The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-05
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FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5. 1859.


st. Petersbsrg has q Sorosis.
Omaha 10 now the capital Of Nebraska.
brJwnlows militia respond slowly.
"A single flea bschelor.-N. Y. Citizen.
An average wedding in Chicago costs 10000.
The patent Office made $4,000 last year.
Alaska had twenty-sx snow storms last year.
Lsboulaye 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.
tits 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,
phs.
A number of wealthy Cubans are in town with
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.
Milwaukee velocipedist wagers $1,000 that he
can make forty miles an hour.
Disgusting meanness- TO tan dogs hide with his
own bsrk-[Jndy.
The Pope Noble Cadets, of Gretna. are to trip
the light fantastic.
Mrs. Stanton wishes Sumner to write her an
" able article " on a. The Sphere of Man."
The N. Y. World is now after the coal adul-
terators.
i Kentucky as well as Delaware, retains the whip
ping post.
i The Bellows Falls National Bank, in Vermont
: has president 81 years old.
, Gratis letter sirangling the Inauguration ball
10 called his fret veto message.
4 The poorest farmer in the land IL unable TO feed
his calves, can always Craze his shins.-[Ex.
A writer in Once Week thinks John Brown
was a negro.
Wendell Phillips still wants Andrew johnson
impescbed.
The youngest daughter of Governor Chatiin, of
Massachusetts,, died 1t Rome few days ago.
There was man at q late meeting Of the New
! York Sorosis.
/ The weather has been unusually cold for two
days. Fires and overcOsts have been in steady
demand.
| John Vslandingham, formerly publisher of
iiournal in Madison parish, died 10 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.
.''csco theater is a square hat box, in which the
lchspeau is safe from injury.
Observation-Disclosures Blot is organizing a com.
paDy in this city for the manufacture of soups
( IN. Y. Democrat. ..
I. Rev. Mrs. p. A. Hsnsford has become the
,shepher6ess of an Uriversalist flock in Port.
land.
The hes; Of Us being unfit to die, what an mex.
pressibe absurdity to put the worst to death
Hawthorne.
&C. wsshburne, of Wisconsin is to be Grants
secretary of the interior, says Washington spe.
cisl to the Mobile Register.
Il has been discovered that So 000, 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 ohoked of by Con-
.gress.
I Yes, love a Jew.-Would like to see the Jew.
Jess who was IN the Sixth car at the oyster
house 10 Spring street, near Hudson.-l Herald
Personal.
The Baton Rouge Advocate makes highly com.
kently left Baton Rouge for a wider field of prac
Eice in this city, where he formerly exercised bis
profession with distinguished ability.
/ cannot doubt that if A. T. Stewart should
advertise for clerks at one hundred dollars per
innum and board, he would have five thousand
applicants before the weeks end. And so of
copying and music teaching.-lGreeley.
I Miss Katie Putnam disports on the bicycular
FelocIpede at the Davenport Qowa) theater.
f)uring the performance Kate wears a bicycular
garment. She makes the machine zip,n is the
comment Of the local papers.
If Mr.. Booth wished to get FIVE hundred young
,nen and women TO play gratis in bis theater, he
syould not have to go out Of New York for them.
flhe girls especially would ask nothing better
fhau to hear melancholy Dane."-LNew York
Better.
! A jefferson City NO. dispatch says bill viii
pc introduced, coming from the committee of the