The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-09
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=. 1t was almost holiday at the City Hal
Monday.
The Governor yesterday appointed T.
II. Maroney vice Dillon resigned.
....R w. Foster was yesterday appointed
Deputy Portwarden By NJ sster Portwarden l..
Sewell
-. Jackson Fire Company No. 1S will hold
their regular annual meeting DEC. 81, when
an election of officers will take place.
=. Efforts are being made to petition the
City Council to allow the ships loaded with
coffee to discharge at the head of Thalia
street
80. The lawyers don't appear to come up
well to the scratch this term, and there seems
to be a general disposition to postpone cases
at court
-. Attention police! There is crowd of
loafers who hang around the corner of Frank
lin and Common streets, and insult lady pas
sers-by.
j.. The attention of Col Loan is called to
the fact that there is goat playing euchre
and seven-up on Charities street. Does he
come under the gambling order?
-. The Police Board met yesterday with
the regular old crowd of spectators, composed
of loafers and small politicians who hang
around the Central Department of Police.
-. The man Frank Campo who attempted
to fire the Charity Hospital, is wearing a
straight jacket in the Insane Asylum. TIL 9
employees say that he is a very bad case.
=. The venue in the case of Robert Harris
and Ward, charged with assault on Mr. WEIGH
with intent to murder, has been changed from
the parish of st. Bernard to the parish of
Orleans.
M Gen. JEFF. Thompson, on his recent
trip, staked the levees from Alexandria, on
Red River, down to this city, and left last
evening to stake the levees from Red River to
Vlcksburg.
Our friend Ben. O., accomplished the
feat of eating one hundred and one oysters,
las they came) the other night. Col p says
be will take good care how he invites Ben to
oysters hereafter.
-. Superintendent of Public Education
Brown has gone to Shreveport, SO has Lieut..
Gov. Antoine. It is reported that Chester is
bound for the same place. 1t seems to be
rally of the colored faithful.
-. Morris Chester has contract with the
State House pie boy to supply him daily with
one pie. The regular price, it is said, is
twenty cents apiece under the contract
Chester gets his'n for fifteen cents.
....On the 18th day of November the bar
rel.houses, stands and booths on the levee
will be removed. Ladies' and children can
once more walk on the levee and get the
river breeze without being insulted by dan
gerous characters.
80. There is q rumor in circulation to the
effect that the Geoffroy Opera Troupe contem-
plate giving series of performances at the
Opera-House after the close of their engage
ment at the Varieties. This we are author
lied to deny, the engagements of the troupe
permitting them to remain here.
-. Yesterday was lovely enough to make
a barbarian smile; consequently the turn
out on Canal was very large. There was but
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enaders. In two or three places two-thirds
of the sidewalks were occupied by boxes
and casks; they seriously interfered with the
circulation.
We are promised new book from the
graceful pen of the author of tangled
Skein," which will be shortly issued from
Bsntley's, london, and E ties & Lariat, Bos-
ton. The novel will be entitled GA Family
Tree" and, we understand, will treat roman
tically of the English and American branches
Of the same family. The principal female
character fnds her homo in this city.
j. s. Mathews. charged before the First
District Court with obtaining money from the
State under false pre- enses, yes erday arrived
in the city and surrendered and gave bond.
The bail was $4,000. Geo. G. Benham is
wanted in connection with the sam e affair. The
charge is based on little transaction in war
rants, by which the State was robbed of over
one hundred thousand dollars.
49,. Auditor Clinton yesterday sent rather
. sharp letter to George Butterick, tax collec-
or of Iberville parish, in reply to a commu-
aication from that off cial, asking for an ex-
;ension Of time to make his settlements. The
Auditor granted the time, but told the tax
collector that the necessity for an extension
vas attributable solely to the fact that he (the
AK collector) had not attended to his duties, |
md said it must not happen again.
-. Yesterday afternoon Canal street was
by little affair which produced |
considerable excitement while it lasted. 1t |
appears one OF those street corner ornamental
oafers who enjoys the possession of brilliant
yes and a gorgeous moustache, followed
ady to her home and affrighted her. She
informed her husband, who knowing the in
lividual, met him on the street, and after
him with his fists took his can
nd broke it over the head of the contrite
Don Juan" There was general verdics of
: Deserved it."
49,. The young ladies of the upper part of
he First and of the Fourth District prO-