The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-14
CITY TOPICS.

st. Joseph's night, that green spot in the desert
| of Lent, will not lack due observance this year.
| The Young Mems Benevolent Association, one of
| the very best of the mutual relief associations,
] which have 50 multiplied in New Orleans Of late
l years, will on that evening give grand fancy
dress mask ball, which will undoubtedly be one OF
| the events Of the winter. The young men Of the
association are all of we'll known high standing In
the community, and it Is not to be supposed that
their efforts to entertain their friends will result In
anything else but pleasure to both hosts and
guests. The affair is to take place ct Odd Eel.
lows Hall, whose large ballroom will hardly suf-
| fee, we imagine, to give dancing room to the
| merrymakers, who win therein assemble. May
your ball prove as great success as you deserve,
gentlemen, and that is wishing it perfect one.
II Is singular how careless some people can
be about things which, however unimportant to
themselves, are of great interest to others. A
forcible illustration of this is found in the fact
that q great many books, taken out at various
times from the city library, are yet retained by
the subscribers. Now the persons holding them
have probably forgotten all about the books, and
careless ss to the annoyance 1t affords the
librarian, have the volumes now snugly slowed
away in some corner. This is q matter of some
importance to the librarian, who Is responsible
for the books, and we earnestly suggest to those
who may read this paragraph, who are delin'
quents, that they shall at once return the books
in their possession.
New Orleans received yesterday collection of
blooded stock, which, though q comparatively
small one, is very valuable. II consists OF two
AYRSHIRE bulls, three Ayrshire cows, one Shetland
| e. Tr;a p;o tu0 tan tarripr d0Oa
and twelve Dswking chickens. They were i'm
ported from England by the Mechanics and Agri-
cultural Fair Association, who have thus added
another to the long list Of benefits which they
have conferred upon stock in Louisiana. They
were imported from England, where they were
carefully selected by experienced judges-the
| pedigrees accompanying them. Some idea Of the
value of the fowls may be gathered from the fact
| that they are part of the famous collection Of
Admiral Horribly, at Knowsely, England. At an
exhibition sale eight of the birds sold for 2l4
| Quineas, or over a thousand dollars in gold The
stock is to be exhibited at the coming fair, and
will be afterwards sold, thus affording rare op-
portunity to the stock. breeders of the State to
improve their stock. To show how earnest the Fair
Association has been in its efforts to improve
Louisiana stock we may state that the creighton the
animals from Liverpool over, per steamship Cas-
TILE was fl40 ingold. nearly $1,000 greenbacks.
Too much credit cannot be given to the Fair As
ISOLATION for its enterprise. Our citizens cannot
too substantially manifest their appreciation of
that enterprise. Let the next fair be greater
success in point of attendance. as it will be in
every other way, than any previous one.
We learn from one who has been there, and
who knows, that throughout the Northern States,
the action of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic Or
der Of the State of Louisiana, in the matter of de-
claring non.intercourse with the Grand Orient Of
France, is emphatically and unqualifedly in.
dorsed. Many of the Northern lodges have taken
the same course as the Grand Lodge here. This
non intercourse with the Grand Orient will con-
tinue Of course until the action of that body in
recognizing the spurious and clandestine society,
known here as the Scotch Rite Masons, and
presided over by one Chsisssgnac, be reconsidered
and annulled.
Skimp dresses and no hoops are multiplying on
the boulevard. Sich is fashion.
Hereafter telegraphic reports OF the closing
markets at New York, Cincinnati Chicago and
ST. Louis, will be read at the Merchants Exchange
every evening.
The Scriptural saying that A prophet is not
without honor, except in his own land, )" YVES never
/ exemplifed in a more positive manner than in the
history Of certain artist who presides over the
cuisine of an obscure restaurant in the Second
District. While possessing talents and accomplish
ments which would have done honor to Soyer,
Delmonco or Professor Blot, unless rescued from
> the cloud of obscurity which has enveoped him fo
the last twenty-five years, he is likely to 60 dowl
to his grave unwept, unhonored and unsung,
Q except by few grateful friends whose sppetite
, he has fostered whose dgestions he has preserved
and whose tastes he has cultivated for more thar
N quarter of century,
Auguste Broue, the hero of our story, wa
born in one of the interior towns of France, an
y may therefore be safely called Frenchmsn. 81
commenced his career as q cook, in kitchen, an
3 he passed through all the various grades Of scu
' lion, plate washer, gdrcon de table, and FINAL
graduated in the cuisine Of a French admiral.
s, this employ he rose to the rank of cle, and wa
q celebrated as the prepsrer Of the best "curry
20 ever eaten in France. Upon the death Of th
1r admiral, he emigrsted to this country, and Sc
3. Ting in New Orleans, he modestly commence
3 business in o narrow street, far down in Il
NJ French quarter. From q feeling of the strang
in ness of his position, he called his establishment
10 the Restaurant Pellerin."
s. s. Those who had the good taste to patronize hi
IN soon grew to hold him in the highest respect
be firstly, because his cooking was superb, an
I'd secondly, because his prices were little over ha
- those of other establishments. But in spite
Al this the Pilgrims Progress was but slow, al
Il, after seventeen years Of hard service he four
II himself only moderately well of. Still, being
~ man of great modesty, and considering that in
native country he could live upon very small i
~ come, he sold out and went back home in is6
Of calculating to end his days in the village where
~ was born, and spend the evening of his life in tn
elegant leisure of which men who toll so long al
10 30 hard dream. But he found only dissppoir
10 ments. His old friends were all dead. and he W
rt stranger to all. He also had change
be people who. IN his boyhood. he b.
q (: thought TO be the very perfection Of gentilit
E. he now discovered to be q set of ignorant cou