The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-12-01

WIZ AA4So hSNSA VA tAAHO' uSh v
is no reason under Heaven why the
deft fingers of u woman should not be
better in q trade like this than the
coarse and clumsy hauds of q man.
A cigar made Of expensive stock
must be finished in handsome style,
it must be elegantly shaped, smooth:
ly and nicely finished, and there is no
reason why woman's taste and dex-
terity should not be utilized in this as
in other workmanship requiring SINH
lar qualities. The cigars are mostly
made at the workman's home. So
much " fillern and 80 much wrap
per is weighed out to the workman,
who is required to deliver SO many
cigars of q prescribed size and weight.
The manufacturers own tenement
houses, which they rent to their en-
ployees, and in this way the work,
while it is done without factory, is
practically tindeF the supervision of
the employer. The manufacturers are
now .ejecting the striking tenants,
who of course have not paid rent, and
each ejectment is made the occasion
of demonstration. While the furui-
ture is being loaded OH carts, the stri-
kers cheer for the elected, and groan
for the ejector, and the load, decora-
ted with flags, moves away to the
music of an inprovised band. 1t will
end in the men returning to their
work, with the loss of months time
and some experience. The agitators
are the only ones who make anything
by these movements. Swinton howls
aud Schwab sells beer, in comfort,
but the deluded workmen starye.
Strikes are expensive luxuries. j.
The war against rum goes on with
varying success. A large number of
low groceries have been fined over
and over again during the week, and y
few of them have thrown up the
sponge aud quit in disgust. The big
hotels close on Sundays, and serve
liquors at tables in their restaurants
| which the law can't take hold of. For
other violations they pay their fines
quietly and go right along. The
Law and order league" are deter
mined to at least check the traffic,
aud they will, if they do not get to
quarreling among themselves. One
faction wants the effort to be made
against the low bucket shops alone
the other insists that the fashionable
bars need shutting up rs we'll. But,
divided as they are, am glad to say
some impression is being made upon
the trade. The city is cursed with
over 5000 rum mills of all kinds, and
4 u 10 tOO nCASy q toA ~ OCdi. Dut
for these crime factories, the police
force could be reduced half, aud the
criminal courts would have nothing
to do. Judge Daily remarked the
other day that nearly eighto per cent
of the criminal cases that came before
him could be traced directly to
rum.
There is no truth whatever in the
story that is being circulated that
Theodore Tilton and his wife are
to come together again. Tilton be-
lieyes that his wife was false to him,
and Mrs. Tilton believes that her
husband has been false to her, aud
they prefer 10 live apart. Theodore
!. called upon her on his return from
Europe to inform her as to the condi-
tion of her daughters, whom he left
in Europe, bat the interview was c0n-
fired strictly tO that business. She is
living qdietiy in Brooklyn, and he il
living quietly in Second Avenue. The
report that Monlton and Tilton had
quarreied is equally untrue. They
r are still fast friends, and hate Beech
er as cordially as ever.
Business is not SO brisk as las
week. The uncertainty as to the sill.
] yer bill has had a depressing effect
for no one knows what the condition
of things will be if ID passes. /
would be u blessed thing for tn
r country if the currency tinkers woult
!. let it alone, and allow it to regnlat,
itself. Medicine kills more than j
cares, and there is nothing so terri
n ble rs uncertainty, for it checks bust
ness, while expenses go on jnst th
| same. SCRIBE.
j. T. Colling, secretary of the West
j, ern Insurance Co., Cincinnati, wa
q $4,000 short in his accounts. Tll