The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-27

and discontented cats. Lucky Bergh, Louis
Bonnand left him 100000 for fear tha
he might in the future state be turned into
a dog or a donkey, and perhaps this ole
maid has left the bulk of her fortune tx
him so that she might secure reasonable
protection in case an overruling Providence
should turn her into cat or parrot. The
lady's heirs contest the will, but I expect hel
fortune will go to the dogs.
But to return to my muttons. We have
abundance of money. As an evidence OF
that fact, loans are made on real estate al
nearly its face value, at three and four pei
cent. Our store houses are full of every.
thing to eat. Thousands of barrels of good
family flour were sold here this week away
below four dollars. Why should the times
be hard? / give it up. Let the next fel.
low try it and send Broadbrim the answer
by express, telegraph or mail.
A few respectable and honest people
are left in the world yet, enough for seed
A citizen whose conscience pricked him
sent $2500 to the Brooklyn tax collector
for unpaid taxes on personal property
which he did not render to the city long years
ago. Now the city is in a quandary which
fund to put it in. If that honest citizen
he would have saved the city a heap of trou.
BILE and have materially advantaged yours
respectfully: have been revolving in my
mind since heard the news if the man
was notsinsane.
| DR.. Damerosch has made success of the
German opera. I get along with the Ger
man opera very nicely, though the nouns,
verbs, propositions and coniunctions are
| little confusing at times. They call the
German opera heavy. No wonder: the ten
or is good for 26O pounds, and the baritone
and base will touch 800, the romantic young
prima donna takes a forty-six inch belt to
her bridal dress, wears No. 1S115 glove and
81 shoe. While this is all right to Ger
man audience who understand this sort of
thing in its proper light, it knocks the ro-
nance out of an average American to see
brace, whose arms will scarcely reach half
way round each others waist, and whose
united weight can not be far from 600
pounds. It may lack the romance but it
has the advantage of stability and substan-
tialness.
Notwithstanding our stringents tschool law
which compels all children below a certain
age to go to school, the streets swarm with
hoodlums who are organized into gangs.
They 60 about in parties from two to a
dozen and when there are five or six to-
gether they are not afraid to attack man.
Children, however, are their legitimate
game, or messenger boys going with bun
dies are attacked and robbed. The discov-
cry of another Fagin who was working
about fifty boy thieves has caused a pro-.
found sensation in police circles. Eight or
ten emit leads Of plunder rewarded the dis
covery which comprised everything from a
baby's rattle to a gold watch. The young
thieves are only emulating the old ones,
couple of whom attempted to rob a lady at
II o'clock in the day, and would have killed
her if some citizen had not interfered after
she had been fighting them full ten min
utes. .--
Politics are mixed. The retiring Mayor
is determined, if he can, to leave as little
behind him as possible for his successor,
who comes in with the new year. He is
playing desperate game, and as it is only a
question of plunder between the rival fac
tions all the citizens have to do is to look
on and pay the bills. The County Democ-
racy wants the bulk of the swag, while
Irving Hall puts in modest claim for
few of the loaves and fishes. Tammany's
claims are not to be ignored, for in the
language of one of their statesmen, They
may be conquered but not subjewed,"
while the Republicans hold the balance Of
power-not very heavy balance, but still
a balance, SO they want slice. 1t is pleas
ant to see all these honest gentlemen cast
ing lots for our garments, the only diff
Guilty is that wescan't find enough to satisfy
them all.
All the stock deals are manipulated in
the Board; no outside buying.
The weather which was very fine in the
first of the week has been wet and miserable
at the last.
The deficiency of two millions in the re-
ceipts of the N. Y. Central gave the boys
shake on Change, but the divy of eight
per cent. was paid all the same. No cause
for alarm as long as it it kept down to two
millions. Vanderbilt could pay that out of
his private funds for hundred years and
then have something left.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.