The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-01


VIM. X. Thurbee, of Mobile, is dead.
Offenbach is advised by Paris critics to stop.
Soda water is ahe great 6zzle Of the day.
Peto hopes to be rich sgain.
Bad crop reports from Alabama.
The Baytians are hanging prisoners.
Oil City is burned up again. ....-
Troops are concentrating near washington
Eight million dollars postoffice deficiency.
PloD Plon is in Paris again.
Deaths in Brooklyn during the week 2s6.
Colfax will be recepted " at North Bend.
-Four bathers crowned at st. Louis on Sunday.
The fall Of Humai'a is doubtful.
Parliament was prorogued yesterday.
Mount Vernon is in a wretched condition.
The long continued rains have put all the drives,
except the Ncolson, in shocking condition.
A Chicago newsboy of Is has married a widow
of 35, for pecuniary reasons.
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan arrived at ST..
Louis, from the West, on Tuesday.
Princes Alfred's voyage around the world is to
be printed.
The viceroy of Ireland spends $3.50, 900 year to
keep up his state.
The murdered prince of Servia was worth
81 ,OOO, 600.
Broughsm and Farraday will be moDumented
in the Abbey.
Six hundred MOrmons arrived at New York on
the 2sth.
Nearly 81 900, 900 internal revenue receipts last
month.
All the stock of the National Life Insurance
Company has been taken.
A brother of Willis is said to be q boot-maker
at Melbourne.
Vanderbilt and party of friends are yachting
along the New England coast.
Butler is to be the heavy villain and Greeley the
low comedian in Tilton's novel, says the World.
Thoreau hermitage, in Concord, Mass, has be-
come fashionable.
Bob Lincoln is visiting old White Beard of the
navy. c
Mrs. Lincoln will not call on Victoria unless in
vited.
1t costs fifty cents to see the tomb of Wash
ington.
1t is rumored that Jacob Barker will resume the
banking business.
Mr.. E. P. Whipple alliterates humanity into
losfers and laborers.
1t is fact that more good fellows are slain by
suppers than by the sword.
The line between Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island is yet unsettled.
The young king of Bavaria is smitten by an OBJ
scure actress.
Harvard has beaten Yale with the cue as we'll
as the scul.
The king of Bavaria takes Wagner into his opera
box.
Hugo writes loud hand with soft. unsharp-
ened pencil.
A new method of manufacturing steel consists
in grinding pig iron to powder. ..sr.
Tho Rrounsville temneranoa naatin0a diacuaa
agriculture.
The Mobile Tribune wants q coat of paint or
gilt put on our Clay statue!
Regatta at Arlington, near Mobile, next Tues.
day.
Col. Wickersham has been appointed chief of
the Mobile police, vice Col. Dimon, resigned.
The church property of the Universalists in this
country is estimated at ten to twenty times what
it was quarter of century ago.
To protect outdoor paint against heat and
light. dredge it while fresh with fine siceous
sand.
Paris has a male Schneider. president of the
Cnrns LeRislatif. The other has to do with the
0henbach is said to be writing two new songs
specially for Lambele in "Barbe Bleue" at
Niblos.
The Memphis draymen were out Wednesday in
mile long procession to demonstrate against
high taxation.
A rural editor asks some hat dealer to give him
aspecmen of some unsaesble head covering so
that be may "start the style"
rural editor says he sometimes eats fruit
until we can't walk, which is probably his excuse
for lying.
Tie Nashville Banner has another sumner
about cave near Carthage, Tenn, in which was
found manaced and expiring victim of party
of outlaws.
One of the Vienna papers says that "Gep.
Grant owes his nomination to the fact that he is
the handsomest officer in the United States army"
II confounds Grant and Hancock.
The superintendent of police at the Hague, in
view of the habit young blackguards of that city
have of throwing mud at well dressed people,
notifies people to wear their shsbbiest garments.
A Memphis cat has just brought forth a mixed
family Of kittens and rats. This is amalgamaton
with vengeance. The mother makes no dis.
tinction of race or color but washes the faces of
her family with strict impartality.
James Kent Stowe, the new president of Hobart
College, is grandson of Chancellor Kent, grad
uate of Harvard and Gottengen, a private in a
Massachusetts, regiment during the war, professor
of Greek at Kenyon College, and latterly its pres.
ident. He is only twenty eight.
The last costume had the pleasure of seeing on
Napoleon Ill was pair of leather.coored psnta-
looms, short jacket, brown beaver hat with
pheasant feather, and a switch in his hand. He
was quietly standing at the gate of his gardeners
lodge at Fontainbleau waiting for this worthy,
whom he bad awakened from sleep, to lead HIN
the shortest way to the grand canal, where the
emperor had orders to give. He waited full ten
minutes very patienty.-[Paris correspondent.
late "hgh gifted boy" is embslmed liz some
obituary lines commencing as follows:
When we see the first glory OF youth pass US by
Toy OF our hearts. quenehed forever n night;
Thai cup which had sparked with pleasure so high
And every hope we had In his speed and mig 9
Was TINS, then the tate OF that high gifted boy Z
The pride Of his home of friends and OF all
The succeeding stanzas have less of mixed
metaphor and less rhyme, but equal beauty.
The Portland Argus, A. Heads down east
organ while he regales himself on east winds. has
the following A walking match is being arranged
between A. Head and Commodore Mutt and that's