The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-04
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corpus case, and discharged the prisoners.
j.. The Police Board, it is said, are brew
ing tBruin), but the malt is furnished by the
members OF the force.
=. There is trouble brewing at the Central
Station. Even poor men tell the truth, though
they do lose their situations.
-. A steamboat, just completed by Messrs.
vale.te & Co., at their yard in Algiers, will be
launched Monday next
-. Capt Freeman, of the revenue cutter
Dix arrived in front Of the city yesterday
at 6 A. NJ, from Galveston. He reports
that the Rio Bravo will soon be out again.
-. The Council in Committee of the
Whole has adopted the ordinance granting
right of way to the Crescent City Railroad
Company to extend their lines.
-. Mr.. Kinsella has nearly completed the
great Customhouse investig alton report. 1t
will be on its winding way to Washington,
and 'ssome will be sad and some will be gay
when action is taken on it.
-. City Surveyor Hardee has been notified
by Administrator Burke that inferior lumber
is being furnished the levee contractors, not
in keeping with specifications, and instructing
him to inspect the lumber furnished and see
that it was of the proper quality.
Thos. J. Egan has sent in his resignation
as Superintendent of Streets of the Third
District, and Administrator Burke has &C
cepted it in letter which justly acknowledges
the efficiency and perseverance of MIR. Egan
while in the position.
Administrator Burke is purchasing the
necessary material to put in thorough order
the following named streets leading to the
levee, viz: Washington, St Andrew, Calliope,
Commerce, Market. Valence and Louisiana
Avenue. The work will be commenced at an
early day.
On the 9TH of October there will be a
convention in New York of the chief en-
gineers of the fire departments of the princi-
pal cities of the United States. There has
been no step taken yet to send one, but New
Orleans should have a representative. The
matters that will be discussed and passed
upon by the convention will no doubt be of
immense interets, and the action will, no
doubt, result in practical benefit.
-. There has been considerable talk in
Republican circles over the Office of H,rbor
Master in the Third District, and it was hinte1
that Webster Long was to receive the appoint
ment to this lucrative berth. Lately things
have changed, however. A violent and re-
spectacle opposition to his receiving the ap-
pointment has been made, and now it is
pretty certain that Mr.. E. V. Leclerc is to be
the winner of the race. The Office is lucra-
tive one and it brought about hard fight.
-. Isn't it about time that the hay store on
Commerce street is being cleaned Of all the
old hay and other loose material which gives
rise to those periodical fires in that quarter !?
The fremen think they have "run" often
enough in answer to alarms from that locality,
and that the consequent chapter of accidents
is quite long enough for interesting reading.
The merchants in the vicinity have petitioned
the Council to have it removed, and the
Mayor is now corresponding with interested
parties, with that object in view.
-. There will be another "Third District
Regatta on Sunday next, over course from
the Aspinwall's boat-house, straight away
one and a-half mile and return. The race
will start at P. NJ, and at the finish the VIC
torious crew will be presented with the prize,
q handsome silk fig. The judges appointed
Al. n.
T. Ferguson.
The following are the entries:
Boat Lily Darling-W. Long, bow; NJ.
Kinny stroke; E Lomberd, coxswain. Boat
Black, bowl. Pendergrast stroke;
]. Cary, coxswain. Boat Gentle Anne-W.
Ferguson, bow; M. Kavenaugh stroke; E.
coxswain. Boat Lotta-T. Roach,
bow; r. Simmons, stroke; T. Peterson, cox
swain.
-. Now that the workmen are comfortably
at work on the Rio Bravo at Galveston, the
eye of Mr.. Jeemes Plimsoll at
our side takes look at the cost to this great
government of that gallant bark which is to
terrify Cortina and blow up Mexico, run in
three feet of water when she draws five, and
do other astounding acts-when she gets to
the Rio Grande. In the first place the United
States paid 900 cash, then she was towed
over to this city, where s11, 900 were expended
on her in repairs; that makes $4,000, and
now they report that it will cost at Galveston
$4,000 to put her in order again; that's $780,
300. Plimsoll says this is 'leetle'. too
much. Thirty thousand dollars could and
,an purchase strong, reliable vessel for that
station, and one capable of reaching the
Mexican river, and several naval authorities
agree with Plimsoll.
-. With any regard for truth, one couldn't
Jay the Republicans of the Seventh Ward are
happy. They feel that they're band of
brothers, and all that, but then the soothing
influence Of fraternal feeling doesn't quiet
heir bellicose disposition. There are two in
iividuals who are ambitious of controlling
he ward, and around these two stars host of
minor ones cluster Barrow, on the one