The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-08

Beef means gold and lots of it, and will
do our butchers the justice to say that
meaner beef have never seen in New
York. It brings to my mind lively
recollection of the beefsteaks abont q
yard and three-quarters long that used
to see hanging over q clothes line in the
markets of Chill and Peru In those far
away lands if the children got refractory
while the breakfast was preparing, the
mother could lambaste them with veal
outlet, mutton chop or beefsteak, and
make it all the tenderer by the operation.
In private families the consumption of
meat has fallen off fully one-balf, and if
matters continue it will soon fall off the
other half Every thing is fearfnlly high.
At no time during the war was meat any
higher that Mt present, and then gold
ranged from 200 to $50. We now begin
to feel the effect Of shipping off from 12,-
900 to 20, 900 cattle per week. Ifnothing
else can do it, put an export duty on
cattle.
Our saints are flying to Jerusalem and
Paris. The minister who does not cross
the ocean in vacation now is mighty
small potatoes and few in hill. The
clerical lustrum has begun, and am not
sure that it would not be enlinently
proper to call it the DEVILS carnival, for
the sentinels have departed from the
watch-towers, and the shepherds have
left the sheep, and if the devil does not
get his share of the flock it will not be
their fault. just imagine Paul saying to
Timothy: "Tim, Pm going to Paris to
have time; if any of the Galatians or
Corinthians inquire for me, tell 'em I'll
be back in a couple Of months. NV con-
gregation at Galilee have voted me an
extra thousand shekels, SO Pm going to
have bully time." am satisfied in my
own mind that Paul would not have
spoken thus. He would have said:
" Brother Timothy, I have had an invi-
tation to visit the hot baths at Damas-
Gus, but the money it would cost might
he used in the conversion of the heather
take it., Timothy, and buy them some
Moody and Sankey hymn books, and give
them each q red flannel bight-cap and q
pair of socks, and will not go to Damas-
Gus, but will bathe my weary limbs in
the waters of the Jordan That is what
Paul would have said, and you can bet
on it. What Paul would undoubtedly
have said if the congregation at Tarsus
had raised his salary to four hundred and
seventy-five shekels of silver, and then
voted him an extra allowance, is not i'm
itated by the evangelists of these days.
Alas, alas! we have fallen upon evil
times.
The end OF Western Irritation
was almost a coroner's inquest, Wednes-
day last. A gentleman journeying out
of Chicago in q Pullman car was asked
by u good-looking lady to raise the win
dow; he remarked that it was very hot,
and she said yes and then he remarked
that he didn't think it was SO hot as the |
day before yesterday, and she said no.
Before they had gone far the lady wanted
a glass of water, so he, like true gen.
tleman that he was, got it for her, and |
so they became acquainted. At parting
he said he should like to hear from her
again, and she vowed that he should, and |
that she considered her ride from Chica-
go to Laporte one of the sweetest Incl
dents of her life. The lady arrived at
her home in New York and her husband I
got possession of one Of the billet-doux;
so he compelled her to make an appoint
ment with the gentleman at Central
Park. The ardent lover was on hand to |
the instant, SO was the lady's husband
and his brother, armed with couple of
stout cudgels. The gentleman scarcely !
had time to take the lady's arm and say
that nature never looked more lovely,
when bi,n! lie got it right OH the back of
his head. At first he thought he was
strnck by Western cyclone, and, as lie
tnrned, a soedolager OH the nose brought |
him to grass; the lover went for his pop
gun; things began to look serious, when
a stout Park policeman appeared upon
the scene and lngged the whole party off |
to limbo Moral-don't lift up windows |
for ladies in railroad cars, or if you do, |
jump ont and let the ears run over you.
Notwithstanding the strikes and high |
price of labor, building is going on all |
over the city. The new Produce Ex-
change, which faces the Bowling Green,
is going to be built almost exclusively of
stone and iron; from present appearances
it doesn't look as if any thing short of an
earthquake could touch it. 1t is an era |
of mighty buildings-buildings which |
few years ago would not have been pos
sible. Elevators, telephones and tele- |
graphs have done it. 1t is not SO very
necessary to go up and down stairs as it
was; yon eau ask by telephone for any
thing you want, and the new patent |
steam apparatus which is now rapidly |
hurrying toward completion will render |
fires entirely unnecessary. The electric |
light will he in all the great buildings
about Wall street before the year is past,
and with our big suspension bridge fin
ished between New York and Brooklyn,
making them virtually one city, We hope
to be able to get along. Both political
parties are going to reform. which is !.
most excellent sign, but whether their
reformation will extend beyond election
day time alone can tell
The weather has been little Of all
sorts-days Us cold as Greenland and as