New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-08-31


suicide on hand. Soon afterward, policeman was
seen taking an alcohocaIy excited individual down
to the lookup. It appeared that he had been over
come by ennui and fred his pistol to refresh himself
and the crowd with little excitement
LIEUT. DRYDEN CATCHES TARTAR-Tt happened,
yesterday afternoon, that the Amiable Johannah ,
White, of St. Peter street. (First Distrctl, got mad
and eased herself by getting in front of Lieut. Dry
dens house, and letting off the vial other wrath-and
an awful vial it wasat the unotfending Lieutenant
and his family. Dryden went ont and backled to
with her but she fought him like tigress, and in
her fight tore the official coat all to tatters and other
wise seriously damaged the official wardrobe. The
Lieutenant finally overpowered her and bore her in
triumph to the lookup. Q1ery-Who will have to
settle for the Leuenants ruined coat the city or Jo
hannah White?
RECORDER suMHBRs' CoURT.-Thos. Hodgins for
going in lemons upon w. 0. Denegres slave man
Henry, yesterday came ont squeezed to the amount
of S25. Henry, it appeared, was in funeral process
sion, and endeavored to prevent Hodgins' bread
wagon from breaking through the procession, for
which Hodgins pitched into him.
Rose Ormnnd, charged with letting the cat out Of
the bag about some of her neighbors in the Triangle
budings-a very noisy and gCandalous cat-Was
made to give bonds to keep her cat at homethat is
her tongue in her mOuth-heFeafter.
Dennis Nancy, Tor attempting 10 steal something
from Thos. Carly, put TO the ordeal Of paying
$50 or going to prison. John Kennedy, for saying
ugly things in the way of abuse aud threat, to J. D.
Garfield and family, was fined $40; and Henry My
ers for raising a row on the leYee, was fined so.
Sarah Winters and Joseph Carter were sent to
prison. to await investigation touching the cutting OF
| Catherine Mccall, or johnson, on Saturday night
| on Perdido stTeet-both being charged with the
/ deed. Catherine is at the Hospital, doing well.
Frank Maughan was arraigned on the charge of
/ highway robbery and murder. Officer Nixon charged
| him with being the man VINO, year ago. knocked
down Matthew Kelley on Orleans street, robbed him
! Of S14 and beat him so badly as to cause his death
! shortly afterward The case was fixed for the 9th
prox. and the accused sent to prison. His counsel
stated that he would be able to show that Kelley died
! of dellium tremens.
ing brntaIy beaten George Gowan,s slave boy John,
and chased him with knife with intent TO finish
him off entirely. Case fixed for the llth prox
Pat Met allister was held for examination on
charge of having assaulted and threatened to kill
Hermann Wolfgola very dead, in his coffeehouse at
the Of GirOd and Front Streets besides stlk
ing one of his harkeepers Case fixed for the llth
Mr, Meningitis two slaves were dismissed from the
charge Of setting fire to his house on Annunclatlon
street.
Tho four white men and nineteen free negroes ar
rested by the Chief Of Police in gambling house on
Chartres street, were arraigned The arrest having
been made in the Second District, the whole crowd
we're handed over to the tender merces Of Recorder
Witt.
RECORDER WILTz's COURT The only mention
able case in this court yesterday-beyond the usua
disposition of hard drinkers and petty brawIers-
? was that of John Miller. He was charged WIFE
having made only one small job of his settlement
6 with Theresa Rice and Mary Schneider on Mair
street between Royal and Bourbon knocking then
both into smithereens, on Sunday night The valiant
= Miller gave bail on both charges and retired, as was
supposed to go into training for more sublime stit
y achievements hereafter.
RECORDER LoNGs CoURT.- Michael BraunagaT
was yesterday aTraigned on a charge of having muir
derously attempted to carve James Pales with z
carving knife, in Palles room, on Front Levee street
between Esplanade and Elysian Fields-the place
where all three Of the streets meet at sharp point
L Specifications two bloody cuts in the left arm ant
II one cut in the shoulder From all we were able t
Il ascertain the deed the result of lfeelng on TIN
part of Braunagan toward Palles. Yes, it was! ant
It the thing will be sworn to when the examination
S comes up! Not having any friend who would be
$1,000 upon his facing the music when the Recorder
clerk should sing Braunagan, the said B. was ul
q nshed with ticket for goo8eberry jam at the Hote
&c de FremeauX
eff Somebody's " son = was mentioned on a charge {
10 having everalsngly whaed Anne Leroy, out on th
% Bayou Road. The name of the pugnacious youn
}" gentleman not being known, but his father beIn
ne wellknown respectable citizen, the charge wa
a. made against Mr. --'s " SON. warrant We
is. issued
Evene Ducr0s, f. ". c., was hauled up on the aff
daVit of Joseph Fry charging her with putting hi
ld in stew, by continually maltreating young sal
in her employ, eight years old, =" in the most cru
,h and inhuman manner and finally breaking the ar
- of the said slave. Eyene gave bail of $1,000 to a
Au pear for examination when called upon. Claborl
N and Kererec streets form the corner where the har
of hearted Evene resides.
ms Louis Bellman and wife, living at No. 50 Elmi
~ street, were up a charge of having stolen feat
Gu er bed, breastpin, two gold rings, and lot
as clothing and other traps valued altogether at s.
from their next door neighbor, Henry Kramer. Ha
ad ing no friends to bet upon their appearance for
~ animation, they were furnished with cards OF int
eiA duction to Capt, Fremeaux.
ch John Antonio and John Prince, (bOth Of the
ty China Johns, and great part ofthe time demijohr
er. were up on charge of having, between them, P
n posed to dssect Jimmy Clark with big knife,
ne Tevee street, between Vaudeville and Spain stree
lto Having no friends to bet upon their facing the mu
ew of an explanation with the Recorder the celest
The gentlemen furnished with tickets for tea VI
Capt. FremeauX
or owen McGoyern, having lost bis wits entirely, "
eef sent to the Insane Asylum.
IA RECORDER ADAMS CoURT.-The only item vest
ich day was very small one james Harrell was up
it charge of having stolen from store on TchoQ
tn toulas street. near Nuns pair of cotonade pan
- worth dollar and quarter. He was put in so
les' for future examination.
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