New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-31
WEDNESDAY MORNING.. AUGUST 81, 1859

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FIRE broke out yesterday .n.,,o.. :.
o'clock in the kitchen Of M. J.m., go, cot,...
residence, on Marigpy street, b.tveen TruNs,. .rs
Grod Third District. The fremen were e.y,, euou.,,
on the ground, but scarcity Of water retr;cd tber
lsbors and whilst the flames ruined the e.Ats 3.
they communicated to the adjoining residence y N,
z. D. White, the street contractor and ruined 4 a.
badly, burning the top of and leaving the hou,e
wreck Both houses had fne gardens Of trees stzob-
berry, vines, ETC., which were much damaged hY
scorchng and by the necessary and tear Of tns
tremen. The adjoining residences on either side;
Zone being that Of officer BeginskD narrowly escaped
destruction, and their gardens also we're much dam.
aged. Water was SO scarce that many Of the fire
companies had to leave without playing, not being
able to get even suck Of diluted mud. All movable
property was saved. Whole loss about 5000. Mr..
White was insured for $4,000.
E1POLrcEMAs JAMES BOYLE, having had Lieut.
Dryden and his special officer Robert Dalton sent
before the First District Court the criminal aspect
Of their assault and battery upon and imprisonment
Of him, and having sued them for damages Of 5000
in one Of the District Courts on the civil aspect Of
the case, now brings them before the Mayor on the
official or unoficerke aspect Of the case. Through
his counsel, Mr.. Blocker, he has preferred to Mayor
stth s. complaint Of four specifications, charging
Dryden and Dalton with outrageous and unofcerlike
conduct, and praying their dismissal from the police.
The case, or this feature Of IT, will soon be examined
and we shall sndeavor to furnish report Of 1t.
DR. JOHN Foster, house surgeon Of the Charity
Hospital, was taken before Judge Eggeston, Of the
Fifth District Court, yesterday morning. His arrest
and imprisonment, for dangerously wounding DR.. 8.
Chopin in an exchange Of pistol shots al Charity
Hospitalon Saturday, and the details thereof have
been published.
Col. Field counsel for the accused cited authori-
ties and argued to show that preliminary examinar
tion might be had, in order to discover il the shoot
ing had been done in selfdefense and that II the
shooting should be proven to have been 60 done, il
would be right and proper to release the accused un
der bail. 4.I14
The State not being represented, Judge Eggleston
sent an officer for the District Attorney. Before that
gentleman arrived, DR.. Mercier appeared in court
and gave his certificate that Dr. Chopin was out OF
danger. This put an end to the proceedings and
Dr. Foster was released bond Of $4,000 to appear
before Recorder Summers whenever notified.
A REPORT has spread and gained publication, to
the effect that Joseph Schneider Of Pelican Hook
and Ladder Company No. 4, recently stabbed in an
affray with felowmember named Mccoy, Ia in q
dangerous condition and hardly expected to live. 1t
gives pleasure to be able to contradict this report
authoritativey. Mr. Schneider ia getting along finely
and will soon be out again.
THE CONTRACT for square block paving Carondelet
street, from Canal to Felicity, has been adudicated
to Mr.. John Coleman, at 50 80 per superficial yard,
with the sidewalks curbs and bridges at fair proper
tional rates.
THE CORONER yesterday held an inquest on the
body of woman who died suddenly in one OF the
cells Of the Second District Lookup. The case was
one which offered terrible picture Of the evils of
intemperance.
| On Monday, Mrs. Vdoer, renting room Of
Adana Bach, at No. 1O9 Dauphine street, was or.
rested at the request Of Bach who charged her with
habtual drunkenness and disorderly behavior, and
cruel treatment Of her child, little boy five Year,
old. As Bach declared, it had for some time been
the habit Of the woman to go out, come home drunk
and vent her drunken spleen by abusing every body
and cruelty beating her innocent little boy. She was
arrested on Monday evening; and, there being no
else to take care of her boy, he was taken along
with her, and they were locked up together.
Yesterday morning the woman was arraigned be-
fore the Recorder and required to pay fine for her
bad behavior or spend a term in prison. Having no
money she and her child were returned to their cell
in the lookup to await conveyance to prison by the
Black Maria. At about o'clock, (the prison wagon
not having arrved,) an officer in the yard of the
lookup was called to by the little boy, who through
the grating Of the cell said that bis mother was sick.
The officer got the key entered the cell, and found
the wretched woman worse than sick She was dead.
Another woman who was in the cell stated that the
deceased had taken crazy spell or it, in which, after
utering the most terrible rawlings she fell to the floor
and died. The poor little boy, so soon as be was
able to comprehend that his mother was dead and
would have to be buried cried and carried on Just as
if she had been decent woman or good mother
He was properly cared for.
Coroners verdict, delirium tremens.
The NAME of the young girl who, with her little
BROTHER fell overheard from the Third District ferry
boat, on Sunday evening, is Miss Styles, and moi
starks, as we reported yesterday. She is the daugh
ter Of an engineer in Agers, and is good and brave
girl whose misfortune in losing her little brother il
entitled less to commisseraton than is her courage
as shown at the trying moment to admiration. The
accident happened as she was boarding the boat
when it landed on this side. She was leading the
little boy by the hand. As the boat touched the
wharf she stepped to it, before the child stepped the
boat had rebounded from the wharf just enough to let
him fall in. His sister jumped in after him /; q man
jumped in after both; the girl, buoyed up by her
dress and hoops, shouted, Never mind me, but for
Gods sake save my little brother" The little ones
fate has already been recorded The grief of the girl
and her parents may be more easily imagined than
described
A GERMAN named John Gilders, cook of the steamer
A. G. Brown was drowned in Lake Pontchartrain on
Monday evening" two three hours after the boat had
left the terminus Of the Jefferson Railroad. He fell
over from the guard forward Of the wheelhouse. The
boat was stopped, and yawls and lanters lit being
dark sent out to search for him, but to no purpose
he was supposed to have been in liquor at the time
RECORDER SUMMERS CouRT.-Jean Brun, q butcher
in ST. Ma-y's Market, was yesterday examined on
charges of violating the market ordinances, in moi
having his name or number put up over his STALL ani
insulting ladies stopping at the stall, and lady il
particular. From the first accusation Brun was dis
charged the second, that Of insulting ladies', the
rascal had to pay fine of S20
Anthony May, for raising disturbance on Foucher
| street, and having bowie-knife concealed on his
person, was required to pay $l5 or go down for a