New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-28
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THE WEATHER continues cool, hazy, dry and dus-
| ty. The few glimpses of yesterdays sunshine re-
minded us of mkmen's milk-the original element
striving desperately to assert its natural color, in
spite of overwhelming dilution of the essence
of the lower heavens.
CONTRACTS ADJUDIcATED.--Mr. Comptroller Du-
plessis yesterday sold the following contracts
| For bnilding bridge across the Canal Caronde-
let at Claiborne street, to l.. Surgi at $4,000 for the
| work complete.
For ditchng the streets from Felicity street TO
Philip between Howard and Claiborne, to B. Col
| Inns, at $1l so per running acre.
The FOURTH DISTRICT POISONING AFFAIR -
Coroner Beach last evening began his inquest into
| the dreadful poisoning affair of the Fourth Dis
trict; the dinner at Col. Lemley's in which about
twenty persons were poisoned by arsenic in q dish
Of Charlotte Russo p Mrs. Lemley, and her niece
and nephew, being the three who died, and all the
rest Of the poisoned ones being now well.
The inquest was begun at Mr.. Lemley's resi-
dence, ON Jackson street, in courtesy to the lady
witnesses. The witnesses examined were Mrs.
Young, sister of the deceased Mrs. Lemley, and
mother of the other two victims who died; Miss
Sarah Young, her surviving daughter; Miss Sarah
Hall, Mrs. ]. H. Phelps and Miss Isabella Mckee,
all Of whom were prostrated by the poison and for
some time not expected to recover.
As the inquest was not completed, and as the
male witnesses are to be examined this evening,
we will reserve what was testified to last evening
in order to incorporate it in full resume in our
edition Of Monday.
The SEWING MACHINE MEN. Yesterday, the
agent of one Of the sewing machine patents ap
piled to Mr. Staes, clerk of Recorder Wiltz's Court
tRecorder Benit now presiding) to make an ahida
Wit against the agent of one of the other sewing
machine patents, charging him with obtaining
money under false pretenses.
The circumstances, it appeared, were these: 4
good housewife went out to buy sewing ma
chine and negotiated for one of Sloat's; tht
agent assuring her that it was far superior tt
Wheeler & Wilson'S, being an Improvement upoI
that machine. When the Sloat machine reached
home, the ady's husband. who NEEDLES somewha
in household matters, repudiated the machine, hi
being Wheeler & Wilson man to all the bone ant
pristle in his body. He went to the Sloat agent
and demanded that the machine be taken back AM
!, the money refunded. The soat agent refused, de
caring that he had sold the machine fairly an,
sauarely, and maintaining, as he had asserted t
the lady, that it was superior to the Wheeler
Wilson machine.
The husband acquainted the wheeler q Wilso
agent with the affair; and this agent believing thi
the lady had been swinded into the purchase of
i Sloat machine, when it was the intention Of Ii
\ liege that she should buy Wheeler & Wilson m
chine, went as above stated, to have the Sloat mi
arrested on the charge of obtaining money und
false pretenses, and refusing to take back the m
! chine and refund the money, upon amioable d
mand.
Mr.. staes, very properly, as we think. refus'
= to take the affidavit on the ground that the lac
had taken the Sloat machine, upon representaflol
Z no worse than those which are made every day
rival dry goods dealers and other storekeepefs
= all branches of business.
MATR,Mos1AL FELTcirY.-A Dntchman name
NJ. Schmidt has invoked the aid of Recorder Long,
the Third District, in preserving him nom ms Wl
s; ue complains that she will not let him have an
,oaca mr. comfort, and has for a long time tormen
8 81 him nearly to death. In making his afidav
he said that he had been married to her for nj
~ yeara that he was her third husband that her fl
husband drowned himself hss second hnsha