New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-25
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The WEATHER keeps dry, srows hotter, and begins
to be dusty. The middle Of yesterday was IS hot as
anything we have had this season, or expect to
have.
WEEKLY REPORT Of the Free Dispensary Of the
New Orleans School Of Medicine, situated ON Com
mon street, opposite the Charity Hospital:
Patients treated Saturday, june ls.s
" :. wSssGd Wednesday, . ssaa..: ~ Z
Treated previously, ......... 80. n.5s
| Total. 12.oes
| GRAND FRoLIC is to come of On the glorious
Fourth at Madame Avart'a grove, in Jefferson city.
1t is to be grand picnic, barbecue, dance, and 30
on, given by the Jefferson City Hook and Ladder
Company. If we be spared, we shall try to have
peep at the fun.
one OF THE JoLLIEsr SoRr Of little items Of i'm.
promptu sport was got up on the Delachaise cricket
ground the other afternoon, when the C. c. G. c.
engaged in its game. Some Of the boys-hairJ-faced
| boys-started an opposition entertainment, in the
shape Of game Of quots the border Of the cricket
field and very succeeded in turning the faces of
at least half Of the crowd from the crckete to the
pitchers Of the metallic dscs and kept up the lively
competition in attraction until night came and closed
the sport Of both parties. The pitchers were most
Hospitality cared for by Harvey Harding the host or
the neighboring " Weeping Willow )" and it may be
that it was this hospitality which 30 improved the
skill Of the pitchers, that no man could consider him
self safe from their missiles unless he stood immedi
ately on the peg at which they were aimed-a posi-
tion considered guaranteeing entire impunity
from danger, that one Of the party, who had hat
which he did not to have ruined, hung 1t one
Of the pegs, where it safely weathered the storm Of
iron vainly directed against 1.-THE owner, mean
while narrowly escaping with life in bis less safe po-
. sition, dozen yards away.
1t is rumored that this is not to be the last meeting
of the pitchers but only preliminary rehearsal
of the Weeping Willow Quot CIub, shortly to be
organized, which will convene to enjoy the muscular
sport and partake Harding's fare every time the
. G. G. c. G. takes the field. Every member Of the
club is to take measures for selfpreservation, by
!, providing himself with potmetal helmet and suit
of cast iron armor, and the bylaws make it oblga
tory that this panoply be donned Immediately afte
the third hamper from the "Weeping Willow" il
!. . brought on the ground A special appropriation
Ii provides for the presence of the Coroner on tn
ground at every meeting, and surgeon has bee
~ engaged by the year.
THE LOCOMOTIVE CELEBRITY, }" on the Pontchartrai
road ran foul of at halfpast o'clock, yesterda
afternoon near the Gentilly crossing and throw
from the track, with two of the passenger cars. Th
only person hurt was the engineer, whose injury wa
in the arm, and but slight one. The locomotiv
II went some distance from the track and was badl
g. damaged the cars were not hurt. At o'clock tn
accident had not been remedied and great were th
g impatience and disappointment Of the hourly accr
mulating crowd at the depot, many of whom d.
signed leaving for the watering places by the Creol
e JACOB ROSENBERG, driver Of one of the Bayou roa
omnibuses fell from his seat yesterday afternoon o
Royal street, whilst reaching down for box which
+ man was handing him to put on top sudden sta
d of the mules causing him to fall. He fell on h
,e breast, and the wheel upon him enough to gi,
II him sickening squeeze without crushing him.
was taken to the Charity Hospital
IN THE Wholesale WINE AND LIQUOR STORE
n Messrs Crookes Co., large and deep three.sto
brick building the southeast corner of Tchoupito
~ las and Lafayette Streets totally destroyed
is fire, with all its contents between hafpast ar
at halfpast o'clock last night How the fire startt
% we not able to ascertain could we discov
~ the extent of the loss, which must have been arg
The usual scarcity of water retarded the early efor
Of the fremen, though supply afterward enable
ol them to the adjoining and surrounding building
which had begun to smoke rather freely. When Il
le water came it was useless in the nearest gutter
N N being all blue and red and yellow bazes, in its i
tt toxication with the spirits from the burning budin
d. The high beching flames from the building and tt
blue blazes in the cutters for squares showed that
,e large amount of liquor destroyed. The loss mu
range somewhere between twenty and forty thousar
dollars.
he be ONE OF THE Mosr RAscALLY TRICKS we have y
I'D heard laid to schoolboy, perpetrated on Thur
day, at the examination of the Third District Cir
y High School, The lady teachers and their vsitil
nf friends laid off their bonnes and veils which, wi
cd their parasos, they left in a room up stairs VIII
the ladies went to the room, after the examinato
they found that some mscreant had stolen their ve
n and parasols and whitfield their bonnets to piec
: with knife. The astonshment, vexation and indi
oy nation which followed, may better be imagined th
in described. The act, we learn has been traced to
ng boy, who has not yet been caught.
lse LITTLE BABY Boy, about two years old, in a r.
IN dress, with light hair and under his right ey
nd was found astray, the 4th inst, at the corner
he Greatmen and Bagatelle streets, Third District.
has ever since been kindly cared for in the family
on Mr.. H. G. Rioux, at No. IS Poet street. Whose ba
OF boy 1T?
ale A SLIGHT VARIATION of the California ball gar
nd was introduced to rustic gentleman on the sea
,er boat landing on Thursday afternoon. Mr.. Rustic
casually fallen in with respectablelookng midd
ln' aged gentleman, who, like himself looking fo
nd steamer whereon to travel for his rural retreat up
lg, country somewhere. s
ITS Whilst they standing together in familiar ct
versaton, third gentleman also respectable lookil
If. came mp anxously to the old gentleman, and ask
en- if certain Red River boat had left, giving the mar
Jail Old gent replied that she had left just about gu
na ter of an hour ago. Young gent cursed, wiped
for perspraton from his brow, spoke of his freight
ing carried off and he left behind, and dgetted &c
cry rally in the most agonzing manner. Finally he C
cluded to run along the levee, and see if there
,or not another Red River boat on hand, by which
ties might overtake the boat that had ran of with
freight. As be left, he dropped, accidentally,
irst unknown to himself, very nice little paper pa
the age.
tan Abont the time he got out of sight the old gent