The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-09
EDIroRIAL PARAsRArHs. ETC.

Ole Boil is to be back in October
The White Mountaia travel is now large.
Great hearts. like the ocean. never CONCEAL.
Rossini is "down" on the Emperor Napoleon
Mr.. VIM. d. Csbell has purchased the Interest
| Of A. Waddill in the Lynchsurg News. ~.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Clinton
| and l. G. Harris.
Bishop Wilmer, of Louisisna, Is reported al
Long Branch.
Prof. Smith Ragsdale whats in q name y
teaches q school in PIttsburg, Texas. l
big shark was caught near Galveston the
other day.
Galveston received its first bale Of cotton on
the 4th. ..-
The San Antonio Herald compliments the ad-
m'uistration of Gen. Reynolds.
All Right" is in Madrid, and has gyrated be.
fore the queen.
G. A. T. ID srdesvoring TO write down Stonewall
jackson.
The New York police made ls4 arrests last
Jasper Blackburn is opposed to arming the
negroes.
The idea Of purchasing the Bay of SANTANA and
the Island OF St. Thomas is not yet abandoned.
Ii is reported from Washington that Postmas.
ter Tsliaferfoi is defaulter to the extent of
SAC, 600.
Two hundred and four delegates were reported
at the international commercial convention in
Portland on the tth.
The venerable writer and poet, John Neal,
presided at the International commercial conven.
ton at Portland.
Gen. Schofeld decides that government en-
plOyes are not to receive the same pay for eight
hours work as they did for ten hours work.
lad was bitten and nearly caught by huge
shark while bathing at the Battery in New York
recently.
Young Raymond is writing Jsnkinsy and rather
vapid letters from Long Branch to the New York
Times.
The " wickedest man says he is terribly bored
by the white neck-tie gentry and that his business
is ruined.
Thanks for public documents to the Honorables
VIM. p. Kellogg, Jasper Blackburn and James
Mann, members Of Congress from Louisiana.
The editor of the Bellevue (Ls.) Banner an
nounces a cry-sis 10 his family, weighing eight
pounds.
Gentlemanship-A quality not possessed by
scalawags and carpet baggers, according to Willis
Rollins.
The Holly Springs Reporter submissvely &C.
knowledges that Providence is the best judge Of
good weather."
The Cincinnati Times alludes to "Matamoros,
Texas" and to Monterey across the river"
Overhaul your geography, Mr.. Times.
Texas exchange permits the Office "devir
to reply to editorial paragraph in the same pa
per. Dignifed journalism
The late "Jsck Downing was q native Of
Maine, and died at the age Of &c. His wife was
Mrs. Elizabeth Cakes Smith.
Gov. Seymours letter accepting the presiden-
tial nomination, which we give in full this morn
ing, is regarded as the abest political appeal and
indictment Of this decade.
Patrice Leonard has succeeded F. s. Caro- In
the management of the Empire Parish newspaper,
and changes it from Democratic to Radical pa
per.
Father Spalding, who came to his death by
burning at Louisville. a brother Of Archbishop
Spsldipg. The archbishop was expected to be
present at the funeral.
Charles E. Leland, of the Clarendon, Saratoga,
will be the proprietor of the Grand Hotel. Paris,
his offer of sixteen million francs (gold) having
been accepted.
We are constantly overcome by the announce.
ments in our country exchanges Of the dullness of
business in Coontown, Persimmonport, skunks.
vile and other centers Of trade.
One of the best articles of diet, at this season
Of the year, and good one at all seasons, is rice.
If people would eat plenty of well cooked rice,
they would have fewer disturbances of the digest
i've apparatus.
The royal commissioners on the Irish Church
establishment recommend the abolition of all
Episcopal sees and Cathedral establishments in
Ireland, except eighty, to be maintained on q
reduced income.
cotton gin has been invented by citizen Of
Louisville which not only cleans the cotton from
the seed, but bulls it at the same time. 1t makes
good ssleable cotton out Of dirty and repulsive
looking debris which could not be otherwise
used.
Green corn, it is said. may be kept the year
round by picking il with the husks on, in brine
strong enough to preserve cucumbers, care being
taken to kept covered with brine. Boiling it in
good supply of water will freshen it sufficiently
for the table.
Tie head of an Irish family which recently
pitched its tent in the woods near Groton, Conn.,,
spent three years and half at Dublin University.
His library consists of works on Hndoo Myth.
ology, Xenophon, Anabasis, Homer, Virgil and
numerous others of the same stamp. with all of
which he is perfectly familiar, being able our in
formant states, TO translate Greek or Hebrew into
English faster than he (our informant) could read
English. The family have been the subject of
much gossip and speculation in the neigh borhood,
the more so from the fact that the wife is a very
iliterate woman.
National Democratic Committee.