The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-10-18
FIFTY YEARS AGO !
BY UNCLE SILAS.
5.

bore the name of "Thibodauxville.n
Some years later the names were
changed by act of the Legislature.
A. B. Roman, of st. James Parish.
was Governor of the state. He was a
man of great popularity, a sugar plan
ter, and was, in 1860, one of three
statesmen who were selected. by the
confederate states authorities to visit
Washington city, to effect a treaty of
peace between the two sections of the
country, but. as it is well known, the
mission was Intellectual.
Alfred Roman, lieutenant colonel
of the 18th Louisiana Regiment C. S.
A. subsequently aid-de-camp to Gener-
al B~eauIegard, and author of the life of
that distinguished officer, and lately a
judge of one of the courts Of New Or
leans, is a sOn OF Governor A. B. Ro-
man. VIM. Dubuys, was speaker of
the house of Representatives. Felix
Garcia, vas president of the senate. II.
Michel Thibodaux, was senator from
the senatorial district in which this
parish was situated, Doctor Deshiels,
Aubin B. ThibodauX, and one other
were representatives in the legisla-
ture.
Judge Nichols, father of the present
governor of Louisiana, was the district
judge, and John c. Beattie. was dis
trict attorney. This was in wing
times all except Beattie were mem
bers of that party.
The judicial business of the parish
was vested in a parish judge, who was
judge, clerk and recorder at the same
time. That Office was filled by James
McAllister, under appointment by the
governor of The state, confirmed by
the senate. McAllister was a native
of Kentucky. a man of great populari-
ty, and is always spoken of by his con-
temporaries in the warmest terms of
eulogy and respect.
He was never married, and made
his home with the late Mathurin Bourg,
on Main street, ear jackson. He
died in 1912, was buried in a cemetery
on the Terrebonne Road, some ten
miles south of Thihodaux, but his
remains, on the establishment of st.
Johns Cemetery. on Church street,
were brought back and inferred there
in. His friends erected Il handsome
monument tohis memory, which stands
on the right of the entrance gate into
St. Johns Cemetery.
Mathurin Bourg. was sheriff Of the
parish, of whom mention has already
been made.
Among the business men of the town
in 1910 were Jenkins & Moore. dealers
in shoes and hats Bourg & Lacapere,
general variety Joseph r. Niles & Co.
groceries &c. Leblanc & Daunis,
general merchandise ; LANCE V. Mag
giolo, groceries &c. Ellie r. Bourg.
dry goods; Phillippeau, bakery; Job
Wilson, store; Leblanc 4 Daunis,
merchants. Foley & Townsend. run
the saw mill whose frame stands above
the Thibodaux foundry.
There was Il drug store in the same
building which Z. N. Roth occupies to-
day, on the corner of Main and st.
Philip. kept by Blanchard, who sub
sequently removed to Houma, prac-
tlced medicine. and owned Il sugar
plantation neal that town.
Dezauche was IA dentist. DR.. Will
liams who lived on the corner of Jack
Gun VIZ NholN StICCtS. Ill VIC billuiIE
now owned by TimothG. the baker,
Dr.. Scudday, Rouanet & Dozier, were
practising physicians.
j.. Z. White was postmaster and was
glad to receive two mails per week,
that came by horseback or stage from
Donaldsonville, on Tuesdays and Fri
days. People who received letters that
came yer 500 miles, paid 25 cents for
them if only 800 miles, the price was
1S4 cents if less than that outside of
the parish, 121 cents: if within the
parish, st cents.
Lovers, who wrote to their sweet
hearts, were expected to pay the post
age in advance. but when IL dun was
sent, the receiver had TO pay the post
age, as a punishment for his delay.
| have often heard some of the COM
mandments badly broken by persons,
on opening their letters. after paying
the postage, ard finding only ii dun
enclosed. Envelopes were unknown,
the writer folding up his letter and
sealing it with wax. There was no
licking stamps in those primitive days.
j. l.. Cole was q lawyer, who was
somewhat Of a literateur also. He was
a genial pleasant gentleman, who,
when he first came to Louisiana. |
think, taught school for DIR. kitredge,
near Napoleonyille, and probably
studied law at that time. He was
elected district Judge about the year
1S4a. He was il later years II member
of the supreme court of the state, and
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