The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-08-14
Our BrOadbriln Letters.

A Business Boom The snioidd Manis
Unabated Gar6elds Reception Dr.
Tanner Completes his Fast Doctor,
Disagree Maudlin Sympathy for Mur.
/ derers, Etc.
EDIToR CHIEF:
One OF the most extraordinary fea-
lures OF the week has been the bust
ness boom, which, in spite of politics,
hot weather and other unavoidable
misfortunes, has caught New York on
the fly" and brought clerks back
from their summer vacatioDs at a
double quick, disconcerting many
ball matches which had been put up
for the dog days, to say nothing OF
more tender engagements with "the
girl / left behind me-" However,
there is no help for it; all the world
and his wife are here to buy, and the
most Of our large mercantile houses
have had to call in their reserve
forces to enable them to sell their
goods. The sales of one house last
week reached five hundred thousand
dollars, and q number Of them are
doing y business Of from sixty to sew
enty thousand dollars day. This,
for the dull season, is not bad, and
before we reach the first Of Septem-
Der, we may expect to see one Of the
largest business months that New
York has seen for years. Houses EN-
ploying hundreds Of statesmen work
late into the night filling orders;
and it appears to be confned to no
particular kind of business. Every
body is speaking about the unusual
rush. If you want suit of clothes,
or pair Of shoes, you must speak for
them two or three weeks ahead.
There has been considerable rain
during the week, and some impute
the business boom to that; for they
say that merchants from the West
and South, who came on here to
spend the summer at Coney Island
and Long Branch, not being able to
enjoy the sea side for the past week,
have turned their attention to busi-
ness. Whatever the cause, the pros
perity is unusual, and our hope is
that it rnay continue, no matter who
is elected.
One would think that, in prosper
Gus times, we would almos. be ex-
empted from ordinary suicides; but
the contrary is the case. One man,
after being married to his wife thirty
eight years, discovered an incompati-
bllity of temper. It appears that he
and his wife were in business, but
not together. He had tried various
things, from carpenters shop to
coal yard; while the lady divided her
time between millinery establish
ment and a second-class boarding
house. The woman made money, and
the man did not. It appears she
staked him literally on several occa-
sions, but his riches took. wings to
themselves, and flew away. He finally
went for her rings and little trinkets,
SO dear to the female heart, and then
came rebellion. The result was that
the husband came to New York the
first of the week, and after calling on |
a married sister, he wandered aim
lessly around the city for two days; |
at last he pawned his watch, bought
a revolver with the proceeds, |
wrote an affectioDate letter to his |
wife, telling her that he would haunt |
her if he could and, as . last re-
quest, he wished that his body might
be packed in ice and sent home. Un-
doubtedly, the man was insane. No
one but a lunatic would expect his re.
lati0ns or friends to pack him in ice at
the present price of that commodity. /
If he really wanted to be reveDged
on the wife who had driven him to
suicides grave, he would have left
out that last request about the ice,
and merely asked to be sent home,
with the thermometer at 95o in the
shade. / think he would have made
an impression ou her that she would
not be likely to forget. Another man
took arsenic for the same cause, do
mestic trouble; and no less than six
females have taken the same short
cut to the unknown. Five Of them
succt eded in piercing the mysteries
Of the dark vale, and one was turned
back half way; she was young girl
who had lost father and mother, and
was left alone. It was case of COM
plete heart sickness and weariness
no evil had befallen her, but she was
alone, and there is no loneliness like
that of person alone in u great
city bolts, locks and prison bars are
to it. and SO she resolved to
take her life. She went down to the