The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-02-14
DoNAIDsonyIL1F LOUISIANA SATURDAY FEBRUARY a. 1885

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banding together in defence of social or
der. The miscreants who blew up McGaf-
ry's store will not escape. Society has too
much at stake to let the villains 90 unpun-
ished. We must hunt them down II it costs
million dollars to do it, and when they
are found mike an example Of them that
will not be forgotten by the present genera
ton. 5;s ..1@f48j54@s 80 5tg, esB "a g3s5
But there is dynamite at work in political
circles, and since the inauguration of May
! or Grace there has been rafting among
the dry bones such rs we have not heard
since the Tweed ring fell. When the ring
robbers were scattered to the four quarters
Of the globe, and became vagabonds upon
| the faoe Of the earth, Joel Stevens, whowas
Under-SheriR and really a much bigger
man tllan the Sheriff himself, held the fort
| against all con,ers. Sherjffs came in and
Sheriffs went out, but it made no difference
to Joel. Ring thieves ruled and Reformers
put them to flight, but it disturbed not j Joel.
He seemed to have such pull that no
Sheriff, no matter what his politics, dared
to give him the grand bounce. Joel seemed
| to be an much of a fixture as the pillars in
front of the City Hall. He was the repre-
sentative Of the august,power of Tammany
in our municipal government, but Sheriff
| Dawson marked him for the axe, and on
Monday his head fell. riTalpmany is in
sackloth and ashes The Sheriff suspected
Joel of giving the snrreptitious informa-
ton to the Roosevelt committee which led
to his indictment. tzt@*# LtF**7
And now they are going for the scalp Of
the renowned Captain Williams, who bears
the distinguished. title of the clublsr. His
locust has been a terror to evh-loers for
years; even the great knocker-out, John L.
Sullivan, did not care to test its quality.
But it is said that gambling houses flourish
in the Captains bailiwick, sand that he has
waxed fat thereon-certain it is that the
Captain hath a comfortable bank account.
and that he owneth many brown-stone
houses and other valuable things, such rs
lit would be difficult to compass On police
captains salary. Should the charges against
him now be proved, notable figure will
disappear from the police force, aud it may
sender possible the Execution of the law
against gambling, which up to the present
time has been dead letter. ....r .r5
The Department of Public Works has
not escaped the storm, and the new Com
missioner, Roilin N. Squire, who four
weeks ago was considered the lucLiest man
in New York, may find the stormy path of
New York politics like Jordan, n hard road
to travel. The men who aided his election
are .cursing their folly, as we'll they may,
for the only recommendation that the man
possessed for one of the most importrnt Of
fees i'm the State of New York was, that
they knew nothing about him. The truck
ling politicians who participated in the deal
have learned something Of him since, and
that something was not to the advantage of
Mr.. Squire. So they determined that they
would put him OIL the gridiron, and
they did it most efectually by striking his
name from the bill constituting the new
aqueduct commission.
When the explosions took place Lord
GarInoyle got out of town by the earliest
express. He has been fairly hunted down
by interviewers, and your first class New
York interviewer is most extraordinary
person. He wakes You up at 2 o'clock in
the morning, makes you get out of bed, he
helps himself from your cigar case, takes
drink without invitation from your private
bottle, spits all over the carpet, seats him
self down in your easy chair, socks his feet
up on the ceuter table, and then coolly asks
you to give an account of yourself from the
hour Of. your birth, with glimpses of the
history of your sisters, your cousins and
your aunts, and as an additional favor re-
quests that you will contradict the ibels
which he has manufactured out of whole
cloth in the paper of the previous day. Miss
Dudley has had an excellent opportunity to
sample them, and presume she is not fa-
vorably impressed. -.
Notwithstanding the tremendous threats
Of retribution by the friends of o. O'Donovan
Rosa, nobody is afraid !; things go on as
usual. When Ridley and McGarry get their
windows putin and the damage caused BY
the hte dynamite explosion repaired, you
will find the stores more crowded than
ever, ,sand in a.. couple of weeks the affair
will be forgotten, except by McGarry and
the police. a.z,. ...-..- .s-.. e.. s.~z
1t was not generally known that Miss
Fortescue, the lucky complainant in the
Garmoyle case, is not unknown in New
York. She. was engaged in small parts at
the Standard Theatre at fifteen dollars a.
week. When she comes back she will COM
mand more ducats than when she went
away. For few weeks, at least, she will
be cheap at $500 night.
It was q violent shock to mine host Of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel when President elect
Cleveland turned his back upon that popu-
lar hostelry, and tucked his legs under the
mahogany Of mine lost of the Victoria.
It is trne that the Fifth Avenue has been
rather recognized az. Republican house,
that is to say, that all the Republican Presi-
dents have stopped there; but then you
must recoilect that we have had nothing
else but Republican Presidents since it was
built. But it seemed to have d lien ON the
Executive business, suppose because it
was free blow out-pienty to eat and
drink aud nothing to pay. Bat the new
President starts oh on new track, and in
sists upon paying his bills, most excellent