The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-14
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS, ETC.


Poes Raven" has been translated into ROmaic.
Ristori's last " season" was failure.
Orpheus c. Kerr is writing another book.
Brigham Young wants more wives.
Littleness ofsoul is often mistaken for prudence.
Fred. Douglass refuses to stump for Grant.
Eggs are only ten cents a dozen in New Iberia.
Your Rumble" servant-Your footman.-[Ex.
"Planchette is French for " little plank"
John Minor Bolts is at Saratoga and the Chi
nese are going there.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Louise
and Reindeer.
The latest definition of MANA telegram
inivorous animal.-[Ex.
Coral jewelry is much in vogue for summer
wear-especially with dark toilettes.
Ex-Governor Grsyson, of Maryland, died the
other day, aged 50.
Mrs. August Belmont is the daughter of Com.
modore Perry.
Wagner was hard working journalist before he
became music mad.
Nine. George Sand is grandmother for the
second time.
Providence, R. l., has enlarged its area by an
nexing nine square miles of the town of Crauston.
A correspondent has discovered that Whittier,
the poet is on the eve of marriage.
The king of Hanover has received Nspoleon's
consent TO make Nice his permanent residence.
sylvanus Cobb's grandfather, almost hundred
years old, died, recently, in Maine.
Several new MSS. of unfinished stories have
been found among Nathaniel Hawthorne's papers.
Sir R. Murchison has expressed the opinion
that the return of DR.. Livingstone may be looked
for in August.
The present ambition of Commodore Vanderbilt
| - 90 NJ tha Eria iiUa ha dq-
clares he will succeed next year.
Discrimination in youth is the foreruner of per-
fdy in old age; its appearance is the fatal omen
of growiDg depravity and future shame.
whenever find great deal of gratitude in a
poor man. take it for granted that there would be
as much generosity if he were a rich one. Anon.
The public appreciate the recent poetical reti-
ceuce of the "epigrsmmatist." They are justly
grateful for "a few flashes of silence"
Ristori gave her friend and legal adviser, James
Geddes Day, of New York, magnificent set OF
diamonds.
The Red River News is the name Of a new radi
cal paper at Natehitoches, published by W. F.
Mclean and ]. Cromie.
Al. Stewart old as he is, makes calculations
respecting his personal affairs at least hirty year.
ahead.
Mankind are more indebted to industry than ia
genuity; the gods set up their favors at price
and industry is the purchaser.
Geo. Ellis has the following: Leslie's Pictorial
Illustrated News, New York Weekly, Boston Pilot
the illustrated police papers and the New Yorl
Clipper.
Mr.. Goodwin Smith, who has decided to taxi
up his residence in this country, has selecte
Providence for his home, and he is expected L
arrive the coming autumn.
Charles Francis Adams, late minister to tn
court of st. James, landed ia New York on tn
It'll, and was welcomed by a host Of warm an
admiring friends.
The duke of Edinburgh is said to have made
short speech somewhere, describing his Australia
7 experiences. AtAdelaide," said his royal high
ness, " they stole my jewels, at Melbourne m
character, and at Sidney they tried to take m
life."
Melons are very abundant in the Teche cour
try. There is no place, remarks Col. bennett, c
the Banner, where a couple of friends look 3
| happy and satisfied. as under the cool shade of
friendly live.oak, coats and hats off, and hi
. watermelon quartered ready for service.
: Father Reh, a Catholic preacher, predicte
b. the other day, in a sermon which he d.
livered in Prague, that in the course of twenty-five
;, years both England and the United States woul
5 be Catholic countries. He said that such was th
{ influence of Catholics in those two countries thi
s the whole crowd of unbelievers could not max
] any Roadway against it, and that whenever it e!
!. ercised any pressure on those governments the
: were utterly unable to resist.