The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-21
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

|OUR NEW ORLEANS LITTER.
Items Of Interest from the Grescsnt City,
by Our Regular Correspondents.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. II, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The Louisiana Steamship Company, q
French corporation, has just been formed
at Paris for the purpose of running
steamships weekly between Havre, Lou
don and New Orleans. The Company
propose to make this route the best and
cheapest for emigrants from Europe to
Texas aud the far West. The ships will
be Of the largest capacity, suitable for
carrying grain, cotton and other pro-
ducts; they will also have refrigerating
compartments for transporting in good
condition freshly slaughtered Texas cat
tie. Fifty thousand shares of 800 each
are offered upon the market for subscrip-
ton in New Orleans.
DR.. J. c. Beard has withdrawn his
plea Of not guilty of corrupt practices as
State officer, and through Messrs.
Whitaker & Adams has filed motion to
quash the Indictment: inasmuch as the
Grand Jury empanneled was without au-
thority, because the presiding Judge,
Hon. Alfred Roman, did not qualify
within thirty days after his appointment.
If he fails. in this particular, he will
contend that the acts upon which the
Indictment was based were committed
at = period since he vacated the Offices
Of Coroner and member of the Board of
Health, and in this the Supreme Court
must sustain him, according to its recent
decision.
John Kelly, white 1aborer who was
endeavoring to obtain work upon a
steamboat at less wages than are now
paid the regular hands, was stabbed
Thursday night last by Negro, and
now lies at the point Of death. No ar
rests were made.
Col. Jos. A.. Walker, the enterprising
proprietor of the Crescent Billiard Hall,
has been elected president of the New
Orleans City Railroad Company, and he
promises many reforms which will bene-
flt not only the general public, but the
employees of the road. The Company is
to be congratulated upon the retirement
Of the corrupt Wintz administration,
which was fast bringing the road into
disrepute.
Mr.. Leon Jastremski was awarded the
contract for State printing on Friday
last, so heaceforth the official Journal as
we'll as the Capital, will be at Baton
Rouge.
The first concert in which Ade]ina
Patti will appear here is to take place
this evening at the Old Drury. Tickets
to the amount Of more than $4,000 were
sold at Werlein's music store up to Sat-
urday.
The wharf lessees have purchased a
large building fronting on Notre Dame,
| Fulton and Front streets, in which they
intend to erect machinery for the manu-
facture of electricity with which to light
the levees and landings. The promised
light is anticipated to be in full working
order by tho LIST of March. The wire has
been shipped, and the boilers are ex-
pscted before the middle of next month.
Tho Coroner's 5usy empannelsd to
consider the murder Of to aged Negro
Gaswade Hampton brought in a verdict
"That death was caused by blows in
ficted on the head, which blows are sup
posed to have been inflicted by one
Jennie Brunette, alias Jennie Redlight
now in custody" The detectives have
been working hard upon this case. Their
discoveries brought 10 light several back
ward witnesses, aad some very ctrong
circumstantial evidence against the wo-
man named.
The Wintz burglars, ex-Captain Of the
Parish Prison G. c. Cain and Theodore
Stewart, charged before Recorder Milten-
berger with assault and battery, carrying
a concealed weapon and discharging fire.
arms in city limits. we're sent before the
Criminal District Court Friday last,
Stewart under $1,000 bonds and Cain I'M
der $3.50.
The British steamship Otenholme came
into our port last week, with one Of her
compartments badly damaged from fire,
which occurred upon the high seas in her
passage out from Liverpool. Now comes
Mr.. O'Donovan Rosa, an Irish patriot,
who says he knew all about it and that
he also knew in advance of the conspir-
| acy which was successful in blowing up
the steamship Doterel in the Bristol
Channel. This is with him honorable
retaliation blowing up of ship
| belonging to some private company
which otherwise than sailing under the
British flag from an English port, has no
more to do with landlordism in Ireland
than have the naked warriors of Ash
antee.
On Friday, at $50 A. NJ, an old Ger
man lady named Mrs. Schafferly was
jumped upon in her own yard by q cow
! ardly Negro and garroted with such
force that she lay insensible, for over
half an hour upon the ground, during
| which time the thief made away with
all the house contained that could with
ease be carried off. Upon recovery tia