New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-20
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or the deaths, twenty were by consumption and
fortyone were children less than two years a age
Two deaths were Of old age, and one Of these de-
ceased had reached the ripe age of 115 years.
THE FOURTH DISTRICT FIRE.--The FIRE in the
Fourth District on Sunday night, some account Of
which we gave yesterday, was sad and destruc-
tive affair. Among the buildings destroyed was
the Rev. NJ. Markham's Church, sPresbyterian) an
edifice worth about $1,000. The following is q list
of the properties destroyed and their value:
On upper side Of Adele and Fulton street: Pres
byterian church, $4,000; Jacob Klein, $1,000; W.
Berrll, $1,000; H. Bertheaud, $500; John Appel,
$500; James Gorbett, $500.
On lower side of Adele, upper side st. Andrew,
and rear Of the houses on Rousseau street: James
Hefferman, $1,000; Charles Heferman, $1,000; John
Nelson, $1,000; Estate of P. Daman, $1,000; w.
Berrill, $1,000.
On lower side of st. Andrew street: Peter Mil
Ter, $1,000; James West, $1,000; Alex. Pentland,
$1,000. On Fulton street Adrien Jehler, sl000
It was feared that man who was seen going
| into burning house near where the fire started
| was encempassed by the flames and burnt to
| death.
| The proprietor of shoe store in one Of the
| houses destroyed was arrested on suspicion of
having started the fire. He had an insurance of
| 5000 on his stock, which was not worth half that
amount.
| This, like all the great fires in the Fourth Dis
trict, was mainly the consequence Of scarcity of
| water.
| FIRE IN THE THIRD DIsTRtoT.-Two stables in
the Third District, near the barracks, the proper
ties of Mr.. Howell and Mr.. Lanneaux, were de-
4 stroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. It was not
known how the fire started.
SLoPED-We learn that man named Forster.
lately connected with the German Gazette Of this
\ city as assistant editor, has taken French leave,
leaving creditors about town in grief to the extent
Of $780, The immediate cause of his disappear
ance however, was not the pressure Of his debts,
but sundry hints, ,,of unaistakabe nature, that
further residence in this city might endanger his
neck it being satisfactorily ascertained that he
was author Of certain ineendiary letters to Ger
man paper in New York, in one of which letters
he said that abolition was prospering finely in New
; Orleans and that the day would soon come wher
the limbs of our iye-oak trees would be bent dowr
with the weight of shareholders hanging by the
neck.
Aec1DENr-Mchael Hafpin, carpenter, yester
day afternoon fell from building on which he wa
at work, at the of Poydras and Leyee streets
and was dangerously hurt. Officer Kingston sen
him to Charity Hospital.
FOUND DRowsED-On Saturday afternoon office
j. w Manera, of the Third District, found in the
river, opposite Mr.. Lessep's plantation, the bodl
of an unknown white woman.
CARELESS DRIVING AND ACCIDENT. ~ Yesterda,
morning cart, carelessly driven ran against Mr.
Barbey's buggy on st. Peter street. smashing
badly. The driver, Thomas Allen was ARRESTED
and taken to the Second District Lookup, whilst hi
cart and team were taken to the Pound
:, DIED OF INTEMPERANcE. = A man about fft
years old was found deed on Sunday morning on th
gallery Of house corner Of Eighth and Dryade
!, streets. Tt Is supposed, from paper found in hi
y !. pocket, that his name is B. Hopk. That sudde
- death was probably caused by intemperance.
3 MURDER on THE High SEAS. - The ship Ka
Prince had hardly come up on Saturday evenif
to her wharf, in the Third District, when her cor
IT mander, Capt. =. A. Guerrish sent word to IL
d policeoffice that one of his men, named Amt
G. Scott was in irons, for having stabbed an
t. killed the mate of the ship at sea on the I'd ul
n Scott was Immediately brought to the Lookup
The particulars will come out before the U
Commissioner
CoRoSER's sT1GArroN.-The investigate
- Conway, aged 40 years, native Of Ireland, wi
. was fatally stabbed on the night of the sth ins
on Tchoupitouas street, was held Saturday eyeniI
and resulted in a verdict of murder being rendere
against John Kay, who was arrested shortly aft
the occurrence. The examination of the prison
before Recorder Emerson will take place in dl
: time.
~ FIRST DISTRICT CoURT = Judge Hunt Mar
Gfpdl lar1 Aunrl tiO
iard f. W. c., charged with assaults and batterit
were yesterday dismissed by mol pros.
M Arraignments were made, and informations file
in as usual. e.
of VIM O'Keefe was tried for assault and bate
and acquitted.
Catherine Sayers was tried for assault and b
to- terry and acquitted.
he To-day, Hypolite Princeval is to be tried for
murder of Garcia.
RECORDER EMERsoN's CouRT.-An immense a
in altogether intense looking crowd of black spir
na- and white, blue spirits and gray, passed in rev
of before the Recorder yesterday, and were fined
confined according to the degrees of their drunk
ness and belligerency.
The following parties were examined and Sc
of before the First District Court John Bryant,
YER stealing pair of pants from R. G. Armistea
,ot store, No. 63 Grayiei street, Barney Keenan,,
aet stealing John O'Neal's pocket-book, containg
and two gold rings, on New Leyee street. FL
Thompson, for carrying concealed bowie knit
the and John Leidione, for stealing $40 worth of g
N
ION dow at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Gil
streets on the evening Of the 2ith nit, he smash
ac- the window and running off with the chains dur
the rush and excitement consequent upon an ala
of fire. None of the above gave bail, so all W
sent to prison.
I'M Wm. Farrell for drunken turbulence on Ma
ith zine street. and resisting officer Cabbey and te
of ing his clothes, was fined $40. Thomas Reag
=, for brutal treatment of Margaret Watson
3eu Tchoupitoulas street, threatening her life
Z. turning her out of doors several times, was fiji
the $40. Neither having the money TO pay, beth W
fo, confined for month.
The following parties were discharged: s.
Whitney, charged with tamperng with sl
girl at the Merchants Hotel; Hiram Beatty
ON planter of Iberville parish, vouching fer him,
fro there being no direct evidence against him. ri
n'' Woods and VIM. Bobert, charged with larceni
their prosecutors not appearing. And Benjal
Off Thompson charged with beating NJ. Stiewel.
ID The following parties were arraigned and
for future examinations:
All; W. w. Cassidy, charged with shooting and
sn's ing James Kennedy on Sunday, at the eornel
'hes Gasquet and Prieur streets. ISome account
which we published yesterday.l Remanded
+his await the action of tho Coroner. ~.
80 NJ. o. Brien, charged with dangerously stabe
ieel John Carmody, on Sunday evening, on New lie
street; and his wife, Eliza, as an accessory
sent to prison to await the result of Garmo
4. s wound.
his Mary Ann Holt, charged with having rob
James Reilly in hnuse on Grayiar street. on