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


Tilton is good short-hander.
Almost so 900 Democratic majority in Kentucky.
Won Beust promises that Austria viii be good.
An era that may dawn soon-Chol-era.
Ifyou can't eat all the fruit You have you can
can it.
The Charleston Courier has beautiful new
Col. Caraway Smith, Of Florida, has bsen car
ried away from this terrestrial sphere.
Every body has one bore or more. The bored
man is the bore Of another one.
. Bald heads are sometimes referred to the use Oh
tobacco. {" Nigger's wool ~
The sultan has given Prince Napoleon ring
worth 5000 liras.
Twelve men are in the big organ at Boston,
cleaning il out.
Ruskin gives the income of 100000 to
charity.
Able Bauer, o: Paris, is preaching against the
ballet.
The finest peel Of bellies is said TO be at New.
port about bathing time.
The San Francisco Times, after sinking $780,
600. is now paying.
When man looks at You and swesrs, does he
take cursory glance p IN. Y. Commonwealth
schneiders friends deny that she ever had an
intrigue with Prince Napoleon.
Bismarck says he will try to visit America when
he RECEIVERS.
Tying defes Boggs by preaching in Central
Park.
A doublescull rsce-the negroes.
PIsnehette has sent Washington lady to the
lunatic asylum.
A dancing master is polishing up the youth Of
Waco. Texas.
porter 10 one of the New York banks is re-
ported worth 500 900.
The Alabama Senate has passed bill empow-
ering the legislature to elect presidential electors
New York and Boston both have yellow fever
at their quarantine stations.
John Wilson, a well known master printer Of
Boston, died Monday.
Chas. W. Brewster, editor aud proprietor Of the
New Hampshire Journal is dead.
Some of our young political orators should re-
member that brevity Is the soul Of wit.
Seba Smith Jack Downing) died on the 29th
ult.
Mike McCoole insists on having that little mill
out with Coburn.
The Tennessee legislature shows no bowels of
compassion towards the white people Of that
State.
The red snapper party of Galveston came back
looking as though they had been catching blue
fish.
If the nation becomes bankrupt, IRE we not
likely to have another mammoth cdUey
louisville Dem
Those who ought to know. say there is not
bottle of pure wine in the United States, nor has
there been for twenty-five years.
Adelina PATHS husband elect is deeply In
debt.-IEx.
Pity Patti
"Csrleton - writes from India to the Boston
Journal that be is queuching his thirst with Mas
sachusetts ice harvested three years ago.
The country papers say Matilda Heron lost her
fortune by her husbands injuiicious invest
ments.
George william Curtis is said to be the most
elegant writer and speaker in the United
States.
We frequently read Of people who are "pre-
sented WITH things, but never who they 1.-THE
people, are presented to.
Father B. J. spaIdiug Catholic priest of Lsu.
isvilIe, was burned to death in that city on the
morning of the 4th, by his bed clothes taking fire
from gssight.
A Macon paper pays its respects to cores
pendent by calling him stupid, brainless, iIlit.
pd dolt, silly ninny, etc.
The most popular virtuoso in Paris is at ths
juncture Delgsrdo, negro, who was the leader
If the Emperor Maximilian's orchestra. He Is
most talented yolinist, and plays Sivori's cele
brated piece, The bird the tree. ;" in which he
initiates the modulations of the nightingale in the
most striking manner, better than the composer
hims elf.-[Ex.
The Opera House, famed for its brilliant au-
dences in the opera seasons, was again resplen-
dent last night, on the occasion Of great Demo-
cratic meeting, which was honored by the
attendance Of hundreds of the fairest Of the fair
sex. finer or more inspiritng spectacle has
rarely been witnessed within its walls.
Helmbold spends sl40O a.dsy in advertising.
One thousand goes to the papers, and the rest to
oil posters and rock painters. He commenced
business in New York with $40 900. Thirty nine
thousand of this was used in fitting up his store,
| ing. -,- -s.-
Here is what a Macon, Ca, reporter saw in one
car, as he took seat therein and fondly imagined
he was going somewhere:
large, feshy lady was sitting there in game for
a costume: a thin man beside her had taken to
| flannel. SIX footer IN the next seat had beside
him pretty little wife that could scarcely reach
| to the top of yard stick, and there was a little
| dwarf OF lady peepng up love glances in the
| face Of perfect giant. There was robust,
healthy looking man, who seemed to idolize a
| feeble, delicate little woman, and she seemed to
| be the sweetest OF sweet on muscle.
In his soldiers monument poem, delivered in
Jones's Wood by Gen. Halpine, just before bis
death, occurs the following stanza;
Not a IresDd TO invoke
To guar he flag wa A thevs ught