The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-27


saoer of the BULLETIN, will take place this Of
aernoon at four o'clock, from the Orleans
ynfirmary, on Dauphine street. near Canal
His friends and those of his family and Of
this journal are respectfully invited to attend
q
The painful duty devolves upon us o.
referring to the unfortunate and deplorable
rencontre which occurred yesterday morning
on Canal street, between the manager OF the
BULLETIN and Ex-Governor Warmoth. For
reasons that will naturally suggest themselves
We abstained from making any allusion to the
matter in our last Evenings Edition. Az
every one who reads the papers
must necessarily know, the trouble
between Mr.. Byerly and ex-Gov. Warmoth
grew out Of q card which was published in
the Picayu,,e of the 18th inst, in which both
Mr. Byerly, as manager, and Mr. Edwin L.
Jewell, as one Of the associate editors Of the
BULLETIN, were referred to in terms SO oppro.
brious and insulting as to render the purpose
Of the writer to bring about q personal diff.
Guilty unmistakable.
Mr.. Byerly, during the late war, was des-
perately wounded, and had lost the use OF his
left arm, but the insult offered him by War.
anoth was such that he could not overlook it.
Notwithstanding his MANNED condition he
crowded himself with stont cane, appa-
rently with the intention Of using it if the
opportunity should present itself
Yesterday morning, while walking on Canal
street. near the entrance of the store of Mr..
Piffet, he saw Ex-Governor Warmoth in con-
eersation with some person on the sidewalk.
Warmoth saw him at the same instant, and
did not remove his eyes from him. A moment
.afterward, MI. Byerly, who evinced both by
manner and words his hostile intentions, COM
menced an assault upon Warmoth with his
cane. the latter attempting to ward off the
blows with an umbrella
At the second or third blow the cane
snapped, and about that instant, as nearly
as can be gathered from conflicting rel
ports, Warmoth drew from the right hand
and lower outside pocket Of his sack-coat a
spring dirk knife. Nh. Byerly, either bel
cause of this action or because his cane had
been broken, closed with his antagonist and
they fell struggling to the pavement, War
moth beneath.
In this position, while the right and only
sserviceable arm Of Mr.. Byerly was engaged in|
grasping Warmoth, the latter thrust his keen
and deadly dirk six times into the left side of
Mr. Byerly, inficting wounds which, it ID
feared. would prove mortal Two police off.
GERS running up, finally separated the con
testants, and MI. Byerly was then discovered
to be seriously wounded.
Accompanied and supported by friend he
walked all the way to the Medical Inirmary
on Dauphine street. between Canal and Gus
tomhouse streets, couple Of blocks distant,
and there sank faint and completely ex-
ha,isted from the loss of blood upon a sofa in|
the Office Of Dr.. Beard, who at once rendered
him every possible attention medical skill
scould suggest.
He remained for several hours in parti-
ally comatose condition. retaining his con-
seriousness, however, and speaking nationally
and pleasantly to those around him. DR..
was called in, and the wounds being4
probed one of them was found to be exceed
Ningly dangerous. Having penetrated the
cavity it was feared it would cause internal
'hemcrrhage. ....
1t was popularity Of Mr.. Byerly that
NE would never carry a weapon, and moth
ing could induce him to arm himself with
pistol or knife. He was a man averse to-
strife, and nothing but what he regarded as
q mortal insult could have wrought him up
10 the assault upon the person who had
xgsriered him.
MIR. W. J. Bovard, the agent for Quinan Bros.
Co.. distilors Of ''Sour Mash, big Spring
and ..Old Crow whisky, st. Louis, has just re-
turned from an extended tour through Texas.
Anyone wishing to make purchases Of these
famous whiskies, would do well to call on Mr..
Bovard. 80 Tchoupitoulas street.
They had law in Georgia by when the mer1
chant took lien on the farmer S crop for moneys
advanced The farmers clamored so for its re-
,,asI that the Legislature repealed it, and then