The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-11-01

$40; he refused to pay and was dragged
fighting out Of the court, threatening the
Magistrate with vengeance as he went.
| Then d low ward politician came into
court and after some parley got the fine
reduced to $5 which he paid, and his man
walked out free. This is one of the
blessings of universal suffrage in this free
and enlightened Republic, and one of the
| especial blessings of our elective judiciary.
Once more the so-called sporting circles
are blaze of excitement at the inteili-
gence that an English brute by the name
of Mitchell was pounded by an Irish
American brute by the name Of McCaffery.
| It is pity that they are not allowed to
kill each other. am sure the exhibition
| would pay, and we should then get rid
of two unsavory subjects, but il is no use
talking, people will go to see such
exhibitions. You will find Judges and
lawyers, merchants and brokers, fine
gentlemen with nothing to do, dudes
sucking the ends of their walking sticks,
yes and even church trustees and deaeons
with a sprinkling of athletic ministers
who believe in muscular Christianity;
but I might as well bottle my wrath, for
as far as pecuniary reward goes, it is a
great deal better to be a slugger than to
be president Of q college Or minister of a
fashionable church.
The gay season Of weddings is upon us
and in accordance with my unvarying Gus
tom for years, Isometimes give the details
of the interesting affairs, though | never
minister to the vanity of the parties who
of some of our wealthy families in these
weddings is simply enormous, and right
here arises question in my mind, and that
is, "What is the size of Mr.. Worth's estab-
Iishment in Paris?" When was in Paris
few years ago it did not seem to me such
an imposing establishment; but certain it
is that there has not been young lady mar
ried in New York this season among first
families but has had one OF more Worth
dresses. One young lady who was married
last week boasted the possession of twenty
six. Is this possible? New York is only
one city of the Union; there is the United
States besides and then all the world out
side the United States. It is only short
time since th&widow of a millionaire cattle
man was married to a staid old Methodist
Bishop, away out.in the wilds of Colorado,
but she had to get round half-dozen Worth
dresses to be married to the good old
Bishop. Then Japan is coming into the
dress market.
The wife of the new Japanese minister
is going in for barbarian corsets and bus
ties and other civilized vanities. She will
be a sensation in Washington this winter.
So Worth has an order for twenty new
dresses to begin with; where do they all
come from, and is there more than one
Worth? # one man makes them all, or
rather if they are all made at one establish
ment, not to enlarge on it, he must have
very excellent business. Watch the papers
and every wedding you see announced, you
will also see that the lady's dresses were
made in Paris By Worth, and / will here
furnish my lady friends with piece of in
teresting news for which I make no extra
charge. The dress exhibition of the Paris
Exposition of 1878 was one of the most gor-
geous display of ladies' dresses ever seen
in the world. Men and women who had
attended every great exposition given since
the first exposition in 1850, declared they
had never seen such marvellous dresses as
those exhibited at Paris in 1878, and in that
wonderful collection right in his own city
there was not single Worth dress.
Plenty of the Queens of fashion would not
wear a Worth dress, and more singular
still, Notwithstanding the tremendous COM
petition, a dress from Montreal, Canada,
took gold medal for excellence of work
manship and beauty of design. So if there
is any young keiress out your way who
thinks of skedaddling with her Daddy's
j ehu, let her go to Canada, and if she has
cash enough she can get a dress just as
good as Worth's.
One of the most brainless, senseless
jokes, that does no one any good and some
one great deal of harm, is the habit of
peIting the bride and groom with rice.
saw a burly brute come into a railroad car
with bridal party the other day, and for
fifteen minutes he prosecuted the poor
creature and made her as miserable as mis-
cradle could be. The unfortunate girl
tried to laugh, but the brainless idiot kept
I'D his Wretched joke. At last he flung q
handful right in her face, one of the sharp
grains struck the sight of her eye and near
Iy blinded her, and instead of sending her
off on her journey with her young lover,
with her heart full of JOY, when the train
started she was crying with pain as if her
heart would break. It's senseless habit
only INDUCED in by male donkies and fe-
male fools, and those who do it ought them
selves to be pelted with Indifferent tomatoes
and unsavory eggs.
Tuesday night the city was wild around
the various bulletin boards that gave the
election news from Ohio and West Virginia.
Thousands of eager, anxious faces were
orderly, peaceful one; little jostling, a
good deal of chaff, but no violence. Of
course the Republicans were very jubiIant
and the Democrats declared themselves
perfectly satisfied with the result; so that
everybody processes to feel delighted. 1t
may be that the cool tidal wave that
struck us served to keep curb lood cool;
at any rate peace reigned.
Poor old Jesse Hoyt. We now begin to
understand why his last days were so mis-
cradle and why he attempted to put his
only daughter in lunatic asylum. It is
dreadful to think of the heiress of ten mill
ions of dollars fined ten dollars in the Po-
lice Court for being drunk and disorderly:
Terrible, terrible, terrible, but such is the
record.
This fine, clear, bracing weather is bring
ing out the finest of the Fall fashions, and
for the satisfaction of my lady friends l
would inform them, if you want to be in