The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-28

1be DoQaldsopville Chief
Office ii, Crescent Place.
Subscription Price, Two Dollars 7 ga
DoNALDsoNVILLE, La,
Saturday, June %, 1884
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LOCAL JOTTINGs.
Straw hats for the million at Mrs. M
Israel q Co.'S. All kinds and all prices.
A detachment of the Cofasd Guards wi
be detailed to fire national salute ON th
public square next Friday noon.
Mr.. Jos. d. Ganthreaux has been spend
ing the past Ave days in town and leave
on the Belle Of the Coast Tomorrow
For Ane photographs, views, etc., call q
MeClure's gallery, corner Mississippi ant
st. Patrick streets. Examine samples ant
prices.
Mr.. and Mrs. g. Feitel are rejoicing owe
an addition to their family in the shape o
u boy baby who made his advent at o 'clocl
last evening.
There are already fifteen entries for TIN
grand horseback tournament to take placs
on the public square next Friday ana tlas
success of the affair is assured.
A heavy sh over OF rain, accompanied
by high winds, fell here this afternoon. TI,e
storm did not last over an hour, but the
rainfall was one and a quarter inches.
Rev. f. G. Hoctitt arrived from Plaque
mine last Saturday evening and held servi-
ces in the old Methodist Church on Railroad
Avenue Sunday OF IL o'clock A. II. and Z. so
Pm.
The Fourth of July festival, Doanybrook
fair and horseback tournament on the pub
lilo square next Friday will afford no end
of amusement to visitors during the day,
while the concert and bali will give q chance
to keep up the fun all night.
We have been compelled to omit several
advertisements this week to make room for
reading matter. We crave the indulgence
of the advertisers whose announcements
do not appear, and will make the omission
good in future issues of the CHIEE.
Parties intending to enter the grand
shooting match at the 4th of July festival
are Informed that Coughlin's shooting gal
lery will be kept open from Sunday morn
ing until Thursday night to afford them
opportunity for practice with the rife.
Twelve shots for 25 cents.
CoRoNER's V1Ews-Dr. John s. Thibaut,
Deputy, Coroner, held two views this week,
one Monday on the body of Willis Collins,
tcolored, who died of malarial pernicious
fever at the house of Peter Thomas in the
third ward, the other Tuesday on the re-
mains of Felipe Ferina, who fell a victim
TO sunstroke in the first ward.
Cadet Prosper Landry is i'll town on an
other sick leave from the State University
at Baton Rouge. He has improved consid-
serably since his arrival home and expects
Ito be well enough to participate in the
competitive drill of companies A and D
next Wednesday and also the subsequent
exercises of commencement week.
We hear that two bad characters have re-
GENTLY returned to this neighborhood, one
having been implicated with Henry Gay in
burglarizing the Weinschenck store in 1876,
and the other supposed participant in the
robbery committed at Feig's store, Port
Barrow, about four years ngo. Both are fu-
gitives from justice and should be arrested.
EsDowMEST RAEK.-Pu Pursuant to the re-
quest of Kenneth Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
Mr. G. I. Sawyer has obtained q set of the
blanks required for the institutions of the
endowment or insurance rank, and mem
bers Of the lodge who desire to enter that
rank are requested to assemble at the
Castle Hall next Thursday evening at G:3O
O'Clock.
Mr.. Ira E. circuit, an old gentleman 70
years of age, who formerly lived in this
parish and was employed as overseer on
one of the plantations of Mr.. Reuss in the
first ward, committed suicide in Baton
Rouge last Tuesday evening by taking an
overdose of laudanum. Financial embar-
rassment is assigned as the cause of his
g elf destruction.
We apologize to those excellent ladies,
Mrs. A. Ricor and Mrs. Marius Babin, for
emitting their names from the list of those
who were most active and efficient in pro-
noting the success of the church fair at
Smoke Bend Saturday and Sunday before
last. A correspondent whose letter will be
found in to-day's CH1EF kindly supplies |
our unintentional oversight.
The editor of the CHIEF has been favored |
With several invitations to attend the COM
exercises at the Louisiana |
State University and A. and M. College. |
Baton Rouge, during the coming week, but |
business engagements, coupled with the
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