The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-19

ne (Salsun) had been sent for the goods by Broom.
Editsrial Paragraph. Ese.
Trade il dull in Paris, too.
The frost stopped grave.digging In Terre Haute.
wslshsm, Mass., ferbids keeping bees.
Plaquemines planters are doing well with rice.
Thanks to Mr.. Bruff for California papers.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Morgan.
Fioneno Is to give one more concert in this
city.
wm Evelyn has resumed his correspondence
with the Mobile Register.
Grocers are asking seventy cents pound for
butter, and only twenty cents dozen for eggs.
Driveling Grandfather--In the New York
Ledger.-tLouisville Democrat.
Gen. Menabrea, the Italian prime minister, is
reported the greatest mathematician in Europe.
Curious: The same process that makes milk
butter makes sbutter-mik.-ILo Louisville Journal
An exchange says it Is better to rua street cars
with compressed air than compressed passengers.
Gen. Fremont is reported by jenkins to have
shaved his chin and adopted English side whiskers
Kentucky elects nine members of Congress this
year.
New York Republicans fear Fenton will be Cur
tin ed at Chicago.
: Sergeant Bates was received with honors by
the city government at Miedgevlle, Ca.
man will never get the staff of life by 'raising
Cain."-[Ex.
Dr.s. D. Wilkinson, of Fsyetts county. Texas.
is dead.
Twelve negroes were drowned by an overflow
OF Bryan, Texas.
Ksjor Gibson F. Hill, of FredOnia, Georgia, is
dead.
Mrs. Mary Gladstone has been playing in
Charleston.
Smead Lumpkin, Of Geneva, Georgia, becoming
offended by his brother James, fatally stabbed
him, and afterwards took his own life
In Charleston. Hughey Teaque, blind, bed
ridden man, was shot BY Peter Murphy. who was
The use Of the cigarette at the dinner table by
Parisian ladies is beginning to be custom, re-
port says. sf
At recent sale Of autographs in New York,
George Washington's brought IS and Tom Paine's
81.
catamount, measuring seven feet from tip to
toe, was killed in Allegheny county, Virginia, q
short time ago.
There Is movement among the Israeltes against
Gen. Grant for his sweeping military order of De-
cember IL, 1862. expeng Jews from the depart
ment Of the Tennessee, for violating regulations
Of trade.
The Galveston News publishes q letter from
Tumbsdero, Tuxpan river, which gives cheer
full view Of the prospects Of Texas emigrants in
that valley. Crops were promising. During the
month Of January the thermometer at r. NJ.
ranged from SO to 81.
We are pleased to announce that Miss Filomeno
viii favor our citizens with one more concert.
which viii take place on Wednesday or Friday
of next week at the Lyceum Hall. Further par
ticulars will be announced in day or two. We
can add nothing to what We have said in praise OF
this wonderful musical genius.
9 One touch Of makes the whole world hIn.p
The Galaxy calls attention TO the constant per-
version Of the meaning Of Shakespeare In the above
line, not. however. by being mangled, but because
1t has been read without its context and In entire
ignorance of the connection in which it was writ
ten. The line which follows clearly explains the
meaning Of the great bard;
THAT all, with one consent praise new born gAwds"
Fanny Kemble closed the doors of the hall
where she was reading in New York to avoid the
nuisance Of late comers, but a number Of persons
arriving afterwards among them Leonard Jerome,
the banker, and A. Oakley Hall, the district attor-
ney. they demanded sdmittance and were refused;
but threatening to call in the police the outsiders
carried their point and were admitted much to the
disgust Of the fair reader and such Of her audience
as wanted to have the entertainment all to them
selves.
The Charleston News. says that scarcely day
passes without visit to Fort Sumter from par
tics vf ror,h-ra tOurists, whose principal desire
is to see the ruined walls and to secure some bit
of iron or other memento of the siege. The
yacht Eleanor makes tbe passage at stated hours
each day, and Is seldom without full compile
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to see everything. They are armed with opera
glasses, and carry baskets to contain the relics
that they may collect. No Southern tour is con-
sidered complete unless the world-renowned Sum-
ter is inspected. Fortunately for Charleston. the
tourists are usually wealthy, and scatter more or
less greenbacks along the route.
pretty bonnet is Of white lace over o thin
frame, having a wreath OF rosebuds and green
leaves along the entire front edge, and from the
bonnet extends one-fourth Of q yard Of white
blonde. joining with pink bow below the chin.
Over this wreath, on the front, lace Is fulled in
form Of puff, and shirred over the rest of the
bonnet. Blonde edging and pink ribbon loops
finish the back Of the crown, with q rosette Of
blonde and cluster Of rosebuds In the center. On
the outside, In 'front.' is a fullblown rose, locking
as though it had just burst through the lace COW
ering Of the wreath Of buds. Strings are Of mar
row pink ribbon and quite long. This Is the new
Fanchon shape.
Mark Twain enters the Ball, Akers and Florence
Percy controversy about the authorship Of "Rock
me to sleep" and demolishes Mr. Ball, the noisiest
competitor, IN the following measured strain:
Backward, speed backward, oh Ball, In your
fight! Make not an ass Of yourself Uust for to-
night y pull the few silver threads out Of your
hair I'LL up and yarnsh those burrows of care
care that was born Of attempting Fame's steep,
which you couldn't climb, Ball, whom none rocked
to sleep. Oh, Bally, come back from the echoing
sheIel Cease for q sesssn the public to bore,
with your infamous rhymes and your stupid com.
plant. for you know you are claiming to be that
which you amt. Oh, drivel no more don't
shuttle. don't weep-haDg up your Tyre, Ban-lu
rock you TO sleep.