New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-12-25
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF rnE STATE LOUISIANA.
ORLEANS SUNDAY
TRIB COURTS.
United States C7rcait Cosrt|sdso DErcA
Pres3din41Tho Great Sugar C&see

United Sta9D0 C7rC0tt CO0ft7Joo9o DufoAA
Presadins-The Grcat Sugar CSses
In the matter Of the compromises effected
ip these cases, United States District Attor-
Aey Beckwith moved the court yesterday
to have the DEGREES entered upon the record,
and the money handed over to the treasury.
Eighsh District Court-The Public 6chool1-
Tho Teachers to be Paid.
Mr.. John 3. Walton. who was appointed
by Judge Dibble receiver Of the Public
School Fund, appeared in the Eighth Dis
trict Court room for the purpose Of obtain
ing copy Of the order directing him 10 re-
ceive and diAburse the salaries due to tho
public school teachers. Mr.. Walton also
obtained from the Auditor of Public Ac
counts warrant on the treasury for some
$50, 900. This may be paid to the teachers
to-day, or as soon thereafter as application
therefor can be m0de. These payments are
for the quarter ending the thirty Of
September.
Next week Mr. Walton will draw q war.
rant for about 500, 200, apd will immedi-
ately csmmenee paying the teachers fer the
quarter ending the thirty-first Of December.
It ia proper to state that it was through
the efforts Of Mr.. Thomas w. Conway,
Superintendent of Public Education, that
the effort to place the salaries of the lady
teachers below those of the men, we're de-
feated.
The controversy relative to raising the
salaries Of the principals Of the public
schools has been settled, so that both male
and female teachers have been placed ON
an equal footing
Under this arrangement all the principals
are paid $3.50.
This court met yesterday, and after dis
posing of some unimportant rules and Or
ders adjourned over until Monday, the
second day Of January. Subsequently, tho
Judge observed, when not on the bench.
that he could not sit on Monday, as that
was his day for making calls. He will hold
court on the following day, Tuesday, the
third. The officers OF the court were re-
quested to give notice verbally to tho
attorneys 70 that effeot.
The Attorney General and the Slaughter
house AatseF-What Does IL Meant
The curiosity Of those present in the
Eighth District court room yesterday morn
| ing was not Q little aroused by q motion
| made in open court by Attorney General
Belden, in the matter Of the Slaughterhouse
| case, or rather in the special ease in which
| the injunction by the State was obtained,
| entitled the State Of Louisiana We. William
Pagan ct ais
The motion made by the Attorney Cen
| eral, and which was allowed by Judge Dib-
| BILE, was that he be allowed to withdraw the
! opinion Of the Supreme Court in the Slaugh-
terhouse ease, filed in the Eighth District
| Court, upon motion to punish for contempt,
and be also allowed to withdraw the record
OF the case for the space Of three weeks.
The question now arises, is the Attorney
General preparing to submit the case before
| the Supreme Court upon its meritss
Seventh District Court.
Euit against the Crescent City Railroad
| for Damages.-On tho fifth of January, 1865,
| c. Schwartz, Q tinsmith, as he alleges in his
| petition. was run over and knocked down
| by car No. % on the corner of Josephine
| and TchOupitOulas streets. Schwartz is an
| old man, sixty-twO years Of age, and before
| he could get out of the way ear wheel
passed over hts right hand and arm to such
| an fxtent rs to disable him for life, and rem
der him unable 70 gain his living by his oc-
cupatiOD.
Petitioner alleges that the one hundreth
| and fHty-fOurth section Of the charter of the
| company and bylaws, made in accordance
thereof, in relation to the furnishing drivers
| and;cOndnctors with copies of regulations
suspending drivers and conductors, has
| never been carried out. and that petitioner
has sustained his injury in consequence OF
the neglect of the company to provide con
ductOrs and, furthermore, that the car and
brake are not of the latest improvement
| adopted by the railroad companies in the
1
Of $4,000 was claimed. An issue having
been formed upon this case, and jury i'm
| panneled on Friday, the verdict returned
was for the plaintiff, with $500 damages.
| Fourth District Court.
! In the case of D. X. Carroll & Co, Alcus
| Scherck 4 Co. va. the jackson Railroad, fol
the recovery Of $500 worth of cotton. and
for which q Judgment was obtained, a rule
for new trial was dismissed and the Eis
refused.
Fifth District Court.
John Flick Va. Bertha Won Polnitz.-1hi
was a motion for divorce brought by plain
tiff against his wife, and in which he alleges
separation and abandonment. Judge
Leaumont rendered a decision after the
examination Of some ak or seven witnesses
forever dissolving bonds Of matrimony, but
that the care of child born of the marriage
be left with tho mother.
Third District Court.
Boyd. Jamiscn & Co. vs. L. Grand e. Co
This case came up on rule for new trial
Plaintiffs are owners or lessees of a cottor
press, and charged the defendants twenty
FIVE cents q bale for the privilege Of using
their yard prior to removing the cotton ts
the place where pressed. The court gave
Judgment for the defendants, and the plain
tlffs applied for q new trial. The case wa
argued and continued over.
| The Contested Election Cases
In these eases. wherein defendants fleC
exceptions to the effect that the obligation:
Of fraud in plaintiffs petitions were too
general, Judge Dibble yesterday Overrulet
the executions. and fixed the cases for thu