The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-04-15
About the City.
Get Your Boats R.ady,

Last evenings dispatches bldGc GnaG the
water was two and half inches above the
The people about the place are consequently
thrown into terrible state of excitement
and anxiety, and all are lending their efforts
In driving closely connected stakes into the
levee and placing behind these earth and
hay. II these do not resist the pressure
then little boys, take off your clothes and
get ready for swim on Canal street.
"A Thousan nd Of Bricks.''
These are what came down on the head
and body Of woman named Eliza Edwards
Yesterday, simply because she was in close
proximity TO the brick wall Of the building
on the corner Of Perdido and Basin streets,
when the latter fell. She was conveyed to
the Charity Hospital.
Demented.
A man by the name of Philip Fourneaux
was found at the corner of POydras and
Clara streets yesterday and his actions
plainly indicating that all was not well in
the upper story, be was conveyed to the
Central Station under the suppOsition that
he is insane.
We Mild Pilferers.
Most assuredly, Mike McGoveIn, Amos
Ray, Robt. Carroll and II. b. Butler must be
thoroughly .nvinced that it hardly pays to
90 to the trouble Of stealing a gold watch,
silver chain and gold Masonic pin, and
then winding it up (not the watch, but the
entire transactiOn) by being waltzed into
Jail, under a charge made by John COwan,
keeper of barrel house on Delta street,
near Poydras.
Lucy Washington and Sarah Roam, labor
ing under generous impulse. and confident
that they could save Mary Roper the
trouble and expense Of going to a BARRIERS to
be raZored, undertook to do the little job on
their own hook, but in manner not salts
factory to the gentle Mary, SO she made a
complaint against them in a quet way, and
had them snaked in.
John Keenan, was arrested Yesterday,
charged by Y. A. Woodward with beguiling
him out Of $39 so under false pretenses.
Honesty is the best policy, John you might
as well make up your mind to that at once.
From Yesterdays Evening Edition.l
Run Over While Drunk.
One Herman Belmar, while under the in
tuence of liquor. laid down Oh the City
Railroad track near Bayou Road Station, on
the Esplanade line, and was run over by car
No. rs Of the above line, having his right
leg and hand smashed by the wheel OF the
car. He was taken to the Charity Hospital,
and the driver of the car, Roosevelt, was
locked up III The Fourth Precinct station.
Another Victim.
Henry Taylor went to see Emma Brown.
The young man carried 81 so in currency,
but on leaving he found that his valuables
had been distracted in the most cunning
way Imaginable. Therefore Henry had En-
ma incarcerated on charge Of larceny.
Going for Clothing.
Fannie Young in name, though old in
4 In
zine and Thal:a streets, for having forgotten
herself 50 far as to steal s25 worth Of chill
dren's clothing, for which she now resides
i'll the Second Precinct Stat on.
Still ON the Watch.
One Louis Hardening, believing in the
old aphorsm that time is money" was
guilty Of purloining the g time" from Miss
Martha Theorit, in the shape of silver
watch and chain, for which Martha made an
affidavit against Louis, who was locked in
the Sub Precinct Station for the "time"
being until Martha brings "chain" of evil
dence to convict him.
How to Get ut It.
Eliza Meaux was charged by one JnO. p.
Henry with stealing $500 dollars from him,
but before John saw an officer he admins
tered the law to Eliza in the shape Of a
good beating, and when this morning he
cdiit NlChIIuuI, COuu Iouu'i,
to his sorrow, that i'll order to prosecute
Eliza for the theft, he would have first to
pay $40 for assault and battery, being the
charge preferred by the business-ike Eliza.
Who came out at the small end of the horn
is question that can only be answered by
the participants in this little game.
Polio Notes.
A general row occurred last night on
Franklin, between Canal and CustOmhonse
streets, in which men and women were en-
gagged. The noise Was disgraceful, and vas
only stopped by the whole drunken mob
being taken to the station.
}. Ursin was arrested at the corner of Ur-
sulines and st. Philip streets, charged with
having taken a small piece OF rope, with
horse on the end Of it, from one John
Nignes.
Dan Jones was put in the Station for
threatening the life of p. Frey, on the cor
ner Of Frenchman and Morales streets.