New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-29

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direction Of our Councils has Of late been directed
10 the question Of the expcdiency Of procuring
for the use Of our city one Of the steam fire
engines which have proved 80 eficacious in
Cincinnati, We subjoin brief description from
the Pittshurg American, whose editor has re-
Gently returned from Cincinnati.
He SAYS the steam fire engine is one of the
greatest improvements Of the day, and must
lead to important results. 10 have d proper
idea Of its usefulness, you have but to imagine &
machine brought to any part of the city wher,
fire has occurred, in as short time as ths
common engine by hand is, generally in q much
shorter time, and ready to act the moment il
arriyes--the steam being raised in five minute.
from the first note Of alarm, and capable O
throwing six streams of water from Ii incl
noz2les, two hundred and forty feet, for any re-
quired time, with no other manual labor THANH.
required to give an occasional shovel full o.
Goals. To throw the same number of streams Of
water from the pipes of the hand engine, and q
little more. than half the distance, would require
the labor of one hundred and twenty men, and
these to be relieved with an equal number at
short intervals. This simple notice of the power
of the machine gives at once view of its CO.
pacity and usefulness.
drives itself to the fire, where its power is to be
broughtinto use--Horses, however, are attached
to it, that it may be put in immediate motion
saving the five minutes required to raise steam,
but more Immediately and necessarily to guide
its motion. The second engine, has several i'm
portant improvements over the first, but nothing
varying iD its principle Of action.
Since then another engine has been con
structed, lighter BY 5000 pounds, and costing
$4,000 less. It gives the fullest satisfaction to
its builders and the public. The cost was $1,000
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4 CoNsoI.S.-The decline which has taken place
in these funds within q few months past affords
little cause for alarm. five look at the fnan-
cial history Of Great Britain since the advent
Of the present century we find that on the con.
clusion of the peace of Amiens in 1902, Consols
had advanced to 10, but hostilities Immediately
commencing, they sank again to50 in 1903. In
1906 they reached 66. In 1908 they were 20,
and in 1910 at u. The fate of the American
war in 1872 brought. them to 55 /; and though
they advanced to IS on the addiction on Napo-
leon in 1914. they were again at 55 on his es.
Gaping in 1916. The battle of Waterloo brought
reaction, and in 1917 they reached r.
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EXTENSIVE AND RAPID TuNNEL1NG. "a paper
published at New Lexington, Ohio, informs us
that the tunnel near that place is completed
that it is 1900 feet long, oil the way through
solid rock, and that notwithstanding, twenty
four men labored day and night, have achieved
the operation in the short space Of five months
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sT. LOUIS, COMMONS. The Supreme Court Q.
the United States has just rendered a decision 81
great Importance, in which many Of our readers
may take an interest:
Y seems that IN 1912, Congress passed an act
affirming the title to these lands to be in those
who held them, either solely or in common,
previous to 1908 In 1894, Congress passed
another act, fixing period in which claimants
to them, under the law of 1872, should file their
respective evidences of title, and donating the
vacant lands among them-those the title to
which failed to be thus proved up--for common
school purposes. The courts of Missouri ruled
that bona tide claimants, under the law of 1872,
were ousted by the law of 1924, unless they had
fulfilled the requirements as to proof of locality,
Gc., incident to the law of1824 understand
that the Supreme Court have decided that the
act of 1924 did not yitiate the rights Of any bona
fde claimant under the law Of 1872, that act
having donated to them the lands in question
past any recall by q failure to comply with the
subsequent requirements of the act Of 1894.
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HORRIBLE DEATH OF A CHILD.--A son of Mr..
Daniel Stokes, living within o few miles Of OK
ford, in this State, persisted in most horrible
manner short time since The boy--a lad Of
about twelve years old-was blowing with d
wild horse Of his fathers, which was very rest
less during the day. He took the horse from
the plow intending to ride home The clank
Of the trace chains frightened the chafed animal
and he reared and plunged in dangerous man
ner Still the little fellow proceeded to mount
him. lie had no sooner succeeded, than the
horse plunged madly forward, throwing the
child, one Of whose feet became fastened IN the
trace chain. The horse leaped the fence literal
ly, tearing young Stokes over the high panels Of
rails. TWAS half a mile 10 the dwelling; and
Tor that distance the Infatuated animal dashed
madly on, dragging the bleeding form of the
child with him and occasionally tramplinp it
with his feet. Arrived at the house, the horse
capped the fence, ran wildly round the house two
u three times tearing the boy over the Jagged
wood pile, and finally made plunge over the
bars of the horse lot, when the trace chain
broke, and there in the presence of his agonized
and amazed parents lay the horribly maugled
and mutilated corpse of their beloved son II
was terrible death, the fate of that rash and
unfortunate child. [Paulding Miss Clarion.
Ten THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGEs.-A case
was tried at the late term of the Circuit Court
Of Greene CO., Ala, of a very aggravated seduc
lion. Itappears that one Dr. Seaborn F. Healy.
J Wldower, of Tuscaloosa county, seduced the
laughter of plaintiff, (Allen Malone,) and that
Healy, by affidavit, removed the trial from Tus-
,aloosa where proceedings had been commenced.
o Greene 1t appears that another physician
y the highest responsibility and honor had been
attending the mother Of the girl, and that Healy
happened by some means to call on the family.
md ingratiated himself into the affections Of
no family BY condemning the treatment Of the
ormer physician, who he finally supplanted in
lis practice in that family, and commenced
curse that ended in the seduction Of the daurh-
or and ruin Of the family. The jury rendered
ne full amount Of damages laid in the prosecu-
ION, We understand the Doctor has suddenly
iEested himself of all means whereby the amount
ould be made
Mr.; Robert ii. Dennis, of Lagrange, Tenn,
vas drowned on Saturday week, in attempting
Q cross Cold Water The deceased. saws The
lemphis Wing, was nephew of the unfortunate
uoge ffice, who was murdered few weeks
lnce at ripley, and was heir to most of his
roperty On Sunday last, Mrs. Dennis, mother
young Dennis, was lying at the point of death,
nd it was thought she would not be alive when
hey TOOK the corpse of her son home on Mon
ay morning. Should she be dead. a brother.
ster, nephew and son will have been suddenly |
Ut off in the short space of three or four weeks
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Inc following paragraph is going the rounds |
the newspaper press, to the great scandal of |
le clerical profession. 1t is as follows.