The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-05

get that the war is over:-he brought his mil
itary habits back into civil life, and seemet
to think that citizens who were every wal
his equal. and many of them his superior
should pay him the same Difference that ,
private soldier would have to pay him a
the head of his brigade. For the honor o1
the city it is to be hoped that Gen. Shale1
may be able to clear his character of the
charges made by the broker Wilson. Fol
if it shall be proven that a man of suct
high character, and enjoying such public
trusts, can be bought for such a paltry
bribe, then where can we look for honesty
If the World is to believed, the character
of our Mayor is not untainted. It may be
that another popular uprising may he nee.
essary, like that which sent Tweed to the
penitentiary and Connolly aud Sweeney
into exile.
Brooklyn is greatly exercised about a
wild man of the sea, which, if the story is
to be believed, would show that the mer-
men of the sea are not all dead. For ten days
past a man has been seen on Coney Island
beach, disporting himself in the briny
waves as if they were his native element.
! The hair on his head reaches to his waist,
and the yellow hair on his body is as long az
horses name. Many people have seen him
at night walking along the sand, but as
soon as he was approached he dashed into
the breakers, and no ono has seen him
come out. But that he does como out is
evident, for he has been seen by many,
| men and women. Towards night men 90
armed with hatchets and clubs for fear the
| wild man might grab them up and carry
them into the sea. Women and children
keep close in doors, and reign of terror
of this subm -rine hairy man has shaken
New York's favorite Watering place from
turret to foundation stone. People are
afraid to shoot him for fear they might pos
sibly be indicted for killing harmless
lunatic. Hundreds are watching for the
wild man of the sea. and should not be
surprised when he is caught to find that it
was another ingenious device of that aqua
tic blatherskite. Captain Paul Boyton. to
advertise his Iife-saving suit. If it is not
Boyton it is the -
There is a rapid and remarkable change
going on in the two cities of New York aud
Brooklyn. Ten years ago in Brooklyn the
permits to build were about thousand; in
1885 they we're nearly five thousand, and
the amount of money employed in build
ing about thirteen millions Of dollars. At
that time wrote that 10000 people daily
crossed over the different ferries. Now
10000 cross daily on the bridge and ferry
boats, and the street cars of Brooklyn car
ried in year over 56, ,OoO, 600 of people-more
people than there are Inhabitants of the
United States. Efforts are made from time
to time to have the two cities under one
municipality; but the only way that can be
accomplished, according to our Brooklyn
neighbors, will be to sink tho name of New
York, which has always been offensive to
our Dutch friends on the other side of the
river, and either call it by it's original name,
New Amsterdam, or else the "United Mu-
nicipality of Brucklyn." vide old chronicles.
The experiment which cost Doctor Dam
rosch his life, established German Opera as
a permanent institution in New York. and
the son worthily wields the baton which the
father laid down year ago. While we have
no phenomenal singers in the Metropolitan
Company, all are good, and the result is
perfectly satisfactory. And we have got
rid Of siap!eson. Everybody is delighted
r.: the prospect of seeing him no more.
We would glory in an opera of Choctaw or |
Fiji rather than another dose of Italian |
Opera administered by Colone! Mapleson
Of Her Majesty's.
The Jesse Hoyt will case drags its slow
length along, and the hungry lawyers are
Fast consuming the i'll gotten estate. 1t &C.
tually seems as if the curse of the Almighty
rested upon the gold of most of our dead
and dying millionaires. Vanderbilt, after
piling up hundred millions, is hardly laid
n his coffin before his children are tearing
zach other to pieces for his gold. and the
'orrible skeleton behind the door is exhib-
ted to the public gaze. Garrison, Stewart,
Dan Drew, Jesse Hoyt-all their accumula-
ions, piled mountains high, seem to have
! curse resting upon them which will not
BASS away. It is shocking revelation in
he Hoyt will case. The daughter curses
ler old father on his death bed, and he in
evenge thrusts her into mad house. The
'eiress of millions is dragged shrieking
through the streets by policeman like a
[runken tramp, and is only saved from dis
'raceful imprisonment by the in tervention
f influential friends. The representative
# one of our Oldest, richest and most re-
pectable families is wild and reckless
runkard, and hides his weakness in the se-
lusion of his magnificent yacht, where for
7eeks at time he lies drunk as a Lord.
No, no, my young friend! Money is a
ood thing to have, but it is not everything.
t will not give you health, it will not bring
ou content, and has the faculty of getting
at of the way at the very moment you {
eed it most. If you doubt it, come to New
,ork. will take you to houses rich in
verything but the peace of mind which the
oor hod- carrier enjoys when after his hard
ay's work he stretches himself on a bare !,
cor and sinks into the sweet sound sleep
nat money can not buy.
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