The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-07
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The two tribes selected their best warriors, IN
equal numbers, to play rival national ball game
The play came of where Government street now Is,
then an open common, and of the base poles
placed near where Governmen Street Church now
stands and the other at about the upper end oil
the market house. 1t contested with terrlhc en-
ergy of the Choctaws being killed in the STRIFE,
but still hat tribe came off VICTORIOUS Aiter they
had received their presents, they went up the f'vef
and crossed over into the fork between the bi2"ee
and Alabama, and the rival tribes played Tor 'hfee
days, at the end of which, the Choctaws had won
from the Creeks all their presents and all Their
ponies. But they quit friendly. The remnant
now about Mobile, OF the once powerful tribe OF
Choctaws, the chiefs of which boast OF never hav-
ing shed the blood of white man, were to play
their national ball game near that city yesterday
THE AMERICAN TRACT SoCIETY.-This society
held its annual monthly meeting in New York on
the l7h ult. Through The missionary correspond
some interesting intelligence was received
from the Choctaws, from Northern Bavaria, Baden,
Liberia, China, and other places. Gallaudet's
Scripture Biography is to be sereo'yped Tor the
Choctaw Indians by the society, and an approprla'
ton has been made to print Nelson's work on Inf
deity, iWossingen, Germany.
The receipts of this society for January last are
thus stated-for sales, SlS,354; in donations,
3O4O; total S3l 1894. Total receipts for the last
ten months, 1922 1888; grants during the same in
terval, 81 AL 1899 pages. More than half the
foreign appropriations of $4,000 has been remit
ted-the entire amount must be raised by the first
of April. The society keeps in operation more
than dozen steam presses, aud the total number
of its employees in the Tract House is two hun
dred and fiftythree. 1t circulates 10000 copies
in English, and about $1,000 in German, of the
American Messenger, monthly newspaper, which
is published by the society Inclusive of those for
the German, Irish, French, Spanish and Nor
wegan population, the number Of col oporteurs is
about four hundred.
CITY MILK MANUFAcToRIEs.-In the course
law suit which before the New York Court
of Common Pleas, last week, the public have been
instructed in regard the Of the stuff which
is sold under the name of milk. 1t proved
| that the Irving House had been supplied under a
contract, with a man named Laughman, with
milk cows fed on swi and other trash-aDd
which, from the time they are placed in the yard
where they confined, until they drop down and
die are not permitted to leave their stalls. The
milk was examined by one of the chemists, and its
| properties pronounced injurious 10 the human sys.
| tem and productive of disease The jury rendered
| verdict for defendant, on the ground that pure
| milk was the article contracted for.
We do not wish to disparage tine quality of the
milk in New Orleans, but We know that minnoG
| Small fish found in pitcher of milk left a
| few days since on Julia street. We cannot account
| for it in any other way, than by charably sup
| posing that the COW swallowed the fish in drinking
out of the Mississppi,