The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-07
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snd one for contempt of court. The benzine
business appears to be dropping.
The scaffolding has been removed from the
front Of the new Odd Fellows Hall, disclosing TO
view neat, shapely and beautiful structure.
The jury in the case OF A. X. Mcdonald vs.
Brooks, Mcdonald Co., in the Fifth District
lsrs-to the family of Lieut.. J. G. Braine, the un-
fortunate state prisoner.
A sportive white servant maid, at 482 Apollo
street, amused herself yesterday by throwing
raw potatoe about the size of full grown apple
at a car driver. The potatoe missed its aim, but
very nearly smashed glass, near which lady
was sitting, at the upper end of the car.
We were in error in stating that the monitors
0neota and Catawba had undergone their recent
repairs in the Vslette Dry Dock. 1t was in the
Marine Dock that the vessels were docked.
Fosr rockets exploded on the gallery of the
Academy Of Music on Friday evening, but without
doing any serious injury.
on the Opelousas route, came up for examination
before Judge Durel on Friday, but. owing to the
number OF times that the case had been post
poned by request of the prosecution, his honor
concluded to continue the case over to the fall
term, releasing Mr.. Finch upon his own recog-
nizance, to appear when called upon.
The Hon. Thomas Jefferson Durant, whose
visit has been the subject of so many comments,
was Witnessed yesterday on st. Charles street,
by the wonder stricken passers- by, to negotiate
the purchase of a earpet-bag This BODIES some
strange irruption 60 the State"
We are requested to state that the Southern
Base Ball Club will play asanniversary game to-
day. between the members of the club. The
game will be an interesting one, aside from the
fact that the "Southerus" have never been
beaten series OF games. or full game. aud
Justly claim the local championship. The game
v i'll take place at the Fair Grounds.
One of those intolerable nuisances and thieves
in disguise an itinerant cigar seller was arrested
on Canal street yesterday for peddling his wares
without a license. These fellows are worse than
fba ot fba Of ha lar oka0n
and Pontcbartrain Railroads. and more peril.
naciOus than the evening newsboys. We hope
the chap arrested will have q chance to pick
oskum for six months.
The city is bounteously supplied with fresh and
luscious pinespples from one Of the West India
Islands, which are retailed at Csc. apiece.
The clerks Office of the Fourth District Court
is assuredly the coolest and pessautest locality in
New Orleans. No matter how still and sultry it
may be elsewhere, there is always a strong, cool
snd delightful current Of air running through
Major Richard Bonds headquarters in the Fourth
District Court rooms.
In the very important case OF Mcdonald VS..
Brooks, Mcdonald d Co., in the Fifth District
Court, on Friday, the jury and the judge sat from
9 A. until nearly IL P. M, with only short
intermission for dinner. The jury was special
one, composed of twelve as intelligent and we'll
informed and reputable men as are to be found in
New Orleans. The plaintiffs claim was for $27O,
coo. 1he jury accorded him $40 0OO Tue record
in the case is exceedingly volumnous, and as
there will doubtless be an appeal to the Supreme
Court. the transcript will be fat as well as a
very laboTious job for the clerk. -
The encroaebments of the batture upon the
channel of the Mississippi In front of the Second
and the lower portion of the First Districts. are
monthly perceptible to the most careless eye.
The Hharves, the shipping steamboats,, barges,
and other craft that line city 'front.' and act
barriers against the floods of muddy water, pro.
duce q weaker counter current or eddy inside OF
them, in which that element has time to deposit
the slime and sand which it bears whilst running.
The attTiiion on the other bank must be corre-
spondDgly great, and as Algiers is situate on
point it seems probable that, in the lapse of
generations, that point must be swallowed up,
and the front of the Crescent City present q
straight line from one extreme TO the other.
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at c. Duhameps, corner Benville
and Chsrtres streets, was as follows: At A. NJ.
| 20 degrees; IL NJ. IS; BPM 80; 6P.M.87.
Some of the sbrubbery on Jackson square is so
| dense as TO be absolutely imperviOns to all
| creatures except wrens and grasshoppers. The
| old man who acts as gardener has studiously and
| with uDtiTiDg labor fostered the growth of his
trees in order that they might serve as refuge
TO his eathered pets from the pitiless peltngs of
the little boys and girls who gsmbol every after.
noon upon that pleasant resort. 1t may be said
| of these urchins that ihey gambol on the square
| but no matter for that, we have seen score OF
| them pursuing wren from shrub to shrub with
intense eagerness, until at last the little fellow
reaches his abode 10 the leafy fastness, where he
ehrps in security viii bis mate and his brood, In.
visible and Indifferent to the outer world.
Pat Melia and Pat Bray INDUCED in the limo
cent summer recreation Of lacerating each others
| physiogn0mies with brass knuckles, on Clara
street, on Friday. Recorder Neville imposed q
heavy fine upon each In consequence.
cart driver was thrown to the pavement
corner of Soraparu and Chippewa streets, yes.
teT11ay morning, by the falling of his horse, and
was quite seriously injured.
The Crusaders and Lone Stars are to play the
| first of series of games for the championship
on the Delachaise Grounds at O'Clock this after
noon.
Two hundred thousand dollars of the capital
| stock of the Southwestern Railroad Company
| have been subscribed for The road is to run
| upon the line of the old Mexican Gulf Railroad,
but will be entirely relsid, with new tracks, de-
! pots and machine chops. Its completion bids
fair TO open a new era for the people of st. Ber.
| nard.
"Och-shure, an he'll get it all back agen. u
said man looking at Kitredges fire works on st.
Charles street, the other evening. We hope be did
| get ii ali back.
Among the distinguished visitors from our city
to the scene Of the late mi'' (Which didn't come
on between Coburn and McCoole, is said to have
| been the famous John Watson.
Mr.. eeward, late organist at Trinity, plays to
day. and hereafter at Christ Church, Canal street.
The monitors Oneota and Cstawba, concerning
which considerable DISCUSSION has taken place in
Congress of late, both lying at Algiers, short
distance below the Opelousas ferry landing.
THE STREETS OF THE CITY.-A long time ago,
but still within the memory of midd aged men,
every street in New Orleans running from the
river to the swamp had its cutters full of gurg-
ling, living water from the Mississippi, which was
let in through sluiCes cut into the levee. The
supply was regulated by means of broad plank,
full of augur holes, having slide attached.
Through these holes shrimp and minnows. and not
unffequenuy good sized eels, made their way
from the mighty father Of waters into the artif-
cisl streamlets which sparkled and danced in the
sunlight through the heart and the faubourgs Of
the Crescent City. 1t was then the custom for
families TO have the dusty and sweltering street
in front of their dwellings copiously watered. at
least once day; practice which had remark
able effect in cooling and refreshing the sultry
atmosphere of the dog days, and contributed
wonderfully to the cheerful and picturesque sp-
pearance Of our streets. In the lower portion of
the Second District, where the somber and mas
sve style Of the old Spanish architecture prevails
and the buildings are the most ancient in the city,
one could almost dream oneself in the quarter of
Ahanaarra0aa in Granada with ika noontida