New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-04-20
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YESTERDAY was dark, dusty and gusty The rain
which threatened, but dPnt come. wosd have beer
\ welcome.
MoRrUARY.-The total linterments in the city ceme-
'eres last week were ll6 OF he numb3 children
| less than two years old.
CHURCH DE1TRoYED BY FIRE.-The' Episcopal
Church Of the Annnncaion the snge Pld An
nrncieon Streets oppc e Annuncat.on Square was totally
destroyed By FIRE early yesterday g The flames we're
b-st Issuing from the erpoa bsx nd which
prevailed made the dest ncOn Of he buldr very sho
work The fremen promptly the god not bel
able to the church, they the with succe
Ie adjacent poperty which omi1eat danger Tn,
tfe was undoubtedly the work o. cend4y The los we
esrn entirely covered by insurance the CHURCH end it's csn
tents being 'rsurtd for sl2,CO0
| TgE CREvAssz.-The creya.-e at Bells plantaiion
laughs at the efforts TO stop 1t and mighty The
labor o. mocr1g aboat from which dive piles has bean
e'eOnp shed but 'be boiling jerks ,ws the
boat so, that lis pedrivers msle headway amor1tp to
| l'tile than roth ng.
The object div ng pies to make sort of comb across
the cIevasse, ag1'rs which build dam Of sand y bars
Last ling, ieRrn. several Of the piles been firmly
driven but they only served the food which had
licked away SIX or eight feet o. the leV thereby
| acquired s eater strength.
Mean. the ELECTS the cievasse be ,o,q mora and
more aarmingy manifest in the settlements below The back
parts Of McDonoghville and Alt pply nng up Our
informant tells that when be his home the back pa
OF Al ers yeserday morning. his back yard was v and
/ I
The people there Ia Ihed the ago
Now the crew Sse Is begi ming to laugh at them.
SHOOTING ArFAIRs.-No little excitement was
created in the vcicisy Carondeet and Lafayette Streets
about O'Clock yes erday afternoon. In a house in which
syh furnished kept by cooed woman one gen
teman shot by another without receiving HARM and
capped further peril by jumping window We lesrp
there was lady in the easea sister OF The latte
subsequently, arrested but released by the Mayor
All he pses OF respectable standing ald in co plance
wit the of air rapda and
| names.
Last evening at about O'Clock Morris
aenp'ed to murder his ve Jane Howard Morris on Canal
street. between Caondelet streets He placed
cooked po her breast but she grasped pistol with her
hand threw and though the t flashed 10 he face
the bullet passed hsmlessy ter shoulder Matrimonial
chickering's and Jealousy said prompted the husband
to the desperate attempt Two respectable citizens who were
witnesses of the affair at had the husband arrest
| CORoNER's ISQUEsrs-Run Oper by a IVood. Cart
On Sunday evening the an on the body of
Catherine schwitzer little girl three years old fonud dead
at the residence Of her Washington ee Fourth
District Vedictdied Of fracture Of the skull caused by
being by woodca Saturday evening" at the
corner of Washington and Jersey Streets Herman Beckman
the driver arrested the time the Coroners iay
found impossible convict him of ba The natter
was discharged.
Fatal Fail from Ho,sYesierday an inquest wrs held on
the body OF Julia Tarpy Send months old at te
residence of Its parents and Mande lille
streets, Third District yerdic:died of fae ure Of the
skull caused by falling second story of the house
Fatal FdU from cH.-An inquest held at the Third
District guardhouh the body of An lIo Canado Span
lard OF Verdicr-died Of fracture cf the skull
eased by falling from the top Of the Ponchpr horsecar
and being by the same.
DrorReiin g. ie-.--An inquest held ,he body Of
Frenehman named Baptse, 20 DID, oiud dead et
on Bartheemy street, Third District yerdet-dro. I'd by
falling IN the gutter whilst in ate o. inoaica;on.
Suicide by HGnJiHg-An inquest he'd the body Of
German named Ramm, IS age dead at his
| bird
eide by banging The deceased well mustard
marchand Recently he very sick 20 to Charity
Hospal Two days he left the hospital goiag home
found that his wife had given him up whether died or not
and had gone to living with fnoher In consequence he
hung himself.
| FtRsr DISTRICT CoURT.-Nothing was done in this
Court yesterday. To-day it will open with slaveholding
jury for the trial of slave offenders being 1t apar
10 that kind of business.
RECORDER STITH's COURT The customers who
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eoer Charze Bartel Adam Baker, Hugh McCaey, james
TO The Work-House were Ann Druean, Mary Kelley, Mary
Wm. Hudso for threatening the life of VIM j. Shannon
was put rHder peace bonds for six mon hs,
on The Bank oesns Sse w q reqnsG 30
siys es nsl W. each Ito to appear % for examination
rg knocked down T. d. Wiggins.
beg called dispose Of he Of ReeoTde T S ss,
gentleman being unable to attend court Iom indspoon.
RECORDER FABRE's CoURr.-Recorder Fabre being
sad and AGas RssoSs @ h%nd Sss al
the charge of Knowingly recsjv
9 Gsvser % H. BSsS se noisy eccentric
border upon public scandal He made quite in
he does everywhere In default Of friend endorse hin
rs member OF the Peace society, Dieudonne
on Charge of selling auor to
slave IN his cabaret on Front Levee street He ball
Nehoes shser, charged with pounding his wife their
sdence Main stree Nelson slave of Collins charged