The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-01-03

81 What s the - st eating coarse o. com.
mon food Nhea son can ct tho best Il
Manrius Uhnep Grocery Emporium at The
same prices?
Any planter o. other person standing il
need Of four good mules car. make desira..
BILE cash bargain By applying to Mr.. ". g.
Wilkinson at tho ASCENSION news depot
and variety store, Railroad Avenue, Dom
aldsonyiIle.
Persons wishing to attend the conference
at Minden on the 9th inst, can procure
excursion tickets to and from Shreveport
on the Texas 4 Pacific railroad at the rate
Of Ave cents per mile one way. These tick
cts will be on sale from the 9th to the 7th
insts., and will be good to return until the
18th. They can be procured from the local
agents at any station on the road.
Dr.J. G. Legare, formerly Of this parish
but for the past three years or more resi-
dent Of San Luis Potpsi, Mexico, arrived
here Wednesday and is spending q few days
visiting friends and attending to some pri-
vate business. Besides praeticing medicine
the Doctor is Interested in gold and sill
yer mines in Mexico which promise him
rich returns upon his Investment.
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New telephone poles thirty five or forty
feet il height are to be erected in Donald
sonvilie instead Of those now standing. A
force ct men who started out from New
Orleans to put up the new wire from that
point to our town are now working in st.
James and are expected to reach here in
about two weeks. After getting the new
poles in place they viii proceeda- down the
bayou to put up q wire from Napoleonville
to Thibodaux.
Asa Cook, colored man employed on
the Mpnnt Houmas plantation, was fatally
shot on thSt flace On the 10th ult:, by one
Wesley Ga1treau, also colored, who made
his escape after the shooting and is still at
large. The bullet entered the pit of Cooks
stomach, ranging down and to the right
perforating the right lobe Of the liver. pro-
ducing internal hemorrhage and death. An
inquest was held by d.. Jno. s. Thibaut,
Deputy coroner.
WAsH-ouT.-A rain storm almost with
out parallel in that section of country
occurred in Rapides and adjacent parishes,
Saturday, Sunday and Monday last, causing
heavy freshet in the Red river and tribu-
tary streams. Several pillars of bridge
on the {. d p. railroad near Boyce station
were washed away, causing suspension of
travel over that portion of the road from
Monday until yesterday. The damage has
been repaired and trains are now running
on the new schedule.
The proceedings CT last Wednesdays $685.
sion of the Common Council are so lengthy
that we have been compelled to crowd out
considerable local matter to make room
for them. 1t will be noted with general
surprise, We think, that the market rev.
enues are not to be leased to the highest
bidder, as has been the practice heretofore,
but will be collected by salariea employee
to be appointed by the Mayor. We have
no space for comment on the subject this
week. A new license ordinance was passed
and municipal tax of five mills on the
dollar levied for the year 1885,
HoN1crDE.-Wm. Davis and John Brad
ley, colored section hands il the ssa ssJse
Of thu, MIssissi1pi Valley Railway Com
pany, had q quarrel about piece Of soar
last Wednesday evening, at Mount Hou
mas place in this parish, which cu1mi
mated in the killing of Bradley by Davis
The weapon used was revolver and tht
ball entered Bradley's back near the spina
column, wounding both lungs and lodg;ns
in the left side. Davis fled and has not ye
been apprehended. DR.. Jno. 8. Thibaat
deputy Coroner, proceeded to Mount Hou
mas on Wednesday and held an inquest OF
the body of the dead man.
1t is reported that Mr.. Philip Geiger, tht
we'll known Donaldsonville confectioner, is
about to suelthe Texas and Pacific Railwa,
Company for 10000 damages because hs
was put of a passenger train near Compan,
Canal, on the 18Th of December, by con
ductor. Mr.. Geiger had one of the new Ex
position excursion tickets, but through in
advertence or otherwise failed to have i
stamped at the company's Office in New Or
leans, and although two or three gentlemen
attested his identity as the bona tide holder
Of the ticket. he was forcibly elected from
the train, the conductor declaring that hi
instructions were imperative not to recog
| nize unstamped return tickets.
CHANGE OF ScHEDuLE.-A change in tn
running time of passenger trains on tn
Texas and Pacific railroad has been an
nounced, beginning last Monday. TIL
local train, which is to go through to For
Worth, connecting with a bobtail train O,
the Baton Rouge branch road at Yves
Baton Rouge junction, now leaves Mex
Orleans at z o'clock A. H., passing Donald
sonyilie at 1926; returning. passes Donald