New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-13
NUMBER I64.
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moisture, and yesterday morning grew so chill as t
render blankets a comfort to late sleepers During
the day. that is, yesterday the cooness batIed the
undimmed fare of the sun and the result was dav
altogether delicious fine, pleasant pretty delpbtfn
TO sum alphabetically beautiful Those who en-
joyed it most however shook their heads regretf1lv
in the belief that it was bad, very bad for those
yellow fever sufferers who had reached the turning
Or critical stage Of the disease It is widely prey
lent belief among our old settlers, that sudden
change from heat to cold is fatal to great many Of
the sick in the yellow fever season. Whether this ia
the fact or not, we hardly wise enough to say
but if it is the fact then we do not rejoice that yes
terday was 50 beautiful day.
THE FEVER holds its way, to all appearance, with
unmitigated severity. The fluctuations of the week
past have not been such as to enable US to
any positive decline For the twentyf four hours end
ing Friday noon, the mortality by the fever az re-
ported by the Board of Health was So: and for the
twenty-fonr hours ending Saturday noon, 10. Fig
nring up for the week, and making fair estimate
for the time between Saturday noon and Sunday
mOrning-the latter time being the close of the old
week and the beginning of the new, in the Board of
Health records-we find an increase for the week Of
about so over the mortality for the week ending last
Sunday morning, 9Th inst,
FUSERAL OF Mn. RAREsHIDE.-The sudden death
of Mr, George Rareshde, one of our Oldest and most
esteemed citizens, spread surprise and sadness
throughout large circle of the community His
funeral yesterday was an unusually large and i'm
posing affair The Odd Fellows Order, to which the
decease belonged and in which be stood high turned
out in strong force, and joined with the host of his
other friends in consgning him to his last and deep
est of earthly sleeps. He was inferred in the Odd
Fellows Rest with all the solemn ceremonals of the
Order to which he SO bright ornament in life,
PHIzztED OUT.-A phew days ago, lot of phine
pheows phell in together, at a telegraph Office and
had their phill Of phun and phrolic over a phnely
phnrnished table and phew baskets of Phench
phluid Of the phancy phoamng kind. Phreely
phlew the said phuid; and the pheelings Of the
phriends of Phaust and Phranklin phew up to such
phurorc, that, when all philIed up to the phame Of
PhraDkn, it was phorthwith decided that the said
philosopher-phamous alike phor his phriendshfp To
phreedom in the nphantiie days Of the republic his
| phoosh pholly for the phollowing of Phaust, and
the inc philosophy by which he phetched the
phOrked lightning phrom the pholmerly unphath
omed phrmament-should have phane of phree.
stone, or any other phirc proof and time-dephying
phos5il, phiNed phirmly over his tomb in the phair
city Of Philadelphia. The pholOwng Sunday was
phiXed for phull meeting of the phriends of this
phu8acious phlight of phancy but phew phuIGlled
by their attendance their phrendy promise to phin.
ally phix the ph0wery phore-ordinaton of the phane
to Phrauklin; and some of the phue phellows
assembled said pholy, and some said phizze.
phew, however, phought the idea of phizzle,
and phorcibIy phoresharued phlinker SO phoolish.
more phuture Sunday was thcreupon phixed phor
the phnal phedging Of the phand phancy and that
Sunday was yesterday; phiue a day as ever
phloated down the phace of time. Yet the phricnds
Of Phranklin appeared to be phew and phar between
though the followers Of Phaust and the phne phel-
lows of the telegraph were phloatiug around phreey
in some places as thick as phleas, phanking the
shady corners, and phonting all phinancia pher.
ments, save those which phoamed and phizzed in the
rephreshment phssures Of ST. Charles street. Phnd-
ing this to be the state of pheeing about Phrauklin
we Zone Of the phrst phounders OF the ph0lIy, and
on that account by some of our phrends phlatter.
ingly pronounced the phuuny phellow Of the Cres,
cent? had to phater in our phaith, and swallow the
pheeings Of the phaithless expressed in the words
phailurc = pholIy-phlorescent phancy-phlinker-
phizzle It really grand and most hopeless
phizzIe Let no phoolish phellow hereafter say
PhranElin to us, His phame was phoolish phancy
phormer days, and if he pheels like having mon
umental phaue phxed over his phinal resting place.
by the eternal, he will have to come back and phix
it himselph
SAD ADVENTURES OF A SERVANT GIRL.-Consider-
able excitement was created on the leyee on Satur.
day forenoon, and Gu board the steamer Uncle sam
particuarly, by the desperate efforts of young
woman to drown herself Once she plunged madly
into the river quickly she was rescued watching
hprp and, irt +J,r
river, more mady than before and again was she
snatched from the clasp Of watery grave. Upon
her last rescue she was held fast and not released
until she was safe within one of the cages of thu
First District lookup.
The story that she was young and pretty, and haG
sought death as cure for rrecenty-ncurred dishonor
was the chief stimnant to the excitement that sur
rounded her. She was kept in the lookup, and was
still there yesterday evening when we dropped n
as usual, for items. Hearing that she had spent
nearly the whole time OF her incarceration in weep
ing prayer. and reading her bible we were induced
to visit her, and hear her story from her own lips
She was seated qaiety reading her Bible when we
approached the gating-a rather g9od.l2oking Ger,
man girl of eighteen or twenty, with blue eyes and
light hair, and cIeanly aud tastefully dressed.
She told US, in very good English that she had
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She heard that in New Orleans good servants were
getting from ten to fifteen dollars month, and
sought for at that. In Chicago the wages was only
five to eight dollars and though she had good sit,
uation in kind family, she concluded she would
emigrate to the city which gave the highest wages
So she took tue for St Louis reached that city
and stad there till the first boat should leave for
New Orleans. The Uncle Sam was the boat, and she
took deck passage, the only sort Of passage her
scanty savings ouldpermt.
On the way down the river, she got acquainted
with young man, an American, who after several
days of polite intimacy, made love to her and asked
her to marry him. He appeared to be honest and il
earnest; and she being susceptible herself and be
lieying that it would be better and more snug ant
convenient generally to go to housekeeping for her
self than to hire herself out as servant for some
body else, accepted him. Everything was arranged
and the marriage was to take place in New Orleans
as soon as the boat should arrive.
The boat reached the city on Thursday The yonng
took his intended bride to hotel near the leYee
and had her tenderly taken care of, in room scpa
rate to herself He left her there whilst he went Of
to make arrangements for the wedding. The nigh
and next day passed and whilst the young man wa
all love and tenderness, some little things as he rep
resented, compelled him to defer the wedding. Fri
day night, by some means unknown to her, he gained
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