New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-12
WEATHER, CROPS, ETC
The Louisville journal of the ais. iYIt AVA

EATHER, CROPS, ETC
The Louisville Journal of the 3lst ut. says.
Owing to the drouth. the. GROWING crops of
tobacco in Logan and adjoining counties present
o sorry appearance; and great fears are enter
1 tanned that many fields will be almost entirely
worthless If reasonable weather Ia shortly
had the condition may be speedily altered for
the better st@#ysg al s5JssiFt.
/ The drouth is operating prejudicialiy to crops
Of every description in Daviess county, especially
the corn and tobacco. s
The water on the sand bars, hence to Cincin-
matt, also between this port and Smithland,
along the Lower Ohio, is shoaler than it was at
any time last season, although the river is not
at as low stage as then by nearly foot.
I The newspapers in all sections Of Tennesses
complain of the want of rain, and say the corn
crop is suffering severely from the drouth.
I The dry, warm, sultry weather. yet continues
four weeks tomorrow since we have had any
thing like general rain. Cotton generally
looks WE'LL though affected by the rust in come
places; but the late corn crops are already
seriously damaged, and will, if we have not rain
in the next few days, almost prove a total
failure in some localities. Helena (Ark.)
Shield, 9th.
FATAL ACCIDENT. Droscned On the
afternoon of the 9th inst, says the Charleston
Standard, two men started from the foot of the
Union wharf in a small row boat, on pleasure
excursion, which we are sorry 70 state did not
turn out as such, as it resulted in the death of
one Of the party, Mr.. Michael Mainon. The
particulars are nearly as follows: When about
opposite Palmetto wharf, and not more than
two hundred yards from shore, Mr.. Mainon's
oar slipped from his hands into the water, and
in trying to regain it he lost his balance and
fell overheard. The current was very rapid,
and when he rose to the top of the water he was
some distance from the boat. Mr. NJ struggled
for some time to gain the floating oar which
was only few yards from him, but being an
inexpert swimmer, was unable to do so The
scene was witnessed by several persons from
the shore, among whom was his wife, who i'm
mediately dispatched Eoat to his assistance,
but before reaching the place of disaster, Mr..
NJ. sank to rise no more. Exertion was made
to recover the body, but without effect De-
ceased was about twenty eight years of age,
and shipsmith in the employ Of Mr.. Johnston.
He leaves wife and two children.
| THE CHoLERA.-A letter from st. Thomas,
| under date of 18th July, says: Every com
| munication from Barbados swells the dreadful
statistics of the rayages Of the cholera in that
Island The last steamer brings accounts that
it had subsidized somewhat in towns, but was doing
| its work. at an awful rate in the other parts of
the Island; fifteen thousand also have died in
| Grenada.
| At Blackwelps Island, above New York city,
the cholera has prevailed to q considerable ex-
| tent, Two deaths a day, on an average have
occurred at the Lunatic Asylum since it broke
| out on the Island, and about as many at the
| Aims house, where it originated.
| AT Chicago, on the Goth ult., twenty Deaths
At Troy, N. Y, on Wednesday, two deaths.
At Albany, on the same day, five deaths. At
Detroit, Michigan, on the 10Th nit, twenty
nine deaths.
| At Boston, during the twenty-four hours end
ing at noon on Wednesday, there we're four fatal
| cases.
The interments at St. Louis for the week
ending On the 31st ult., numbered two hundred
and thirty-two, of which forty-nine were from
cholera.
The cholera has become nearly extinct in
| Newark, N. j. Within the twenty -fours hour;
but one case had been reported
The cholera returns in New York show de.
cline in the ravages of the malady.
The mortality at Lamar's Stage Station
fifteen miles east of Chicago, has been frightful
Nine members of single family died Of cholers
q few days since.
BARBARITY d VENEzUELA-The New Yorl
Express publishes the following, under date o
Caracas, July 9th:
THE wife of Senior Pinto, one of those VIII
have recently risen in rebellion against Mona
gas, had been whipped, in order to compel he
to confess where her husband is, and with sucl
severity that the wretched lady died the fol
lowing day"
A MONSTER BIIf..-The past route bill whic
was signed by the President about 10 o'clock o.
Thursday night REQUIRED for its enrolment on
thousand sheets of parchment, costing 5000
1t is recapitulation of all the existing pos
routes in the United States, to which some 81
or seven hundred new ones are added.
A REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. - A MAJ
named Ryther, foreman in Messrs. Starks
Pruyn's Iron Works, in this city, was attacks
yesterday morning with the prevailing sickness
and notwithstanding the prompt attendance c
, n physician, he sank very fast, and died earl
in the evening. The physician called in tn
evening for the seventh time, and found the bod
/, prepared for the grave. While standing by tn
corpse, the physician thought he detected
movement in one of the hands of the deceased
and on looking Closer two or three of the finger
moved distinctly. Those standing by also nc
ticed these movements of the fingers, as ais
that of the muscles of the arm. The physical
, then remarked that the sense of hearing wa
always the last which left the body, and
would soon ascertain if the man was still alive
He then took one of his hands in his own, an
said, "Ryther, if you can hear me and cannc
) speak, answer by pressing my hand" Thi
was promptly responded to by a very distint
pressure, felt by the physician, and seen b
others, and it was repeated. Ressuscitatior
however, was Of course impossible. fabian
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