The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-06-25
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and that petitioner has also suffered in
feelings and in loss of time. Tho case
will be submitted to a jury.
Considerable excitement has been Gre
ated in business circles by the action of
the Board of Health in requiring that
vessels from certain infected ports shall
remain ten days at Quarantine Station,
and many contend that the regulation
will play havoc with the commerce of
our city. It is contendetl that there is
less sickness at the prescribed ports than
prevailed last year, when quarantine
Of ten days from port to port was
deemed a sufficient protection to the
public health, and numerous are the sur
misses made as to the motive which led
to the establishment Of this regulation.
1t is possible that the situation is not
what it is represented to be, and that
the Yellow Dragon is lurking at our
doors, or, perchance, is already in our
midst. The encouragement of such fact
would hardly create extraordinary sur
prise. Readers Of the CHIEF will re-
member that last winter the papers
published letter from DR.. Jones, Pres
idcnt of the Board of Health, in which
he stated that, a short while before, u
smallpox epidemic was imminent, but
that the disease had been eventually
subdued. Are the guardians of our city's
health confronted Will, similar crisis
at the present timer
The Sanitary Association is taking all
possible precautions to guard the city
against the attacks of Bronze John, and
has sounded the battle cry which. if
hearkened to, promises to assure us per-
petnal immunity from yellow fever.
Tho Associations big flushing pipe OH
the levee at the head Of Toulouse street
Is about ready for work, when the gut
ttrs of the city will be flushed with fresh
river water, from Julia street to Elysian
Fields. The Santarians declare that the
force at present employed to clean the
streets and cutters is inadequate, and
that much remains to be done to protect
the city from summer diseases A large
number of cutters and streets in the rear
of the city are simply reservoirs of filth
which has been accommodating for years,
and no time should be lost in putting
them in good sanitary condition.
Edward Newman, Esq, a prominent
broker, aged d years. died suddenly of
apoplexy at his residence, on the 18th of
June.
The Louisiana Field Artillery is once
more victorious, having captured the
Denver prizes offered 10 the best com
pany and battalion team of marksmen
The prizes consist of il buffalo's head and
horns and elk head and antlers.
The Louisiana State Lottery comes
out Of the United States Circuit Court
burdenel with fresh laurels snatched
from the State of Louisiana and the CITY
of New Orleans. The question presented
was: Does the exemption of the Lot
terry Company from taxation also exempt
the shares as the property of tho ST. ok
holders Section 48 of Act No. II o
the Legislature provides that it doc!
not, while Article 5, Section 1, of tb,
hottery charter binds the Company tt
the payment of $4,000 to the State
Judge Billings rendered a decision t,
, the effect that the shares were exemp
from taxation.
, The exodus from New Orleans to cool
, er climes promises to be larger this sum
mer than any previous season, and al
though the srltry month of July has no
c yet arrived, there are already many O
: our people away. The people seem to b
+ financially flush, Judging from the larg
: crowds that daily visit the Lake resort.
$ If the several railroads should inaugr
t rate another war of competition ther
r may be too few people loft in the Cres
G | cent City to take care of her. Howeve
the occurrence Of such state Of affair
is as improbable as the retention of Mo-
!, ris Marks as Internal Revenue Collectt
). of the State of Louisiana or his appoin
If mcnt as Consul to Changay.
If Thine truly, EPSILON MI.