The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-05

~ u M DxlAN Os
r OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
, City Officer Indicted for Corruption and
Removedfrom Omce-vertlics Of the Cor
oner's Jury In the Deyeresax Murder
Case-Another Tragedy-A Spirit of Re-
bellion in the City's suburbs-Tsaae wit,s
San Francisco, Etc.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 25, 1881,
EDITOR CH1EF:
The Grand Jury made special report
} on Tuesday to the Judge Of the Criminse
Court indicting DR.. ]. c. Beard for pro-
posing to receive a bribe Of $3.50 from
the Butchers Union Slang House
Company, in consideration that he in
his official capacity as member of the
National Board of Health aud chairman
OF committee of the State Board Of
Health, would secure q favorable report
upon the Unions application for permis-
sion to erect sIapghter-houses and cattle
pens within certain limits; also for ille-
gally drawing salary as meu,ber Of tho
Board Of Health while occu pying tho
position Of Coroner; also, fer drawing
the pay of Assistant Coroner for several
months, during which period that posi-
ton was vacant. The report also calls
attention to the three members of the
Board of Health. holding other offices Of
trust and profit.
Mr.. r. H. IjEewster,.. Criminal Sheriff.
rendered his resignation a. member nf
the Board, Immediately after the report
| Of the Jnry was presented. Governor
McEnery evoked DR.. Boards comn,is-
sion and appointed DR.. A. u. Miles Cor
oner, to king the ground that DR.. Beard
had vac; Eted the Office by accepting
position as member of tile Board of
Heaitbs lis resignation being nnneces-
sary. This ruling is sustained by this
opfn ION Of City Attorney Buck, and was
acl nowledged from the time when Lieu
tenant General U. s. Grant became Pres
pient Of the United States. 1t is good
reasoning, from the peoples standpoint,
that if one man can run two or more
Offices thoy should be merged into ono
with only one salary.
The Coroner's jury empanneled to ex-
anime into the killing Of Chief Of Aids
Devereaux, after sitting several days aud
hearing voluminous mass Of testimony.
has at last brought in the verdict that
death was caused by gunshot wound
J inflicted with . pistol in the hands Of
David Hennessey. The jury further
found that there was no evidence to i'm
! plicate John Logan, brother-in-law Of
Mike Hennessey.
Another tragedy occurred Tuesday
evening near the hour of midnight, at
the corner of Ker:erec and Morales
streets, in the Third District. Eugene
Garcia and Oscar Dupeire, aftor taking
some ladies home from a soireo and par
taking too freely Of liquor, got iuto
dispute, during hich Garcia told Du-
peire he had acted like dog. Dupcjre
then struck him in the face, ,yhereon
Garcia put his hands behind him to
draw pistol. Dupeire said. can shoot
too" and to suit the action to the word,
put his hand in his vest pocket to draw
weapon, on which Garcia shot and
wounded him in the right shoulder just
below the collar bone. His death in
only q question of time.
There is o movement on foot to separ-
ate the Sixth and Seventh Municipal
Districts from the rest of the city. Great
dissatisfaction exists as to the way the
Improvement Department divides it's
forces. These districts claim that they
pay their taxes regularly, but their
streets are never fixed aud not tithe
of what is SO coll ected is returned to
them in the way of improvements. An
effort will be made before the General
Assembly to sanction this secession.
Railroad men state that there is moro
freight lying in the New Orleans dspots
than ever before, and say it will take
some weeks to get the excess Oft their
hands, but considering that San Fran
cisco and merchants from the Pacific
Slope generally are trading direct with
New Orleans, it is not likely the crush
will be relieved until tho new depots
now in course of erection are finished.
The first large shipment of tea direct
from San Francisco arrived the other
day. This is giving New York the go
by in earnest.
The Council yesterday adopted another
coal Oil ordinance making it unlawful
to store oil under the United States
standor.1 400 ~;tl:.. .l. .iss s.o
limits. It is hoped this law will be
rigidly enforced, and SO prevent thos.,
fearful accidents so common during our
winter months.
After the 1st of November the Jack
son railroad reduces its fares to three
cents a mile, where tickets are procured
before taking the train. II fare il paid
on the train, the conductor has tho
right to charge five cents per mile.
Since the foregoing was written DIR.
Miles has declined the office of Coroner
and DR.. Y. r. Lemonnier has been ap-
pointed instead. DIR. Beard will resist
in the courts the attempt to Dust him.
Yours, WHY.