The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-02

| MASHED Hrs OwN HEAD.-About O'Clock last
| night man named Cornelius Fitzsmmons,
while under the influence OF liquor and walking
| on the railroad track on st. Charles street be-
| tween Jena and Cadz, fell down, his head strik-
| ing the rail and INJECTING severe scalp wound
] over the right temple. He was conveyed to tue
Seventh Precinct Station and attended by DR..
| Chambers, who dressed his wound and pro-
| nounced it dangerous. He was afterwards taken
to the Charity Hospital.
SEVERELY BEATEN WITH A POKER About a
quarter tie O'Clock last evening, difficulty oc-
Cured at the corner Of st. Joseph and TchOupi-
toulas streets, in which man named Michael
Dillon was assaulted, beaten and severely Injured
| on the head with an iron poker by man named
Corne, who made his escape. The injured man
was taken to the Charity Hospital. Cause of
difficulty unknown.
POLICE NoTEs.-Ben Thomas, aged As years,
| and native Of Maryland, was sent to the Charity
Hospital, from on board the steamer Natchez
where he was found lying i'll sick and destitute
condition.
John Hurst caused the arrest of one James
Brennan, on the Levee, head of Girod street, for
pilferipg cotton.
Jack Eddngs made hole in Mr.. Benjamin
Briggss wood pile, on the Levee. head OF Julia
street. He was caught taxing away the last load
and locked up.
Lucy Vincent, knowing that Mrs. Josephine
l. uie had made two atfdav ts against her for
assault and battery and libel came forward and
surrendered herself to the officers in charge of
the Eighth Precinct station, Agers, and was
duly incarcerated.
The captain of vessel now lying in the Val
lette Dry Dock, Algiers, had James Jopp, one of
his sailors, dgt in the calaboose for safe keep
ing. James, it seems, is a deserter.
A shIpmate named John Baptiste was taken up
at the corner of Claiborne and MeIpomene streets
aud pac I'd in the Second Precinct Station for safe
keeping. He is supposed to DE insane.
Some time during Friday night woman named
Marie Fastin died suddenly at her residence, cor
ner of Laurel and Second streets. Coroner Chas-
tant held an inquest, and the jury gave verdict
that The deceased died of heart disease.
Complaint made Friday by number Of
citizens a the IRENE Station, that a dead dog
is living on ST. LOUIS ctr. ct, between johnson anu
Galvez that iniects the whole neighborhood.
The tables have turned this time. Last night
John Jackson called on Lizzie Williams. at her
residence, at the corner Of Bienvile and Basin
streets, and stole 81 currency out Of her pocket.
He was locked up.
Miss Estelle Valentine was run in again last
night This time Mr.. P Lacost3 eau. ed her ar
rest on charge of larceny.
Richard Stevens and Valery Bienvtnu two
young men, highly respectable, got on drunk
last night aud showed their smartness by throw
ing rocks at a policeman in the Third District
who, not approaching their sport, locked them
up.
Jennie Whitaker retired in the Jackson Square
Station Friday morning, charge by Alfred A. Viii
kins with aiding and abetting another, name un-
known, IN stealing some money from him while
in den corner Of Orleans and Dauphine streets.
Steve Collins walked into hou .e on Burgundy
street Friday night and threatened to kill Mar
garet Johnson, one of the inmates, with bowie
knife
Anton Tibaudax passe his New Years In the
Central Station, for cutting and woundlng Gabri-
ellie Smith with a pocket-kuife, at the corner OF
Perdido and Dryades streets.