The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-08
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.

General J. B. Hood is at the Allegheny Springs.
An exchange says beefroast, properly cooked,
is a rare thing.
Bishop Beckwith has decided to reside in Ma
con.
Marquis de Chambrun, a descendant of Lafay
cite, lives in Washington.
Adversely borrows its sharpest sting from our
impotence.
In life man should always endeavor to suit
circumstances TO himself, and, failing this, re.
signedy accommodate himself to circumstances.
Our neighbor Gresham, has Scott's Poetcal
Works complete for so cents, and Walter SCOTS
Bride of Lsmmermoor for Is cents.
Krun & Dickey, LOG Canal street, has the new
official edition of stamp duties, conveniently
printed in cardform.
George Ellis, opposite the PostOfice, has the
Scientific American, Every Saturday, Harper's
Weekly and At Home and Abroad.
A New Orleans correspondent of rural sheet
says "John W. Overall has long been known in
New Orleans as poet and writer of literature"
Fame and admiration weigh not feather in the
scale against friendship and love, for the heart
lsngushes all the same.
Boston has appropriated $40 600 for the Chest.
nut Hill reservoir, and $35, 900 for a driveway
around it.
gentleman in Yonkers, N. Y, is building a
monument to the memory of his wife, which is to
cost $500 coo.
In his last letter to the Mobile Sunday Times,
Evelyn" intimates that he is TO work in other
departments of that paper, and says he has signed
the name Of Evelyn" for the last time.
The Evening Femail, which knows all about IT,,
asserts that John G. SAKE will be nominated to
Austria if Collector Smythe is not confirmed.
We must pass through this world to unlock the
mysteries of the next, and it is only in the next
that we can find key to unlock the mysteries of
this.
The Chicago Tribune company is worth about
81 100000. Its yearly dividends Of late have been
between so and 80 per cent, besides paying hand
some salaries to the proprietors.
Over $780, 900 arpents of the lands claimed by
! Mrs Gaines are located in East Baton Rouge, La.
| James ErnOtt, of this city, holds a mortgage on
/ these lands in consideration OF pro essional ad
vice and money advanced.-[N. Y. Mail.
The Tribune, with the view of making an honest
penny out of the Democratic convention, informs
| its " friends" in that body that the Tribune Al
mansc, from 1888 to 1868, can be purchased a
that Office.
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committees of the National Democratic Conven
ton: On Credentials -Durant DaPonte. On Per
manent OrgaDization-J. B. Eustis. On Resolu
tons-G. W. McCranie.
A late number of the Railway Times has thi
naive announcement: "We are under the neces
sity of emitting the whole of our correspondence
for the present week, as well as some exceeding.
| Udlltdble observations Of our O,0n { y On pre-
ysiling topics"
The story is current in London that Queen Vic
toria has become so unsettled since the death @
her husband that she believes Prince Albert
spirit always appears on his birthday, MAY "a
at Balmorsl. and her late unexpected and rap
fight from London to the haunted spot is thus az
counted for.
The Pail Mall Gazette has just discovered an
acknowledged the fact that Great Britain real
the followers of Brigham Young, and that Americ
gets the credit Of them. This paper truthful
says: 1--WE send shiplosds of MOrmons I
America, and then write books to prove thi
mormonism is the natural fruit of the loose priI
ciples which prevail in America"
Krull & Dickey, log Canal street, have Petei
sons cheap editions of the following works
Walter Scott: Peverill of the Peak, Red Gam
let, st. Romans Well, The Pirate, Quentin Du
ward and Fortunes Of Nigel. Also, the followin
works of Charles Dickens: House to Let, Tor
Tiddler's Ground, Wreck of the Golden Mar
Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Perils of English Prison
ers and the Picnic Papers. The same firm has
bulky pamphlet containing report Of the in
parchment trial Of Andrew johnson.