The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-08-26
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Two Dollars Year.
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondents.
New ORLEANS, August 8, 1882

The Bourbon Democracy has made it
second choice of Congressional candidate
for the current year-Mr. Carleton Hun
has been selected us the nominee in TIL
First District. Judging by the non com
INITIAL. tone of lis letter Of acceptance
he is one of the greatest lawyers in til
State. His reference to the bonntifu
sky, which he says is above us, is exceed
lngly pertinent, and affords IL piece O
information that will be gladly receive,
by the people. The Democratic rim.
conld not have made q greater mistake
than the endeavor to drag man of th
calibre and proclivities of Mr.. Carleton
Hunt into their hoodum crowd. He wa
prominent Know Nothing, a leader o
the American party, well known in Viii,
circles, and if we mistake not, Mr.. Hun
is fishing for a Malone party i'll Louis
lana. And to plainly state it, the Democ
racy has no longer 81 fec simple in tht
"First." They would not risk John
Fitzpatrick or any other cherished leade,
there.
Hon. G. B. Darrall went over TIE Nor
gan Road Wednesday. 1t is understood
that he has come on post haste from
Washington to bolster up his waning
fortunes in the Third District.
Our Republican representatives in
Congress wonld have had a hard row to
hoe had not the river and barber bill been
passed over the Presidents veto. The
great reason of Senator Kellogg's strength
among the business community is the
belief that he can secure protection to
the alluvial lands from inundation.
The public schools have slut up, and
80 has the gossip about the $3.50 instead
of $3.50, 900 appropriation. Perhaps the
treasury can now loan the buns the diff
ference to disseminate Democratic polit-
ical doctrine instead Of paying the school
teachers.
One Of our learned judges proposed by
q decision of court to settle what the
Legislature bungled, and no doubt would
have had his way if better Judgment
from a higher power had not interviewed,
which saved the State from another CON
test in the Federal court.
Billy Welsh, a we'll known desperate
and gambler, was shot aud killed OH
Basin street near Poydras, Tuesday night
last, by J. D. Healey, youth of some II
summers. When the charge Of murder
was read to him in the police court, in
few but well measured sentences, lie do
MED tho allegation and stated that he,
a young man Of quiet habits, mainstay of
a loving mother, could not have acted
otherwise than he did in the defence Of
manhood and life, and that the recollec-
lions Of the fatal deed would follow him
to the grave. The reports are SO con-
hictlny that no exact account SO far ca u
be Cleaned, other than that Welsh made
the attack on Healey aud fred two shots
and that Healey then responded with
fatal effect. 1t is said that Welsh was
concerned in the burglary committed at
the house of H'y Wintz on January l, of
which G. c. Cain, late Captain of the
Parish Prison, stands convicted.
The Crescent City brcathes more freely
at the welcome news of the final passage
OF the river and .harbor bill. The West
aud South, without the help of Morgan
OF Alabama, united in sinking all party
b'as i'll one common cause-justice to the
great river Of the continent. We thank
the representatives of these sections for
their consideration of our needs, and for
overcoming the narrow minded pollti
clans OF the East, in whose ranks we did
not think to find the great Bayard and
Pcndleton.
Another very unexpected event &c
CURED during the past week: DR.. A. w.
smythe, formerly in charge of the Charity
hospital, was on Thursday nominated
ana confirmed as Superintendent of th.
New Orleans Mint. A shortage of some
$1,000 is reported in Mr.. Davis accounts
and this is given as the reason for the
sudden change.
lie dog ordinance has been more than
SIMPLY successful, the runners hayiny
Melted and carried to the pounds about
1000 of mans ever faithful friend. A
little over one hundred have been re-
deemed, and the others have gone the
way of all flesh. The youth of our CITY
can hereafter go abroad in knee brooches
la Oscar Wilde.
The Board of Health having notified
the Mayor of death by yellow fever
and several suspicious cases existing in
the lower portion of the city, Mayor
Shakespeare has ordered a thorourh
cleansing and disinfecting of the locality,
comprising an area Of twenty five squares.
NO alarm need be felt on account of the
many exaggerated reports which are
spread abroad about the fever. 1t wonld
he better to believe none than allow the
mind to be worked mp to "a needless panic.
1T has been decided to the satisfaction of
all residents of our city that yellow fever
is strictly "local," i. e., wherever the
c"h"'tiohs exist necessary to its being.
&c is sure to generate.
Yours truly, WHY.
New ORLEANS, Aug Is, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The other .lay as vour corrasno,da,t
was sannterlng along endeavoring to find
some shady spot, he Glanced mon an
nnpretcAding ret;aat where a culored