New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-01-17
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
Falr arennAa Ta-Dar.

E0AF Grounds Vo-D3y.
Exhibition halls and machiRery in op-
Grafton.
In the field-Cultivators ploBs, steam
levee making machine; and steam plow.
On main track, at 2 O'Clock precisely, trot-
ting race, best three in five heats to harness.
Mr.. Leonord enters Idol.
J. n. Townsend enters John Gilmore.
Joseph Wolfort enters Goshen Maid.
All fast horses.
Also, continuation Of two mile heats to
harness not finished previously.
f A Psor BlInd Man.
Generosity toward the blind can not we'll
be misplaced, for that one misfortune en-.
tails almost every other misery. We Yes
terday saw one poor fellow with sightless
eyeballs and rueful countenance en-
deavoring, by strained efforts on a slack
wire, to gather q few picayunes whereby to
buy his daily bread. He was not dressed in
taady tinsel to draw crowds, but in his
shirt sleeves and thread-bare pantalOons
balanced his shaky frame along the slim
wire, while a wonderful audience, with
pitying eyes, stared at him. Go to Lafayette
square and see this poor mortal striving to
gaiR livelihood and drop a fractional cur.
rency into his contribution box.
The Knife.
The corner of Canal and Royal streets was
yesterday enlivened by the glitter of a knife
that was drawn and which cut and quite
severely wounded Nicholas Ga gbarRn, who
was Immediately sent to his residence. The
cutters name is Jack Lawrence, of the
fourth district. The whole affair was so
suddenly commenced and SO quickly over
that no particulars were obtained.
Shot m she Act.
Early yesterday morning John McQuade,
who has grocery corner st. Thomas and
al haard H.,
his store, and at once arming himself with
a loaded revolver, and without word, fired
on a man who gives his name as Alfred Sui.
livan, wounding him severely.
Eighteen Hundred Dollars Gone
And Mr.. James A. Moran does not know
where to. He is positive he had the bundle
when he left st, Charles street brokers'
office, from whence he went directly to a
Gravier street broker, and there became
aware that the money had taken wings unto
itself. His belief is that an expert pick.
pocket is better off by $500, for he is of the
opinion that be could not have lost the pack
age from the pocket in which he had, as he
thought, securely placed it.
Cracksmsa mt Work.
It is reported by Officer Sinclair that the
residence of Mrs. Kennedy, 1888 Third street,
was yesterday morning entered by burglars
through q window. The thief broke open
an armoir, and stole from it q gold watch
marked G. K, two fob chains, one of gold
and the other Of hair, two gold crosses, a
gold pencil, breastpin, q box of gold studs,
and eight dollars in coin.
weekly vvOrkhOuae Statistics.
Number of prisoners sent to the work
house during the week ending January
IL, 1868, ~. OF this number, there
are white male natives IL, white male
foreigners 20, colored male natives 80,
white female natives 4, white female
foreigners 3-total H. Twelve naturaliZed
foreigners. Thirty.seven can neither read
nor write, % are drunkards, so have no
occupations, l6 are married. OF the
foreigners-19 are from Ireland 3 from
from Spain, from Canada, ana from
Prussia.
Mr.. Rockfellow, secretary of the finance
committe, for an assault on c. R. Pitcher,
constable OF the sixth district court, while
executing writ on some furniture in city
hall, underwent formal investigation last
evening before Judge Neville, which func-
tionary sent the case to the first district
court for trial by jury.
First District Comrt-sJudze Howe.
Anderson johnson, colered. was yester-
day tried in due form for the crime of muir
dering Celeste Augustus, colored, on the
22d Of October last, at ISL Perdido street.
The evidence was very direct against the
accused, the details of which were exceed
ingly revolving. He murdered the woman
by chOpplng her to death With an ak. The
jury unhesftstingly brought in verdict of
guilty. johnson will receive his sentence
In few days, which will be to hang by the
neck until he is dead, dead, dead.
Mary Ann Hale was not found guilty of
having stolen sheets and dress patterns from
L. Greenleaf.
FIFst District NRee0rder'A Court.