The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-22
THE CRESCENT CITY.
Newsboy Under and On the Weather.
Observation-Disclosures, the Mascot, etc.
New ORLEANS. Arril 90. 1882.

Newsboy Under and On the Weather-A
Misunderstanding, the Mascot, etc.
/ New ORLEANS, April 90, 1882.
EDITOR CHEF:
For some two weeks I've chad 'em y
that is to say I have been too sick to pay
my regular respects to you and my circle
Of country friends. But I'm up in /" the
other alley" now, and notwithstanding
I've been pretty we'll used up Pm already
tapping at your saIactum aud begging an
audience.
How have all my country friends been
since last we met-by proxy7 Well, I
trnst. If 1 wanted to wish them bad
luck think should come down with a
wish that they would be taken very sick
in New Orleans amid the noise and din of
passing drays, carts and carriages, the
shrieking of whistles, ETC., and with the
thermometer away up yonder in the vicin-
ity of "melto." That's just what Pye
enjoyed for the past two weeks, and
not being greedy-I don't want any
more Of it.
attended a wedding as "best man."
this week, and tell you it was something
grand, all except the weather, which was
a swindle of the first water. The rain
poured in torrents all day and all night,
| and the streets were flooded. l think
the clerk Of the weather ought to be
ashamed of himself for dishing up such
specimens of his wares, and think if I
had him here should just tell him my
opinion of his actions. That's what they
get for putting a greenhorn into the
weather office at Washington.
Well, the bride just looked too pretty
aud sweet for any thing, but somehow
brides always look that way; they say
that woman will look pretty on her
wedding day if she never did before in
her life OF never does after, and believe
there's more truth than poetry in the
| saying; any how, this one has been con-
sidered pretty at all times, and upon the
day Of the wedding appeared even more
charming than ever. Rather petit in
figure, with beautiful hair and large,
lustrous eyes, in whose depths could be
seen a heart as pure as the spotless snow,
the long bridal veil dropping in graceful
folds upon the long satin train, and the
wreath of orange blossoms gently kissing
her fair brow, she looked more like a pic
ture than a living being.
1t is a very solemn thing-this ever
lasting locking Of lives, and don't be-
lieve it ever flashed upon me before with
its full sense Of responsibility. There
| are two cards; one bears the name with
which her young life began, and the
| other bears the name of a man. There
| is nothing strange in all this, but the
| mingling of those two names put fiery
| tongue into the speechless pasteboard
which tells, all, SO much! The young
were there-gazing eagerly upon a scene
for participation in which their Joyous
| hearts pant the aged were there to wit
ness over again tue ceremony which to
| their own lives had given the charm.
Heretofore she had been IL clock, giving
her time to the world, and now she was
to become a watch, buried III a siugle
bosom s.tst1 keeping time to q single heart.
In her hand she carried 81 beautiful bou-
qnet of fowers-the gift of a friend-to
adorn the dying moments Of her single
life; they are the priest tokens of sim
cere friendship, and she chose to carry
them when she clasped hands with him
to whom she is to be friend and flower
forever.
TIE theatrical season has closed and
the city sinks into more Of an apathy
tlan eyer. 'I1a Acade.ny Of Music was
lie l:'s5 to open its doors to the public,
and it closed on Saturday last with
THE FORD OPERA COMPANY,
which had given us Il season Of two weeks
of burles1ue opera. Their performances
were much enjoyed, more especially those
of Thursday and Friday last, when they
presented +" Manola,7 a Spanish opera,
which was given here for the first time
I tell you it's amusing to see the boys
writhe under the blows of
"THE MASCOT"
which is an illustrated paper, now in its
ninth number, published in our city.
The little paper is something on the order
Of Puck, and is making a great name. 1t
is published every Saturday and is ter
ror to rings, cliques and wrong doors. |
Every one is on the qui rice for it each
week, as they never know where it will |
strike next.
of which is the fact that the Governor
has issued all initial quarantine procla-
nation against Rio de Janero, Port an
Prince and several other points infected |
with yellow fever. l heartily commend |
his Excellency's prompt action in matters
of this kind and trust they may be of
avail i'll keeping the dreaded disease FROM
among lis. Our situation this fall, from
the effects Of the overflow, will be 1eplor-
able enough without adding the ills at
tendaht upon season of yellow fever.
The Board of Health, however, seem
to place more stress upon quarantine
regulations than upon ausht else in the
matter Of health, which is evidenced
from the fact Of the streets and cutters
in the suburbs of the city being in q
fearful condition while the canals are