New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-20
20tlL AntGIIfnrntn.

aIuC, "hiS leu " Lne arrest OF the former gentleman
by Lieut.. Dryden and his arraigument before Re.
corder Summers, has, we are happy to state been
| satisfactorily adjusted all round and the charge
against the Chief Withdrawn. The whole affair was
based upon anunfortonate misunderstanding OF facts
and the misunderstanding has been cleared up and
made right in a manner honorable to all
DR. MERCER, of Circus Street Hospital has, as will
be seen by our police report responded to the card
which DR.. Warren, surgeon of the Empire City pub.
lished in reference to the hospital and the yoang man
VanaHorne, who killed himself there The Doctor
responded by having the Surgeon arrested and ar
raigned before Recorder Summers, on a charge Il
libel DR.. Warren gave bail to answer the charge
and the examination was fixed for the 18th January
LUCKY TICKETS in the lotteries, matrimonial and
otherwise do fall to poor folks sometimes though it
is the exception as general thing to the established
rule Of the blind and capricious Dame Fortune
few weeks since, poor man Of this city-poor,
married, deepyn debt, and hard put to it every way
to get alOng-inyested in the Havana lottery, and
considerably astonished himself by drawing $l2 800
He at once paid his debts, got some new clothes for
himself and family, bought house and lot, made
presents to his poor relations and now lives comfort
ably and expresses himself satisfied
sister of this gentlemans wife who also rejoiced
in mltrim0ny, with poor husband and several poor
children enyed the luck of her relatives very much
and made much fuss about it that her husband in
vested few Of his hard earned dollars in the lottery
and took the ticket home to his wife, to quiet her.
She only abused him for his extravaganza, and his
fO0lishness in supposing that family could ever have
any luck; and crumpling the ticket in her hand in
dgnantly threw it on the floor. The husband picked
it up and fObbed it and, in good time, the ticket
rather ticked him by drawing $1,000 or hereahouts.
That family Immediately got out of their hardships
and the two lucky families satisfied all round with
the Havana lottery.
In the matrimonial lottery hear Of one piece of
luck to poor devil, who, four years SINCE mar
ried German girl up town against her parents
will, for which act she and her husband were dis
owned, and forbidden the house. The estrangement
was kept up; and the young husband had to do lots
of hard work to support his young wife. Last sum
mer the wifes mother died A week or SO since the
father fell sick, and, being menaced by death, sent
for his daughter She went and they were reconciled
happily, and the husband forgiven. Next day the old
felt so much better that he made an alteration
in his will, by which his longestranged daughter be-
came mistress of $4,000.
THE MAN WHO SHOT HIMSELF, by accident, on
Friday, Ito which we alluded on Saturday, was
Mark Tsson Frenchman, "a years of oge. Upon
investigation by the Coroner it appeared that he had
been out hunting and that on his way home, he
climbed a fence to knock some oranges out of a
tree with the butt Of his gun, and whilst using the
gun in that way, holding it by the muzze discharged
it, the load entering the upper part Of his chest on
the right side, killing him instantly Just before the
accident, person who was near cautioned him about
using the gun in that way, and it was whilst pausng
to listen to this persons remarks that the accident
happened. The unfortunate man had been married
but eight days and his bride, missing him and inst
tutng inquiries discovered her first tdings of him at
the Coronsrs Office, where his gun and game bag and
other effects had been left, as those Of an unknown
person, She took charge of the body to bury it and
her distress is described having been heartrending
EDWARD GEM, Frenchman, was accidentally
killed yesterday afternoon, by falling down stairs in
house on Chartres street, between Main and St
y Philip
f MICHAEL HIGGINS was dangerously stabbed, at al
. early hour yesterday morning, at the corner O
Tchouptoulas and Calliope Streets He was sent t.
Charity Hospital by officer Boyle and officer Mcclure
/ subsequently arrested Thomas Edgan as the stabber
Christian Mason and c. Il. Hall were also arrested d
e accessories to the affair,
q The CORONER did not get through with his nques
s into the death Of the child Mary Ann Malone, OF
S Saturday; the child who over and killed by
n Nicholas Dendingers dray. The inquest was furthe
= put off till to-day.
q FIRST DISTRICT CoURr-Judge H,nt-The fol
lowing sentences were passed Saturday MillikeI
Nolan, convicted of recklessly driving hearse over
l. boy to his serious injury having already been il
prison four months, was sentenced to three months
more. James Anderson, convicted of malicious mis-
chief, in deiaCng the furniture in furnished room