The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-01
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

OUR NEW ORLEANS LEEIElt.
Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS, june q 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF: >
The Memphis and Mississippi Railroad
company is pushing things; they have
already 1000 men at work building the
roadbed and laying cross-ties; 5000 tons
of steel rails have already been unloaded,
mostly at College Point. They were
supplied by the Carnegan iron and steel
works of Pittsburg, and were brought to
their destination in seven barges. This
road will tap the Yazoo delta and con-
meets that region-perhaps the richest in
the country-witli this city. If the Leg
islature is wise and does not interfere
too much with the railroad interests,
within few years there will be no lack
of communication to even the most re-
mote parishes of the State.
The Morgan railroad company has had
to extend the Algiers wharf to accommo
date the large consignments of grain
daily arriving over the Texas road sew
eral large lots of wheat and oats have
been received lately from central and
western Texas. Fifty-fve car loads of
oats for city consumption were received
last Thursday.
A body OF one of the boys drowned in
the river Sunday week was found float
ing six miles below Algiers at 9 o'clock
Thursday night. The body was identl-
fed as that of VIM. Shoney. The coroner
allowed the parents to take charge Of it
for interment
An epidemic of suicides seems now to
lie upon us; hardly day passes without
one being recorded. Scientists have not
yet informed us whether to assign the
cause to insanity or to look further to de-
pressing conditions of the atmosphere;
they are equally silent as regards the
late comet. If the moon exerts such in
duence upon human kind as to give
name to certain conditions of the mind,
is it not as reasonable to believe that
comets may produce similar results
Monday last Herman Lee, grocer re-
siding at 1T Baronne street, left his
home and nothing was heard Of him un-
til his body floated up i'll the river at the
Good Intent dry dock in A1giers. No
cause has been assigned for this rash act
He was i'll good circumstances, at peace
with his family and apparently i'll the
best of health. Frank Arthur, peddlar
who had been arrested for disturbing
the peace, hung himself to the bars of
the cell III which he was confined at the
Jackson Square station, and but for the
timely aid of Il reporter who informed
the turnkey and cut him down, lie would
shortly have expired. "Wednesday last
a man named Charles Il. sstetson, who
lately arrived from Woodville, Miss,
tried to end his earthly career by swal-
lowing nn overdose of laudanuin. It an
pears that he was so much affected at
meeting a girl-who had been raised
near HMM a house of ill-fame, that he
did not care longer to live. The girl,
Minnie Robinson, as soon as she discov-
cred that Stetson had partaken of the
poisonous drug, rushed. into the street
| and called the police who removed the
| wouldbe suicide to the hospital, where
he soon revived under treatment.
Saturday evening as the shades of night
were gathering around, murder most foul
was committed at the corner of Rampant
and Common streets. Edward McCor-
mick, a young man of 26 years was set
upon and killed by two of the Poydras
market hoodlums, A. II. Porter aud Fl.
Stowe, who stabbed the deceased in the
stomach during a free fight, as they de-
sire to term it, but after knocking the
man down Porter fell upon and stabbed
him in the stomach and back. The de-
ceased was buried last Monday by the
Young Mems Benevolent Association.
Yours truly, w. "a. Y.