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MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
WN.e FOR THE MeMAIh-POX HOMePITAL,
In answer to the oall for proposale to build the
small-pox hospital, aooording to the specifloationi
on file in the aurveyor'e ofiloe, only three bide
were presented, which were opened in the
Mayor's ole yesterday. The first one opened
was the bid of It. J. Oonnolly, offering to do the
work for $10,468; the second, that of John Page,
iMr $38,000; and the third, that of James Bodgers,
fbr $18,494. In all probability, Mr. Oonnolly's bid
will be accepted by the COonoil.
Mothing definite has been done as yet fowards
the purchase of the new site, the first adopted
bhaing had to be abandoned, owing to the cost of
llag which it entailed. The owner of the prop
etay on which it is now proposed to ereot the
baldling will, however, not sell lee than two
equates of ground to the clty, although only one
is required. The presumption is that he con.
ald4. that the eetabliehment of the hospital on
one block will depreolate the value of the other.
It IT A 1OUld 1
A gentleman called on the Mayor to say that
he was inform ed that mercantile agents from
other oitles were drumming New Orleans on
libssnes which they olaim to have obtained at the
nt of one dollar a day. The caller, therefore,
W=aed to know whether the oity lesued drum.
erls' licenses by the day. He was informed by
the Mayor that ieoh was not the came, but that,
awlerdng to law, drummers were required to
ouat license by the year, halt year or qubr.
- matter will be investigated with the
=ealter scrutinv, inasmuch as the Mayor suspects
iet some of the drummers have been opertiong
With assurance by borrowing the licensee of their
lesbehant friende in this city.
HEKAF UEKNTM.
The celebrated Gaines ease presents a new ftee
tre. The tenants of reeldences built on laund
tehlmed by Mrs. OGinee as her property, at least
La some aese, refuse to pay their rents on the
Wuand that they oannot pay to either claimant
ýtAhe property without rendering themselves
bbae to the other. One of the sufferers in con.
e. of this state of affairs, viited the
or to say that he owned twenty odd lots of
Sold lilano estate, and which have been ad.
by the courts as the property of Mr..
and, while he continued pay taxes and
S raite on the property he could not collect
l.nts. Thinking that the Mayor might help
out of his predicament he had called to lay
S matter before him. df course the Mayor
Was unable to advise the gentleman whose only
tedeas., it would appear, is to be iound in the
aborts.
THE POLICE UNIPORMM.
We had the pleasure of meeting at the City
Mr. Emile Levy, of the house of Leon
Iehaut, who has just returned from the
, whither he had gone to com.
l his seletlon of the goods necessary for
a winter police uniftree, the contract for
has been awarded to his house. Mr. Levy
teo us to notify the members of the police
that he is ready to take their measure at
e olothing hones on Canal street, and that the
onerse they shall apply the earlier will he be
- b.led to deliver the uniforms, which when
weather sets in will be found very comfort.
p tahe policemen.
&TOR CR0 oMIAN'S GRAVE.
rator Diamond reported to the Mayor
that he had paid a visit to Greenwood
the resting place of ex-Mayor Cross.
-ehund the condition of the tomb of the
ttve ofier the city is saild to
had, to be what Sexton Bul.
represented it to be. The cost of
.h tomb in decent condition will be very
on to the worth of the lamented
mtid steps will be immediately taken to
THE COAL OIL WAREHOUMtE.
ery, one of the firm proposing to build
Swf.house in this oity, bad an inter.
t te Mayor yesterday on the subject.
y has just returned from St. Loms,
he has made all the necessary arrange
o earry out his plan. He objects, how.
the location proposed by the Board of
tere-on the outakirt. of the city--a
too remote from our business centre, and
permission to locate the warehouse on a
fronting tte ritvr and just above the
rtre. The impression at the City Hall is
this location affords all the security re
owing to the absence of buildings in its
o vicinity. However no conclusion was
Sat, t being possibly the intention of the
to consult with the committee of the
of Underwriters before granting the
As It is objected that in case of a
the warehouse the running liquid may en
adjaoen' buildings, 8urveyor d'Hemecourt
a the difficulty can be edily overoome by
cling an earthwork around the warehouse,
an established fact that coal oil will not
through earth, although it may through a
wall.
while Administrator Diamond requests ous
to our merchants that the coal oil ordi.
will be rigidly enforoed, and that no excuse
Swill be accoepte I for its violation.
ISPLAWADE STREET MHELLROAD.
shell road on Esplanade street, from Gal
ateet to the Bayou Bridge, is unfit for travel.
part of the Esplanade street shell road, the
contractors also say, does not come within
of their contract. It seems that the
triginalle in the centre of the street, was
twenty feet wide. The City Railroad Com
Alquiring that portion of the street for their
occupied about four-fifths of it, and accord
to the city authorities with the unders'and
that they should keep the entire street in re
. o here is another matter for settlement
the contractors, the railroad men and the
ending the settlement the road will not
a traveling condition, particularly during
Weather.
TilE OBISTRI"CTION ORDINANCE.
''he ordinance prohibiting obstructions on
walks was discussed by the Mayor and Ad
trator MotCfirey in connection with the de
rendered on the previous day by Recorder
when he released the traders doing busi
arar the Magazine market, who had been
t betore him on the charge of obstructing
swal.s. Mr. MoOaffrey gently denies any
of peresecu ing the tradespeople re.
to, end says that the only reason why they
arrested was because they had defiantly re
to comply with the notices served upon
previously, while all others had manifested
to obey the instructions of the officers of
aw. The Mayor himself is eurpr sed at the
of Judge Smith in, as he puts it, going
of the record, or, in other words, in re
a person or set of persons accused of a
senor, because another or others are not
for the same offense.
WHAT JCDOE SMITH SAYS.
·dge Smith, on his part, states that when the
was brought before him he inquired of the
- m whether there were any more affidavite,
two having been sworn. The officer an
"no." The Judge then asked him how
parties had been reported by the police,
when he heard that there were twents
er thirty he thought it was rather an extra
proceeding that the two poorest men on
should have been chosen to be made an
of. He therefore determined to give
sme all the benefit of the evidence that
brng forward.
Se trialof the case it was proved to his
that the obstructions complained of
In no manner the free passage on the
that if there had been any impediment
transitory, and everything considered,
affair appeared to him more in the
a erseton than a bona ide move to
the ordinance. He, in oonse
dajtissed the case. The judge says that
hos hvizng any In tenton of neutral
-dinoma. but he thinks that there
far ai drl sa ad that the poor
asdmk not be madealone amenable
.e eamiute* that hehse min o way
the ai i gr-ed
16w. onifa wo In*MS IV the
moment. Owlng to hie cbenoe the mater of
the proposed branch of the Moblel railroad in the
Third Distrlct remains in stlti quo. Originally
it was the intention of the company to ask for
the privilege of extending their road along the
river front down to the slaughter-house. *Ad
ministrator Denls, however, will urge ti.em to
adopt the other plan-that of a belt road,
as already explained in the DurrnonAr.
Cel. Denis favors this plan because,
he says, a single track to the
slaughter-house along the river (for not more
than one could be operated owing to the narrow
ness of the levee) would in a very short time be
come ineulmotent to serve the purposes of the
company, whereas a ciroplar road effected by a
connection with the main track at the intersec
tion of People's Avenue, or thereabout, up Mon.
tegut street, and thence down to Elysian Fields
street, would saffrd the company immense fasili
lee an. preclude the blocking up of the landing.
By dispensing with that portion of their own pro
posed line from Montegut street to the Barracks,
enough or nearl enough road laying would be
economised to ustify the layin of the rails
from the maln road at the GOetilj ridge to the
head of Monteg.t street. As to the necesrsity of
a road along Olalborne street to the slaughter
honse pens, Col. Denis thinks that would be use
less, for the cattle could be landed at Claiborne
street and driven to the pens without much trou
ble. However, let us wait the arrival of Mr.
Raynor, when we shall see what he has to say
about it.
THE RiiEHT OF A RAILROAD.
Mr. Ohse. T. Olaiborne yesterday presented to
the Mayor an elaborate report of the work en
trusted to him, to examine into the right of the
Pontohartrain Railroad Company to claim the
ownership to the slip of land on E ysian Fields
street upon which their track is laid to the lake.
The report, which is lengthy, indicates much dilli
gece and research on the part of Mr. Olal.
borne, and gives great satisfaction to
the Mayor and Surveyor d'Hemeoourt,
whose opinion, previously expressed, it fully
eontime. It shows that by virlne, of sact
No. 84, of the session of 1804-5. Bernard de
Marigny, then a minor, under twenty-one years
of age, and owner of the oft-alluded to Marign
property, was authorized to lay out lnto lots aqd
streets the lands owned by him. The act par.
ticularly stipulates that all streets thus laid out
shall be forever opened to the public. The re
port goes on to say that the centre of Elysian
Fields street wee reserved as a anal, and that
eventually Mr. Marlgny transferred the space
occupied by the canal to the Pontohartrain Rail
road Company for the purpose of laying
a railroad to the lake thereon, the
'ransfer baing made, however, wdithou guarantee.
Under the oroumstances, and the fact that not
even any measurement of the space transferred is
mentioned, and that the tract has never been
considered assessable, and that it has never been
taxed, the conclusion is arrived at that the only
right that the company can claim to it se a right
of way for railroad purposes.
THE GAlOTRONONIC CODE.
Reforms to be Aceomplishted and Abuses
to be Done Away Witth.
Our leading editor undertook to handle a
theme which properly belongs to these columns
in his reference to Col. Bob Ingersoll's venture as
e gastronomic reformer. Of course our loading
editor discovered his inadequacy to do justice to
the suhjeot, and abandoned it to the more sclen
tiflo and profound department of this paper,
wherein gastronomic subjects can alone be prop
erli treated.
Col. Bob Ingersoll proposes that the criminal
code of all enlightened communitles shall be re
vised, so to add to the misdemeanors for which
offenders against certain established natural and
sclentifo laws, applicable to the preparation and
cooking of the an.tomarf articles for the food or
clvil zed people, shall be subject to penalties like
the violators of other laws enacted in the In
terest of good morals and of the well being of
humanity.
As illustrations of the character of these of
fenders, Col. Ingersoll mentions the frying of a
beefsteak. To which our leading editor adds the
like offenses of baking a turkey or a rib or round
of beef; thewxeeslve use of grease, and the 1g
noring of the true nature and alms of gravy.
These are reqognized, fatal and prevalent
crimes and vices in the average American cook
ery. There are many others, however not enu
merated by these superfcial writers, whereof all
through the United Sttates, outside of ouisitana
there prevails a lamentable insensibilty and
criminality.
Prominent among these are:
1. The boiling of coffee, instead of the drip.
ping by the slow process employed in all Oriental
and Latin countries.
2. The omission to exclude grease and oil from
soups and the ignorance of the comp'nents or
stook which constitute the essential and founda
tion of lawful soup.
3. The shameual abuse and ignorance of the
proper mode of preparing riot, the most valuable
of all esoulents, to accompany soup and all legiti.
mate gravies. •
4. The iaexpiable off,'nse of using stale or see
oudnhand gravy, of which wicked, careless and
nnscrupulous o ks always keep a pot on hand.
This is an offense prevalent with all our res
taurants and hotels. It may be detected in near
ly every fry, and is one of the most deleterious
abuses of good food.
5. The construction and use of cooking stoves
which have no arrangement for roasting by ex
posing the article to be roasted to the direct ac
tion of the fire, onstead of sweltering it in in
closed vessels, thereby destroying the flavor and
proper J ices.
•6. Tke failure to change and cleanse the ves
eels in which articles are cooked, so as to pre
vent the inharmonious mixture and confusion of
flavors. This confusion and intermixture of
flavors frequently arises from the cooking of ar
ti, les in a range and stove in juxtaposition.
These must suffice for the prebent, but there are
a great many other provisions which should be
adde d to the proposed gastronomic code, which
would require too large a space in our column to
enumerate or discuss in the same article. We
will speak further on this subject. In the mean
while, as this is a matter of paramount
importance and not to be trifled
with or passed lightly upon, we re
spectfully beg the matrons of New Orleans,
so universally renowned for their thorough and
scientific knowledge of the workings of the
kitchen, and so far famed as regards their ad
ministrative faculties concerning every depart
ment of the household, to offer us suggestions,
so that the code which we will ultimately propose
to an enfranchised and civilized world will be
perfect in all its parts and bearngs, and be the
very 'Pandecto Jusliniaaniof modern gastronomy.
PERSONAL.
As the saying is, "It was good for sore eyes"
to see on our streets again the welcome face of our
genial ex-Sheriff, Wm. Pagan. His summer trip
up Ncrth appears to have been quite beneficial,
and to have fully invigorated him for the toils of
winter.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Read Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
Go to Offner's only for new and choice china,
glass and crockery.
THE BIRD CAGE.-This is the name of the new
saloon opened by 3Mr. D. S. Ramelli at No. 46
St. Charles street. Persons who wish to enjoy a
good lunch and the choicest of wines and
liauors can certainly be accommodated by the
genial proprietor, who intends to keep his
saloon on a first-class scale and open the year
round.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Offner's grand opening takes place Monday.
Read Navra's invitation to th1 China Palace.
THE CONVEYANCE RECORD.-It is a source of
congratulation to our citizens to be able to an
nounce the completion of that stupendous work,
the "Conveyance Record," now just finished
and compiled ;;t No. 12 Carondelet street. L. J.
Dodge & Co. have done the people good service
in their great work, and now all the tangles and
hazy webs hitherto surrounding titles to prop
erty in the city can at aglance be discovered
and genuine titles furnished in full abstract in
a short time. Attorneys, etc, should visit 12
Oarondelet street and see the RSecord.
sued. "091 at
CUSTOM-HOUSE TALK.
rIENATORIAL JABDIIIItINM--WILL TI.E
WIIOLE LOI|IllANA CAWE BE
REOPERND ?
Mome of the Raitd Thinks no, anti GIve
Their Reasons.
The action of the United States Benate yester.
day in adopting Merrimon's resolution was the
priniopal theme of conversation at the Custom.
House yesterday. The resolution authorizing, as
it does, the Committee on Privileges and Elao.
tions to send for persons and papers leade to the
belief in the Granite Boilding that the case will
now go over until
THE EOQUIAR 85551sON,
and possibly until a new Legislature is elected.
The extreme Republican element in and about
the building bang their hope upon officoe and
Federal pap as long as there is a. prospect for a
continuation of the senatorial question, but the
leaders, if there are such, so farther still, and
hope that the action of the Senate will not only
bring up the senatorial investigation, but that
such scope will be given that praotically Packard's
claims to the executive office will be sandwiched
in somewhere, and that once entered upon the
record in the slightest manner possible, will
ESTABLISH THE PRECEDENT
for going into a complete history of the last eleo
tion, Returning Board and all.
It is known to the writer hereof that after Pit.
kin had been bounced, had made his kick against
Hayes andhad returned from the North, a com
bination had been formed to go for Hayes at the
next (this) session of Oongress.
Later it was learned that this combination
comprised eight of the most prominent Iepub
licans in the United States, and further, that
they intended to get after Hayes over Packard's
shoulders. Whether 'r not the time has come
for that programme to be carried out is not
known, but the sudden gathering at Washington
of nearly all of the lead ng Republioan politiclans
of this atste woul I lead to the belief that some
thing of the kind was contemplated.
It must be remembered in this connection that
the case of
JOHNSON VS. JUMI L
is now on the docket of the United States S0
preme Court, and rumor has it that an effort will
e made to bring that up as soon as possIble
and in the pleadings on the part of the plaintiff
just as much as can be will be said, in order to
bring
THE PACKARD QUESTIoN
prominently before the North and West.
Johnson is in Washington, as is Packard, Kel
loRgg Campbell, and in fact nearly all of the
shining Republioan lights, including J. Madison
Wells, Surveyor; Naval Offioer Lewis, Pinchback,
Hunsocker and others, all of whom, except
Lewis, perhaps, would do their best to make it
HOT FOR nAYES
if they could by agitating the L.nisisna question
to suhob an extent that t iwould come up in the
Senate through the senatorial case.
Yesterday's afternoon dispatches seemed, in
the estimation of all ttose conversed with about
the granite building, to confirm this view; and
even Gen. Tom Anderson thought possible that
such might be the case. and was sure that Pack.
ard was not now a candidate for the position of
Collector, even though a petition
ASKING PACKARD'S APPOINTMENT
to that position had been on file at the White
House or Treasury Department for some time.
The dark horse information, as given in yes.
terday's DEMOCOAT, was somewhat surprising to
the natives about the building, they having for.
gotten that Judge King once promised to make
Capt. Kennisetn his special deputy and failed to
keep the prof lse.
During a conversation with our reporter Gen.
Anderson did not deny but that Capt. Keuniston's
appointment would suit him, and he went even
further by eulogizing him as a thoroughly a m
potent business man, this expression being
echoed by some of those on the outside.
THE MURDERERB OF LOUCKWOOD.
The Coroner's Inquest Points inm Out as
William Blibbe.
horoner ahan last evening resumed the in
quest in the death of the negro Thos. Lockwood,
t who was found Wednesday night, at the corner of
M- elpomene and Locust streets, with a bullet in
the left breast.
The first witness placed on the stand was
MARY WILLIAMS.
On Tuesday evening, October 24, about half.
past 6 o'clock I left my house and went to the
ohuroh at the corner of First and Dryades
streets. I was seated there a short time when
Wm. Bibbs came and sat in the seat behind me
and asked me if he could accompany me home; I
told him, yes, sir, for I knew nobody else in the
church; after I granted him the privilege to go
with me I looked across the church
and saw Lockwood sleeping; I got
in church, and I got up and walked out, and
Bibbs stopped at the door to light a cigarette,
and I walked on a pace; then he came up with
two young men, a yellow one and a dark one; he
made me acquainted with them; he said: "These
are the two young men who were present when
the remarks were made about the shawl;" and
the young men replied and said: "It ain't worth
I while minding Tommy; he is nothing but wind."
The young men then went back to church, and I
and Bibbe came on to my house, and at the door.
step he bade me good night and raised his hat;
be went as far as the corner, and I stepped on the
door-sill and was facing the street; I heard Bibbe
I say: "Here comes Tommy," meaning Lockwood;
I stooped so as to look through the branches
of the trees; it being a moonlight night,
I saw Tommy Lockwood coming toward
me; on his lettarm he had his coat, and also his
vest. When he came closer I noiced he had
something in his right hand; it was very bright
and glittering, and he said to Bibbs: "I am
happy to meet you here," and asked him to come
back to my mother's and prove what he had said
I about the shawl. Bibbs said to him: "Go away,
Tommy; I have heard that you were awfac
treacherous, and I do not want to have any fuse
with you." Lockwood replied: "Good reason
wt hy-you know that I can whip you," at the
same time shaking something in Bibbs' face. I
think it was a knife; it looked like one. Bibbe
said to Lockwood: "If you were drunk when you
made the remark I was sober when I heard it,
and there were over twenty boyq at Bryant's
building when you said so." Tommy said: "If
you say that again you will have to abide by the
consequences. Bibbe replied: "I know, Tom
my, that you are a better man than I am," and
started to walk away backward, saying "Tom.
i my, go away from me, keep off of me." Tommy
L ackwood kept going up to him and he kept go
ing back. ''hen Bibbs backed a good little
piece and then broke and run. Then Tommy ran
after him saying, "Oh, I have got it in for you."
Then my mother closed the door. Mr. Holmes
r was standing up in the middle of the floor; he
spoke to me and said, "Why don't you give the
young man his shawl as long as he has passed
remarks about it?" I told him no I would not as
he gave it to me. Just then my mother said
"Listen; I hear some one shooting." Mr. Holmes
said, "Yes, I hear it myself." And I replied that
it was nothing, that it must be
those white 'boye who are on
the bridge; I did not hear any more of the fuss
until the officer came and said, "I knock because
there is a light in here." He said to my mother,
"Do you know a young man named Tommy Lock
wood," and I came up with a light and said, "Yes,
sir." And he said, "He is dead on the corner."
t'he officer had a coat in his hand, and he told
us that he had found the coat on the stevs of a
house at the corner. The officer then left our
house, but returned and arrested us.
MAIN.Y WILLIAMS
testified: I heard raps on my door, and heard
Tom Lockwood asking admittance, which I re
fused; I then heard harsh words; I heard Bibbe
say to Lockwood, "God d-n you; you have made
this woman forsake me," and then the deceased
said to Bibbe, "I will die, God d-n yon;" and
Bibbe said, "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, quit;"
and then I heard some persons ran, and there
appeared to be several. and then I heard the re
port of a pistol; then I heard deceased call to
Bibbe to come back and finish killing him; my
door was shut during the whole of the difficulty.
L-OSeL H DAVIS
stated: A little after 9 o'clock Mr. Holmes came
in (meaning the negro Lemon Holmes) and asked
where was my sister; at the same time celled for
a drink owat then he threw something under
the mbed; thisn el , when' a. nd Wa
t s laufZiU3 T *o-º ms' t:
Holmes went to church ta company with my
mother.
The following is Oily Physician Beard's dertif
oste:
In the presence of the Coroner and his Jury 01
nlquest I held an autopsy upon the body ol
Thomas Lockwood, colored, aged about twenty
eight years, lying dead in the Second Precinct
Station-house, and found a gunshot wound of the
thorax, situated in the intercostal space between
the second and third ribs, about four inohes to
the left of the pqedian line. The ball ranged in
ward and downward, penetrating the upper lobe
of the left lung, entered the pericardial sae at its
superior portion, and lodged within its cavity.
said wound oansing internal hemorrhage and
death. J. O. BEARD.
The pistol found under the bed where Holmes
had thrown it was exhibited to the jury, but the
ball taken from the body of the deceased was of
a much larger calibre and could not have been
fired out of the pistol found. There being no
other witnesses present, the Coroner adjourned
the inquest.
THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Met last evening in regular session. Present
Dr. Ohoppin, president, Dr. Taylor, secretary,
and Dr. Austin, Mr. Nott, Dr. Taney, and Gol.
Samuel Boyd.
The minutes of the public and executive sese
sions of the 11th inst., which were laid over at the
last meeting, were read and adopted.
The proceedings of the executive session re
lated to the charges made against Dr. Finney,
the resident physician at the Mississippi Quaran
tine Station, with reference to the detention of
the steamship Alabama and other grievances
complained of. A letter from Dr. Finney was
read, which stated that the delay in the case of
the Alabama was occasioned by the refusal of the
crew of the barge at the station to fumigate the
vessel on Sunday unless they were allowed extra
pay.
The minutes of the executive session also dis
closed that Dr. Finney was peremptorily ordered
by a resolution of the board to discharge the crew
and employ another, and that a committee was
appointed, of which Mr. Nott was chairman, to
investigate the charges of Irregularities made
against Dr. Finney, and to inquire concerning
the use of carbolic aold in the disinfection of ves
eels, and the method of examination of crews and
passenger lists.
The minutes of the publio and executive ses
ion of the 18 h inst. were also read and adopted.
The board manifested considerable sensitiveness
at the criticisms of the press on star-chamber
proceedings, and the disposition was to have no
more executive sessiens, the motive for those of
the 11th and 18th being merely the protection of
Dr. Finney. Since he had declared his indiffer
ence as to the secrecy of the investigation, there
was no lonier any reason to keep the proceed
inge secret.
The executive session of the 18th inst. was
devoted to the reading and consideration of the
report of the committee of investigation ap
ouinted at the pri ceding meeting. This report
-et forth the manner in which carbolic acid was
nesed and the general method adopted by Dr.
Finney in the fumigation of vessels. With refer
ence to the charges made in the case of the
steamship Alabama, and the charge thaitWalter
Jones, a servant of the resident physician, was
placed on the pay roll as a bargeman, the report,
after reciting the testimony elicited by the com
mittee, Mr. Nott and Dr. Ohoppln, from Dr. Ryan
and the employee at the station, announced the
following conclusions:
1. The resident physician was absent from the
Quarantine bttation on the 9th of 8. ptember (the
date of the steamer Alabama's detention) with
out the knowledge or permission of the Governor
of the State or the Board of Health, and in viola
tion of section ten of the act creating and de
Dfnig the duties of the Board of Health.
2. The Board of Health, by a resolution passed
on the 18th September, peremptorily ordered the
reseldent physician to discharge the crew that re
fused to fumigate said vessel, which resolution
was based on a letter from Dr. Finney, which
stated that the crew had so refused unless paid
for so doing, which order was received and dis
regarded.
'. Ibsl established by the testimony of Dr.
Ryan, the assistant resident physician, and the
crew, that the crew did not refuse a fumigate
the steamer Alabama.
4. The barge orew at the station was in no wise
responsible for the detention of the steamer Ala
bama on the 9th of September.
5. That Walter Jones, entered on the pay roll
as a bargeman, does not discharge any duties as
a bargeman, but is employed as a servant of the
resiedent physician.
The minutes of the executive session further
disclosed that after the reading of this report the
following action was taken by the board, after
hearing the confession of Dr. Finney, who was
present in obedience to the summons of the
Board:
Whereas, Dr. Finney has almitted that the re
flections contained in the analysis of the report of
the committee appointed to examine into c rtain
irregularities at the QCarantine Station are cor
rect:
le it Resolend, That the statement and explana
tion of Dr. Finney be received by thie board, and
that while expressing disapprobati n of his c n
duct in the premises, tha!. they express the beulef
that hereafter he will act in full accord with all
the wishes and orders emanating from this b ard
After the reading and adoption of these mi,
utes, Mr. Nott, as chairman of the flnance com
mittee, submitted the following report:
NEw ORLEANS, Ont. 25, 1875.
To the President and Members of the Board of
Health of the state of Louisiana :
The undereigned flonance committee beg leave
to submit the following report of our mnvestiga
tinn -
The chairman of your committee, while visit
ing the Mississippi Quarantine Station on the 6th
inst., in company with the president of the
Board of Health, was furnished by the assistant
resident physician with the amounts collected
and received at the Mississippi Quarantine Sta
tion for the months of May, Juno, July, August
and September, as follows:
May ................................... $804 00
June................................1,093 00
July......... ........................ 661 50
Augnst ................................ 779 00
September ............................ 1,497 00
Total...........................$4,870 50
Add amount collected from stmr Alabama 5 00
Total.............................$4,875 50
You committee met this day at the office of the
Board of Health and examined the books and
vouchers and report the following facte:
i. The amount received from the Mississippi
Quarantine Station for the months of May, June,
July, August and September, as per report of the
resident physician, aggregated $4466, leaving a
deficit of $409 50.
2. On examination we find that the drafts
given by the bark Harold and steamship Marga
ret amounting to $214, were sent by the resident
physician, at the Mississippi Quarantine Station,
to the secretary of the Board of Health for col
lection, and said drafts have been collected and
no entry made on the books.
3. The cash book was balanced on the 23d
inst., and, although apparently correct, we find
on examination the above amount is not included
in the cash on hand.
4. Among the accounts furnished your com
mittee, we find that the following bills were
charged to and paid for by the Board of Health,
when they should have been charged to the resi
dent physician at the Mississippi Quarantine Sta
tion, as follows:
Rice, Born & Go ........................... $9 65
M. L. Navra........ ............ ...... 36 50
Louisiana Ice Manuacturing Company.... 7 00
W. C. Shepherd& Co...................... 52 85
J. R. Warner & o........................ . 10 50
5. Your committee find that the bill of W. O.
Shepherd & Co., for $17 25, was paid twice; once
in June and again in August.
6. Your committee find that the money col
lected at the Mississippi Quarantine Station (in
excess of the fee of $5 allowed by law) has not
been returned in accordance with law.
7. Your committee find that the pay rolls at
the Mississippi Quarantine Station are not signed
by the employes, as they should be.
8. Your committee have in the scope of their
labors only found the facts, and have deemed it
their duty to report in accordance therewith,
without euggesting recommendations or reme
dies, which are properly within the province of
the board.
bAer the reading at thisreport, Dr. Tayki,
the.serearysof the brd, stated that he wished
iso wm t! fiAtm n trsst o ss ila
-would usy the board with whgh aseesurfoe
the board e.pri sed itHel e nttieded.
On motion, however, the report was reeived,
and the seeretary llowed time till the next meet
ing to make hil statement.
On motion of Col, Joyd the hour of meeting of
the board war died at *80 p. m. hereafter.
The Preeldent stated to the board that there
was no longer any apprehension from yellow
fever, but that small.pox was lonreasing, and
there wee yet no small-pox hospital established.
The board then adjourned till its next regular
gession.
GCot your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
head Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
Ofilnr has only ine store-174 Canal street.
opposite Varieties Theatre.
WAS IT DARK7
Jones Ge(a Noesy and Tackles a Lamp
Poet and the as Company.
Jones started home last night from the club
he told his wife it was the "lodge"-and when he
turned into one of the thoroughfares leading up
townbe was alarmed. Getting as near a lamp
poet as he could, something like the following
went through his noddle and was audible for at
least half a block:
"Hlallol Confoundit, why (hie) aint yer litup
tonight ?"
No reply.
"Isay, your (hio) repsenttiv of ttahdair Gas
Compny (hil) ind yer ?"
And still the lamp post uttered nary a word.
"01 Wall (hie) now you needen put on any
airs (hie) Com you got most dambouilili fooled to
night you did.
No Inquiry.
"Yes ano you did (bie). The moon jis fooled.
ubully. She didn't shine dambit (hie.) Bo uses
you an the company got left "
Somebody on the opposite side of the street
besan to hum an air.
"Yer (be) can't play that on me. I'm sponsi.
ble cizzeu, I am. You think mebbe I don pay
taxes, (bin) thbe damlie frido and you'r singing
coz your old monopoly (hitc) a cheatin cizzens out
out of taxes theypa to (bin) have streets littup,
an now neasa me by singin in my facenies."
The singing stops.
"Ubettr pullup on that. I'1 go th' Mayor (bie)
in mornin an seebout this. I'l see (hlo) if this
sittys going be left in tot'l darkness erry rime
ti' moon goes behind a cloud."
Not a word and only the lap of a policeman to
be heard
"Sposa'n I'd fallinter ther guttor'n, kill miself,
dont you epose miwite would aloux city for
dammiges? You bet she would and get em (ble)
too."
Just at this juncture a peeler came along and
helped the sollioquizer over the autter and cross
ing, the peeler feeling his way first on his hands
and knees to find the crossing, as the night was
as dark as Erebus.
And yet the price of gas is only $3 per 1000
cubic feet, or so much per year for each lamp,
and the city has lamps erected on nearly all of
the princlpal streets, but upon a "moonlight"
night, dike last ntsht, the Gas Company's lamp
lighters are suddenly tasen with cramps, and not
being able to get out the city is left in total dark.
ness,
Get your kid gloves at Kreeogr's.
Read Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
NeW Parian tiures at Ofncer's, 174 Canal street
opposite Varieties Theatre.
BREVNIT IE
According to the Signal iervice reports last even
ing rain was reported yesterday at Cairo, Galve*
ton, Indianola, Teasi; Keokuk, Leavenworth,
Memphis, ht. Louis, Vickcbn.g, Shreveport and
Mobile. At the last-named point the total Ia I
was nearly one and a half inches.
Notwithstanding the bhad weather, there was a
fair atendance at Grunewald Hall last night to
listen to the conrmert. The performers acquitted
themselves well in every respeoot,.and the poor
orphans have obtained much needed relief.
The grand sacred concert at the Carondelet
street Methodist Church, noder the direction of
P. F. Campiglio, was quit, a success last night.
The talented amateurs all performed their parts
admirably, and all the arrangements were per
fect.
The rain fall (that shower) yesterday, between
8 a. m. and 4 p. m., was 2:44 Inohes, enough to
it eod the city, and m ike the average pedestrian,
whose umbrella had been loaned, spit out big
cuss words, One ohap said it was dambard to
own four umbrellas and int] when he went. to
the hat rack that they had all been loaned during
the last rain, and many were those who mental y
ej culated dammital when they couldn't find their
"par solt" and were compelled to go down town
eloahing through the rain and mud.
Gct your kid gloves at Krenger's.
Road Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
Mrgniflrcnt vases and jardinieres, cheap, at
OfTfnr's.
TiE LAnarciT' FrUNsrTr'i ESTALtsIIMgENT IN
TH. HSocT.--lessrs. It. M & 1I . J. Montgomery
Irav t fTr sueveral imonthes pa-t been busy rcelv
ing and dlisplaying, at their magniflent i,romo
rium in the Moresquiu building, large quanrti
ties of furniture. sr)ll.e of which. we venture to
say, is eqiual in filnish and style to any ever
manufactured bIfore in this country. We
stepped into the door of this inmmens furni
ture housetls ycsterrd.y, and the politet anrd II .ur
toous proprletors showed us tlirolugh t h,. build
ing. They occdpy three floors, the upper IIors
being reacheid by an loevator which they con
structed riernt y for moving furniture from
one part of the building to, the other. The first
floor is uIsed for displaying an indiscriminate
asrsortment of fird room, diningroom and office
furniture, easy chairs of every descri!stlon,and,
in fact, everything necessary in the way of
adorning and making a house comfortable.
On the second floor these gentlemen have
their handsomest furniture (lisplayed. The
first set that attracted our attention was a su
perb ebony and gilt, upholstered in blue silk
rep, with broad stripe through the centre, fig
ured with vines and flower s, which have the ap
pc:arance of need!e-work from a little distance.
We can imagine nothing more beautiful in a
parlor by gaslight than this. Here and there
were distributed other most highly finished and
attractive parlor sets, consisting of walnut and
gilt, with brocatelle in new styles figured, raw
silk new Eastlake style, walnut and gilt, with
blue coteline and silver trimmings; walnut
and gilt, wtih silver coteline and blue trim
mings, which are remarkably beautiful. On
this floor also will be found very handsome bed
room sets-something to suit everybody and
every taste. Their folding and asgy chairs are
delightful to sit in, being exiqui4itely up
holstered and highly ornamented.
Now is the time to purchase furniture; there
never will I,, probably, such a time again. The
factories are paying such low rates for labor
that it will be impossible for the poor mechanic
to hold out much longer, and as soon as higher
wages are demanded we may expect to see a
great rise in prices. In the item of mirrors. in
which this house deals largely, a glass that sold
for $125 last year can be bought now for $75.
Those of our readers who are desirous of mak
ing satisfactory arrangements for furnishing
their houses should visit this mammoth furni
ture emporium, where the prices are reason
able, Everything can be had from the heapest to
the most elegant and stylish in the line of home
comforts.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Read Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
New majolica ware at Offner's, 174 Canal, op
posite Varieties Theatre.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Bead Navra's invitation to the China Palace.
fine crystal end Bohemian ,laeew tre t Of
ner's. 14 Canal, opase Yaruitee s heatre.
eY u rk K w .
* ..
A charge of petty larceny holds Famuel B. It
prisoner in the Fifth.
John Lonee, yesterday found a ring, which he
left at the Third Freainot Station for identiUsfl
The bridge at the corner of Toledano and An
nunoIation streets is broken and in a dangeroug
condition.
John Cole was sent to the Parish Prison fim
the ''hird Precinct Station in a sick and destitute
condition.
Ann Wagner is in the Third Station, oharl8a
with the lareeny of some jewelry from 44
Chartres street.
Ellen Moran, at the Instigation of . JSoran,
was looked up in the Second Station-bhoase
charged with the larceny of $120.
The body of the man Ililler, who fell into the
river from of the steamseip Chilian Satrder,
was found floating yesterday at the head of Jaelt.
son street.
Speclal Looby yesterday arrested John Niebeol
and Bill Johnson, and looked them up in Uhe
Harbor Precinct btation, charging them with the
robbery of $1.
Just in Time.
Miss Meyers, a yonng girl of nineteen, Ma $
o'olock Thereday morniog, attempted to oomit
suicide by jumping into the Old Basin. Shewl,
however prevented by agentleman who had bei
attracted by her strange action and turned oerw
to her brother who appeared upon the seen.
The young lady drolined to give the sogs
that prompted her to attempt the rash set.
The Razor Again.
At half-paat 1 o'clock at the corner of Ouste-..
house and Franklin s'reets a difficulty ooeaorss
between two negro women ( nother and daughter~
Maria Dickerson and Louisa Parris, alina DaM
Leg Lon, which terminated in the former
cut twice on the arm and once in the breaseti
a razor in the hands if bhe latter. The wolnl.
woman was taken to the Charity Hospital wlhete
her wounds were examined and the wound in the
breast vronounond severe, though not danu e
"nu. The sooused was locked up in the Foatn
Precinct Htation. The row was caused by the
mother ass rting her prerogative to slap her
rltaghter. The daughter would not stand it, and
went f, r the mother with the inevitable white.
handled razor.
Road Navra's invitation to the China Palase
lGot your It glovo; at Kreeger's.
STHU COURTS.
sBperior Criminal Court.
(UILTY,
Grand larceny-Biohard Anderson ebage
with stealing three gold watches and twoel
chains. valued at $250, from F. G. Baltieb, Jim
21, 1877, was tried and found guilty.
F .... MISTIUAL.
False imprisonment-B. A. MeDonough. The
jury 'ailing to agree, was discharged and anell
trill entered.
ARRAIO(NED,
Forgery-L. B. Laun was arraigned on two I.
diotman's for forging bills of lading, and plead
to both not guilty. Remanded in default o$11r
000 bail.
CO'nTINU ED.
Manslaughter-Cornelius Boyle.
Murder-John Gause.
Seeond District Court.
Succession of Antoine Alciatore opened.
Third District Court.
Neafle & Leovy vs. Towboat C. 0. Keyser',- 1
tervention and third opposition on the part of D.
B. Woods & flo., alleging privilege for aupptlie
furnished. Filed.
John Connolly vs. Pat Grant.-Plaintiff, a dray
man, sues defendant for $110 for hauling 0m0
obinery, etc.
State ex rel. City of New Orleans vs. Alle
Junmel, Auditor.-This suit is brought to compel
the Auditor to warrant against the State treaUe
ury for $6250, being one-half of the sum author
ized to be spent by the city, on the Mayor's wan
rant, for salaries of city assessors and expectse
of the board of assessments. Section 86 of a1t
No. 96 authorizes the expenditure of 512,500 fr
salar es, clerk hire and conotingent expenses ed
the board, half to be paid by the city and half by
the State, on the warrant of the Mayor. Act 47s
the general aporopriation aot, maket an aPP
priation of $12,500, but specifies that it is ol
saalaies. The Mayor warranted for for50
clerk hire and other expenses, and the Auditor
refuses to audit said warrant. rhe city,
asks for a mandamus to compel him to do so, a
leging that section 86 of act No. 96 explains sat
coutrols act No. 47.
Sixth Distrlet Court.
The Jeffrseon and Lake Poutohartraln Riread
Company vs. City of New Orleans.-Platnti
prays for an injunction and judgment against the
city for $100.0,0. This is the same suit that we
filed in the Fifth Distriet Court, in which It ap
pears to have been dis'on'onued.
United Atates I ircuit Court.
N. W. Casey, receiver of the New Orleans Na
tional Banking Association, Pune to enforce the
payment of $600 from A. Marqucze, fawner C
twenty shares in said association, and $1500, the
pro rata of J. 1. Woods, who held fifty shares
First DOstrict Court.
RURREIDERED it i1i1 IlO.NDOMAD.
Mike Leary, charged witu wounding less thle
mayhem.
PLEADED OcILTY.
Larceny-Victor Barbere.
Assault--Wm. Bnrke.
MENTENCED.
Laroeny-Fred Mil r one day to Parish Pris..,
Get your kid gloves at Kreoger's.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
HT. CHARLES HiOTEL--A J Carter O ff
Dix. steanner John A Srlldder; Sir Philip E
Wodchoup, Sir Henry Wirot,t M P, England; J
H ogmers, Maysville, Ky; A SM Bowling N 0;
Wm Robertson. F M Turner. N Y; Wm Db il
lard. Cha-leston,. S r; C8: P Grigory, St Louis O
C Converse Pa; J H Maury. Jacob Ma geo. .t
bile; It W Greene, city; L Ames,. Jr. rnd family.
Chicago; W H Jaoh. A J Faxon, J T Gibson.
Mobile: H J Flint, Providence, i I; G Mandel
baum. N Y.
CITY HOTEL-M J Doherty. New York; F
Wimberly, Joseph Finch. Mrs Rose and servant .
.1 S Deford, Tennessee; Mrs S I' Chrihiow and
child. Miss Mamie Donelson, Louisiana; C K
Beal, Galveston ; W C Bohne New Orleans; J Ak
Beard. McComb City' M d Wyly. Louislana;
Miss Ida Stewart, A A Batchelor I'olnte Coupee;
T F Crawford, steamer Bonnie Lee; CB Franels
and daughter Burton: A S Rutherford, Colum
bus; J ir McWilliams, Mississippi; J P Rodneyr.
Corpus Christi; W hA Mitchel and wife, Loutlsi
ana; Asa Morgan. M D, and wife. Lampassa; A
Cunningham. Alabama: J W Chaplin. Justus
Iose, Galveston; W J Wooto, CE Hall, city; O P
Bryant. Milwaukee~: Geo Brainard. Prairieville.
ST. JAMES HOTElj-Mrs T O Pupmrey, Mrs
Belle Washington. Wm Washington. Miss Lucy
Washinton. city; A J Clewton. L E Thomas.
NewYork; A O M Dixon, Mobile ; Alfred Sharpe.
New York; Conrad Moore. Cincinnati: W W
Boaz. Richmond: B it Ross, Mississhppi; JI
Beard, L G Layman. Memphis; Thos Murdock.
Vicksburg; 1i M Lyons. Nashville; Jas D Bulli
van. Pass Christian; W T bhute, Hummit, Misa;
J Gerron. Albany ; A Langford, Donaldsonvili.
Saml T Elliott. New York.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
RAILROAD PERS.NALS.
We notice the following departures by the
Mobile fast line last evening: Joseph Kohn, o
Simon & Kohn. for New York; Joe Flanner, for .
Pensacola; I. W. Rosenthal, for uhicago; Louis
Miller and Miss Laura Miller, for New York; l.
Levi, for Louisville; J. N. Cunningham, for In
dianapolis: W. R. Leedy, for Macon; F. B. Exa
hart, for New York.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Best plated ware at Offner's, 174 Canal. oDppO
site Varieties Theatre.
Get your kid gloves at Kreeger's.
Mexican Matters.
[St. Louis Times.]
WAsEasorow. Oct. 21,-Senor Mata. the repre
sentative of Diaz. has gone home. and no Mexi
can Minister remains here. President Dias
will send on a new man soon if he wants to keel t
up friendly diplomatic intercourse. There le
no immediate pros of a re tion of the
Maz government, r.varettso insi stsu
having Btarxantees of Desee loiig the Teasa
s sn+ný to4 o. _'