The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-08-08
Eighth Ward items.

: Eighth Ward items.
The Crop Outlook Educational Matters
Il Controversy Of the COrrespOndents-The
s Coming Race, etc.
EIGHTH WARD, Ascension, July 80, 1855.
EDITOR CHIEF:
= To while away dull care during these
.5warm, rainy days while keeping within
Edoors nursing pet that makes moving
9around more painful than agreeable, con
Escluded to give you few local items from
Sthis rural part of Ascension's dominion.
I'VE have hattering prospect for crops out
here, particularly cotton, barring the fire.
4quent summer showers that cause the
: Tweed to grow too luxuriantly and shed its
forms, and the knowing ones say has q
@tendency to propagate that dread destroy
Ter, the army worm. We verify say if q
multiplicity Of showers will have any effect
in causing the appearance OF cotton worms,
I'VE are certainly liable to be annoyed with
them this season, but Notwithstanding this
: threatened calamity everybody looks serene
= and happy, as their prospect for a bounti-
proceeding season.
! Prof. Thos. Wallace has just closed his
fwriting school at the Big Swamp school
= house which represented about twenty five
: Of the pupils Of said school. All showed
: splendid specimens Of their improved pen
manship that reflected great credit upon
: both teacher and pupils.s The premiums
we're awarded to Miss Cornelia j. Moore,
daughter of our esteemed fellow citizen
Paris B. Moore, who made greatest i'm
: provement among the girls, and Masters
ITommie Webb and Eugene Brown made a
stie for the premium to be awarded to the
3boys, hence the professor decided the contest
fly awarding each premium. Prof. Wal
lace is now teaching class of adults IN the
same vicinity, and will lecture upon tenn
Iperance on Tuesday, the 4th inst, ut Big
Swamp school house, at early candlelight.
The Professor is to organize another
school in the neighborhood Of Prairie
willie when he concludes his engagement
lat Big Swamp. The schools in this ward
|are making preparations to close at
THE expiration Of the current scholastic
month, except Galvez and Lake, which were
Opened later and will keep open for SIX
or eight weeks longer. There has been OK
ceptional interest shown in education this
year as the attendance in every school has
greatly increased over former years.
On last Saturday night, the let inst,
there was an exhibition at the Prairieville |
colored school, taught by B. J. Reddix. The |
exercises consisted of declarations, dia- |
logues, singing and Rotations. All passed |
of in manner creditable to both teacher |
and pupils. Among the pupils Of the school !
that particularly distinguished themselves |
and deserve to be mentioned we noted |
Misses Ella Robinson and Emma johnson |
and Masters Eugene West, Albert Williams,
Geo. Robinson, Vincent Little, Albert All
kens, Merris Fields and VIM. johnson.
Fully 250 colored people were present, in
Guiding some Of the most prominent and
we'll known on this-side of the river. Among
the invited guests were many residents of
the fifth, sixth and seventh Police Jury
wards and prominent and we'll known col
pred men of the parish of East Baton
Rouge. Your correspondent saw some
things to be condemned also certain meth
DDS to be improved, but acknowledges that
many we're to be commended. There were
for sale lemonade, ice cream and beer, yet
40 one drank enough to dethrone reason.
We out here have become considerably in
crested in the correspondence going on in
your paper and the Democrat about matters
We are I'LL interested in. The funny asse1-
ions Of a correspondent over the sigma
ure of "Observer are exciting consid-
derable comment. He seems to base his
observations on hearsay, and so quotes
reliable information" We that have
cad his last production wonder how he can
tick to his refuted theory that the New
River road can be made for $500 and be
,ept up for 500 when the Secretary of the [
4ane Company offers him the contract for
constructing for $1,000 and $500 per annum
or keeping it up? In the face of the above
low can he claim his first information to
e correct or reliable? l notice that he
low finds fault with the overseers, calls {
hem /" cubs " Of the bosses (does this imply
he managers are old bears?) and by re-
ection conveys the idea the boys were hav-
ng a fine time while the old "oats y were
way. 1t appears to US that he is chronic
He has pitched into the Town
ouncil Of Donaldsonville aud in the same .
reath vents his spleen against drummers. I
hen he censures the Police Jury and ar s
igns the New River Lane Stock Company, =
nd his last, in invading the plantations '
nd disturbing the quiet, unassuming life = 4
the overseer, is the most absurd and IN b
alled for attack of all. It appears that he =
getting severely chasstised by our young I
lend, the Secretary of New River Lane
tock Company, for his temerity in med
ing in that matter, and now we hear that
e overseers {" cubs are about to han :
Q him without gloves. Better go slow, [
i. Observer" lest you may have to
awfish or be called on to let other peo-
e's affairs alone. From what we see and
ar, If the correspondents object was to
It the cheap notoriety incidental to news
per correspondence, he has succeeded Il
but if he started out with the
ew Of making himself popular and Gre y
ing impressions favorable to himself as
public spirited citizen, he has made
nspicuous failure.
We are all waiting with bated breath
: the trial of speed between our favorite
Julien and Ourso's Nelly. Some think
+ horse will win, while there are those