The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-22

we have paid rather dear for the whistl
And as if to wind up the affair with an Ell
tertainment in character with the season
we are visited with storm that strews til
shore with wrecks, and does hundreds {
thousands of dollars worth of damage upo
the land. Everybody seems glad to ge
back home and there are fewer regrets G
returning than I ever heard before.
Now then for good solid work. An
speaking of work, the labor demonstration G
this week comes under that head. Hereto
fore the masses have been without propc
leaders of far seeing and COMPREHENSIVE
grasp, who see that labor, to make an ef
fective stand against the encroachments O
capital, must organize, not in little band
and cliques that can be destroyed piece
meal, but all labor organizations bound il
one solid phalanx fighting the battle of tn
toiler and the producer. Twenty thousans
men were in the line. There was little O
| none of the waste timber of which process
sions are made. All of them were me1
who earn their bread by the sweat of tn.
brow. The effect Of the great gathering
was as wholesome on the men themselve!
as on those they intended to impress. Every
man seemed to feel that the eyes of the
community were upon him, and he was
as the representative Of his class. And &
more decent, orderly procession was never
seen in New York. IF the working men keeI
up such organizations az this all over the
country, it will not be long till the poll
ticians and capitalists stand cap in hand
soliciting their aid.
But, while the. close of the watering sea-
son brings back our tourists, it has also
brought back fine crop of thieves. Pick
pockets are as numerous as mosquitoes,
and notwithstanding The fact that we have
between three and four thousand of the
finest police on earth, if your watch is at all
exposed it is sure to be snatched.
A ray of light beamed on Wall street this
week. The bulls made stand they wouldn t
stay licked Every tine they got knocked
down they came up to the scratch groggy
and smiling. Then here and there, bear
began to give ground, and presently the fur
began to fly, and it was not long before the
bears were roosting on the fences and climb
ing up the trees where the bulls could not
get at them. Now hat stocks have taken
a little boom every body is saying told you
SO; you might have Known it; Jay Gould
was at the bottom of it; guess Vanderbilt
took a hand III ii, etc., etc. However,
we must confess that things look more
cheerful than they did last week.
The Senate committe gave little Jay a
roasting. They made him give quite
chapter of his life, but strange to say, he
never said word about the mousetrap
which every newspaper man in the United
States knows was the foundation of his for
tune. According to his own account Jay is
public benefactor, and he ought to know.
John Jacob Astor is determined that there
shall be no fight over his will, SO he has
made a gift of all Of his earthly possessions
to his son, William Waldo, now minister to
Italy. He is one of the worthiest young
men to be found il the length and breadth
Of the Union. H IS one of the rich men
that fortune has not spoiled, and | prognos-
tigate, if he lives, that he viii confer more
honor on the name of Astor than any one
Who has borne It, back to the remotest gen.
9ration. He is a thoroughly educated gen
leman and scholar, q fine Hnguist, a stu
lent from choice, who believes he ought to
10 something among his fellow men. He
S a good, honest, faithful worker, plain
md unpretentiotk, and thoroughly Amer
can. William Waldo Astors fortune it is
to estimate, but it would sur
,rlse no one il it reached one hundred mil
ions. No man Of his age ever inherited
uch a fortune before, since the world be-
'an. 1t is probably just as well that it has
allen into the hands of man with a level
ead and a good heart, one raised above all
emptatlon to every thing except to found
or himself and posterity high and
honorable name.
1t Is now quite certain that citizen has |
o rights that a policeman is bound to re-
pect. A brutal, drunken ruffian beat a
oor wretch to death with his club, and |
hey hardly know how to get at him. The |
can't reach him; the courts |
18th him; and presume the result of the
1vestigation will be that they viii vote
i'm a gold medal and pension.
A rich broker was indicted at Staten Island
or the nom support of his family, who were
ound in a clubhouse in a most horrible
ate of destitution. 1t was said that the
oman was his sister: they had four chill
rem. The man was divorced from his
ife many years ago, and then took this girl,
as only q small girl then, and he says she |
ave it out that she was his sister, but
aims that she was not related to him, and
iys. moreover, that they were never mar
ed. Cohabitation N New York is ;1t.inac1 |
tcie proof of marriage, and he did not de-
that the children we're his. The woman
I'd children were dressed in rags and
naciated to the last degree of Starvation
lille the man was we'll dressed and had
le SolQ WdIcl anu ring. "A STOUT TaWhlde
/ his raw hide would do him good: for
e wretch who could desert woman and
II little ones, wife Or no wife, as this in
imam fend has done, common killing is
o good: he ought to die upon the rack.
1t is now pretty certain that the war of
q factions will split up both the Dem
ratio and Republican party to smithe-
ems. Over one question they are all agreed.
I'd that is that faction should be dropped
Id that they should all be united under a
ngle leader, and it is question of who
at leader shall be. There are about one
lndred and ninety-six Democratic patriots,
" one of whom would willingly cast him
If in the breach to save his country, and
ere are at least a hundred and fifty Re-
lblicans equally patriotic and self-sacrif-
ng. George Francis Train still sits in
Mon Square waiting the coming hour
nen his suffering country shall call him
ON his enforced retirement. Is George