New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-03
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day morning, when it gave the sun chance. The
clouds kept fsking about however, as fhalfjucined
to give the town another washing. The Volksfs,t In
Of the unsettled weather and the muddy
condition Of the race course and the roads leading t
It, was indefinitely postponed.
TIE BOARD OF HEALTH report I08 ~ the total
NUMBER OF lnterments in the city cemeteries last
week.
oDD FELLows HALLtwas splendid last night, out
slde with the decorations Of Prof. Vegas for biz
may party and inside was equally, II not considera-
oly more splendid, from the opportunities We had
OF Judging. Further particulars to-morrow.
THE AERosAUrs, Miss Mary Way and Prof. VIII
son. VINO LETT here on Sunday week, from Congo
Square, have at last been heard Of They landed in
Plke county, Miss shout 120 miles from here. Thew
| are not back; the information coming from Prof.
Wilson, in letter to friend. In his letter le does
not state when he and his fair partner intend 70 il
back Wilbur, who ascended with them. n b;a
smoke balloon, descended few minutes aftervard.
near the Bayou st. John, between the cisy and the
lake.
SOME INcENDIARY started fire in the /" Louisiana
Distllery" No. 80 New Levee street, at one o'clock
on Sunday morning The flames were extiuguished
before much damage was done.
The CORONER yesterday held bis inquest upon the
body Of Capt. Joseph st. Ange Bossere whose death
on Sunday we mentioned in yesterdays Crescent. 4
postmortem examination showed death to have re-
suited from pistolshot wound, the bullet passing
near the lungs and lodging In the intestnes causing
fatal internal hemorrhage. The verdict Of the Jury
after hearing all available testimony, was that Can't
Bossiere died Of pstoshot wound, having been in
ficted with pistol revolver in the hands OF John
N. Vernon, on the 18th April, 1859, between the
hours Of and A. N. Mr. Vernon. who had been
released on bail, was re arrested on Sunday and con-
signed to prison to await his examination.
A DEAF AND DUMB NAN, name unknown. v.s
killed on Sunday afternoon by being run over BY thu
Ponchartrain cars, between the outskrts Of tie ctv
and the Gentlly Ridge. The wheels passed over hid
neck almost entirely severng his head from bis BODY
His deafness Cfor he was recognized as deaf and
dumb milkman in the employ Of . neighborine dairy.
MANI threw his death upon himself and not upon any
fault Of the Railroad Company. Verdict, accident.
ally killed. ~ ..s
FOURTEEN INMATES Of the City work-House took
French leave of that institution on Sunday night.
Their escape was not owing to their own native
genius half 30 much as to the fimsy nature Of the
prison, and the rottenness Of it's superstructure.
They escaped by getting through the floor Of their
cell, scratching and digging the dirt underneath and
gaining quiet access to the open yard which, at that
late hour, offered nothing formidable to the final feat
OF scaling the outer wall Three OF the fugtives were
arrested yesterday, and the others will turn in rod
tme-if not from the ambitious love Of the police AZ
least from their own love Of John Barleycorn.
FRANK VAN DUsEN, a lad employed in the Louisi-
ana Rope Fsctory, was instantly killed yesterday.
during dinner hour, by being run over by four.
wheeled truckdray, on TchoupitouIas street in the
Fourth District. He was crushed across the stomach
and the sad catastrophe is said to have been owing TO
| himself alone.
FIRST DISTRICT CouRE-Judge Huut-There were
no trials in this Court yesterday. '~-S
| Della Swift, alias Bridget Fury, convicted Last
week OF murder without capital punishment, applied
through her counsel for new trial and the State
prosecuting officers were notified to prepare to show
cause why such trial should not be granted.
| The Grand Jury reported true bill for murder
| against Eugene Pepe, alias Adams, and true bin
for bigamy against Maria Katarina Althoff
RECORDER suMMERs' OouRT. Some half a hundred
Monday blue devils OF both sexes and all colors passed
review before the magsterial spectacles and were
let off in the usual cheap and humane manner. The
Black Maria got most of them, however
Thomas McCarty was dismissed from the charge Of
attempted arson, brought against him on Saturday
by F. Uzee.
The following were arraigned and booked for ex-
animation, the first case on the 10th inst. and the
others on the 7th: -
Martin Leonard, residing on Tchoupitonl,s street
two doors above Julia charged by his wife Ann
with violating the person of her daughter (is stem
daughter) Mary Ann Flynn, aged between eight and
nine years consummatng the beastly crime three
separate occasions twice during last year and once
on Saturday last. Sent to prison.
Mrs. Alice McGinniss, charged by her husband A.
B. McGinniss, with habitual drunkenness and
neglect of her family and disturbance Of tie peace
OF the neighborhood also with having on Saturday
whilst drunk, struck him on his hand and nose with
chair, and chopped him in the shoulder with an axe;
all at the matrimonial domicl on Vine street, near
Julia. Sent to prison in default of ball. -
Zip,a slave, charged by Ann Monahan, at Can't.
Brooks. on Camp street, Lafayette Square with
giving her blow over the head with heavy iron
| kitchen spoon. ~
Mary Coulter, charged with raising drunken rum
pus on Rasn street and resisting and abusing officer
Anderson; and Margaret Gilmore and Elizabeth VIII
liams charged with cutting up didoes at the same
time and place.
RECORDER W1LTz's CouRT-J. NJ. Vernon was
yesterday arragued on the Coroners affidavit charn
ing him with the killing of Captain Bossiere with
the particulars OF which cur readers are familiar.
He was sent to prison to await examination. No
other cases in this court worth mention.
RECORDER LoSG's CoURr-No Nothing Of importance
was done in this court yesterday though the court
which was, opening for the first time in the beautiful
new Court House just finished, alongside the time
honored rnn-soaked, ratgnawed and generally dread
rugged road" to justice in the Old Third having
been prior to its public ie family mansion Of The
ancien regime. The new Court House, with its lock
up is not only the prettiest and most convenient
all the District Court Houses, but is really the pret
tiest of any kind in town. Recorder Long, his clerks
the police officers, and the visiting customers, all
looked out of place to us, used had we become tc
seeing them in the dingy old building alongside
Another day, we Will give particular description o
the new establishment and its merits