The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-29

ofmoney to pay for his treatment, and,
as security of his good faith, he left in
tho clerks custody his gold watch and
forty dollars. In the course of few
weeks he was discharged, and he applied
for his watch aud his money. Then his
trouble began; the clerk disputed the
amount. The poor man Indignantly in
sisted on his claim. The clerk raised
an ontcry that he was attacked by
lunatic. A couple Of burly keepers
rushed in, seized him, handcaffed him,
thrust him into a dungeon, and kept
him prisoner for over q year aud a half.
He escaped by promising keeper five
hundred dollars and when examined on
the outside was pronounced as sane as
any man in Brooklyn. The Commits
sioners Of Charity commenced suit against
him for his maintenance during the time
he was incareerated, but the Judge
decided that the man was unlawfully
detained, and that the city could not
recover.
There is an exceedingly uncomfortable
feeling in the labor market at present,
which bodies any thing but good. Meet
ings arc held nightly in various parts of
the city, and violent speeches are made
like those which preceded the labor riots
of a few years ago. There is no doubt
but the discomfort of tie masses of the
people is caused by the ostentatious
display of wealth which has amazed New
York for the last few years. Forty years
ago, and the millionaires of the city
might be counted on the fingers of
single hand. To-day they are as common
as defaulting bank cashiers. Fellows
with ten millions are by no means
scarce, and we have at least two who, if
all their little odds and ends were
gathered in a single pile, could no doubt
each Of them rake up a hundred millions.
Neither one Of them ever did an honest
days work to earn the money they have
accumulated. They have plotted, they
have sehemed; they have sacrificed
their best friends with as little mercy as
wolf wonld show to \ lamb; but they
have grown rich, aud they have only to
send out their invitations, aud all the
wisdom, and all tho virtue, and all the
piety of New York crowd their parlors
praise their taste, drink their wine, and
pronounce them blessed. And SO they
are for it seems, to a casual observer
that they have at their command ever,
good thing in the heavens above, in The
earth beneath, and in the waters that
are under the earth. Meanwhile, the
| ,,,1,r. 1.,,aru --rror.s Ffsi1g
sun to the going down of the same, is
asking himself if, somehow or in some
good things of this world, and whether, !,
in the dispensations of our ALL wise
Providence, some are born to starve aud
suffer, while others feed OH the fat of the
land and 60 arrayed in a ycsture that
Solomon, in all his glory, might have
envied. These are the questions which
we have to meet every day; questions
more easily asked than answered, but
which VIII have to be met, and that at
no distant future.
To diyest our thoughts from the labor
question and the violent fluctuations of
the stock market, we have now got a
whale. AS Hamlet says of Polonius,
If you wish to find him, you shall nose
him in the lobby as you 60 up the
stairs" The perfume Of this particular
whale is not refreshing; there are many
other things that prefer. A fresh
whale is not to be compared to a rose
geranium or new mown hay, but after
they have been killed for compile ol
months and left floating about in the
water, Oh, Jerusalem! what a; phew-N
W! Saurkraut, Limberger kase, car
bolic acid, onions, anl garlic, all COM
bined, with the thermometer at hun
dred and ten, would s i've you but faint
idea of the stencil Of that whale. 1on't
know how true it is, but give it to yor
as got it: I was told by reliable
newspaper reporter that dead mar
tloatel into the dock where that whai
was, but, as soon as he got near him, h.
hoated right out into the next dock
where lie was picked up by the Corone,
The weather has been decided,
winterish, and sealskin sacque is b!
10 means uncomfortable. The bulls
have made stand on Wall street, as
predicted month ago; and, unles
signs fail, bear meat will soon be dru
in the market. The reports of the 70,
between Sage, Could and Vanderbilt
all bosL. Their interests all lie one wa,
and that is rise in prices when the
: lie the ether way the people will no
! have the slightest difficulty in finding
out. We are evidently not getting an
{ poorer. The number Of costly building
now being erected exceeds, by sever;
hundred, the buildings of last yea
The great Mills building, on Broa
: street, is one of the largest and mo
costly on the American continent, as
is probably the most complete, in all
r appointments, of any building of
:. kind upon the globe. 1t is expected
:, be ready for occupancy abont the first
May, and, although erected at cost
= several millions, is expected to pay
n handsome dividend on the cost. 4
: greting that I am not the propriets