The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-14

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~ clerk. For wonder. he refused to ac-
cspt it, Washington cor. N. Herald.
Edwin Booth has had a gold crown built in Bos-
ton for his Richard at cost Of 5000 There u
also collar of the Greer of the Garter made
entirely of gold and silver, and jeweled cross,
spiritss sdneti ; also = jeweled sword and Dag
ger, mounted in real stone, the hit and scap'
bard covee ed with gems.
man went INTO Moody's shirt store day or
;wo ago, and sitter bothering the clerk for some
tine he selected pair Of haf-hose, remark ng ;
~ have nothing but some slverl" Very WELL"
laid the clerk, al will allow you the premium on
your silver;' vhereupon the customer graveiy
b, usd out and handed 10 the astonshed clerk
81 yer spoon, which was, of course, refused.
The beauty If the flowers this year In Paris IS
wonderful "Dearn you say. "Of course the,
are desr-so il every thing from household oreao
to trufies; but they are lovely also. the mtrse's
are quite Horticultural shows the beauty oil IN
flowers being enhanced by the uglness OF the
women who poster yOu to buy them, and Sho are:
by some strange law of nature, the plainest OF
their sce."-IPsris Correspondent.
lady has just been raised to the po-
sition Of principal of one of the boys grammar
schools of Philsdelphs-sn advanced post IN the
system, heretofore held by male teachers at sal
airy beyond that usually allotted to women teach
ers Some opposition has been made, but not
| much.
dinner was given on Good Friday, by ". De
| Sainte Beuve. which has been commented on by
| the cericsls in every possible key. The great
| scandal was pork-pork on Good Friday! At This
| oinDer attended Prince Napoleon, Edmund About
| Ernest ReDsn and eight other very free thinking
Ruests-one of whom must be talkative; for things
| which might have done well over sparkling cham
psgne look very bad in print-a point which re-
msrkable men are never guarded against.
There is an irrepressible conflict raging between
the Amite City Times and the Greensburg Star
and Journal. The war that for space did fail,
now trebly thund'ring, swells the gale. In its
last issue, the Star and Journal pours in the fol-
| lowing broadside:
" Grammar! Dictionary : Punctuati0n!!
We do not know anything about farming, bat We
can say this much about the place that vegetables
are in the market earlier than any other place IN
the four parishes. Any person 1otst1ng TO spend
a pleasant time zoe lcOUtd ddctce them to go to
| Uovington, it is ihirty-six miles west OF Amite
City, Amite City Times.
| See English Grammar See rules for punctua-
ton See Websters Dictionary, or any other
| dictionary except yours
Not contented with this, the Star and Journal
surrenders over q column of its valuable space to
a correspondent, whose scathing pen is also
welded to crush the Amite City Times. He
charges the editor with lack of cerebrum,
which is explained as referring to brains. " As
to the sentiments of the Times" says the writer
they are deficient" he never saw softer u
paper, or a paper with such bad spell. To
illustrate Sheels A" for shells; "lepard" fol
leopard. In summing up. the correspondent says
, Upon the whole, the Amite Times is paper
which is calculated greatly TO demoralize the in
| teectual ideas of school children. and as near
! every family has more less such children
| think it highly improper for it to circulate among
our citizens, ard we all have the consolation
of knowing that its circulation is almost over ant
was always small at best. For paper of NJ
! | more common sense than a soft soap peddler'
mule TO be continually snarling and swapping lik
| a hungry cur at a tom cat, as does the Times a
the Star and Journal. is a subject talked of b.
many, and is very injurious to its prosperity.
Vale, Amite City Times