Year: 1859

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The NEW LUsITANos BENEVOLENT Assoc1Ar,ox
urned out in great force yesterday afternoon to pay
nneral honors to the remains OF their late fellow.
member, Mr.. Robert Lyons, of the Third District.
The body found in the New Basin, on Sunday even.
ing, with only shirt on, (of which we spoke yester.
1ay0 was that Of Mr.. Lyons. He left home several
days previous to collect some money and not re-
turning home, or being heard Of anywhere, his wife
advertised in this paper for bis recovery alive or
lead. Though no marks Of violence were found on |
bis body, it certain that he had collected con-
siderable sum Of money before coming to his DEATH
The inference is, that he fell into bad company, be-
came intoxicated and was robbed and stripped and
thrown into the canal.
These particulars we should have published yester.
day; but the Coroner at the time we saw him though
he had viewed the body, and returned verdict of
"found drowned" was unable to give us the mans
name or the particulars Of his case.


The CORONER yesterday held an inquest on the |
body OF an unknown white man, apparently steam
boat hand levee laborer found in the river oppo
site Canal street. Verdict found drowned.


Another inquest was held on the body of Mary |
Redding, the woman who died on Monday evening |
whilst on her way to the Charity Hospital and whose
body was taken to the First District Lookup Yer
dict, delirium tremens


OUR REPORT Of the race between Tom Parker and
Picayune, yesterday, was incorrect in two partcu.
lars. 1t was pacing, and not trotting race, and
Picayune was not driven by his owner Mr.. Wilbur,
but by Mr.. James Finn. The errors would not have
occurred had been able to be at the race to see
for ourselves.


IT Is NEVER TOO LATE to mention good thing,
30 we will just allude to what accidentally omitted
yesterday; that is. the good time that Mississippi
Fire Company had at Biloxi on Sunday. With their
guests they had magnificent frolic, going over and
there, and coming back. They came back on Mon
day morning, in such good humor that they didn't
get mad even when they found that rascalIy in
cendary had attempted to burn down their engine.
house.


We have heard more of the fun and pleasure of the
trip than we could crowd into good.sized book.
The Mississippi boys are among the foremost Of our
fire companies, knowing how to work at fires as we'll
as how to enjoy themselves an excursion and it
pleases US to hear the different accounts Of the good
time they had over the lake.


The LATEST OPERATIONS Of the robbers have been
the taking Of valuable gold watch from the resi-
dence of Mr.. Mcintosh, on Magazine street, near
Calliope, and the taking of $460 in gold from the
valise Of Mr.. Thomas Abrams, boarder at the City
Hotel. Both robberies took place yesterday. The
store of Mr.. L. E. Herwig, No. Front Levee street,
we may add, was broken into night before last and
robbed of two sacks of coffee. Several futile noc-
turnal attempts had previously been made to get
into the store.


MICHAEL VERNON, alias Tom Smith, was taken to
the Charity Hospital yesterday afternoon, having
hoe in a ohou,o tbn of Tri;o
and Front Levee Streets He said he was quietly
talking with friend, when man whose name be
did not know, but whom he knew by sight, came in
and deliberately stabbed him in the abdomen. His
wound is not considered very dangerous.


A REMARKABLE INCIDENT happened on the shell
road, in the dark, night or two since Two gentle
men in buggy were going down the road at 2:4O
rate, when their team was capszed by running over
two three drunken men who were staggering along
the road. The drunken men were not hurt to speak
Of But when the buggy was capsized, and both
riders were thrown out, one Of them, wellknown
and portly citizen, was not only lifted out of the
buggy but out Of his shoes! He had his toes under
the iron bar running the ootboard and as his
shoes were tighter under the bar than on his heels
they staid with the bar when he went off flying.
Another odd incident occurred in the Fourth Dis
trct, night before last. A welLknown elderly gen.
tleman was startled from his slumbers by an un-
earthly humping about the house. He raised up in
bed, to study whether the noise was made by rob-
ber or by his Satanic Majesty. As he listened, the
humping CAME into his own room, the door Of which
was open AS he sat paralyzed, one thump was fol-
lowed by jingle of broken crockery, and in that In
stant, something which he thought at the moment
might have been the devil himself rushed over the
bed and went smash through the window behind the
bed


Finding himself unhurt, and not smelling any.
thing like birthstone, the old man got up and struck
light On the floor he found the fragments of a
wel!-kuown and highly creamjug the track
Of whose thumpings and the spot of its crash were
marked with milk. A villainous Thomas Cat, in
taking his midnight snack, had got his head stuck
fast in the jug, and he probably was worse scared
than the old man. The feelings of both the cat and
the old gentleman may be better imagined than de.
scribed.


The MILLINERY STORE of Mrs. Wentz, No. 247
Camp street, was cleaned out by fire at o'clock yes
terday morning The damage to the stock and fix.
lures, which were not insured, amounted to about
$4,000. The timely arrival Of the iremen saved the
building. The fire appeared to have been communi'
Gated to the store by some incendary underneath q
door on the side alley.


Another fire, at about o'clock in the morning, de-
stroyed an old unoccupied shanty and some dilapi.
dated back.buildings belonging to Theophile Cavalier
on Love street, between Frenchmen and Elysiau
Fields. An adjacent ancient cottage or shanty was
also destroyed. The unoccupied house, in real
building of which the fire started had been unoccu
pied some eight years. on account of having
the reputation Of haunted house the owner being
unable to procure the meanest sort Of tenant
and stubbornly refusing to sell the property at any
price.


The neighbors on that block, though for time in
much peril, and owing their escape altogether to the
energetic action of the fremen, still considered the
burning Of the haunted house a good thing The
whole loss did not amount to $1,000. The fire was
evidently the work of an incendary.


Whilst the fremen still at the above fire, still
another fire started in the attic Of residence on Con-


stance street, between St. Mary and St. Andrew,
about three miles off. Luckily for the house as well
as for the comfort of the aded remeu, this fire was


put out with buckets and the damage was nothing
to speak of.