The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-09-30

she consented to become his wife. Tire
and twenty years have softened TIN
memory of that day but to the najorit!
of New Yorkers, in spite of its jewel
, and it's gold, it seelnedalittle less than .
! hideons sacrifice when the lovely, bloom
jng young girl was led from the altar by
| that poor little tan. dried Cuban anatomy
1t was whispered that one who madlJ
loved her, aud to whom her troth lla(
been plighted, stood in the body of the
cathedral till Archbishop Hughes pro
nounced the fatal words which separated
| them forever, and rushing out found
oblivion for his grief in the dark waters
of the river. After a-time reports reached
us that that Signor Ovidio had cut
off her head and hung her up in the blue
room, like Blnebeard, with thirteen o1
his former wives. Of one thing we are
| certain, that if he had not exactly killed
| her, at least he kept her locked up where
nobody could see her, and she was dying
by inches and no mistake. Gradually,
however, we forgot her; the war came
OH, and even the celebrated Diamond
Wedding ceased to be- remembered ex-
cept by those deeply versed in the folk
lore Of New York. 1t was IL genuine sur
prise when this famous lady appeared at
Trinity Church on tuesday last and
| asked the assistance ct the rites of the
Church to make twain one flesh. No old
man led her to the altar this time, but ii
real genuine hero who has earned his
spnrs in honorable service; he had not
as many ducats as Siglor Ovidio, but the
bride has no need OF them, for Signor
Ovieio left her an ample fortune with
which to freight her ship on this second
matrimonial ventures Whatever the
difference of opinion may have been
about the first marriage, there can be no
two opinions about the second. Colonel
Bodo Won Glumer is a lucky fellow; lie
has one of the liandsomest as we'll as one
of the most intellectual brides in America,
not to mention the filthy lucre, which
certainly does not detract from her
charms,- and size has fitting mate in
the gallant soldier who was lucky enough
to win her.
We have had a grand parade of the Ia
Dor unions, which has led number of
our newspaper philosophers to speculate
on the propriety of labor para,les and
strikes. The freight handlers strike cost
them nearly a. quarter of a million dol
lars. That would lave put up two lur-
dred and fifty houses at a thousand dol
lars apiece -wliicf Il swbI6d have been their
property forever: The senseless parade
of yesterday cost 100000, and this money
was spent by men who complain that
they are oppressed and suffering. Sup
pose they had all worked yesterday, aud
with the proceeds of yesterdays work,
estimating what they could have earned
and what they spent, they conld have
put up one hundred houses, and, instead
of wanting to live without paying rent
in somebody else's house, they could have
lived rent free in their own till they
died. Less beer, less whiskcy, more saw
ing, more thrift, fewer runshops, ought
to have been the notices on Some of the
banners. One thing would strike tho
most casual observer, and that was, that
the procession of yesterday was one of
the best fed and best clad labor process
sions that could be seen in any country
in the world. They looked like any thing
but sufferers, and compared with the
thousands who have been pouring in up
on us from Europe since the 1st of Jan
uary,~ might well be mistaken for a
landed nobility.
The cost Of living is getting to be
frightfni. On every hand we hear of a
prosperous and abundant year, but we
do not feel it in New York The papers
tell MS that money is cheap. have not
found it so. That the wheat crop is
unprecedented, yet for a barrel of first
class flour the price is eight dollars.
Notwithstanding the abundant harvest,
potatoes arc dollar a bnshel, and in
ordinary years they were only a dollar a
barrel; butter is thirty-fiye cents a
pound, beef from eighteen to thirty, aud
veal twenty-five to thirty. Never in
the memory of man III the United States
has there been such dee September.
If this thing continues the laboring men
and the mechanics mast have more wa
ges OF starye.
Stocks keep bobbing around full of
promise, but with mighty little perfor-
nance. The guiIeless children of Wall
street have read that most delightful
fable of the burnt child, and they pro-
pose to profit by the story. The weather
begins to feel very much like Fall, and
if there was any doubt OH our minds as
to the season, the new call for dresses
and bonnets would soon give us all the
Information we require.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
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