New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-22
LOCAL INTELLIGE nee.

OEFlCIAL MORTUARY REPORT.-Dr. 3. u.
Russell, Secretary of the Board of Health.
reports that the following is list of inter
sments in the different cemeteries of this
city during the week ending Sunday March
TO- at six o'clock A. M. Total interments ITO.
OF these we're stillborn, q died of small
pox, II of consumption, of commissions, 8
ofdebility. 3 of pneumonia, of jockisw 8 of
heart disease, 3 of congestion and of other
fevers, of albuminuria, 2 of bronchitis, of
diptheria, 2 of castro enteritis, 2 of difficult
labor, 2 of paralysis and 267 of other diseases.
Sixtysix were makes and A were females.
Fifty-two were white, 40 black. Is mt
lattoes, and not stated.
Eleven were under year of age. Z from
I to years, from to 10 years, IL from 10
to 20 years, 81 from 20 to 80 years, II from
80 to 40 years, 8 from 40 to so years, .
from 80 to so years, from 60 to 70 years, 4
from 20 TO 80 years, 2 from so to 30 years
and 9 unknown.
Seventy-one were born in the United
States, s in Germany, 6 IN Ireland, in
England, 2 in France, 2 in Prussia, 5 in other
countries, and IA not stated.
Fourteen were inferred on Coroner's Ger
tidcates, and ii were reported by Health
Commissioners.
OF the q deaths from smallpox, were
white and q coored persons
MANY WHEELS OF MIsFoRTUNE-A Score
of Petty Gamblers Arrested. For weeks
past the neighborhood of Poydras and Pile
markets has been thronged with able bodied
men who were running various kinds OF
gambling institutions, sometimes called
wheels of fortune, but in reality fortunes
for none others than the proprietors. The
affairs were nothing but rank swim dies
seducing servants and verdants to invest
dimes which should have been invested in
provisions. The prizes were inConsider-
able while the chances to win one of them
were greatly against the person who ven
tured Nearly all of the twenty arrested
possessed some sort of license, and the
holders grew reckless in the belief that they
were safe from arrest. Regular dealers and
citizens in that vicinity wrote out q
formal complaint, which was handed to
Captain Schneider. That was sufficient for
that officer, and Sunday morning he cleared
the decks of the nuisances. The First Pre-
cinct stationhouse, after the capture, pre-
sented motley appearance, there being
piles of queer machinery devised to fleece
the unwary. When taken before Recorder
Becker yesterday morning, the owners and
employees, accompanied by their friends,
presented an unusual crowd, the employees
generally in the foreground. while the real
offenders, the proprietors, hung around out
side. Each had some plausible excuse, out
the stories were easily shattered, and fines
followed, which were paid with great reIuct-
ance.
Captain Schneider performed nothing but
his duty, and in doing tbat he has the
thanks of all good citizens. These nulsanCes
has grown into too great proportions for
longer liberation, and the prospect was that.
if left alone, these men would have gradu-
ally usurped every space of open ground
with their rascalities. The owners are
spoken of as unprinciped fellows, capable
of almost any meanness. That they are re-
moved is a blessing.