The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-28

New York has 20 900 tenement houses.
Booths new theater will cost half million.
Chanfrau has little cottage at Long Branch.
General Rousseau is in st. Paul.
General Hancock is at Cape May.
DR.. Holland is charmed with England.
| Swinburne has had commissions.
1t costs five dollars to hear Schneider 10 London
In Hawaii horses are worth 81 80 each.
Nashville has girl baby with four legs.
Electricity will bleach unre6ned sugar.
Dick Taylor has a cottage by the sea-Newport.
Grant travels with a map before him.
! The president is going to Newport.
COlfsx used to be dry goods clerk.
Mobile is expectant of female BARRIERS.
Archbishop Cullen is better.
Newbury, Mass, has a berry picker ninety-fve
years old.
Mark Twain is reading from his book in San
Francisco.
New York sbsorbs 10000 kegs Of soda water
and 40 OOe of lager daily.
Fast young women drive four-in.hands at New
port.
One hundred and sixty seven horses died in New
York, week before last.
Large numbers of sidewhiskered Englishmen
are doing" the summer resorts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is rusticating at his
pretty little Nsbant villa.
Alaska has berry which makes fine edible
froth, jelly and soap at the same time.
1t is said Greenport. L. l., has made nearly
l20 600 600 torpedoes the past year.
Trieste sends fl2, 900 worth of leeches a year to
Paris.
for want of clerks.
Go bo.s
to the pound. Price, 81 pound.
1t is said the candle dealers paid the Phila
delpha gas men to strike.
1t costs England ten thousand dollars each to
test her guns.
Western newspaper celebrated the Fourth
by printing its edition in red and blue ink.
Victoria is now the grandmother of thirteen
children.
Gen. Stoneman is said to be under the influence
of the Virginia rebels"
The "wiekedest man in New York " never
tells lie.
The Atlantic monthly for August, the best of
American magazines of its kind is before us.
Men and women who would knock you down if
you called them liars, lie every hour.
New York Mail
New York correspondent of Troy paper
charges the New York merchants, as a class, with
gro,s iterateness.
Wicked men stumble over straws in the way to
Heaven, but climb over hills in the way to
destTuctiOn.-lEx.
Gresham, No. go Camp street, has received the
Riverside Magazine, and The Land We Love-
for August.
In the graduating class of Yale College, LOG in
number, 20 smoke, Is chew tobacco; 20 play bill.
lizards, and Sc play cards.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Postoffce, has the New
York Clipper, National Police Gazette, Southern
Home Journal, Frank Leslie and New York
Weekly.
An English clergyman has taken up his resi-.
dence in this country in order that he may marry
his deceased wife's sister-a luxury which the
English law prohibits.
The body of General Thomas Francis Meagher,
it is said, was found aud buried near the SD
where found, within month after the sad accident
of his drowning.
Tie students at the college regatta in Worces-
ter, Mass, were mirthfully riotous and came near
turning the town upside down. About thirty ar.
rests were made and heavy fines imposed.
"Ivy Green" who has just returned from a
tour through the northern part of Mississippi, re-
ports the crops Of the State as superior to those
Of any other year since the war. There are no
indications of the worm.
Mr.. LoDgfellow consented to be dined in Lon.
don on condition that there should be no speech
making. Among the company were the Duke of
Argyll Admiral Farragut, Lord Houghton, Lord
Eliot, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and Lieutenant
General Sir Hope Grant.