New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-02-20

stopped the running away. Two ladies who were
in the carriage, and who we're naturally much
frightened were assisted ont and taken home in q
hired carriage.
FmE.-A fire broke out on Saturday night,
shortly after 10 o'clock in the house Of Mr.. Frank
NJ Hass, corner Of Washington and Magazine
streets. It was promptly extinguished with little
or no damage.
BREACH OF TRGsT.~-sincere Fourrier, of No. 92
81 Peter street, Second District, was srraigned on
Saturday before Recorder Summers, charged by
H. Frankie with retaining and refusing to return
silver lever watch, valued at SIS, which complain
ant had entrusted to him for repair. Complainant
ayers that he has good reason to believe that the
accused has appropriated the watch to his own use
The case was fixed for examination on the oath
instant.
SHE CERTAINLY DID'Nr Lice HM.-Mrs. Abrams,
proprietress of grocery at the corner of Tchou-
pitoulas and Callope streets, is to be examined
before Recorder Summers on the cath inst. John
Coveny swears that on Wednesday last, Mrs. A.
baptized him with bucket of dirty water, seized
him and tore his coat, and threw an iron weight at
him.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE TREASURY. - Recorder
Summers on Saturday collected as follows: John
@. Schafer, for dauIning a gutter and putting
mortar-bed in the middle of Terpsichore street,
$40; John O'Brien, for renting a room to John r.
| Shaw's slave woman Teeey, $40; and John Nc
Gnity and Pat Welsh for trying to get up riot at
| the expense of the steamer Northern Light, $40
each.
Scene m CouRT.-An incident, awful in some
respects and ludicrous in others, TRANSFERRED in
| Recorder Summers Court on Saturday. A woman
| who was concerned in difficulty under investga-
ton, became 80 excited that she met with one of
those disasters which are common to married
ladies, and the very last thing on earth that any
| lady could wish to happen in such place as a
crowded and unfeelng Courtroom. The unhappy
| woman was dismissed without ceremony, and
taken away in cab.
SAD ACCIDENT - Iaro Men Dro,eaed. - Three
men, named Nelson, Peterson and ]. H. Hasling
were returning from a hunting expedition on Sat
urday afternoon, at o'clock, in small hunting
canoe, when opposite the Marine Hospital, their
boat got swamped. Nelson, after sinking twice,
managed to get hold of the boat and held on to it
for some twenty minutes, when his cries were
heard, and man in skf came to his rescue
Hasng never rose to the surface; Peterson came
up twice, but could not reach the boat, and was
also drowned. reward s offered for the recov-
cry Of Hastings body. He leaves wife and three
children. Peterson also leaves wife and three
children, the wife being sickly, and in state OF
the deepest distress and poverty.
ANUNusuAL INCIDENT Honesty is a Jewel where.
ever found and to give the devil her due, we will
mention the fact that Cypran, of Burgundy street
has left at the Second District police office valu-
able gold watch and chain, which she reports as
having been accidentally left in her room by some
man who was stranger to her.
more OR LESS. 't-Ths ancient phrase was fun.
nily applied by one man to another in our hearing
the other day. Said one to the other, after q
rather tart conversation You're one Of them rer
that think more or less Of" "What do you mean
by thatsn asked the party addressed. "Why, this,
was the response, the more ! know you the
less I think of you We got away from thai
!, crowd as speedily as possible. We did not heal
that there was any fight afterward.
! THE FEMALES. ~ Lizzy Daily punctuated Kit,
4 Malty at o'clock yesterday morning, in check
: apron ballroom on Elysian Fields street; that is
/. she put FIJI stop to Kitty's aggrayating CONVEX
4 sation by letting tumbler fly in her face. TIL,
police improved the thing by making a dash a
I Lizzy, and, regardless of her interrogdtons an,
. eTclanaions, locking up her form in that chase 81
d constantly filed with the battered types of hu
manty, the Third District Lookup It was
! connaa-cal affair, all round.
4 Our ONLY RED ITEa.--We are SO much in III
If habit of recording in Mondays Crescent the blood
results Of drunken Saturday night brawls and q
Sunday duels and other fancy fracases, that we fec
# called upon to express in this Mondays Crescent
If our establishment, and we may say qualification
o that nobody was killed or even seriously wounde
ii during Saturday night or yesterday. Our indus
= trious gleanngs of the police reports our afabI
n butonholing of policemen on the streets, and on
o affectonate lingering around the Coroner's Office
r resulted in finding only one insignificant excus
4 for red item; and that was, that Johnny Shield
d cut Tim Foley's arm on Saturday night on Margin
street; Johnny being arrested Though this b
;. our only red item, we still believe that all on
other items viii be read.
il THE ITINERANT Shows. = Officers Clarke an
!. Price yesterday arrested John Barden, Charlie
a Lorette and William Allen as the joint proprietor
n Of unlicensed show Of the gambling description
which was raking in the unsophisticated dimes an
r, picayunes on Baronne street. near Poydras Marke
The same officers also arrested B. Conkling an
ID John Flago, as propretors of an itinerant u
.e licensed show, which was picking up innoce
10 dimes on the steamboat landing All will NAL
,o their salaam to Recorder Summers this morning.
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