The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-04-26

alieuated his old time friends, and it is safe
to say that no 30e will stand by him till
the death at Chicago. New York and our
sister city, Brooklyn, are torn in pieces by
! factions. Gall and wormwood are their
drink. Old lines are obliterated and every
body seems ready to go into partnership
with anybody to beat somebody else. What
makes the political problem more difficult
to solve is that in the disturbing elements
the Democrats are quite as badly troubled
as the Republicans. What's the matter
when the prime favorites of Tammany,
Spinola and O Grady, have to take back
seat in the Tammany wigwam2 What a
change, too, is here. Governor Cleveland,
who struck the politics of New York like a
cyclone, will 60 into retirement, the most
unpopular Democrat between Chatauqua
and Montalk. And Theodore Roosevelt, a
young aristocrat, whose name was scarcely
known outside of his own bailiwick when
Governor Cleveland was elected, bids fair
| to be his successor, and if he is not, he
ought to be.
There is q temperance evangelist here
by the name of Gibbs, the same individual
who short time ago indulged in so much
gush about the famous Billy McGlory.
Billy thought Gibbs could save him from
the penitentiary; in fact, Gibbs gave Billy
to understand that if he would sign the
pledge, he, Gibbs, would go to the magis-
trate and demand his release at once. Billy
| thought the job as good Us done, but the
magistrate sat down on Gibbs and Billy
went to Blackwell's Island. Gibbs was
conquered but not subdued. So, deter
mined to create sensation, he got an in
different actor by the name of Fleming to
act scene of delirium tremens at the
Cooper Institute on Sunday night. Flem-
ing was only too happy to have an oppor-
tunity to show off his bad acting, but
Brother Gibbs was also happy to have such
an effective aid. Halt of our temperance
meetings here might be mistaken for an
Indifferent minstrel show, and Gibbs per-
formance at the Cooper Institute is about
on a level with the worst exhibition of the
Salvation Army. I am not at all thin
skinned, and with humility confess it, not
over pious, but if the choice must be made
between such Sunday night temperance ex-
hibitions and we'll regulated liquor saloon.
by all means let US have the saloon. It
seems to be the misfortune of many of the
haef ,ut fho,, off with
parasites who cling to them till they destroy
them, and it is the curse of the temperance
cause in New York that it is represented by
pack of windbags, tramps and charlatans
who have brought it into contempt.
It may be true that your Wall street
broker is not model man in all respects.
He will go to dog fights and cock fights and
man fights. he will get tight as bricks ont
Of business hours, and just for flyer he
will try dash at poker, baecarat, or faro.
But if he is member of the Stock Exchange
and you put up your money with him, it is
safe only as you order him to sell or buy.
He may get drunk, or he may gamble, but
he won't steal your money. If you are
foolish enough to buy or sell, he will take
his commission every time, but you know
just exactly what that is before you 60 in.
Not SO with the female brokers, who some
times attempt to do business for their sex
on the street Or off of it. I know it is not
kind thing to say, but it's true-I never
knew one female broker that was not
dead beat and swindler. There have
been successful business women in New
York-plenty of them. One was borne to
her last resting place last week of whom
her descendants may be proud for genera
tons to come. refer to Mrs. Ottendoffer
of the Stats Zeituag. But the women who
have been successful in New York have in
variably been successful in legitimate bust
ness. know three sisters, maidens all,
who for years conducted one of the most
successful businesses in New York, who
started without capital or friends or educa-
ton, and have worked their way against
the most tremendous odds to honor and to
fortune. Such women as these are the salt
of the earth; their lives are IN honor and
blessing, but when woman becomes
speculator, look out for her, for she invari-
ably winds up as q swindler. We have one
in prison now awaiting trial-one of the
meanest thieves that ever disgraced the
calendar. She sought out widows and un-
protected women, and under pretense of
doing them a service let them into little
corner on stocks where there was not the
slightest chance of loss, and the profits
were thousand per cent.-double their
money for them in two days, etc. In this
way she feeced widows and orphans, who
now are reduced to starvation. She dressed
in the best and fed on the best, wore dia-
monds, and silks, and laces, and rode in
her carriage, while some of her victims did
not know where to get meal, or where to
lay their heads. They may send her to the
penitentiary, but that will not bring back
to those ruined ones the money that is lost.
My advice is, don't gamble in stocks at all,
but if you do, don't choose a woman for
your broker. And don't you forget it,
Gold is slipping away from US; the steam
ers have carried away about three millions
already since April /. The Produce Ex-
change has been Ikea powder magazine
since the tumble in wheat at Chicago.
Parson Newman holds the fort at Mad
ison avenue and Deacon Ranney refuses to
be comforted. The doctors sham resigna-
ton was an amusing performance to those
who know him, still the farce worked we'll
and the curtain rang with applause.
The weather is simply vile. Our hopes
are raised one day by bright sunshine, only