The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-28
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPH, ETC.

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Cincinnati is very happy over the can-esn.
James A. Seldom is in Nashville.
There are 100000 gaslights in Philadelphia.
Bottled Butler will soon be canned peach.
The Prince of Wales viii pay the sultan of
| Turkey a visit in August.
Mr.. Peabody, it is said, left the pope 100000
before quitting Rome.
The Yale Club dined President Woolsey re-
Gently.
Mr.. Bronson C. Howard is the leading editorial
writer for the New York Mail.
| The apoplectic king of Italy has been bled 200
times.
The New York Mail gave pen pictures of every
body at the Dickens banquet.
Thanks to the Rev. A. l.. Hay for the Shreve-
port News of the oath.
Some ladies give up the bonnet entirely, and
wear the lace couture.
Bishop Green confirmed about thirty persons in
Yicksburg on the Gath.
One-tenth Of all the taxable property in New
York city is owned by ten individuals.
! fire at Pulaski, Tennessee, on the 24th, de-
stroyed 100000 worth of property.
The Citizen advises people who don't want to
get killed on railroads not to patronze them.
Fanny Kembe reads LEAR" from book
once owned by Mrs. siddons.
Kansas reserves 100000 acres for school
fund.
Helper has withdrawn bis congressional aspira-
tons.
William Hewitt is seventy flour years old, but he
still walks ten miles before breakfast.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Louise
and the Southern Express Company.
The fire flies held high carnival last night.
seeming to have received new life by refreshing
shower which fell little before sunset.
Charlie, Pet-What do you mean by "such
| conduct as those?r Come back to your own
Lzzie.-[ Herald Personal.
The Pail Mall Gazette says the United States
Supreme Court "has come to be recognized,
even in Europe, as the first court in the world"
Religious newspapers report a marked increase
| in what are known as "reviValsn throughout the
country.
Russian tea is yellow and delicious, being made,
it is asserted of the blossoms of the plant instead
of the leaf.
Jeanne Dessite, the French girl who, in 1866,
received NJ. MonthyOn's prize for virtue, has just
gone to Jail for swindling.
The Atlantic Monthly, for May. is at hand, sus.
tanning well its reputation for interesting and
spicy variety.
Massachusetts has borrowed $1,000. 900 for
twenty years, at four per cent. Barring Brothers,
of London, negotiated the loan.
Gresham, our next door neighbor, has received
"The Land We Love-" for May. 1t contains
fine engraving of beautiful group. comprising
the four children of Jefferson Davis.
A fond mother in Boston, the other day, deter
mined to whip her unruly son, but tempered JUS
tice with mercy by giving him chloroform before
administering the rod.
Advices from Arkansas state that buffalo gnats
are very destructive to stock. The Des Arc
Citizen says fifty horses killed in that vicinity
last week.
Ringlets are all the fashion in Paris. They are
made of a roll of bark. George Augustus Sala has
seen them in every stage, from the original bark
to the final follow me-lads."
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.. says the New York
Mail. have made Mr.. Dickens within the past
month the finest offer ever made in this country by
publishing firm to suthor-s20, 900 for a new
novel Of about the size of " Our Mutual Friend"
Eugene was so pleased with Mile Missions
"0phelia," that she sent her the bouquet of vo-
lets which she carried, and Napoleon expressed
his admiration by a set of jewels in pearls, emer-
aids and diamonds.
Col. Lug1nbuhl, commander of Fort Smith, has
received orders to hold four companies Of the
Nineteenth Infantry in readiness to go to the
Indian country. Forts Arbuckle and Gibson are
supposed to he the destination.
During the storm Wednesday night, at Ashland,
twelve miles from Nashville, a tree came crashing
into q house occupied by family named Simpson,
fatally iDjuriug the mother and daughter, and
badly bruisng the husband.
A few dsys ago Miss Fannie A. Scranton. a
daughter of one of Chicsgo's wealthiest commits
sion merchants, eloped with and clandestiney
married jeweler, named ]. A. label. The oc.
currence causes much talk in fashionable circles.
The vicksburg Herald of the Goth is informed
that a terrible calamity occurred at Raymond on
the 18th. The Baptist church at that place, while
undergoing repairs, fell in, killing Mrs. Amanda
Robinson, and probably several others. The
Herald was unable to obtain particulars.
Mr.. Henry E. Sweetser is the editor Of the
weekly and semi-weekly World, and one of the
political and editorial writer's of the daily, as well
as being sort of political dictionary for the whole
establishment. Mr.. Hurlbut is said to be the
most accomplished editorial writer of that paper
Tbad. Stevens, says a Washington dispatch,
counts on thirty-eight senators for conviction.
On the 22d he was visited by Southern lady,
and at the close of rather piquant conversation,
he hoped he would at least meet her in heaven.
She replied Mr.. Stevens l hope to be there my.
self, but am afraid won't meet you.
Among prominent New York journalists not
present at the Dickens banquet were Messrs.
Weed, Dana. Bennett, Marble. Bryant and Bonner.
Bryant had called at Dickenss lodgings, and sent
up his card, but as Dickens had given directions
not to have cards taken to him. he was not ap.
priced of the visit of ThanatopsIs; hence the old
gentleman was supposed to be "hufy."
In the U. S. Circuit Court, Judge Busted, at
Mobile on the oath, says the Register, the jury
presented the agreeable variety of colors, which
has been Of late such noted feature of Southern
courts. There were four black negroes and two
or three lighter colored men, fresh from the corn
field called upon to decide knotty points of insu.
rance, questions of exchange, the relative value
of pound sterling to a Spanish dollar or a Prus-
| sian Quilder,