The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-17

Miss Hosmer got her start, aud q careless printer
set 1t up: "How Miss Hosmer got her shirt!"
| Boston has Q lady Sunday school teacher who
served in that capacity for Fifty years. ILL
In England, even the queen has to pay postage
on letters.
Out of 4s2 ses soldiers in the Austrian army, but
! 1850 are able to write.
| very large proportion of the most important
Offices in South Carolina are filed by Msssachu-
sets men. e sa q.
Edward R. Terrell, the popular conductor on the
Texas Central Railroad, has married Mss Kate
Hcurry.
The New Orleans organ Of the colored people
asks Gen. Grant to invite Thomas J. Dursut to bis
cabinet. Barkis is willin'.
Buffers late party in Washington was quite
fast'' in the small hours.
| Chicago reporter took short hand notes of bis
inamorata's love. talk, and kept her from jiltng
him by threatening to publish.
| The skin of the leaf of the Indian dagger.plant
has been made into q new style of bonnet for
| women's wear.
A young man in Cincinnati advertises for a sit
nation, saying that {" Work is not SO much an OBJ.
| ject as good wages"
| Olive Logan nightly informs her audiences that
she wears q panier because her dressmaker COM
| pels her to.
| For . delicious feast of the most exquisite
| ignorance, commend me, says Mack" to q de-
| bate in Congress.
Louisville is becoming the leading market for
furnishing the South with bacon. The number of
hogs killed and packed there this season is $40 900.
A. La oil Co. II g. - g.
declaring her nuisance, and declares the Sorosis
is no better than it should bel Boston Post.
The New York Sun accuses Ole Bull of initial
ing the calls of all the wild and domestic sni.
mails upon the violin.
A good deal of lumber is going from south
east Mississippi to st. Louis Louisville and other
Northern cities.
The Brookhaven Journal wants to know what
certain people who have sacrificed their lives
think of certain legislation and contemporary
replies that they don't care continental.
The Rev. Mr.. Thayer, secretary OF the Mas.
sachusetts State Alliance, alleges that boys in dis
trict schools, in numerous instances, have come to
school drunk on cider.
There are twenty eight thousand miles of tele-
graph wires in the United States, all but four
thousand Of which are held by the Western Union
Telegraph Company. ~
wehave received the report of James o. Noyes.
chief of the bureau of immigration, to the General
Assembly, and the report of the finance commit.
tee on the petition Of Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines.
The eldest con of the Prussian crown prince,
Queen Victoria's son-in-Daw, has been brevetted
second lieutenant in the Prussan army. He is ten
years old.
Weston was such curiosity that the congrega.
ton rushed out of prayer meeting, in Ellen
borough, New York, to gaze at the pedestrian,
leaving the pious psrson alone.
Hon. George B. Upton, of Boston, who has sent
in an able protest against the ratification of the
Alabama Treaty, is one of the heaviest claimants
for damages from the En- lish built ships.
If you would learn to bow, watch mean man
when be talks to o gentleman of wealth. mar.
minded man can no more stand upright in
the presence OF a money bag than he can throw q
somersault over the moon.-lEx.
A correspondent speaks of an improved veloci.
pede. fitted with an umbrella, lantern, and q
place for change of clothing, as well as splash
board, to keep the mud of the riders back, and
possibly locker for lunch.
We would hint, says the Louisville Courier
Journal. to the big eagle which carried off the
little boy in Tennessee, that there in the streets
of Louisville good mary rascally little black.
saards tho. they may have for the taking.
We have received the first number of the "Ex.
perimentsl Farm Journal" neat monthly of 30
pspes, published by Geo. A. Dietz, at Chambers.
burg, Pa. 1t is devoted to the Improvement of
the cereals and grasses.
The most barefaced swinde ever exposed. not
excepting those of the Indian bureau was that |
built up on the stationery contract for the depart
ment Of the interior. Think of profit OF twenty.
thousand dollars on value of eight thousand |
Thst Is one item.-I Washington Letter.
The Herald thinks that the spectacle of old |
stupid, blunder headed Ben Wade getting the bet |
ter of the shrewd and capable Butler, and throw |
ing him into fury of il.temper by mere stolid,
stupid consistency in ignorant ruiing,n is very
funny.
The first known American of the name of Pea
body came to this country from England in the
year 1886. He was o descendant of the ancient
Boadie Of Nero's time. Two sons, Francis and
William, immigrated to this country with him i
and they both have descendants now living.
Rollins 10 q little man, of q tadpole style of
human architecture, having large head and a
diminutive body. saw at glance that Rollins
might be the most vrtuous man in the world, bat
that be would never have the pluck to fight it
out. And this is the unanimous conclusion of ali
his friends. BE is honest, but timid. He has some
cause for his tmidiy.-[D. P.
Here Is the verdict Of q coroner's jury near
Pittsburg' " That the said Csthsrine Resmer,
being seduced, and moved by the devil, At shaler.
town aforesaid, did feloniously and of malice
strangle and murder herself, against
the peace and dignity Of the common wealth of
T-.n -sl
q The Boston chief of police recently dressed two
or three trusty officers in female apparel, and
sent them to detect the rufisns who have been
insulting ladies while quietly walking on the
street. One Of the officers reported that
more than twentyse,en men accosted him.
Some of them move in the most respectable
society. 1rs r9
Clara Louise Kellogg, it seems, has not high
appreciation OF Cleveland musical talent. While |
he audience in that city was firing itself out in an
excessive encore the other evening, she exclaimed |
= the dressing room, What shall sing Guess
I'll give 'em Sweet Home ~ they can't appre. |
tate anything higher" She sang the same song
a CincinDati-perhsps for the same reason, and
be audience well pretended to admire her over.
trained drawing o the worda-TEv d,