The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-05-23
" See notice of election.

" See notice of election.
Considerable fever in our parish.
~ Read Registration Notice.
The river is rising here.
.~ Read judicial advertisements.
A. Riggs l. Bros, CiEtern Makers Office at
YAS DSlerd Street N. o.. send fer Price List.
Attention in called to card headed
Notice to the public.
Base Ball is getting quite fashion
able in Hahnville.
We are pleased to see that Mr..
Charles Madere, is OIL his feet again
after quite an illness.
Too much rain for the season.
We need fair weather now, to per.
init the working of the crops.
We have on hand a full assert
ment of Singer Sewing Machine
needles for sale at this Office.
Another heavy rain fell on Wed
nesday last, causing the roads to be
in miserable condition once more.
Miss Julia Miller, of New Or
leans, spent few days in our vii
lage, the gncst of her aunt, Mrs.
JOS. Stein.
tlne of the freight trains of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad, ran of the track at Davis
station on Wednesday evening last. and we
were compelled to do without mail that day,
as the mail train could not ger through.
ming last, from Mr.. Richard Ltbranche, q son
OF our worthy deceased sheriff, b. s. Labrnnche.
NJ. Labrlnchc is a resident of st. james par
in, and came-here on sasintss-
Onr iOvial friend ri. Felix. on his way to
the city short time ago toaA adv ia e Of
an opY1TtuL4t9 ~ ''ur0hi'Se oucReI "a o'.'k
berries, as an agreeable surprise ami treat TO
his folks in the city. Reaching there he gave
the bucket to a colOTed boy to he delivered to
them hui, alas, by, bucket and black-bcrries
vanished and he will never see them more.
The weather for the past week
has been the most uncertain that
we ever witnessed in the mouth of
May, with rain and cool spells.
Warm clothing being comfortable
nights AMI mornings.
Louis Washington, the colored
man who WAS arrested for stealing
rice sometime ago OF the SpelanZa
plantation, has jumped his bond; anu
10 clue Ohis here abOutS, alt hough
it is said that he took the Morgan
train and wenl up.
Our Sanctltn vas ellivened on
Wednesday evening last, by IA visit
from our genial friend, Manuel Bees
toso, accompanied by former resi-
dent Of St. Charles, Mr.. A. w. We'll.
of the firm of L. Levy s. Bro, Butch.
'Srs, of Kansas City, Mo.
We noticed u little effort has been
made by a few residents of the up.
per coast towards having their
bitches cleaned out running along
both sides OF the public road al
joining the levec thereby improving
it somewhat. If everyone would do
likewise, with little filling throw n
Into the holes these wretched eye
sores would be done away with.
We regret to state, that, notwith-
standing, excursion tickets are
advertised to be sold on both Texas
and Pacific and Louisville, New Or
leans and Texas Railroads, cur resi-
dents have been, in many cases.
charged the usual rates by the con-
ductors who informed them that
they have no return tickets.
HahnvilIe was favored with q
visit on Sunday morning last from
Messrs. John y. Beneke and b.
Schutten, of New Orleans The
former is the genial manager of the
popular hardware house of John }.
Voelkel, of No. 1142 Magazine st.,
and the latter il with the we'll
known house of John Nelson s. Co.
They were the guests OF Sheriff Dry.
On Saturday evening last, We
held in our hand &C the residence OF
Mr.. B. Danjean, of FreetOwn, seven
miles above here, some hail the size
of pigeons eggs, that had fallen
during the storm Thursday morning
previous. 1t had been laying iii the
shade near his sugar house where it
tell. Our readers may form al idea
of the riddled appearances of the
gardens, crops, and shrubbery,
also causing the death of several
animals, besides large loss of peul-
Try in different places.