The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-09-24
EpIToKIAL PARAsKAPHs, ETC.


Gold c'Osed in New York st42s. ITTfu
Plush will be very much worn this fall.
First understand, then argue.
Michigan is enjoying the spectacle Of base bail
on horseback.
Bowdoin College has tackled on IL. D. to the
name Of Judge Clifford of the Supreme Court. o
Boston is to have twenty public drinking foun-
tains. rr7r .-r- v;---.-.t v4.-.-rr
A novelty in ladies' suits is of lustreless black
silk.
Thanks to Mr.. Charles Bruff for California pa
pers.
Gen. Longs,reet and Jack Hamilton are in Cal
weston.
Young ladies, it is said, are to dress very
plainly for street promenade this winter.
The late Com. Stevens was believer in per
petual notion"
Encke's comet is now visible through glass,
darkly.
curious person wishes to know IL granite be-
comes grey on account of its age.
Lord Monk has been advised by the cable that
James Young has been appointed governor gen.
eral Of Canada, and win arrive in November.
Thanks to the officers of the steamers Louise,
Annie wsgley, Crescent. 'Mstsgords, Belle Lee
and Cleons.
We are indebted to Col. Tucker, of the Illinois
Central Railroad, for the tenth annual statement
of the trade and commerce Of Chicago.
Threats and incendiary speeches by negroes
are producing great excitement in the parish Of
St. Landry. Everybody is armed.
The New York Citizen has been purchased by
number Of wealthy gentlemen. and is now under
the editorial management OF Hiram Oalkins.
1t is said in England that a great part of the
book describing the "Cruise of the Gslatea," and
purporting to be written by Rev. ]. Miner, was
contributed by the duke of Edinburgh.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Davenport have been play.
ing at Salt Lake. E. L. is on his way east, but in
tends to make his future home in San Francisco,
where he has purchased property.
An exchange says: We observe several pa
triots talking about the national debt who do not
appear at all sohctous about the board bills they
owe"
Secretary McCuloch has q very sensational
story of the arrival Of arms at Charleston, 8. c.,
from abroad. They are said TO be repeating rifles
So says Washington special to the Radical st.
Louis Democrat.
An individual appeared before the mayor Of
Richmond the other day and entered complaint
that " lille in a state of obliviousness superinduced
by beDzine, he was despoiled of his hair and
beard.
While DR.. Loring Buffers right bower, was ad.
dressing the yeomsnry of Essex county, Mass, at
Salisbury Beach the other day, rustic farmer in
the crowd persisted in interupting the speaker
by crying out "spoons" whenever the name Of
Butter was mentioned.
new Psris brooch is an enamelled branch Of
Ag leaves bearing fruit. Each fig is q stumpy,
| pear-shsped pearl. A thick serpent of precious
stones coils in the center but instead Of splitting
out venom it holds large diamond out on its
forked tongue.
| An exquisite at the White Sulphur Springs, Va,
has q war drobe, carried in seven Saratoga trunks,
containing sixty.ve full suits of clothing, twelve
dozen shirts, twenty FIVE gold and diamond shirt
sleeve buttons, thirteen breastpins, and enough
rings to keep two of his fingers as closely hoped
| all the time as a wine cask.
Our friend Col. Tucker of the Illinois Central
Railroad, has returned from a summer sojourn at
| the North, TO resume his duties here as general
agent. He says there will be not less than NIL
lion bushels Of bulk grain shipped through this
port this year, and that the elevator here is now
ready to store grain, and will be ready to make
tran sfers of it in two weeks. All along the Illinois
| Central and tie water courses, they are preparing
to make New Orleans their great grain depot and
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