The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-19
EDITORIAL PAKAsKAPus, ETC.

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The racquette playing Indians are in Louisville.
The fete champetre is postponed for a week.
Workmen are pushing the Dlmaine street rail-
road through Broad street.
DR.. John Talbot died at Huntsville, Alabama,
recently.
tits proposed to impesch Judge Drummond, of
| Canada, for drunkenness.
Mike McCoOle was TO have a benefit at Ben
| DeBar's, st. Louis, Sunday night.
More accomplices in the assassination of MCGEE
have been arrested in Montreal.
The Methodist convention Of Chicago voted in
favor of lay representation.
C. NJ. Wolcott, ST., the well known comedian,
died Wednesday in Philadelphia.
Twenty deaf mutes have recently held con.
ference in Washington.
Il is computed that Boston drinks one hundred
and fifty barrels of whisky daily.
The New Orleans Tribune, it is said, will be re.
surrected in few weeks.
DR.. Winship, the strong man, has recently mar
ried.
Miss Janauschek, the tragedienne, has sailed for
Europe.
The Rev. DR.. Chaplin goes to Europe on the
27th.
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the Postofhce, and to the officers of the steamers
Mexico, Crescent City and I. c. Harris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gomersal have been playing their
English version of the Grand Duchess Gerol.
stein" at the Williamsburg Opera House.
Curious to soy, some young gentlemen con.
nected with the press got very much warmed up
yesterday over the subject of artificial ice.
clock key, silver spoon aud a pair of spec
lac h,-s
the body of boy who died in Orange county,
NewIYork.
Major Wigfall, son of ex-senator Wigfall, of
Texas, is said to have drawn up the rules govern.
ing the tournament TO be held at the Fete Cham.
Iere, commencing to-day at the Fair Grounds.
Tie presentation to a newly married lady by
her husband of a washbosrd, mop, gridiron and
pair of atirons, is sufficient cause for divorce in
Illinois.
When the prince imperial gave a breakfast to
the naval apprentices at Brest he was dreadfully
snubbed by General Froissard, according to a
correspondent of the London Star, and looked
very shy and downcast.
Youatt, the we'll known veterinary surgeon, who
has been bitten eight or ten times by rabid ami.
mails, says that crystal of the nitrate of silver
rubbed into the wound will positively prevent
hydrophObia in the bitten person or animal.
Mile Fauschetti, the talented premiere chan
teuse soprano of the opera was not married to Mr..
Faye, jeune premier, last week as reported by
contemporary. The happy event will probably
take place on Thursday.
The emperor of Brazil has no sons, but two
daughters. If he persists in his intention to abdi.
cate it is supposed the Princess Isabella his eldest
daughter will succeed to the throne Sheis almost
twenty-five years DID, and is the wife of the Count
D'Eu, son of the Duke De Nemours, and grandson
of King Louis Philippe.
The Springfield, Massachusetts,, Republican |
says One Of the veteran lobbyists of our Mas. |
sachusetts legislature remarked the other day, |
that there were one hundred members in the |
House who paid only a poll tax, and that he |
"ceuld buy the whole of them for $50 apiece
The gentleman works in the interest of the tunnel,
and doubtless spoke the truth.
Brigham Young said. in q recent sermon: "If |
the men Of the city of New York alone had done
for the last twenty years as the men of this CON-
munity have dOne,, from two to four thousand |
females, from sixteen years of age and upward
whose dshonor and ruin are mercifulIy covered in
the grave, would now be in life and health, NOV.
ing in the circles Of happy homes prayed for, re.
spected, loved and honored."
In personal appearance Lord Brougham was
tall and stalwart, with exceedingly large bones,
highly developed forehead and a nose remarkably
long, but what the French term retrouSsg, or
turned up. When he was excited it positively
quivered with emotion. He was capable Of en-.
during almos. incredible fatigue and in the early
half of his career, like all leading public men in
England during that period, he was of highly con.
vvial habits but for the last thirty years he was
strictly temperate, and ultimately practiced al.
most total abstinence. |.
John Stuart Mill opposes the abolition of capital
punishment on what he terms merciful grounds
What is death? he says. The pain of it and the
seriousness of it are greatly exaggerated. One of
the members of parliament, the eccentric Mr..
Neste, who has been professor of political econ
omy at Oxford University, was so indignant at
The decision of parliament to continue to hang,
hat be wanted to have the galows put up in par.
lament yard in the afternoon, Just as the mem.
bers were coming down to their House. He pre-.
ers the garrote the guiIlotine to the rope, and
links carbonic acid-wbich he says the murderer
night be allowed to take himself-better than
either.
Buy your fishing tackle at Rousset's hardware !