New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-08-15
RExExpER !-Ihe performance of the Crescen

REMEMBER THE performance of the Crescent
Dramatic Association for the benefit Of Mrs Wright takes
the Gaiety heaer tonight. Let "saya home go
the crowds and the winter gaess
he may brag of the fine dramatic performance and the
crowd he in the Gaiety the 18th Of Augusta time when
Yellow Jack generally supposed keep public gae IN exile
from the city Go for this least if for the purpose
aiding the in the noble object they have in view We
know the house will be crowded but wish damned
Never mind perspration good sweat while,
good for the health.
Wa understand the amateurs have meeting after rehearsal
this morning for the purpose of appointing committee of three
from among the friends of Mrs Wright act in conjunction
with the Association in counting and delivering the proceeds of
the performance The officers of the Association requested it,
and we think they quite right.
| CoRoNERs INQUEST. = Ds0,rned. = The Coroner
yesterday hsd inquest the body of Thomas L. Fitzpatrick
native of Ireland As of age found the rvera Agers
Verdict found drowned The deceased in
the house Of A. Cochran Hall and resided in Agiers He
disappeared myteriously Tuesday last and known
what had him till his body
leaves family 10 mourn his untimey DEATH
| GLAD TO HEAR Tive yesterday reported that
Mr. Thos Murrays loss the destruction of his lumber
the White street fire. 1890 than his He
yesterday informed however that his insurance. fell short
only 00 We regret that similar
for the other sufferers by the viaons of the devastating
ment There is nothing like being well insured.
| THE CoRoNER's OFFICE.-This is place which
acknowledges presence times day. the
round Consequently, used it and feel
ul whilst in it, than in any other of the various
and crannies in which we fish for our daily items.
Morally and phosophcay considered however the Coro-
ners office is gloomy place. It'll head of deah-a
special in which the and the sud-
den and appalling of the grim monsters vaons
served by written record and bloody The office
dark damp hole in of the massive old buildings of the
Spanish regmeseemingly well fitted for its gloomy business
Its inventory altogether charming to Of morbid mind
There is me-worn desk piled up filed up, and choked
with confused of books papers, and documents relative
to the untmey read Conspicuous the old bible and
old roll canister which accompany coronal
in their frequent and widely varying excursions There
thing the desk, that does refer TO victim of
mysterious violent fatality In the pigeon holes of the desk
and in adjoining armor of corresponding antiquity and
greasness accumulated relics of the Corones gloomy
business.
There ps of different patterns the destroyer
human fe-some used by suicidal and others by murderous
hands There battered bullets dug of this and that
murdered body and knives Of different shape dag
gers and razorsa blood rusted and each the
murder or suicide Then there rusty gunbarrels and
relies Of clothing that found by fostering corpses
banchnG skeletons in the woods and there handkerche
and cords and and made Of short
each of which has suicide his awful DOOM
but least in the list of the dreadful machinery of DEATH
bottles and paper parcels from which their quaed
eternal oblivion of earth and its miseries
Scattered about the the old volumes in which
the fatalities of the writenthe only existing of
who lived and loved and struggled through % suf
died
thought of than they had een so many insects And
cheap old trunks fed with cheap old odds and and
old books and articles of variety and old
ana oia anu "of ana reaoeht OF SAD ms.
e'' VI 'ie drowned, anu me ehecls OF
the unknown Stranger awaiting the claim OF friends and sa
/ dves who scarcely come. ....
IN corner aeof ueu 10 De- LOT we nave not seen them
a'eis-.No sh oohes i'una III 'he fuoosn Oh ure-hoh
right thigh bones mysterious emembrances of per-
snea IN furnace OF Name beneath an avalanche of falling
"is' Anu Ill me uih s"'eu whuo"' III the pack corner OF
e once s'is shul'-a "hlte' horripeookhg skai-the
shu o' Hhesess e3eceu or mudef Altogether the Coro-
nefs once is museum Oh horrors mat might well appal one
| not accustomed to Inc business OF death
Coroner and his men are as well used the place and
pass the time as gaily and as pleasantly there if it
bower orr home snusgery aud when King Death for
whie ceases his eccenricties the sobriey of business flies
away and is often scene of merrinent aud convivay
What good stories and jokes have been eheard and enjoyed
there over walters of smashes and cocktails from the adjoining
and amid the joyous clouds of the Cuban
of cards domnoes introduced help
l.asa Va. wv 's u.a na a ,u' W .i"'
| n,nar for . ,,s;to h : d .,r Ia.ot a, =, ,tr
- - f ' ~ i e', -, p''" "ISo, " m
~ o's anu oA''an ''ie ss'oti VI ''ia' grim canine
800 49,. 49,, 10 Ivy :. W. W. "'e Auti''' iheS
.a' u'N' ,eep' anu eei IKE o'her men ana 1t De
noush' curious 'ha' oeau''uaAa wheh SHOCKS the world
N' VIC N"ohe. nv mote 'hah customer might excite
pe' 10 pee"use ne Is useu 10 IT, he is one oil Inc
aehss enposeo IN fohg the grand panorama OF Death
49, III Tue man. 'he same oo story year in and year out and