The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-06-25
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

Gas1ight Companies-The Southern Uni
versity for Colored People-Hot Weather
and its Ravages-A Good Example for
Suicides-Heavy Damage Subtitle Ten
Day Quarantine Activity of the Sanitary
Associations Another Victory for the
Lottery Company, Etc.
New ORLEANS, La, June 81, 1881.
EDITOR CHEF:
The people Of the Crescent City can
congratulate themselves upon the fact
that two Of the most gigantic monopo-
lies that have ever cursed a civilized
community, and which for the last iif-
teen years have been preying upon the
very vitals Of the people, have had their
death knell sounded by the highest
courts of the State. allude to the New
Orleans Gaslight Company and the Ores
cent City Slaughterho,lse Company The
former was given the exclusive privilege
of manufacturing gas within the limits
Of the city Of New Orleans, while the
latter alone had the right to slaughter
CHttlt anu lOUt NAuLih IfO I"a
ish of Orleans. The oppression and ex-
tortion practiced by the companies grew
SO bur,lensome that it amounted to
tyranny, and the people began to grow
restless in the yoke. A party of capital
lists came to their rescue and organized a
rival gas company under the name OF
the Louisiana Light and Heat Producing
and Manufacturing Company, while on
the other hand the butchers of New Or
leans organized q formidable opposition
to the Slaughterhonse monopoly and it is
only a few weeks ago that the Supreme
Court of the State declared that the con
stitution of 1879 wiped out the monopoly
Textures of the Crescent City Slaughter
house Company. An appeal from the de-
cision of the Supreme Court has been
taken by the Slanghterhouse company,
but as it does not operate as super
sedeas, the decree of the court will be
| obeyed by the authorities, and already a
committee has been appointed by the
CITY Council to locate the site of new
slaughterhouse. In Il short time the peo-
pic will enjoy the benefits which will flow
from competition in the bntcherlng bus
mess. In an elaborate and lengthy de-
cision rendered OH the 18th inst, Judge
Rirhtor of the Civil District Court re-
fused the injunction asked for by the
New Orleans Gaslight Company to re-
strain the Louisiana Light and Heat
Producing Company from interfering
Will, what the former corporation termed
its chartered rights. Judge Right"r up
holds the validity of article 2os of the
constitution of 1870, which says that the
monopoly features in the charter OF amy
corporation now existing in the State
save such as may be contained i'll the
charter of railroad companies, are ab"l-
ishcd The decision, in substance, says
that the government is impotent t" part
with what text writers and all judges
have agreed to call the police power
When tho Legislature grants amy char
ter or makes any law on tho matter o
governmental or police control, the bene
ticiarics hold it subject to instantaneous
drfeasancc. At the will of tho soyer
cign and when individuals or corpora
tions plead such chartered rights, TIN
sovereign may answer by peremptory ex
ception, framed in the very words which
the greatest Of poets has placed on til
lips of the greatest of men: Always
am Caesar" Sic scmpcr monopolists.
Despite the ISLANDERS OF its enemies tn
Southern University founded for the eS
elusive benefit of the colorcl people c
the State, is on the high road to perms
: nent prosperity. The Universit, receive
1000 Il year from the State, SO that
is not at all dependent on its pupils f,
: support, tuition being gratuitous. Th
I Boa,d Of Trustees is composed of the 70
: lowing well known citizens of the State
: f. II. Fay, s. d. Stockman, L. L. Allan
G. II. Fayerwcathcr and Il. II. Jonc
Mr.. Fay is tho State Superintendent {
Public Education. Mr.. Allan is ono
the ablest colored men of the State and
member of the Legislature from Ibcrvil
). parish.
!, The heat, to say the least, has been il
tense for the last two weeks, and its ra
ages will be remembered for a long tin
to come, particularly in the household
where members of the family have bee
stricken down. The cases Of sunstrol
up to date number over two score, and
have heard physicians say that the hi
: weather had just begun. When persol
have been sunstrnck as late rs S, 6,
and even z. NJ, it makes New Orleal
mortals feel sort o slaky. A salot
keeper on Bienville street was SUNSHINE
" at II P. NJ, while sitting in front of Ii
> cafe. Rev. Joseph Anstless, pastor of S
= Matrices church, was sunstruck at !
=, n, Thursday, just as he was about
partake of his evening meal. Anton
Nicolo, a Sicilian and sexagenaria,, a
tempted to shuttle off tho mortal coil
> plunging into the waters of the Miss
sippi, and in order that his relativ
should have no trouble in fishing Il
body out, he purchased a long rope, til
~ one end around his neck, fastened Il
other to tho wharf and jumped i'll Il
river. A policeman saw him as
= leapcd, and rushing to the rescue, so'
~ had Nicolo safe on shore. The old M;
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