The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-12-09

tive committee of the dominant party do
not bring the guilty parties to Justice,
the public must perforce dcduce that
it was done ut their direction and conni-
vance. We have waited in vain for one
word Of condemnation of this great crime
against the suffrages Of the people from
the Democratic State Executive Commit
tee. We have heard of no candidate
who ran upon that party's ticket being
conscientious enough to refuse his COM
mission, or declining to be made tool
Of to trample upon the rights of the
people. We have read ofSonthern Chiy-
airy, but have We only read Of il, or is
it not represented i'll the Democratic
partyf We await action by tie first
conscience stricken Democrat personally
interested i'll the result Are they all
wanton, or was there no fraud7
Tho hoodlums, taking advantage of the
helpless condition in which, the action of
the ring has placed tho police force, are
becoming terror to tho whole cumlnu-
nifty and make it dangerous to he upon
the street after dark. Thursday night II
general melee occurred ut tue corner of
Julia and Tchoupitoulas streets, which,
resulted in the cutting and shooting Of
Il. y. Walsh, who 1t seems was singled
out by the roughs after they began their
quarrel AS Que to vent their splee,, upon.
At the commencement of tho fight Walsh
hold his own, keeping two or more at
bay with his fists only, but when they
turned on him with knife and pistol he
had to snccnmb, and but for the arrival
Of Il friendly es-policeman would have
fared very badly. The Offenders were
| arrested later on and were placed under
bond Ivy Judge Dayey.
A man named j. O'Nei!l was passing
down Royal street Saturday night with
| a lady IN his arm whom lie was escorti,,:,
home, when J. Donovan, known also as
! Bow-Legsgged Donovan, i,.su!ted him and
| the lady. The couple hurried away, but
| O'Neill returning alone afterwards was
struck and knocked down 10y Donovan,
who ran for protection from the police
\ into Teens Varieties, where his old friend
Schonllausen holds forth. In this case,
| though, it availed him little, IA IL deter
mined officer captured him and took him
tojail.
A crowd Of Poydras Market and Basin
street rcEyhs ventured so far Ms to hire a
| field band Saturday evening, and carry
| ing transparency having painted upon
tue canvass the significant words " Blood!
Blood! and no Contract work" After
parading up and down the principal
streets and imbibing moro or less whisky,
| they got into a row at the corner of
Poydras and Freret streets, and blows
being struck, pistols were drawn and i'll
| few moments two men, Miller and
| Glennon, were found to have received
| severe if not fatal wounds. The resi-
"o'so ~ uAS "Glc LOO
terrified to Interfere and it was some
time before the wounded men could he
attended to, but upon their arrival ut he
hospital they stated that the u,ea who
were tho principal assaiiauts are nanod
respectively Jno. Mcdonald and Cook.
The latter has since been arrested. but
Mcdonald has left the city OF is hiding.
Glennon received his wound in the lower
intestines; his bladder was perforated
and peritonitis had set in, which is
considered :: very unfavuI able sympton,
by the physicians. Miller will probably
recover, but the chances for Glennon are
very slim.
News reaches us from New York about
the notorious Charles p. Miller. who
used to be well known in New Orleans.
and who was reported as having been
killed i'll Il gambling den in New York
by a'iintorious thing named Tracy, who
was acquitted of the murder some tuS,
years ago. Miller is still alive, having
been seen and recognized by several
persons who knew him formerly in New
Orleans. II is thought that the murdered
man Tracy was tried for killing was
some victim to the gamblers wiles, who
represented him as G. P. Miller to quiet
public Indignation and make it appear
as a ease of sclf-defence and simply a
QUARREL over cards among the thoroughly
initiated ones themselves
The quiet precincts of Clay Square
We're yesterday made hi.leous by an at
tack by Il crowd Of hoodlnms npnn a !
l'trkiess milknian. whom they robbed !
and natrrated. The ronghs threatened |
Il citizen with the same treatment il lie |
eaFrd TO nfefirre, and he was glad to he
ai'n"rd to escape. This outrage &c
rtrrtd about :, o'clock in the ai1e.a.ea,,.
;" air SIS lave been made
sonrs truly. Why. !