The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-26

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fasting and humiliation of Lent has been pointing
as its acme this is the day to which the Church
| looks forward through all the year as that on
which she shall, as fifty as mortals may, COM
memorate the most awful, most horrible and most
Joyful event which the annals OF the world hold.
This is the day on which each Christian heart,
after having accompanied in his thoughts our
Lord through the temptation in the wilderness.
through His life Of sorrow, and suffering Of patience
for others' woe and abnegation of His own, after
having recalled the triumph OF Palm Sunday
ftfuI triumph and only real in its symbolism-the
events of that last week, the supper in the upper
room, the discourse there delivered. which the
loving pen of st. John has preserved as most
precious legacy to the Church in all ages, the
bitter agony Of Gethsemsne, where the sins of
the whole world were laid upon the shoulders of
the God-Man, the betrayal OF Judas, the
quick trial before the sanhedrim, the still
quicker judgment of PLATE, "a judgment
which, though he washed his hands Of it.
will stand recorded against him forever, the inde
cision of the Roman governor to condemn a man
in whom be found fault, his final yielding to the
demands of the mob which surged In great angry
waves to the very doors of his palace. and the
delivery of the Lamb of God into the hands Of
His enemies, who were to be themselves the IN
willing, unknowing contamination Of prophecy
with all these things fresh in his mind, the believer
to-day prepares himself to view the final sacrifice.
to gaze upon Calvary and there behold the Son of
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The services in the churches will be solemn and
impressive, as well they may be. and the churches
themselves will doubtless be crowded.
A few days ago prominent house in this city,
largely engaged in the purchase and sale of gov
eminent securities, bought q Pscif, Railroad
bond of q thousand dollars. Two days after
wards they were called on by detective, who
asked them II they had purchased such bond,
and on obtaining an answer in the affirmative, the
officer stated that he had strong reasons for be-
lieving that the vendor Of the bond was a thief,
and that the bond was stolen. He exhibited a list
of stolen bonds, but the number of the bond In
question did not appear on the list. In the mean
time it had been RENTED to New York to the
correspondents of the purchasers. The next day
the officer received an additional list Of stolen
bonds from the chief of police of Albany, N. Y;
on this list the bond in question did appear. Sub
sequently the purchasers received q telegram
from their correspondents stating that the bond
had really been stolen. and that it had been
claimed BY the person who declared himself to
be the owner. The remarkable point in the case
is that the Albany list was dated on the 18th, and
that this bond offered for sale as early as the
18th, and was actually sold on the 10th. The
question naturally arises-how did this bond get
to New Orleans within so short period of the
time when 1t is alleged to have been stolen? Is
1t possible that there was collision between the
vendor in New Orleans and the claimant in Alba
ny! Certainly there ia something very strange
in the affair. 1t is understood that the New Or
leans house will not give up the bond to the Al
bany claimant; but that. having acquired i. in
good faith. they will resist any attempt to deprive
them of it.
The bridge over the New Canal at the Half way
House, which has recently been removed for re.
pairs, was yesterday replaced in position. Drivers
on the shell can now resume their accustomed
route to the lake.
Between Q and 10 o'clock on Tuesday night q
book was taken without permission from the sane
tum of this paper. The person in whose posses.
sion IT is will please return 1t to this Office and re.
ceive the reprmand Of the owner.
That private Office of the superintendent of po-
lice is witness almost daily of some scene which
in the life of some one or another forms the era
from which dates some great grief, some new
phase Of distressed existence, some freezing dis
closure which deadens life and hope in some poor
soul, and sends them forth to see different world
from that they left behind when they entered that
little green lattice door. And the man whose du-
ties daily call him thither reads some strange
chapters In the book of human vcissitudes.
here, for instance, is one of them Seated in the
Office on the superinteRdent's arrival yesterday
were three individuals, two of them women.
One Of them was young and fair to look upon;
the other had begun to approach that point near
the summit of LIES hillside, where she GUILD look
over and see the downward slope on the other
side. She had claim as a wife on him who made
up the third party in the trio. She had married
him, she said. in Vincennes, Ind, about year
since, had ntrusted to him her pecuniary all.
only to be deserted to follow, to find him with the
pretty companion who was there to speak for
herself. She was DESTROYS, at all events of re.
covering her money, if not her husband. He
offered to return it forthwith, but not himself
with it. The wife expressed herself satisfied with
the proposition. Ergo, al was amicably arranged,
and the curtain falls.
Under the law which allows to every orphan
asylum sl4 per year from the city treasury for
each inmate, the following reports have been
made to the controller for the first quaIter Of
1869:
st. Mary's Orphan Boys Asylum-406
orphans, at SO so per quarter. ....... Sl421 90
st. Vincent Infant Orphan Asylum-l40
orphans, at So so per quarter. AGO 90
st. Elizabeth Female Orphan Asylum
1853 orphans. at So so per quarter. $50 90
Protestant Orphan Asylum, Seventh
street.-the orphans, at IS so per quar-
Jewish widows' and Orphans Home-s5
orphans, at So so per quarter. 1872 so
New Orleans Female Orphan Asylum,
Camp street-200 orphans, at 50 so per
quarter- 10O 10
Cbildren's Home, Protestant Episcopal
Cburch-64 orphans. ................. 224 90 |
St. Vincent's Home for Boys-6s Or
Orphan Girls, Immaculate Conception
20 Orphans o45 w
st. Joseph's German Orphan Asylum-l97
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