The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

has not he'd, Pollard is mistaken.
Harry Mccarthy and Lottie Estelle are at the
Boston Opera House.
Forney is rusticating among the tar heels oil
the old North State.
| A little girl in Wisconsin breakfasted on forty
percussion caps, and is still unexploded.
The Tribune Association have insured Horace
| Greeley's life for 100000.
Miss Susan Cation is managing the Chestnut
| Street Theater Philadelphia.
The salary of John A. Bolles naval i1dgs adyo-
cate, has been abolished.
The Boston Transcript says: at is nov gen.
orally believed that Abraham Lincoln was mar
| tyr ong before be was shotr
The paper TO be started in Paris by the ex.
queen Isabella is to bear the title of the Conserya-
teur Liberal.
General Grant is said to have written letter
to Count Stalberg, Russian ambassador, in favor
of peace in Europe.
The New York Democrat says the late Burns
festival in that city was lone of the most elite
demonstrations" etc.
The Weekly Star is the name of a very lively
new paper published at Galveston, by j. s. SEQ.
bell & Co.
The editor of the Shreveport News confesses his
admiration of the beautiful 'Miss Co." of New
Orleans.
New York paper says the employees of one of
the East River ferries punch" passengers when
the latter have the misfortune to be sassy"
The letter carriers Of Charestown, Mass, look
so well 10 their new uniforms that all the servan.
girls are said to be falling in love.
Judy says the man who is awfully luJane to
his wife before strangers, is generally also her
bdhe" behind their backs.
A Washington correspondent is confident that
DR.. S. g. Howe will certainly be sent to Athens
as our minister; and hereports that James Russell
Lowell is a candidate for foreign mission.
Charleston paper says the new South Carolina
Constitution contains plank from Massachusetts,.
one from Ohio, several from Vermont, and a
broad beam from Africa.
The navy surgeons complain to Congress that
they "sIe not allowed the privileges of the quarter
deck and the cabin" by the line officers. How is
it when line officers get the stomach-ache?
We did not intend to acknowledge the receipt
Of q congressional dictionary, or TO accuse Mr..
Howe of being member of the Dominican gov.
eminent. Directory and Dominion were intended.
A Berkshire girl, says the Boston Post, walked
fourteen miles through the snow, the other dag,
to marry youDg man who couldn't come to her
house for fear of a sixshooter which the stern
parent carried.
One OF the most brilliant weddings ever wit.
nesaed in Kentucky, occurred near Paris, KY,
Wednesday week. Cassius n. Clay. Jr., was the
bridegroom, and Miss Sue Clay, styled the heiress
of the county, was the bride.
The New York Times Indignantly rep1diatesthe
charge against it of hostility to Gen. Grant or a
douir 70 Ind 4ho
charge based upon the publication of the matter
relative TO the order commanding Banks 20 super
sede Grant az Vicks5urg.
In reply to certain strong minded ladies' of ST.
Petersburg, Russia John Stuart Mill expresses the
opinion that the equal access of the two sexes to
intellectual culture, is not only question of first
importance for women, 49, liable to the
WorlQ.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the other day, was scolding GER
tain Of his followers who declined 10 interfere in
politics on the ground that they were not of this
world" This, he argued, was mere metaphor.
" You might as WELL" he said, "being sheep of
the Lord, decline to eat mutton. chop on the plea
that it would be cannibalism.~
doctor in Missouri has been detected in
poisoning his patients, which he has been accus-
TONED TO do IN cautious and stealthv manner.
On examination he was found to be insane. and |
NJ
Doctors who are not insane are frequeutlv |
caught in the same business.
A man from the interior of PENNSYLVANIA lost |
bis pockstbook a day or two ago. A bystander
saw the theft, but refused to describe the nick.
pocket. in explanation of this strange refusal
be asked the victim, why did you charge me ten
cents for drink Of water when was in the army
1t Getty sburg?"
Prof. Marsh says: 81 know a man who. at the
lge OF forty, entered the Lawrence scientf;
school at Cambridge, Massachusetts,, became a
BOY again among the boys. renewed his youth
If body and mind, and probably made far more
proficiency than he would when twenty years
younger"
Philadelphia has police lieutenant of remark.
lble personal magnetism. According to a re.
porter Of that city, " witha single look OF sorrow
'ver bis white necktie he can as easily disDerse
et Of urchins turning somersaults on the grass in
he park, as an austere man could accomplish the
anne with club in each hand and a poke, fall
f paving stones"
James Wick, of Rochester, N. Y, sends to this
flee an illustrated catalogue OF seeds and a
oral guide for 1869. The book is beautifully
dorned with colored and other illustrations.
nd evinces familiarity and enthusiasm with ths
1bject OF Horticulture which commend its author
D the patronage OF those wanting the seed of
are and beautiful flowers.
Weston reached Manchester, near the foot Of
be Green Mountains, early on the 3Oth ult. He
ncountered numerous obstacles and was nearly
Il night in crossing. He said that he had to stop
farmers house, near the summit, TO rest the
Orses and obtain fresh ones. Tho snow was six
let deep, and in enormous drifts in several
laces slong the road.
The New York Post says a trust worthy and
ell Informed correspondent in Washington writes
lat it is privately stated there is no tr1th in the
'port that General Grant is preparing to publish.
: intends to publish, anything in regard to the |
re report circulated that Banks was at one time |
nthorized to superseds him. General Grant de-
ines to take any part, and thinks it does not con-
'rn him, nor is his reputation affected by il. He
'es not think it of public interest or importance,
I'd he will not be concerned in anything that is
go into print on the subject.
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