New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-27
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
PROPOSED NBw STATE HousB.-Messrs.
John Ray, A. B. Bacon, j. Wittgenstein,
John, Page, c. A. Eager and LaDge were ap-
pointed joint committee by the late Legis.
lature to procure suitable building for a
State House. This committee have, as we
learn from the Picayune, concluded an ar
rangement with the liouidators of the Bank
of Louisiana whereby the State leases the
banking house at the corner of Cont and
Royal streets, and the dwelling house adj
joining on Cont street for one year, at $s000
with the privilege Of becoming the pur-
chaser of it, by paying the liquidators for it,
at any time before first of April next, the
sum of $4,000.
LIBEL SuIT.-The German Gazette has
been sued for ten thousand dollars damages
by Mr.. G. W. Lyman, for an alleged libel
contained in paragraph warning the pub
lie against confounding the business estab-
lishment of Pothoff Knight with that Of
plaintiffs. Suit is instituted in the Seventh
District Court, Frank King, Esq, for plain.
tiff, and Messrs. Braughn and Ogden for de.
PENDANT.
DEsERTBD.-A poor woman applied yester
day at the Mayors office for assistance to
enable her TO return to her home in Texas.
1t appears from her story that about two
months ago she was widow with three
children, residing in Red River county,
Texas where she owned some property. A
man who gave his name as John Ransom, o
Mobile, induced her to become his wife, to
sell out and go with him to Mobile. In
New Orleans he deserted her, leaving her
without the means to feed herself and chill
dren.
The same woman, with her three children,
went to the Third precinct station Saturday
night and Sunday night in their distress and
restitution, and Captain Bradley rendered
such assistance as he could under the lin
tied circumstances of the police. The last
property she had went to a landlord for
board.
INJUNCTION CAsE.-The case of o. J. Dunn,
President Board of Metropolitan Police
Commissioners, on the injunction against
Mayor Conway came up again for argument
in the Fifth District Court, this morning, at
ten o'clock. Mr.. Fileul, ore of the counsel
for the Board, continued the argument
until the hour of eleven, when the case was
continued until Thursday next, at 10 A. NJ.
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THE HAzLEHURsT RoBBERY.-The robbery
recently committed at Hazlehurst, Missis-
sippi, is supposed to have been the act of an
organized band of robbers, who few weeks
ago were captured at Jackson, Mississippi,
in which vicinity they had operated pretty
extensively stealing horses, mules, watches,
jewelry, money, etc. 1t seems they were
captured by the military authorities and
sent by General Ames to the Penitentiary.
Soon after their incarceration they were
employed on some public works, along with
number of others, when they evaded the
guards and escaped. Nothing has been
heard of their whereabouts other than the
robbery at Hazlehurst as above stated.
UNITARIAN CHURCH.-It was our good for
tune to be present at the Thanksgiving ser
vices yesterday at the Unitarian Church,
corner of St. Charles and Julia streets, of
which Rev. Mr.. Holland is pastor. The els
oquent divine alluded in appropriate terms
to the prosperous condition of our whole
country, after which he preached an elo-
quent sermon on the immortality of the soul,
drawing Arguments from natural causes,
the impulses and emotions that have ever
distinguishes man from the lower animals,
from which he deduced the conclusion that
a future life was necessary to complete the
object of his creation. He then stated the
additional argument in support of this po.
sitien that the Creator never brought into
existence any intelligent object without
placing within its reach the means of graft
fcation; that man was in possession of de-
sires for which this life furnishes no means
of gratifying, and hence future life is in
store + him.
In conclusion, he showed by many cita-
tons from Holy Writ that this view was
vindicated and sanctioned by the Holy
Scriptures.
PARAGRAPHs.-The New Orleans German
Press has again changed hands, Messrs. III.
]. Hauck P. Pfeiffer d Co. now being the
proprietors, Mr.. PfeifTer, of this firm, is
the founder of the, New Orleans German
Gazette.
Yesterday difficulty occurred in the sa'
loon of the Crescent Billiard Hall between
Arthur Guerin and Manuel Gonzalez, one Of
the barkeepers, in which the former drew a
pistol and fred at the latter. The ball
grazed the finger of Mr.. Gonzalez, grazing
the skin. Guerin was arrested and locked
up in the First District Station.