The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-01

should possess webstsr's Dictionary. Johnson's
Atlas and Appleton's Encyclopedia, and that Ten
nyson, Whittier, Browning and Dans's Household
Book Of Poetry should By I'll means DO on the
The committee from the city boards Of Mobiles
who visited New Orleans for the purpose Of ID
speeding the workings d our Firemen's Charitable
Association, with view to introducing the same
system In the former city, reports IN terms of high
communication.
The youngest couple known are 10 Goffstown
New Hampshire, The groom being sixteen and the
bride eleven and half year, old. A clergyman
whom they called on thoughtit was . bit Of fun,
and sent them 70 the town clerk for 'stiikit,"
but on the way . man married them for thirty
seven cents. The wife attends school and talks
gravely about Fer "old man."
Jacob Wright, Of Warrington, n. a., eighty-ons
years old, who was with jackson ct New Orleans,
and went through the whole war Of 1914, was
showed up in bis home on the last election day
The Democrats Of the place got sleigh and drew
the old man three miles 10 the polls. He was
putting on his snow shoes to walk to the polls
when the party arrived Ct his house, p q 1-1'
The managers of the forthcoming musical ju-
bilee In Boston have struck their colors and sur
rendered to tiose who opposed erecting build
ing on the Common. The building 10 to be put
up on the Back Bay. It Is computed the festival
will bring to that city million strangers, who on
the average WIN spend $50 apiece, and that II will
therefore be worth $50 900, 900 to Boston.
The other eyening saw Jim Fisk In Q private
box at the theater, and az soon Is the audience
caught sight Of him be was greeted with tree
| in the window of every photographer In the city.
| He is short, thick set and coarse looking. His
| bull neck and round, bulletshaped head remind
one OF sprize fighter, and his face Is heavy and
| expressionefs. Nine people out of ten would
| probably mistake him for bartender, with an
intimate experimental acquaintance with bis stock
in trade, and the tenth person would unhesitating-
| ly pronounce him devotes Of faro.-[New York
| Cor. Chicago Republican.
The secretary Of legation at Madrid, Mr.. Perry.
writes an egotissical letter to the New York
Times, in relation 10 the trouble between him and
Minister Hale. BE ssys: 81 have failed to see
any exigency Of the public service which requires
me to explain why Mr.. Hale hates me, or why 1
pity him. The spectacle OF an American minister
abroad, urged, as he says. By personal resentment
| and the desire Of Office, who turns round from the
| government, publicly accusing the secretary Of
state of dsbblng in corrupt Jobs with foreign
government. without alleging the slightest proof
or evidence Of 80 monstrous charge, is in itself
fact OF sbch nature, that 1t win prove to be q
severe chastisement to Mr.. Hale"
A correspondent of q New York paper writes
"You know not what temptations to petty fraud
you offer to clerks and cash boys in the great re-
tail stores by putting your change Ia your purses
without counting. II is not more lady-like or
grand, but amply more silly. II nothing worse to
affect indifference to the correctness Of business
transaction, even small one. This counsel ID
suggested by the writer having seen one Of the
little cash boys in o Broadway store slip part Of
the change into his pocket on bis way from the
cashiers desk to the lady customer. who, re-
GREETED to notice. put the rest into her purse with
out the least examination. A proper caution on
her part might possibly have saved that boy from
| ruin.u