New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-11-16
Local Intelligence.

Local lnl0lIlQ0nC0.
WERE THEY WELL PAD'-In the Re-
PUBLICAN of the fourteenth instant ap.
peared an item taken from the Vicksburg
Herald, asserting that DR.. Bruins, of this
city, received $4,000 for his services in
Brunswick, Georgia, for attending to the
yellow fever patients. The same paragraph
asserted that the nurses each received $1,000
for their labors. Two of the nurses called
at this Office yesterday to state that that
portion relative to the nurses was alto.
gether incorrect. They showed their con.
tract which gave them . remuneration of
% per dsy-s day of twenty-four hours.
They served nineteen days, and were paid
only the stipulated salary. Sixteen ex-
perienced nurses went from New Orleans,
and some of them are not entirely pleased
with their recompense, after learning that
DIR. Bruins received $4,000 for his medical
services. but of course the Vicksburg
Herald has nothing to do with that, no
more than the REPUBLICAN has; however, it
b but fair to give the story as related by
the nurses. The latter really have nothing
further to complain of as they deliberately
sgreed to render service for the aforesaid
sum per diem. If DR.. Bruins was paid $4,000
for the duty he performed ill.natured peo-
pie will unhesitstin&ly say that they would
he glad to be yellow fever physicians.
The WATER Manifestations
Administrator Bertoli and Superintendent
Loan have been diligent in their efforts to
prevent waste of water at hydrants and
water plugs, many people have neglected
instructions and allowed full streams to
flow at night ~ we'll as by day. When even
one-fourth. or less, of the plues are open
the rise IN other places is weak; indeed, it
was merely q chance that some boilers were
not blown up in consequence. As general
thing, most boilers in the waterworks limits
are fed by pipes from hydrants, the en-.
gineers universally depending on them for
asupply, the feed being from q pipe that
should have fall of at least one foot. In
case boiler is empty and the engineer is
not aware of that fact, as might happen,
and . fire is started in the furnace, an ex-
plosion may ensue, placing the lives of
many persons in jeopardy. People are
urged to take note of these things, and gov
ern themselves accordingly.
WILKINsoN's EscAPE.-The paragraph in
yesterdays REPUBLICAN, concerning the
straw bail given by wilkinson, the mercsn-
tile swindler, created something of stir
among interested parties, who feared expo
sure. When deputy sheriff was instructed
to arrest wilkinson, that official visited the
house where accused was known to have q
room, but the bird had flown from his cage,
and it is likely that he will find refuge in
foreign parts. This condition of affairs has
caused the merchants who were robbed by
Wilkinson and Brewer to ask why is this
thus, and we'll they may. for they expended
considerable money to have him captured
in Louisville and brought back here.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.-On the eighth
of August last William Nelson, q rouRter,
struck Sarah Hamilton terrible blow
which killed her. He was arrested few
days afterward and has been in prison ever
since. The coroner's jury returned YER
examined in the First Municipal Police
Court and committed for trial ss charged.
As this is the third or fourth time that Mel
con has been up on serious charges, let it be
hoped that the Superior Criminal Court
will resolve itself into returning board
and retire him permanently.
BRIEF MENTIoN-Men who had over
coats, and especially those who had none,
were not the least interested in ice factories
yesterday.
The ratty St. Louis printers who recently
came to this city have had q rather bitter ex.
perience-among themselves. After they
were thrown out of employment they were
presented by their employer with an extra
weeks salary and sufficient money to take
them back home, but they foolishly trusted
in one of their tribe Consequence: Some
of them were in financial trouble. A cou'
pie of afidavits brough the case to an end.
A shovel was the deadly weapon which
Cora Ellis used on jackson Laffite when he
insulted her. Cora rested uneasily in the
first calaboose last night, caring nothing
for election returns.
The fire alarm sounded about four o'clock
last evening was caused by a burning chin.
ney at No. 4sO Magazine street, house &C.
oupied by Mr.. O'Keefe.
The Board of Police Commissioners had
only email charges to attend to yesterday,
and action was prompt.
An attempt was made between eleven
and twelve o'clock Tuesday By an I'M
known thief to burglarize the grocery OF
Mr.. Hines, No. 3l5 Rampant street. The
thief was endeavoring to force open the
door with an iron bar, but at the approach
of Officer McEntee fed, leaving the bar
behind.
Julius Joseph, Johnny Turner and Henry
Jinks, alias Fink, were arrested by Officers
Adams and Spellman at the corner of Pry-
tania and Melpomene streets, and locked
up in the second precinct station. charged
by II. NJ. Robinson with the larceny Of a
lot of lead pipes from a vacant building on
CarondeIet, between Erato and ITALIA
streets. They are also charged by the OFF,
GERS with being dangerous and suspicious