The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-02
DONALDSONyILLE La SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1877.

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printed books. The smuggling of
cigars from Cuba is a very large trade.
The incoming vessel having cigars on
which no duty is to be paid, displays
a peculiar signal when approaching
the shore, and she is boarded by men
from small boats, who take off her
cargo and land it on the coast any
where. Or the cigars are packed in
oilcloth, and when the vessel is COM
ing up the bay the captain throws
them overheard to the boat making
the proper signal. Liquors come down
Lake Cliamplain, and over the great
lakes, and find their way to the city,
duty free. 1t is an immensely profit
able business, and, SO long is our from
tier, attended with very little risk.
The National Woman's Rights As
sociation held its annual meeting in
| the city, Thursday last. These meet
ings used to be very large and enthu-
siastic, but the interest in them has
perceptibly declined. This year Ma
sonic Hall was not one-quarter full,
and it was hard work to get up any
steam atall. Isabella Becker Hooker
was there, and so, likewise, Blake,
Austin, Lozier and the regular stand
/ bys. They were all more, angular,
more shrewish, more petulant and
more waspish than ever. The usual
papers were read, and the usndl reso-
lutions adopted, and the ancient wo-
men dispersed, probably never to
meet again. Ten years ago these
same women were petted and made
much of, and they don't understand
why they are not now. They are
better developed, intellectually, than
they were, and better fitted to grapple
with grave questions. The poor old
girls don't seem to understand that
all this is precisely what is not wanted.
Men don't want women who can
grapple with questions great o.,
small, or have any special amount Of
intellectually. And then they must
remember that pretty little essay
read by girlisll woman, with round
\ figure, nice hair and bright eses, is
| quite another thing from learned
| speech delivered by an angular female,
| with no hair to speak of and with eyes
behind severe glasses. They must
remember they are older than they
were ten years ago. If the suffragists
expect to again get the public ear,
they must take it through the eye,
and put pretty young women on the
platform.
The gamblers are having bad time
of it in New York. The law against
pool-selling is being rigidly enforced,
and Senator Morrisey, Mr.. Tillen's
friend, has moved his establishment
to Jersey City, just across the river.
and the others have followed suit. All
the pool houses have gone over there,
much to the delight of the ferries
for that part of the gambling fraternity
whose business is betting on horses
aud base ball &c over every night
And, as the Jerseyitess are attempting
to put their law in force, the pool
sellers have fitted up barges. which
they anchor ont in the stream, beyond
tShe jurisdiction of both States; and
therein they not only sell pools, but
, indulge in faro and similar pursuits
I The law seems powerless to prevent
) men from making fools of themselve,
, when they get their heads set in thai
> direction.
: Tilden has announced that he vii
not contest the claim of Presitlenl
, Hayes to his Office. a because it woult
5 be likely to drench the country ii
. gore.n The fact is, the old man hal
had the best lawyers of rlie country
> at work ever since the decision agains
I him, to ascertain if there was no
4 some hole through which he NIGH
= crawlin into the Presidency. Last weel
they announced to him that Hayes
claim was impregnabe, and that h,
!. might as well throw up the sponge
4 and he does it tearfully; but, Tilden
: like, tries to make some capital il
the doing of it. IT it cost the lives o
9 fifty thousand men to get the Presi
8 dency, Tildep would have sacrificet
a them without wink. The countr,
is tn be congratulated that the lay
. puts the position in the hands of tn
It right man. Tilden's expenses fo
N something over a year and a half hav
averaged over $4,000 day. He lla
bled freely, and the host of inpecunion
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