The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-11

meat and vegetables sold in New York and
Brooklyn, come from Washington Market
and it is not these two cities alone that de-
pend upon it. The cities in the interior OF
| the State are furnished with early spring
| vegetables and fruits, and two-thiras of the
| bannas used in the United States are sold
here. Its annual trade will amount to
many millions of dollars. The new market
is to be an elegant structure of brick, iron
and glass, and will be grateful substitute
for the unsightls ruin which SO long dis
graced the city.
The latest sensation is Astor's new steam
yacht. 1t really seems as if this old time
conservative family is beginning to feel the
electrical influences of the age, and are
going to act like other people. As race,
they are g dull heavy, stupid lot of people,
rating everything, as old John Jacob ID,
from financial standpoint With th,.-
all rich people are respectable, and -
people belong to the criminal classes
now that Jay Gould has finished the At ~,
Mr.. Astorproposes to chip in and shos
that he is not the only millionaire i1aS r.
York. Mr.. Astor's yacht will be ezsas''sa'
thirty feet longer than Mr.. Gould's. -.
several feet deeper and wider, and finally,
she will be built of steel instead of iron, and
will cost S100,000 more, the entire cost
being s350,00O.
Ho, ho Hi, hi! Boo, boo!,! The Jersey
Lily has left us; she went off attended by an
escort from the Salvation Harmy. May
gentle gales watt her to the arms of her ex-
pectant lord, on the husiier side Of the water.
Freddie remains withzus: how long, will
not promise: but he il here while [ write,
and the report that she smuggled him on
board the steamer in as5aratoga trunk, is a
malicious canard, and gill receive no credit
in London. She goes back 800, 900 richer
than she came, and twenty thousand pounds
are not to be laughed at, ye know, these
'trd times.
Osmond TearIe. Na.lacks leading man.
who acted toward his wife like a brute and
a bIackguard, got cast in his recent divorce
suit. Mrs. Iearle got the divorce and the
custody of her children, and aIimony at the
rate OF $1,000 year.
The burning of the Munroe building was
one of our startling sensations this week
1t was one Of the largest buildings exclu-
sively devoted to publication in this city
and it grew like .jonah's gourd. Starting
on fash novels, it finally got into the bu8i-
ness of cheap reprints Of standard works,
and made an immense sum OF money: but
the contlagration Of this week has crippled
it for the time, but we may expect to see it
in full blast again in a few Weake.
An overhaul i'll the police department dis
closes an alarming deficiency in the property
clerk s Office. This matter was mooted some
weeks ago, but friends Of the party irnpli-
Gated succeeded dill getting up white
washing report. Immense sums pass through
the property clerk ) hands annually. Ali the
property captured from thieves; all that is
found on dead bodies: the result of burgla-
sizes, and all that IS taken from prisoners.
It now appears that only a few hundred dol
lars heve been accounted for, for several
years, and the police pension fund is seri-
ously crippled.
This coming right on the heels of the de
fatcation in the Board of Public Works,
makes it rather unpleasant for prominent
Democrats here, and there is now talk of
a genuine refof1n party that shall sweep the
field. Il
There seems to be 3sa 1siaWifiiingness TO
probe the Carroll fraud to the bottom. In
stead of few thousands as at first supposed.
it may run into nillinls. The loss at first
was said to be ss2O,000, now it has sweIled
to over S350,0o0, and every day disclose5
some new loss. It is rumored that many
high and honorable gentlemen are impli-
Gated in the robberies. Mayor EGson is ex-
coedingly reticent: the cleverest reporter
has not been able to pump him: but ii is
thought that when he does speake, there will
be a rattling among the dry bones. So we
must possess our souls with patience till the
great Mogul speaks.
Two cases of suicide occurred on Wednes-
day, and no two cases Of Self-destruction
could be imagined more exactly opposite.
On Wednesday morning the city was star
tied by the news that Frederick Matthews
had blown his brains out. Few young men
in the city were better known. John Mat
tlews, the celebrated soda water man, was
his uncle: and John Matthews Jr., who IN
herited his fathers business, died a short
time ago. and left to his cousin Frederick,
the suicide of Wednesday, $50, 600 and val
liable lot Of real estate on the banks of the
East river. His health was good, his pros
poets bright, his future ample for all of his
earthly wants. He was engaged to a beau
tiful young lady OF Patterson, n. j.. and
generous preparations were being made for
the wedding. Where late was happiness
and Joy, all is darkness and sorrow. Solve
us this problem, Mr.. Huxley: explain this
mystery. Professor TyndaI: where was the
weak spot that led ruin in on so hopeful q
life? No cause assigned for the dreadful
deed: we only know that he is dead. The
other was a case Of a desperate wretch who
had nothing to live for. His wife lay sick
and dying in the hospital attended by
strange hands; and he, starving and sick
himself, was unable to aid her. The world
had drifted away from him, and there was
nothing left but the river: SO he plunged in
and ended a miserable life. Frederick
Matthews will no doubt be buried III the
beautiful plot in Greenwood. surrounded by
the unsightly monstrosities that his queer
buried in Pottcr's Field. if the dark waters
of the river shall ever give him back.
The bulls have been il an unhappy frame
of mind all the week They bought at every
decline thinking that the worst had come:
but it had not and she went down. down,
down, till it actually looked as il the bottom
had dropped out.
The telegraph strike has left us all al SEA.
Mr.. Gould may whistle and phoo phoo all
he likes; but if ne says that they are doing
all the work that comes in. and are not en-
barrassed, he tells a -, well he does not
tell the truth. The sympathy Of the people
is with the strikers. Their demands are
just, and should be net in a just and equit-
able spirit. Don't blame Gould, however,
he can't help it, it's bred i'll the bone, and
you can't make a silk purse out Of a -.
The weather is more moderate. Ia, Ia,
Truly yours. BROADBRIM
Perfect health depends upon a perfect co:ldi-
ton of the blood. Pure blood conquers every
disease and gives new life to every decayed and
affected part. Strong nerves and perfect dlges-
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