The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-06-24
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

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Items Of Interest from the Crescent CITY
by Our Regular Correspondent.
| New ORLEANS, june Is, 1882,
EDITOR CHIEF:
The coroner's jury empaneled in the
James Casey murder case has rendered
its decision to the effect that deceased
came to his death at the hands of George
Blanque and Charles Cavalier-being
stabbed by them while scnfaing.
DR.. LIE Monnier has at last conde-
scended to give the world the result Of
his examination in the E. J. Gay poison
ing case. He and q coroner's jury have
decided that the man James Hall came
to his death by taking some arsenious
acid administered to him in some coffee,
and that the man, since discharged by
Commissioner Lane, named Ben Wagner,
had previously threatened Halls life.
Hall died May Is.
Another crevasse occurred Thursday
on the left bank short distance below
the great Story crevasse, and breaking
in the evening, got ahead Of all available
efforts to close it and is over thirty feet
wide aud about ten feet deep.
The only constitutional officer, by spe-
cial Art. No. 200, and the largest Tax
Collector in the State have at last given
the Governor, the courts and the people
a chance of testing the value of the dis
franchising clause in reference to dueling.
The Committee of Public Safety have at
last stake worth striving for; we say
with Sullivan, Let the best man win."
Some years ago the legislative mathe-
lnatical expert, Weymouth, discovered
that the State debt was more than half
bogus, and Capt. Kidd aud his committee
in the State Constitutional Convention
figured it at trifle over $4,00O,OOO. III
Baton Rouge recently it has been styled
conumdrum, but instead Of it being the
2" Railroad time table," periodically put
before the people to scare them into qui-
escence, we believe it to be u moderate
amount easy of adjustment. We do not
attempt solution. The Picayune evil
IDENTIFY got into the secret and war was
the result. The affable Major, Of the
Treasury departm ent, measured twenty
PAGES with his man, C. Il. Parker of the
Picayane, Wednesday morning, in the
parish of st. Bernard, short distance
from town, and after four successive calls
by the seconds, whether or not satisfac-
tion was rendered, on the fifth round
Major E. A. Burke received pistol shot
in the fleshy part of both legs, and the
fight was declared of, and the party re-
turned to the city. Major Burke's wonnd
is pronounced painful but not necessarily
dangerous. ss-ss
As far as the State debt is concerned,
as reported by the committee of Capt. e.
E. Kidd, we think that for the cancella-
tion of the annual credit of $500, 900 and
"a ,297 1888 due by the Citizens Bank to
the State, that it would only be justice
for the Bank to assume and pay the State
debt. There is no doubt an easy and
fair way of surmounting the difficulties
which now surround us-a full and i'm
partial discussion of this question can
hurt no one, and may produce beneficial
results.
Mr.. Ernest J. Brulatour of this city
has been nominated by the President to
the position Of First Secretary to the
American Legation at Paris He is we'll
and favorably known among our Creole
population, to whom his appointment |
gives general satisfaction,
Michael Kernberger was convicted last |
Friday on three counts, in the United
States Circuit Court, of illicitly distilling
whiskey, and will probably retire to
for period of three or more
years.
The st. Tammany parish Water Works !
Company expect to go to work, and
promise supply of water here before |
,welve months have passed.
Yours truly, w. H. Y.