The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-02-10

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

An Unparalleled Calamitous Week-Fight
In Yorkville-Russian devastating
A Theatre Observation-Disclosures Play
Romance Churches, etc.
New YORK, February 8, 1883.
EDITOR CHIEF:
A week of disaster on sea and on land,
dreadful fires, fearful wrecks, terrible
railroad accidents, death in the air every
where; news of an impending revolution
in France; Gustaye Dore is dead; Plon
Plon in prison; Eugenia in Paris; the
Grand Turk hopeless idiot; the fright
full assassination of Il whole family of
children by their mother; thugs in New
York who assassinate men at dollar a
head; thirty men blown mp i'll a powder
mill; awful explosion of kerosene tanks
in Brooklyn; several people burned to
death; death and disaster-disaster and
death. There has been no such calami-
tous week in the present century, and
the distress has been confined to no par
ticular country. Ireland has been noted
for IL series of executions such as the
present generation has not seen before.
Russia has shared in the general evil in
the terrible theatre fire where hundreds
lost their lives The first month of 1888
may be- marked in history as the black
letter month of the century. To cap the
climax Of evil tidings, the polar wave
has brought with it dreadful suffering to
the poor of this great city, to whom the
thermometer at zero means little less
than death. All the week the papers
have been full of the revelations of the
Dublin thugs; but even i'll that bad en-
inence Dublin is not to stand alone, for
it now appears that we have hired assas-
sins in New York. fellows who would
cut your wien for dollar and a quarter,
or send you to kingdom come with lead
or poison at the rate of fifty cents an
hour for the actual time employed, with
a glass of whisky thrown in.
A case is now before the courts which
promises to make considerable sensa
ton. A Mr.. Orr of Yorkville had the
good or evil fortune to quarrel with
neighbor, and the result was a desperate
fight Orr is watchman and travels on
! his muscle; his neighbor, though not a
John Sullivan or u Tug Wilson, had a
friend, all Italian, who struck from the
shoulder with a force that made a man
Think. he had run against u mules hind
leg. Mr. Orr had been slashing around
| Yorkyille when he unconsciously met up
with his neighbor, and in less time than
it takes to tell the story i'll print, the two
were at it, Gr9co-Ronan style, including
several other styles,for which there is no
particular name. Mr.. Orr's neighbar was
getting decidedly the worst of it, being
underneath in the struggle, but at this
stage of affairs, as Mir. Toodles remarked,
things took turn" The Italian friend
of Mr.. Orr's neiyhbor happened to come
along just in the nick Of time, and his
intervention caused quite different
complexion to-, the affair. Mr.. Orr, who
had been OH top, was soon the" bottom
dog iu the fight" and in ten minutes he
was the worst licked man in Yorkvile.
Two to one was too much for Mr.. Orr,
and he never got IL chance to get evelG
| with his neighbor, for his said neighbor
having profited by the partnership with
the noble Roman, gave him a permanent
charter; The two became as inseparable.
as the Siamese twins. Wherever Mr..
| Orr's neighbor went the Italian was at
his back, and what was more exaspera
| ting, he made faces at Mr.. Orr whenever
they met, and asking him how he liked
his licking and OH one occasion added
insult to injury by applying his thumb
to his nose. On Monday last Mr.. Orr
was engaged in putting some lumber in
u cellar; he was just i'll the act of stoop-
ing down, when he saw three masked
men peering through the window. One
exclaimed, "There he is, shoot him," and
then one OF the assassins peppered Mr..
Orr, and though he received one shot i'll
the arm, Mr. Orr made grab at the
assassin through the barred window Of
tue cellar; in the struggle the mask of
one of the villains was torn off, revealing
the features of the italian. The son of
Italy claims that lie was hired by Mr.
Orr's neighbor, and AYERS that a dollar
and quarter was the consideration,
which c:tl not be called dear for the
scalpo of watchman. This sort of thing
may do very we'll for Italy. An italian
more Or less may be u matter of very lit
tie consequence there, but don't want
to see cheap assassination imported to
New York.
Ourinrportations for the past year have
not been of the most edifying char
acter; we have had abundant cause to
regret that the massacres at kief and
Warsaw were ftot mitch more extensive
tiiaH tHey were, anu Cue oHIy CoHupAdiht
which have to make against the Rus
sian Government is, that they allowed SO
many to escape. We have' not yet got
rid of the Russian Jews who immigrated
here last summer; they evidently had no
idea that they would ever be called upon
to work if they only could reach the ter
ritory of Uncle Sam. Like the darkies
down South after the war, every man of
them expects forty dollars and a mule.