New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-22

SudIIty aVsUll6l.
Salvatore Salvini was arrested in the
Second District for harboring an intent to
deprive An Chung of his celestial cue.
Judge Staes informed Salvini that such &C.
tiOns must not be played on strangers, and
then inflicted short lecture on the accused.
China was satisfied.
PERsoNAL-Mr. McQuade, chief engineer
Of the Albany fire department, was here
last week, when he took a look at our de.
partment.
Wedding cake and appurtenances dropped
down on our table last night with the COM
pliments Of Mr.. William Egan and his bride,
and in the lone warm hours, while we were
laboriously fishing for a new thought and
fighting mosquitoes, proved highl ! accept
able. Judge Monlamat lost a daughter;
Mr.. William Egan won a companion for
life, and the worst we wish the couple is
that they may soon find proper number
of youthful companions.
INTERESTING TO MANY POLICEMEN.-Ofi-
GERS whose ranks have recently been
changed must not only surrender their old
commissions but obtain new ones, and also
file new bonds. Until this is done positions
are not solid. If this business ia not
promptly attented to the board of commits
sioners may possibly think that the officer
A CHEAP SCHoONER.-Deputy United
States Marshal Stockton sold at auction
yesterday the schooner Zlphey Arrancey.
She was of about forty tons burden, in
tolerably good condition and brought the
sum of $205.
PAYING OFF.-Deputy Marshal DeKlvne,
yesterday. completed the payment of a
large number of the witnesses in the Grant
parish case. He disbursed yesterday and
the day before $1,000. Twenty eight hun
dred dollars had been paid previously.
THE PIsToL.-Last night at twelve
o'clock, a man named John A. Clark was
shot by q woman called Hortense Hale, at
her house on PerdidO near Howard street
At that time she discovered him coming in
her yard and calling him to stop, fred a
shot at him which did no damage. He con-
tinued to advance in spite of repeated
warnings and after three or four minutes
she fired again, the shot taking effect in the
back Of his head. The woman was arrested
and the man carried to his boarding house,
corner Howard and PerdidO streets. His
wound is not supposed to be dangerous.
No reason is assigned for his entrance, but
it is generally supposed he went there tor
something that did not belong to him.
A LITTLE BIT OF HASH REHAsHED.-A
diseased pimple set on the shoulders of
some romancer several years ago manu-
featured the following, now reproduced by
the New York Ners:
"a New Orleans detective recently ar
rested man on suspicion of having stolen
a diamond pin. Being hard pressed the
thief owned up and surrendered the jewel
to the officer. who placed it in his shirt
bosom. On the way to the lookup, the
officer and prisoner got on board horse
car, and in so doing, the former was con-
siderably jostled by the crowd on the plat
form. just then the prisoner whispered in
his ear:
"'Look out, captain! That was thief
shat passed you just now
1.-The officer gazed hurriedly at his shirt
front; the pin was gone. He sprang from
the car in pursuit Of the imaginary thief. 1t
is needless to say he was not to be found,
and when he returned his former prisoner
was missing also. The next day the vigi-
liant detective had his feelings lacerated
anew by the receipt of pencil note, say
ing:
Captain, I'm gone. l take away the
pin with me. 1t was too nice to give up"