New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-26

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AN IMPRESSIVE PRIVATE FuNKRAL took place last
venng. A few weeks since We mentioned the cir
umstance Of the boys Of downtown orphan asylum
ttending the funeral Of little son Of Mr.. Thomas
Ayton, on Chartres street, - mark Of sympathy
md respect for Mr.. L., who had been father TO the
'rphans as well as to his own children. On Thurs
lay evening, another child of Mr.. Layton's died
ovely and promising girl just budding into woman
rood, being in her sixteenth year. The funeral took
place last evening" and was attended by large num-
oers Of ladies and Of old citizens, together with the
orphans; not only the orphan boys who attended
the first funeral but large crowd Of girls from one
Of the female orphan asylums The bereavement OF
the parents upon losing the second Of two cherished
children, infused more than usual sadness into the
crowds attending the funeral, and few eyes that
went returned unmoistened.s The attendance Of the
orphans was felt by all to be touching and spprop
ate and it added much to the impressveness of the
sad occasion. .&E
Two LADIES Of our acquaintance had their dresses
and bonnets soiled almost ruined yesterday evening,
on Chartres street, by reckless servant mopping |
dirty water off q balcony they passed beneath. |
The ladies in their confusion failed to spot the house
for future recognition which is much to be regretted
There is an ordinance for the punishment Of aggaya
tions Of this kind and it would have afforded rs the
keenest pleasure to publish the arrest Of the popr
etor of the house in question and the offending ser
want, and to mark down handsome sum contributed
to the city treasury II anything calls for punish
ment it is this too prevalent habit Of sweeping and
washing galleries in the day time, whilst people are
passing along below.
SAMUEL SMITH and his balloon descended safely
on Tuesday evening, near the Creole Race Course.
Smith says that the firing Of the evening cannonade
on jackson Square (it being Washington's birthday
shocked the balloon in rather alarming manner.
He is of opinion that balloon would be anything
but safe or pleasant point for observation of bat
tie between armies. The next time Smith ascends,
he expects to dispense with the basket and mount to
the heavens on the back of a live bear
| The GREENEsT INDIVIDUAL we have seen for many
day, turned up before Recorder Long yesterday.
He looked green, talked green, and wore green
coat. E. Fl. Jones was his name; and he was q
stranger, who had been taken in and done for by
cab drivers. His complaint was that on Thursday
morning he arrived from the lake with his family
en- route for Opelousas; that getting out Of the
cars at the Pontchartrain depot be hired cab to
carry himself and family, and baggage, to the Ope
lousas Railroad depot over the river that at the
Opelousas ferry there being two drivers to The cab
he paid them two dollars and half for their services
that the feryboat, whilst crossing the river they
made him pay one dollar more and that on arriving
in Agiers, they charged him twenty dollars more
and made him pay it! We generally sympathizt
with strangers who get feeced by our city rascals
but for the life of US we can't pity this Mr. Jone
much. The softuess and stupidity of quietly sub
mtting to such robbery has no rational excuse tina
we can discover. Warrants were issued for the ar
rest of the cab-drivers, whose names were given q
Henry Lynch and - Lucas.
A GERMAN LAD named Hoppe, about ten year
old, was drowned in well on his parents premises
on Independence street, between Goodcbdren ant
Morales, on Tuesday. His parents went to market
in the morning. leaving him alone in the house. WheI
they returned they missed him, but paid no attention
to the circumstance, supposing him to be at pal
somewhere in the streets. In the evening his con
, tinued absence excited some alarm, and upon
search being instituted he was found drowned in th
well in the back yard. In his hand was found lin
with hook and bait, which rendered it apparen
that be fell in whilst fishing for crayfsh. The Col
oner held an inquest on the body yesterday, and re
turned verdict Of accidental drowning.
GEORGE MAXWELL, native Of Ohio, % years q
age fell dead suddenly yesterday afternoon, on th
sugar landing, whilst conyersing with some friend
: He was cooper by trade, and employed by the 8,
: garbrokers. He was stout and temperate maj
a and leaves wife and child The Coroner invest
= gated the case, and returned verdict of death
8 apoplexy.
t NOTHING WAS DONE yesterday in the First Distri'
Court. When we dropped in, Mr.. Deputy Sheri
!. Seicshnaydre was at work drawing from his bi
/, wheel the names Of two hundred and fifty jurors
l. March service.
OLD JOHN G. MosELy is dead the eccentric, ugl
old fellow, who was always in a row of some kin
before the Recorder who wore his dirty gray ha
y coed in pigtail on the top Of his head, sometime
II tucked with lady's comb ; and who lived in a
eccentric edce away out Lafayette street. somethin
l. between lighthouse and feudal tower which hs
long been and still is the wonder and admiration
g. its beholders for the first time Old John once hunte
e after this reporter for three days. with big stick
inquire why he was called Mosely the beautiful !"
ia the Crescent police reports. Now that he is dea
and the grave has closed over his eccentrcities, a
his troubles with his neghbors and his ordeals wi
;, = the officers Of the law we hope he may rest ",
- Worse men than he have lived and still live.
ID HORSES and other " animules" appeared to be
" usually erratc yesterday. A milk.wagon horse,
Graver street, bolted whilst his teutonic master '
fixing his bride. The milk man hung on to
re horse in his mad career, and got knocked cold
in cabbage. In the afternoon, an insane horse W
ng ktng up Camp street, past our Office, with an em
ce buggy, which he flung from side to side like
8" weaver's shuttle. The last we saw of him, he
ne doubling the cape Of Poydns and Camp, with peo
49, stampedng on every side In the Second District
pc, loaded omnibus knocked an empty dray, dri,
vii mules and all, into cooked hat' The draydri
de- was full of useless fight, and beautifully
ces the evening, Bayou Road omnibus got locked
be the gutter, at the of Royal and Customho
an streets all between green mule in front and
red driver on top. The mules. having never been e
snt. Gated in backing, and the driver being no Rar
mes (though he appeared to be Tpperary) the dilem
ave lasted full half hour, and collected crowd
de- about five hundred admiring spectators. The
Guilty was settled by lot of drivers of other veh
the backing the mules by main force, and lifting the
ward wheels out of the gutter. The preva
insanity among the horses and mules, we th
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