The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-20
EDITonIAL PAn.eRAPHs. ETC.

The widow Of James u. Brney Il oeao.
Judge Thomas NJ Key, OF Ohio. is dead.
Dead-the Alaska territorial Dill.
The handsomest man in Chicago is fool.
A Paris opera ball produced ten duels.
Fanny Fern wears an Astrakhsn cloak.
Donald Mckay, of Charleston, is dead.
Carl schurz says be was naturalized in 1857.
CLANS are very scarce on Cape Cod.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Dudley,
DR.. Draper makes out a very strong case in
favor of /" Coffee as Civzing Agent"
Lippincotts Magazine, for February, is a fine
number.
John E. Owens will insugurate the Opera House
at Hartford. Conn.,, tonight.
There is a movement in Cincinnati for a monu.
meDt to President Harrison at North Bend.
Mile Juiette Baron, queen of the Paris lor
cites, has $50 600 worth Of mirrors in her house.
Dirty WOman's Rancho is the name OF pros.
pective metropolis in Colorado.
Ottar of cabbage is the newest perfume an
nounced.
The last thing in the cravat line is huge. clnm-
sy tie.
Waterfalls are still Increasing in size, and
perehed still higher On the head.
Bergh has been arrested for obstructing travel
by stopping overloaded horss-csrs.
New York wants IS 100000 for the He'll Gate
Improvements.
The low tax has shut up all the New York dis
tilleries.
At New Haven recently, poor family were dis
covered making dinner on boiled dog.
Greeley is said to give away thrice what he
spends for himself.
Burnett, the humorist, announces his arst an.
al for -
1t is no place for Mudd at the Dry Tortugas.-
lex.
Wells, Vermont, has citizen aged 81 who ia a
grandfather.
G. so. has been engaged to write exclusively for
the Chicago Tribune.
Chicago has just been enjoying Blind Tom, the
RichDgses and Edwin Adams.
Charles Sumner. of Massachusetts,, John Scott,
of Pennsylvania, and z. Chandler, of Michigan,
have just been elected to the U. S. Senate.
Gov. Fenton, of New ork, and Gov. Hamlin,
of Maine, have just been elected to the U. S.
Senate.
They say that Horace Greeley is worth $500 900,
Henry ]. Raymond 100000 and the Brooks
Brothers $500 600.
If Victoria's children keep on as they have be.
gun Europe will yet have TO found an asylum for
INDECENT princes and princesses.
The shadow Of a tree made by the moon was
found photographed in wafer which froze during
the night lately in Maine.
The wicked Pic, speaking of Lolita, scarcely
knows which to admire most, her exquisite child
like face or her deleately turned ankles and feet"
One of the rules and regulations of the forth.
coming Inauguration ball is, "No id niggers
admitted"
Gov. Clsfin recommends enfranchising aud tax.
ing the Massachusetts Indians, whose blood has
become very much mixed.
The chief justice recently addressed "fashiou.
able congregation " at the Episcopal Church in
Washington upon christian Missions
Thanks to NJ. Vidal, N. c., for the official re.
port, in three volumes, of the trial Of AndEeg
johnson on impeachment.
Minister Hale, says special to the Picayune,
writes to the president, from Madrid, that over
lures Lave heen made to him by the Spanish gov
erDment Tor the sale of Cuba to the United States
Syme Young nabObs have attracted considerable
a''eh'lOn W aPPe~-'-e - nublic pIaces with tha
English travelling oyercoats Of rather Coarse ma.
terial, the seams being corded with bright red.
The Senate received four yards of female suf-
frsge petition yesterday, all from the women of
d. G. They go in for yard measures, not men,
lChlcsgo Post, 10Th.
Gerratt Smith writes to Mrs. Anthony that he
cannot sligo paper against the enfranchisement
of the negro man, unless at the same time wo.
man shall be enfranchised.
The kind-hesrted lady whose unapproachable
crulers have several times heretofore excited our
appetites and our admiration, has again evinced
her thoughtful benevolence by sending US another
supply of the delicacy.
The Pic hears of a dead beat who applied to
Mayor Conway for letter recommending him
TO the hospitality of one of our hotels in return
for prospective puts in sundry country papers.
The mayor might have declined upon the ground
that our hotel prOpretors are already sufficiently
taxed by similar mendicants.
Don Piatt says in a late Washington letter:
"And, by the by, can inform you that the
skrewder set about here believe that the talks
published in the World really emanated from the
presidential source TO which it ia attributed.
Grant, instead of being very taciturn, can talk
like a racer when he feels at home in his hearers
and subject. He fell 10 with some OLD ladies the
ether day, ard ratified on for an hour in the most
alarming way"
here is something from Down East worthy of
Tom Hood:
Two lovers stood upon the shore
OF Massachusetts Bay,
Bidding sad farewell before
Seth tore himself away.
III marry you when come back,
My Sally ANN says he,
Ana then be took little smack,
And went away 10 sea.