The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03
SuraI SnteIltgenre.

TEE FAIR AT ODD Fellows HALL.-It is use
less for us to inform our readers that MoDda,
| night was such one as to keep every one a
home, and therefore no evening on which 70 ia
augurate an entertainment. Therefore, then
no commencement OF the fair took place on Mon
day night A; but last evening" with, it seemed re-
doubled energy from having been so unwilinQy
compelled toforegothe expected harvest of charity
LOT one night, the managers threw wide open the
mighty portals OF the hall, and invited everybody
to come in and take share in the feast of the
mind and soul which is found in doing good Nor
was the invitation unheeded for, on our arrival
there towards the close of the evening" the large
ball room was quite full, WHILE in the supper room
where band was playing, young feet were max.
| ing music. Around the hall was a row of the
booths usual at fairs, some of them laden with all
| KINDS OF refreshments others crowded with fancy
| articles lnnumerable and indescribable.
| Presiding at these tables were ladies' many of
| them young, and, alas! too many of them possess.
Ing Deauty-we say too many of them, for we refer
/ to he disastrous effects which these syrens pro.
dGeed upon the purses Of the unwary Ulysses
| whom they attracted. At one of these tables
were Miss Alexander, Miss Mcknight, Miss Baber,
| Miss Gregory, Miss Walker, Miss Emily Mi,ten.
berger, Miss Carrie Edwards, Miss Laura Edwards,
Miss Carrie Key, and judging from what we could
see, we should say that the destitute in the St.
Anna Asylum will have cause for many day
to bless the efforts of these young ladies TO
assist them. Nor were the young LADIES' alone in
this work. We noticed Mesdames Wm Fl Cook
O L
Harrison all earnestly engaged in the labor of love-
The fair will still 90 on this evening and will, in
addition, be open all to-day, and will set such
lunches as will satisfy any-even the most exact
ing disciple of Epicurus. Last night, some tab
leaux were represented. This evening there will
be concert. commencing at eight O'Clock.
There will, besides, be dancing. and a fine array
of fancy articles from which to choose purchase.
The admittance fee is small, the enjoyment to be
obtained great, the cause, one worthy of all en-
eouragement. Let Us trust that tonight it will
not lack it.
THERE Is TO RE ANOTHER BURNING of city money
to-day in the presence Of the finance committees
Of the council. Between fifty and one hundred
thousand dollars await cremation.
LIEUT.. GEN. w. T. SHERMAN and his secretary,
Col. Dayton, are passengers on the steamer Con-
tinental, which left st. Louis two days since for
this city. The distinguished soldier intends visit
ing New Orleans for the benefit of his health.
THE TEMPERATURE yesterday, as shown by the
thermometer ct @. Duhamel's, Ill Canal street,
lately corner Bienville and Chartres streets, was
as follows: At 6 A. n. Sc degrees IL n. 63;
Pm. 66; P. NJ. GA.
REC ORDER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHs.-An act
IN relation to the Office of recorder of births and
deaths passed the Senate yesterday. As the act
in question is one in which the people generally
are interested, it is hoped the lower house of the
General Assembly will pass it without delay. To
make the Office OF any utility other than a sine.
cure, bill such as the one passed yesterday
ehould have been in operation long ago. Ihas been
frequently complained of by the American con.
suls at foreign ports that authentic Information
could not be had of the demise of parties buried
in this city. therefore it is to be hoped the bill
viii pass without delay.
The HANLoN combination company, which
reached here from Texas on Monday, left yester-
day for Mobile where they are to play an engage.
ment. Among the audience at the st. Charles on
Monday night were the three little Midgets, hand.
flu
yrapt up intently in the performances on the |
stage upon which they themselves have so re.
Gently won applause.
The RECEIPTS OF ISTERNAL REVENUE in this |
(6rst) collection district Of Louisiana for the /
month of January amounted to $l36 964 9S. This |
is a large showing compared with the receipts |
of the month previous, which amounted only to |
s94, ,767 SO.
The ALARM OF FIRE which was sounded /
2j minutes past on Monday night was caused by |
the burning of a quantity of lime on the premises
of Mr.. Mcknight, corner of st. Andrew and st. \
Charles streets. But little damage was done, the
engines arriving promptly.
NINETY DOLLARS WERE STOLEN by some thief |
who entered the grocery store at the corner of 1
Lafayette and Clara streets on Monday night.
BETWEEN TWO AND THREE HUNDRED STREET
lamps were extinguished By the high wind and
rain on Monday night.
IT is REPORTED that a poor woman who was
engaged in gathering drift wood from the river,
near the head of jackson street, during the storm
On Monday, fell in aud was drowned Her name |
has not been ascertained.
H. MCCLosKEY, driver Of cart No. 1929, was ar.
rested yesterday afternoon on TchoupitOulss
street by Officer eager, charged by James Mur-
ply with carelessy driving his cart into City Rail-
read car No. %, and endsngering the lives of pas
sengers.
OFFICER SIMPSON reported last evening that
about 5 O'Clock a boy named Eniel Grass, aged
lonrteen years, fell into the river at the foot Of
Philip street, where he was playing with several
others, and was drowned. At last accounts the
body had not been recovered. The boys parents
reside on Soraparu street.
A YoUNG LADY, fifteen years of age, named
Miss Ellen McGsrvey, an adopted daughter of
Capt. Msrooney, living at the corner of Josephine
Ind Chippewa streets, was fatally injured about
10 o'clock last night by the explosion of a coal
III lamp which she was holding while descending
stairway. Accidentally falling, she was in
moment enveloped by the burning fluid, and In
pte of every effort to relieve her she reported
lying at III O'Clock.
The COURTS MoyDAY.-The weather was so bad
Ind so rainy, and the streets were so full of |
water, that several of the district judges were, |
1otens UOlens. kept on the bench. One OF them, |
hat excellent and painstsking judge, Thomas
Wharton Collens, sat until after P. NJ. and dis
patched q good deal of litiQious business the |