The New Orleans crescent., 1868-03-15
NUMBER 1872.

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one word Of truth, and In most Of which we know
there il no truth. is going the rounds OF the
,orevs.
iaoy passing tsrousn TINS cry 10 the cars Tor
Boston on SATURDAY vas compeied 70 stop, on
account Oh the sudosn Illness oi her cnha-aooul
,hnteen montns oio' a. ner retues. sue was
Srvsn 70 ono OF tnS cnespest ., respecaois
SHses SH nsat - sny c''y ana suc1i saJ was &
dsnchfer Of 4 ~ej,rnovr AZ govarno, ~ thst
State and lived on : large plantation inst below
Port Hudson. Her husband died some ten mouths
ago. During his absence In the war the Federal
troops came 10 her house and plundered freely.
She gave them of what she had to eat, and they
helped themselves TO various articles One man.
among the last to CO. discovered over one of the
inner doors. q handsome sword. and demanded N.
The lady refused To give il up as il had belonged.
in his lifetime, to her father, who priced It as
knight Templar's sword The soldier persisted.
and the ladv armed herself and declared aha
would defend the sword with her life. The SOL
der left but returned with Others and findng the
outer door fastened they began firing through it.
One bullet hit the lady In the back of her ueos
pnssing ont of her mouth. and carving with it
three te eth The wound Il still dscp and plain
and she has saved the teeth-and she also
saved the sword. She says her large sugar
plantation, though one Of the richest there
sbouts, cannot support her and her child OF ca
able them 10 get bread-such Is the existing state
of utter destifutioD in the South and the plunder-
ing of thieving bands of negroes. She goes to
former value-an ex-onfcer of volunteers who
lives there having agreed to purchase it, il she
would execute 3 deed Of it there. Seeing her
need Of money. some contributions we're made up
for her, with which she Immediately purchased
warmer clothing, better suited to this climate
One curious feature of the story was this that
her child was the only survivor Of triplets-and
that on a former occasion she gave birth 10 four
children. None Of them lived. 90
,rIartford courant
-soss & FoS NhukAlaic s', hsADAonEs, FACE
writes a correspondent of the Builder, l was laid
up with an excruciatng neuralgia headache,
which seemed TO encircle the ear Of that side of
the head alone effected. The idea that the head
ache had something to do with the ear "a a GEN.
ter occurred TO me- although the itself there
was no pain. bad little almond oil, and also
spirits, dropped Into the ear, bat without any
good effect; when the thought suggested itself
that perhaps little Of the aDesthetc ether (Rot
the ultric) might do good by deadening the ner.
vous pain. had some drops of rectifed sui
phuric ether. therefore,. put into the ear and.
10 the course Of half an hour, my headache was
entirely gone. l have since found, both from
my own occasional experience and that of
others, that ether. so applied, is In nearly all
cases an efectual cure Of those very painful head
aches, faceachss, Q, Jaw aches and toothaches which
are commonly known as neuralgia and rheums-
tic. II very severe case, two or three days may
elapse, during which the pain may be apt 20
recur, especially from new and even slight ex-
fsf q dozen drops, or less of ether, at time.
seems certain to subdne the most violent attack.
sometimes in q very few minutes. A drop or two
OF almond or olive oil after ward put into the ear,
have thought, tended 10 protect from q new
attack. AS the ether sometimes gives pain in the
ear for moment while being applied single
drop should first OF all carefully be put in. and
then more, as the case will allow but have
never suffered the least bad effect either in my
hearing OF otherwise, from the use Of ether in
this way, nor have heard OF any from others
who have tried IL of my recommendation.
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