The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-29

loving citizens, who would have been
happy if they had all been blown up
with nitro glycerine. German stock has
been at par from that day to this, and is
likely to continue 50; and hope to see
| the day come when the Italians and Rus
slams shall he able like the Germans to
take their own part against lot of cow
ardly ours who would attack destitute
| stranger trying to make an honest living
! in strange land.
As 1 said at the beginning, it's the
thermometer, so sat down to study ont
the case, and finally discovered that no
good people are to he found in any very
hot place; and the hotter it is the worse
| they are, SO my advice is to keep cool.
The week has been one Of exceptional
| violence, assaults, murders, suicides and
| robberies. Two murders have occurred
here within a few days, which if they
| had taken place in Mexico or Arizona
| among the Indians, would have aroused
the nation; but we have got SO familiar
| with this sort of thing that no one seems
| surprised at it. 1t would appear that no
place is as safe to kill man as the streets
| of New York. Within very short time
| two men were killed under exactly SINH
| lar circumstances that is to say, they
were with friends; they were not alone
in dark alley, but in q broad street,
well lighted, yet in both cases the muir
derer escaped, and from present appear
ances it don't look as if he ever would be
found.
The only thing that we have had at all
cooling or consoling for a week was Bro.
Beecher's formal announcement last Sun
day of his disbelief in q personal hell
Shades of John Calvin aud Wesley, but
it must have kicked up % row if some of
the good old orthodox Presbyterians who
are now enjoying their otium cum dignitate
on the other side of the Styx could
have been flying around when Henry
Ward made that comforting declaration.
I look upon him as public benefactor.
don't want any Gehenna in mine; the
taste have had of it for the past five
days assures me that it is not a pleasant
thing to have. I've been ciphering. If
it so intolerable with the Thermometer at
e6, what would it be at O,O0o, 900 degrees
No, NO! No hades in mine. Pm going to
apply for membership at the Plymouth
Church forthwith.
The hot weather has not been wholly
nnproductive Of good; the bears have
begun to hunt their holes in Wall street,
and the bnlls are sloshing around with
blood in their eyes. Stocks have gone up
with a boom, and present appearances
indicate rising barometer; money is
abundant and cheap, and people feel that
they must do something; it's agin the
law to go in for a little ante at poker or
the Egyptian king; but you can go in
for your bottom dollar OIL Lake Shore or
Northwestern without the slightest fear
of a church invcs tigation, us their wives
and families arc all Oft at the watering
places, the boys are going in for fun. The
good news from the West Of big crops
has something to do with it undoubtedly,
but whatever it is, the boom has come to
stay. A friend at my elbow suggests
that the average Wall street broker will
have to get used to this weather sooner
or later, aud that may be the reason why
We have so buoyant q market when the
touches the nineties.
Everybody who could conveniently get
out of town has gone; one very worthy
man remains, but my modesty forbds me
to name him. The advent of IL new loco
motive on the Erie road has been one Of
the sensations Of the week. 1t is built
on the principle of q naphtha stove, the
generating power being naphtha and
water. One thing is certain, and that is
the thing will go. The trial trip last
Tuesday was Of the most satisfactory
character. There is one thing that will
recommend it to the travelling public--no
possibility of getting a cinder in your
eye, for there is no smoke and cindcrs,
which is a great advantage.
The activity i'll building is wonderful;
some of the largest structures that New
York has ever seen are now being built
A million of dollars in q building now
seems nothing; and as for height, don't
know where they are going to stop. Ten,
twelve, fourteen stories are not uncom-
mon, aud for fear they are not imposing
enough, every man now puts a tower or
steeple OH his house and every fellow is
trying to get little higher than every
other fellow. When you get down in the
street after an excursion to the top of one
of the buildings you might imagine your
self Oh the plains Of Shinar, for such
polyglot Of tongues could scarcely have
been mustered at the base Of the tower
Of Babel. Dutch, French, Hebrew, Hin
dostan, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Irish
and Chinese. Wishing that was by the
sad sea waves, am,
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
A female who is troubled with cold feet
and hands, pain in the side and back, palpi-
tation of the heart, monthly suppression or
will