New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-20
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the most profusely liberal manner. Saturday was
day Of deluges, and yesterday worse. There
were not -FOUR rainles hours during the day, and
eral Of the showers were tremendous. One was ac-
companied by series OF electric discharges that
perfectly fearful One of the bolts struck somewhere
near the Crescent Office but we did not learn that it
damaged anything. Another bolt struck Poydras
Market and by singular freak glanced off and
struck building opposite, doing it some damage. It
said that man standing in front of the house had
his coat torn by the stroke, without sustaining any
bodily injury. It. was supposed that his escape was
owing to his being 80 heavily charged with lager
beer, as to render him proof against electricity for
be had been drinking freely of lager. The atmos-
phere was thereby purged Of much Of its heat, and
the remainder OF the day was passably cool though
unconscionably wet and muddy. People generally
had to stay at home and the town was dark and
silent enough. The lake railroads were poorly pa
tronized to what they generally are on summer Sun.
day afternoons.
In OUR REPORT Of the case Of Holmes vs.. Nc
Gregor, Fifth District Court instead of saying that
Mr.. Mcconnell had volunteered for the defense y
we should have stated that Mr.. Mcconnell, a member
Of the School Board, had been retained as counsel
for the defense.
NUMBER OF GOLD. HEADED CANES have lately
been presented to different gentlemen by their appre-
cative friends of all Of which we have made honor.
able mention We may now mention the present we
have received. ia large and beautiful gold Office
pen, with patent gold and ebony holder-a splendid
thing to look at, and a magnificent thing to write
with. We have i as compliment from our hand.
some and popular young friend, Charley Culbertson,
who holds forth generally at the City Hall. The
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keep it long enough to chronicle with it different
pleasant events which in store for our FRIEND as
rising young man.
They RAN ALL NIGHT, the other night didn't go
home till morning. We mean the serenading party
who started up town with Gessners band. 1t was q
delicious moonlight Dight-ust the thing for march
ing-and the crowd were so pleasantly inspirited iii
not inspired) by the good things that awaited them
at Harrissons and some other places in the Garden
District, that they marched through the whole length
OF the city stopping and giving Mayor Stith sere
made at his residence on Gasquet street, and never
hauling up till they got ever so far down in the
Ancient Third. This reporter was complimente6
with few passing blasts, at the witching hour o.
three; and looking out found that the party had il
tow quite number of distinguished prisoners whom
they had captured on the march. Assistant Alder
man Leefe on Elysian Fields street, was serenaded
and gave the party fine reception. The next anG
last visit was Paid to Recorder Long, at his residence
on Moreau street. There also party were sumptu
ously entertained well, in fact that it was broad
daylight before they left; some of the crowd coming
up town in thB omuibuses How Gessner and his
brave blowers got through that night we are unable
to imagine, and how they must have slept that day
is beautiful to think Of That wound up the Ameri
onr ,ortpe 5;y,r Fo, I
leve.
A RATHER LOUD GAME OF EUcHRE, we learn, wa
played the other day on board steamer at the levee
A four.handed game was quietly progressing the
dealer, whom we shall call A., had just dealt, ant
turned up jack for trumps. B., the man next him
passed, and remarked that if poker was the game hi
hand would lie some. 1t was C.'s say next he ais
passed, and added that if poker was the game h
would have something of a hand too "And so woul
havea hand" said A., =" if you'd just let me take u
the deck heal.' All agreed to change the game t
poker, and bit the hands they held, whilst B. an
G. consented that A. should discard and take up tn
jack. B., who held four queens, opened the game b.
bet of ten dollars. G., who held four tens, wa
bulfed by this, and took an outside seat with hi
friend D. q. saw BIS ten, and went ten better.
saw that and went fifty better. A. pulled out all th
money he had, some eighty ninety dollars, and
marking that it was use to bet against him, as Ii
thought he had the thing dead, saw BIS fifty an
vent the rest Of his money better. B. commence
getting uneasy, but he concluded to AIS stake
and see what he had He covered the pile laid dow
his four queens, and looking into AS hand wa
thunderstruck to behold four aces "Aces th
, Devil" he exclaimed, "what did you want tina
jack for?" "Oh, just for fun!' complacently re
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return to euchre.
THE THIRD DISTRICT SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS ar
: progressing to the satisfaction of all who atten
them. The Eighth Ward Girls School, Miss Fry
principal, was examined on Thursday; the Sevent
. Ward Girls School, Mrs. Quitman, principal, on FIR
day; and the Ninth Ward, Or Washington Girls
! School, Mrs. Jenkins, principal, on Saturday.
All the teachers gave good showing of thei pas
years labor, and fairly entitled to the compl
ments paid them by the Superintendent and Direct
ors and the public. A pleasant exhibition of th
ambition which characterizes most teachers an
should characterize all was afforded at one of th
examinations. young lady teacher was so muc
mortified by one of her pupils making blunder Q
two in her answers, that she went back in the var
J and cried as if her heart would break.
: The Washington Boys School is to be examine
today, the Fillmore School tomorrow, and the tw
High Schools on Wednesday and Thursday. Th
exhibition is to take place at the Fillmore Schoo
house, on the LIST Of July.
THE New LUs1TANOs BENEVOLENT AssocIATIo
turned out in strong force Saturday pay funers
honors to their late Grand Marshall Juan Barcelt
Mr.. BIS death was caused by painful and mos
shocking accident. He was coming from Lake Borgn
to the city by the Mexican Gulf Railroad, with
quantity of fish, in which he dealt largely. Passin
from one car to another, while the train was j
motion, some miles below the city, he fell throug
and the train passed over him. No one saw the acc
dent nor Barceo missed till the cars reached th
depot. Some of his friends suspectng an accident
got the conductor to go back with them, with loct
motive and car, to look for him. After going fe,
miles, they came to crowd, whom they found wer
carrying Barceo. One of hislegs was badly crushed
and with his leg in that condition, he dragged hin
self along about a mile and o half from where th
accident happened He finally stopped, exhausted
and expecting to die, when some men came along
and seeing his condition, charitably undertook th
labor Of earring him to town. He had taken off hi
shirt to bind his crushed limb and stop the flow {
, blood. That night the leg was amputated, but th
unfortunate man was not able long to survive th
f operation. He died on Friday, and was buried wit
:, the hOnOrs of his Society as ohove stated