The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-10
Editsrial Paragraphs, Etc.


Editorial Paragraphs, Etc.
The Boston Continental Theatsr has failed.
Cat meat banquets are announced in London.
Fruit prospects at the West and North are dne.
LAGRANGE, Brignoli & Co. are in Baltimore.
Mrs. Pariington has the govt.
Lord Brougham sleeps ten hours at stretch.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Matagords.
Ole Bull is playing in Washington.
The Grand Duchess for the third time at the OPP
era House tonight.
Ball Hughes, the sculptor, died in Boston on the
9Th.
Cox, as minister to Austria, will not be con.
frmed.
Thanks to the Southern Express company for
New York papers in advance of the mail.
Pleuro-pneumonis has got into the Maryland
cattle.
The French opera is getting the lions share of
amusement money in this city.
The pope has written to the bishop of Orleans
upon the importance of female education.
The Massachusetts, legislature is dumb as an
oyster on impeachment.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Cres-
cent.
st. Petersburg pronounces Lucea the finest
prina donna in the world.
Adelina Patti was treated like queen at Rouen,
the city of monsires.
Thirty thousand children are growing up vaga.
bonds in New Yerk.
A bachelor club in New York styles itself the
"Carthusian Fellows"
Ratszzi has received fifteen challenges on &C
count of his wife's book.
The euOa Oemant of Rooth and M;aa McUioba~
is reported.
On New York railroad another car load Of
passengers has been burned.
Up to the I'd New York had had twenty-five
snow storms this season.
piece Of genuine Gobelin tapestry was re-
Gently sold in Paris for $4,000.
Prince Iturbde, of the Papal Zouaves, is
handsome young fellow.
shillaber says he inherts tie govt from his wifes
ancestors.
The telegraph line is completed and 10 working
order between Tyler and Marshall.
The Ohio Republican State Convention omitted
to indorse the great reconstructed reconstruction
policy of Congress.
The duke of Newcastle was shot in the face by
q reverend gentleman who was out hunting with
him.
A nurse, who is now following her calling at
stratford Newtown, has entered her one hundred
and first year.
One-hsf the ordinary revenue OF the British ex-
chequer comes directly or indirectly from tobacco,
spirits, wine or beer.
The London Telegraph thinks the Howard oars.
men are foemen worthy Of the steel of the Ok.
ford boys.
The Washington correspondent of the PhiladeI.
phia Gazette predicts the speedy removal of the
president.
The New York Mail says young man may
learn gracefulness by practcing little amenities to
his mother and sisters.
The memory Of names Is demanded in society
on the same ground that all rules of etiquette are
supposed to be acknowledgements it Is agreea
BILE to others.-lEx..
The Baton Rouge Advocate of the 9th saws IL ia
Gen. George Sykes who has been ordered to the
command of the 10th United States infantry at that
post. The wires had it Gen. Sckles.
Princess Alexandria" the English papers say.
car now walk without stick" Do they mean
that Albert Edward is no longer the partner OF
her rambles .-I Exchange.
Glasgow paper states that Roman Catholic
hierarchy is about to be established in Scotland.
The archbishop cardinal is to be Bishop Lynch.
~" iOo'eAnb ~ NoASeahcs ouu htucT fdIklnBOn,
ian Oxford pervert," will be bishop of Glasgow.
1t is understood that General Hancock has asked
to be relieved from the command Of the fifth mill
tary district. The president has received num-
Der OF dispatches from prominent and influential
citizens OF Louisiana requesting that Gen. Han
cock may not be removed from bis present COM
nd.-[National lntelligencer, I'd.
Charles Dickens entertained about thirty litera
~ gentlemen Of Boston and suburban cities at
supper, at the Parker House, on Saturday even
ing week. The affair was q peculiarly elegant
one, the room and table being decorated in the
most lavish manner with flowers.
A Southern clergyman who oficiated at Gin
cinnati church recently, stopped in the middle Of
long and tedious discourse, and raised his hand
as If to pronounce the benediction, to which the
congregation responded by rising. knseling, etc.
But the motion was made only to adjust his sur
plce, which being done he continued his dis.
course, and the congregation. with general gig
gle, resumed its position for listening.
Gov. Haight, Of California, has sent message
to the Senate, declining to forward the resolutions
indorsing the action of Congress on the impeach.
ment of the president, on the ground that it would
improperly influence the judgment of the Senate
sitting as court. The Assembly resolutions ex-
pressing sympathy for the president are not liable
to the same objections, or he would not have
transmitted them. The message was sustained BY
the casting vote Of the lieutenant governor.