The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-17
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPH, ETC.

A daughter Of Dumas il going on the stage.
Thanks to the officers of steamship Crescent
Thanks TO the officers Of the steamer Josephine. |
In yacht race in Mobile, on the 18th, the Me-
LISA beat the Josephine.
One Ohio editor describes another as brick
of purest ray SERENE"
One Of our exchanges is heartless enough to
call n sick baker can iil.hrea man,
It was the poet Rogers who frat took Disraeli
to JGnbgste latest folly is handkerchiefs
with questionable" pictures 10 the corners.
Rev. DR.. Newman, of this city, lately lectured in
Chicago on the Holy Land. yr
| Bismarck's doctors tell him to 90 to Madeira or
| Egypt.
VIM. B. Astor's income is ever five dollars
minute.
Geo. Ellis has the Chimney Corner and Ksllsy's
Weekly.
Good house servants are wanted at Bay St.
| Louis. Il
Henry Placide, the famous actor .of the olden
| time, has become stone blind. He lives on the
| shore of Long Island.
The Rev. 8. Il. Tying, Jr., preached morning,
afternoon and evening in Congregational Churches,
| in Boston, last Sunday.
At the Lopgcbamps races, Eugenie wore
bonnet made Of violets, relieved BY two sprigs of
white lilac.
An actress with the sensational name Amy
Grddlestone has made her debut ct the Arch
Street Theater, Philadelphia.
Question for Dr.. Mary walker-why ought .
medical quack to be woman Because he's
always Charlotte ADu.-lPuuch.
The announcement by the Pail Mall Gazette that
Doctor Butler will succeed Minister Adams creates
considerable alarm in London.
r.o la, Antop;o evnresa has rcceivpd n apoCi.
men of earth saturated with crude petroleum,
pIowed up on the farm of DR.. Teel, below that
city.
Bishop Green has recently visited Bay st. Louis,
and held service at the Crescent Hotel. He urged
the importance Of building house Of worship at
the Bay. ~
NJ. N. Ballou, proprietor Of the St. James Hotel.
was to have complimentary dinner Thursday,
at which Col. Green, Of the Boston Post, would
preside.
Gen. John C. Breckenridge and his family were
| in Rome on The LIST Of April. Mrs. Breckinridge
continues an invalid. They are expected to
arrive in Canada in o few weeks.
I Carlyle nkens Walt. Whitman as poet to
buffalo, useful In fsrtlizing the soil, bat mistaken
in surprising that bis contributions of that sort
are matters which the world desires to contem-
plate closely.
A sailor, exhorting at prayer meeting in Q
London chapel, said that on dark, stormy nights,
while on the sea, he had often been comforted by
that beautiful passage in Scripture-"A faint
heart never won fair lady,"
Snobbery seems to be progressing very rapidly
in this city. A lady who has just returned from
Europe-one OF the wouldbe fashions bles-has
who wear scarlet coats and knee "unwhispera.
bles.n-[N. Y. Mail.
Washington specials state that Forney resigned
his office as secretary Of the Senate, because OBJ.
jections were made to bis editorial comments on
the course of senators IN reference to impeach.
ment.
The Philadelphia Post coolly announces that J.
r. Sypher, the editor OF that paper, and resi-
dent of Philadelphia, expects TO represent the
fourth district Of Louisiana at the Chicago conven
ton. 1t seems as II such representative would
be mere cypher in any convention.
The Gazette says bottle containing the follow
, ing upon strip of paper has been picked up on
Bay St. Louis beach:
of Isle Breton.--wind east, blowing a gale
| running under double.reefed jb; five feet water
in the hold. Brig (" Ocean Wave" January lst
. | lS67.n 10
| The new Lord Byron is an old boy Of fifty; the
old Lord By ron, who lately died, at the age o.
seventy nine held his cousins title forty years
, but prudenty refraiued from poetry, and wal
lfele known beyond the family and his circle o.
friends.
Queer things happen nowadays; and one o.
| the queerest is the spectacle OF our friend Mr.
George Wilkes, on he floor of the Senate, betting
! | slCO 10 $40 on the conviction of Andy johnson
| with snother friend Of ours, Mr.. Theodore Tilton
standing by and officiating ss stakeholder.
, The crown prince of Prussia had most en-
l Al ha "a oh
3 on his way to the royal wedding. The people
thronged the streets, saluting him with "Lonl
live the hero of Sadowa," "Fiea IL nostro angslt
protacre.".
We are indebted TO Messrs. Tremoulet & lie
, torey for generous number OF bottles of "spsrk
i ling Lemonade from their msnufactory at Il
2 PoeyfsIre street. Each bottle was favored viii
. different syrup, and formed beverage as cool
9 from q soda fountain.
j In he course Of the Alabama debate 10 psra
msnt, Mr.. Sanford, tory, member for Maldon
! once jealous Anglorebel, was good enough 4
say that the Americans whom he had met wer
: very good fellows, and that he did not believe III
1 American people were one.twelffh part 80 grea
e snobs and funkeys as the English.
q At a certain London workiugmen's club, once
S week, there is a meeting for the purpose Of ems
bling aristocrats Of liberal tendencies to NEE
= workingmen in social intercourse. The working
!. men and their wives and daughters attend, an
a are helped to tea and cake by the "swells.n
q The humane Mr.. Bergh recently visited do
fight in New York, taking along squad {
Z police. "Back IN, Jerry" Beef him, shoi
It tall" "Munch him, sallo~ gsl," greeted th
y ilustrious chief Of the snimsl society. The ne1
Q | moment there Was a alameda lint the hezd dor
gst was arrested.
: An English paper says: Lord wharnclifs hs
! I a herd of bisons, which were running wild mt
lately in Whsrnclife chase, and are now in an il
closure there. One of these, bull, lately beesm
8 so savage that 1t was necessary to destroy IL.
The meat is praised for its " excellent quality an