The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-05
Editorial PARAsRAPHs,E ETC.

Mfs. IcNertOn is IN columbus, Georgia.
Well posted The telegraph.-TEx.
Eugenie's waist measures seventeen inches.
Nenken is married again.
Thaddeus Stevens is seriously i'll again.
Strauss is coming.
People who catch at straws-C obbler drinkers.
| Exchange.
Cuffee's somnolent tendencies are thought TO dis
qualify him for the duties of night Waterman.
The monogram collection fever has succeeded
the carte de visite. ........-.. -.
1t costs $4,000 per annum to sweep and dust the
British House of Commons.
Those who drink wine and tea show thev can
| stand en- attack OF grape and canister.-[Ex.
| The remains of Mrs. Surratt were lately ex.
posed and found in perfect state of preservation
] The presence Of Gen. Geo. II. Thomas at Nash.
vile is regarded ominous of trouble.
! II everybody uses" thing, as some aever-
| tisements declare isn't that enough!
| Great rejoicing in Georgia over the defeat of
Joe Brown.
Mississippi editor talks of "our eye" and 'our.
mouth"
| The Galveston papers report tremendous
shOa. Of red snappers forty miles out.
| Overhead and ears in debt-Wearing an unpaid
| for hat--tEx-- =
The liveries made for Maximilian's servants now
bedeck the supes" Of theater.
The Prince of Wales accompanied bis brother
Alfred in his visit to Farrsgut's frigate Franklin.
Mr.. Belmont drives about Newport in his Eng.
lish four INLAND stage coach.
| We steal many gosspy items from the New
York Mali.
John B. Coughs new lecture is entitled "Cir.
! cumstsnces"
White flannel suits are much worn by young
gentlemen at the seaside.
Opelousas has Democratic club, of which NJ.
G. May is president.
1.-THE Crops,n and Personal and POLITICAL in
supplement. .-.
Bonnets are entirely discarded by the New York
ladies' as soon they leave town.
Gen. Hancock is being dined and wined by the
Newport people.
young lady at Nahsnt has fifty dollar bath
ing costume.
A six-in-hsnd turnout is creating a sensation at
Saratoga.
Mrs. Grundy already reports ten matrimonial
engagements at Long Branch.
The sailors collar, pointed over the shoulder
is much in vogue amopg young ladies'.
fancy for India goods is one of the caprices
Of the summer.
sion that eve are all liars"
1t is now an understood fact that plain water.
fall Is no longer fashionable.
A Paris paper calls Abraham Lincoln the 81.
Paul of America.
Three hundred and twenty yachts, ranging
from ten to six hundred tons each, are advertised
for sale in English journals.
Dresses of pine apple cloth-a fine material
do fvov he
pretty and fashionable.
A three hundred dollar ring slipped from a
young ladys finger while bathing at Atlantic
City the other day.
Marriages on horseback are popular At he
West. TLey may be properly called bride cere
mOnies.-lEx.
fashionable wife says Long Branch il a de.
lightful place; for her husband comes there only
once week.
Geo. Ellis has the police pictorias, Scientific
American, Harper's Weekly and Peterson's Mag.
azine for September.
The New York picterials are doing the " Wick.
edest Maj" with pictures of his den, inside and
out, and portraits of himself and son Chester.
Georgia paper prefaces a statement Of the
defeat Of joe Brown with rooster and Thank
God"
An Augusta, Georgia. paper says that city
contains, in proportion TO its size, more elegant |
private residences than any other in the world.
Mobile negro policeman while asleep on the |
street was deprived Of his hat, badge and club, by
a passing patrol.
1t is proposed to build houses in New York on |
the French apartment plan, suited to families Of
all sizes.
new drink, named Butler Cocktail has
been cobcocted.. You stir it up with a spoon,
squint one eye. drink tue liquid down, and pnr
the spoons in your pocket LEX.
Some 900 men are stopping at the Portsmouth
navy yard under pay. large majority of them
can be found in some shady nook talking politics,
and ready to go with the strongest party.
We have the first number Of the Southern Argus
and Crisis, published weekly at Crystal Springs,
Miss. It is edited BY J. W. Overall and published
BY E. E. Overall both lately Of this city. and ex-
e-enced journalists.
The Vermilionvile Advertiser favors its read.
rs with poetical and beautiful descriptions of the
Inc country thsreaboui. It is refreshing to the