The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-24
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS. Dec. l3. 1881.

Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, Dec. Is, 1881.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The ship burner, Samuel Simmons, o1
the Iron Cross conflagration, was par
donerby Gov. McEnery on the 1st inst
Saturday, at p. NJ, the Crescent Cit,
Railroad Company lost As mules, 135 sets
OF harness and the paraphranalia of a
large car station by fire, the value of the
property amounting to about $5O, 1000.
The Brush Electric light has success
! fully been introduced into the Morgan
Railroad depot and is the only light nov
used Oh the Morgan wharves.
The Erlanger Syndicate has completed
| all arrangements with the municipal
government for the right of way of the
Northeastern railroad into the city. 1t
will build about two miles of embank-
ment upon the southern shore of Lake
Pontchartrain, and will also pave over Il
mile of street on the river front in the
lower part of the city with square blocks
of granite. The cost per mile of the
road north Of the lake will not exceed
$25, 900; south of that point in to the city
$60, 900 will be the cost of construction.
Oscar Rice, late Internal Revenue Col
lector at Baton Rouge, was GU Thursday
up before the United States Circuit
Court for the embezzlement Of 900 of
government monies. He plead guilty,
and Judge Billings has sentenced him to
two years. imprisonment at hard labor
in the Albany Penitentiary and fined
him Sic, 200, the amount of his embez-
Element.
DR.. ID. Warren Brickell, one of the
most distinguished physicians of the
Southwest, died at his residence in this
city on Sunday. He was man of supe-
rior ability, had liberal and extended
views upon all questions Of public inn
oOrt, and was ever Oh the alert when the
rights of his section were involved.
The Texas Pacific has at last closed the
intervening gap between this city and
San Francisco. President Wheelock of
the New Orleans Pacific says that passen :
ger trains will run through by the 1st of
January.
The extra session of the Legislature
has got down fairly to business. On
Monday night the committee of til.
whole reported the general appropria
tion bill to the House, which ordered il
engrossed and passed it to its second
reading. The questions involved as te
appropriations for the Charity Hospital
State Militia, and the removal of the
State archives and State-House furni-
ture produced a lengthy discussion, but
after striking out the militia item entire
ly and amending other minor points, it
passed and was given to the clerks.
The wharf lessees and the draymen in
conference with the Administrator of
Commerce have at last adjusted all diff
culties i'll regard to the handling of
freights upon our levees. In future
steamboats, must discharge their cargoes
distance Of fifty feet from the apron of
wharves. The steamboatmen have OK.
pressed themselves as satisfied with the
aEgenent and also desire that the Or
dinance i'll relation to the tims that
freight shall be allowed to lem;ain upon
the landing be also enforced. So in
future all produce must be removed
within forty eight hours from the time
it is unloaded. Our Washington dis
patches note that the Mississippi River
Commission is about to take more adj
vanced position and pursue more
vigorous policy i'll regard to the improve
ment Of the navigation and levees of the
river aud its tributaries. ...
Real estate transfers have considerably
fallen off, Notwithstanding the great
purchases by the Northeastern Railroad
and although the city seems crowded
with visitors and business, there are a
great many houses still vacant. The
great anticipated rush is still to come!
Yours, ETC., w. IL. Y.