The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-01

OF Ine Iady SupeflnIeIlQeIIts, HnClnB bHft
she could get no satisfaction from either
the Mayor or the Board of Public Works,
resigned. The matter is exciting very un-
| favorable comment, and it only proves the
utter rottenness of our present municipal
system, when low rnffian can keep his
place after being accused of such a crime.
| It is quite on par with the fact that con-
| yicfed roi1r is now the clerk of one of
our j.srlleipai courts, and as long as Nugent
confnedhis robberies to this side of the river
it was impossible to send him to States
prison; he had to to Jersey before he
got his deserts.
The beating of gongs and the braying Of
innumerable horns announce the coming
war of the rival impressarios. If any man
doubts that We are about 10 make fools of
ourselves, let us see the salaries demanded
by these expensive song birds. There was
celebrated tenor whose services were de-
sired by Col. Mapleson and Mr.. Abbey.
His terms were $15o,000 for the season,
but he wished it distinctly understood
that he did not want a5ay expense deducted
from this trifing sum. His passage, his
hotel bills, his servants, his travelling ex-
penses of every kind and character must
beprovided for, and $50, 900 putup as guar
antee for the fulfillment of the contract.
There are breakers ahead. Somebody must
have q long purse and be willing to open
it. Neither Abbey nor Map!eson has money
enough to run such an opera week-Patti
and Gerster Nilsson and Campanini, Albani,
Schalachi, Lucca, and lots of others equally
famous. London, with double the popula-
ton of New York and Brooklyn, never sue
ceeded in keeping up two opera companies
in season. The exhorbitant demands of
the leading singers ruined everybody con-
nected with it, and it may prove SO in the
present instance in New York, though it is
said that w. H. Vanderbilt is ready to flip
up a million or so in the fight. In one lit
tie dodge Abbey has shown himself a mas
ter; he brings out Henry Irving and gets
Vanderbilt to entertain him while he is
here, and make him social lion; not bad
lOt iDISy, Gill AIl1l pISbty SoOu lOI IFi1lR,
ho.! should like to be Abbey for few
weeks, and then I'd like to swap off with
Irving, for understand that William H.
has a very good cook, and his apartments
are light and airy.
A pleasant little romance was revived
this week by the temperance on the streets
of Charley Bray, who was drowned at CO.
ney Island seven years ago this August.
Charley got intimate with the daughter Of
a saloon keeper on Fulton Street, and
owing to circumstances not necessary to
relate here, he had to marry her or go to
jail. Charley was considerable of a dude,
and when the boys asked him g how is dine
frow?n it drove him iirliss sy7sterics, and he
resolved to get rid of wife and child by
master stroke. One fine afternoon, seven
years ago, he took his wife and baby down
to Coney Island; he just made the money
fly; he treated her to Schweitzer kase and
bologna, to lager and Frankfort sausages,
and clam soup such as is only found at
Coney Island, opened vistas of a not far
off Paradise to the young wife when her
husband proposed saltwater bath. Char
ley was good swimmer, so the young wife
said she would sit on the beach and watch
him in the water. He gave her his valua-
bles to keep, and getting bathing suit
dashed into the surf, and that was the last
she ever saw of him. She waited and
waited, but he came not back, so with
heavy heart and her baby she went back
to her fathers house. Next morning all
the papers had long obituary notices of the
death Of Charley Bray, Esq, who was
drowned at Coney Island on Friday after
noon. Mrs. Bray wore weeds for exactly
six months, when attracting the attention
of Herman Stickeback, she once more
donned wreath of orange flowers, and for
the second time she pledged her plighted
faith. It now appears that Mr.. Bray did
low, but still lives in the flesh. On the af
ternoon I speak of he got a friend to bring
down an extra suit of clothes, and after he
went in the water he stole out to his friends
quarters, disguised himself and went on a
spree, while his poor wife was breaking her
heart on the beach. Shortly after he fed
to Mississippi, where it is said he became
q gambler and vagabond. He turned up
in Brooklyn a week or two ago, and speaks
of his infamy as a joke. Many & better
man, not guilty of SO great crime has
swung upon the gallows, and if he does not
reach it one of these days the gallows will
be cheated of its own.
1t is reported that Governor Cleveland
he's accepted the terms of the Iammany
saeanere-Io!!! John. Great is the race
of Kelly, be dad.
Truly yours. BROADBRIM.
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Preventive of NIulstriai Diseases-OPINIoE
or EMINENT Dr. H. II. WALTos, OF ANNAPOLIS.
MD" Colden's LieLis's Liquid Extract of
Beef and Tonic Invigorator Is par e1ceEieace.
superior to cod-Iiver oil any thing | have
ever used. in wasted or impaired constitutions.
and extremely beneficial as preventive of ma
lariai diseases" (Take no otter) OF druggists.
la recent number of the Alexandria
To,rs Talk there appeared among the arrl-
vaIs at the Irving House the name Of : L..
E. Bentley, DonaIdsonville." We were at a
loss to determine whether some unprinci-
pied adyeuturer was seeking to win fame
| by assuming our distinguished cognomen,
| or ti1e l'o,rn Talk was working gag on
| the base ball boys, but the subjoined para