesterday. II this is true, and 1t probably lie,
is undoubtedly the largest sum ever made in tn
same time by one man since the beginning Q
history.
American managers are now engaging tn
dancing and singing girls Of London by the hur
dred and are paying salaries which fairly startl
the British professionals. c. W. Tsyleure Is Their
for Pixies Opera House, Cassidy for Woods Mt
scum, and John 8. Clarke for Booths theater.
The Empress Eugene, according to Figaro, ha
recently become q convert to spiritualisu
through the influence Of clever clairvoyan
Mlle Elise Gulotten, who calls herself the "Ligl
| | Of the Future" The empress has recently q
! tended almost daily the seances Of this woman
and even Louis Napoleon is said to have consulte
| | her.
. On the Leather cockade" question, gentl.
man writes to the New York Post; I" use thel
: to distinguish my coachmans hat from my OWL
! We are both good-looking men; we both wea
: ten.dollar hats, and when we 60 out for drive
: the Park think it due to myself that the publ
should know who owns the carriage and VII
| drives it.n
e Gounod, the French composer, who has bee