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

Reference to His Earlier Contemporaries
| A Railroad Wanted Along the LafourcEe
| -Weatheritems and Mosq
Talbot VS.. Talbot-Deatl of Napoleon
1 viIIes only Small Pox Patient-The Chief
and Two Other Fellows Complimented-
| Prospective Fun in Assumption, etc.
! NAroLEoNvILLE, May.17, 1883.
EDITOR CHIEF:
| Old fogyism is dwindling slowly away
and Young America, drawing on his Spring
boots, is scanning the surroundings for a
| favorable site on which to plant his ever
green forest and rear his laurels. In these
days of invention and progression people
have neither time, inclination or need to
make excursions in quest of the philoso-
piers stone, or swing an electric light dur
ing the day to spot an honest man. 1t
isn't the sincere, chaste and just customer
that is required-in business point of
view: and the artificial pebbles of to-day
surpass in brilliancy-and may add, value
the long-sought p. S. Of long ago. Such
old fellows as Plato, Cicero, Diogenes, Her
odotus, Petrarch, CULVER and Harry Hyams
are nearly forgotten. They were great in
their day, and no doubt put things through
with a vim that astonished their generation;
but that was some time ago, and Though
we should feel somewhat under obligations
for the tea-kettle and silk kite theories, we
must not devote our precious time to the
perusal Of ancient history. improvement
in every thing seems to be the watchword
Of the nation, and | am not surprised that
even this, the Sleepy Hollow of Louisiana,
is striving to ameliorate its condition.
! Yet, notwithstanding the ''up and onward"
look Of our: denizens, it appears to me, as
| "looker-on in Venice" that as a prelude
| to more thorough and lasting achievements,
means should be provided for the rapid
and safe transportation of our produce.
The plan of deepening Bayou Lafuurche SO
az to admit steamers at all times of the
year, may as well be passed over as utterly
futile; but a railroad cta be constructed,
and that it acIj be is almost certain: and
from the moment the first cross-tie is laid
iiiS NhiiCy WILL oSSoltC ~ IL
osure toward. which-the commission mer-
chants viii turn the graspine thoughts and
greedy eyes. And ere another decade shall
have passed the thing will be did.
Now that Messrs.' Boreas, Holus, Zepil-
yrus q Co., have measurably reduced their
energies, one would naturally expect some
repose-a quiet, prolonged siesta-in order
to collect the thoughts scattered by the
violent breathings Of the parties aforesaid.
II That unseen, though pal pabIe TO feeling
clement wind, can be said to leave void
i'll its absence, ! wish it to be e1nphaticaliy
understood that in this region there has
been no vacuum perceptible. The supposed
empty space is filed, boiling over with a
multiplicity Of raging, rampant, mammoth
and mastodon mosquitoes. saw the Codes!
inhabitant" just now. He had never seen
the like. He was going to Cuba. If there 6
any virtue in prayers we'll have s stiff nor
Their" before the sun goes down.
Tuesday evening 1.-THE wedding bells rang
out a merry peal" believe that's the usual
style of putting it, though II this case nary
a bell was rung, albeit several marrageable
bellies were present. Talbot-Talbot-is the
heading of the announcement, and Judging
from the immense attendance should label
it a big affair. The bridewas beautiful and
the groom not quite so ditto. Alas! I hardly
know whether to pity that susceptible young
man for daring to make such q venture, or
reJolce that our fraternity Of freedom has Il
little more elbow room. I ALWAYS did like
the girls. you know: they're nice, cheering
and all that; they have an ornamental ap-
pearance in the parlor: are almost consid-
cred necessary on a croGuet lawn OF a game
of archery, or whist even: they are OCCASION
ally useful III monogram EN- hrcidery or
getting up button-hole bouquet: but, I tell
you, Sachen, when fellow has to reach
for his last dollar TO satisfy their thirst for
lemonade or craving for substantials. the
girls are. just a little too heavy on the ex-
chequer. My treasury is located in the left
vest pocket-some distance be1o,U the heart.
But l forgot to say that the wedding took
place on the Attakapas Canal. some six
miles from town, and also that some OF. the
participants did'ntscatte- homeward till the
dlminutive hours OF yester morn were
Watching the moons departure.
The colorei girl mentioned in nv last
epistle as being afflicted with small pex,
and left to the merces of cur town fathers,
after lingering for many days in agony, has,
been removed by kind hand to a cline
where disease and cruelty are unknown. It
must be a consolation to all acquainted
with the circumstances to- know the poor
girl Is at rest, if [ except the parties who
were, no doubt, the cause OF her sutferinrs
and death. Now, lam one of the multitude
vino believe III q final Supreme Court, and
l sincerely hope TO bs7 O., The Grand Jury
when that girls nau.derers arc brought TO
trial. But nous re,'roi3S.
The CHEF, with its new habilinents. aD
pearel here, not quite on time, but in such
an improved and attractive style that we
overlooked the apparent negligence. Can
dialy, without tlattery, your paper can not
be further improved, III my estimation, I'M
lesa, perhaps, BY the withdrawal OF that jolly
looking; Customer on the fourth page, in
tended, no doubt to attract attention to
''C4ingEy the Painters" advertisement, and
which ignorant parties would suppose to be
a well executed representation of that good
looking young artist. To the unlimited /
wcuid observe it is not the case. It is q
much better likeness Of & certain ex-deputy
Clerk Of Court, who IS now Chief Weigher
of Customs, Or in fact any one than the