The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-28
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPms, ETC.

EDITORIAL PAKAGRAPHs, ETC.
Burlingame is to be "recepted" at New York.
Thanks to the officers of the steamship Alliance.
'Rar for Cant and Grolfax.-[Casual Benzluist.
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly meets
next year at Mobile.
The pope has granted several medals to Jewish
doctors.
Sun6owers grow thirty feet high in Arizona,
and cactus plants fifty.
Bonner is driving Dexter on the road every
morning.
Blackberries from the sunny South are in the
New York market.
Edward Fawcett, poet, ought to have fine
flow of ideas.
Garrison acknowledges the receipt of s3l, 900
testimonial from his abolition friends.
The late Colonel Hazard, the Connecticut DOW.
der man, leaves an estate of about s., 900 900.
Little japanese Tommy is performing in Lon.
don.
Influenza appears to be the epidemic in half the
countries of Europe.
Homes for working men, with board and lodg-
ing for SO per week, are proposed in Chicago.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Jose phine
and Lizzie.
Geo. Ellis, opposite the Post Office, has the
Scientific American, IHsrpers' Weekly, waverly
Magazine and Last Sensation.
An editor in a Massachusetts, town asks for
either a rigid dog law or an extensive sausage
mandatory.
Artificial concrete walls faced with glazed tiles.
are it is sad likely to enter largely hereafter into
the construction of city edifices.
Since the assassination Of 7. DARCY MCGEE.
single establishment in Montreal has issued so 900
Photographic likenesses of him.
The committee selected to officially notify Gen.
Grant of his nomination will perform that duty
next Friday.
Robert Browning's new poem will have the
cheerful distinction of being the longest poem in
the English language.
An intelligent Northern Ohio Democrat re-
Gently said, in the soberest good faith: :" like
johnson well enough, but why does he give a
postofice to that Id fool Nssby?n
The London Times says the United States have
condensed into four years the dreadful experience
and the salutary schooling of a European cen.
tuTy.
The ladies Of the Austrian embassy have smoked
pipes and drank coffee in the sultan's harem at
Constantinople, by invitation Of the sultan him
self.
The {" All England Eleven " cricketers are com.
ing to this country in the fall, and will play a
series of matches in New York, Philadelphia and
Boston.
Lowell has poem in the current number of the
Atlantic, in which June is thus described
"Long she lies in wait
axes many ieint, peeps oTth draws c'yy back,
With one great gush Of blossoms the Verdi
Six men, three white and three colored, were
exposed in the pillory, and publicly whipped in
Wilmington, Delaware, last week. An average
of twenty-five lsshes from "cat" was admins.
tered TO each. One was a mere boy.
Among the miscellaneous items of expenditure
of the United States House Of Representatives
last year we're s762 for kid gloves and s24 for
Martinique snuff. The miscellaneous appropria-
tions would bear a reduction.
Parton has seen a letter written by President
Andrew Jackson in which there are fifty errors in
spelling, and cenversed with an intimate friend of
Old Hickory, who heard him (Jackson) say that
he didn't believe the world is round.
A Danish dragon, who saved the life of an
Austrian staff officer, Count Zrny, in the cam
paign of 1864, was astonished, short time back,
by receiving 5000 and magnificent meerschaum
President Brigham Young is said to be setting
out enc hundred and fifty acres in mulberry trees.
and the faithful are about to follow his example
The slopes and hills of central Utah are particu.
larry well adapted to silk growing.
Another evidence Of the decadence Of the Am.
ericsn shipping interest is manifested by the fact
that the New York and Hsvre Steamship Com
pany are to dispose of their steamers Arago and
Fulton at public auction, on the 2sth inst.
On the death of an old and supposed poor
woman in Paris, the heirs were astonished to find
the sum of S7,slO francs in notes and gold hidden
in her mattress. For several years she had not
spent more than twenty confines q day for food
General Grant, says the Cincinnati ENQUIRER,
was never successful in winning a victory, except
when he had three or four men TO his enemy's
one. AS he has got no such odds now, it is pretty
certain that he can't defeat the Democracy of
the country.
An actress IN Chicago has sued two men for
breaking into her room and taking therefrom one
pound of black hair valued at 800; one half
pound Of light auburn hair, valued at $50; a DOW
der box, and some jewelry. Damages laid at
$1,000
Mrs. Kemble, il is said, has just received the
bequest of pair of gloves worn by Shakespeare
while performing upon the stage, which have sue
cessively been the treasure of Garrick, Mrs.
siddons and a lady of rank lately deceased in
England.
The managers of the House Of Refuge, in Balti.
more, have devised q new method of taking care
of their young charges. They propose to reform
diet ss well as manners, and by converting the |
stomach to finer uses. improve the quality of the
brain. II has been voted to include in the prison