The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-08


thing in general. The New York
Commune, unlike their French broth
ers, will be summariIy dealt with as
the Police Department is thoroughly
organized and ready for any emergen-
cy.
The brick masons are on " strike
owing to an attempt by the boss build
ers to "cut them down twenty per
cent? There are very few non Union
hands in the city and the strike will
be most likely successful. Other trade
unions are threatened with a reduc-
ton by the employers. 1t is likely
the majority of these will acquiesce,
but will strike " in the spring. The
printers union were contemplating
reduction but this was refused by its
delegate to the Trade Union Assoeia-
ton.
This winter will find the masses
without shelter or means to sustain
life. Thousands who were able to
meet the emergency six months ago
now find themselves reduced to penury
by the failures of banks in which they
had deposited their hard earned pen
MES. Those who were the custodians
of these monies, and who gambled it
off in the Stock Exchange, are cogita-
ting how to evade their debts without
going into bankruptcy, and starting
anew. This alone is sufficient ground
for the government to establish Ma
tional Savings Bank at every post
Office where it may be necessary. It
will not in the main accommodate
the trades, but it ,riH prevent the poor
from being feeced by the "highly
respectable"
This is the exclamation that escaped
from the lips of every one on learning
the verdict which had been rendered
in the Stokes trial. Judge Davis was
nonplussed and grew as red as beat
when the foreman handed in the YER
dict. Sentence was Immediately
passed upon the prisoner, and the
Judge in meteing out to him the full
extent of the law, said that he was
only sorry that the law did not sauc-
ton a greater penalty for the great
crime he had committed. As anti
cipated in my last he was found guilty
of manslaughter in the third degree.
Delos Center, the eighth juror has been
arrested for contempt of court, per-
jury and it is thought bribery. 1t is
alleged, while in company with Dep
uty Sheriff, he exhibited a roll of
money and said I" that Stokes would
be hung-in a horn.n He is also
charged with entering a gambling
house and against the Instructions of
the Court-taking part in a game,
winning $100-conversing on the
merits of the case. Another juror
will be arrested as soon as the sheriff
gets his " blinkers" on him. In the
meantime Stokes has donned his base
ball suit and has taken charge of the
shipping in the Cigar Department of
the Musical Academy-Sing sing.
Before leaving the Tonbs -city Jail
he was the recipient of congratula-
tory letterfrom Frank Walworth who
notified him of his election as presi-
dent of his squad. Frank Walworth,
it will be remembered, was sentenced
for life, some months ago for the cold
blooded murder of Mansfield Tracy
Walworth, his father.
A new secret organization resem-
bling that of the Changers has been
organized, under the name of the
!" Patrons of Industry" with the Ma
tional Lodge in New York. Seventy
five lodges have already been organ
lied with membership of three or
four thousand.
Yours meanderingly
PENCIL DOT.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,