The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-01
eDIroRIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Strawberries six cents basket in New York.
IL is estimated that nearly fifteen Thousand New
Workers will spend the season at Long Branch.
lacy won thirty pairs Of gloves at the Jerome
races.
Jay Cooke and family are sojourning at su-
periOr City, Lake Superior.
The season at Niagara opens finely, and a bril-
liant summer is anticipated.
Senator Henderson is fifty, and his bride in he-
teens.
Miss Peters, daughter of DR.. Peters. who shot
Gen. Van Dorm is about to enter convent and
take the veil. gxza
The latest novelty is a fan which can be used
as parssol or veil.
Hon. James Brooks drives the handsomest pair
OF cream-colored horses in Washington.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company and
the officers of the steamers Reindeer and Ceona
The actors Chss. T. Parsloe aud John Turner,
Boston actors, have been arraigned for asssuting
Boston manager, and fined $40 each.
Count Ruiz, Cuban nabob, who makes yearly
visits TO Saratoga. has had rooms made expressly
for him in the new Congress Hail.
A bankers family in New York. says the Mail
have a dinner daily served in eight courses-com-
pany or no company.
That the father of very distinguished con-
gresham was hung as pirate is positively as
serted by a senator belonging to the same party.
young lady on Madison Avenue, says the New
York Mail. has two white mice, which are fed out
of her sweet little mouth.
One of the New York clubs is having steam
yacht splendidIy fitted up for the exclusive use
| Of the members.
The property owners in and about Merose
dresdfnlly indignant at Mr.. Bonner's advertise
! ment Of the unpleasant feature of that locality.
| Mr.. Edwin Booth will spend part of the sum
mer al his country seat near the Pequot House,
New London.
The New York Times calls the 4th of July "the
most detestsble day of the year." That is fatty.
disloyall
| Mrs. Prosser, who has been a reader for Queen
Victoria, is about to open boarding school 10
New York.
Miss Winnie Ream is trying to get her room in
the old Capitol building at Washington restored
to her.
GEO. Ellis has the Jolly Joker for the 4th of
July, PhunDy Phellow for August. and Hsrper's
and Leslies pctorials.
The Lantern, which laughed at the Emperor, is
not extnguished. OF the first number rs, 900 were
sold. The second number, the sale Of which was
forbidden, sold to the extent of 225 900.
Among the names registered in Paris for the
week ending June IL are those of Mrs. F. L. Muir.
DOCK of Mississippi. and Mrs. Pauline Flanner and
Master Thomas J. Flanner, of New Orleans.
A Homer (La.) paper tells its neghboring con-
temporary that it is like its MASTER the Devil and is
called, in turn, an incsrDate devil a Thousand
times worse than Judas"
bae he
thousand dollars worth of clothing and jewelry.
! This is called a new species of cruelty to
animals.
The New York Observer thinks ladies' club
houses are "sgns of decay in social and domestic
manners and morals that no Christian can regard
without painful reflections"
caleb Cushing is engaged in a most lucrative
practice of his profession in Washington. He
was sixty-eight years old on the 18th of January
last, and is perhaps the freshest and most youth
ful uan of lis age in America
W. W. Moore, who has been appointed post.
master of Washington, is the father of Col Moore,
one Of President Johnson's secretaries, and was
for very many years the foreman in the Office of
the National Iutelligencer, under Gales Seatou.
In speaking of the departure of Rlstori "bet-
ter" The New York Tribune gushngly observes,
than our memories of her art, will be our
memories Of herself May the blue summer
skies bend sweetly over, and the great Atlantic
seas roll gently beneath the bark that carries
Adelaide Ristori to rest and to home"
Some fssbioDables are getting up "a three days
picnic to Catsklll. Among the features proposed
is d" German " in the immense Mountain House
parlor, a moonlight ride to Haines's Falls aud
FaWn's Leap, row on Silver Lake, beside the pic.
mic which is 10 be held on South Mountain. The
1T ursn oAa ill. l..
and will take band of music with them. The
affair is creating quite lutter in fashionable cir
cIes, and invitations are in great demand.
1t will be remembered that the Catholic church
a. Vaudeville was destroyed last winter by a
storm. For the purpose of raising the means to
rebuild it fair is to be held at the residence of
ar. Yerret, Vaudeville, which win begin next
Saturday, July 4. 1t will be continued through
the next day, and thereafter every Saturday and
sunday until the close of the month. 1t will be
grsced by vocal and instrumental music, under
the direction of Mr.. Priore, and lovers of dane.
ing will have an opportunity to indulge in that
cheerful festivity to their hearts desire. This
notice is particularly addressed to the ladies and
gentlemen of New Orleans who may propose a
Saturday or Sunday excursion across the lake by
the steamers Laura or Camelia, and such are re.
minded that they may procure breakfast or din.
ner, or both, at the place of the fair quite as
economical and satisfactory as can be obtained
at the hotels in Vaudeville, while they will have
the additional pleasure OF thereby aiding praise
worthy ard sacred charity. The steamers to
Vaudeville leave the lake end on Saturday upon
the arrival of the O'Clock P. NJ. train, and on
Sunday upon the arrival Of the 81 A. NJ train, re-
turning the same evening.
The GREAT GERMAN FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK.
New York dispatch of the 9th ult. says:
The heat to-day did not prevent the thousands
OF Germans commencing their week of festivities.
Ihe sirt els in different parts of the city were de-