The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-26
EDrroKIAL PARAeRArHs. ETC.

Col. Frank Bartlett, Of this city, jerks lively
pen in his letters to the Galveston Civilian.
The sultan has ordered q silver table, to cost
something more than 100000.
Lady Franklin, widow Of the Arctic explorer,
passed last winter in India.
New Orleans whisky is sent to st. Louis for
sale.
We feel it In our bones that New Orleans is to
escape epidemics this summer.
Daniel Pratt, of Alabama, is no relation Of the
"Great American Traveller, etc."
The lieutenant governor of Louisiana is Dunn,
colored.-[Ex.
Diamonds TO the amount of $40, 0O0,O 600 are said
to be owned by persons in New York.
A California farmer has bought thirty-ive tons
of sacks in which to ship bis crop of this year.
large number of Southerners are now coming
North to escape the hot weather.-lN. I. Mail.
And to get sun struck, we suppose.
Half the Ills that flesh is heir to are sooner and
more efectuslly cured by temperate diet than By
medicines.
Miles O'Reilly says it is the General Of our
Armies who has changed, and not his former lsu.
reate.
1t is hard work to make newspapers, and har-
der still 10 read some of them. Editors. as well
as ministers. ought to have had a "call."
Eddy, who has lately been permitted to dine at
the first table, electrified the servant by demand
ing the trorsted sauce. The article was immedi-
ately produced.
Next to Napier, a Greek sutler, who sold
matches for dollar a box, is said to have smade
the greatest success out of the Abyssinian ex.
petition.
hot ataR min rUn
around the walls, and strawberries, lettuce, Gu
cumbers and violets are raised for market earlier
than in Florida.
Alexandra Dumas has been so improvidentthat
if sickness should prevent him from writing any
thing for nine or twelve months, he would actually
be in danger of suffering from want.
An attempt to smuggle wool into this country
free of duty has been discovered. Somebody has
been sending over lock of Theodorus's hair 10 q
letter.
The eminent Or. Jacob Bigelow, who attributes
| his longevity and excellent health in part to alb
| stinence from medicine, has given 500 for the
best essay on the share of nature and time in the
| cure Of diseases.
Among the fireworks announced for the 4th of
| July, in Skaneateles, New York, are "splensid
| four FOUNDER parachute rockets with stars which
change color and are supported in the air by bal
looms, and a combat between two fiery dragons in
mid sid.'
A beautiful young damsel with blue CATERS,
blue Dress blue sacque, blue lace collar, blue hat,
with blue plume. blue parasol with blue tassel,
blue FAM blue kid gloves, blue eyes, tortoise brace
lets, necklace, and earrings, attracted consider
able attention at the Blue Lick Springs few days
| ago. She was from the bluegrass region OF Ken
lucky, and was a grass widow of the euphonious
name Of Blue.-LNew Albany Ledger.
An exchange says there is no need of buying
umbrellas. They can easily be procured without
thusly: Take your stand in doorway on rainy
day. AS soon as you see a man with nice um
brella, step out and say TO him: Sir, beg
your pardon, but you have my umbrella" Nine
times in ten be will surrender it, for how does BIZ
know that it was not you that he stole it from!
There are but fourteen American exhibitors a
the French maritime exhibition at Hsvre. Among
their contributions are a model of fishing boat,
model for ocean steamers, en- apparatus for lay
ing submarine telegraph cables, an apparatus TO
lowering smell boats from vessels q model TO
facilitating the loading of ships, a model of al
automatical alarm signal, announcing tn
presence of water in a ships hold, tive model
of new systems of saving ship V4soksd persons
models of safety belts and mattresses for tn
shipwTecked, q model OF steam engine,
model Of a hydraulic press, an apparatus adspte
to either steam, water or gas, and few othe
unimportant articles.
The dredge boat Esssyons, for the mouth Of tn
Mississippi, which has been building for som
months at the Atlantic Works, in Boston, an
which was last reported at Fortress Monroe, is o
six hundred and fifty tons burden, one hundre
and sixty feet long, thirty wide and twenty deep
and contains nine engines, with powerful propel
lers at each end. The plan which, entirely ne "
is the invention Of General McAllister. lnstea
of scooping the mud from the river bed and empty
ing it into scows, it is proposed to break up tn
mud by means Of a screw at the prov aud lon
rake at the stern, and to keep it in solution unit
the current shall carry it into the deep water be
yond the bar. The Esssyons will be kept at wor
day and night the year through.