The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-08
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Z" Beware ov the vidders. samivel, Mike
Davitt-The Strikers-St. Paul's Talk
ACar rFlirtati0n-The Produce Exchange
-Weatller, Stock Market, etc
NEW YnRK June % 1890

Davitt-The Strikers-St. PauPs Talk
ACar Flirtation-The Produce ExchanR
Weather, Stock Market, etc.
I NEW York, June "a, 1882
EDITOR CHIEF:
1t is little over a year ago that til,
good city of Brooklyn was startled by
novel law suit. A German woman i,
Ponghkeepsie had lost her husband
nothing very uncommon about that, 20,
will say-but there was something yer,
uncommon about this particular case
He left his frau in Pougbkeepsie one fin.
September morning, and that was the
last of him. The river in front of the
town was dragged, every lager beer shop
and garden for twenty miles around was
searched, but they might just as well
i1ave looked in the sea for fish. hook az
for that missing Dntchman. It is true
he was only the ninth part of man, OF
in other words, a tailor; but the widow
mourned him sincerely, nevertheless, for,
fraction of a man that he was, tailors
were by no means plenty in that town
SO the widow went into weeds and adver-
tised for washing. Six months passed,
and Time, that inevitable consoler, was
gradually softening her grief, when one
day to her horror and surprise, she heard
that her missing husband had taken up
quarters with q buxom widow in Brook
lyn and was living in clover up to his
ears. The outraged wife started for the
hiding place of her faithless spouse, but
the only satisfaction she got was to be
thrown over the fence into the backyard
She was conquered for the time, but not
snbdued; she sought and obtained all
interview with her husband, but the
widow was too much for her; so, like a
sensible woman, finding she could not
get her husband, concluded she would d
take the next best thing, his value; so
she went and consulted an attorney.
How many suits have been instituted in
the past for erring aud recalcitrant wives;
but the courts give us no history Of case
where wife had sued for damages for
the loss Of husband in case like this,
and why not I respectfully ask again
why not? can conceive no reason un-
less it was that the courts ruled that q
man who would desert a good wife was
Of no account, and consequently of no
assessable value. But Mrs. Briemann
did not take that view Of it; she learned
that tho widow Paasch had ducats, SO she
went for them. The damages were put
at $40, ,0OO-not q bad price for tailor
but after careful hearing, the wife got
verdict for 81 800, aud that was all she
got-the verdict, but not the dollars
F.. Mrs. Briemann returned to her home
and her wash tub. Mr. Briemann went
to his slop-beard, his goose and his for
bid,lcn delights, and the widow to watch
the course of true love, which never did
run smooth, and to see if she could keep
Mrs. Briemann ont of her damages and
her husband. But as said, year has
gone by, and now Brooklyn is startled by
a new sensation; the widow Paaseh has
shot her quondam lover, and while am
writing, the widow is in Jail, without
bail, awaiting the result Of bullet-hole
about as'big as a trade dollar, in her
lovers back, and the doctors are specu-
lating whether the unfortunate tailor
will go back to his first love at Pough-
keepsie, or his second love in Jail, or
what is more probable than either, to
that place where they neither love or are
beloyed-the other side of Jordan. Mr..
Briemann had evidently not read Pick
wick or he would have profited by tile
of the elder Weller, Samivel,
beware ov the vidders" The newspapers
furnish the item that the widow Paasch
who was sued last year for enticing
away the husband of Mrs. Briemann,
shot Mr.. Brie1nann in the back this
morning, and he now lies in a most crit
ical condition. 1t looks very much as if
there might be coroner's inquest Oh a
defunct tailor.
Michael Davitt has come and gone and
we still live. O'Donovan Rosa and his
crowd thought they had in him a leader
worthy Of their cause, but his prompt
Of assassination was terri
BILE blow for them, and his endorsement
of Parnell completely took the wind ont
of the sails of the assassin's party, so
they will have to look around for other
leaders. Mr.. Davitt expressed himself as
highly gratified at the position of Irish
men in America, and we'll he might, for
on the night of Mr.. Davitts meeting in
New York the primary meetings were
held in Brooklyn for the reorganization
of the Democratic General Committee,
and ont of little over 800 delegates 140
came from the Ould sod, and the Mayor
and one-llalf of the Aldermen of the big
city that honored them are of the same
fortunate nationality. Mr.. Davitt had
reason to feel proud, and he will feel
great deal prouder when, at the end Of
his twelve days visit, he turns his face
towards the "Gem of the Sea-" with q
pocket full of reasons for thinking that
the American Eagle is bigger than the
British Lion, and that Brother Jonathan
is q eanonized saint worthy to be ranked
with st. Patrick.
Our troubles come thick and thicker;
M sooner do wa rat one act of strike ora