New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-01
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DEPARTURE OF THE OLD YEAR. Eighteen ifty-
SIX did not depart with peaceful smile bes dying year
1t in food of fs, was leaving before its
legitimate time But is gone last; there is nc use
signing about it. Peace to its mud
MUNICIPAL ECoNoMY.-A Lesson for Children in
Short Easy Words syla5ed-Good children you must know
that when you little babies there were great many
plank roads in parts of the CITY which the CITY ia
Tiers had made because they per paved roads
After being used year these plank roads gotvery bad
ana several persons wanted make the city pay
mules shins broken where the pans ROTTEN city
fathers held grand powwow, plank roads
humbug So there great rip ping UP of rotten plauks
ABOUT town and in one of the plank streets called Greamen
street, in the District called the Ancient Third was
mined to true econo my by paving the after
fashion which expensive though might be- should last to
aime Contractors were employed and there great
ham mering down of stones by Irislmen and large
quantities. of shells and sand put upon the said stones
and rolled down smooth and hard, aud the nnocen people
living on Great street. thought they had the greatest
IN town But Son the street uneven and full of little
holes and hills ed by the rain lug through the SIND
and shells and stones and muug mud of the ciAy meath
sether with the ncessnn and ay oad ed with
cot-on and ON nbues loaded with pie mud ll-
ed at such rate that all sand and shells
swa allowed the stones and attempt,ed bolt Mr. Slaw-
mules and oibls-es consequence of which as we'll as
from pons gard for the lives OF his patrons Mr. Sawson
has quit running his Great street. and now
uses Cnsacal-To street instead. So the glory Greaea
street is departei and is muddy ditch fit only for
the ELS of hogs and nj tors and go,d Chi, ~
You not know what by calling this Greatmen
h, ness Il he ii gpl spci man oF ,r ,;cin,1 -
Won will know whom Won are old enoug, "a ho ,Ir al ~
pay
STABBlSG AFFAIR." A man named VIM. Nolan,
alias Doyle arrested on St. Joseph street early
morning on charge of having dangerously STABBED
nnmed NJ Iaughn The wounded man is nj the ko,ni,a1
and Doyle is in prison awaiting the issue.
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ooRoSERS lNQuEsr.-Ihe Coroner held an inquest
Tuesday night the body of the slave woman Mathde
who died very suddenly at the residence of her master
Dupiess corner OF DAnphne and St Ann Streets Verdict
disease of the heart
RECORDER STlTH'S CoURT.-James Welsh and John
Welsh were Yesterday sent before the First District r 70 M
tried for severely oundng and irving o Kill, obn orhi
tun,bIers brick hats und COTTON ,,ooLs in ii, ,as -,
were required to give bail of $3.50 each
George Hamilton was fined saD nnd mn IA iv, h1 - s,sn
for his future good behavior for making assam,
upon Mary Norman, Il fral woman with an iron poker
Martha Nolan was fined SO for rouncipg Bridget
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