The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

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DoNALDsoNVILLB. La,
Saturday, June 23. 1888.
LOCAL JoTTINGS.
Mr.. Louis Guion Of the Napoleonville bar
was in town yesterday.
Overture begins at 8 sharp, Monday even
ing. Please be prompt.
A. Riggs d Bro cistern Makers 247 Delord
st, N. o. Send for price list.
Help good cause and enjoy yourself by
visiting Phoenix Hall next Monday evening
Some of the weatherwise predicted con-
tinuance of The daily showers. All signs
fail in dry weather.
Mrs. w. w. Buford has been spending the
week with relatives and friends in Donald
sonville. She will return to New Orleans
tomorrow.
Those terrible tooters, the Will Kyle and
Paris G. Brown, hove touched at our wharf
this week. Their steam whistles are fear
fully and wonderfully made.
New scenery, new appointments, STAN
dard comedy, enlivening music, q merry
dance and seasonable refreshments; all at
= Phoenix Hall, Monday evening.
important business will be transacted at
next Tuesday evenings meeting of the Lee
Lodge, A. O. U. W., and all the members
are requested to be in attendance.
Cheap Tony's first monthly sewing ma
chine drawing will take place at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ. on the 18th of July. Secure ticket at
once. There are only few more left.
After the dramatic entertainment of next
Monday evening Phoenix Fire Company's
fete champetre on the 4th of July is the sue
oeeding event on the amusement pro-
gramTne.
The Common Council held an adjourned
meeting last Saturday. The minutes are in
type and will be published to-day unless
want of space compels us to crowd them
ont until next week.
Mr.. Jos. M. Heating, business manager
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lake-at Biloxi, we believe-enjoying the
pleasures of few days sojourn at the sea-
de. He is due home tomorrow.
We have no worthier organization in this
community than the Ladies' Hebrew Be-
nevolent Association. Help it along by ut
tending the entertainment at Phoenix Hall,
Monday evening. Tickets only so cents.
Mr.. j. A. Sheldon, the photographer, will
leave here OH Monday or Tuesday next, to
establish himself at Biloxi Or some neigh
boring seashore resort. We wish him the
continued prosperity which his conspicuous
merits as gentleman and an artist entitIe |
him.
Two very large sugar mixers were landed
ut the Donaldsonville wharf this week, one |
intended for Messrs. Lemann & Hanson's |
Godchaux's Elm Hall plantation. The ca
pacity of the big vessels was said to be |
eighteen hogsheads each.
The large clock in one of the turrets of |
the Catholic Church has been set in motion |
again, and its striking has caused quite a |
sensation among our Catholic residents, |
many of them regarding it as a harbinger
of the early reopening of the church. We |
wish, for their sakes, that it may proveso
Amanda Burke, a colored woman living |
on the Bocage plantation, was shot in the |
right breast, last Sunday night, while pass
ing the cabin of Lee Essex, one of the Ia
borers employed on the place. Lee claims
that,he took the woman for a robber. The |
wound is painful but is not considered dan
gerous.
IMPORTANT Nor1cE.-Dr. G. F. Emmett, |
veterinary surgeon. is stopping at Donald |
sonvilIe and will treat all kinds of lame
ness and diseases Of horses and mules.
Castrating of young or old horses any day |
of the year. Orders left at Maurin's R. E.
Lee Stables Or Schonberg's Dexter Stables
will meet with prompt attention.
DR.. John D. Hanson has this week been
the victim of quite severe attack of ill |
ness, but he had sufficiently recovered on
Thursday to resume his professional duties.
During the first days of his sickness it was
reported that he was suffering from small
pox, but to the great relief of his friends
end patients the ruInor proved incorrect.
We had the pleasure yesterday of meeting
Major Robert Strong of New Orleans, trav-
cling freight agent for that portion of the
Texas and Pacific railway extending from
New Orleans to Shreveport, who came here
to notify our merchants and planters of a
reduction Of the railroad freight tariff. The