The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-11

were in tight place with various
stocks that they had, and they ap-
pealed to Gould to help them. Gould
agreed to do this, for he was short OF
the stocks they were overloaded with,
aud he joined the confederacy upon
an agreement that they would let him
have 1000 shares of their stock, just
enough to save him from loss, and
that they should as matter of safety
unload their Western Union. They
did so-Gould's brokers bought every
share of Western Union they put
upon the market. BY this smart
operation he got stocks enough at a
low price to cover what he needed,
and got possession of Western Union.
1t was wonderfully acute transac
uion, and he made q mint of money
by it. Naturally they were indignant
at this piece of sublimated rascality,
and Keene tried to shoot him. Seloyer
did not attempt to avenge himself
with the pistol, but he went for Mr..
Gould the first time he met him, and
I Knocked him down an area, and
pounded him till he was half killed.
Selover says he did it to brand him
as a liar, thief, a sc0undrel, and a
man who is incapable of doing fair
or square thing. Gould is, doubtless,
the most INSCRIPTIONS man living, as
well as one of the most shrewd and
daring. He knows no such thing as
friend, and to make a point in the
market would sell out his grand
mother. He was not true even to his
old partner, Fisk, and no man on the
board who has ever done business
with him, has escaped, provided If
was Gould's interest to play him false
The turn of the tide in life insur-
ance has come. The insurance com
panies of Hartford, and the prominent
citizens, determined that the old
Charter Oak, with its splendid record
should not go down, and they rallied
to save it. Marshall Jewell, exPost
master General, and one of the mos
eminent manufacturers of Hartford
has accepted the presidency, and
board of men of similar capacity ant
character second him. The old com.
pany will go on, and pay dollar To-
dollar. 1t is we'll, for the ruin OF the
companies was making trouble every
where. The unnumbered thousand:
who have the hopes of families based
upon life insurance, want TO have some
assurance that their helpless heir
:, will get what they contracted for
The weak companies are about al
played out now, aifl those remaining
with perhaps one or two exceptions
may be considered sound.
We have had no famine-food hal
been plenty during the railroad dis
t turbances, but there has been droutl
S in beer. The beer made in the city
e is very bad, and the better class o
people get their supplies entirely from
: the West. 1t comes on il refrigerato
9 cars, and there is never Il large stool
l ON hand. The railroad troubles in
+, terfered with transportation, and ther'
;, has been a dfouth. The beer drinker
90 up and down athirst, and the.
D mourn for their fayorite beverage
u There are fifty carloads of beer a day
5 from Toledo, Milwaukee and Cincln
: nati, consumed in this city, and yol
{ can imagine the CONSERVATION whel
s the thirsty soul is informed that it
g out. The first carload since the strik
S came in yesterday, and it was mad
Il the occasion of jubilee. The Wester
G brewers are building ice-house es her
10 now in which to store their supplies
it so that this will not occur again.
The weather is cooler, and bushes
has revived perceptibly. There
& every indication of Il good falls bus
e ness. PIETR0.
$. CUBAN AFFAIRs.-The followin