The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-24
EDITOAIAL PARAsRAPHs, ETC.


A French Catholic Church is to be erected i
Utica, MY.
Archbishop Purcell is giving controversial lee
lures in Cincinnati.
Guizot has announced that ke will not re. .ente
political life.
squill, popularly known as squilIs, is said to b
unusually fatal to the life of rats.
Crop prospects for stone fruit and the grape |,
France are good. Grain also looks well,
Bateman's Opera Company, Mrs. Drew ant
John Brougham are in Philadelphia.
Neal Dow is to held sort of protraeted meet
ing with the Louisville cold water folks.
Alex. Mitchell returns the largest income of any
man in Milwaukee-sIS2, 900.
The Brooklyn bridge project is entirely aban
doned for the present.
Mrs. Gen. A. P. Hill is sojourning with friend
in Louisville.
Providence, Rhode Island, has Ku KIux Klau
Society.
There were four fires in Memphis on the 2lst.
and 5000 worth Of property destroyed.
Thanks to the officers of the steamer Jose
phine.
The violin has undergone no Improvement ia
25O years.
The Catholics are building $lcO 900 hospital in
Troy, New York.
Miss Charlotte Cushman is expected to return to
the United States next month.
Egypt has obtained a lean of $4,000 900 in
Paris.
Heller is in London with a new trick which he
calls the " Girl of the Period.n He throws younp
woman, aged l6l out of hat.
The famous memoirs of TaIleyrand, for which
people have been waiting for twenty years, will
appear next month.
New Hampshire paid s25O,O of her State debt
during the past year, and, at that rate, will
hquidate the whole in ten years.
Marshal Harvsez, of Spain, came to his death
by eating an ice cream while suffering from a
very severe attack of influenza.
Trout are being caught by the baFrelful, at Port
Franks, Canada, where they sell for two cents
pound
We are indebted to the publisher, Robert J.
Harp, for the Home Miscellany for May, pub
lished at No. III Camp street, New Orleans.
We are indebted TO the Mechanics and Agri.
cultural Fair Association for copy Of the report
Of their Second Grand Fair in this city last
January.
In Memphis on the 2Ist. Mr.. Thomas F. Noble,
artist, Of New York, was united in marriage to
Miss Mary @. Hogan, daughter of Mr.. Hogan, of
the Appeal.
An exchange thinks that, " if we could elimi.
nate from all effort the element of fret, it might
be doubted whether there are many brains
among US that are overworked after all.r
Yellow, orange and Bismarck are announced
as the fashionable colors for street gloves for
gentlemen, and lavender and flesh color for
ladies.
A minority of the committee on foreign affairs
report against paying for Alaska. II does not
think the fisheries timber or agriculture of Alaska
are any great shakes.
A German traveller has discovered two gold
mines in the interior of Africa, about nine hun.
1red miles from Natal in a northwest direction.
The geological character of the country indicates
an extraordinary amount of auriferous wealth.
The commercial editor of the st. Louis Demo.
crat has great fifth in the Bayou Manchac project
and says that "the pigsh course this city New
Orleans) chooses to pursue in her manner of con-
1uetiDg trade compels the opening of a new
-oute to the markets of the world"
A Boston Democrat has recently gained posses.
non OF pair of lasts upon which the boots of
John Hancock were made for twenty years pre-.
'eding his desth. Upon the bottom of each is |
lis original signature. Those who intend to walk
n the footsteps of the illustrious Hancock will |
low doubtless embrace the opportunity of having |
heir boots male upon his last.-[N. Y. Times.
One thousand forms (s50O) in gold are on the |
way to New York, as the contribution of the
Vienna (Austrisn) Scheutzenfest committee to |
he prizes to be shot for at the approaching inter-
lationsl sharpsAooters' festival next June. This
; in return for $l200 Stenway piano sent from
Sew York to Vienna for a similar purpose
The medicine chest OF DR.. Livingstone was
tolen by the natives. Hence, skeptcs as to the
'enefits to be derived from the Materia Medica,
ssert that this seeming misfortune was the cause
f the African explorers exemption from disease
uring his protracted wsnderings. The circum-
tance that preserved Livingstone's health may
rove fatal to the African thieves.
A New York correspondent, of the Jenkins
rider, says Bonner has such a countenance as one
Tould expect to see in successful general, or in
nyone Of strong executive power, and doubts not
'onner woHld have made as great military man
s he has editor, since in the latter capacity he
as marshAled the literati of America into his ser
ice.
The walking match in New York OF 1000 miles
D as many hours attracts more attention as the
ong journey draws near Girdlng is reported to
q suffering severely from sore feet but notwith.
landing that, he continues TO make the best time.
'ouDg Miles slept so soundly the other night that
is trainer had hard work to wake him up. Both
len speak confidently of their ability to 60
trough with their task.
A society for the promotion of crocodiles is
eeded. The Hindoos throw all their dead into
le sacred waters OF the GaDges, where they
ere formerly at once devoured by the scaly
,avengers who infested that stream in myriads.
atterly English sportsmen have so reduced the
umber Of crocodiles that the corpses gather in
le eddies and lagoons along the stream, and
Oisoning the atmosphere, breed the cholera,
hich has so scourgsd the world in recent
ears.
The London Times says the English have great
,pugnance to a residence in Ireland. 1t re.
arks:
The English are adventurous enough. They
Ill suddenly transport themselves and their
Imilies, and live under eternal sno 80 or eternal
IDS, In unknown solitudes, or among savages,
)bbers or civilized beings still more hateful But |