The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-14

penmanship in first class, senior division
J first premium for bookkeeping in first class
, senior division. Mr. Lccle was also leader
Of the College Brass Band.
Edmund Maurin-First Grammar class
} First premiums in history and geography
second accessit i'll mathematics.
Fernand Braud-Second Grammar class
} First premium in daily exercise and recit;.
ton; second premiums in Christian doc
trlne and Greek; second acccsserunt in ex
cellencc, Latin, arithmetic, and in French
language, third clsss.
Dennis Burns, a laborer IN DR.. Le-
gare's plantation, filed a complaint in
Justice Buford's court day or two
since, charging Rodolph Landman, a
pedler, with swindling. About four
months ago Landman sold Burns a
brass watch for the regal sum of IS,
and it wasn't such bad watch for
the price, either, but Burns had prob.
ably never bossed machinery more
delicate than 4 coffee-mill, and his
ticker was soon in such an unsettled
condition that the owner couldn't tell
when leaving the field whether he
was going to dinner or to supper. He
blamed the pedler for the idiosyncra-
cies of the time-piece, and longed to
get even. So one day he purchased
goods from Landman to the value of
81 so, and rendered the watch in part
payment. The vendor of sundries
didn't recognize the beauties ofsthis
arrangement, and failing to recover
his goods by amicable demand, he
appealed to Justice Vicknair, before
the solemn majesty of whom the
man with the brass watch caved and
concluded to give up the merclan-
disc Then it was that the spirit of
revenge seized upon his soul and his
| wrongs were laid before Squire Bu-
ford for redress. After examination
Of the case in all it's bearings, aud of
the watch case and its internal fixin's,
the incxorable magistrate decided
that Burns had no case except that
Of the watch, and dismissed the pro-
ceediDgs. The plaintiff in this i'm
portant suit remarked, as he gave the
regulator Of that brazen chroDometer
few more revolutions, that the Am
erican system Of administering Justice
is open to criticism.
A BRUTAL MURDEn.-Wednesilay
morning about 10 o'clock a cold
blooded murder was committed upon
the plantation Of Mr.. Richard Ester
brook, in st. James parish, the muir
derer being mulatto about y years
Of age, and the victim black man of
IS years, who leaves u large family in
the parish Of St. Charles. The two
men, whose names we have been I'M
able to learn, were employed by Mr..
l.. w. bod 80 of this town as wood
choppers on the Esterbrook place,
where that gentleman is getting out
wood to supply the railroad. They
were chopping at the same tree, some
distance away from the other work.
men, when the younger man ap-
preached his companion from behind
and struck him a heavy blow on the
back of the head with an axe, making
CHASTITY wound, in which the axe
was sticking when the body was dis
covered shortly after the killing. The
murderer mounted his victims horse,
which was picketed near by, and rode
rapidly away to the river road and
thence up the river towards Donald
sonville. AS soon as the crime was
discovered, the overseer started on
horseback in pursuit Of the criminal,
whom he overlook and captured three ,
or four miles above the scene of the
killing. The perpetrator of this foul
deed was lodged in the St. James Jail.
It was ascertained that he had en-
deavored to sell the stolen horse aud
saddle, offering the former for $40 and !
the latter for75 cents, and tits supposed
that his sole motive in committing the {
murder was to obtain possession of |
this paltry property.
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