The New Orleans crescent., 1868-05-20

sion upon his heart that he resolved to call again
after the war was over. True to his resolve he
| called, and a wedding was the result. Names
DR.. E. o. Guerrant and Miss Mlry J. Duvalt.
The New York World says there are 1900 reve-
nue. officers in that city, and yet whisky sells for
sixty cents per gallon, when it ought to pay two
dollars tax.
Just as an offshoot Of the Queen of sheba blows
out his brains at Magdala, descendant of Medes
is led to the altar in Paris The intended bride of
Prince Acbille Murat traces back her lineage to
| that stormy female.
The meek.minded Greeley writes to the Unver-
sal Peace Society of New York that he is a friend
of peace" but intimates that the best method
of securing il is to dsarm and possibly kW some
of its enemies.
The New York thieves have made some slight
modification in their vocabulary and hereafter
cutting somebody's throat will be expressed by
'swippened in the geyser, instead Of "sltten his
weasen."
The queen, who has never yet conferred q
dukedom on any one but her second son, during
her long reign of thirty-one years. is about, it is
said, to give that rank In the peersge to the
present lord lieutenant of ireland, the Marquis of
Abercorn.
statement recently published to the effect
that Mr.. Peabody, on quitting Rome, had left the
pope f200 600, is denied authority. The Italian
papers report more accurately that ne had given
$40, 900 for one Of The educational institutions in
Rome.
AS for the Duke of Edinburgh his friends here
believe that the assault is the best thing that ever
| happened to him. He will come home at once;
| he WILDE hero; the queen and the Prince of
| Wales, with both of whom he had quarreled, will
| be reconciled to him and he will have another
chance Of redeeming past errors by brilliant
| future.-[ London Letter.
The New York Tribune's Boston correspondent
writes; "0ur medical savans have been lately
hoaxed in a most incredible manner by an old
maiden teacher of Nantucket, who came here in
ill-health and was pronounced by the surgeons of
the hospitals and others to be afflicted with an
ovarian tumor. She was given up as iscurable,
and last week gave birth, at her home, to fine
girl"
Here's fish story from Plymouth, Mass: "a
woodchOpper at work on the edge of Grassy
Pond started a wedge into a log, and the wedge
| flew out and killed a pickerel weighing four
pounds. The chopper then commenced feeling
the bottom of the pond with cleft stick for his
wedge, and drew up gold watch lost by fish.
elman four years ago.. "
At a recent ball in Turin, Italy, the Princess Of
Piedmont's train caught in an officers spurs, and
was torn to tatters. Before the princess could
invoke the aid of her ladies, the crown prince
of Prussia had produced little pocket house
| wife, from which he extracted a small pair of
shears, and, kneeng at the feet of the BRIDE
skillfully cut away the wreck. He was awarded
the fragment of gauze as trophy.
Emerson says: ut is a familiar expedent of
brilliant writer's and not less of witty takers the
device of ascribing their own sentence to an.
other in order TO give it weight, as Cicero, Cow
ley, Swift. Landor, and Carlyle have done. And
Cardinal de Retz at a critical moment in the par.
lament of Paris described himself in a Latin sen.
tence, which he pretended to quote from a classic
author, and which told admirably WELL"
To an address voted by the House of Lords, on
the lst Of May, Queen Victoria sent the following
reply: 81 receive with deep satisfaction your
sympathzing address. The attempt upon the life
of my son, the Duke Of Edinburgh, has, feel
only further aroused the loyalty of my Australian
| subjects, so heartily displayed in his reception.
am very sensible of the Divine protection afford
ed him, and in my anxiety, still trust in it while
in this, in all trials, l derive consolation and
support from the afiectionate attachment Of my
parliament and people,"
The following speech was made by an Indian
chle1, az dig talk," held recently on the plans
"We want more ammunition, therefore we have
seat for you we want no white man north of the
frewsgon road the fire wagon road shall not
branch out one arrow (straight) road no forks;
one good post trader at Laramie no more red
man wants no more presents but powder and
lead blankets no more good commissions and
agents all the same as blankets; You go home
all white men 60 home red man owns the land
who will care for mother now ?"
The Galaxy for June contains the following:
Steven Lawrence, Yeoman; by Mrs. Edwards.
The Lady Jacqueline by Phoeby Cary. Jarocho
Life; by Mayne Reid. Grasses and Wild Flow
ers; by H. Malan. A Problem; by Henry James,
Jr. To Lady; by 7. W. Parsons. Forced
Marches /; by W. DeForest. Beechdale; by
Marion Harland. To a Gagged Canary; by Lily
Nelson. My Notebook by Anne NJ. Crane. A
Trip to the WYandotte Cave; by F. NJ. Gay.
Our Railway Management; by Edward Rowland.
Apple Blossoms; by May Msther. The Galaxy
Miscellany. Drift-Wood by Philip Quilibet.
Literature and Art. Nebule; by the editor