The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-08-30
TOWN HALL TOPICS.
THE ssOo1s sAmARHTANs.


About $1,000 were received by the Mayor yes
terday as contributions to the sick and desti-
tute, the bulk of which came from the city OF
Buffalo. through Solomon Shea Mayor, and Il.
p. Door. chairman of committee,
A Sensation
At an early hour yesterday morning d resi-
dent In the vicinity of the Washington Come
terry No. Q, on Washington street, named Beh-
mer, called at the City Hall and In O. somewhat
excited manner related that the bodies Of the
people that were being buried In the cemetery
were first taken out Of their collins. which were
carried off by the charity wagon.
The extraordinary character of the statement
suggested close inquiry as to the truth Of the
assertion, The complainant twho resides op-
poaite the rear Of the cemetery had, however,
not been told SO. but had seen the thing with
his own eyes,
Administrators Diamond and Cavanac taking
Rehmer with them, jumped into cab and drove
to the cemetery. Here they met the sexton. who
declared that Behmer must have been laboring
under some hallucination, for all the bodies
that were brought to the cemetery we're buried
In the collins containing them. Behmer being
unable, Mr.. Cavanac says, to indicate any par
ticular spot where o body had been buried after
being taken out Of its coffin an iron rod was
procured and the few new graves existing there
were probed. and In every instance the indi-
cations were that Behmer's story was un-
founded. The sexton offered. besides. to re-
move the earth but the test with the rod was
deemed sufficient. The result was that Behmer
was somewhat
ROUGHLY HANDLED
by the indignant sexton, but serious damage to
his person was prevented by the ,Administra-
tors. The latter say that during their 1nvesti-
cation they had occasion to question, some Of
people. and found that the idea prevailed
among them that the dead were being robbed Of
their pine wood collins. Liza Smith had heard
she said, from brother George Washington.
Washington had not seen 1t of his own eyes,
but was told SO by Aunt Susie. and so on.
THE EXPLANATION,
Mr.. Cavanac seems to think lies in the fact
that one Of the charity wagons left the
Workhouse with two or more collins. and on
his way uptown took body which WAS left at
the cemetery. and thereupon he proceeded to
another locality with the empty collins.
manner in which the dead we're buried and
found 1t satisfactory, the graves being dug fully
four feet and the earth well packed over the
grave.
The reason why the INDECENT are now being
buried in Washington Cemetery is that the re-
cent rains have drenched the Locust Grove
cemetery grounds SO as to make it almost i'm
practicable to continue underground burials
th6Ie fot The u present
FOOD FOR PRISONERS.
Sheriff Houston waited on the Mayor yester-
day, otter paying visits to the Administraors
purveyors of the Parish Prison refused TO- FUR
ther supply meat. bread and medicines.
ba er the the sh esS o sxe2 for o ps
any money for the months Of July and
August had been unable rt to M make settle
he Wh Che she a the matsr was one
necessitating immediate action. suggested to
ne sheriff l to address communication to the
Tuesday The sheriff says that SO far the fever
has not invaded the prison, containing about $50
nmetes; Hahn, however (who killed Murphy % q
feared that it might be simply q dodge to have
himself removed to the Charity Hospital, where
he would not be as secure as behind the bars OF
the Parish Prison.
TOO MUCH NOISE.
DR.. Isaac Scott called upon the Mayor to ask
him If it were possible to suppress the noise
caused by the steam engine on the promises of
Mr.. =. B. Mitchell, No; 1873 Magazine street. and
in the neighborhood. The Mayor Immediately
note e Mr. Mitchell ,aYking BIN e cease run
hood have recovered. The Mayor, whilst re-
GREETING this interference with Mr.. Mtchel's
empds dm tha the pa
Of running steam engines Is revocable by the
Council at any time.
THE SURVEYORS DEPARTMENT..
Surveyor d'Hemecourt is tracing diagram
Of The river front between Canal and Poydras
streets, in order to locate lot # batture ground
the property of Mr.. Frank Minor. The matter
is referred to particularly because It shows once
again the rasnness of the carpet-hag Legtsla
ture which assumed the power to donate to the
Chattanooga ra 1road several SO ares of grout
on the landing between the streets named n
donation which. however, was not sustained by
the courts.
It appears that many years ago Mr.. Minors
father owned q strip Of about thirty feet wide.
extending to the rivers edge. which at that
time was at Delta street. This strip was trans
reserving, to himself the rights to any accre-
tons or riparian rights. Since the transfer the
accretions have amounted to about 800 feet of
batture. forming part Of the land which was SO
libeerally given away by the Legislature to the
railroad company.
TME PEABODY SUBSISTENCE CORPS