The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-19

| That day under the penalty OF having TIL
mighty structure blown to smithereens b,
dynamite. For myself I believe it's roor
| back. For the one Irishman who coule
! be found in New York to do injury to thi
grandest triumph Of modern engineering
there are thousand who would peril thei
| lives to save it from harm. We are not a
all alarmed if it is opened on the Queen
birthday, if the mad fool lives in New Yorl
! or elsewhere who made such foolish threat
There are plenty Of patriotic Irishmen il
New York who can and will take care O.
him.
Our sister city, Brooklyn, as usual, fur
nishes US with the sensation of the week
A certain Brother johnson who has figured
of late years as a reviyalist, temperance
evangelist, a Sunday-school superintendent
and the trustee ofseveral valuable proper
| ties, had the misfortune, OF good luck
| hardly know which, to have pretty wife.
The evangelist did not profit by the example
of Moody and Sankey, but went scooting
all over creation alone. Mr.. Johnson AYERS
in his complaint thatwhile he was absent il
! Australia a particular friend of his was
guilty Of having done those things which he
ought not to have done and left undone
those things which he ought to have done,
and as {. consequence there is good deal
of a row in Plymouth Church, of which both
| parties are prominen; members. Mr.. John
son lays the damageat 500, O,0OO-not bad
price for a frst-clas wife, morally and
physically sound, but much too high for a
| damaged article which Mr.. johnson de-
| clares his recalcitrant spouse to be. 1t is
rather a nice aigebraie problem. If dam
aged wife is worth $4,000 what is a good
one worth? Figure ii out and send us the
answer. BY the way, the divorce market is
very lively just now. Mrs. Boucicault, nee
Agnes Robertson, is seeking release from
her bonds. The author OF ''London Assur-
ance,' "The Shaugrmln,' and about half
a hundred other pieces Is no saint. More
than twenty years ago there was good
deal of a row about "a affair d'amour in
riding in a cab with hdy who belonged to
somebody else, and Ms. B. did not approve
of such doinga, and fG a time she made it
quite lively for the dhmatic Lothario. 1t
is exactly thirty-one ears ago since he in
troduced Agnes Robertson to a Boston
audience. At that tine Mr.. Boucicault was
supposed to have be9 Miss Agnes Robert
sons agent, but on the occasion of her
benefit Mr.. Boucicaut came forward to re-
turn thanks for the beneficiary. He said:
"Ladies and gentlemen, allow me, on be-
half of Mrs. Bo-e3:use me, Miss Agnes
Robertson, to retuIl you her grateful
thanks" etc. Next morning there was
quite an explosion il Boston, for half the
young dudes of the modern Athens were
dead gone On the fai' young Agnes. But,
ah, me! that was thry-one year ago. De
Bellevilie's wife is sung for divorce and
the only mystery is nov any decent woman
could ever have became infatuated with
such a contemplate salawag, etc. Belle
vile, you will recollect is one Of the leading
actors of the Madis.n Square Theatre.
O5mond Tearl, Walllck's leading man,
brings up the tail of tie list, and for sub
lime cheek and impulbnce he can take the
cake. But divorces ale not the pleasantest
things in the world to talk about; they are
suggestive of shattered hopes and broken
hearts and ruined hcmes. When we read of
4 divorce suit we cannot but remember that
there was a time wh.n the couple now seek
ing to be sundered stood before the altar
and vowed to love each other forever and
aye, or till the silve. chord was loosed and
the golden bowl vas broken: but both
parties committed agrand mistake and did
not discover it till too late.
We are having pleasant time with our
pawnbrokers, who are now preparing their
bonds under the new law. They are now
compelled to file two sureties of $4,000
each for their honesty and good behavior.
The icence is increased to $500, and it may
astonish your readers when [ tell them that
the capital employed by my uncle, which
we afectionately call the pawnbroker,
amounts to betWeenten and eleven millions
of dollars. A paw1broEZer's window is a
startling history. Eere may be found wed
ding gifts, bridal rings, medals and swords
presented to heroes oy cities, towns, States
and corporations, diamond snuff boxes and
family silver, gay silk dresses that have
ministered on festive occasions to the pride
of fine ladies, and svallow-tailed coats that
have done service at gubernational levees
and Presidential receptions. All sorts of
things drift into the pawnbroker' capacious
NAV, and he sells them when forfeited,
sheep, so help me Moses, at an advance of
two hundred per cent.
The weather is growing warmer, and our
friends at Coney Isand are repairing the
ravages of the wintsr. A week or two Of
our present weather and the favorite ocean
resort of the people will be again in full
blast. The Stock Exchange is excited over
the coming election. There's millions in
it, and the fellow who gets on the inside
hOId5 the string. Apo0f wretch d1eu III the
hospital on Wednesday covered with filth,
vermin and rags, ard on his person were
found sixty dollars II cash and bank books
aggregating forty thousand dollars. I wish
he had made me his heir before he crossed
the Jordan. Trade s improving, but stocks
are still stagnant; luiiding is going ahead
like mad in fact. there iG a real estate
craze; the excitement is increasing about
the opening of the new bridge, and we ex-
pect it will exceed ;he celebrations of the
Of Crobn water and the laying
of the ocean cable.
Truly yous, BROADBRIM.