New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1877-05-09

sent to the Charity Hospital Ernestine
was locked up, and was shrewd enough
to come ont Of the dock on the call for
another woman who was in for q single
drunk. Mercy being a privilege OF new
judges, Recorder Smith discharged her,
bat the imposition was discovered before
she got out of the building, and she was
locked up to await physicians oertif-
cate or q coroner's inquest.
Next Saturday is fixed for the meeting
of the purchasers of the New Orleans,
jackson and Great Northern railroad,
holding shares of capital stock, at No.
226 st. Charles street.
Among other complaints of the Prop
erty Holders Union, DIR. Tebault men,
tons that his communication to the
Council "failed to reach you for your hast
regular meeting through gross and Singh
lar carelessness ON the part of the door
keeper in the Mayors Office, in his utter
neglect to deliver the same"
John Eugene IRENE, hauing seen the
mime of John IRENE among the names of
the Metropolitans that were to be paid,
denies that there is any such IRENE.
Possibly John may have been suffering in
equal ignorance OF the existence of John
Eugene, though it may be noted that the
latter and the market monopoli8e the
name in the directory.
Mr.. Landry proposes to have q new
registration OF voters very speedily. AS
he has the whole time between elections
to make it, it would not be too much,
perhaps, to ask him to guarantee its cor
rectness and 30 cut off all political parties
from making charges of fraud.
Does the complaint Of Domingo Villa
rerra against Mariana Francisco for cut
ting him indicate that the vendetta is to
be abandoned for the afidavit2
Though the complaint that with the
change of police and decrease of the
force comes an increase of the crimes of
burglary and arson has sufficient founds-
ton, the chief, who is technically respon-
sible, can not be blamed. It is we'll I'M
derstood he has not been allowed the
/ number of men he deemed necessary, nor
are the individuals the ones he would have
selected. In fact it would not be unrea-
sonable to absolve him from all RESPONSE
| bility for any of its shortcomings in the
general way of duty.
Fred Fay, well known New Orleans
base ball player and member of the Lee
and Southern Clubs, died Tuesday.
| Commencement at Law Department Of
the University of Louisiana, st Grunewald
Hall, Saturday.
Mike Lacey attacked Mr.. Feeney, al
his grocery store last night and, after g
passage at fisticuffs, stabbed him in the
abdomen. The wound is accounted moi
dangerous.
TIE Fifth District property holders ash
the Council for more police.
The first regiment of Alabama STATE
Militia and the Mobile Artillery, booked
for good time in New Orleans, are ex
pected to arrive to-day at half-past four
With the Continental Guards and Wash
ington Artillery, they will tomorrow
parade Canal, Julia and st. Charlie
streets, and be received by the Mayor o
the City hall, as part of the celebration o
the redemption" of Louisiana, as direct
ed by Archbishop Perche and Francis 7
Nichols.
S. Selim Il. Bey has been discharged
He is said to have better claim to tn,
name of Rosenweig.
The new registration is not to hinde
the Texas Pacific railroad election.
Another genuine Sicilian row. Pete
Leverte was shot with four bullets yester
day near the Barracks, and not bein
| killed. refused TO tell VINO attempted U
murder him. His wife said her brother
Pedro Navelte, alias Michel Forth, hs
done it, assisted by Joe and Tony Racisse
These.two were arrested and identified b,
her, and the other being well known will
no doubt, be captured.
The agitation of the stall keepers owe
the little spot of open ground near tn
Poydras market has started the Carroll
ton Railroad Company to suggest to tn
city that they have other claims. Ths
little spot is small thing, and the com
pany, considering they have never parte
with it, have almost concluded to turn
over to the stall keepers. But the clair
is that all that portion of Poydras stree
around the market belongs to them, an
they will prove it in the courts. Beside
this, according to the Democrat, all 81
Charles street, from Toledano to Firs
streets, is declared only held from ther
by the city by prescription. at this rat
the city had better yield at once, al
leave the permission to exist at the pleas
ure of the corporation.
But an intelligent investigation int
matters now settled for thirty years wi
show that the railway company has n
claim on anything but its own charter.