The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-20


her to step up stairs. She said she pre-
ferred something cheap and good; th'
clerk was certain he'd be able to suit her
| she stepped in front of d nice glass case
ANA the first dress offered was 1915. Il
| is q difficult thing for girl with only
eleven dollars and seventy-five cents tt
figure out a dress worth three hundred
aud seventy five dollars, 80 she did no,
buy it. ''Oh, yon want something very
lowe" the oblising clerk inquired. The
young lady nodded assent "Now here
is a love Of 4 thing which was slightly
damaged oil the voyage ont, which We
can put yor at the low figure Of $3.50
llow's thats" The young lady thought
/, it was how; but she did not buy, though
| she afterwards learned as she was leaving
! the store that somewhere tucked away
| in I. drawer they had some old dresses
that might possibly be had for fifteen OF
! twenty dollars. The dress millennium
is not yet here. l am not sure that we
!! shall reach it within the next decade;
bnt whenever it comes, one thing is GER
tain, it will have received very little aid
and comfort from Miss Kate Field and
the Cooperative Dress Association.
mentioned in NY letter i, fow weeks
ago that the tosu was n IA bread grin q +
he marriage of George s, sieAles, the
father Of Gen. Sicklcs. to 4 lady VI 20 bad
acted to him i'll the capacity If house
keeper for many years. The bridegroom
WAS over eighty, aud the bride nearly
fifty, she being attended to the altar by
certain little responsibilities, which made
it apparent that the marriage ought to
have taken place several years before
"Better late than never" was his motto
So he made an honest woman of her; and
this week she came into court, renounc-
ing her ii ght OF dover, and trusting to
her husbands love and affection TO do the
decent thing. As he is reported to be
tolerab|y we'll endowed with this worlds
goods, let us hope that the new bride aud
her BARNS will not be forgotten
Easter, rs Il Spring holiday, has been a
most miserable failure. Almost every
oody who is any body, from Bridget up,
had Il new love of a hat for Easter; but
the sky was so overcast and threatening,
that not one of them dared to wear them.
The whole week has been ono of uapleas-
ant surprises: the weather has been
dismal, everybody growing, and lots OF
fine fellows VIII, hoped to se sailing
along in this holiday time with royals
and stn'ns;sils set, are now, owing to the
tumble in stocks, l,ugsiay 4 lee shore
with nn,hing set but a STERN staysail,
expecting every minute to go upon the
rocks.
Tuesday it was cold enough for a
heavy overcoat Wednesday you might
have gone skating; Thursday was only
(. slight improvement over the other two;
so You must not be surprised that even
so pious citizen as B:oadbrin, chilled
by the wintry blast and sharing the gen
eral discomfort, forgot tn say, as he Wen!
to roost, "Now lay me- etc.
The stock market is still! like a stormy
sea, beg;rt with qricksands, and li'ee!
with rocks Occasionally some adven-
turous mariner throws the lead, and
reports 70 bottom, but in less than a
minute he finds his keel scrapirg and the
wafer is rushing in the hold. A short
time ago propiecied d boom. / fargo:
the admirable advice of Scion Shingle:
"Never prophesy onless you're sure I'll
think Of that next time, and hold on to
my proguosrications till after the event
has occurred.
The Times goes for Vanderbilt and
Gonld, ard abuses them roundsy for
manipulating the stock market. Neither
Of these gentlemen profess to be saints.
and it is not till they experience some
thing, either religion or something else,
that we can reasonably expect them to
mend their ways. Houses that cost three
millions are not put up for nothing:
somebody must pay Tor them. OF course
it would not be right to ask Vanderbilt
to disturb the fifty millions of Govern
ment bonds which he has tucked away
in an old stocking for /; rainy day, so
suppose tho money can DO picked NIP as
easily in the stock market as anywhere
else, aud there's the whole matter in Il
nutshell. 1t has been All awful time for
the fellows with small margins, but the
good little boys of WALL street ougst npt
to forget that excellent motto: Child
reu should not play with edge tools"
For some cause or other there has no.
been the boom in real estate that many
expected this Spring. There were large
amounts of capital seeking investment,
but tho strikes among bricklayers and
carpenters have paralyzed building for
the time Bosses are afraid to make con-
tracts for fear that the advanced Rates of
labor may involve them in loss, and cap
ltal holds aloof expecting higher rates Of
interest. l very much fear that the
striking mechanics have killed the goose
that laid the golden egg, They may re-
solve that S4 or S. shall be the standard
wages, but they can't compel capitalists
to put up houses at that price.
A large number of fashionable we'd
dings have graeed the Easter season.
Murray Hill has been in 4 fever of ex-