New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-27
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FOUND DRowNED.-This was the Coroner. / var.
dict, yesterday, in the case Of an unknown white
man, about 80 years Of age, found n tLx New
Canal, opposite Dan Hickok-s..
CHILD Rus OyER.-John Donnelly was arrested
on Tuesday evening, charged with having d5ayen
his dray over a little child Of Mr.. Hutchinsoa, at
the corner of Rousseau and Third streets. The
child was badly hurt. DonneiIy was held for
hearing before Recorder Adams.
FIRST DISTRICT CouEr.-Judge Hu,st- Louis
Fix and Bernard Muller, charged with trespass,
were yesterday dismissed by not pros
Pierre Capdevielle and Eduardo Samerou werae
tried for larceny and found guilty.
The other cases were continued. number Of
informations were filed.
RECORDER SraAERs' CoURT.-Assisd,u Recorder
Monroe rressds.g.-W. H. Kieran, charged with
interfering with John H. Murdy and his workmen,
on North street, and John Fl. Murdy, charged with
assaulting and threatening W.. II. Kieran were
| both dismissed yesterday.
w. H. Dean and Mary O'Neal,. charged with
threatening to kill James Griffin and with smashing
| his furniture on Magazine street. were .examined' 4
/ dismissed. T#- n 4 sssT ~
/ Ned Barnett, found under suspicious c;rcunssan.
| ces in Mr. Straussens house on Rampant street
and charged with being dangerous and ssuspicious,
/ was held for a hearing on the 29th
| John Green and John Dorsey, chargeduith being
dangerous and suspicious, and with picking Z
drunken mans pocket on the levee, were also held
| for hearing on the Goth. 2Es
| Washington, slave of Clark, for insulting white
ladies' on Gravier street. was sent downsto receive
Is lashes, his master not offering to pay the re-
| quired fine of *25. 2 ~3@
David Maxwell, R. Gracy, 7. G.. Godfrey and
/ Daniel Mcdonald, were examined on a acharpe sof
violating the wharf ordinances, in using panks be-
| longing to the wharf lessee Of the Second Section
to make runners for trucks to carry ssores-the
| charge being made by Mr.. Deputy Wharfnger
Mitchell. Eight steyedores who had been sum
moned as witnesses and did'ntappear, were brought
in by attachment and fined $5 each for contemDt
Mr. Race appeared for the defence andMr. City
Attorney Michel for the prosecution. After hear
/ ing all the evidence and arguments, the Recorder
reserved his decision.
Deputy Coroner Weysham filed. his affidavit.
against John Lee, alias Roberts, for the murder Of
| VIM. McDonough at the Fulton Exchange
John Briggs, notorious vagrant of the filthy
stripe, was semitic the Work-honse for six months.
Bridget Clark, charged with beating Robert
Kennedy with broomstck, at -thes corneryof GUS
tomhouse and Prieur streets, WIGS sent to prison in
default of bail, to await examination. tss
RECORDER WII.TZ's COuRT.-Ana- Kanser- and
Kate Maude were yesterday up on a charge or
having stolen $40 from Mr.. Schoeneck, at the COR
ner of Chartres and Toulouse streets Anna d girl
of Il years, and servant in her employ, taking
the money off table where it had been left and
Kate, boarder in the house. taking care Of the
| money for her.. Anna confessed the theft. The
girls were held for examination.
James Bates, dangerous. and suspicious, was
sent to the Work-house. e. -
| Maggie Riley, alias Jack Sheppard, was fined
$40 for horribly abusing her neighbor, Florence
Adams, at No.. rs Basin street.
RECORDER LoEGs CDuRT.-Rosina Kostebader
| yesterday complained that on the 28d instant one
Adam violently assaulted her and knocked her
down in gutter on Moreau street. A warrant
| was issued
Jean Huber complained that on Monday morn
ing, on Claiborne street, near Annette, as he wa8
walking quietly along with his market basket and
smoking his pipe, George Schwarger and another
man came up to him, knocked his pipe out of his
mouth, smashed his basket and scattered his mar
ketng in the street, struck him with their fists,
and ran after him with drawn knives and threats
| to kill warrant was issued.
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| They had grand torchlght procession at NASH
vile, Tenn. few nights since, composed of about
fifteen hundred citizens, members of a mysterious
association known as the Ancient Order of Mystic
Chevaliers. They paraded the streets. robed in
white, with sable eowls, somewhat like q process.
sion of monks Several grotesque images and
banners were borne in the procession.
Five slaves recently escaped from Missouri and
made their way across the Mississippi into Ran
dolph county. Their pursuers overlook them about
five miles from Chester, and fired on them as they
attempted to escape. One OF them fell. mortally
wounded, with about two hundred shot in his body.
and died day or two after. Two OF those who es.
capped were also wounded.
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| The Louisville Journal tells Of man living
five days with a broken neck. During the night,
short time since, an elderly gentleman fell down
steep flight of steps, and struck the side of his head
| against the wall ut the landing. He was taken up
insensble and carried to his room. It was found
on examination, when he became conscious that
he was paralyzed in all those parts of his body be.
| low his neck, and that his neck was broken He
remained in this condition something over five
days, conversing freely with his attendants, and
describing to them all the sensations which he
had. His attending surgeons, Drs. Thnm and
Goldsmith, made an attempt to set the neck, but
We're Obliged to desist, account of suffOcatiOn
| coming on whenever the head was brought into
| its natural position. Between the fifth and sixth
| days, the nurse undertook to move him for the
purpose Of changing his linen, and in doing SO the
head was unwittngly turned so that the neck was
accident there is no telling how long he might
have lived Altogether the case is q most extra
ordinary one, and no doubt will, in due time, be
published authoratively in some medical journal.
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Rev. ROBERT HALL the celebrated preacher,
having occasion to preach at some village, got out
of his gig at small public house not far from the
chapel. He was seen entering it by one of the
dencons, a very religious man, who thinking such
| an act the hight of sin, followed him into the
| house to rebuke him for his conduct. He found
the preacher sitting on chair with pipe in his
mouth who, surmisng that the good man, for