The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-13
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great many localities were flooded, preventing
people from going TO church. and destroying all
chance OF pic ME or a festival in the pleasure
| grounds back Of the city.
The ram, which kept on with more or less yehe.
mence until or O'Clock in the evening, had
good effect not only 10 cleansing the streets but
in cooling tie atmosphere, which was intoerably
sutTy and parched on Saturday If the heavy
rains yesterday prevailed throughout the State
they could hardly have benefited the growing
cotton. Figs, for the next two or three days
will hardly be fit 10 eat. The rain drops have
bruised and soured those on the point Of ripen.
ing.
The MoRTUARY REPORT of last week, which we
publish elsewhere, exhibits a decrease of four in
the number of deaths from that of the week previ-
GUS. Not a case Of yellow fever or cholera is
reported, and the city is pronounced eds.
uessiDgly healthy"
THERE IS RUNoR current about town that
1 certain functioDary, who could play Ethiopian
minstrel without the aid Of burnt cork, went into
/ place OF refreshment, few evenings ago, in
| company with white man, and called for soda
| water The white man was supplied with the
| beverage, but the functionary'5 demand was re-
/ jected, Notwithstanding pompOUs declaration
1 Of bis otncial position. The rumOr runneth that
the proprietor expressed his willingness 20 test the
| question, stating that he had money enough to
4 plank up in his own defense.
| THE EXCITEMENT in the city arising out of the
usurpations of the radical majority in the legsla-
| ture, and tie expressions attributed to the new
| governor, has by no means been allayed. we
have heard that the negroes in a certain portion
OF the Fourth District are drilling with great con.
| stancy. And it is feared that tie reason of the
| governors delay in formally and officially al.
nouncing the adoption Of the constitutional
| amendment and the restoration OF the State TO
moth intends to fepfate tii5 1l2la, IS, that Was!
taTy with well srmed, well drilled and well
ganized negro militia aided and strengthened
| by heavy subsidy Of negro police.
THE INAUGURATION Of the governor elect takes
| place 10 day at l. NJ. at Mecbanics' Institute.
THERE Is POLL PARROT on Camp street, not
| iar from Lafayette Square, who occasionally
| greeis psssers by with good morning or good
evening"" The articulation is 20 perfect that the
one addressed will turn and look about him 10
vain for the speaker, until his eye alights on poor
| pOn swinging on his perch, aud eyeing him mis-
/ Cbievously. Poll hasn't ye; learned, though, 70
| discriminate the hour Of day, and occasionally
says good morning" as the sun is setting, or
| good evening" TO people going TO market for
tbeiT breakfasts. Still this does not interfere with
| the COrdiality Of his greeting, nor prevent him
| from bidding his listener adeu with "good bye,
| poll.n
| MORTUARY REPoRT.-The number of dea rs re.
| ported 10 DR.. G. W. Dirmeyer, secretary OF the
Board OF Health, during the week ending at A. NJ.
| Sunday the 18th inst, was So. There were no
deaths from either yellow fever or cholera re-
ported. Eleven died from consumption, from
| iltemperance, l from drowning, l from
gun shot wound, l.fr5m heart disease, from
| various fevers, and the b lance from va.
| riOus ordinary causes; 10 were under l year OF
| age. II u1GeT years and over ], aud l, Rsnue
| n Quinn. cOOred woman, native Of South Car
DINA, Died the oh instant, on johnson street,
near LahaTpe, at the advanced age Of liz years.
| Col MOopY has the pretdest cards we have
| ever seen. They aie made Of glycerine paper,
new substance warranted not to explode rs
| MoOdy's shirts ere warrsnted not to burst their
buttons OFF and the famous inscriP tiOn-the world
wide inscription them, in golden letters, Buy
your shirts at MoOdy'e.' Ever foremost in enter
| prise and energy is :. y. Moody.
| TIE SENATE possesses a valuable sergeaut.st-
! arms, a colored man. On an appropriatiOn Of $40
| he, Saturday, purchased for the Senate clock,
| the wholesale price Of which was Sll.
| SERIOUS DISTURBANCE IN DANCE HOUSE,
About half past eleven o clock on Saturday night
/ an aiiTay took place in dance house, at Ne. Ia
| Triangle Buildings corner OF Delord and New
| LeVee streets, kept by Wm Reddal. The place
/ is reported very disorderly, and a nuisance to
/ the neighborhoOd. 1t has been open for some
\ tine, the windows and sashes are broken, the
floors covered with filth, the copper and zinc torn
| from the roof, and the neighbOFs have been sp.
| pTehtnsve that It would be set on fire, unless
| closed by the owner. The disorder eliminated in
| the melee Of Saturday night, in which one Law
renee Collins who is said to have just arrived from
| Mexico, was dangerously cut. Acting Lieutenant
| Lane ard Officers Brown aud Myers entered the
Gen and arrested the proprietor and thirteen of
| the guests. together with o darby fiddler, who,
| with fiddle and bow, were all brought 80 the cen
| tIal station and confined there. Collins, the
| wounded man, was conveyed to the Charity Hos
pital where sn examination led to the belief that
the knife had penetrated the kidneys, and that his
| wound was, in consequence, apt to prove fatal
1t is reported that it was inflicted by one Thomas
! Toomey, who made his escape. The names of the
| parties arrested as participants, or detained as
Witnesses are: VIM. Reddell. H. TOlsnd, G. Bro
| Tiers, J. Barry, J. Rully, d. DOnaFan, W. Max.
vel, NJ Mcdonnell, J. Montgomery, r. Hall, G.
| Drffi Mach Tfhn hy
and colored Cyrus Stokes.
| FIVE NEGROES, P. Breaux, J. Frazier, D. Rob.
insOn, A. Durel and Z Peasant, were arrested in 4
e9m0iipg den Kept by the latter on PerdidO street,
| al half past two o'clock Yesterday morning,
charged with fighting and disturbing the peace.
A lot Of ivory chips were found in Pesant's pos
John McGarrahaut and Frank Richards were
arrested on Saturday evening at the leyee for va
Rrancy and for gambling.
RANDOLPH LUKFs who was riding in Canal
street car on Saturday night, about O'Clock, was
reported at the Second District station as having
| been so badly beaten by sOmebosy unknown tha'
he had to be carried to his dwelling, IL johnson
street. A physician was sent for TO attend him.
A FIRE OCCURRED on Saturday night in a house
| occupied by Emma BrittOn, at the corner OF Ben
vile ard Irene streets, caused BY the ignidag o
| a mosquito bar. The only damage that happened
was 20 The bar and bed clothes.
ARaEsTs-A fowl fancier, pet of the freed
mans bureau, named William Johnson, was caugh
in The act Of stealing couple OF chickens in thu
vegetable market, yesterday. he was locked up
S. Matthews, Colored, was arrested in tn
second District, On Saturday night, for BENZ
drunk, resisting the officer, and carrying con
| cealed weapon, viz a revolver.
{ John Jordan was lodged in the Parish Prison t
await bis trial for picking a mans pockets OF tn
I enormous sum Of four dollars and fifty cents
ARRESTS YESTERDAY Thomas Howard, col
1 I'D Nv AudaraOu
| o'clock Yesterday morning, on the steamboat Ia
diana, charged by Lee Claiborne, colored, Wit
4 | stealing his vslise and clothes.
. An insane negro, who gave his name as Nom
o | ZEN, was arrested about noon on Ga!Vez stree
; | by Officer Cheevers.
z | Florence Rivers, a cOlored maiden, compliance
! Of Rose Mitchell, another dsmsel OF her hue 10
> | disturbing the peace and insulting and abusin
3 her. Rose was, therefore, crested.