The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-31

highest public Offices. There is Davenport;
We always supposed that he was very re-
spectacle man, till he was nominated for
Governor; but since the nomination it has
been discovered that he is interested in a
large number of liquor saloons in New
York; that he has been communicating the
youth of the United States with Pleasant
Valley brandy; that he never did anything
for Soldiers Home at Bath, and that the
5000 which he presented to it was given
for sinister purpose, and that the $15O, GOO
/ presented to the Home for friendless girls
was not his money at all, but his fathers.
These and other crimes have been discoy-
cred, in addition to which he has the gal
loping consumption, and this fact alone is
sufficient to condemn him in the estimation
of any upright and sensible citizen. Then
there is Hill, man of no ability, mere
accident in politics, whose proper vocation
would seem to be the highway, instead Of
the highest Office in the State, if we are to
believe the published accounts of pecula-
| ton and robbery that mark his course since
his first entry into public life.
It certainly would astonish that same for
eigner if he could be brought face to face
with either of these gentlemen at his home
to find that Mr.. Davenport springs from
stock whose pathway has been strewn
with the golden sheaves of charity, and
that the son worthiIy dispenses the magnifi-
cent benefactions which his father left be-
hind, adding to them from his own wealth
with no stinted hand. And that in the city
of Elmira, where he has resided the greater
portion of his life, there is not q man who
stands higher in the estimation of his fell
low men than Governor Hill. There is
wide diversity of sentiment on public mat
ters between these gentlemen which may
render the selection of one or the other de-
sirable, but it does not touch their private
characters, and in either event, New York
didate selected, whoever he may be.
If we don't have good musical season
this winter, it will not be the fault of those
gentlemen who cater for our musical enter
tainment. We have done with the 5000
prima donna. When you reflect that it takes
two thousand people at 81 so head to pay
one woman's salary, the question naturally
arises, what becomes of all the rest While
this musical cormOrant was devouring every
sent that was taken by the management,
aad insisting of hex pay in advance, and the
check had to be Forthcoming; every night be-
fore the curtain went up, ballet girls at Sea
week we're starving, and scene -shifters and
carpenters were swindled out of their pay.
Mapleson, of Her Majesty's Opera, comes
back to us cheeky as ever, but somewhat
shorn of his plumes. He will not bring
back five or six contraltos and as many So
pranos, and an army of ueeless bassos and
tenors. He comes with more modest
manifesto and may perhaps give Us as good
.music as wes0ueht to have for something
less tnan $IUH BeaC. =
Walter Damrosch, who has the direction
OF the German Opera, is making maQnif-
lcent preparations which give promise of
most successful season. Theodore Thomas.
who has done 80 much to elevate our music
al taste, is busy drilling an opera company
from which mnch may be expected. And
last, but by no means least, comes back the
sweet little song bird of the Sierras-our
own Nevada, who, notwithstanding her
brilliant reception abroad, and her mar
riage with all its pomp and circumstance,
comes back to US the same joyous, light
hearted girl that she left us year ago. To
the gallant gentleman, DR.. Palmer, who
won this pearl of great price we extend our
heartiest congratulations, and take this oc- |
caslon to commend the solid judgment and |
good sense of our own little Prima Donna
in preferring to give her hand to an unit
He'd English gentleman instead of to rag
ged and piebald title with some mercen ary
italian Count or penniless German Baron.
To the bride and the bridegroom We extend
l hearty welcome.
Stocks are still going up and as a matter
If course the Bulls are jubilant. There is
10 question but that the rise has had ben
'dcial effect on business. Wabash common
md preferred, that were supposed to be as
lead as door nail, have doubled them
ewes in the last few weeks, and many other
tocks have had marvellous rise, but they
re likely to collapse at any moment.
Fish was brought down from States pris-
N to testify in the Ward trial. 1t is sin .
ular case. A man in States prison is sup i
osed to be civilly dead. Query: Can dead
nan testify? give it up.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM. i
Lesson from q Mastodop,
The tusks of mastodon recently found in
illinois weighed us pounds EACH What a gi-
antic tooth ache that animal must have been
Rpable OF having! And such neuralgia! Neu-
algla. OF nerve-ache. generally proceeds from
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