New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-12-05

FARMING OF THE MARKETs-The Comptroller
yesterday .dudicatsd the contracts for collecting the
Of the city markets for the ensuing year as fol
lows 4T
Frs, District -Poydras Market to Francis JuFe Tor
S44 200 St. Mary Market to G. w Martin for S2s4oo
Second Disret-Meat Market, to John Kaiser, for |
s5slO0; Vegetable Market, to Francois Ecrot, for
S45100 IRENE Market, to Jean Brousse, for Sls40o
Third Dtrtci- Market to Louis Armingaud, for
s9,6o0 Washin gtou Market, to J. Weishemsr, for
1926. .s.. . ...
Fourth District -Magasine Street Market to Louis
Armingaud for S15225 Lafayette Market to Gottfried
Habsreitnger for 5000 Ninth Street Market, to Felix
| Lalanne for 81 $50.
The total of the contracts is 1928 2lo; at the
asst adjudication the total S22S175 show
| ing an increase Of sa5 in the made yesterday
HORRIBLE DISCOVERY While Duputy Coro-
ner Mitchell holding the inqust over McDonough's
body yesterday afternoon, he received note from the
Deputy Street Commissioner of the Third
him that the day previous, he had been requested
the bodies Of two children from house on Ola
Lsvee street but upon going there yesterday he found
there four dead children lying in the room, and
9th one dying The Coroner and his jury went to the
house which No. ~ Old Leyee street. between Fer
dnand and the Lower Cotton Press 1t is an old
dilapidated three story brick building, occupied by
German named Aibrecht the Of which he hires out
in wholesale to German emigrants. On enter
ing the room in which the dead children lay Coroner
Mitchell informs that the sight sad and sickening
beyond any thing he had There no urni
ture of any kind in the but poor German family
named 0otnean consisting of wife and five child
occupied 1t for five days. they having arrived in
this city the 18th u in the ship Tioonderoga from
Hayre The Coroner and his jury found the father
octnean standing in state of apparent stupeac
onour of the children lying dead some on the
door and the nth dying-and the mother, Anna
going about to the other, caressipg them and
Weeping in the greatest distress The scene in short
beggared all description Rhe dead children Otto
aged seven half years Francesca aged six; Caro-
line aged and half and Carl aged year. The
child yet dead girl of five years The little
not half clad they frightuly livd shrunk
away skin and bone and drawn up in the contorona
in which death had left them and two of them had their
arms locked they had died The parents entirely
destitute of money and the only provisions in the room
were several bags of oatmeal cakes hard be with
difficulty broken against the wall and when of them
was broken it found to be blue with mould inside
The mother had made porrdge of of this wretched
STUFF and made repeated endeavors, with all mothers
aRectonate soicitude force of it down her dying
chids throat Our pen recos from further particulars
of this dreadful discovery The jury of inquest
engaged with the exception of short adjourn
men for hours In their inyestigationfom three
O'Clock In the afternoon till ten O'Clock last night DR.
Labater of the jury. After making ali possible
Inquiries they verdict that the children had
neglect The Coroner had the four dead children pu
into collins and sent to the cemetery and the other
which in hopeless condition. sent to the Charity
Hospital where 1t will probably be dead before thi
reaches readers eyes The jury after giving thei
verdict in reference to the children drew up charg
against Abrecht the keeper Of the house for brutal in
difference the poor creatures under his roof he having
never offered them any assistance himself made thei
sunerngs known to Others until he wanted the Stree
Commissioner to the dead bodies from his house
We hope for the sake of humanity that this affair may
legally investigated and proper punishment meted
. should it be deserved.
d FATAL AcoIDENr.-Th body of an Irishmar
III named John McDonough about twenty-five years of
was brought up in cart to the Third District pole
office yesterday afternoon from place about mile en-
"a half below the Barracks with terrible wound in th
neck which must have killed him instantly. The brothe
the deceased who brought the body up, states ltha
81 they out hunting together and that the deeeasa
his death by the accidental discharge Of his gun Will
sGt getting fence. The gun was douba-barres
fowllng piece and both charges entered his neck u'
his chin and out in the back of it, shatterin
i'd 1t dreadfuy, and making wound through which
ens egg might easily be passed The breeoh of the gu
.i found to be broken, and upon nterrogatng th
brother Of the deceased about it, he replied that he hin
81 self broke it in the frenzy brought upon him by
brothers awful death. Deputy Coroner Mitchell Gale
inquest upon the body and returned verdict that
q eame to his death by accidental shooting while gettir
" | over fence
:, MURDERED MAN FOuSp.-The body of an ur
known man, to all appearance steamboat hand was We
teray forenoon found floating in the river at the
. Canal street, on the Second District side The body
about five feat eight inches in height had auburn
~ and whsksrs and clad in black oassmers pants
blue shirt and white undershirt 1t was impossible
ascertain his nationality but the head found to
covered with bruises inflicted apparently with stun
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