The New Orleans crescent., 1868-07-23
EDITORIAL PAKAGKAPHs. ETC.


Bismarck Is accused of delirium tremeus.
Texas is reveling in fruit
About this time look out for rain.
Brigham Young intends to marry.
Laura Keene has taken a London theater.
Fenian Stephens is teaching French English.
Elk Chief Justice Bennett, of Vermont, is dead.
Mrs. John Leech is dead.
BuIlngame is in Boston.
Vieuxtemps is a widoWer.
GaIibaldi has the rheumatism.
Over forty racers have arrived at Saratoga.
Farragut is going to Greece.
Msgnoliss are in bloom in Louisville.
Mr.. Hugh MeCaw, leading cotton broker of
Mobile, is dead.
Weston has failed again. We long TO see him
on his last legs.
John B. Brown, of Portland, has been ban
quetted by his fellow-citizens.
A Louisville woman had two son strokes the
other day, each weighing nine pounds.
Mrs. Cramer, for many years Wellknown
actress, is dead.
Hull, by vote of to /, has decided not to
have tipping shops.
Three quarters of the New York journalists
who are Americans are natives of New England.
Charles Dickens intends to write an auto
biography.
Rind.erpest Throwing watermelon rinds on the
pavement.-LEx.
Bishop Beckwith has been pleasuriug at Cape
May.
We find little or nothing new in our Southern
exchanges about the crops.
The fortunes of the gambling fraternity in st.
Louis are waning. Cause-police vigilance.
They are purifying the city Of New York with
chloride Of lime.
T.B. Thorpe has an article in Hsrper's Monthly
for August, about duellng In the Southwest.
Butler did not keep yellow fever out of New
Orleans, but he carried many yellow boys" out
of it.
Frank Blydenburg, well known and much re.
spected young gentleman of this city, has gone
TO Minnesota for his health.
The editor of the Mobile Tribune watts sigh
from New York for the cool atmosphere of the
gulf coast.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company, and
to the officers of the steamers Josephine, Harlan
and Mary.
Do they call the month after marriage the
honeymoon because that is the only time married
people be(e)haDve themselves!-GEx.
The Boston Transcript nominates Peter Harvey,
the friend of Daniel Webster, for Congress in the
fourth Massachusetts, district.
Is the man in the moon lunatic? We suppose
~ M Y Commonwealth.
The object some wives have in blowing up
their husbands is doubtless to have them come
| down.-[N. Y. Commonwealth.
One of the deties has disappeared from 0lym.
| pus. At least Mercury has gone up.
Mississippi contemporary Acknowledges a
visit from the accomplished keepern Of a Light
house.
George Ellis has the popular edition of the Wa
verify Novels, Burns's complete poet!cal works for
| fifty cents, Every Saturday" and the sensation
pictorials.
| Mobile landlady Of a sanitary turn has nearly
| suspended her boarders' meat rations since the
| hot weather commenced. The bosrders appreci
| ate her considerations for their health.
Lieutenant varna and wife have rece nty per
formed buggy journey of over 200 miles
through the Indian frontier country of Texas
and we're unframed.
A New Orleans correspondent of country pa
per, intending to be complimentary, says you
appreciated messenger often wings its fight 10 ny
sanctum, and many weary moments are passed b.
| its perusal."
! Abbott, the short term senator from Nortl
| Carolina, was a sort of thirdrate politician il
New Hampshire, sdjutant general of that State
and afterward one Of the editors of the Boston
| Bee.
"a nervous lady' complains in the New Yorl
Evening Post of the vulgar habit which many sup
posed well bred young ladies have of conversini
in shrill, esr-piercing tones. She thinks it ha
frightened away many would.be adorers.
Eyricb Co., $50 Canal street, have the follow
ing Good StoTies," from the pens of Thacke
ray, W. J. Hennessy, Paul Hsyse, and Fitz Jame
O'Brien 4" wss it q Ghost" or the Murders II
Bussey's Wood; "The Butter fly Hunters"
beautiful volume from the press OF Ticknor ]
Fields, and LitteIps Living Age.
A planter on one of the Fejee Islands recon
mends the United States government to satisf
a pecuniary claim against King Thskombau b
purchasing the group and carrying them on in th
| interests of civilization. The king is muc
taxed to support his army, which is fighting u
heathens in the interior, and eau only raise sl7C
of the s45O 900 claimed by our government fc
damages to American citizens.
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