Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-01-18
Catastrophe IN Sr. NApoLEoN

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following exciting and embarrassing
IL not interesting scene In st. Ma
poleon he discovered lady dressed
ont to the very verge Of fashion,
sehottiscbing along the side walk, evi-
IDENTIFY very well pleased with her tot
let. Never having been in the dry
goods business, our reporter does not
attempt description Of her person in
the toni en- sembIe besides if he want
ed t62-and showed disposition to take
the lady to pieces and make an in
ventory of her, we would not allow il,
because we eschew personalities and
all pointed things then he might be
called on aud called out Mt ten or fif.
teen PAGES, which might in the end
prove as great loss to him as to our
selves. Suffice to say, she had on a
kind of tafIita robeosith nine nounees,
the last touching The kerb stone on
one side, and the steps of the houses
in st. Napoleon on the other He
noticed the very patent fact to every
uther beholder that the dress-owing
to some inside pressure and expansion
was in manner eateeaed TO one side
as vessels are sometimes when under
going repairs on the dry dock To
this fact our reporter feels indebted
for the sight of pretty foot (once
more) and most exquisite ankle
Out Of one Of the cross streets leading
into St Napoleon and touching the
same at right angles, presently came
brindle eat, making very fast tracks
tail erect and bristles standing out
like quilts, etc. AT the heels of this
ANNUAL came a small dog of no par
ticuIar breed-with his mouth open.
making his best licks after the cat
aforesaid. Had the small dog kept
his mouth shut instead Of opening the
same aud barking 4; the catastrophe
which we are called on to print, had
not happened. lie barked, however,
and this caused sundry other dogs 10
bounce out of their kennels and pitch
head foremost into the street and ~
ter the eat aforesaid. With much fe.
line sagaeity the cat mounted fence
and looked down upon the crowd
with sovereign contempt for the dogs
the feline tribe. The lady 10 the
tailitas became agitated the game
freed, the dogs put their noses togeth-
er, aud presently discovered that they
had never met before, 9apd concluded
to form an acquaintance after the dog
fashion, by fight; they singled out
the small dog at FIRST referred to, to
vent their spleen upon, aud he, dis
covering that the odds we're against
him, started back At the speed with
which he reached the scene of battle
There was no gate open and no picket
down; go he took refuge under the
crinoline Of the lady in taflitas She
cried "murder," and instead of run
ming, stood still, until the entire pack
came up with jaws disteuded as though
to swallow her II was a hard case
and hard pavement--she could not
faint, because, since the introduction
of hoops, fainting has become unfash.
iopable. Our reporter shut his eyes,
aud with his coattail before the same,
to make assurance doubly sure, ran
blipdly and couragoously to the scene
of disaster-before he got there, how.
ever, the fight was over-most of it
having come off within the compass Of
the taflitas and nine hoops. Gentle
reader, imagine the rest-6gure to
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