The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-06

T. 8. Arthur has three magazines on his hands.
Carlotts grows handsome.
| Bismarck's right hand man is named Butcher.
Spring Hill College was burned Thursday night
Gov. Grape, of Michigan, is again seriously Ill.
| We are threatened with short ice crop.
| Seven Iowa journals have died lately.
| violent snow storm commenced on the I'd at
| the West.
Gen. Grant dined with the French minister on
the I'd.
There is TO be an inauguration ball. The fools
have carried their point.
! India expects the famine scenes Of eight years
ago.
Pike sunk half million in his New Jersey
dykes.
Bismarck has to be lulled to sleep by music
box.
Dan Rice received 81 900 per week for the use
of his pane.
General Lee is to set up a farm in connection
with his college.
Thanks to to the officers OF the steamers Louise
and l. C. Harris.
Miss Charlotte Thompson is playing in Mont.
gomery.
The new postage stamps viii be issued in
February.
The last Partisan idea is to cover velocipedes
with advertising.
The Massachusetts Anti Slavery Society is still
squaring away a. something or other.
An eighteen years. courtshp In Worcester,
Mass, has come to an end by marriage.
Mrs. Buffum, OF Chicago, wants a woman for
| president in 1872.
State senator Dore, of Illinois, is the Bergh Of
that burgb.
New York city complains of weather positively
| warm"
Hon. J. Fpaminondas Squash vegetables in the
Kansas Legislature.
Edwin Forrest draws badly in the New England
| towns, because the folks won't believe it is the
same old tragedian.
| None of the French marshals have sons, except
Mcmahon, the duke of Magenta and his is very
feeble specimen.
Abraham B. Burnett, of the Kaw tribe, in Kan
sss is the original Big Injun." He weighs ABS
pounds
The tunnel under the Chicago river is not popu.
lar with weil-dressed Chicagoians on account of
the constant dripping of dirty water from above.
Grant has been bowled down by the ball mana
gers, and it remains to be seen If they can make
him dance.
The sparsely. settled territory at the rear of
| the city, between the canals, has been flooded
ever since the storm Of Monday.
Down East editor says "Mr. Brown ia clear
thinker, ready and vigorous writer and a first
rate fellow TO boot"
Bonner says that within the past year the son of
one of his contributors has been elected president
of the United States.
The rector of "hgh church 10 New York
lives correspondingy by attending dinner parties,
| playing cards, drinking wine and fIequenting the
thester.
General Hancock persstently refuses to become
a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, or to
interfere with the local politics of the State, so
long as he may remain in the army.
II is on dit that General Buffers daughter
Miss BlsDcbe-decidedly one of the bellies of
the season, is soon to be married to an army
officer.
| The prince imperial is learning to play the
fiddle. His tutor urged the emperor to have piano
lessons given to him, but Napoleon decided in
favor of the violin. The emperor himself is quite
an excellent fiddler.
That old Lamartine despite his weaknesses ia
still popular in Paris, ia proved by the fact that
during the first four days after his return to his
villa in Passy, upward of fifteen hundred persons
left their cards at his house.
Dr.. Wendell Holmes has been telling of doctor
who bed and physicked the Pilgrims in the May
flower. This man. DR.. Fuller, is quoted as writing
to Gov. Bradford, in 1900, IL have been to Mat
tapsp, and let twenty of those people blood"
The indulgence of absinthe, which already pre-.
walls to great extent among all classes Of French
men, threatens TO become as widespread in
France and as injurious there as opium-eating is
in China.
Our special Austin dispatches of last night say
TIE Austin convention has adopted universal man
hood suffrage. They are in haste 10 do the bid
ding of their masters at Washington Galveston
News, 4th.
Secretary McCulloch, says MACK" on his
retirement from the cabinet, will not return to the
West to live, but will continue his residence in
Washington. Browning will go to Illinois and Sc.
wsrd-to the devil most likely.
| Ex.President Roberts, of Liberia, was one of the
| guests at Senator Summers dinner table last
Thursday evening, the first instance in which a
| colored man has been invited in Washington to
| dine with a senator.
The last number of DR.. Newman's paper con-
tsins graphic pen sketches of several members of
! the Louisiana House of Representatives. Our
handsome young statesman, Pope Noble, is drawn
with free hand.
Chicago wants to know what State it belongs
| TO. The other day, while nearly all the members
from Cook county we're at home, bill was intro
duced in the House of Representatives and
| passed. "ceding the city of Chicago to Indiana
| and Wisconsin," The windy city does not seem
to be over popular in the Illinois Legislature. [St.
| Louis Democrat.
Dora d'lstria, the Wallacbain princess is believ-
ed to be the most learned woman OF our times
She reads and speaks fifteen languages, writes
beautiful novels and profound essays, has a
thorough knowledge of the most intricate posi-.
tons Of the Oriental question, is a brilliant con.
versationslist, and at tie same time. very hand
some and graceful.
John P. Stockton, the senator elect from New
Jersey, is the only man whose father grandfather
and great grandfather, on the psternal side, were
members Of Congress. The senator elect from
Delaware, Thomas F. Bayard, had a father aud
grandfather in Congress, and great grandfather
on the maternal side-Richsrd Bassett.
The Barnstable. Mass., Patriot, sterling De-
mocratlc paper which for thirty nine years has
E-ck g.