The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-09
EDironIAL PARAGRAPHs. ETC.

France has spent $40 600 900 on the chassepot.
Coughs voice fails. sirt i
Alta vela is Spanish for tall CANDLE"
Yesterday was cool enough to render oyercoats
comfortable.
Peaches wheat and clover are very promising
in KeDtseky.
A splendid, newIy.born male iufaotn is ad
vertised for adoption among the Herald personals.
The LaGrsDge- Brignoli troupe are expected in
Memphis next week.
Dolby took away with him delicate little lace
handkerchief as a souvenir.
The Baton Rouge Comet favors the Bayou Man
chac movement.
The Sabbath is Gods special present to the
working man.
'Airless music-bal d'opera. An angry coun-
try-Ireland. popular cure-sine-cure. Ex.
Simon, IS Baronne street. has the American
Naturalist for May, and the Jewish Messenger.
city contemporary contains an " analysis of
Mr.. lLsster," city chemist. "Alas, poor YOrickl"
Ben DeBar is about erecting new and elegant
thester in St. Louis.
Bloody Moon Polka" is the name Of new
piece of muisc just out at Nashville.
The late Commodore Ridgely was native of
Kentucky.
Alta Vela is small island lying south Of Hayti,
and belonging to that government.
Able Bauer, NapOleOn's preacher, has been
preaching politics, using up Prussia and Bis
marck.
The New York Express says the streets are in
fine state for sgators, but other kinds of gait
ers had better stay in the house.
a Fifth Avenue belle has broken of a marriage
engagement because her fiance wouldn't go into
raptures over her verses.
Mrs. Cedy Stanton's paper says the story of
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden Is, of
course aegoricsl.
The New York Mail says the editor whose duty
it to read the jokes sent to that paper has con
tracted permanently sad expression of features.
At Geo. Ellis's, opposite the Postofice, may be
obtained the New York Metropolitan Record for
the campaign.
An exchange suggests that druggists are indict.
able for selling blisters under the law against ia
fanmatOry placalds.
Miss Emma Fitzpatrick. who visited this coun-
try in 1862, and remained nearly year, perform
ing in all the leading cities of the Union is dead.
An exchange remarks that Washington never
made speech in his life, and would have been
overwhelmed in debate by Garrett Davis.
The mule cars are running on Claiborne street
as far as the Old Basin. The road is admirably
constructed, and for most of the distance arched
and shaded by trees.
1t is reported IN New York that Mrs. Lsngdon,
sister of William B. Astor, has begun a suit
against her brother for the recovery of property
valued at several millions.
One CT Bonapsrtes grenaders, who was shot
in the leg at Waterloo. had the ball extracted a
few weeks ago. Previous attempts had been
| made, but failed.
| John Minor Bolts informs the people of Vir.
| gnia that he will not be a candidate for governor,
but might be Induced to serve the State as a sena
| tor in Congress-. ta
| The young prince imperial has just begun to
travel alone, preceded by orders that he shall be
received with honors similar to those paid the
emperor.
Among the wedding presents RECEIVED by Miss
| Dix, daughter of Gen. Dix, at her recent nuptals
| in Paris, were twelve magnificent fans, almost as
many lace pocket handkerchiefs, four lace para
soils, and pdrure of diamonds.
Garibaldi, it is said, intends to leave Caprera
soon, being unwilling to remain any longer under
the military surveillance of Italy and France
combined, whose ships he sees daily cruising
around his island home. He will probably settle
in Sicily.
Mrs. and Miss Spotted Tail are boarding at the
| Rollins House, and communicative waiter as
serts that they demolished sixteen plates of soup
| between them at dinner yesterday. As they arose
| from the table Mrs S. I. was heard to murmer in
the Chinook jsrgon Nika tum tum hyas, klosch
copa okuk muc-a- muck house. Nlka mitIed
hiawa all the time. You bet Cheyenne Argus.
There is a startling commentary upon the
morally ruinous tendencies of the fashionable dis
spaton of the age. to be found in the statistics Of
application for admission into Binghampton asylum
for the cure of inebriates. OF the 2l53 enrolled
upon the books of that institution for certain
period, 1900 were young women, the daughters Of
wealthy parents.
Jesse Shepard, a male soprano, is singing in
Louisville. The Courier says his voice is clear
and full, and cannot be distinguished from that OF
q female soprano 1t is certainly one Of the most
remarkable gifts ever conferred upon one of the
male sex. He rises to E fat which is only one
note below the great Jenny Lind, and equal to the
famous Pareps.
Walking matches on the surface of the earth
have been rather overdone Of late. and so the Bos
tonians, determined to have q pedestrian contest
to excite them, and wishing to be original in the
arrangements. are preparing for submarine
walking match under the supervision Of a diver
The course is to be from one Of the wharves il
the city proper to the Cunard wharf in Eas
Boston. rI
Mr.. f. A. Abbott, of this city, has a fine resi-
deuce at Rye, valued at $40, 600, where he Ieside
the year round. Mr.. A. has been the New Yorl
correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune fo
the past twenty years, and is also connected will
other American and European journals Although
still young man. he is the Oldest Geographic cor
respondent of the press nov living-having CON
menced with the late Dr. Jones, of the Herald
who was the pioneer agent Of the Associates
Press.-[New York Mail.
It seems necessary, says the London Cour
| Journal, to inform those who attend at court of
point of etiquette to which their attention ha
apparently not been called, namely, that glove
should not be worn in the presence Of the soyei
eign. That is the precise rule, but usually tn
left glove is worn. The right hand glove shout
! on no account be worn by those who are pre-
, | scented.
, The French emperor is not averse to sermon
] he rather likes il, but it must be good one, an
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