The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-12
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBR,M

| Harriet a. Sdryer, in Union Signal.
OUR LETTER FROM BROADBR,M.
The Thieves Carnival-An Arfstocrati G
van Fiasco-Departure of DIR. Talmage-
| Fourth of July. the Casino, Tammany's
| Braves, Etc.
| NEW YORK. July 5, 1881.
EDITOR CHiEF:
Fourth of July week we never expect to
do much. It is sort of general breaking
up. With the anniversary of our National
Independence, the great body of the Htam-
mer tourists have left us, the last popular
minister has taken his fight-front doors
begin to assume dusty, woe begone look,
and in many parts of the town both win
dows and doors are FABRICATED as if to
withstand siege. It is we'll that they are
SO, for the season when the dog-star
| RACES is the thieves carnival. Notwith-
standing that houses are entered every
night, while people are sleeping in them,
there are hundreds of houses left tenant
less, while the owners go the different
watering places. And as these houses are
filled with oil sorts of costly things just such
as thieves are looking for, the only wonder
is that one of them escapes. Speaking of
thieves-West 33rd street is one of the most
fashionable portions of the town: and here
dwelt DR.. Herbert s. Bayliss, swell den-
tist, of suaye manners and fine personal ap-
pearance. and the very last man in the
world who would be taken for thief. DR..
Bayliss was an especial favorite of the
ladies; he WAS fond of music, somewhat
religiously inclined, and regular attend
ant at church. His practice was good and
income fair, with prospects second to but
few men in the city, and here let me re-
mark, that next to plumbing, it is the most
lucrative occupation in the land. For see
one of these dental frsebooters charged ex-
President Blanco, who arrived here a short
time en- route for Europe, $1,000 for four
days. work on his wife's molars, and few
odd jobs for some other members of the
family thrown in. Well, as / remarked,
Doctor Bayliss belonged to this expensive
and fashionable guild, and stood high with
his fellow boarders, in one of the nobbiest
boarding houses in this swell quarter. For
months past things have been missing
from every room in the house: one lady
lost silk dress, and another seal skin
sacque; pants, coats and vests disappeared
as if by magic, aud silver spoons were
whipped off the dining room table, while
the waiter was shaking The table cloth out
OF the back window. One gentleman lost
fine dress coat with which he expected to
attend fashionable wedding, and another
unfortunate lost all of his clean shirts just
as he was about to depart for the country.
Gold watches, rings, breast-pins and brace
lets vanished without a moments warn
ing. At last one of the boarders lost q
maptel clock valued at 500 and the flight
of time maddened him. He hied him to
detective, aud the detective was not long
in locating the whole of the robberies in the
neighborhood of the handsome doctor.
When taxed with the theft the Doctor con-
fessed st once, and if he does not commit
suicide, which now appears to be the most
fashionable thing to do, it is fair to pre-
sumo that he will have chance to practice
his profession at Sing-Sing or Auburn;
and by doing little extra work on the jaws
of the superintendent, and his sisters, his
cousins and his aunts, he may get white
mark which will lessen the term of his cap
tivity; but HE period Of usefulness among
the swells of the Vest End is at an end.
A circumstances occurred this week which
recalls the death of Henry Raymond. Mr..
Raymond, it will he recolleoted was found
dead in the street in front of his own house,
where his body had evidently been depos-
tied after death. This week well known
broker was dumped out on the sidewalk, as
dead as a door nail. The bumpers fed and
have not yet been discovered.
Oh, wasn't glad on Tuesday, ] saved