The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-08-17

HE GARiS Bt6 GflSttsb II iudklilg
her way TO her shop, perhaps only returning 10
her night quarters with tiny pot OF coffee IN her
hand, and small roll under her arm. Even tins,
and in her morning dress, and in her slippers work
ed with sprig of geranum on purple ground, she
does not look careessly There IS lack, indeed, so
far as one can Judge from window, of stay or bls
tie and her dress from its ease of t shows perhaps
rather more OF her form than would be consistent
with New England notions; nevertheless, her hair
issmoothly plated her dress Clean and the little
handkerchief about her neck although il he OF the
modest bdtSie is disposed even at this early hour
with coquetish tie. 1t is wonderful how such
spnghtly step can belong &c. any individual Of a
population which has witnessed such bloody havoc
within the month-yet she would wear it even in
the lace OF the battle, and if her passions were
reused would use a carbine with as much grace as
she now carries her breakfast roll Indeed, upon
one of the first barrieades Of the 23d sncI "a girl
scarce twenty, and dressed with singular neatnsss
made her appearance. She held the banner Of the !
insurgents, and after their rstfre leaped down be-
fore the National Guard who hesitated AMI taunt-e
ed them with cowardice. Still, in pity, they ne
strained their fire until her insults became ontra-
geOus, and the command for assault was given
The poor girl re amounted the barricadey but in the
same instant was pierced by a ball and fell dead
among the insurgents Nor was she alone among
the young and tender victims of her sex. Whe Their
they were influenced by Joan Of Arc ambition,
or phrenzed by the new preached communism,
or led by personal attachment, | do not know, per.
haps the three influences were combined.
TEMPERANCE STATIsTIcs-The w Heraldis
indebted to Charles II. Delavan for the following
interesting statistics on Temperance
There are at present in England, Ireland and
Scotland, $50 Temperance societies, with 100000
members; in the Canadas, Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, $50 societies, with 10000 members.
In South America there are 1900 persons who
have signed the Temperance pledge In Germany
A. 4
in Sweden and Norway, 5l0soceties, with 10000
members. In the Sandwich Islands there 5000
persons who have signed the pledge of total absti
nence. AT the Cape OF Good Hope there are 300
pledged members. 1t is ascertained that upwards
of 1000 persons annually perish in Great Britain
through accidents while drunk; and the loss 70 the
working classes alone, through drinking, appears
to be S550000.000. There was expended for infOxi-
eating liquors, in Great Britain last yea, the enor4
nous sum Of 5000 600 and breWed in the saue
time $50, 600, 900 gallons of malt liquors. In the
United States there are $40 Temperance societies,
with 26l5 900 members, which includes the Sons
of Temperance. In Russia all Temperance So
cieties are strictly forbidden by the Emperor. In
Prussia, Austria and Italy, there are none. IN
France the Temperance cause, although yet IN its
infancy, is greatly on the increase. The first Tenn
perance socelyin the world, far as discovery has
gone, was formed in Germany, on Christmas day,
in the year 1900.
PRoDUcrIvE APPLE Trees Browne, in his
trees of America, says there is an apple tree at
Romney in Virginia, which, according to Dr.
Mease grew spontaneously from seed, is estimated
to be fifty years old, and has attained height of
forty-five feet, with trunk more than yard in
diameter. In 1875, ii produced one hundred and
eighty bushels of large fruit, besides four or five
bushels left under the tree as damaged, and several
bushels taken by visiters during the course of the
season-so that the whole amount, in the opinion
of DR.. Mease, must have been nearly two hundred
bushels.
The greatest quantity of fruit borne on a single
tree in England, in one year, grew in Lirtleiield,
Sussex, and produced seveny-four bushels Of fruit
the total weight of the crop being nearly two tons.
Repeated instances, have occurred in Western
New York, of trees of the Rhode Island greening,
with little cultivatlon yielding single crops OF
more than forty bushels
EXPIRING IN SoNG.-A singular incident, show
ing the effect ofmusic upon Canary bird occurred
in Roxbury within the last few days. A lady Of
rare musical attachments was playing on the piano,
when all at once her bird, who seemed to have
been listening very intenty burst forth into strain
of song so loud, shri, and powerful, as at once to
arrest her attention Nothing like thad been heard
before. The little creature breast seemed actu-
ally swelling and heaving with his efforts to give
vent to the conceptions with which his tiny heart
was beating All at once, at the full tide Of his
melody he was silent. His mistress took him from
the cage, and he turned over in her hand and died
On dissection it was found that he had completely
split his windppe from top to bottom!-Bostoa
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