New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-29
5tlisrsllat,eous Mems items.

| A contested will case. for the sum Of 81 ,000,-
600 worth of property now In the possession Of this
Roman oathecs and growing ont Of the Heney estate
was to come of in The Supreme Court, Brooklyn, last
l week Eminent counsel are engaged on both sides.
Titus Pomponius Atticus Bib has been ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary Of State for kentucky
Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., New England fiction
writer hes recently published sentimental story in
which rough backwoodsmsn and d slave girl are the
hero and heroine and THUR romantic tbulaons are
minated by inauguration in legal way
/ "A jury Of eleven men in the New York Ma
rne Court the 21st, rendered verdict Of $500 DANA
ges against female assault on California ruu-
nerestsbshng the fact far their decision goes
that man may csll woman oppr6brions nsnes and
use Indecent Language in her presepca without being la
BILE to impromptu punishment at her bands.
E The New York and Erie Railroads are run
ming ruipous competition with each other As an in
stance in ilustraton notice that the fares on the
Hudson River Railrc I'd and New York Central Railroad
on trains leaving New York at P {post express) Is
reduced to So 30 toBufao, Niagara Fails and a points
West This reduces the fare from New York to Buffalo
little below LIZ cents per mile. 49, st 81,
A dispatch from Baltimore oil the 21st states
that the Grand Lodge o. O. F, by two-third vote re-
ected the amendment to the constitution offered last
~ reference Enc4mp-
mants. Other important amendments were also re-
jectsd. - 5.,.s5s; s44 .,sss@ 49,
William Seharfenberg, convicted in New York
of the murder of Helena Myers has bean sentenced to
sner the penalty of death Friday the 10th OF No.
yember The prisoner listened to the remarks Of the
Court and the sentence wi b the utmost indifference
On .he ed two boxes were received in New
York from the Land Office Id Dubuque Iowa. purportine
IA .f.sr, ~, Irk,,,.
opened they found to contain bullets on layers Of
The boxes received through the Ameri-
Express Company and were exact counterparts Of
those usually sent by the land Offices.
: On the Goth, while laboring under the effects
Of strong drink named Joseph H. Kicker com nit.
ted suicide by shosting himself with pistol In the United
States Hotel st, Louis S.t3
I A dispatch Of the '21st, from Chicago, reports
the steamer Baltimore wrecked about one mile from She
boygan during the recent Ihs propeller Oriental
the largest the lakes is also reported lost with num-
Der of hsr psssenges and The steamer Burlington
and the schooner D. A. Foor were wrecked during the
gale, but no lives were lost
DR.. Thompson, health officer Of the New York
Quarantine has laid before the District Attorney of New
York complaint against Capt MCGOWAN, Of the steam-
ship Crescent City Mr. Clark shipping agent of the COM
pany to which the vessel beloRgs several other per
sons Of having Violated the Quarantine Laws It Is said
the parties will be prosecuted to the extent Of the law
The prices Of tickets to the performances
of Mile Rachel in New York havs been reduced to
third and the distinguished actress will give It Is sad
series Of dramatic Readings q Fanny Kemble Butler.
The case ofsthe United States vs.. Hertz, for
recruiting men for the foreign leson up In the
s. District Court n Philadelphia on the 2lst. By the
testimony OF r. o. Strobel, Mr. Cramptons the British
Minister implicated in the making Of arrangements
for recruiting in this country strobel to command
the company recruited in the city Of Philadelphia and
had been promised the appointment of Msjor of the
Legion A., X Tss,..E n =