The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-10-28
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.


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by Our Regular Corresponaent.
NEW ORLEANS, October "a, 1882. q
ED1Ton CHIEF:
Thursday evening arotlef mysterious
suicide occurred. Ehe place chosen was
The classic precincts Of JacksOn's Square |
German girl named Annie Theresa
aged 22 years, was the victim
Of disappointed affection according to q
letter found upon her person, and to
sootlle her wretched condition she shot
herself, daring rather to risk tho great
unknown than longer exist In mental
agony. The letter stated that Emile
was the dyrelict lover who
drove the young girl to desperation, and
a girl named Lena Meyer the hated RIVAL
who carried off the prize. The body was
taken to the Jackson Square Station,
and it was not until the following MORN
ing that any of her friends.arriyed. The
first ono was the girls lover, Emile
Konzelman himself, who seemed very
much grievcd, but as lie is the father
of child by the rival, Lena Meyer, it is
hardly possible his grief was sincere.
The sisters and brother Of the deceased
took charge of the body, which was re-
moved direct to Louisa street cemetery,
and 4 sad, solitary funeral it was, the
end of u }ife's drama. "She loved not
wisely, but too we'll"
Annie Koelmel was scarcely cold i'll
death ere Nicholas Dendinger. Il German
fruit vendor, followed i'll the long array
Of suicides. He was very methodical III
his determination towards self destrnc-
ton. Being several times thwarted in
his efforts by the watch his wife kept
over him, he at last grew desperate, pur-
chased i, large dose Of laadanum and
chloroform and drank it in the door Of /,
grocery some squares away from home.
He told the nnsuspecting grocery Keeper
good-by and tho latter thought he was
going to tho country, but the poor man
went home to die aud in the morning his
wifi. discovered him IL corpse beside her.
It is thought by the Coroner that Ills
brain was affected by excessive potations
A committee Of citizens has been ut
| work for some time considering the mall
| per in which St. Charles Avenue from
Leo Park up shall be paved. 1t is pro-
posed to raise the grade, fill up tht
bitches on either side of the railroae
tracks and paved from curb to curb ell
tirely, doing away with the centra
green. The committee are wrestling will
tie problem of square block or sheet as
phalt, majority being i'll favor OF TIL
latter; but with the experience Of year
in favor of the square granite block, i
looks very much like another job to f;vo
asphaltum. The latter is estimated n
So per yard OF $40, 600 in all, guaranteed
for ten years square block costing les
than twice that much is now in good OF
der after wear aud tear of twenty-tiv
years and more.
Protection seems to be moro and NOR
tue order of the day, and from what Ca
he cleaned from the speeches OF many G
the Southern Democrats III the preseu
canvass, before the lex campaign come
around the plank Of the Republican part
relating thereto, will like the rest hav
been added to the plat form of the oppt
sition, thus recording another progres
sive step. We heard it from IL Democra
, the other day THAT in his opinion befo1
many years Republican South woul
confront Il Democratic North, upon tb
f very question. Stranger things than til
have happened before i'll our history, b'
r we hope that it may he considered will
, out reference to sectional lines, witho1
prejudice i'll the interest of right.
The Haveneyer Brothers, the sug'
l kings of New York, have just purchase
I the two squares of ground immediate
; below and in line with the Custol
. House, bounded by Decatur, CnstoI
a House, Front and Bienyille, with the d
l vidng short street, Clay, between, whit
i it is their intention to have closed il pc
r mission is given blythe City. A mammo'
Y sugar refinery is to be erected theret
t which is to cost upwards of $500, OO
Louisiana has been asleep to her advan
II ages for long time, but northern al
+ foreign capital will soon force her out
e lethargy and compel her to come, US
u were, out Of herself She can IL
i long remain behind in the progressi
9 era i'll which her sister States are onwa
II rolling to prosperity. New Orleans
Ii destined by nature to be the seaport II
l. only Of the Mississippi Valley aud t
d great uudeveloped West, but Mexico W
# find her nearest outlet to Europe and t
% East By way Of the jetties at the b'
II This fact is evidently understood by Z
= railroad monopolists who are making .
IS gantic efforts to control the trade Of t
future, and it appears to he their des
% to make New Orleans tile gate Of Mexi'
is Another suicide occurred ON Satur1
j. afternoon, abont 2 O'Clock. A Germ
n barber named George Bein having re
so much lately about Mr.. Booths u
DR.. Jones' search after the germ, fina
y thought that he had discovered the 10
. sought for iu the person Of himself, a
: desiring to act the part Of Il humantari
: to his fellow man, lie took large dose