New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-08
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-. " '"N "Vui1F DelleVe poSslDie5 With the fever
s'ili 80 bad Ii the evening the comet usurped the
hea!ens, large bright, and fascinating % ever Its
tai Is no" elevated TO almost perpenaieular alti
tade.
The FEVER RETURNS by the Board Of Health .
show the mortality for the twentyf0ur hours ending
Wednesday noon to have reached 56; four less than
the day before.
SuIctDE.-A woman named Louisa Smith living |
in house opposite Poydras Market, yesterday com
mitted suicide By taking Iaudannm She lived with
aGenoese named francisco ChisrIo and asaddieted
to strong drink What melted her to the fatal deed
not known. She was deliberate in the execution
Of her design, procuring the aud4num Of Dr. McFar-
lane, in such manner as not to excite his suspicion
in the least. She native OF France, 20 years Of
age. The Coroner held an inquest over the body
and returned verdict in accordance with the facts.
A2oRors GnINAsfAs.-AH sorts Of an excitement
was created on Craps street, yesterday afternoon,
by the stampede Of a Celestial gentleman who Had
good to fancy his life in danger He scrambled
over fence from house in the interior Of the
square whose outlet is on Love street and alight-
ing in the yard Of house fronting on Craps street
bolted through that house in manner which spread
as much CONSERVATION among the lady and children
inmates, as if Old Nick himself had come down the
LIT Idul VI tiiG lOtSS RAISED al aIdfTa
the street; but John Chinaman, being good on his
pins, had vamosed The ranch before any one could
capperclaw him. We afterwards heard what made
John take such short cut for Craps street, and
scratch the gravel of that street so vigorously He
had been in the house of a friend who was sick of
yellow fever and fancying that friend to be too sick
to notice what he doing, made love in very posi-
tive manner to his said friends wife. The sick man,
seeing what was going on sprapg from his bed,
seized long knife, and ran at John with very sin
cere. design Of numbering him and it was Johns
getting oat Of the way that created the excitement
on Craps street.
AoclpENrs.-A little boy six years old fell from a
tree at the corner Of jackson aud Laurel street. on
Wednesday, and broke his back. He is son Of Mr
/ S, w. Cutler, Of The Fourth District.
4 William King, driver Of one Of the Camp street
urnuihDsas, ieN sona his seat yeaterday, whilst letting
| dowu trunk from the top Of his vehicle. Falling
under one Of his mules, he got 80 badly hurt by
kick in the face that he had to be taken to Charity
/ Hospital.
FIRST DISTRICT SeHooL BoARD.-This Board held
its monthly meeting last evening Mr. Solomon in
| the chair.
Mr. Wharton, Of the Committee on The Lvceum and
Library, reported the donation to the Library by Mr.
John MeNair, Of one hundred and twenty-five vol
umes OF valuable books In different languages pro
position to have ve lectures, by Of well known
talent and eloquenee delivered in the LYeeum during
the coming winter; aud circular, to be addressed
to the public the subject of aiding and more lib
orally patr0nizng the Public School Library. The
report and circnl were adopted.
The report of the Finance Committee was read and
adopted.
iii favor OF different applicants for teacherships and
particularly in favor Of Miss Ellen a, Perry, as Prin-
cipa of the Girls High School. Miss P. was form
eTy Principal of the Second District Girls High