The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-19

4 n OcOit'o Oottou idOtoty has QtClhIcu quaA-
terly dividend Of five per cent.
Strawberries are selling in San Francisco for
twenty-five cents pound.
Ole Bull has brought our his new piano in New
York. Its tone is sweet, but it lacks power.
The Grecian bend has reached California, but
there IT is called the Pacific slope.
Bierstadt has received the gold medal at the
Berlin Art Exhibition for his picture of the Yose
mi e Valley.
Punch queries whether, in case female suffrage
and secret voting enacted, spinsters would not
| be called ballot girls.
Chicken salad h favorite dish among the col
ored epieurean population in Virginia, and the
her-roosfs are fest being depopulsted.
The latest question in politics is, has Carl
| Scburz been nst1ralized citizen long enough to
be q United States senator?
| Audubon and his wife made their bridal trip in
lsOs down the Ohio, from Pitsburg to Louisville,
on a fatboat.
jenkins has observed that the Grecian bend
| is not INDUCED in by ladies in Strengthened cir.
| cumstsnces.
| If young gentlemen are not permitted to stare
at pretty ladies on Canal street. the fair creatures
will desert the grand boulevard.
Brigham Youngs son, Joe, smokes good cigars,
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| his wives and breaches the gospel.
| Charles d. Taylor, of Boston. newspaper re.
porter, bas been appointed Governor Clanin's
| private secretary!
| Madame Rossin, for her husbands ten unpub.
lished compositions, has been offered l25. OOOf. by
| London firm.
| Western editor has got such q cold in his heal
| that the water freezes on it when he washes il.
| lex,
! Meverbeer's widow has disposed of her only IN
married daughter TO an Austrian baron, and will
settle in Vienna.
Helmbold drives the most elegant establish
| ment in New York. 1t is Buchutull.-l Buffalo
Express.
1t is authcritatively and perilousy stated thatfor
the subduing of a man, momentary glance,
transitory tone an uncertain pressure of the hand
are worth all the dresses ia the world.
Cszado, the Partisan Opera manager, who in
troduced Adelna Patti to the Partisan public five
years since, is now head waiter in a coffee house
In that city.
A New York paper says that William Cullen
Bryant, James Gordon Bennett, ana Horace Gree
ley all intend to retire from their respective jour
nails this year.
When fitzpatrick received that service of silver
in Hartford last Saturday, which had been an
nounced for some weeks in the papers, he express
ed himself as completely taken by surprise"
berzinist, looking in at holiday shop win
dow, thought one of the masks wiDked at him,
and Immediately went of in a fit of delirium
tremens.
Those who yesterday beheld the amphibious
cows of CarotOD, standing knee deep 10 water
and browsing tie latnier, ceased to marvel at the
watery admixture called milk which fad its way
into this city from that direction.
Purington, of Oswego, offers to cross, in boat
he has, Lake Ontario, for $4,000 witain shipping
time, in any south gale any one has mind to pick
out, and agrees not to get wet if any one wishes
10 have that in the bargain.
Rev. Fred. A. Huntington, of Boston, is bishop
elect of the new Episcopal diocese having its seat
at Utica, N. Y. BE formerly declined the bishop.
ric of Maine. He was converted from Unitarian.
ism few years ago.
After the trees in Lafayette Square are denuded
of all their branches, but one thing more will be
wanted TO render them artisticslly. perfect. aud
that is a covering of white.wash Nature don't
know how to make trees-to suit the artist who
improves them in this city.
Charles Dickens published a card in the London
papers of the l6rh denying the story of the recent
decease Of bis brothers. widow in Chicago. he
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be is The trostee of her estate now under a settle
ment. Now. Chicago!
The president has bundled up the numerous ap
plicatons for promotion to the vacant positions Of
brigadier general and sent them all over to the
war department, thus throwing upon Secretary
scbofeld the delicate task of recommending one
Of the number for the vacancy.
The American prima donna, Miss Minnie Hauck,
was to appear for the first time at the Itaens
January 6, in "sonnambula." Prince Ponistows
XII is engaged in writing an opera expressly fol
her, OF which NJ. Strakosch has purchased the
property.
The leading illustration in the last number Of
Punch is entitled Under the Mistletoe," and
represents old John Bull and Miss Columbia with
claspod hands in the act of kissing each other
under the mstletoe bOugh which the good
natuied ReVerdy johnson is holding over thel
, heads.
Harvard College, with all of its wealth. finds its
! usefulness sadly hampered. Half of its income o.
slSo, 600 is tied up-devoted to specialities by
dying and dosmatic donors aud for its 100000 d
year that is free for general purposes, it hs;
ways and demands that such a sum no more thar
half meets.
Mr. Butler advocated the Niagara Falls shiI
canal bill, and in the course Of his remarks be
said the gentlemen might feel no apprehension;
on account of the canal running through Canadal
soil, because, before the canal could be com
pleted, that soil would be ours-not by conquest
lot by purchase but by the will and desire of the
majority of its inhabitants.
We congratulate Mr.. James Fisk, Jr upon the
commencement of his career the proprietor
| aod manager Of one Of the most beautiful opera
houses in the world. He hiss succeeded in the
| WOrld Of hucinpea. AS Deddler driving fOur-iQ
; hand, as a wholesale merchant, as q railroad ope
rator, as the imprisOler Of Sam. Bowles, his sue
cess has been splendid. We don't doubt it viii
be equally splendid in the world of art.-tNeo
| York Sun.
The New York jewellers from whom Mr.. Collar
purchased his bridal presents, have given his wifi
a porcelain vase, foot in diameter, holding al
assortment of artificial flowers. The top is of ap
pie blossoms, and nestled among them is blue
bird. This bird sings for half an hour at time
with loud and clear note, turning his head usin
. | his mouth and performing other antics similar t