New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-07
THE DAILY CRESCENT.

THE DAILY CRESCENT.
CHARITY HOSPITAL. - Weekly report Of the
Charity Hospital for the week ending saturda,
August g. at five o'clock P. N.
Admissions, 296; discharges, 1873; deaths, 40;
Number remaining, 619. Of the deaths, II were
from yellow fever.
INquEsTs-The Coroner held an inquest last
Saturday ct the depot ofthe Opelousas Railroad
Company in Algiers, on the body Of man who
had Just arrivedin the cars from the Bayou des
Allemands, supposed to be named O'Rourke,
aged about 80 years The jury returned YER
dict of " Death from congestion Of the brain"
Another, at No. 100 Camp street, on the body
of n woman named Catherine Re val, native
of Ireland, aged about 80 years, who died very
suddenly on Friday night. Verdict, Apo
plexy."
A third, at the corner of Penn and Perdido
streets, First District, on the body Of Mary Ann
Warren, aged 10 years, native of Louisiana,
who committed suicide by taking laudanum
The jury returned verdict accordingly
A fourth, at No. 141 Magazine street, on the
body of VIM O'Connell aged So years, q native
Of Ireland, who was accidentally killed by fall
Ing from the hatchway of the third story Of said
premises The deceased was carrying water to
the roof of the house, and leaned against the
railing around the hatchway, which was open,
and the railing giving way he was precipitated
to the ground floor. Verdict accordingly.
The Coroner held an inquest yesterday on the
body of Robert Fowler, aged 43 years, native
of scotland, found dead at the police station of
the Second District. Verdict, ssApoplexy."
This man, the Coroner informs us, was one Of
the jurors who held an inquest on the body of
q drowned man the previous day.
Another was held on the body of Charles, a
Polander, aged As years, found dead at the cor
ner Of Moreau and Vaudeville streets, Third
District Verdict, "Apoplexy, caused by in
temperance"
A third inquest was held on the body of Mary
Kelly, aged S5 years, native of England, found
dead at AZ Barrack street, Second District,
Verdict, Died Of congestion of the brain,
caused by intemperance."
ALL SAFE-There was report current in
town yesterday that during the squat on satur-
day evening, a boat named the White Squall wa:
capsized and five persons had been drowned
Last evening we learned that the boat had been
capsized, but nobody was drowned, all having
succeeded in reaching the shore
HoRR1BLE.--We find the following in the Bos.
ton Traveller of late date. One would hardly
/ suppose such scenes could occur in city where
dwell SO many philanthropists. We venture tc
assert that nothing SO monstrous has occurred
within the recollection of man in New Orleans
or any other Southern city:
Last evening" at about 8 o'clock, the police
heard q disturbance in very small cellar III
: Maeomber's Block, Serenac street. South Boston
Entering, they found stretched upon three flour
barrels the corpse of Mrs. Murphy, who had
lust died of cholera, and no less than forty per-
sons gathered around, waking" the dead. At
the same time, at the back door, lay q woman
/ named Margaret Harrington. She was suffer
5 ing from violent cramps, and severely vomiting
4 and was lying on the muddy ground with log
of wood for herspillow In the mean time the
4 wake was going on with great noise The polio.
i Immediately cleared the cellar, and had tbs
! corpse Immediately taken to the dead-house
s The woman in the yard was conveyed to th'
j Cholera Hospital, where she died in three hours
& The whole house was Immediately cleared o
AZ its tenants. more than forty families, and it ha
Dceu plhGeu III GhIc VI uut PDlCc.
s One of our reporters visited the premises Thu
4 morning. The cellar was reached by descend
= ing three steps, and had no means of yentila
ton but by the door and very small window
The three barrels and the clothes on which tn
s corpse was stretched were still there, and OF
]. the table stood the pipes, tobacco, bottles ant
u other necessary articles to make o awake. !"
In small closet, as it might be called, will
s no chance of ventilation, was the bed in which
u the woman died. Both rooms was frightfull,
5 filthy and damp, Opening a back door, an,
clamberipg up three broken steps, the yard wa
entered, where the other woman WAS foun
dying. The mud was three inches deep, and con
sisted Of excrements and filth of every descrip
s. ton. The stencil was intolerable. The celia
S in which were gathered the forty men and wo
men is not more than twelve feet square.
81 Miss Mary Music, for being drunk an
RI creating disturbance in the street, was locke
g up in the House of Correction. [Exchange.
81 A queer crotchet for &c Heavenly Maid
" but as she has got behind the bars, it may b
+ safely conjeetured that she will take rest
4 When she comes out, we hope she will strik
anothe' key, and not be base any more But
falo Express.
A WELL. MATCHED CoUPLE.-We remembe
hearing from some poet, that
"The treasures of the deep are not so precious
AS are the concealed comforts OF q man,
Locked up in woman's love-
That may be, but we saw yesterday forenoo
an exhibition of the public comforts of matr
monial life, which we considered very far fro
+ being comfortable in any sense, The part
! alluded to, are from a neighboring county, an
4 seemingly respectable; they both indulge
ardent drinks, they both smoke and chew t,
q tobacco, they both constantly come to tow
together, and they both, invariably, have
fight in the matter. They are, truly, we
m atched in harness, only that the fe male (wt
81 is evidently the better half) is rather addicte
4 to kicking, as we saw her yesterday apply hi
& foot to the unpoetical part of her worse half
4 body, with an energy that would have gladdene
the heart of a Northern strong minded woman
Petersburg (Va.) Express, August L.
Stuart always maintained that lkene
4 depended more on the nose than any other fe'
= tnre, and in proof of his theory, he would p
& his thumb under his own large and flexible pr
boscis, and turning it up, exclaim, Who wou
know my portrait with such {, nose as this
/. Therefore, he is said to have generally finish
9 likeness before putting in the eyes. On o.
occasion pert young coxcomb, who was sittil
: for his portrait, stole a glance at the canv
and exclaimed, g Why, it has no eyes!" Stua
= eoolly observed, at is not nine days old, yet
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