The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-12

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Geo. Ellis has London Punch and Harper's Ba
Ear.
Mrs II. B. Stowe wants to sell her Florida plan
tation.
Meyerbeer's daughter is to marry Baron Adrian
of Vienna.
Deer meet is very abundant in our Market
lex.
So it is in Galveston, but we don't spell it thai
wsy-[News.
The Pick Quick Club" is the name Of an eat
ing club at Yale College.
1t is Mr.. Seward, not Stewart, who proposes to
visit Weed at Aiken, N. C.
The Church of England's property is valued al
$40 coo 600 in gold, the annual income of which
supports the clergy.
The piOus New York Herald is happy to believe
that the religious sentiment Of the country will be
respected under Gen. Grant.
New York paper speaks Of Presbyterian
Church in that city which "has just admitted a
| Quaker to membership by letter."
Mrs. Miriam Fletcher, aged l03, has died at
Westford, Mass. She saw the revolutionary battle
at Concord.
| Psymaster General Brlce, retired, has been re.
stored to the active list by order OF President
| Grant.
| Mrs. Mcguire wife of the captain of the ship
Chieftain, which reached New York the other
day, navigated that vessel safely from Calcutta to
New York, her husband being sick.
Greeley has taken from the window of a poor
artist a miniature portrait of himself at $3.50,
which Horace ingenuously declares is more than
any one else will give"
Morrill,, of Maine, wants to take Hamlin's place
and collect the customs of Boston. Hamlin has
taken Morrill's place IN the Senate, and "turn
about is fair play"
Strawberry vines, in Tallahassee, Florida, and
its neighborhood, were loaded with fruit when the
cold snap occurred. The fruit was frozen on the
vines, and il is feared was all killed.
At an immersion, in Baptist church in Provi.
dence, the water was warmed, and the steam
rising therefrom caused an alarm of fire and
general stampede.
The eldest son of Joseph Jefferson-Charles-
young fellow of eighteen, and the image Of his
father, exhibits taste and talents for the stage.
and will, 10 doubt, sstonish his parent and the
public one Of these days.
The Macon Journal aud Messenger learns that
Bishop Beckwith will visit Chicago very shortly,
where he has been invited to preach the consecrs
ton sermon, on Easter Sunday, of new church
to be first opened that day for divine service.
d. ".
are applicants for foreign missions. Pardee. Sui.
Ivan and Hutchins have the inside track for the
district attorneyship, naval Office and assessorship
So says our Washington special of last night.
An exchange says: Among the claims allow
ed by an accidental death insurance company was
the following: NO. 27s.9s6.' This gentleman
was blown up by an explosion of a paraffue oil
works, and receives SIS day until he comes
down."
If you are wise man, says Punch, you will
treat the world as the moon treats it. Show It
only one side of yourself, seldom show yourself
too much at time, and let what you show be
calm, cool and polished. But look at every side
of the world.
J. j. Johns, an old English printer, still con.
tinues the publication of curious paper the Au.
tograph and Remarker, at Starksborough, Vt. He
is now ~ years DID, and his editorials are as neatly
and accurately printed in pen and ink as they were
quarter of a century since.
Richard Grant White is out upon "beng ~ he
says we should say, "While the boy was whip-
ping, the room was sweeping. the dinner was eat.
ing, the cow was milking, the meat is cooking |
in other words, " it is being" is simply equal to
- 1t is" The use of such phrase as Z" is being
done" for " is doing" is pure affectaton.
Mr.. Catlin, the prairie traveller and artist, has
communicated to Trubner's American and Orien. |
tai Literary Record the curious fact-if It should
prove to be fact-that a great river, charger
than the Mississippi" flows under the Rocky |
Mountainsl Mr.. Catlin is about to submit the ev. /
dence which he has collected in favor of this \
startling hypothesis to the world.
Here is a curious advertisement which lately
appeared in an English paper Board and resi-.
ience for work. An old literary gentleman in.
'ites two widow ladies', about forty, to assist him
n doing without servants, except a charwoman
'nce week. One lady must undertake entrees.
oups and jellies. Both must be strong and
healthy, so that the work may be rather pleasant
han irksome, two-thirds Of il being for their own
company, as no company is ever kept. A private
itting.room. Laundry free. All dining together
i z O'Clock. References of mercantile exactness
eoured.''
When Mrs. Burlingame was presented TO the
impress at the Tuieries she wore visiting dress
# haVane, porcelain blue and gray, with no trim.
ming round the trains but psnier, called f]v.
wings, because 1t initiates the two tapping pinions
4 bird, and has in the center quantity of bows.
Ter flowers were lovely marguertes, all shaded
hey formed complete garland round the bottom
the robe over the satin-bordered plisse lounce.
nd long grass fringe fell from under the flower
arland. Mrs. B. is said to have created a most =
leasing sensation at court-that of a perfect
merican lady, with dignifed but most aaable
tanners. Her visit to Princess Clothilde before
he large dinner which was given to the Chinese c
I'd Mr. Burlingame, was of rather an official char.
cter; but before Mrs. Burlingame took her de. 9
arturo the inhabitants Of the Palais Royal said it
% as If they had been old friends. There is some u