The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-07-18

settle. The prlnC1ple is eXactly the stlAe
in oil. wheat or cotton. The dollar you put
up on margin is a bet of one to ten, or
one to twenty, that wheat will go up or
wheat will go down. In faro You bet that
such card will turn up in certain place.
In poker you bet that the cards you hold
are superior to the cards held by your op-
ponent. In horse race you bet that the
horse you favor will go faster than the other
horse. It IS gambling, all. 10 the one
man that is ruined by pools or faro, hun
dred are ruined in our Exchanges. Wall
street, Broad street, and where the Produce
Exchange towers over the Bowling Green
are full of more desperate gamblers than
ever manipulated faro box or started
horse race. 1t is the boast of our police
that you can not buy gig or saddle on the
La. s. L., the Kentucky State Lottery, or
the Big or Little Havana, yet there is not
a respectable paper in the city that does not
publish every morning and every evening
the gambling transactions of Wall street,
which amount to millions in single day.
AS long as this species of gambling is re-
garded as respectable and honest it will be
difficult to make men believe that it is
crime to bet on a. horse race.
Only few weeks ago We had here Lager
Beer Brewers Convention, and very in
telligent and jolly lot of fellows they were.
The brewing interest is not small one in.
New York, and the visiting brewers received
such welcome as they are not likely to
forget. Among the reports I noticed this
item: "Annual product, eight millions of
barrels" Now, barrel of lager beer costs
eight dollars, so, in round numbers, this
will make the wholesale price of the beer
sixty four millions of dollars. If the retail
price only doubled this, it would make one
hundred and twenty eight millions of dol
lars, instead of which it quadrnples 1t,
making the sum which the people of the
United States pay for lager alone, two hun
dred and ffty-six millions of dollars, or
about enough to pay all the expenses OF the
Government, support our Army, Navy, Ju-
dietary and Diplomatic Corps, pay all our
pensions and the interest on the National
debt. But $3.50, 100000 will not settle our
liquor bill besides this are. ale, vhiskey,
brandy, gin, wine. rum, etc. Ii ne pay
S25G,OOO, COO annually for lager alone, it will
require ct least $500,00O,0OO to foot the
other bills, and I doubt very much if $780,
GOO will do it, making a total of $780,
900, coo that the people of the United States
pay for intoxicating drinks each year. In
regard to lager-about which I began-if a
man desires to lead strictly virtuous aud
sober life, and be removed far from tempt
alton, let him 90 to Coney Island and stick
reIigiously to lager. If he avoids the pit
falls that lie in milk punches and whiskey
cocktails, and such like fluid denominations,
he is safe. The glass of lager at Coney ISL
| and is pleasant haIluclnation; it is little
more than shadowy illusion, like the
| froth that lies along the shores of a dream
now you see it, and now you don't-and
you are great deal more likely to DONE
than see it. All the Coney Island hotel
keepers are friends of temperance, and if g
man should start at the commencement ol
the watering season it would take him til
frost comes to get up any kind of respect
able drunk on the glasses of lager they
serve out at Coney Island. Neal Dow coult
not object to them: Francis Murphy woul(
not refuse his approval. And even tina
staunch old temperance champion John 3
Cough, would pass them by without re
proof, not considering them perilous tt
public morals. Still two hundred and fifty
six millions of dollars is q considerable
sum to pay for such a blessing in disguise
Could not some other way be found il
which We might get ont of that amount o
money equal pleasure and greater profits
pause for reply.
had occasion some months ago to cal
attention to one DR.. Monck, who started
business in Brooklyn as spiritual healer
The Doctor brought his business to an ex
ceedingly fine point. It was not necessar
even to see the patient, all that he had to d
was to send ten cent pocket handkerchie
that had received his blessing, and in les
time then you could say Jack-much les
Robinson-the disease, wathever it was
few away In the City of Churches OF a
Mr.. Beecher says, "rumshops," lived on
Miss Margaret Wood, q spinster, who wa
suffering from severe bodily ailments
in the words of the ancient poet, " mis-
fortunes sore, long time she bore, phys
clans were in vain" So after givin
allopath, homeopath steam doctors an
> electics chance, she went to Doctor Mono
and here let me remark that the Doctor
great successes we're among the female Pc
suasion. | don't know whether he helIe
= sister Woods lumbago and neuralgia or no
. but he assisted in getting rid of near
5000 which she had pat up in the savin!
bank, and to prove that there was metht
in the madness of this prophet, he invite
the lady down to first class restaurant
Il take lunch; he ordered trouffies, pate
: fois gras, CIicquot and Bass double \, al
u after the dinner was all demolished, G
> cused himself and left Miss Woods to p
! the bill 1t took some time for the spiritu
=. N scales to fall from Miss Woods eyes, b
they did fail at last, and week ago NJ
II Woods pulled the spiritual healer into
- courts to try and get back her none
80 Monek insisted that she had not given h
n the money but had leEt it to the Lord.
E. He was beyond the reach Of civil procs
! she concluded to go for Monck. When /
. prophet saw that dungeon cell was va"
A ing for him he restored part Of his plr
es der.
a. Civil service reform seems to be exe7l
=" ::g the community just noH, the cou.In
ne Sanitation being, ls men pass each oh
at Are you aa otfensiYe partisans'
e. Yours truly, BRDADBRlM