The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-04
PREPARATIONS FOR TIE CARNIVAL.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE CARNIVAL.
Under the recent decision Of the
Supreme. Court, New Orleans may be
practically disenthralled so
far as State limitations may go in the
matter of carrying out the obligation
of "antccedent contracts" Among
these contracts, may we not suggest
that the efficient administration OF the
city government occupies at once
prominent and fundamental place ::
In the attitude of an Independent
power, this contract would seem to be
not simply obligatory, but subject
which should engage the profound
.thonght.and ingenuity of that sover-
eign people. And yet, our metroPoli-
tan contemporaries but seldom reach us
without complaints of some sort anent
the City government peering ruefuiiy
from their columns. 1t was but the
matter of some ten days ago, as we
learned from this source, that the state
of war which seems to have usurPed
the place of peace in the Crescent
CITY. invaded the City Hall, when
one Mr.. Dan Walsh, offe nded at Adj
ministrator Fitzpatrick, (and very
naturally, because of blow in return
for some epithets not very tender,)
bowed his body to the floor, recovered
with a spittoon and struck the Admin
istrator, as with IL brick-stein, on his
organs of veneration and benevolence,
causing an incision of the municipal
scalp an inch and a-half in length.
The belligerents were prevented from
further war-likc measures but the
next day, Walsh met brother of the
Administrator on the street, and TO a
polite salutation received in response a
blow in the face, quickly followed by
three pistol balls in regular order, one
Of which imbedded itself in Walsh's
nip, or groin, the reporters not agreeing
ON this immaterial point. Walsh went
under the surgeon, and his assailant
stepped aside, but leisurely, surrender
ing next day to tife police authoritie les
who locked the gentleman in, until it
was ascertained that Walsh would
not die when the gentleman with the
petulant pistol was released, and, very
considerably, con PAROLE"
There are, we are not unwilling tC
admit, no difficulties in the way in
disposing of this case nor would il
possess the novelty requisite to com
mand special attention, did it not in
volve so dignified citizen AS one OF
the City Fathers and had it not oc
cured in tho very temple devoted tc
peace, law, order and good government
generally. The case also has II bear
ing upon the approaching Carnival, OF
may be so regarded on this side the
New Orleans frontier, and we haster
to direct tho attention of our cotem
poraries to the query, Is this one of thu
preliminaries to the grand Mardi Ora.
festival? If We plain country people
accustomed only to squirrel-shootin ms
and killing deer in season, are to be
thrown into Fitz by visiting the
metropolis of the South during the
Carnival and welcomed with sof
whisperings Of blind bullets, the con
clusion will be readily reached to re
main at home and let the boys have
their fun all TO themselves. May not
Rex, in this dire extremity, hasten his
advent into his chosen capital, erect 9
monarchy, (however farcical, it will
prove no very bad substitute,) and de-
which our contemporaries have com
planned so bitterly and Professionally
forever at end p a fortified, and not
a fittified CITY for the Carnival, and
please don't forget it, Messrs. Admin
istrators.
The present Printing law was no
missed as stated by the Monroe ISullc