The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-22
EDITORIAL PARAGKAPHs. ErO.


hiss Charlotte Cushman is in Washington.
Commodore Marry was in New York last week.
Greeley is gslvanting at Long Branch.
Geo. Francis will Train at Newport.
Romero and wife have sailed for Havana.
There is to be grand Democratic barbecue at
opelousas on the Let Of August.
Foul Play" speaks of a gentleman well
dressed, except that he wore gold chain.
The poetic machine down Camp street is hum
! ming again.
The Turf, Field and Farm has got new and
handsome heading.
Baltimore has appropriated 81 600 900 for the
erection of a new city hall.
Kate Field says: 4" For certain reasons az well
as Others it is good thing to be dead"
The watering place bands are "Grande Duchess
mad.
Walking suits for 81 in Newport. Not safe to
walk far in them.
Congress has declared the XIV article Of
amendment adopted.
Some New York nobs are rusticatng on farms
near the city. Economical and sensible
Claret is said not to be good warm weather
beverage.
Mr.. Rufus Hunt, of this city, drives the finest
trotter that sppears upon the shell"
Dieary readng-jokes from London comic
papers.
There s said to be less extravagance and flash
at the watering places this season than usual
The Mail dilates upon the importance of salt.
spoons.
Diamonds at breakfast are pronounced vulgar.
Why not at dinner and teai
Thanks to the officers of the steamer l. C.
Harris.
Moses Beach, the eteran editor Of the New
York Sun, is dead.
Another big shower yesterday completed the
cleansing work Of the street department and
made fresh job for the draining machines.
Some startling rumors sflost concerning the
future policy of a senator of the Louisiana legis-
lature.
The new tax law, of which we have reserved a
copy for warm weather reading, occupies over
eleven long columns, fine type. solid.
Young ladies are now wearing neck lockets Of
jet, instead of French gilt, which is going out Of
fashion.
The owner Of an icehouse in Philadelphia pro-
posed TO fit it up with pews, to be rented out to
sitiers at a shilling an hour.
new reading of Keats dedicated to the
young ladies Of the present age)-A thing Of
beauty is toy forever.-IEX.
A young lady is making herself conspicuous at
One Ol lue pidCes Dy SACK OF
light blue cloth, trimmed with showy gold braid
and military buttons.
An exchange says it is not true that the New
York manufacturers Of planchettes belong to
the whisky ring, or that they have been threat
ened with prosecution for eyading the tax on
spirits.
Geo. Ellis has the following: New York Clip
per, New York Weekly, Scientific American,
wsverly Magazine, Hsrpers Weekly Frank Les
lie, National Police Gazette and Illustrated Police
News.
The French illustrated papers loudly oomplaia
of Harper's Weekly and Leslie's illustrated for
stealing their cuts, while the original engravings
Of the two American picture papers were so bad
II at no European illustrated journal cared to copy
any of them.
Professor Knapp, the iustrious Heidelberg
oculist, and, next TO DR.. Won Graefe, considered
the most eminent man in his specially in the
world has sent in his resignation TO the grand
ducal government, and is going to settle in the
United States.
At a Nashville hotel, recently, a number Of
little fishes were liberated from a piece Of ice
melting in glass of milk, and swan about as
lively as might be. They probably lsbored under
the deluson that they were in their native ele-
ment.
The Boston navy yard is regarded as a detri-
ment to the business interests of Boston, CharIes-
town and Chelsea, and will probably be removed
TO enlarge the OF Cbarlestown, as well as to
allow the connection of Boston by bridge with
its island ward, the latter being already joined to
Chelsea by bridge.
At a picnic party the other day, says
the Mail, gathered on the banks Of the
Bronx at Fordham, with their families around
them, were John Mitchell, the Irish patriot OF
'4S, john Savage, the poet and "hesd CENTER"
Hon. John y. Baskin, the disguished lawyer, Col.
Sam Reid, of New Orleans, Wm. ]. Reid, Of New
| York, and 4" Barry Gray
The Pail Mall Gazette is imposed upon by
| story that the American Freemasons have offered
the pope the grand mastership Of their organizl-
ton. As American Freemasons have no national
organization, and no grand master Of the order,
| ana are not in the habit of electng TO office any
| one who is not a member Of the fraternity. we
may be at liberty to doubt the truth Of the story.