The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-04

mat the Barracks street school and the Beaure-
gard school be consolidated that the positions of
pripeipsi and first assistant Of the Beauregsrd
schooi De abolished, that one of the primary
teachers IN the Beauregsrd school be transferred
to the Barracks street school and two to the
I Bayou road school
ThstA salary Of the teachsr in the Hancock
School Do reduced from 1920 TO S9i2 per annum
to correspond with the salary paid 10 the
teachers II the school at Lake Pontchartrain a
I position of like responsibility.
Girod Street school from four to three teachers
lour committee recommend that "A suitable
( building be procured for the Bayou Road school
sDd in accordance with the suggestion resulting
from the consolidation of the Barracks and
ineTeasedto six.
That when the suitable building has been pyo
cured for the Bayou Road School, the Rampant
street Girls School for co.ored children be trans
ferTed TO the building now occupSed by the Bayou
Read School as one better adapted for schools.
This will save the board at least one hundred
dollars per month. again the building now used
as The Beauregard school is rented for 5000 per
annuT1- BY dismissing this school and compro.
missing the lease with the owner, or renting it ont
! the bo3rd can save at the least estimate $1,000.
Again it ia recommended that the Fulton street
boys' and Girls Schools. situated in the same
buidinz. be consolidated under one principal.
thus dispensing with tie services of one principal
mere belng TWO employed ~ present. Further
that the Dfyades street Boys and Girls Schools
Tin same building and now under two principals)
be consolidated, and that the services of three
teachers (iacluding princ;pal) be dispensed with
| WIN these suggestions for present considera-
| ton, the report closes.
IL was moved that the report be taken I'D seri.
! atm and acted upon. This was done up to the re-
! ducton of the number of teachers in the St. Phlip
laid on the table.
I lively discussion was had during the session.
which was participated in by Messrs. Rogers
LsgaD, GubernatOr, Paisley, Sambola, Cronan,
Raymond, Pope, Culbertson, Leefe and Watkins
Un the announcement of the vote on the report
reducing the teachers in st. Philip Street School
from thirteen to eleven, the board adjourned.
A POLICE 0TFIgEB was pitched into the sweet
waters OF Claiborne street canal on Tuesday even
ing, ny a crazy fellow. who jumped in ON top
of him, and both were near drowning before as.
sistance arrived. The crazy fellow escaned for
the time, but has been doubtless arrested before
this time.
PovR NATIONAL WARDS, elias piggers, were ar.
rested yesterday fOT r0bbng the premises of Mrs.
Connel,in, on MOrean street.
CORONER AvILA held four iuquests upon the
BODIES OF people who had all died the natural way
Snd whose names or the nature of whose death
would afford no interest to the public.
VAISRY DAUNoY. formerly chief of the New
orleans police, was very dangerously aud ia all |
probability mortally stabbed Tuesday night by |
Mr.. Flsschier, at the corner Of Robertson and |
Orleans streets. The altercaton was of trivial |
character, and one of the parties was intoxicated
so Tar as our reporter learned. Mr. Daunoy was |
slightly stabbed IN the breast but dangerously In |
the abdomen, as 1t Is feared one of his ntestines
has been severed.
THERE WAS NAUGHT Of any public interest yes
terd9y, in any OF the district courts, with the ex
cepiion OF the fifth, wherein Judge Leaumont |
sentenced Mr.. Dave Johnston. the lottery vendor,
Tor contempt, consisting in dsregardng the |
judges Injunction.
The DEAD BODY of an aged negro was discov-
cred at the corner of Canal and Tonti streets last
drowned in the food of Monday last The cor.
Oner has been notified.
BEssRs. GLESN & PATTON the appraisers. and
Nr. John W. Fairfax, the umpire appointed to fix
the value Of tie manufactured tobacco, POSI- boxes
oksKbieh Weye sslzsd Ieiaptiv bBz aJits1 S me
amount OF valuation agreed to thereupon. 1t was
yesterday returned int court TO be bonded.
METROPOLITAN IN TRoUBLE-Oficer John
Mcclure indulged yesterday afternoon in the
arrest of several parties against whom he could |
not make sufficient charges as this is said to be
generally the case with him. As he was beastly
intoxicated at the same time, Ia disease from
which he is often sufiering) he was by Capt.
Gains orders put out of harms way, by being
Locked up in the First District Station. Several
similar complaints bave been made against this
worthy metropolitan before the board of commits.
sioners, but every time without any success. We
hope this time that the board will make a clean
sweep Of this nuisance.
A NEW WAY OF MOVING A TEHANT-Bridpet
Anthony INDUCES sometimes in benzine. On the
lst Of February, her landlord thought this weak.
ness Of Biddy good chance for getting rid of
her altogether, and supplying her with the neces-
sary quantity OF the ''rotgut, he ordered dray,
put her whole furniture, crockery, ETC., with
Biddy end the bottle onJfhe top, mad drove TO the
First District Station. Bddy was locked up and
the furniture disgTaced for some time the lovely |
scenery of Lafayette and st. Charles streets.
Nor LITTLE EXCITEMENT was created yester.
Gay IN the vicinity OF the Tulane building by the
disoTderly conduct of blind horse attached to a |
orsy. Ire unfortunate quadruped dashed upon |
the sidewalk and went remerselessy forward IN. |
III his os fronts came in violent collision with a
hundred dollar plate glass window. The glass
being the most fragile, went to pieces. The horse
was led off, il an old Joke s pardonable here
with sharp pains in the head.
TEE PROPRIETOR OF A GROCERY STORE at the
corner OF Magnolia street and New Basin, had his |
pocket picket Of $445 in currency. on Tuesday
night. woman has been arrested and charged
With the theft
HEAVY RoBBERY.-The store No. IVA Baronne
street, was forciby entered during Tuesday night
by thieves, who after forcing five doors succeeded
u getting away with sixty pairs of pants fourteen
coats and some bolts Of cloth, valued in all at
$1,000. Superintendent Cain has examined the
premises and thinks he has clue TO the detection
If the blenders.
ABOUT THE MoNTH of March, 1861 gold
watch and chain, valued at $3.50, were stolen rom
aptain Aniel, of the schooner Texas then living
a the Old Basin. Special Officers Dumas and ,
Boullosa report that about month since the
watch was offered for sale 10 Mr. A. Bonnet, No.
20 Royal street, from whom Captain Amiel had | !
originally purchased it. Mr.. Bonnet recognized | 1
he watch and informed the officers who sscer.
AIMED that the watch had been received from !
'lr. John Cavallo, (now desd) vho eighteen I
months since himself received it from a boarder +
2 his house on Main street. between Levee and {
Shartres. The watch Is now at the central sta. a
lon awaiting the arrival of Capt. Amiel, who is
hortly expected
ABoUT O'CLOCK Wednesday morning fire
broke out on board the steamer Lexington lying I
It Algers. and before the flames could be ar. Il
ested the boat was entirely consumed. The cap. ?
ain was asleep in his cabin when the flames :
bursting through the floor. aroused him to sense
# danger. So rapidly did they spread that by b
he time the alarm was given they had envelOped r
be steamer bow and att and shot up in an i'm =
nense fame. The boat was about going into
lock for repairs. A heavy Insurance. vas 70. .