The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-19

and sound, the perils of wind, water ani
railroads excepted. Even these can b.
guarded against by an accidental policy
50 that the danger of visiting the me-
| tropo!is is reduced to the minimum One
branch of this excellent bureau is to be
devoted to taking care of wives ol
maidens who may wish to see the sights
and need u protector. The insurance
| office will furnish nice young man fol
two dollars and seventy five cents Il day
and expenses, who will wait on the lady
to church or popular place of amnse-
ment, and see her back to her hotel at
any time she may desire. Swallow-tail
and white cl'oker for the opera, frock
coat aud pearl pants for church.
Here is Il chance for unprotected fe-
males which has never been afforded
them in this land before. The charac-
ters Of all the young men employed are
guaranteed by the Y. NJ. G. A., and all
are pledged not to smoke pipes or cigars,
nor to chew tobacco, and the suspicion
of whiskey OF lager will subject them to
instant dismissal. Now is your chance,
Indies two dollars anG seventy five cents
for nice young man! Why, it's mere
bag of nails; perfect security guaranteed
and all the sights to be seen at the low
est possible rates, from Talmagc's Tabcr-
nacle to BunneIPs " What is it!
The sad month of November brings
with it the usual suicide mania. A half
dozen terrible suicides have occurred
within as many days, most of them ut
terly cansclcss except that the suiciders
seemed anxious to find out what lay on
the other side. Ono young man had not
quito money enough to start business
with, and thus marry his intended, who
very willing to take him; so
he put his household in order, told his
brother how to dispose of his body, bado
farewell to the world, took II dnso of
and quietly shutllcd off this NOR
tai coil. A Dntchman blew his brains
ont bccause his wife left him after be
had given her IL thrashins; aud Il most
worthy young mau, with excellent pros
poets, who appears to have had nothing
particular to disturb him, requests II few
days leave of absence from his employers
and forthwith goes and browns hInisrit.
He did not condescend to Lave behind
him the slightest reason for his act he
did it, and there is the end. On Tuesday
evening, young man returning with
female companion from Staten Island,
wherc they had been havin. Il jolly time,
jumped up from her side and leaped over
board before anyone could prevent him.
The boat was stopped as soo~ AZ possible,
but the man had gone to tho lnerm,ids
down below.
The season OF aln,iscmcnts is in full
blast all the theatres are doing 4 rush
ng business, for the city was never
fuller of strangers. Tragedy, comedy,
alce, drama, opera bontfc. jubilee sing
RS, and several species of moral anlus.:-
nents, furnish I, mental pabulum which
$ easily digestible, if not positively
reality. Rossi, the latest Italian sensa-
ion, has hardly reached the expectations
If the public; tho attendance so far has
'een almost exclusively foreign, and, as
10 is constantly compared with Salvini, |
he comparison is amy thing but hatter-
liz 80 the new artist. On Tuesday night |
10 favored us with an Italian version of |
Romeo and, while it might have
lone very we'll i'll Italy, it did not pass
MUSTER in New York. There is 40 histori-
al reason for believing that Romeo"
vas not Il very healthy youth, but it
.nocks all the romance out Of us when
'e kicks the beam ut 24J1! Aside from
Ill this, 1t requires an enormous amount
u! genius to make us imagine Il stou: old
nan of fifty Il youth Of Is or 20. 1t can
'e done undoubtedly, but Rossi does not
20 it. 1t is about on a par with Fraulicn
ieistingcr's "C;lmillc." In Sara Bern.
ardt VIC had the complete embodiment
f this frail representative of the Par
sian demimoudc. She was thin and
ony, and it required no great stretch of
nag nation to believe that she was
ctually dying of consumption; but with
healthy young lady whose belt-ribbon
leasurcs five feet and half, and whose
onsumptlvc cough is like the explosion
t Il tirst-class b;tssoon, tue case is alto
ether different. Yet, her German adj
Iirers scrncu to think .'dot it vos shust
& dinSs," and they applauded her to the
cho which applauds again. A respccta-
le German informed ne that in the por-
GUS OF Germany where the lager was
ood, consumption was not common; SO |
oppose that was the reason the people
pplaudcd, because they did not know
le difference between gailoping con-
lmption and cerebo spinal meningitis.
The windows OF heaven We're opened
n Monday and the rain descended, TO
le great joy of the people OF this great
ty; many of them were cut off from
Icir usual supply Of water, and they
leu began to realize what blessing
ley We're enjoying. Our stock run
cry low, and at one time starvation
as staring us i'll the face, if you can
Ill it starvation to die for want of w;-
r; but relief came at last, and now the
anger is tided over fer u time
This is a hot week for the politicians, ,
nd the principal candidates are maxim.
housed house canvass. shaking tile 5
lnds of the greasy citizens and consort-
e themselves with desirable humility
candidates for election ought to do.
| Brooklyn the Independent Democrats
I'VE hauled down the flag which they l