The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-06
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Remember the entertainment which is to be
given by the Shakespeare Club, at the National
Tbeater to night. " Jack Cade" is to be per.
formed and a farce abOuDding in "Iocsl hits"
The temperature yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer at @. Duhamefs corner Bienville
and Chartres streets. was as follows: At 6 A. NJ
20 degrees; IL M. sl3; 3P.M. S5; 6P. NJ. $50.
Mr.. Leonce Andre Burthe late deputy coroner,
gentleman well known in the city and universally
esteemed. died suddenly yesterday in the United
States court. he was giving testimony in case,
sppsreI tly In sound health, when he rose from his
seat, staggered, fell and in a few seconds was
corpse. Mr.. Burthe was SO years Of age. His
death was caused by disease of the heart.
THE NIcoLsoS PAVEMENT CASE IN JEFFERSON
CITY.-Judge Duplantier, of the Sixth District
Court of this parish, by whom the eontestation
growing out Of the laying of Nicolson pavement
10 The city Of Jefferson was heard in the district
court Of Jefferson parish, delivered his decision
Yesterday from the bench of that court. The
facts were as follows: -.-.. -
The properly holders on ST. Charles avenue,
along the line of the Carrollton Railroad, repre-
which would have to be taxed for the improve
ment petitioned the Jefferson City Council to
have the avenue paved with the Nicolson pave
ment from the lower TO the upper boundary of the
city. In accordance with the provisions OF the
city charter, the contract was advertised to be sold
to the lowest bidder fOs curbing the street and
paving it as prayed for by the petitioners.
The contract was purchased by the Nicolson
Pavement Company. who had no competitors at
the sale. The work on the west side of the
avenue being completed at cost Of about $780,
600, bills were sent TO the property owners for
their respective quotas OF the cost.
Those who had not signed the petition refused
to pay, and tire suit decided by Judge Duplantier
was the consequence. There were numerous
grounds upon which il was contended they were
not liable, but the issue depended mainly upon
two, viz:
l.. That the city charter had not been compiled
a. srar Il nc lha. Hold had not
teen advertised Of the proposed Improvement, TO
afford them an opportunity OF notifying the
Council OF their opposition, If they desired to
make any.
and could only be laid by the patentee, or his
authorized agents. there could be no competition,
and the article OF the city charter requiring con
tracts 10 be sold at public vendue to the lowest
bidder, was not compiled with in the spiri. in
which it was framed, as protection to the citi-
against extravagant prices for public i'm
provemeDts.
Judge Duplsntier decided that as the law sutho.
TiZed Improvements 10 be made afr0nt of proper
ties upon petition, in which over half the area
of such properties was represented there was no
occasion 10 notify the minority, but the second
objection be held to be valid, that the sale of
contract at which there could be no competition
was no, 3 sale. such as the law contemplated.
His judgment, therefore, was in favor Of the
property holders az to the pavement, but against
them as to the curbing for which there could have
been competition.
The compsny will doubtless now hold the city
Itself responsible for the cost of the work.
A Wholesale POISONING IN BOARDING.
HOUsE-Eighseen Persons Eat Arsenic ia Corn
BTedd.-Ihe boarding house of Mrs. jerks, on
ST. Charles street, a few doors above the police
station, was thrown into condition OF worse than
excitement on Sunday morning, by first one, then
another and finally eighteen in all OF the inmates
being seized with nausea and fits of vomiting
" in vic
the sufferers to their beds and giving cause for
suspicion that some poison had by intention or
accident been mixed with the food of which the
bosrders bad that morning partaken at the break
fast table. IL finally resulted. from inquiry, that
those who had eaten of corn bread had been at
tackled. and with violence proportionate to the
quantity eaten. The cook, when informed of this,
in order to vindcate herself and establish her
confidence in the wholesomeness of the corn
bread Immediately swallowed a large piece, aud
in an hour after was herself writhing in agony.
Two colored women in the kitchen were also at
tackled in the same way, and were taken to the
hospital.
OF course medical aid was instantly summoned,
and FIVE physicians have since been in attendance.
A chemical analysis resulted in the discovery OF
enty-fOur grains Of metallic arsenic in small
piece OF the bread, each grain being considered
sufficient 10 destroy life. Arsenic has been re-
Gently used as rat poison in the house, having been
placed on pieces Of bread and butter near the rat
holes, and it is not improbable that the vermin, In
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have drunk from and in that way impregnated the
water used in making the corn bread. 80.
At last accounts yesterday the patients had all
been pronounced in fair way of recovery
| slihough of course terribly prostrated by the
shock inflicted upon their systems. The physicians
| opine that the overdose was the only thing ths,
| prevented death ensuing almost Immediately. The
following the names of the sufferers by this un-
| fortunate affair Mrs. Todd, Messrs. Johns. Ste
phenson, Craig, Pierce, True, Ridley, Mr.. and Mr3
| Taylor and Miss Taylor, Miss Hopkins, Mr.. Evans
| Mrs. jerks, the white cook and three colorec
| male walters.
| COHFLAGRATIoN IN ALGIBRs.-Esrly yesterday
morning fire broke out in Algiers, in the row OF
| buildings bounded by Goslin and Alexander
ftrt cts, and before it could be extinguished de
| strOyed ne less than seven tenements. 1t IS salC
| to have originated in grocery store kept by MIR
| Louis Fortinbuoy. Among the heaviest lOseri
| was Mr.. John Mclean, whose house was valued
| At about $4,000. The houses OF Mrs. Heintz AM
Mrs. Peterson were also among those destroyed.
BOARD OF ALDERMES-At the meeting las
| night, a communication was received from b. L.
Bower stating that he had paid into the hands o
the city notary, on the 9th ult., $4,000 for stall
purchased by him in the Poydras and Magaz
Markets that be bad purchased the amount Il
city notes, at a discount of 70 u cent; tina
through the refusal of the council to approve u
sales Of stalls. city money had deprecated to 81
cent. discount; and asking the council to REIN
bnTse him, ID the sum OF the difference bet"ee
the discount on city money now and the dscouu
at which he bought. The letter was laid uPo
| the table. .
An opinion from the city attorney coincidiD
with the decision of Judge Emerson that the col
| poratiOn is bound to receive city money in pay
inent of ali taxes and dues, was received and or
dered TO be inserted in the journal. The lette
also expressed the opinion that the council car
not enforce the collection Of taxes due for 1856
'G2 '63 and i64, "a an act Of the legislature su;
| pends the collection OF them until 1870.
resolution from the lower board, requirin
the ST. Charles Crescent City, and Canal an
Claiborne Streets railroad companies to pay th
city in national currency the per centage they az
obligated TO pay the city upon their receipts, CAV
rise 10 considerable discussion as several men
bers held that the railroad companies were upo
the same footing as all other debtors to the co
poraton, and could not be compelled to pay an,
thing but city money. The resolution was inde
nilely postponed.
message from the mayor recommending IN
arrangements be completed to purchase the )
Louis Hotel for court house. to be paid for by
| imposition Of tax of one mill on the dollar, a
| pually, as authorized for the specific purpose
procuring court house, by an act OF the les'sl