Show WATCH when the great french emperor was in ID the zenith ot of his hie power v wonderful time timepiece apices was made fur far bin strassburg it by one of the must moat fm fana german watchmakers aside from striking the hours houra the he watell watch con lamed miniature chime which used to delight the emperor on his marches with one or the martial airs aira of france with the generosity genero eity that character charaC terl zed his relations towards toward pall all who were war thrown io in contact with bin napoleon gave it away as a token of frienda bips we the prize balli lallina nj to marshal nt N y the story is that the watch was left by the marshal to his bis son BOO joseph ney the duke of moscow woo who when he h 0 visited new orleana Orle aup it in 1842 with the illustrious visitors general henri Q G bertrand and dr Frau francesoo Francea cesco oo antong marchl marchi brought the baten with bin saki ao presented it to dr ney of that ih city this is the gentleman who presented the city with a bronze out face of napoleon which graced the kalty hall until the city surrendered rendered aur to the federate federals the waton watch has haa been on exhibition at the creolo creole art Galler gallery yat aa the corner of canal and liam part at reele recently and has baa been valued at 1000 the timepiece has haa been I 1 lu along glass case with a number of other famous relies relics and has bae been much admired it ia is somewhat larger iri in ciri cum cumfer forence enoe than the ordinary watch aud and not go 10 thick the other evening there were several visitors in the place and armand hawkins was waa explaining the history of some of the curios when at a in man an well dressed entered the place he carried a paper and his remarks remar kc were calculated to make those present understand that he be was waa irom from the nonh and was down here in search of rest real I 1 and d recreation mr hawkins did not osy oay much attention to his visitor bus bat his hia attention was suddenly recalled to him by low jow music sounding bounding like distant chimes coming from where the young man was flauding sla Ista at we the same time the young man started for ano ne street mr liaw hackius kine recalled the fact and went hastily to the place where the young man mail had bad been standing he fie found that the glass a borut the cue case had been pulled back and that it bad started several pieces of antique hand painted french porcelain tj jingling making a hasty inspection he found that Napole watch was waa miss ilsk edg and then darted out after the young man he caught him nearly a block away and upon demanding tho the watch almost bad to fleat with him before recovering the antique tione piece abw ortmann Orlea times timea |