The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-02-25

snch women was a sight that maj
might see only once in lifetime, at n,
time was the hall in which they Assem-
bled crowded, and most of the time i
was not half full. The great dailie.
gave them a few lines of notice, but il
was not considered worth while to Civ,
detailed report of their proceedings
Now, mark the change. A couple O
Irish brutes, Jack Sullivan and Paddy
Ryan, agreed to pound each other for 9
couple of thousand dollars For week.
every detail of the movements of these
ignorant blackguards has been kept
before the public. Over forty columns
of the New York Herald have been occn.
pied with incidents and biographies o1
the bruisers, and thousand dollars has
been paid for single dispatch from New
Orleans, to give us the latest news OF
the fight. A half column of leader on
pugilism gives tone to its second page,
and as if the horrible details of the
encounter i'll Louisiana was not sufficient,
it is supplemented Big the history of a
cockfigbt conducted by gentlemen from
New York. Verify, verify, the millennium
is yet far off!
The most of the week has been devoted
to sleighing, and it is not often that
New York has such an opportunity.
Like everything good. it has it's draw
backs. Harlem Lane has been alive
with fast nags, and as might he expected
there have been numerous collisions and
runaways. One of these nearly cost the
city Mayor, and has probably ruined
an estimable lady and gentleman for
life.
A series of Sabbath lectures were con-
cluded last Sunday, which were intended
to increase the happiness and knowledge
of between two and three millions of
our German fellow-citizens, not to men,
tion the number of Americans which
this benevolent and erudite gentleman
has laid under the deepest obligations.
This learned Professor has been lectur
ing for number of Sabbaths past on
How to Make Lager Beer" The an
nouncement of this lecture course brought
together all the brewers of Gotham, and
the Sabbath was spent in the most edi-
tying and profitable manner. Every
thing pertaining to the science of beer.
making as unfolded and made clear 81
day, the Professor maintaining that j,
was our bonnden Christian duty to furnish
our fellow-men with good, wholesome
article of beer. This glorious sentiment
was vociferously applauded by the as
sembled brewers, and the president re-
marked, "Dos ishz~zo+>'s The figures
furnished were appalling. Millions of
barrels of beer and hundreds of millions
of bushels of barley were annually con-
snmed. Not less than one hundred mil
lions of dollars were invested in the
business and 100000 people looked to it
for there cole support. It would have
been no use to have talked cold water
to ssch crowd as that; many of them
hardly knew cold water by name !; not
one in hundred have ever willingly
tasted the abomiuable fluid, aud any
thing like prolonged drink of it would
have thrown, the stoutest man in the
assembly into galloping consumption.
At the conclusion of the lecture the
assembly gave the Professor a vote of
thanks, and something more substantial
in the way of a good-sized check, which
would have pat to blush the charitable
collections Of many 8 fashionable con-
gregation. l suppose that the moral to.
be drawn from this is-My son, always
study how to make good beer, and when
you get it brewed put all into thy Jacket
thou conveniently canst, and when thou
growest old thou wilt not depart there
from. $50 mote it be-
Business is reyiving and already we
have the incipent signs of an active
Spring. A large number of very fine
yachts will make their first appearance
this Spring, many Of them fitted up in
style of almost regal magnifcence.
Stocks have taken little whirl up. and
to those who have hungered and thirsted
long it looks as though they might be a
good time coming. If :ou have any
spare change don't bet on it; you might
lose. Still there is visible improve
ment, and the boys are busily trying to
find cut what Gould is going to do next
Much depends on the little man. There
are other factors, of course, but they are
O0O0 till he il heard from.
The weather, SO trying week ago, has
been almost mild as Spring. The heavy
| snowfall still impedes the streets, though
more resolute effort is now being made
to keep them clean than ever before.
There is still enough of mud left to make
a fellow say anything but
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.
Worth . Dozen Dead Men.
R1cHxosD, VA, May 20, 1881.
MY physician, after exha austing me finan-
| cially, cody informed me that my case was