The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-16
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

Eugene has 5000 dresses.
Anna Dickinson is going to England.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company.
New York has green corn at last
Frogs are 81 per pound in New York.
They say Colfax is to marry a belle of Keokuk.
Lamsrtine is near to death, and longs for it.
| The Empress Eugenieprojectss tour to Ireland
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Agnes.
But twoex-presidents are now living Fillmore
and Pierce.
The raquette Indians are in Dayton, sick, and in
dire want of money.
Charles Dickens is spending the summer at a
quiet country retreat in Kent.
What is the highest pitch of the voice The
place where it sticks.
1t is said that Booth never goes 10 hear any
other actor.
Sam. Way, of Boston, is said to have willed
100000 to the poor needlewomen of that city.
Geo. Ellis has Leslie, Illustrated News and the
police EDITORIALS
Lester Wallack has sold his theater and is going
to Europe. So says Madam Rumor.
Young ladies have adopted the German"
fashion Of wearing lace caps in the house.
Suits Of yellow pongee are very fashionable for
young ladies.
Young Jerome Patterson was much lionized"
at the New York Hotel.
The Pennsylvania Medical Association rejects
female physicians by As to 81.
Juarez is in cloyer-only two revolutions on his
hands.
The Mobile Register opposes the nomination of
Chase at the national Democratic convention.
1t isproposed to make the Artemus Ward monu.
ment of type metal. Such apropostion, says the
New York Mail, should be knocked into pi.
The Democrat wants an airline railroad from
Louisville TO the Gulf, and thinks Pensacola the
best terminus.
Jean Paul says he has no doubt of the health.
fulness of Saratoga water for he drank two tum
blers full and still lives.
Our city was visited by glorious shower some
time in the small hours of yesterday morning.
II filled hundreds Of empty csterns and thousands
Of hearts with thank fulness.
The subject discussed in one of the Sabbath.
schools in Amherst, Mass, on a recent Sabbath, |
was Have physicians any right to pray for their
9 daily breadr"
merchant of this city has recently received |
letter from New York shipper, inquiring as to |
the cost per ton of getting a ship from New o.
leans to st. Louis A fact.
In an obituary notice of gentleman, the New
York Express says: he leaves a second wife, on
the beautiful and extensive plantation at Long
wood, Mississippi and character of spotIess in
IegIity."
The mayor of Petersburg, Va, having been &C.
,used Of perjury IN taking the iron-clad logged
his sccuser, and then complained aud testified
against himself before three magistrates, who
ined him $40 and bound him over in $3.50 to keep
he peace.
The Memphis Avalanche has a travelling CORES
who describes everything as vast very,
Utmost, beautiful. elegant, splendid intense, mas.
erly, exquisite, wonderful His last brief efusion
rom Nashville, contains all these words, and the
rst one occurs six times.
A poor colored woman came into Memphis
rom the country the other day to make complaint
gainst white man for the murder of her hus.
and. She brought the remains of her husband in
wagon and the broken gun with which he was
eaten to death, as evidence.
The device adopted for the new national flag for
be dominion of Canada is described as follows:
white field, containing garland of autumnal
laple flowers, bound with the Order of the Garter
nd surmounted with an imperial crown, the
eaver and number of maple leaves in the
enter"
At the latest ultra-fashionsble wedding in New
ork, while the minister was speaking, pro.
ouneing the blessing, etc., the organ never j
eased playing comic tone from ola Belle
elene." This is the latest innovation, and.
dgiDg from the remarks Of the audience, it will
Of be popular.
President johnson, the other day, complimented
e typographers who addressed him, with the Q
ood'nstured and trite remark that the presidency
as open to the working man in this country as ,
any other order Of men. This general fashion
speaking is, after sill, fascy. No working
an ever reaches high Office here or anywhere
Sc. IL was not tailor that got into the chair
the president in the person Of Andrew John. | :
N. IL was the clever lawyer. the active polit
an, the governor Of a sovereign State, the
I'D voice on the land, heard above the roar Of
nnon. 1t is always so. No mere mechanic
worker, however good and worthy, need try
r the presidency unless be first wins dis
ietion in the courtroom, the caucus or the
mp.- New York Timea |