The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-14
EDITORIAL PAKAoRAPHs. ETo.

Thanks to the officers of the steamship Cuba.
Thanks TO the officers of the steamer Frances
Lolita owns real estate in New York.
An open and shut game-hrting with a FAM
The Virginia Republicans have soured on Hun
nicut.
Brick Pomeroy has opened a branch Office in
New York.
A Providence tabby is bringing up rat with
her feline progeny.
England is selling its wooden walls' tor fire.
wood.
Memorial day at Hollywood Cemetery, occurs
on the 20 inst.
The Charestonians enjoy evening music on the
battery.
Luther A. Ham, for many years deputy chief of
police in Boston, is dead
You NAV Joke when you please. if you are care |
ful 10 p!esse when you joke.-lEx.
The first bus in America was Columbus.
A new athlete in London swings on the irapeze |
by his teeth.
An exchange regrets to learn that the world |
cones 20 an end October 2.
TIE Manassas Cemetery was to be dedicated
last Saturday.
Thanks TO the officers of the steamers Louise
and Josephine.
The president has appointed son Of Genera
John c. Fremont to be midshipman.
Miss Cary's Chickens " is name suggested
| for the women's club.
Michigan youth of nineteen stands seven feet
three in his stockings.
! The Evening Post informs US that the toes to
gentlemen's boots are gradually widening.
Macaulay once declared that E. P. Whipple's
review of his writings was the best ever pub
lished.
If the weather is favorable the Long Island
farmers promise to send 5000 bushels of straw
berries to New York during the coming season.
Charles O'Conor, of New YORK, returned an in-
come, for 1867 of sac, 225, A. Oakley Hall of $1,000
and Judge Csrdozo s3405.
Charles K. Tuckerman, our new minister to
Greece is q native of Boston, and brother Of the
poet.
A certain house in New York is furnished from
top to bottom with rosewood. The owner, five
years ago, was a sutler in the army.
The papers of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
are giving gratifying accounts of the prospects OF
the coming wheat crop.
Family suicides are fashionable in Berlin. They
do it by going to bed and leaving the gas turned
on.
It 10 now the fashion in New York for gentle
men 10 visit their young lady friends in the after
noon instead of the evening
The town of south Danvers, Massachusetts,.
has decided, by 1873 majority, to change its name
to Peabody, it having been the birthplace of that
charitable millionaire.
Bismarck says that if he was Chinese, an
Abyssinian OF an Indian, he should probably care
a great deal about England, but being simple
European, he don't care at all.
Charleston is having Italian opera by Susini
/. Locsteli Boye and Orlandini, with Miss McCul-
loch, of South Carolina as prima donna, who is
} the principal attraction.
: The New York Mail says many of the young
snobs who perambuste Fifth avenue wearing eye
glasses, do so merely for STYLE" and not because
their eyes, in addition to their brains, affected
The Delaware Commercial estimates that ,l0l i.
600 baskets of peaches will be realized from the
crop in that State this year along the main line oil
q railroads, exclusive of the branch roads.
Beethoven's piano has Just been sold in Tran
sylvania. 1t is a curious old instrument, Of th'
last century type, with portrait of the fine OLE
composer, aged twenty, on one of its panels.
: ALTA Vela" is translated by a New Yorl
d paper tall CANDLE" 1t means "full SAIL" thu
= island resembling ship under press of sail. TIT
e name was given by Columbus.
J, 1t is not generally known that the author o
a "Rinaldo Rinaldini," whom most school.boy
! have read with high romantic sympathy, was Vul
=, Plus, Getbe's brother-in.law.
John Jacob Astor's will was drawn by DAME
Lord, at that time the greatest lawyer in Ne'
y York, and yet lawsuit has grown out Of it be
e tween William B. Astor and his sister, Mrs. Lang
l. don.
n Street gloves for gentlemen are now worn
sr very brilliant and gay colors-yellow, lemon
i orange and bismarck being the fashionable tint
, Lavender aud flesh color are in vogue anon
p the ladies.
Commander Jno. Pollard, of the British nsvJ
known as the Avenger of Nelson" died on th
% 23d ult, aged eightyone. 1t has always been b.
lie lieved that he gave the fatal blow to the VIII
shot Lord Nelson.
Four Fifth avenue mansions have real lace Gu
taihs at the paror windows, valued at from tire
to five thousand dollars each, two have mono
y gram carpets, one monogram door-plate, one
as private thester and four have picture galleries.
ty PATHS benefit, at the Italian Opera in Pari
IS was an ovation. Seats sold as high as fifteen do
e. lars, and every place was taken. There wei
id showers of huge bouquets, and from a box clos
ha to the stage gold palm branch was handed by
&c lady.
A writer in the New Orleans Journal of Med
= cine, about epidemic dysentery on plantation
40 speaking Of the best concentrated diet for use
De cases of that character, says: g have four
at nothing well suited to the negro as the essent
re Of ham"
S. The French critics are very angry with IL
es Americans for buresquing 4" The Grand Duchess
No. They call her The Grand Dutch Cheese" al
- sing the air of |" The Sabre" to the words, " Ye
it is the cheese-knife, the cheese-knife, Il
To- cheese knife of my old mani"
sc The Marquis d'Aligre left 800 900 to one Of
slr relations who had behaved rudey to lorette 81
de met in his chamber one day; the condition of 4
legacy was that the kinswomau should pay 4
tic lorette $4,000 year long as she lived, paying