The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-06
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private market on Canal street.
go Nothing but the regular business at the
City Hall Friday.
-. Major Burke was busily engaged Fri
day morning discharging workmen.
-. TIE Police Board met Friday morning.
Among the spectators were number OF
small politicians and Senators.
The arrival of the steamship st. Louis
has given an impetus to business in the reve.
nue. departm ent in the Custom-House.
Judge Staes sent Administrator McCar-
thy sS5 for fines and dues collected in the
Second Municipal Court during last week.
Buffalo Bill will receive fifty dogs i'm
ported direct from Liverpool. "Snider, do
you want to buy a dog?" was once slang
expression here.
-. Teddy Moran alias Mcmillan, arrested
some time ago by Special Officer Welsh for
burglary committed at Finlay's drug store,
was yesterday convicted of the offense
DR.. White, President Of the Board Of
Health, left the city yesterday evening for Ba,-
timore, for the purpose of attending special
session of the Public Health Association.
-. Smith, the Sheriff of East Felicana, and
Robs. Ray, had long consultation with the
Governor yesterday. There was nothing de-
c;ded Oh, and the conference will be resumed
to-day.
"A party Of amateurs returning last
night from a hunting excursion to Lake
Delery, vera asked what game they had
brought back. COR replied one Of them.
we only went to kill time"
The report of Geo. B. Lowd, Division
Superintendent of Public Education, of the
Third Division, for 1915, is one of the most
complete and tastefuily gotten up documents
of its kind that we have ever seen.
.... Sixty more witnesses lave been sum-
moned in the Halpin case before Judge lis
sot. Already some fifteen hundred pages of
testimony have been taken, and the prospect
is good for fifteen hundred more.
The District Telegraph Company have
their hands full now; and as our citizens be-
come more and more familiar with the work
ings, they admire the plan. Several times,
lately, alarms of fire have been responded to
| in three to four minutes.
-. The Governor has received a communi-
cation calling his attention to the fact that on
Memphis to consider the location and con
struction of the Southern Pacific Railroad
and requesting him to appoint delegates.
| go. We have been shown by John Hender'
son, E:q., Celeste fig from his place at Pass
Christian. 1t was the product of cutting
only eleven months old, planted in the sand,
and he has hundreds already set out. Mr..
! Hudderson is sanguine that figs can be raised
there SO easily, that there is prof! in the
! business.
=. There is an effort being made to have
the venue changed in the case of Robert
Harris and Ward, charged with assaulting
Mr.. Wilde with intent to murder, from the
parish Of st. Bernard to the parish Of Jeff9r.
son. The prosecuting witness desires it, ane
counsel for the accused consents, but Distric
Attorney Brics objects.
| 80. The city authorities ought to take the
sidewalk matter in hand, and notify front pro
prietors to place their banquettes in passa
BILE condition. On certain streets, from either
the rains or lack Of attention, the bricks hav'
become so sunkeo and loose that it is almos
like tight-rops walking to essay tassag'
over them.
"A Suggestion has been made to us b.
an old rifs shot, and one which We think Ii
deserving the consideration OF our crack clubs
Il is this that just before the holidays ther'
be put up o medal or other suitable prize
open to all corners, for the best targets at 200
500 and 1000 yards. This contest would Ger
tainly give an Impetus to riff shooting in ou
midst, and at the same time be a source o
profit to the diff rent organizations.
| The trial of Mr.. J. J. Martin, for for
gerry, came up yesterday before Magistrate
Evans, in the First Municipal Police Court
and considerable amount of testimony wa
taken. Before, however, the trial was termi
mated, the prosecutor. Louis Mathe, with
! drew the charge, and Me-. Martin was honora
bly, discharged. HIS many friends will learl
of this with pleasure, for he has always borne
an unblemlished reputation here.
| 80. En- psssaat, we heard of quite happ.
episode that occurred at one of our leading
cotton presses down town yesterday, which
though we note, we will not risk mentioning
rane3. The event was the celebration of The
sixtieth birthday of the proprietor, one OF GU
Oldest citizens, and his whole clerical depart
ment-apprized Of this three-score anniver
sary-as an evidence of their friendship, ant
as an appreciation Of him IS an employer
presented him with beautiful gold-heade'
cane, most appropriately inscribed. That
was q complete and bona ide surprise wa
manifest on the countenanco of their abb
chief, who, we are told, looked quite dismayet
! on sesing his vast array Of clerks Assem- bl
around him-not even surmising Why the
had all SO suddenly appeared. But whel
their pleasant mission was made known, an
the ceremony of presentation had concluded
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