The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-01-27
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

Items of Interest from the Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, January g. 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
It will be worth while for any of your
readers visiting this city to take turn
into the laboratory of our Southern
Edison, Mr. A. G. de Lislc. Mr.. 1e Lisle
is related by marriage to the great Lefort
of Paris, and has become possessed of Il
great many of his secrets. He will
gladly explain tos.alas one calling the
workings of the most intrieate appara-
tus i'll the Cotton Exchange, the South
ern Express Co.'s Office and also the
Alest-se ea;efbols~pf tl,e4A Aasaiias, ps.sl.-
He has sewing machine motors which
entirely do away with the wearing and
destructive treadle slavery of the present
system. He claims for bis motor further,
that it produces DO noise, no danger, no
heat and no fumes. It's weight is but
two pounds and half, and it is always
ready for use. He has numerous fire and
burglar alarms, constructed opon the
same principle. and many other useful
applications of the electric fluid. All
lovers Of science and Improvement should
take a look at this interesting array of
the latest improvements of the age, and
none will begrudge the time TINS spcnt.
The City Council of New Orleans, since
the Independents didn't get their seats,
is an amusing spectacle to behold, and
like most other metropolitan Democratic
bodies in this free country, my broth Of
boy from Garryowen has very much to
say. Fitzpatrick, however, has met in
Matt Lagan, another Mick, foeman
worthy Of his steel. Whether either is
from Limerick or County Down we know
not, but they fight like Kilkenny cats,
and the way that Fitzpatrick lectures
the several Aldermen shows plainly that:
as we'll as being the president of the
Democratic State Centr Committee, he
is also the boss of the finances of New
Orleans. Messrs. Carriore and Kennedy
are well represented in Gov. Warmoth's
" Shirt-tailed Irish boy" From what
can be learned upon the streets it looks
very like another grand deficit will
occur. Last year the Improvement (2)
Department ran 100000 ahead of the
budget, aud this year things point to an
enlargement Of those figures. We never
heard how that 100000 deficit was set
tled, but as New Orleans is Democratic.
it is not our business. In fact, we do
not care to know, because we have
Board of Liquidation which will settle
all deficiencies, and therefore we rest
easy, awaiting the coming of the morrow.
We wonder where Fitzpatrick will go
when he gets to the end of his tether.
Will he run off like his confreres, Gauth-
reaux and Treasurer NJ. T. Polk, or will
he tnrn States evidence aud show up
the power behind the throne rather than
become Il martyr himself. We know he
has the grit to take the latter part, but
we doubt if he will do it.
Mr.. E. A. Woods, a nephew of Judge
Woods, has been ordered to Louisiana to
assist District Attorney Leonard in the
of the frauds of the late
election, and it is understood that the
jurors empanneled in such cases will
have to submit to searching examina-
ton as to their qualifications.
Very strange to say, although our city
is the biggest cotton mart of the world
and has nearly completed perhaps the
largest Cotton Exchange on the CONT
nent, yet it seems, as i'll all other cases,
our merchants of the National Cotton
Exchange have given New Orleans tie
go-by in the matter of the Grand Cotton
to he held in 1884, by taxing
the city which claims the precedence the
sum of 100000 for the privilege and
perforce some Eastern city will occupy