The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-15

OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondents.
New ORLEANS, July II, 1882.

| by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, July II, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The Legislature has adjourned, and the
way some of its members disbursed their
surplus cash around the corners here, for
the past few days, makes us wish we
could have them with us always. 1t is
noticeable that the very members who
had been robbed Of their jewelry, extra
change and dry goods at Baton Rouge,
chose to pass through this no,c secondary
village to replenish their wardrobe, etc.
The Chief of Police also gathered some
items from them.
Out of some 600 bills introduced dur
| ing this session Of the Legislature, only
| 1919 passed and received executive sane
| ton, and from what can be learned out
side, this session was really the most
harmonious meeting of Louisiana law
makers which has occurred since the days
Of slavery; there was perfect unanimity
in accepting railroad passes and every
thing else which came along. Party
lines were entirely ignored; every thing
went swimmingly and as merry as a mar
| riage bell. Any how, we must give the
Legislature credit for truthfulness-per-
haps admring virtues in others that We
do not possess to perfection. Our law
makers certainly spoke truly in the cap
ton Of Act No. 81, authorizing the city
| of New Orleans to collect tax of five
mills as a sinking fund. The tax payers
Of this city have groaned for years under
the funds collected from them, sinking
the prosperity Of New Orleans annually
to a lower ebb, and at the present time
have striking example of such "Gau-
threaux" processes i'll the fact that our
Administrator of improvements accused
by the press with being 100000 short in
his accounts. But who will gainsay the
assembled intellect of the Stated How
ever, we breathe again-the Legislature
has adjourned.
Intelligence reaches us from all points
that the execution of the assassin Gui-
teau gives universal satisfaction. Pre-
tending to be q maniac, he fostered what
he called revenge; desiring to get up a
cheap notorety which the liberality of
American institutions admit with great
laxity, he mistook liberty for license. 1t
did not enter his head that nihilism and
the like can be suppressed by such loosely
administered laws as ours.
Last Tuesday evening a cowardly
shooting scrape occurred at the intersec
Walk. A man named Achilles Fennili,
store-keeper in the vicinity, seeing Il
fight progressing, armed himself with a
| revolver and proceeded to the fray, upon
blood intent. He singled out q young
man named Nathan Rodriguez, whom he
Immediately feIled to the earth. Rod
| rignez Oh rising, was again Frustrated by
q blow, recovering from which, he tried
to escape when Fennin shot him in the
back, the ball penetrating near the
shoulder blade. The physicians decline
giving an opinion. Fennin awaits, in
the Parish Prison, the consequence of
his deed
During the reorganization of the Re-
publican caucus at Baton Rouge, there
seemed to be a desire to slur the Third
District, and after the work of the ses-
sion being ever to palm a buncombe po-
sition on one of its representatives, but
Hon. T. T. Allan, coming from a bona
fde Republican district, Offset this little
game by declining the blushing honors.
President Barrios Of Guatemala arrived
in this city yesterday evening on the City
of Dallas. AS soon as the telegram was
received which announced that the dis
tinguished visitor had passed Port Eads,
hasty preparations were made by the
Louisiana Field Artillery to give him a
military reception. AS he crossed the
wharf, the assembled multitude rung out
cheer after cheer. Aessrs. Camerdon and
Mcconnell escorted him to carriage
and the party drove to the ST. Charles
Hotel. A public reception will be given
to-day, and it is understood that Barrios
proceeds to Washington tomorrow on a
diplomatic mission.
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