The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-14

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York surpasses it, andifor eating and style
whether in the quality OF the cookery or
the magniacence Of the charges--it IL mp
to high water mark with the nobbiest ho-
tells in New York or any other favored city,
II you wink at waiter IL costs you half
dollar, while anything like respectable
dinner for two will knock the bottom out Of
a ten dollar bill. II is 4 very nobby hotel,
a frst-class place Tor. bachelors who have
being talked about. The house with all of
its elegant andexpsnsive appointments has
a strong flavor of horse and the prize ring.
Il there is specially good mill in some
gentlsman's back =parlor, or prize-slug-
ging match Mt $10 4 ticket, exclusively for
the edification Of gentlemen-you can gen.
orally catch on to it--in the polite vernacu-
lar of New York-in Ed. Stokes elegant
bar room. I euppoae the President took
this into consideration, and thought it
would not be exactly the thing for the first
gentleman Of the Republic to do, so he
went to the Victoria. Perhaps O'Donoyan
Rosa thinks the fact of his going to the
Victoria has a suspicious British flavor.
The dynamiters saw q terrible portent of
evil in the opening of our big bridge ON
the Queens birthday. However, he is
at the Victoria and exceedingly comfor-
table; and Notwithstanding. the mishaps to
two Republican Presidents, no sentties
guard the doors-notl,ingm more formidable
than light breasted waiter. The Presi-
dent goes in and out without fear OF pistol
or dynamite, though the city is as full Of
cranks ~ hornets nest is full of hornets.
There are lots Of patriots dying to serve
their country, and only waiting for Mr.
Cleveland to give them chance.
But while the town is full of wicked pol
iticians, we are not altogether without the
means of salvation and grace. An evan
gelist from the South, named the Rev. Sam
Jones, has been giving the devil a very live
Iy tussle at DR.. Talmage's church in
Brooklyn, and gathering sinners into the
fold by the score. There is a ripe harvest 4
for Brother Jones'' sickle in the city
churches, and hoping that the seeds of sal
vation which he scatters may fall on fallow
ground, 1 am VISA, "a sf5s
Yours truly, BROADRBIM.
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The Alexandria ZoUu Talk offered & 30
for the privilege of doing the public print
ing of that town for 1885 and the Democrat
proposed to do the work for nothing. The
contract was awarded to the Democrat, on
the principle, we presume, that its bid was
the lower Of the two nothing" being
less than two dollars and a half. We have
never been able to understand why there
should be such disposition among news
papers to indulge in cutthroat competition
that makes the public printing worthless to
the contractor. It seems to us the men,
bers of the fourth estate ought to have as
much business sense as other people, but
we seldom hear of competition in any line
of trade except printing carried to the
extent of giving goods or labor away for
nothing, much less of paying people for
accepting them. The laborer is worthy of
his hire-even if he Is only printer; and
If our alexandria contemporaries chose to
n oN Srh% ilr,
ment by which one could take the town
printing and the other the parish and each
receive something like fair. remuneration
for the work performed, instead of trying
to starve each other to death. Il
The Mayor Of Napoleonville issued q no.
tice to the citizens Of that village to as
semb1e at the post-ofice door on Saturday,
Jan. 81, in order that we'-which prob |
ably means the Mayor and ConciImen-
may testify tour always increasing desire
to maintain public order as we'll as regard |
improvements, such as levees,
streets, sidewalks. bridges, market house,
ETC., and to further testify that no expenses
were ever made unless deemed necessary
for the welfare Of the whole community"
We have no information concerning the out
come Of this momentous gathering, but If
the municipal affairs Of Napoleonville are
like those Of our town, We opine
that the officials found it no easy task to
convince the people of their increasing
desire " to, advance the public interest and
forward the work of internal improve
ments; aud as for showing that "no ex-
peuses were ever made unless deemed nee
essary for the welfare of the whole COM
munity," that would be o herculean un-
indeed. =.
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A prominent coiored citizen Of Donald
sonville is thus compIimented by the Baton
Rouge Cnpitolian Advocate: "Rev. Pierre
Landry, for the last four years Presiding
Elder Of the Baton Rouge District Of the
colored NJ. E. Church, has been appointed |
to fill similar function in the Shreveport
District. Nj. Landry, while here, dis
played great zeal and energy, and it is due
I'M great measure to his efforts that the |
handsome church on Government street
has been erected. Attending strictly to his |
duties, with dignity ard intelIi-
gence, be has effected much good in estab-
fishing good relations between his flock
and our citizens generally. We take pleas
ure in bearing testimony to the commend
able manner with which he has exercised
his trust, aud We do not doubt that he win |
pursue the same courss ID the new field to |
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