The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-02
EDITosIAL rARAeKs. ems, Ere.

Senators Guthrie and Nye are recovering.
Tight PaDts--Asthmatcsl breathings.- Judy.
made Of Monaghan heress.-IJudy.
Wales wants fl0 600 added to bis income.
The mother of Charlotte Thompson Is dead. at
ripe old age.
Powers has made five hundred portrait busts
since 1888.
Cardinal Bonaparte rides in the carriage with
Pho Nino. he hopes to ride alone some day.
Disraeli, it is said, crooks his elbow too fire..
quently.
The giraffe in the London Geological Gardens is
suffering from two yards of sore thrOat-IEx.
The pope has recently washed the feet of thir-
teen poor priests.
Thanks to Charles Bruff, Esq. for California
papers.
The Louisville papers contain very warm
eulogies Of the late Mrs. Geo. d. Prentice.
General Rousseau made the trip from Alaska to
Washington in seventeen days-the quickest trip
on record.
Blondin lost his fortune in the wine trade, and
is now playing monkey parts in a London music
hall.
Millionaire Roosevelt publishes a card, com
planning of the Gslaxy's article sketchng him and
other very opulent New Workers. He Indignantly
Blelock has Littel's Living age, an amusing bur
lesque of Beecher's Ledger story, entitled "Gnaw-
Wood" and "Psyche's Art" one of Louisa NJ
Alcott's proverb stories.
Garibald said, at Orvieto, few weeks ago,
when lot Of idlers shouted Eoviva Ia Repu6.
lea ?" under his windows, /" You call for the re.
public, and you are not fit for it. You must first
learn to work"
tits said that contest is going on within the
German Reform Church not unlike that now agi-
tating the Episcopal body. The Evangelical
party charge their opponents with becoming so
churchly as to cease to be reformed
VIM. Glasgow, a member of the firm of Glasgow
Brothers, heavy grocers of st. Louis, has just
won half Of the capital prize in the Madrid lottery
amounting to s75 900 in gold. Mr.. Glasgow has
been spending the winter in Havana, where he
purchased the ticket.
Three attempts have been made to assass nate
Queen Victoria since the commencement Of her
reign-one in June, ls40, by crazy lad named
Oxford; another in May, 1912, by John Francis,
whose sentence of hanging was commuted to
transportation, and a third in July of the same
year, by J. W. Bean who was imprisoned eighteen
months therefor.
The New York Inebriates' Asylum has on file
application for admission from the following
classes: Thirty. nine clergymen, eight judges,
three hundred and forty merchants, two hundred
and twenty-six physicians. two hundred and forty
gentlemen Of leisure, and thirteen hundred daugh.
tiers OF rich men.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Times says:
A celebrated English physician recently visited
the Tuileries, and spoke with the physicians OF
the emperor. From their conversation he armed
that the frequent fainting fits to which the en-
peror Is subject are the consequence OF disease
Of the hear, which might bring about his sudden
death, though it does not exactly exclude the
possibility of long life. In reference to the
prince imperial. | hear from the same rather re-
liable source that the constitution of the heir to
the throne does not give promise of his reaching
his majority.
The New York Citizen says:
Unless this book of Mrs. Lincoln's milliner is
denounced, as il deserves to be, we may look for
succession Of similar works. Whenever Mr..
Stewart, or Mayor Hoffman, or any prominent
citizen discharges a servant girl we shall have
volume of "piquant gossip " as to the family ar
engagements Of her employer; and IL is easy TO
imagine the way in which the most innocent mat
tiers may be distorted by the ignorance and
malice of an angry woman, aided by the hired
pen Of an Inscriptions Bohemian.
A New York bon uirant writing of the Dickens
dinner says:
There was not single Objectionable feature TO
the banquet. Instead Of putting forward refriger.
ated salmon, which are not in season, we had
trout, which are in season; in place of giving Us
quail which it is pretended have been kept in the
frozen state for nearly four months, Delmonco
served Us with English snipe. The other dishes
we're made up of the higher deieacies of domestic
produc tons. In furnishing so exceptionally adj
mrable dinner, Mr.. Delmonico has proved what
we have always asserted, that it is utterly I'm
70 he 10 off oofr
craftsmanship to achieve and maintain the highest
rank of superiority in his line.
In Putnsm's Magazine for May, Mr.. o. W. Ell.
lott gives a sketch of life in San Francisco which
is not only gossipy, but statistical. One of the
hotels there must be paradise for confirmed old
bachelors. Mr.. Elliott says:
But the "Whst Cheer " Hotel is a Yankee
shoot drafted on California stock. and proves
most profitable growth. All is done for cash, aud
your bed is paid for before you get into it. A
large restaurant supplies four thousand meals
day, at prices from fifteen cents upward. Ample
means are provided for you to black your own
boots free. ard the library, of five thousand vol
umes is open to all. There is no bar. The house
has one moe peculiarity-no woman is allowed
within 1t. The servants are all men, and no mans
wife can sleep with him at this house. 1t pays at
the rate of 900 to $4,000 year.
General Godfrey Weitzel appeared as a witness
last week at the trial Of General Cole in New
York, for the murder of Hiscock. An effort is
being made to prove Cole insane at the time of
the tragedy. General Weitzel testified as follows:
The prisoner was under my command during
the war. ! have noticed him lying peculiarly,
with his hands behind his head; saw him thrice
so; he jumped up quickly and DerVously. con.
slider him a perfect gentleman. His character
was first rate. All | knew of his character was
while was in the army never knew him 70 be
disabled, but always doing his duty; he always
had q sort of morose, dissatisfied look; | saw
nothing to make me think he was at all Irrational;
supIosed be was dissatisfied about what mad
been done in the matter Of dismounting his regi-
mentJ thought that might be the oanse.
Bayard Taylor gives this refreshing scrap Of
Italian railroad adventure At Pistoja Lmade
the acquaintance of a railroad conductor, whose
honest simplicity struck me as something miracu-
lous in this land Of sharp practice strong
fever was upon me, and / wanted to secure a
compartment for ourselves only; so called this
conductor and said: If you will put no other
travellers in here / viii give you buond mGno.'
understand said he, with besmiHg face. As
We were approaching Florence l offered him.
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