The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-21
EDITORIA PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Hvulets run in every street of Salt Lake city.
Frank LawlOr, the actor, has sailed for Europe
The Hebrew temple in New York is to cost one
million dollars.
The late storms have somewhat damaged the
crops in central Ohio.
The noted DR.. Robert ]. Breckenridge ia irving
to GUST instrumental music from churches.
Head thanks George Ellis for literary fayors
wherewith to beguile the tedium of a sea voyage
to New York, which he commenced last evening
Two sisters of Admiral Farragut, residing at
East Pascagoula, Miss, are said to be in destitute
circumstances.
The New Orleans correspondent of the Calves
ton Civilian objects to tournaments as puerie and
undignifed. The same might be said with equal
justice of all field sports.
Washington dispatches say that Chief Justice
Chase called upon the president on Tuesday night,
and urged him to retain Secretary McCulloch 10
the treasury department
On the 18th, Senator Fessenden had an inter.
view with Mr.. johnson, it being the Arst time he
has visited the president since long before the im.
parchment trial.
The creditors Of Jacob Barker are notified to
meet at the Office of John F. Deane one of the
registers in bankruptcy, at P. NJ. on the 9Th
inst.
A committee Of the Massachusetts, legislature
reports that one.half of the children engaged in
the factory service die before they reach the age
of eighteen, in consequence of overwork and long
hours.
Archbishop spaldiog, of Baltimore, has just
issued circular to the clergy of his church, di.
recting that the prayers for pleasant weather
ordered by the Catholic church be added 20 the
mass during the entire month Of June.
Rev. Mr.. Thompson said in a public lecture
that the members of the Massachu etts legisla
ture who lately visited the tunnel were so drunk
that they did not reach their destination in due
season, and spent the night in drunken orgies
singing Tramp, tramp" etc.
The report that Gen. Thomas has been sent
South al his own request is known to be untrue.
The fact that be would be sent South was antci-
pated in a correspondence, aud while Gen.
Thomas makes no complaint, he feels justly in.
dignant at being sent into exile.
Suakosch, says Paris letter, has leased al
expensive apartment 10 fashionable quarter of
Paris, aud is daily expecting his wife aud chill
dren from New York. The.ques;ion, | hear is
under consideration, whether he will give up his
professional engagement with Adelina Patti.
Tie fact Of his settling his family here looks as if
the contract was approaching its termination.
The following remarkable fact and rhetoric are
found in a city journal:
One OF the fishermen who squat on the lake
end Of the Pontchartrain wharf cast in his line |
and feeling something at the end, hauled and |
pulled with all his might and MAN, When-he sue. |
ceeded. 1t was piece OF pine log WOTm-eaten |
and hOneycOmbed-a mere web OF woody holes |
studded with barnacles and fshy with Shiny |
snails.
Thurlow Weeds friends are urgently pressing
him TO take a brief trip 10 Europe, in order to re.
cuperate his health. For some weeks past he has
been quite indspOsed, and able to write but very
little for his paper. Over seventy years Of age,
be has been in the harness long that he finds it
difficult TO lay aside his pen, and, accordingly,
chafes under the restraint imposed by sickness.
Manton Marble, the accomplished editor Of the
World, is stricken down with grief over the prob
able early demise of his lovely wife. Endowed
with rare talents, and ardent sympsthizer and
helpmeet in all the plans and aspirations of her
husband, her loss will indeed be terrible attic.
lion to him. Consumption has removed other
members of her family. Since the above was in
type we learn that Mrs Marble died on the 18th.
Richmond correspondent Of the New York
Herald writes that it is rumored that " one Of
Chief Justice Chase's daughters has captured one
II Virginia's most brilliant sOns-one whose Do.