The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-06-13

its construction in another respect; it is not
written to display the abilities of one man
or one woman: Mr.. Mayo snstains the
leading part and plays it nobly, but there
are several partsih the piece quite as good
as Mr.. Mayo's if tho actors who play them
had Mr.. Mayo's ability. The production
of Nordeck was especially interesting, as it
brings to the front a young lady who is
destined to be the rival of Mary Anderson.
For this rare creature We have been look
ing in vain for several years and it appears
We have found her at last. She is but little
over sixteen years of age, and her name is
Kaytherine Kidder. When Mary Ander-
son first appeared in New York she was
,nteh older than Miss Kidder ena in beau
ty of finish and thorough naturalness, Miss
Anderson's early efforts, were not to be
compared to the performance of this young
girl. The story Of the piece is simple and
well told-the scene being laid in Russian
Poland. A woHian of noble family in i'm
povefished circumstances marriesSa Ger
man officer for the purpose of repl6nishing'
the family cxche1uer, and having sue
ceeded in this she makes the life of her
husband miserable till he dies, leaving
son to whom she takes dislike from his
birth, aud at his fathers death she casts
him of and leaves him to be reared by his
uncle, his fathers brother. The brother
brings the boy up and he grows to mar.-
hood, perfectly unec<ertable, and wild as
one of the steeds that roam the steppes uR-
fettered. In the meantime the Countess
his mother has married again and a second.
son is born on whom she lavishes all her
affection, to the exclusion of her frst-born.
When the eldest son becossee of age he ap-
pears at his castle to claim his estates,
which for years had been under his moth
er's sole control; then ensues a wild and
stormy scene, but Voldemar the son, with
headstrong passsor8, bears down all oppo-
sition and assumes control. Then the moth
or plots the assassination of her eldest son,
for the brothers hate each other heartily,
as they are both madiy in loy,D with their
cousin, the daughter of their mothers
brother: the plot fails and the younger
brother falls the victim Of his own treach-
cry. being killed by the assassins who we're
employed to kill his brother. The piece
ends in the repentance of the unnatural
mother and the restoration of his estate to
piece is wholesome, manly and womanly.
It is realistic and truthful and welcome
additions to the stage, after the degenerate
drama of the last twenty years-the main
less rotte, a woman of questionable repute,
an old fool Of a father, dissolute brother
and a few ninnies, naate and fenfafe, to fill
up. Mr.. Mayo deserves credit for giving
us piece to which we can take our wives
and daughters without introducing them to
yelled vice III gildea bagnios.
The weeks work of our police has been a
good one and it gives ,ne great pleasure to
record the departure Of Hungry Joe the
sbunco man to States prison; for years this
notorious rascal has defed the police, and
carried on his swinoling games. This is
the Individual who captured Oscar Wilde,
Charles Francis Adams and numbers of
other celebrated men. He few for the
highest game and generally got them. His
attempt to rob an English gentleman
brought fir, to grief, and for four years at
least the cfts viii be rid of him. The quick
con~4ittion add Imprisonment of this villain
will have daifpening effect on the buuco
business here thd Expect to hear no more
of 1t Tor some time to ecme. 1t has been
rjaa week for the confidence operators
Ellen Peck, who swlHdled Babbitt out of
$4,000, and whose robberies altogether
s,ave amounted to nearly S200;Qe0, was con-
vieted of forgery and the chances are that
the best part Of her future lifts will be
passed inside prison-walls, There have
been many women who practiced her call
ing, but no one of the present ggnsration
ever approached her. She beat tho sharpest
detectives and foiIed the shrewdest lawyers
She went among the most expert of the
criminal classes and got the best of them
all. AS an adroit swindler it is doubtful if
her equal is alive on the globe to-day; but
her conviction this week promises long
imprisonment, and for the time closes one
of the most remarkable criminal lives of
the century.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
Some of the finest buildings in India
prove to be the work of the Aiohammadan