The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-09-04

OF the street. Long before dayllenG
they sally out, to search the cutters
for the means Of life; with eyes like
cats, which seem to pierce the gloom,
they pass through the streets, picking |
up every rag and every stray piece of
paper that happens to fall in their
way; ash barrels are searched, and
kitchen doors are tried, and if per-
chance one is unfortunately left open,
the bag is quickly filed, aud they
hurry back to their dens to conceal
the spoil. Here 1000 people live from
day to day on what other people throw
away. Some deal exclusively in rags
and paper, while others drive a thriv
ing business on the refuse coal and
cinders thrown oat 10y careless and
unthrifty servants. Another portion
of this colony has usurped all the
street stands throughout the city,
where fruit and candies are sold by
the cents worth to children. A few
years ago these. street stands were all
in possession of the Irish, but by hook
or by crook the Italians have rooted
them all out, and are now in possess
sion Of the entire city. The business
must be profitable one, for an old
Irish woman died in New York about
a year ago, who for more than quar-
ter of a century kept an apple stand
on the corner of Fulton and Nassau
streets. Rain Or shine, winter OF sum-
mer, the old woman was always at
her post, and when she died, she left
All estate worth $4,000. The Italians
have got all that business now. They
also monopolize all the hand d-organs
in the city. They are not desirable
class of citizens. There may be, and
doubtless are, honorable exceptions,
but the great body of them are filthy,
,nurderous brutes, having. the lowest
and basest of human passions, drink
ing to madness, gambling and fight
ing; they furnish one of the most dan
ge1ous elements to be found amongst
our criminal classes. The Chinese,
who are their immediate neighbors,
are, as general thing, quiet, orderly
and industrious. At the present time
they are the laundrymen Of New York.
The Hisll washwoman is getting to he
a thing of the past, and in a few years
the places that knew them once will
know them no more forever; the
italian has captured their apple stands
and John Chinalnan has secured their
wash. tubs, and to give the - his
due, they certainly. are the most re-
liable of laundrymen. As a general
thing, you get all the clothes back
that you give them. There are but
few missing handkerchiefs or socks
while the shirts, instead Of returning
like battle flags that had been through
the great rebellion, have a decent
home like appearance, and are white
as the driven snow. The French col
ony lies apart by itself, and has little
or no communication or affinity Will
the Germans or Italians. Asa genera
thing they hate the Germans with q
good, hearty, solid aud enduring hate
They do not drink the same drinks
or eat the same food, or patroni2e the
same amusements, or have any thing
in common with their neighbors
From this region comes the cooks an,
confectioners for all our great restau
rants and hotels. Men who work il
fancy cabinet making and furnitur,
manufactures are here by thousands
They are happy and contented peo
pie, making much out Of little, AMI
giving US Americans lessons Of econ
omy III every day life which it nigh
be worth our while to learn. Daring
the winter season they support one o
the most fashionable operas in thu
city, and their habits are SO unobtru
siye, and they keep so completed.
within themselves that their existence
as separate class is scarcely sns
. pected by the great body Of peopl
in our city.
For the past week the heat has beel
SO great in the city that every bod.
who could get away has left. Their
were several days when, as Sidne.
Smith once remarked sit would hav'
been luxury to have stripped o1
your flesh, and to have sat in yol,
bones, and let the wind whistle tllroug
, them for the time" All our seasid
resorts are full to overhowing, an'
new hotels are going up on ever,
hand, Long Branch baving three nes
: ones of enormous capacity i'll actiy
preparation, while Coney Island, Man
, haitian Beach and Rockaway, not
withs1anding the immense caravansa
3 ries that have been opened during til
+ past year are all full, and the public
like Oliver, are crying more, more
> more.n ....r.@
i Politics, of course, are booming
/ and the mining stock market has i,a
qnite a lively tussle. don't eSactl
know what it means, but mining stock
which have been us dead as a sa
$ mackerel for the past six months, hav
It suddenly taken jump. In the lar
guase of the almanac, "now is tn
time to look out for squalls" Butte
n your pockets tight. Resist the devi
e and the desire to become mllliol
4 aire, "ne sutor crepedem "-let II
shoemaker stick to his last, aud whe
d the temptation is past he will be be
IS ter off.
ir All kinds of business is good, bett
than it has been for years.
% Our churches and theatres are 4
lie nearly ready for the new season, al
1T in another week the wanderers W