New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-31

plate back Of the pipemen had it let down his fingers
chopping off the of three of them He must have been
Spartan however for he standing aside whing
his crippled hand, approached him and said You've
lost two Of yonr fingers haven't yonT Two p he ex-
claimed damn IT I've lost thres ~ We'll said the other,
here's two Of fem anyhow The wounded man thanked
him for them and putting his pocket went off
his hand docored Who will say that hremen hardy
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MORE ABOUT RArs.-We recently mentioned the
case Of ship captain who undertook for wager carry the
well known neran sign, Death Rats and to shout the
through the principal streets Of the city but backed ont
after carrying the sign His friends gave hun areg
benefit Of benefits after that with most Of which
had something do One morning be discovered an enor
sign swinging his masthead. bearing the words death
Rats Divers other jokes were played upon h 10 which
he felt himself obliged submit with good grace lew days
since the captain left with his ship for foreign parts As he
was backing out Of towboat hsfriends and fellow
captains assembled the wharf to give hrl parting cheer
The crowd under drill and upon the signal being given at
the they shouted In chorus at the top Of their
voices nDEArH on RArs /" to which the captain re-
sponded land RoAcHEs" And that the wnd-up Of the
Death Rats excitement.
Speaking of rats heard the particulars of and
dog affair which off recently and is entitled to some men.
General t. who resides in the Second District and is
much of judge Of dogs called npon well known dog
fancer, Mr.. c. living Gravie street, buy good rat
dog His back yard, he said infested with such
degree that he would be willing give any price for dog that
~ouiu ',eas tieh ou he iaioe sau ne au ohe pfin'e
duly displayed and his keen and wdeawake mousache
satisfied the General that he ought be- he not of the
right Stripe He agreed to buy the dog but fearing that the
n1 s y A,,3 !, 1 " 49, IL, po, $500, % . - y
twenty dollars down. and the other twenty-five SO soon
as he should be ocuary satisfied that the dog was really death
rats The fsnce closed the bargain and took the dog his
new home The General that night turned purchase loose
in the yard and bed Next morning going out he
was equally smazed and gatihed to nd he yaro WIN
~dratS fly
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that night the Generals kitchen being depot the
underground railroads Of the rats the dog locked in there
and the yard Of itself On the following
ing the General found usual supply Of slaughtered
scattered the yard notwithstanding the dog had been
prisoner the kitchen all night He not little aston
shed to see all these lying the cold embrace of DEATH
without probable seeing rats under such
singular circumstances caused him to smell that fgurave
which sharp noses wont smell when rats
about His suspicious pnt him the right scent and in due
he rewarded by the discovery that the dog
utterly innocent Of rats any other dogke
duty sport and was actually worth fifty cents or the
powder that would take to shoot the rats
had been thrown nightly into the yard by the sncier who had
gone around each time with his genuine terriers killing as
many rats as served his purpose and heavng them over the
fence for the benefit and credit of the fifty dollar animal But
he ruined himself the last time by throwing the rats over
without knowing whether the dog was loose or not Fear
Of publicity we apprehend was all that caused the General TO
let the rascay fsucier 60 unwhpt Of Justice Rt the story
too good keep spelling and as soon as it got
out it came straight to u.s.
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Lanarpe street. N 'he .nra p'src on saturday evening on
eharge OF whipping ms tanner RECORDER solomon Will mold
d en'' WIN UNI Aoou' IL 'eua!' f
CAUGHT AGAIN.-The man, FL. G. Foster, whose
arres at the Red river landing AZ nepro thief and whose
liberation by the officer who was paid to bring him down we
have already unfinished was arrested in Jefferson I'm Sat
nrdsy by Lieut. Marshall of the Fourth District and officer
Sprague He is safely lodged awaiting examinat ion
y,I..u- ,,ua n ~ c., .
N, i iD - ~ "y e'eiiitis,
Mr. fSn apspter I'VE mes oaek OF NaeheS called
once OF the ohe OF Foee ana stated ha TWO OF MS
negroes naa oeeh s'oeh anu mat SINCE MS arrival mere ne
hao peeh ny he'o " NC Knew maj ne nau seen
one Oh tue stolen a''s dfay epeca ohcefs smith
isata anu 'o nos 'e se'us from af. IRWIN aeserip
uon Oh ms heoe se ou w fossse OF aisaopery ana IN
a sno .,e oa'u one 81 u,ol n'Aeu iei IN 'e ay sA'u
Oh M fiizslhohs oo aas n' a' Tue corner OF ienoup
'iu wa anu 'e fe'os,
Bens story that he and the other slave Elijah TAX
ing crcuous route Nachez under the NIL one night to
make some wheh hey were named by two white men
sitting by the roadside Asking them their business and find
that they mad no passes the men at once arrested hem
pretending to be officers took them to house under the HILL
Them and frightened them into silence by drawing
pistols and soon after which they took them into
skill and rowed down the river all night In the morning
the men landed mooed the sk and hid themselves with the
in the woods all day. Alright they took to skill again.
and rowed on till morning. when they halted and hid again
This was repeated another day and night by which time the
party reached ponadsonyie There they took steamboat
Ihey got OH at the STOCK Landing and came down to the city in
cars The were lett at the house OF man on Per-
DIDO street, and there deprived OF what little money they had
hat man put them in the yard OF weknown negro trader
giving them the fictitious panes OF William and Henry
THIS trader transferred them to another trader by swapping
Tor other and the last trader sold heEah under
the name OF Henry some one living out of the city, and Ben
under the name OF William to the man in whose possession he
was found sard and Boyan pursuing their investigation
ben story throughout SO far as concerned
ms N 'he ey lhe ony account Sen eohd give oil
the men VINO stole MN was na they called each other ohar
have been made other than that of Ben but Mr. Irwin e
his intention of going to good deal of trouble and
spending good deal of money in order to slit the business to
the bottom and the will before the Recorder very
soon Whether the traders implicated duped is
thing against them that they did not take the trouble
certain whether the registered the police office
not by law required of brought the city
m
. NAA y - ~ ANi M Anha'-Ao mouio seeH as
some Oh lhe poceen OF the Fourth District have been try
ing 70 DC as 'e as the nara customers they are paid for
wachhg. "eeopy Inc toowng from the Lenenants report
furnished yesterday morning to the Chief of Polce
Lieut. Marshall reports policeman ID. H. James, No. 33