The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
Assumption Correspondence.

EDITOR CHIEF:
Even befoEe old March, the blusterer, put
in an appearance, and ever since until Fri
day last, those of our pensioners whose
worldly interests and enterprises lay from
an inch to foot deep in the bosom of
mother earth, have walked, wept and wrig-
gled ut the preponderancc of dust, hard
baked elods and an over-warm atmosphere.
A little grumbling by way of variety is
sometimes pleasant, not only to the COM
plainant, who thereby rids himself of impo-
lite verbiage, but at the same time exceed
ingly welcome to the ears of the deSout
listener, who, in contrasting his own quiet
behavior, has q square opportunity OF in
dulging in the publiean's prayer. / like to
hear good old-fashioRed grumble, and
am highly pleased to know that your senti-
ments coincide with mine in this respect.
But when the language used is in excess of
the chronic GROWERS strictly polite vocabu-
larry. it loses its charm and becomes obnox-
ious to the ear. During the drouth some
few of the sufferers INDUCED in vocables in
appropriate, inharmonious and, l am sorry
TO say, inclined to that degree of profanity
which could not be allowed within the sane
titude of o printing office; consequently you
can not expect me to place them before the
erudite and moral reader.
But the little cloud no bigger than a
mans hand " showed itself on Friday and,
commencing the refreshing work in light
showers, continued increasing in capacity
until Saturday evening when it just " let go
all hollis and, with the Accomplishments of
thunder, lightning and a regular old-style
nor wester, made things scatter. Had the
gale continued with the vehemence it mani
tested at the start, the destruction would
have exceeded that produced by the Sep
TENDER storm of II, but fortunately its
duration was brief, in this vicinity, though
exceedingly disastrous as to results. On
the Elm Hall - place, just above town,
much damage was sustained; the purgery
blown down and the sugar refining machin-
cry totally ruined. On Madame Bourg's
DldHGdlIOH Tic CdIlC-SHtuS ICCSAIIJ SOoIt
ted, was thrown to the ground and on
various places incalculable injury was eff
fected, the particulars of which have not as
yet been furnish ed Inc.
And now the soil-tilers affirm they have
sutficiency of rain for month to come,
and the GROWERS, as they wade along, half
knee deep in mud, patching up PROSTATE
fences, etc, mutter uncouth sayings, the
text of which for prudential reasons may
for the present be omitted
About week since gambling party of
colored gentlemen assembled around a table
in an out-of- the-way building not over three
hundred miles from this burgh, with the
understanding that the game was to be a
new and improved one under the old title
of freeze out" There were six players,
and the sum total of currency produced by
the whole crowd amounted to 81 so. This
was handed over to disinterested party
who was ordered to turn the shekels over
to the possession of the happy Iainite who
should longest abstain from partaking of
refreshments. Referees were appointed to
take alternate guard over the proceedings
and the game commenced. At the expira-
tion of six hours two of the ring "caved.'
muttering cuss words and adjourning to the
bar. For three days and nights the four re-
naming gamesters perpetuated, each with
protruding optics and parched tongues stri-
wing to excel in sufferance. Then % young
sunburnt visaged fellow, with every sign
of fever, was obliged to have water, and
another agonized with NAL de tete, made his
exit in search Of relief The pair left mas
tiers of the 'posish " determined to hold out
until the last day in the morning and
though the struggle was desperato-a mere
question of endurance-they continued the
strife until near the completion of the sixth
night, when the referee on duty, weary of
the monotony, thought of a means by which
the contest might be brought to close
Stepping out for a moment. he returned
with decanter of spirits and some eatables
which he placed beyond their each, yet in
tempting view. Scarcely had the alluring
Viands been spread before their vision
when both men, forgetting all else but
their famished condition, mado rush for
tho provisions. One, only, had the strength
to gain the goal the other fell fainting on
the floor ere he had made one-half the dis
lance, and for honrs remained unconscious
The champion in his haste to partake of the
sustenance of which he stood so much in
need, grasped first the bottle, and, not
noticing that it was uncorked, placed it to
his mouth when the stopple, forced by the
upturned spirits, found safe lodglnent in
his throat, where, detying, the utmost exer-
tons of himself and the referee to extricate
it, he sank on the field of his achievements,
dead.
Verify, our Solons at the State House
have covered themselves with immortality
The glorious reformation Initiated at st.
Louis by the nomination of S. j. Tilden for
Democratic Reform President, and aug1nen-
ted by the 8 to commission, still further
assisted by the Returning Board trial, and
finally completed by the wholesome and
laudable measures carried through by our
Louisiana legislators, will be hung high up
III the tower of fame for future generations
to-whatl
The semidismantled Henry Tete passed
up the bayou an hour ago looking rather the
worse for the breeze of Saturday last. The
hoo