The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-12-23

exists among the pair of the most absnr,
and ridiculous character, SO she though
that all she had to do was to come t,
America, advertise herself for II concert
hire pianist, charge ten dollars u seat
aud after taking in q million or SO from
the barbarous Yankees, return to he
castle in Weles to enjoy it with tho di
vine Nicolini. The idea was u good one
it only lacked one element Of success
and that was the endorsement of tb,
public, but the public refused the ell
dorsement. They put down the price to
five dollars, and yet the public could moi
see it. At lest Mr.. Abbey took her il
hand, and by dint of good management
it he did not make her u success, ut least
he saved her from utter and disgracefu
failure. She was all gratitude apparent.
~, and promised Mr.. Abbey she would
engage with him for the present season
but required Mr.. Abbey, in addition to
her enormous salary and numerous .exac-
tions, that he should engage the old lu-
natic, her agent, and Nicolini, for whom
he had no use. While Mr.. Abbey was
! considering the matter Colonel Maplesou
slipped in and bore away the prize.
That prize may prove n Jumbo OH his
hands. Patti has ruined the opera sea-
son; for while her nights are good, the
other nights Oh which she does not APP
pear arc dead failures, the general aver
age of his company being much below
tire standard of former years. Everybody
is grumbling, everybody is dissatisfied,
and us said before, instead of being one
ut our greatest successes, it looks now as
if the present season would he one of
our most pronounced operatic failures.
At last the Bohemian blackguarls of
New York have succeeded in getting up
sensational scandal about Mrs. Lang
try. Unable to gain admission to her
presence, they have taken their revenge
by attacking q defenccless woman, Il
stranger OH our shores, for nothing that
she has dove and nothing she has said,
but simply because every drunken vaga-
bond who was supposed to represent a
newspaper could not call OH her at will
and examine her like n criminal in a
witness box. It is reported that there
has been difference between herself
and her friend Mrs. Labouchere, which
even IT true has not given the slightest
foundation to any of tho miserable sto
ries which have been put in circulation.
From the first moment that Mrs Langtry
set foot upon our shores she has borne
herself with exceptional propriety, and
it is safe to say that no woman, native
,0r. foreign, has ever passed through SO
trying All ordeal with such perfect and
unqualified success. There may or there
may not have been difference between
the two ladies, but if there has been
neither of them has ever acknowledge it,
and Mrs. Labouchere on leaving New
York declared to friend that she had
parted with Mrs. Langtry ON the most
friendly terms. But the very slight
foundation of supposed difference was
sufficient for the miserable crew who
live by inventing scandalous articles fer
their Representatives, who are u dis
grace and q libel on respectable Ameri-
can journalism, ard now they have done
their worst:~ They were piqued by the
announcement which she made that she
had never read a newspaper article
abont herself since She landed in the
country. l hopo she still keeps that
resolution, and she may possibly he
spared the pain Of knowing the depths
of degradation reached by portion of
tho New York press. 1t is true that at |
tentions have boon forced on her which |
it was utterly impossible to avoid, but
there Is not woman in IL million who
could have passed. the ordeal that Mrs. I
Lanytry has with such admirable pro-
prioty and unquestioned integrity.
The polar frost Of the week before has
been supplemented by almost summer
weather the snow has disappeared, as if
by magic, from our streets, and iu the
fields around the city the grass is as
green as in June.
The clans are preparing for Albany
and the opening of January will be
celebrated by the Republican hesira.
Lots of snug places are to be filled, and
there ere plenty Of hungry Democrats
who arc anxious to serve their country.
of $4,000 and $4,000 are not
picked up Oil every huckleberry busl,
but there is only one Office to about every
1000 applicants. Blessed are they who
expect nothing, for they shan't he dis
appointed. Gilbert & Sullivan's "Io-
anthe," at the Standard, is greater hit
than ' Patience" the receipts of the first
week being $4,000. The "Queen's shil-
ing," ut Wallack's, is crowdipg the
lonsc, aud Romany Rye" at Booths
will run to the end of the season. am,
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.
During recent discussion at the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Scien-
'nces it was doubted that the olors of
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