The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-01-19

infraction of States prison rules are con
cealed beneath seal-skin coats or covere,
by the richest fur beavers. They SOW not
neither do they spin; yet, verify, I say unit
you, Solomon in all his glory was not ar
rayed like unto them. You will find then
at night in the gambling hells and in th
drinking saloons, and lin the day, on tn,
race-course, if there happens to be q race
or sporting their magnificent persons alon9
Broadway, ogling every woman they pass
and no doubt speculating at the same tint
how they could knock her down with
sand-bag and rob her of her diamond ear.
rings. Who are they? Well, they are the
henchmen of the Aldermen and the leading
politicians in control of our unfortunate
city; they can stuff a bailot-box, or steal it
if necessary; they can make one disfran-
chised criminal Or one naturaiized foreign
er do the work of dozen citizens at the
polls, and hence their services are always
in demand. This is the secret why prize
| fghting-the most brutal amusement
known to mankind-has now become a
regular pastime in our city. There are
| dozens of places where you can go. every
night, and, for ten or twenty-five cents, you
| can see one brute knock another out with
| out interference by the police. Every few
! days the enterprising World, the moral
Times and the indifferently moral EHerald
devote half a column of their valuable
space to the disgusting details of a dog
fight or cock fight. Can the first of
American journals find nothing better to
lay before their readers than this? Thanks
to their unholy enterprise they have given a
prominence to- the criminal classes of
which any well regulated community
should be ashamed, ,sand which has kept
these murderous thugs cheek by jowl with
the rulers of the city.
1t is a pleasant thing, however, to turn
from the contemplation of this disagreea-
BILE subject to the financial result of the
Loan Exhibition in aid of the Bartholdi
Pedestal Fund. Fifteen thousand dollars
is the net result; not bad for beginning.
The Academy of Design was an unfortu-
nate selection. As resort it has never
had the favor of the masses-that is to say,
they did not know it. Then the disagree
ment with the Academy committee about
the Sunday opening prevented an extern
sion of the lease. It could have been kept
open month or two longer, and the re-
ceipts would have netted at least $4,000.
Col. Mapleson of Her Majesty's Opera is
back with Patti, the divine, and wonder of
wonders, Nicolini, Madame PATHS next
friend who has been under a cloud with
our opera people since his arrival, scored a
veritable triumph III Aida" It was
genuine surprise, and the house for mo-
ment seemed to have lost its head.
Edwin Booths star is on the wane Peo-
pie say, Every fine, ""Fery good" but they
don't go to see him. He is a good actor,
but he is not, and never vas, great actor
in everything. He never had the |
inspiration that distinguished his father
and took an audience by storm. He.never !
has had the courage to surround himself |
with frst-class actors, and when in one or |
two instances he was forced into the exper-
ment, he has always had occasion to re-
gret it, To Henry Irving's honor be it
said, whatever the critics may think of his |
Individual acting, that he has never shrunk |
from artistic comparison with the best
actors that England or America afforded,
md has always filled his own theatre in
London with the most talented artists
money could secure. Mr.. Booth never did
him to-day is the very worst in
he city-hence his comparative failure at
he Star Theatre.
The comedy at Wallack's, "The American
Wife, y is a dismal failure. We may be ex-
sorry thatit is so, but the hard fact
'tares US in the face that all of our pro-
lounced successes on the stage come from
he other side of the water. We have the
.ctors and actresses, bat the dramatic au-
oits in the city are filled by foreigners, like
Dr.. Collier and DR.. Hall, and if you want
he native article with any degree of ex-
'elence you have to cross the Bridge to our
lister city of Brooklyn. There you will
ind number of native preachers who
would be hard to match in the world
And now one word at closing about the
ensatlon Oh the week, Mr.. Willard. Don't
axe too much stock in the published re-
'orts of his ruin, sickness, bankruptcy, nor
Il fact anything else you hear from Wall
street. When speaking of stocks it is hard
or broker to tell the truth. These North
m Pacific stocks will be ground down till
IL the small bondholders are shaken out:
eports Of all sorts will fill the air for weeks
o come, and then when the big fish have got
ack their stocks again for about one-tenth
+ what they sold them for, you will hear that
sothern Pacific has great future before
t, and that its earnings are twice its ex-
enses-and up she will go again. Don't
ouch it-there is no chance on the street
Or outsiders. II you have any money,
ury it in stocking or invest it in Govern
aent one-and-a-haf per cents, OF send it
0 me-but don't go near Wall street.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.