The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-24
The Frenohman and the Cholera.

One day during the late epidemic wishing to walk off the
gloom that sickness and death around me hs thrown like
pail my spirits took up my hat and ptocesssd lesurey
o take long stroll through the city In passing down
Bourbon street, not thousand miles from the corner of
Toulouse observed crowd gathered around the door of A
respectable looking mansion, and heard sounds issuing om
the domei parakng OF the tragic aud heIdicuouss Here
was an opportunity MOTTO be Understanding the tap
that might chase away the buesso mingiing with the
throng became "a locker IN VennaH What IA the
matter +" inquired OF news-b0y who was selling The
Crescent and therefore supposedo know everything
French gentleman with the ohOlefaa regular case
hear him-he of EN- sis and no mistake ap5,ysd
the messenger of Faust At the time Withdrawing has
tiy from the contaminated atmosphere and making bis
papers circulate pskly around the neat looked in
the room, and stretched upon sofa lay the victim sDuter
ing forth in all the excitement natural to him Oh mon
Dieui N, ck6re aRtiel Oh, obi e yais Uao,rir dc
SUITE Ditss done HesaHais eRUOD6r cerchcr 10 DOctear
Oh mon DieU! doaHs1 moi WRe petite goute eau de gie
This touching appeal could not be withsood and the
brandy was produced and quickly dispatched to arrest Inc
disease making such hubbub in the depths below A mn
mentaYy quiet succeeded, OgWed by spasm that again re-
qpfed the same application 70 hsextsnt Of ave fingers
The Doctor now came in ard The Iady of the house in.
formed him that the patient unkhOwu to her had been
taken with cramps while passing and she had given him
The shelter Of her TOof and at least pint of superior Coguae
me physician sad 50 Tar all ives right and ordered the
closely to the consultation, aud perceived look OF great
compscency upon his face when the dc pre-.
sctOed The pa ms again came with renewed violence
and aoonvusye twtching the mouth betOkened strong
The Doctor however moved slowly away from the side
board with the eess half filled with bfsndy and noticed
malicious twinkle in his eye he deIeTousy placed his
hand before the liquor and slipped in considerable nor
u0n 81 some H1d ttOm vial concealed from the victim
The Frenchman raised his head took the pleasant medicine
IN his hand plaosd it to his mouth long swallow and
bounding with that echOd far and vide ne oanered
mady around the room, made rush for the door prosated
an old woman with spectacle upon the banuuette unSet
two nqIses with children and roaring like mad bu ditan
pered down the next street, before could recover from t6e
effects OF THIS unlocked for emee The Doctor laugbsd
long and loud before he could explain that he had immed
asY recognized his patient entering the hOuss al ons
VINO was SO addicted to the ardent that he made 'bOes
attack pTetsxt TOR obtaining it gratis He had once be
oi Deen eeu IN 10 the same ingenious parsonage when
ne had tired THIS rltse widow adyn Canal sfset. ~
SHOWING vel hi man he had quisy put the extract Of red
explosion q the plot My nsble faculties were 81 much sT
oea pI thS sudden cure Of cholera patient thai rested
my SEEMING sides IN the St. Louis " and considered the stoT
worm al least two jueps which administered forthwith