The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-30
EpIroxIAs PAKAaKArHs. ETC.

The negroes are drilling In Nashville.
Three more rascals have been hung in Indiana.
We done so-[Goliad (Texas) Guard.
Gen. Lee il at the Warm Springs.
Memphis needs Q workhouse.
The archbishop of Paris has consumption.
Ullmann's European concerts are profitable.
Roasting ears at o dime dozen In Louisville.
Jumping from the frying pan into the fire
going North.
Tom. R. Burnett, editor of the Denton (Texss)
Monitor, wields q lively and graceful pen.
The Missouri gisntess, weighing eight hundred
pounds, is dead.
Gsribsldi's daughter-in-law thinks Of raising q
battalion of Amszous.
The Havana lottery revenue fell of triae last
year.
Tights are the latest thing in ladies bathing
dresses.
Brooklyn editor has completed an opera
about the witches of Salem.
Liebig has three hundred pupils in the United
States.
Eugene has the smallest waist of all the crowned
ladies of Europe.
France has given Erlanger aud Reuter- exclu-
sive right to an American cable for twenty years.
Bishop Beckwith breaches occasionally at
Petersburg. Va.
Geo. Ellis has the waverly Magazine, Phunny
Phellow for September, aud the Days Doing.
Thanks TO the Southern Express Company aud
the officers Of the steamers Frances and St. Mary.
If there is q better newspaper in the world than
the Cincinnati Commercial, we have yet to see it,
Smallpox is becoming epidemic in San Fran
cisco.
Isipglass has been discovered in large quantities
in Ca;awba county, North Carolina.
French sensation novelist announces his next
work as "The Feniansn
The wrecks of the federal ships OF war; sunk in
the Charleston harbor, are soon to be raised.
Capt. DeRussy, of the LIST infantry, drives a
stately bay trotter, and is one of the regular
"habitues of the she'll roads.
A st. Paul gentleman drove q span of horses all
the way from that city to Hartford, fifteen hundred
miles.
At German watering place an Englishman
called the Egyptian viceroy g. Arab" and
slapped his face.
1t is announced that the duke Of Edinburgh and
Prince Teck will be elected members of the Eng
lish Jockey Club by reclamation.
Shelter toads between your vine patches in the
dag time and it is said they will make havoc with
the ougs at night.
Plon Plon employs six cooks and makes "god
of his belly" The emperor eats little at dinner
beside roast beef and potatoes. The empress
takes to ice cream.
mulattO woman by the name Of Banerd, liv-
ing at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, gave birth. on the 5th
instant, to three children, two Of whom are white
and one as black as coal. Will B-iok Pomeroy ex.
plain this?
It was reported in Washington yesterday that
Mr.. Taliaferro. postmaster of New Orleans, had
been suspended, and that Colonel Smallwood
would probably be appointed in his place. 1t
was also reported that General Hobart would be
assigned as special treasury agent to act as col.
lector of customs in this city until the appoint
ment of a successor to Mr.. Kellogg.
Special Commissioner Wells in his report in re-
lston TO the collection Of revenue on distilled
spirits says: 1.-The attempt, thus far, to collect
any legitimate revenue from this source, has
proved a most lsmentsble failure from the fact
that the tax has been placed at such q rate as to
constitute in itself so great temptation to fraud
that average human nature as it exists in the
United States, 10 not able TO resist it."