The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-27

five cents pair, but they are good TO
nothing unless freshly caught and are 81
very small that great deal of skill is need
ed to bring them down. About fifty sports
men assembled at Pastime Park for 6
| shooting match on Wednesday. October
real October days, when the sunshine ani
air are SO glorious. Five dollars was the
| entrance fee. The birds were sprung from
q trap at twenty yards rise, and according
to rule, the gun had to be No. IL bore OF
less and the load about one ounce of shot
man named Howard, an unorring, beau
tiful shot, took the first money, amounting
to $50. He never missed bird. Many OF
the poor little birds were so crippled from
long confinement that they could not fly
and were beaten down by the outsiders with
clubs and hats. The joyousness of the
crowd over such sport proves how easily
the human family can be amused.
We are sitting with open windows and
empty CRATES this beautiful, balmy weather,
and as write, the comical, yet almost excru-
ciating song Of Davis two little picanin-
MES strikes the ear. David Davis, a colored
man, is one Of the old time chimney-sweeps
and is quite character in Philadelphia.
He has been blind thirty five years, but, all
the same, is good workman. He feels,
and calls that seeing. He always says
Z" when | seen that chimbley." He is led
about the streets and has two little Negro
boys, with smutty blankets across their
shoulders and smutty faces, who precede
him and chant their dolorous strains, to
excite the risibles Of any one, even the
man, "who never laughed in all his life,"
to see and hear them. And I don't know
but what they look even more comical on
day, good clothes. Twenty years ago the
chimney-sweeps were numerous here and
we're considered a necessity, but since hard
coal hes taken up the place of wood for
fuel the number is reduced to three or four
and they scarcely make living. In old days
chimneys were scraped once q month, but
now, once a year or not until the chimney
is clogged up with SCOT and dirt. There
are all sorts of tools in use for the work
and small boys are no longer sent down
chlmney9 to scrape and sweep them: in
fact, The fGes where coal is used Gre too
small to admit q boy. Davis i3 quite gar
rulons md likes to talk about chimney
sweeping. He insists that most Of the big
fires originate in foul chimneys and thinks
the Mayor ought to force people to employ
tho sweeps. While he can not use the boys
by sending them down into the chimneys
he believes in keeping up the old custom
of singing. How else could let the peo-
pie know I'm a-comin'? and besides, likes
nightly tn hnar ETA sing. nntis 1t diai
cult to make livin' and dunno how I'd git
along if it wasn't for some rich folks what
likes to be high toned. They burns wood
md camel coal and gives me most all the
Jobs gifts now-a-d days"
The alteration over the dead body of
Rebecca Scott is at an end. It was carried
On by the father and the intimate friend of
The girl. It seems the father had done
nothing for the girl had scarcely seen her
FOR years and said he cared nothing for her.
But whom she was dead he pretended great |
grief and demanded her remains of Mrs. !
Riley, with whom she had lived and who |
1ad been to her close, fast friend, in order |
hat he might inter them in Protestant |
and according to Protestant rites. |
Mrs. Riley refused to give up the body. be-
cause Rebecca had become q Roman Cath |
bic and expressly requested that she might |
% buried in Roman Catholic ground. Upon
being refused, the father filed bill in |
equity. It was a curious litigation and ct
racted q good deal of attention. The |
ather based his daim upon the right of
lext of kin, but the Judge dvelt upon tho
,equest of the girl and upon the fact of the
ather's desertion of her. He said that
Il Pennsylvania there was no authority to /
sustain the doctrine of the rights of the next |
# kin; that an aduL had the right to dispose
,rally Of his Or her romans. The case
vas disposed of by awarding the body to
Mrs. Riley, the intimate friend.
FRAGMENTS.
Watermelons AMI green corn are still to
70 seen here.
Trade dollars are purchased by the bro
iers in Philadelphia at 81 cents.
About 98, 400 pupils is the average daily at
enhance ct the Philadelphia public schools.
1t is stated that there are 4,154, ,125 males
# twenty one years Of age in the Southern
States who can not write.
There are 10000 Government pensioners
n Philadelphia aho draw So per month,
900 of them are in Philadelphia and fifty
I've are survivors of the war of 1872.
GOOSEQUILL.
Col. Geo. ". McCranie, editor of the
>uachita Telegram, who recently passed
own the Mississippi river aboard the
teamer Natchez, en- his way to Sour Lake,