The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-04
EDIroRIAL PARTICIPANTS, Ere.


Laura Keene talks of organizing company for
England.
Mrs. Scott siddons has read to the queen by
royal command.
Major Plumley of Galveston, has been building
cars for surf bathing.
About 5000 was realized at the Metarie Course
yesterday for the relief of the family of Lieut..
Brsine
1t is proposed that the ten best riders in the
late tournament have another contest for prize
of real silver spurs.
II is stated that Mrs. Gaines has recently re-
ceived quite number Of anonymous letters of a
threatening character.
Miss Adelaide Phillips will sail for Europe, June
Is, with her sister. who goes abroad to complete
her musical education.
1t is said that Mr.. George Jordan has been en-
gagged to lead the business at Selwyn's Theater,
Boston, next season.
The cost of supporting the army of NANCY use
less ours which nfest this city will ia few years
amount to a sum sufficient to pay the city debt.
Mr.. Goatherd is man Of presence, Of easy
volatility, of Notwithstanding opinions, but brains
were entirely omitted from his organization.
The German Gazette, in its rather i'll natured
comments on the Fete Chsmpere aud Tournament,
chooses TO ignore its magnificent contribution to
charity.
The Society for Distributing Flannels, Frying
Pans. Tracts and Moral Influences Generally to
the Rocky Mountain Indians, will meet on Thurs.
day, in the usual place, at 81. M.-[Boston Post.
In some of the Northern cities the street rail-
road companies put on chesply constructed, open
cars, with cloth canopies for use during the warm
sunny days. Why should not our street railroad
companies do the same? -r.,s
The equipage of Col. 7. B. Lawrence, consul
general of the United States for the kingdom Of
Italy, at the recent Corso di Gala, held in Flor
ence, surpassed in elegance and good taste any of
the turn outs of the nobility.
Lambele makes a grand "Grand Duchess
She is neat as pin in costume, and her love
scene with Fritz is head and shoulders above
Others who have esssyed it in Boston. Itrequires
fresh woman to even play love.
boston Post, May 26th.
The Hebrews of st. Louis are making arrange
ments for grand mass meeting, to take place
some evening this week, for the purpose Of taking
united action against the nomination of Gen.
Grant. There are about 200 Jewish voters in st.
Louis.
The Italian Garrino says that Napoleon has
spies at Washington, as well as in two other
American cities and the European capitals, iii the
persons Of {" ladies" of the demi monde, whose
fashionable and wicked establishments are main
tanned out of the emperor's private purse.
skeptcs have hitherto objected to the credl-
biity of the Scriptural account of the adventures
Of Jonah with the whale, on the ground that the
throat of the mammal was only a few inches
wide and, therefore, too narrow to admit of the
passage Of mans body. But Professor Water
house Hawkins says there is no need to assume
that Jonah was swallowed by the whale. The
head of the marine monster is two thirds as large
as its entire body and was, therefore, sufficiently
commodious to serve Jonah as an abiding place
for several days.
A French paper publishes what it styles a
warning to free. thinkers" 1t is a story about
an atheist farmer, who perpetrated sacrilegious
hoax upon priest, sending him to administer the
sacrament to dying member of his family, and
on his arrival leading him to a moribund pig in
the farmers stable. "God will punish you ex.
claimed the venerable priest after uttering which
words be quilted the farm. The farmer disap.
peared that night. The next morning there were
two pigs in the stable, one of which we are told
to believe was the farmer transformed.
Apropos of the new custom of carrying sat
chel sung over the shoulder, the New York Com. |
ucfOhl AuNehiseE says THAT tue urBt man 10 ADOPT
the custom of carrying satchel thus is reported
TO have been an eminent editor, seedy as to garb,
and meagre in mein. One evening as he stood, |
sad and solitary, near the door of railway car,
amable agriculturist, with kind intent, plucked
from his overlooking bag one of the magazines
and journals, and. forcing bill into his hand,
turned quickly away and left the car, with the re-
mark: Never mind the change, my good man. |
You need it more than L."
A young Partisan blood, who had lost his money |
through accommodating friends rather than by |
extravagance in vice, met lady at recent
masked ball who took considerable interest in
him, and, over the supper table, proposed that he
should marry her daughter and recuperate his |
fortunes with her really generous dot. She ex.
plained her father had been steward to the grand.
father of the young man, had swindled him out OF
a large sum and escaped to Poland, where he hai
married into noble family and but recently died.
She proposed this manner of restitution which
was accepted, and everybody made satisfied and
happy.
What girls want-and don't care if the speech
shocks every mother in Christendom-what they
need TO make them rosy, and good humored, aud
quick wlted Is, romping. Ii is TO be wished that
IN the country house parties, now rowing COM
mon after the English fashion, where a set of
guests are invited to spend weeks together in the
summer. that al sorts of merry out door games
would be made favOrite. Croquet is nice game,
and so is lawn Billiards, but this lesursly da wdng
at either, tapping the balls through the wiskets
and moving after them like hen hunting after
insects, is hardly sufficient for an excuse. People
need to run TO spring, to cry and halloo, to twist
every muscle of their bodies, aud open every cell
Of their lungs for at least one good hour of every
day.-[shirley Dare.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier tells
an edote Of Chief Justice Chase for the purpose
OF proving that he is more human than politicians
generally. When he was private tntor in the
family Of Attorney Genera Writ. admitted to
society on sufferaDce, and stunned by ambitious
a kind lady took him under her wing.
made much Of him and helped him to good social
portion. On his returning as a senator from
Ohio, he found his early benefactor impoverished,
aded out of the memory of society aud sick with
a fatal disease. He thereupon provided her with
comforts and with needful attendants. ministsred
10 her necessities, and upon her death provided a
resting place for her remains in the cemetery.
The Inscription on the Benton statute. ia