The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-11
NUMBER 2S3.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. ETC.

Jaspe- Blackburn, NJ c. elect, is in town.
Omaha has over one hundred business houses
| for rent.
The profits of the London Times last year were
$500 goo in gold.
COburn and McCsole made their appearance in
Cincinnati on the evening of the Sd.
revival of Know Nothingism is reported in
Boston and vicinity.
Napoleon has had his setter Nero" done in
| marble.
In the Swiss Canton of Uri SENSATIONAL editor,
are furnished with twenty lashes the bare back.
An exchange remarks that the late Detective
Bakers 100000 was saved from his salary as
Brig-general.
Give us no more " epigrams' and things until
after the heated term. There are chords in the
human mind, etc..
Miss Cecilia Cleveland is the niece of Greeley,
who is making sensation in foreign musical cir.
cles.
Two millions Of dollars were represented in the
crinoline that recently occupied q chair on the
piazza of a Saratoga hotel.
Some deferred and rather contradictory infor-
nation about the departure Of Reverdy johnson
got into the CRESCENT; yesterday.
Il is said that the reason why Mr. Seward is so
attracted to the North Pole is that he has been
taking great deal of iron incidentally lately.
1t is said that Gen. Schouler will run against
Butler, as the Democratic candidate for Congress
10 Massachusetts,.
Among the dodgers at the police station in
Springfield, Massachusetts,, recently was a man
one hundred years and four months old.
Miss LacOste, the beautiful and accomplished
reader, died in Nes York on Monday evening. of
rheumatism of the heart.
A gentleman of Providence has copy Of Mo-
zart's Twelfth Mass, which has belonged success
svely TO the great composer of the mass, Bee
thoven and Hummel.
English journals announce after the fashion of
fashionable marriages, one between Jas. Grim
shaw, the famous jockey, and the daughter Of the
trainer employed by Baron Rothschild.
legal gentleman, in Alexandria La, a native
OF the Emerald lsle, in arguing against the propo-
sition that legal sales cOul not be made on dies
nefdstj, remarked. Suppose the first Saturday
in the month should come on Good Friday"
Rt. Rev. John W. Beckwith, ID. D.. bishop of
Georgia, expects TO reach this city to morrow
morning where he, with his family, will remain
for some time During his stay he will he tha
guest of his brother, DR.. T. Stanley Beckwith.
Petersburg Express 9Th.
The last Yankee inventions are economic che
roots, which are twice the length of the ordinary,
and herein is the economy: The government
taxes cigars without regard TO length and the ap-
picstion of knife will make one of these into two
in an instant.
Miss Elizabeth Cady Stanton, writing of the
Womans Club in New York, says il is proposed to
admit gentlemen to the galleries to listen to the
speeches, and TO hear the pale, thoughtful
brow" "the silSen musiache," "the flowing
locks" the manly gait and FORM toasted In
prose and verse.
The New York city postofIce has been forced
to abandon the box system on account of the i'm.
mense increase Of labor it necessitated in sorting
letters, and the losses Of mail matter nseparable
from mistakes in distributing. II is to be SUPER
seeded by the London system, the letters being
delivered by carriers eight or nine times daily.
In the Soldiers and Sailors Convention, in New
York, on the l6th Sergeant Bates entered, IN
heralded, with his faded flag. lie was attired in
full suit of tight fitting black velvet, with cav
airy top boots, made his way TO the platform.
bowed his thanks for the cheering and dsap-
peared, just about the time the convention began
to Suspect that the performance was almost as
ludicrous as that Of Miss Anthony.
In thenatonal convention, on the 9th, Susan B.
Anthony was unceremoniOusly snutied out. Her
letter asking to be heard before the convention
was received with great laughter, and on Gov.
Seymour proposing to refer it to the platform
committee, the convention tumultuously de-
manded its reading. The cries were so long con-
tinued that Seymour had to yield. Its reading
was accompanied by uproarious laughter and
cheering, and thereupon Susan, instead Of being
invited to the platform, was referred to the plat
form committee, and 30 suppressed.