The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-29

Modes'y is a jewel. Lolita.
Prick pomerov uraises Banks.

How to "serven dinner-est it, Judy.
Kellogg (Louise) plays the banjo.
Colonel Geo. h. Gordon, Of Mississippi, Is dead.
Kit Burns is said to be dying from rat bite.
Victoria makes money in stock raising. Ex.
Itbears watering"
Tie Bulletin pufs the grossly fat treasurer and
his assistant at the Varieties Theater.
Useful domestic cookery, according to Judy, is
making both ends meat
Good writers for children's literature are in
great demand
Dumas drives sharp bargains with booksellers
and publishers.
Gen. Sherman and Garibsldi, at GariDa!dis re-
quest, have exchanged photographs.
Louisville has shepherd dog with glass eye
and only two legs.
Dark hair is now all the rage 10 Paris, and
blondes are dyeiug their golden tresses.
The most passionate smoker among the sover-
eigns Of Europe is the king of Sweden.
Robert P. Fleming. an old printer of this city,
died on Wednesday.
A vigilance committee in New York ia reported
imminent.
European capital is going into Western rail.
roads.
Lucy Stone has been projecting herself N Gin.
cinnsti.
1t is said 'hs. Bennett makes clear profit of
$1,000 day from his Herald.
Reverdy is to dine with the city fathers Of Man.
chester.
The sun osrss sbins now from morning till
nisht.-ICREscEsT yesterday.
We take it back.
poultce Of onions, applied morning, noon and
night, Tor three or four days, it ia claimed will
a.. &c. -. tsnl4
George Francis Train demands permission to
address Congress, while in session, " behalf Of
the Fenisns who are now imprisoned IN England.
Reverdy Johnson's suite stand behind bin in
bis box at the theatsr, which is considered deci.
dedly antirepublcan by English Radicals.
Ii is considered cool to take mans hat with
bis meme written in it, simply because you want
his autograph.
An Illinois paper gays that train on one of the
railroads in that State was stopped on New Years
day, by large amount of egg-nog on the track.
The president hes minated that Mudd aud
other political prisoneis will be pardoned before
the 4th of Merch.
Ii is announced that the citizens of Washington,
without respect 70 party, are determined to have
an inauguration ball.
VIM. story, of the Arkansas circuit, is Is years
old-the youngest Judge of the grade iu the
country. he is native of Salem, Mass, and
graduate Of the Michigan University law school.
The London Times says that if the ideas OF Nc
Culloch, welles and Washburne on financial affairs
are accepted, the United States bonds will be on
footing with those of Massachusetts.
The steamer Mollie Able, which passed up this
evening, has twelve hundred bales of cotton,
shipped from New Orleans to New York via rail.
81 y 1,so Had nuohf fam a.
leans TO New York at 81 cents per hundred, by
the Diamond Line.-[Memphis dispatch of 18th.
Absent fsnces must look out. We have Just
heard of young lady in this city who was hon.
ored by three matrimonial proposals in rhe short
temporary absence from New Orleans of her
betrothed.
If people could have mioroscopical view of
the air they breathe in q crowded theater wnere
the doors and windows are kept closed, they
would prefer not 10 breathe, and cease to wonder
that many people stop breathing SO suddenly as
tury ------
Mr.. WhiIden, one of the editors of Flakes puI.
lem, Galveston, Texas, arrived in this city some
lime ago en- route for Philadelphia, and si1ce his
arrival here hes not been heard FROM either BY his
friends sthorne or in PHILADELPHIA. Any informa-
lion of bis whereabouts will be thankfully re.
ceived at this ofiee.-[Cinciprati Commercial,
Jan. 26.
sensible English Judge lately Instructed
Jury to give moderate dsmages in q breach of
promise case, because it was most mischievous
thing to " Brighten man into marrying woman
he did not like by heavy damages. 1t is much
better fer the girl that he should find out bis dis
like before than after marriage"
The auction sale Of tickets for the opening
night Of Booths new theater indicates the total
receipts at zen thousand dollars. Between four
and five hundred persons were present, and com.
petition was lively. One box sold for one hun
bred and forty dollars, another one for one hun
bred and twenty-five dol'srs, and the orchestra
chairs ranged from eighteen to twentyf FIVE dol.
lars each.
Prince Leopold, of Belgium, who died last
week, begged bis father on New Years day for
q present Of six Thousand francs. On being
asked. after his request had been granted, what
he wanted With the money. he replied that it was
for two angels that had been nursing him during
his long illness and he therefore gave it to the
two Sisters Of Charity who have been his con.
slant attendants.
In the Garden District we notice ladies with
wide brimmed straw hats, that effectually guard
their cheeks from the too fervid sunshine tending
their flowers. Now they raise some dropping ten
drill Of heli0trope OF mignonette, and place II
where the soft zephyrs and bright sunlight may
restore it to full life again. and anon pluck hands,
full OF double vioets, whose perfume already lends
sweetness to the sir.-[Picayune.
Cannot the ladies of the Garden District be per
mitted to indulge in the harmless delights of Aor
culture without bengithus minutely regarded and
reported by our neighbor, Really, if this thing is
continued the fair creatures will be driven from
their gardens to the innermost recesses of their
sunless dwellings, or to the obscurity of the
grand boulevard" after the Picayune's proposed
reform In manners upon the prominent corners'
is carried ont.
WARM FRIENDS TO BHE FAIR SEx.-n there is
anything that has an immediate influence in pro.
ducing smiles upon the features of a morose and