The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-21


DoNALDsoNVILLE. La,
Saturday, june 81, 1884.
LOCAL JoTTINGs.
Straw hats for the nillioa at Mrs. NJ.
Israel & Co.'S. All kinds and all prices.
The sunbeaan has had her sllaft repaired
and isaagain running between Burnside
Station and Thibodaux
Mr.. q. Miabert OF Plaquemine paid bus
sness visit to nonaldsonville last week and
we had the pleasuresof meeting him.
Ladies' are invited to examine the new
stock of fine linen lawns at reduced prices
now displayed by Mrs. NJ. Israel & Go.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. N Pugh, accompanied
by their eldest daughter, went to New Or
leans on the steamer Gay, Sunday before
last, returning home last Friday.
Don't overlook the new ornamental ad-
Centre, which is a boss place for cheap and
fresh groceries, fine wines, liquor, tobacco
and cigars.
IL you allow that beautiful parior set at
Israel & Co.'s to be drawn without having a
chance to win it, your conscience ought to
trouble you for year. The drawing takes
s,lace early in July.
The leaders of the german at the enter
4ainment at Phoenix Hall the evening of
the 9th inst, were Prof. r. L. Gardner and
Miss Emily Mavor. We made mistake
in giving the name Of the lady last week.
John Macklin and John Baptiste, both
colored, had fight at Darrowville last Sat
urday and Macklin cut Baptiste on the left
arm with knife. The man who did the
cutting made his escape and we believe he
has not yet been arrested.
Mr.. Arthur Cloatre, who is employed
on Mr.. Oliver Beirne' s Clark plantation in
this parish, shot himself in the palm of the
left hand while monkeying with a 32-calibre
of course, but with proper care no serious
consequences are likely to ensue.
A new post-office has been established on
the line of the Mississppi Vally railway in
this parish, at Burnside Station. The Of
flee will bear the name of Burnside, and
Mr.. Henry G. Braud, the genial and accom-
plished bookkeeper for the Beirne places in
the fifth ward, has been appointed post
master.
Misses Susan and Annie Jacobs, the
youngest sisters Of Mrs. Solomon Schon-
berg, came up from New Orleans early last
week and will spend some time at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Schonberg where their
am1able sister, Miss Bella Jacobs, is presi-
ding as hostess during the absence of the
madam.
Mr.. A. II. CoHlbe, the gentlemanly agent
of the Singer Manufacturing Company at
this place, is to be married to-day to Miss
Lutitia Richard Of st. James. The cere- !
mony ia TO be performed at st. James j
Church, on the right bank, by one the
priests from Jefferson College. We wish
Mr.. Combe and his fair bride all conceiva-
BILE happiness and prosperity.
A beautiful Oil painting of the Mountain
of the Holy Cross, executed by Mr.. G. s.
Gray of Assumption, is on exhibition at
the establishment of Mrs. NJ. Israel & Co,
and will be disposed of by rattle. Thereare
sixty chances at so cents each and the low
valuation placed OH the work portends the
rapid filling of the list. We recommend
Jour local readers to see this painting, which
,can not fail to be admired by connoisseurs
CUTTING AFFRAY.-Wyatt Jones cut Will
son Howard on the left arm with a razor
last Sunday evening. The ARRAY took place
ION the Ashland plantation, near the LIN
wood line, and was the result of a previous
difficulty. Both men are eolored. Wyatt,
eendeavored to escape, but was appreheaded
by Nelson Patterson and Robt. Jones, and
was sent to Jail by Justice Fortune in de-
fault Of furnishing an appearance bond of
$50.
The announcement of the grand Fourth
of July festival for the benefit of the engine
fund Of Phenix Steam Fire Company No.
1 has reached ustoo late to permit of an ex-
tended, editorial reference to the affair in
,to-day's CH1EF, but our readers will gain
.an accurate general idea of the scheme by
:perusing the conspicuous advertisement
printed elsewhere. The attractions will
be numerous and ought 10 draw very
large attendance of people from the sur
rounding country.
The remedy for cancers, old sores, piles,
etc., which is advertised in another column,
is said to be wonderful cure for such all
ments, as numbers Of persons who have
tried it can testify. A friend of ours who
had been suffering from piles over twenty
years was thoroughIy cured by this medi-