The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-18
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Spring and Its Eascts-lnproved Oatleol
Mt the Exposition-New Orleans Day
The Mexican Band-Political Quietude-
Rumors ofAnother Striks-Central Amer.
lean Matters, Etc.
NEW ORLEANS, April Is. 1885.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The delightful spring weather gives the
Crescent City cheerful look, which it ha.
not borne for many day. Il has i'm.
proved the streets, which were in many oasee
closed to provision, coal and milk wagons.
A long spell Of dismal quistness has bseu
succeeded by the buzz and hum Of activity.
The early strawberries are in, and on sale at
two-bits box, and fishermen are going to
the lakeside resorts for piscatorial fun. The
Exposition is paying it's daily expenses
from the gate receipts, and laying IN a
respectable amount Of cash to pay it's cred
itors, or the Louisiana portion of them in
in case the Attorney General adheres to his
former decision to cut them OF. He has
been asked to reconsider his opinion and
the subject is under advisement. Director
General Burke is in Washington to assist
in favorable determination. In his alb
sence Acting Director General Buck is doing
good service, and maintaining respectable
family feeling between the exhibitors and
officials such as the Exposition has never
before enjoyed from the commencement.
New Orleans Day was grandly observed,
the gate receipta amounting to nearly
$500. The school children helped to swell
the crowd, and the way they scattered the
lunch papers and parcels over the tidy
grounds was enough to make any dignife1
management sick. But it didn't work that
way in this case, for they enjoyed the scene
and 80 did the children. II was the best
picnic they ever had. They fshed in and
scattered boats over the artificial lake, ate
cake and peanuts, gathered around old Lib
erty Bell and picked up great quantities of
advertising circulars to carry away as me-
mentoes Of the occasion. The incompara-
BILE and courteous Mexican band, always
ready to respond to encores, and tireless in
its attempts to please the audiences in
Music Hall, has been engaged to give night
concerts, which on Tuesday and Friday
nights will extend from to 8 O'Clock. II
there are any readers of the Cmxr-and it
is probable there are many Of them-who
have ears for choice music, who love to
hear Hail Columbia, Yankee Doodle, Dixie
Or the great operas rendered in rapturous
way, let them come aud listen to these mn
sical Mexicans; they are little fellows, aver
aging five feet in height or less, have
strange instruments, and play them we'll.
There are no political currents Of an ex-
'iting nature outside Of ths ms Who e.
vt es as I'D thzs II aal|sts: f1euuant
Cleveland vii hear ali sides, and issue COM
missions before many days 60 by for all
he important offices. The slate will sur
'rise the Louisiana Democracy, a. all pre-
nous appointments have surprised the par
y in other States.
There is gradual falling of in the vol
lme of business, and workingmen are be-
ng forced into idleness for lack of some
hing to do. A rumor has gained currency
It contemplated reduction of the wages
It car drivers which attracts attention be-
'ause Of the probable bearing of another
trike on the financial condition Of the Ex-
'osition. But nothing definite has been
'iven to the public and possibly if it we're
the railroad managers would
defer their action until the
Exposition closes, when q more reasonable
xcuse could be found and the loss to the
by strike would be at the mini |
nun.
The United States war vessels which were
tationed for time, pretty as pictures, on
he river front of the city, have gone cruising
o Colon on the Isthmus, aud to Central |
American waters. For time it looked as |
recruiting agents of President Barrios Of !
3oatemala and tue designs Of that distin-
Euished man on the neighboring republics
would enlist some Of our citizens, and lead
o lively complications, but the fall of Bar
los, and the declaration Of peace has ended |
IL hopes in that direction. It il GER
ain, however. that the Mexican and Cen
raj American exhibits at the Exposition
AVE awakened deeper interest for ad-
'enture and speculation in those tropical
than was ever felt before. Quite
number have gone into Honduras and
Guatemala, carried there by the line of ves-
'els running there from this port, to engage
n fruit raising and railroad building.
Chereis no iilibustering spirit, but a desire
% seek new fields for commercial enter
orise, and this is the reward those Repub-
les will reap from their generous patron
age Of the Worlds Exposition. Their ex-
aibits are the wonder of all beholders, and
provoke the most favorable comment from
newspaper men from all parts of the coun-
,ry.
There ia some talk of extending the Ex-
position, but plans haye taken uo definite
shape. More anon.
GENERAL OBSERVER.
John Martin, drunken waiter, was shot
md killed last Thursday by Henry Haaa,
oarkeeper in the saloon at No. 46 st.
Charles street, New Orleans. Haag was
severely wounded in the head and face
With glass tumbler and claims to have
ased his pistol in self defense.