The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-21
MARC 21ssa

weeping wife attempted to get correct |
version of the facts before the Recorder. |
The testimony of sixteen persons on the |
different floors, who had been listening at |
The elevator and air shaft, was against |
Them, so the man was fined $40 for assault
ing his wife, and "sent up" for three
months for resisting the officer. When he !
gets out he will move from the fat. His |
neighbors look upon him as hardened |
ruf6an who ought to be hung, drawn and |
quartered. # he should die before he has
finished his term on the Island: and a Cor
oner's jury should sit on his case, the YER !
dict would be: too much air shaft and too
much elevator.
Political circles are stirred to the centre
by the rumors concerning the New York
post-ofice. The Mugwumps want Mr..
Pearson retained, and great pains was ia
ken to circulate the report that he was not
to be disturbed in his soft berth. Up to
the present time Mr.. Pearson has been re-
garded as the model of all postmasters.
The public have been led to believe that he
was the one official in whose record there
was no flaw. 1t now appears that there are
complaints against him on file in the De-
partmeIt at Washington, and that he ia ae-
cused of being interested in private city ex-
presses which carry letters in violation of
law, and by which the government loses
from $500 to $1,000 day, and was told by
very influential Democrat-and a warm
personal friend of President Cleveland's-
that he was going to write personal letter
to the President against Mr.. Pearson's re-
tention. His reason for doing so was, that
on the day of the Democratic procession
Blaine flags were Haunted out of the post
Office windows, and men with government
uniforms on their backs made use of such
offensive language that it almost produced
riot. do not know if this is true, but if
plank, and the $1,000 salary which the posi-
tien affords will reward the labors of some
good and upright Democrat who has been
looking from Pisgah's height for quarter
of century on the glories of the Promised
Land. IN any event Mr.. Pearson will not
suffer. Mr.. James, his father in law and
predecessor in Office, is now the banker of
the Vanderbilts-therea are plenty of places
within their gift worth more than $1,000
year. Then, being on the right side of the
railroad ring, they can take little flyer in
stocks occasionally, 80 that if Mr.. Pearson
should lose the post Office, there is no i'm.
mediate fear of his becoming county
charge.
Early in the week our new Mayor, Mr..
Grace, did nice little bit of burglary,
which makes 1t a question if he has not
mistaken his calling. Some time ago he
appointed q Register of Permits, but the old
Register, who was not at all weary of serv-
ing the city in position worth $4,000 a
year, and who was also thorough civil ser
vice reformsr, proposed holding on TO the
place till Gabriel served him with q notifi-
cation. He said civil service reform meant
keeping good servants in Office forever, and
that he was a good servant. Mayor Grace
said civil service reform be-blessed, and
he told Mr.. Woltman to get out. Mr.. Volt
man fortified himself in his Office and pre-
pared to fight it out in the courts. Now, as
it takes about ten years to reach the Court
of Appeals, the presumption is that Mr..
Grace aud Mr.. Woltman would be brows-
ing on the fowery fields of Canaan many
years before the suit could be decided. The
Mayor did not propose to wait, 80 he sent
for a clever locksmith at midnight, got in
to the Office, took possession, and now Mr..
Woltman, instead of the Mayor, will wait
on the outside.
There has been tremendous excitement
among our German population, caused by
the arrival of Herr Sonenthal, the renowned
German actor. The arrival of Patti hardly
created as profound a sensation. Seats
have risen five or six hundred Fer cent.
twenty-five dollars have been paid for
seats in the dress circle, and Sc for seats in
the upper gallery. The whole town is talk
| ing about Herr Sonenthal, and not only the
Germans, but Americans who could not
tell the difference between picked cabbage
and aaur-kraut, are rushing to see him. Il
is lucky for US he has to 60 back home in g
couple of weeks, for if he stayed mucl
longer he would bankrupt half the town.
The skating craze has attacked Us severe
ly. The Rink in Brooklyn, from which tn.
Rev. Justin d. Fulton has just taken hi
departure, and which eight OF nine year
ago reverbera.ed with the thunder of Moo
dys sermons and the music of Sankey'
hymns now echoes with the roar of thou
sands of roller skaters and with shouts O
laughter and thunders of applause as SOM
luckless wight tries to make dent in tn
pine floor with his head. It is wonderful
how the virus has spread. Young girls, ia
old wives, little children. and grey-heade'
old sinners who ought to be thinking o
their prayers, go sailing around hour afte
hour as if the sole business of life was roll
er skating. Patients die while the docto
takes fly around the rink. The bab
chokes to death With the Group while tn
mother, in company with friend, slide
around the mystic circle. Coachmen ar
not numerous, but the scientific teachers c
roller skating are equally dangerous.
don't know where it is going to end. but q
the boys say, ..s.Ne've got it bad" Save III
oh save us from the roller skates.
Stocks took firt up early in the weel
The subsidy to the Pacific Mail sent ths
, stock kitirg si1 points; still business is Nc
/ rushing and the weather would take tt
: backbone out of rhinoosrous, Would
oonld sing. "Hail. gentle HprinQ!" b,