the donaldsonville chief (donaldsonville, la.) 1884-12-13 [p ] · 2017. 12. 13. · cart makrers...

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"~" ' ' - - dY; SGV LUS N. Y ff: a;. Donaldt sonvirnel `L. E. BENTLEYEot and f Oprlef One Y .. -rx;,.:..t...:. .$20 - V'ayab1" in advance. 9YAOS '. ; 'd ie s711 alsa. p oe: 1 yelar One b...... *s $ 50$ $1800 inches 5 8 950 1550 2000 ' x !' 180 09 va .. 1 2 r 95 00 inc s...11;0 .190080~ 4000 I-W u i0. `. 00o inscrnJ'oji 8'- itrt isrotioni each 0ubeequeu t 50 oo iparqunre riion. pcents P0. Br i _ ; pon subi 5 t"t of public .' jopeldt4 attengile pa an ttei Te.io b not f99p9A@ ~ r1,? ~PI n . .0 T eraOi r tree} .155 Il3 Dr. ''. J. Friedr c is, i5..rst .... .c 1~alb's. j )R. WilM. McGA LLIARD, Corner Honmas andih vilik streets. j 1D. HANSON, M. D. Corner Houmas and Iberville streets, near C. ,line's _tore, D R. J L. RICHARD, OFFIUE AND BESIDENCE. Lesard street, between lberville and Attaka- - pas streets. ,Donaldsouville, La. UJ dJ. LEOI iti UBGIST, Corner Ghetimpeea-aLd Mississippi streets. Donaldsonville, La. Acoom ate se. of pre cohemicals always on a p ons carefully compiled at all ho day and night. WM. REED MILLS, ATw0•W'I . AT. LAW, * O. 85ltriprl Street, New Orleans, La. Practices in all the Courts of Louisiana, State and Federal. Attorney at -aw and Not,-.ry Office and Residence corner Attakapas street and iair•• ead Avenue, Donaldsonville, La. Practices in 81a the Courts of Louisiana, both State andFederal.- Adfdress, P: O. ock box S. 9HAS. A. mAQU.IE, " ' lRahnville, La. Practices in the Twenty-Second and Twenty- Sixth Judicjsl Districts comprising the parish- es of Jefferson,.S-. Charles. St. John, St. James end Askhssiobn, and before the Federal and Bnp•eme Courts in New Orleans. Special attention paid to the collection of commercial claims. Address: Hahnville P. 0., St. Charles, La. I . zit IN, " p Ahop on Iberville street, near the corner of Houmas, - Donaldsonville, La. Orders received through the Post-office will Tneet with prompt attention. -arpenter and Builder, Pine street, opposite the Iron Bridge, r ;r t Da3rrow, Ea. Orders from the country solicited and O d goodw•ork at ow r ~ a > DiaydasnviUle- Sand in the end d t t. sP tau ,,- O4ALIONVILLE iBJS1NES 1MECTORY. DRY GOODS. G ROCERaI. Etc. ISRAEL & CO., dealers in ]%Y Goods, ~Clo &Bfooteo, Shoes, Saddfre Bug- gsai., isisstaiptri andLetiad Tets. CtbLNZ;cofter Creer Cfflaoe and Hon- adra A dealer uin D~foods, Notions, St is en 'toeeries; Provieion9, Corn, Oats and Bran. OS. EGONDBA, dealer:~n D ~s, Notions, .= Gtotbiig Boots and ShoesrHatscGrirber- ies;, IaFLM;dWf~ldeB Tobacco,~il and io e. (I t S ioes~e P thine. i:a" nerL;"ti"lb~ ~ae Hiti jstreet. BERN'ARD ILE"'"' &BfloTBEI dealers Sin Westaern fancy andstadelo- oeri, LiqnHl&,ta s re, .Iron P0 Oils, SP Sd Stoves andetre, Fart: ze ' ckG W all Paper and House nae (}Dos, o Miissippi atreet , Corner OS. (GONDRAN d hPNS. dealers in Dry ood Ls, C P er Ntio sHat, Groceries, Ai odtsaifabShoes, Hatrdwae Paints I al Cr ery, Furniture andall t88 of HguGp . Iraesb Goodls. Blae Store, 71 anard and -street.e SD. PeA$; der int and Ltquoran Fancy " Gro~ert Provisions, Jlantation and !teamti lTae, Canned Goods. Wines, Li uo, Bottleleer. Ale, etc., Dry Goods anNotionorier ofMirier ai and Cheti- aesihe, streets, opposite River tierr le ILS AND ING-HOUSES. l andBAO NlEEot-Arly I~EL AND BhRRUOOr, oMissite dpitrtFirst-rate acommo- dation and endnbl pite Western Union telosgeph-oftc in the ho tel.t ster CTTY nROTL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Ilail. =Vzaph nue. maner Iberville street. Bar LIQUOr AV D f MlT EDUA I EALu.tA hE PLACE, O. Israel, manager. Corner Lessa Land Mississieppi streets. Billiards, Lager Beer, Lest Wirne and Liquors. ines TINSMIHTH. C ] _D WUTIER Tlnsmalth, Port Barrow La. a giat l g, sttovepiping, repairing t andall or pxte n1 n to the tinner's trade, A~ltfs * la 1,. Doseldsolllh. LIa. t ou o 11J .ACK&,sTiismith, Mssitssipp o L eltert and aoll stand. o a era at-e t witre ad s ath alo stlfa n iin- . OUGH ALANSGBT CKElI City BLarber IhHp, pb~gsipp twet djoining I po-~y tcoLE &iniINKE Blacnng nithsa ang eng of Wiht or Wfskxers,c aion th oeast tyle, at popular pries iespotfuily solicit 'th~e patwnt e ot.tbaonub 0.1 bt L. weenAIiii Bag 8hoIb ,le isssieppi l" street, nenr go r Lessarl AhvinMt, hair.e cutting, diba ate , in moat artistic style. AlbeD1rt Gittor iey at law andc . ,Notary Cslmgehes street opeposieet c., a a or. A o eDWARoD e r oresy at Law, Attr- I Visits iapol as. Public, v. Ofe: on bloeh, below the Co 0o Attakapms street. ` HOUSE. A l N PAINITING4. G INToRY. J1PAMTh. shop at Cheap Tony's Store, cerner Mlississippi street and Railroad vesnue flseo Bigp api Ornamental Paintiag sll' theirbz nehees;' Beat work at lowed prices t IUNI)EIITAHKER. SqHQNBV S Un sertan's Establishment, R3 aim adlvenuaet, eseii Ibervilla and At- takapawsetrnts. Air kinds" I burial cases, from isi +f4bl to them taio or rosewood cas- ket. DRUGS AND MEDICINES. 3 Y -RBIKI, Apothecary and Druggist, Mis- A~ssissippi street. between St. Patritg and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's store. * MILLINERY. M8S. 1. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street, LJJl. Lessard and St. Patrick. Latest st)les o nets, Hats, Irench Flowers, etc.; =adeo. of LadiesseR ear e. SODA WATER MANUFACTORY. ODA pWATER MANiCFACTORY, H. Hether' *~Jrnpriit, No. 11 M8ississippi street. Soda, Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds of aerated waters manufactured and sold at lowest prices. BLACKSMITHS & WHIEELWRIIGHTS. iLCHDLEI1ER A BRINKER. Blacksmiths and )3 Wheelwrights. Horse-Shoers. Wagon and Cart makrers aull repairers. Railroad Avenue, betwe~en Mlississippi and Iberville streets. COPFEIC STPAND. VABVORITE COFFEE AND EATiNG STAND, X'lower end of Donaldsonville MI~tket-hbnse, Albert Gossett. proprietor; Rot Coffee, Lunch, Cakres.Pies, etc., at all hours. A lunch for 10 cents, a good meal for 11, a regular gorge for 21. )IIN P. PORCHA. Cistern -Maker, Railroad'Avenue, opposite the Post-office I)onaldsonville, La. All work guaranteed and satisfaction war- ranted. Prices lower than the lowest. SIRS. I. PALMER, DRESSMAKIER, - Railroad Avenue, near Claiborne street, Donaldsonville. Plain and fancy sewing of all kinds done in best style and on reasonable terms. A trial solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. M. . DARTON,- Civil Engineer & Surveyor, (Parish Surveyor of Ascension.) Will attend promptly to work in all branches of his profession, such as surveying, mapping, leveling for canals, bridges, rice flumes, etc., estimating cost and suervising construction of same. Orders left at the Cai office will meet with immediate attention. Forget's Restaurant, No. 107 Customhouse street, between Royal and Bourbon. NEW ORLEANS, LA. Meals at .11- Hours. Rooms and Board by the Day, Week or Month Sat Moderaete Price, Kursheedt .& B nvenu, TOMIS and SHllADSTONBiS. -ALL KINDS OF- 1 ARBLE WOR K -A N'•-- CEMETERY RAILINGS Nos. 114, 120, 122, Camp St., NEW OIRLEA-NS. TENNIBONiF - ifW'rOEm. Otho so fair in Summers gone, vWhile y etby-fr-esh and virgin soul I -form'd the colnm'd Parthenon, The glittering Capitol; 8 fair jnluthern sunshine bathed, But scarce of unoh majestic mien As here with forehead vapor-swathed In meadows evergreen; For thon-when Athens reign'd and Rome. Thy gloriousn eyes were dimm'd with pain To mark in many a freeman's home The slave, the scourge, the chain; O.follower of the Vision, still In inotion to the distant gleam, Iowe'er blind force and brainless will May jar thy golden dream, Whg, like great Nature, wouldst not mar By changes all too fierce had fast This order of our Human Btar, This heritage of the past; O scorner of the party cry That wanders from the public good, rThou-wien tht Ndtt nA iref on high Their idol smear'd with blood, And when-they -oll their idol down- Of saner Worship stmel ' lroud; Thou loather of-the lawless crown As of the lawless crowd; How long thins ever growing mind Hhth still'd the blast and strewn the wave, Though some of late would raise a wind To sing thee tokhy grave, Men loud against all forms of power- Unfurnish'd brows, tempestuous tongues, Expecting all things in an hour-- Brass months and iron lungs! OUR, LET1 t ERFRt MJOBROA RIM-M. A Favored City-Brooklyn's Sciedtdd and Political Infallibles-Ioliday Goods iad New Fashions-W-Vhat Some Rich Men Did with their Money-An Epidemic of 1 Jiltsngs-Robbing aPenltentary-Amer- a lca's New Operatic Star, New Yoax, De, 8, 1881. t frnITro Ciaxr: It is fortunate for New York that it has such a neighbor as Brooklyn, for the city of churches acts as a political and religious balance wheel to us benighted sinners on this side of the river and keeps us meta- phorically up to standard time. New York can not be called strictly orthodox. Free r thinking and loose scientific notions flour- ish like a green bay tree, and if you hap. pen to mention anch a thing as a imiracle, these new fledged philosophers say with Spencer and Huxley, prove it. But as 1 remarked at the begninning New York is fortunate in lying so near to Brooklyn, and Brooklyn is fortunate in possessing two C such enterprising and energetic ministers as Justin D. Fulton and DeWitt Talmage, 1 If the Republicans had only followed Ful. ton's advice Blaine would have been Pros- ident to-day, while Talmage knocked the underpinning from Darwin, Huxley, Her- bert, Spencer and Tyndall, and proved sat- isfactorily to himself that they were noth. ing but a set of presuming ignoramuses, Who were playing upon the credulity of a confiding world. It is lucky for Darwin that he died before he was so completely t squelched by Talmage. You will see at a glance the superiority of falmage. Dar- t win was only a theorist, a dreamer who drew his conclusions from a lot of ab- struse and disconnected facts, but Tal- mage knows exactly how the thing was done and as a mutter of course, it is much more satisfactory to have" the evidence of a man that knows like Talmage than fel- lows who only think they know, like Hux- ley, Darwin, Spencer and Tyndall. The old Mosaic account of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, is good enough for Talmage; he don't want to go back to the time when Adam's great, great, great, great grandfather sat up on the top of a seventy foot telegraph pole cracking co ;oanuts for his breakfast, or munching bananas or guavas for his supper; no ring-tailed monk- ey for Talmage. It is much easier for Tal- mage to believe that Eve wasmanufactured out of a rib, than that she was evoluted from aPollywog. At any !rate he settled Darwin's hash, and you need not expect to hear of him again. Great man, great man, Talmage. Fulton holds out at the Tabernacle, otherwise known among the profane as the Rink. It is one of the larg- est buildings in Brooklyn. It was here the Evangelists Moody and Sankey sowed their gospel seed about ten years ago; seed, which I regret to say, was not sown on fal- low ground, but which fell among the rocks and was devoured by the fowls of the air, for scarcely a sickly shoot remains to mark the passage of the Evangelists. Af- ter that the Rink served the unrighteous for walking matches and boxing matches, profane dances and other wicked doings. At last it was rescued from the clutches of Satan by Brother Fulton, and for the last four years he has been having a hand to hand fight with the world, the flesh and the d-l. Brother Fulton believes with the Rev. Dr. Burchard that the Democrat- ic party is the party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, and he feels assured that if Brother Blaine had only nailed Dr. Bur- chard's flag to his masthead, he wpuld have left Grover Cleveland to the quiet seclusion of oiur, apital at Albany and James G. Blaine would have made a triumphant marciFon the White House in the City of Washington. When will our so-called statesmen learn wisdom? Here was Blaine in Brooklyn; he might just as well have called on Fulton as not, and Fulton couid have told him just how to win, but with unnbakiotable stupidity he did not call on Fulton, and behold the result: he got left. Served- hm~ right. It will be a warning to thenext-1residential candidate. " vngi•geek. The stores are ~l i~e2hit w fline god and from now till New Years we may look for a gland holiday time. Taking up the papers You hear theni ay of hard-times. It isadifficult thing to - alize iI: yoa: walk through the grea tVhor- oughhl es. .o'- Iebw York and Br•ooklyn. Hardig.inh..mqmory of living men has there been saih' eostly extravagances in dress. The wives of mechanics and trades-' men dress better to-day than a fine lady could dress firtyyears ago. -Walk=Png- the west side of Brpadway or through Four- teenth or Twenty:thitd streets on any pleasant afternoon, and among the thou- sounds you -pass, representing every grade of society, it is rare to meat a poorly dressed woman. This is more particu- larly noticeable at 4 o'clock in the after- noon when the down town 'factories are turning outt their shUbas ftonathedense hives in the lower part of the city. -Among them all it is rare to see a poorly dressed woman. Of course there are some ex- traordinarylpersons who especially desire to make themselves conspictuous, but this is like any other disease and has to be borne with equanimity. The prevailing styles of goods are mar- vels of beauty, and in the general make-up of them there is a most exquisite taste worthy of all commendation. When we remember -the flaunting abominations of four or five years ago we feel that we have reason to thank Providence to have reached our present vantage ground. Taste has vastly improved; the dresses that cost some four or five dollars a yard no longer do the work appointed for the city scavengers. The craze for blonde heads has gone out of fashion and our angels are coming back to their natural colors, though I confess it looks odd to see one-half of a woman's hair a bright golden yellow and the portion next her head of a very respectable chest- nut, but as it tells of returning common sense we feeel like forgiving one of the most unpardonable follies of- which our sisters have been guilty-since Eve went apple hunting. I was talking with a gentleman largely engaged in business-a man who .had traveled extensively and knew the world, and he remarked, ifa man wants anything that is to be found on the face of the earth he can ge t tit in this city. This may seem a bold assertion, bW we have grown won- derfully. As you pu; along the 'treets in the stores you see the richest of oriental hangings, tapestries, laces and all sorts of beautiful and costly goods, bronzes, ele- gant ale-naes, articles of vertu and orna- mont, such as a few years ago could only be found in Pnris, London, or Vienna. It was a rare thing for a foreign artist of repotation to send a picture across the water, and now they come by thousands, many indlfferent canvisses cfndlg ready purchasers among the over credulous Yan- kees. A number of colossal fortunes have been piled up among as within the past twenty years. It goes for saying that not a sing!e one of our newly fledged millionaires knew the difference between a Raphael or a Rtnbens, or a John Smith, or a Tom Brown. The late Mr. Stewart gave $50,00P for Rosa Bonheur's lHorse Fair, and he knew as much about its artistio merits as one of the horses in the picture. A capital judge of linens and calicoes, well versed in silks and cloths, besides being something of a classi- cal scholar, he knew no more about pictures than a hod carrier. Yet he built a fine gallery, which nobody is allowed to enter, and he imprisoned within its brick walls three hundred thousand dollars' worth of fine pictures which might just as well be in the catacombs of Egypt as in his white marble palace on the Fifth Avenue. A very different man was Marshall A. Roberts. He was a very rich man and one who knew the value of a dollar as well as any man in the city, but :he was a broad gauge man of liberal principles and.exquis- ite, taste and he was blessed with a wife just as good as himself, and he was willing that the millions of the poor should share the blessings of his abundance. First he threw his magnificent picture gallery open to aid some charitable institution, and fi- nally he admitted the public on stated days, and this was kept up almost to the day of his death. It was an inestimable boon to the lovers of art and one that will not soon be forgotten. Mr. Vanderbilt did some- thing of the kind last winter, and the pub- lic are in hopes that he will not be weary of well-doing, but with the return of frost will give them another peep at those fa- mous pictures which only a millionaire like himself could ever have brought to this side of the Atlantic. Jay Gould has some pictures, but no one ever sees them. What a year this has been for jiltings. I have before me a list of twenty brides and grooms who were deserted in the last year at the altar's foot. Four faithless brides and sixteen recreant grooms. Only the other night our fashionable colored society was moved to its innermost depths by the desertion of one of the most enchanting sable belles in the city. Like many other romantic young maidens she had fixed her affections on a coachman. (What in Jeru- salem is there about these coachmen?) Well this particular Jehu walked off with this young lady's affections as if he had been driving his own horses. The wedding day was fixed, the friends were invited, the feast was. prepared, the minister was on hand, the bride stood decked in orange blossoms, but the groom came not. When he should have been promising to love, honor and cherish, this faithless groom was grooming his horses at a stable on Clinton Avenue. After waiting a long time the bride went off into hysterics, the minister went without his fee, the bridal party went without their supper, and the doughnuts, wedding cake and charlotte russe remain unconsumed to this day. This coachman business ought to be played out, though from present appearances Mrs. Huiskamp Morrisini may turn her escapade with her coachman into golden ducats; It is not near so romantic to say that she is married to a ticket taker as a coachman, but before she finishes her concert tour she will find that the fellow who looks out for. the ticket box is a much more important person than the fellow who sits on the coach box. - I have often remarked that whenever I want a point I have to go to Brooklyn for it. The latest is the robbery of the Kings County penitentiary. Some thieves broke in and carried off the cash. f you have any prisons out your way keep an eye on them or some daring burglar may run away with the cells and the keepers. The success of the new operatic star, -Miss Emma Nevada, was so pronounced that-we shall have no further occasion to import; foreign singers. Each appearance has" been a triumph never before accorded to an American singer. She is as good as she is talented, and America mlay well be proud of her newstar. gours truly, BROARDBRIM. BY ANDREWIANG Be. enhetw hee is re. W t 'gho eis i ajou'desire. To. make yourh leapgnblood run slow! sow Ol% how grave how wise we grow! iritm:atp as ghostut-n e up chill- Bave se that troopin how . The B tals oiat ilt The •eastaean takin is r andy re- On Christm, eve, oldasooends wl As one b ine -the si- ~ejore, We men ,aU silt taoaL troe- fich ls bhas menmoorym to show, Suli voices from the dirtane. thrill, Ahm•mhecom0 with Christmas snow, ewe all can raise at will. Oh shiltie : f'thei villae choiri Your casl on the midnigh trow! Oh, 'ri .tacsro.-pthe nlt anh•ie.w Beatbiak-thie Brnbe o rtih woei Reniew ten sAr tah -- om Be welcome• all, to comet go, Friend, srumcord, a.soon or slow We rart, like guests who'veJoved#heir- Foget tebmnotnor mourn them so, ration-The Iqaew Trk. Seaators1ip- tion of the' Wesbingtim Monument, etc. Wexigorox, D. C.,)December 8,1884. The first week of the possible thirteen of the Congressional session has passed anddt' is difficult 'to ind enough proceedings to base an obituary on. An immensenumber of bills have been introduced and a bound- less lot of talk indulged in, but when that is said, there is not emuch to tell. The con- mittees, however, are hard at work, and some of them promise to submit bills be- fore the holidays. The House committee on post-oces •and post roads have a number of impbotant bills on their 11*t to which they intend to ask the early atteptoun of Congress. Inclu- ded among tbhse are the postal telegraph bill, another whiho regulates the mail ,oon- tract system more carefully, a third whlah changes the basis of componsation to rail- roads for carrying the mails, na fourth which deals with the letter rate of poptage. All these are matters of importance and should get a hearing. It is to be doubted, however, if the committee iswise in putting the postal telegraph bill at the head of their list, as this subject is on of great diffieulty and sure to exite a protrted debate, They would do better to follow the example of the shipping and public landso ommittee and present rstto the Houe H those meas- ures on whlch there will be little or no con- troversy. The contest over the New York Senator- ship excites much interest here, and the progress of the fight is eagerly watahed. Hon. Frank Hiscock has left his place in the House and gone to New York to put himself in good position for the Senatorial lightning to strike him. I saw Hon. Ste- phen French of the Empire State a few days ago when he was in Washington with a committee of Republicans to confer with President Arthur in regard to this contest. At first he refused to be interviewed, but after a moment hq reconsidered and said, "I don't mind saying that the President is willing to accept the Senatorship if it shall come to him in the right way-as the prac- tically unanimous offer of the Republicans. But he will not enter into any scramble, and so far as any of his friends steering him m the race or making a contest, he will not permit anything of that kind. I will further say that I believe when the Re- publicans-the members of theLegislature, I mean--come to consider the matter, they will see that the right and proper thing to do is to elect President Arthur. I think that any man who studies the politics of New York at present can see that. In my opinion, it will become so apparent in the interest of the Republican party that the President is the man for the place, that his election will be practically unanimous. In that case he will accept. You can say that much." Leaving Mr. Arthur's personality out of the question, there are many considerations of a public character that make the election to the Senate of a man who has served in presidential office desirable. No man ac- quires so extensive and thorough a knowl- edge of public affairs as the President. He is brought in contact with representative men from every part of the country, and is made to understand the merits of every matter of public concern. Through his Cabinet he acquaints himself witlPthe es- sential principles and incidents of our for- eign and domestic policy, and by personal and confidential intercourse with diploma- tists, politicians and business men of every type he acquires a fund of information and a familiarity with the detail of government which preeminently qualify him for legisla- tive functions. It has been proposed, on this account, to admit our ex-Presidents to a seat in Congress. Such a step might, perhaps, be a too yadical departure from the principles of the government, but it is a pity to lose the services of men so pecu- liarly fitted for participation in the coun- cils of the Nation, and for this reason it is a matter for congratulation when circum- stances permit their retention in public life. The capstone of the Washington monu- ment was set on Saturday at 2 o'clock in the presence of a small party of invited guests. Although the obelisk is now com- pleted, there is much work still to be done. Probably the most important matter re- maining is the design for the base of-the monument, which has n6t been selected yet. Much finishing work on the interior is to be done. The memorial stones are being placed in the interior wail, and those in charge are exercisinga flie taste in draw- ing the line between stones to, be excluded on aceount of serving as advertisements of the donors, and those which can properly be used. The American flag now "oats from the fagsaff at the apex of the monu- ment, 600 feet above the ground. I hear that a number of Naval officers are likely to be dispatched to Nicaragua at an early day to look over the canalroute again. Yours truly; " A ERT. Vitol bos, a French farmer redmi g in Avoyelles parish, committed siide S ,y hanging himself to a ttee. Preparing rhe Aneong Rhe k. sMsawlo. . .. Nw 0le, de Nov. 7, 418t. EMroa CarEa: No event of rceant de As provoked so much ex itementsas-the. jrder of A. $. Murphy on Monday last. As a depoty keeper of the city jal ih As i , ha•' f a gang of prisoners engaged leag out the drainage ana'l s a the O:,. r 1L Claiborne and St.h Phii •teet. a about he ouldoverlookoprat•• s, esucoerdi with his a isdn hmelWg d,8t•• l [ et Super atndent oal rnary. LoUki3ngs up the street towards the rivet Early ret- marked: "There ae im.e tws o =of. Ford's court owfios." l• phr leok"d nip ,rasn aw thainet h e t h ree Mu thb rs, tl bo de Re- conder Thomas B. Ford, his brother Pat. ri•sk and his b rother-in-lw John rpb y, a police officer, ame afrom amound the cor- net of Claiborne street., All wert armed, the two former wtirb a revolver i -P : t . hand, and without a word~of arning th i - opened a re on Murphy, who sprang to his feet and faced them. ,leI ,e by• se;.g r was slightly wounded at theft B.•e la phy experienced sonme ltaletg ip gstng his weapon from he bp po ul and walkl to the middle of ;the eieet, b utt onig his coat to get at his pletl. The. s- sailants approached him fromg oppoSite- aides. He istero t random, ho •aut taktng efect, and then ran up Clb .strlet towards Dumalnae , r pe rdores gained on him rapidly and oopttinae P t r 'h. e tuorned ouat Dua ee. thecorner e it ie said the brother of ludge Fold took de- liberate aimH, bired, ad mortlly wouded Murphy, who after a low steps il 1 F1irm. sag and Riotor, a Negro, who dame up, 1 his body. Then all walket rapidly sway. I The Chief of Police arriv edo aoonte, art rested the Fords, and Coat coigers O ateo I cind, Bader and Buokley. From the homyo of his mother the funeral of Murphy wan , conducted by Washington Fire Company t No. 20, of which he was grand marshal. As I to the cause of this affair, some mdnthsr ago Murphy was brought before Secorder Ford, who deed him for being draink nsadI disturbing the peace, maiing also an entry in the record books Thii is a hoodlum, a dead beat and a city o'noiia' Ilupby posted handbills all over thet Citya denouo t ing Ford as a coward, lar, thief and per I juroer. He was arrestea or ac minat libel I put under peace bonds, and the csue caste I up last week, but was mcontln edbcatise Of i an important murder ase. Marphy declared he would prove all he charged, employed able lawyers and his a, host ofwlt, essesi. The assassination of Murphy took place in broad daylight, in the presence of 'er- haps thirty witnesses, yet up to this-writing because of fear, complicity, or a desire to avoid annoyance, not a single oneii of the assailants has been identified. Washing- j ton Fire Co. No. 20, employed ex.Judge Whitaker to assist District Attorney Adams, and Jefferson Steam Fire Co. No. 22. ap- propriates $50 for prosecution. Gov. Mo- Enery offers $1000 reward, and the Mayor, Chief of Police, and court oficers are busy with the case. The fact that witnesses are unobtainable, together wit i the conned- tion of the alleged murderers to the city government is exasperating Membersa of the Produce Exchange signed a call for a mass-meeting, but cooler heads, doubtless remembering the results of a similarmove- ment recently in the city of Cincinnati, caused it to be suppressed. There is some talk of organizingsa law and order league, but as this is on the same line with the sup- pressed call, itis not probable that it will lead to anything exitraordinary. The dis- grace to the city is keenly fell, and the de- mand that the murderers must be discov- ered and punished is deep and intense. Major Burkeis a very basy man. Friends say the overwork is aging him fast, li hur- rying forward theEipositis. Thdre is a daily arrival of exhibits, machinery s up, and commissioners from everywhere are coming in. There is an appreciable in- crease of people on the streets, but our business men report no material advance in trade. There is some agitation among printers.- The proprietors of several job offices have advertised for and are employing non- union printers. The new daily Commnuer cial Bulletin is manned by non-union men, and it is expected that proprietors of the morning dailies will ask for a reduction in rates. This proposition will probably -be consented to, as the conditioms ofallclasses of business require a moderate and con- ciliatory spirit on that line.; Yesterday afternoon Col. W. M. Small- wood, a veteran commercial editor, once upon the Times, but recently of' the Pica- yune, passed away to his eernal rest. He wass a painstaking, valuable writer, and genial with his associates. The Produi Exchange, of which he was a leading or- ganizer and the secretary,acdompa ied hi remains to Metairie cemetery this after, noon in a body. He ws a native;o r f Mis- souri, Colonel of a Federal regiment dur- ing the war, seiretay of th1e Democr;tio State Committee of - on 'its' reoar ganization, and Poetmaster of New' (i= leans under Andrew 6hisoib More eanBn GENAi DOBSERYER. It appears that our fri &i E. fetier ot the Donaldsoaville. s so "mu• •eh nk with the election during. week that he, or his foreman, failedtO ' date linee in their forms of th i Cha-:irales $srai5l BrotherOarewIs mistaken. T-h datsof the paper was all right,but itwasn'tyrinted unmiesix days after the date and we took advantage of the situation to publish some. electio0•news. Of course it was m r ile- inclto our Contemporaryt to d m atterr- ferring to an eleetionofu the ttluaa, in a paper bearing date.. of he lAsli a ehis conclusion that our-toesttypogracdaiear-- penter had committe- u ronelgicaL. .- totho tfteEao aar 4s Mearkot Twi. t CN tbopn #,f441 r w H lL .. :i": Ano Qeeon t . j,44 tewi 14V'Lnt l- pin DUaldgepor qgedw19. <+4 4 aftfL sr, jL to It RMWSOJ l a s9eorl. -& The Pouashtwe moep4all ate~e ssstnsiehlms ae X mam sa nm n as Wh n a~ y tion a to h 1 4 otf he Waple,4s io Ztipst~k~ttxo ti~ii~jg TtSAU*Ueisttile flIW4i ul, 4 , Twelve personseerahl le ndundet by a NaKl t h cue Sg&Si MTwelvepeace wn 2 the spikesbM ta&## Olag a sero ;bwuan -Ta 1Ceatenufros,m*. s wtesto tow h i fntbIdahj Tbe sl4pty to weck tuhras s vreedeathe massagab*s As give eM gapM r~ **P0( -4t1 ,.fpe The Czar of. PFuS a <in , ` In Every member of the Gatsn to 1 Ii a. Mrsy. :tBl;ioub~ melheLbe- is Is,;fi w, j has writteni an Iish operak Anoostr m. iae suitwoet . ter was rececntdy" allwso# ,,, Lord Puferin, _ who m Viceroy tf india, hsC ui Queen ViOtoria b j of Baele, t.he compopeser, ofObeid, wboded The-rillagae owDo*lim fasted withsmsllpoz andsr. quawM =' The BesseiaplprEttl~nunmuh si~;i th. ; i*F :. Mountains are-the moeeByambst le mubaa f the wnorld. the as. Russell Lowell, Aminffti in s- intends to take-up his- m o14e The Popeissaeid to bem.i a fim as with tlocal politicof I ,~na- tive Gothaznite.- The Town Council ofBouCb - ms tias appropriation-of 4GOnxpe 1thyhi . present Earlpuftrlft with ant d .- a Capt. Dully, and matey of tihs wua& -Migno tte, who liaim be bo4y = food to keep- themselvoes aim, ,hvew beet sentssiced-todeath: 5 : -_ +. : . Troops are marching-,rapidlfy-d Da bA k Over 800O Ohinese ar..ontlg d6Ied jiv. 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Page 1: The Donaldsonville chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1884-12-13 [p ] · 2017. 12. 13. · Cart makrers aull repairers. Railroad Avenue, betwe~en Mlississippi and Iberville streets. COPFEIC

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1~alb's.

j )R. WilM. McGA LLIARD,

Corner Honmas andih vilik streets.

j 1D. HANSON, M. D.

Corner Houmas and Iberville streets, near C.,line's _tore,

D R. J L. RICHARD,

OFFIUE AND BESIDENCE.Lesard street, between lberville and Attaka-

-pas streets.,Donaldsouville, La.

UJ dJ. LEOIiti UBGIST,

Corner Ghetimpeea-aLd Mississippi streets.

Donaldsonville, La.Acoom ate se. of pre cohemicals always ona p ons carefully compiled at all

ho day and night.

WM. REED MILLS,

ATw0•W'I .AT. LAW,* O. 85ltriprl Street,

New Orleans, La.Practices in all the Courts of Louisiana, State

and Federal.

Attorney at -aw and Not,-.ry

Office and Residence corner Attakapas streetand iair•• ead Avenue,

Donaldsonville, La.Practices in 81a the Courts of Louisiana, both

State andFederal.- Adfdress, P: O. ock box S.

9HAS. A. mAQU.IE,

" ' lRahnville, La.Practices in the Twenty-Second and Twenty-

Sixth Judicjsl Districts comprising the parish-es of Jefferson,.S-. Charles. St. John, St. Jamesend Askhssiobn, and before the Federal and

Bnp•eme Courts in New Orleans.Special attention paid to the collection of

commercial claims.Address: Hahnville P. 0., St. Charles, La.

I .zit IN, "

p Ahop on Iberville street, near the corner ofHoumas, -

Donaldsonville, La.Orders received through the Post-office will

Tneet with prompt attention.

-arpenter and Builder,Pine street, opposite the Iron Bridge,

r ;r t Da3rrow, Ea.Orders from the country solicited and

O d goodw•ork at

ow r ~ a > DiaydasnviUle-

Sand in the

end d t t. sPtau ,,-

O4ALIONVILLEiBJS1NES 1MECTORY.

DRY GOODS. G ROCERaI. Etc.

ISRAEL & CO., dealers in ]%Y Goods,~Clo &Bfooteo, Shoes, Saddfre Bug-

gsai., isisstaiptri andLetiad Tets.

CtbLNZ;cofter Creer Cfflaoe and Hon-adra A dealer uin D~foods, Notions,

St is en 'toeeries; Provieion9, Corn,Oats and Bran.

OS. EGONDBA, dealer:~n D ~s, Notions,.= Gtotbiig Boots and ShoesrHatscGrirber-

ies;, IaFLM;dWf~ldeB Tobacco,~il andio e. (I t S ioes~e P thine.

i:a" nerL;"ti"lb~ ~ae Hiti jstreet.

BERN'ARD ILE"'"' &BfloTBEI dealersSin Westaern fancy andstadelo-

oeri, LiqnHl&,ta s re, .Iron P0 Oils,SP Sd Stoves andetre,

Fart: ze ' ckG W all Paper and Housenae (}Dos, o Miissippi atreet , Corner

OS. (GONDRAN d hPNS. dealers in Dryood Ls, C P er Ntio sHat, Groceries,

Ai odtsaifabShoes, Hatrdwae PaintsI al Cr ery, Furniture andallt88 of HguGp . Iraesb Goodls. Blae Store,

71 anard and -street.e

SD. PeA$; der int and Ltquoran Fancy" Gro~ert Provisions, Jlantation and!teamti lTae, Canned Goods. Wines,

Li uo, Bottleleer. Ale, etc., Dry GoodsanNotionorier ofMirier ai and Cheti-aesihe, streets, opposite River tierr le

ILS AND ING-HOUSES. l andBAO

NlEEot-Arly I~EL AND BhRRUOOr,oMissite dpitrtFirst-rate acommo-

dation and endnbl pite Western Uniontelosgeph-oftc in the ho tel.t ster

CTTY nROTL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Ilail.=Vzaph nue. maner Iberville street. Bar

LIQUOr AV D f MlT EDUA I EALu.tA

hE PLACE, O. Israel, manager. CornerLessa Land Mississieppi streets. Billiards,

Lager Beer, Lest Wirne and Liquors. ines

TINSMIHTH. C

] _D WUTIER Tlnsmalth, Port Barrow La.a giat l g, sttovepiping, repairing t

andall or pxte n1 n to the tinner's trade,A~ltfs * la 1,. Doseldsolllh. LIa. t

ou o 11J .ACK&,sTiismith, Mssitssipp oL eltert and aoll stand. o a era at-e

t witre ad s ath alo stlfa n iin- .

OUGH ALANSGBT CKElI City BLarber IhHp,pb~gsipp twet djoining I po-~ytcoLE &iniINKE Blacnng nithsa ang

eng of Wiht or Wfskxers,c aion th oeast

tyle, at popular pries iespotfuily solicit'th~e patwnt e ot.tbaonub 0.1

bt L. weenAIiii Bag 8hoIb ,le isssieppil" street, nenr go r Lessarl AhvinMt, hair.e

cutting, diba ate , in moat artistic style.

AlbeD1rt Gittor iey at law andc. ,Notary Cslmgehes street

opeposieet c., a a or. A o

eDWARoD e r oresy at Law, Attr- IVisits iapol as.

Public, v. Ofe: on bloeh,below the Co 0o Attakapms street. `

HOUSE. A l N PAINITING4.

G INToRY. J1PAMTh. shop at CheapTony's Store, cerner Mlississippi street and

Railroad vesnue flseo Bigp api OrnamentalPaintiag sll' theirbz nehees;' Beat work atlowed prices t

IUNI)EIITAHKER.

SqHQNBV S Un sertan's Establishment,R3 aim adlvenuaet, eseii Ibervilla and At-

takapawsetrnts. Air kinds" I burial cases, fromisi +f4bl to them taio or rosewood cas-

ket.

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

3 Y -RBIKI, Apothecary and Druggist, Mis-A~ssissippi street. between St. Patritg and St.Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's store.

* MILLINERY.

M8S. 1. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street,LJJl. Lessard and St. Patrick. Latest

st)les o nets, Hats, Irench Flowers, etc.;=adeo. of LadiesseR ear e.

SODA WATER MANUFACTORY.

ODA pWATER MANiCFACTORY, H. Hether'*~Jrnpriit, No. 11 M8ississippi street. Soda,Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds of aerated watersmanufactured and sold at lowest prices.

BLACKSMITHS & WHIEELWRIIGHTS.

iLCHDLEI1ER A BRINKER. Blacksmiths and)3 Wheelwrights. Horse-Shoers. Wagon andCart makrers aull repairers. Railroad Avenue,betwe~en Mlississippi and Iberville streets.

COPFEIC STPAND.

VABVORITE COFFEE AND EATiNG STAND,X'lower end of Donaldsonville MI~tket-hbnse,Albert Gossett. proprietor; Rot Coffee, Lunch,Cakres.Pies, etc., at all hours. A lunch for 10cents, a good meal for 11, a regular gorge for 21.

)IIN P. PORCHA.

Cistern -Maker,Railroad'Avenue, opposite the Post-office

I)onaldsonville, La.

All work guaranteed and satisfaction war-ranted. Prices lower than the lowest.

SIRS. I. PALMER,

DRESSMAKIER,- Railroad Avenue, near Claiborne street,

Donaldsonville.Plain and fancy sewing of all kinds done in

best style and on reasonable terms. A trialsolicited and satisfaction guaranteed.

M. . DARTON,-

Civil Engineer & Surveyor,(Parish Surveyor of Ascension.)

Will attend promptly to work in all branchesof his profession, such as surveying, mapping,leveling for canals, bridges, rice flumes, etc.,estimating cost and suervising construction ofsame. Orders left at the Cai office will meetwith immediate attention.

Forget's Restaurant,No. 107 Customhouse street, between Royal and

Bourbon.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.

Meals at .11- Hours.Rooms and Board by the Day, Week or Month

Sat Moderaete Price,

Kursheedt .& B nvenu,

TOMIS andSHllADSTONBiS.

-ALL KINDS OF-

1 ARBLE WOR K-A N'•--

CEMETERY RAILINGSNos. 114, 120, 122, Camp St.,

NEW OIRLEA-NS.

TENNIBONiF -ifW'rOEm.

Otho so fair in Summers gone,vWhile y etby-fr-esh and virgin soul

I -form'd the colnm'd Parthenon,The glittering Capitol;

8 fair jnluthern sunshine bathed,But scarce of unoh majestic mien

As here with forehead vapor-swathedIn meadows evergreen;

For thon-when Athens reign'd and Rome.Thy gloriousn eyes were dimm'd with pain

To mark in many a freeman's homeThe slave, the scourge, the chain;

O.follower of the Vision, stillIn inotion to the distant gleam,

Iowe'er blind force and brainless willMay jar thy golden dream,

Whg, like great Nature, wouldst not marBy changes all too fierce had fast

This order of our Human Btar,This heritage of the past;

O scorner of the party cryThat wanders from the public good,

rThou-wien tht Ndtt nA iref on highTheir idol smear'd with blood,

And when-they -oll their idol down-Of saner Worship stmel ' lroud;

Thou loather of-the lawless crownAs of the lawless crowd;

How long thins ever growing mindHhth still'd the blast and strewn the wave,

Though some of late would raise a windTo sing thee tokhy grave,

Men loud against all forms of power-Unfurnish'd brows, tempestuous tongues,

Expecting all things in an hour--Brass months and iron lungs!

OUR, LET1 t ERFRt MJOBROA RIM-M.

A Favored City-Brooklyn's Sciedtdd andPolitical Infallibles-Ioliday Goods iadNew Fashions-W-Vhat Some Rich MenDid with their Money-An Epidemic of 1Jiltsngs-Robbing aPenltentary-Amer- alca's New Operatic Star,

New Yoax, De, 8, 1881. tfrnITro Ciaxr:

It is fortunate for New York that it hassuch a neighbor as Brooklyn, for the city ofchurches acts as a political and religiousbalance wheel to us benighted sinners onthis side of the river and keeps us meta-phorically up to standard time. New Yorkcan not be called strictly orthodox. Free rthinking and loose scientific notions flour-ish like a green bay tree, and if you hap.pen to mention anch a thing as a imiracle,these new fledged philosophers say withSpencer and Huxley, prove it. But as 1remarked at the begninning New York isfortunate in lying so near to Brooklyn, andBrooklyn is fortunate in possessing two C

such enterprising and energetic ministersas Justin D. Fulton and DeWitt Talmage, 1If the Republicans had only followed Ful.ton's advice Blaine would have been Pros-ident to-day, while Talmage knocked theunderpinning from Darwin, Huxley, Her-bert, Spencer and Tyndall, and proved sat-isfactorily to himself that they were noth.ing but a set of presuming ignoramuses,Who were playing upon the credulity of aconfiding world. It is lucky for Darwinthat he died before he was so completely tsquelched by Talmage. You will see at aglance the superiority of falmage. Dar- twin was only a theorist, a dreamer whodrew his conclusions from a lot of ab-struse and disconnected facts, but Tal-mage knows exactly how the thing wasdone and as a mutter of course, it is muchmore satisfactory to have" the evidence ofa man that knows like Talmage than fel-lows who only think they know, like Hux-ley, Darwin, Spencer and Tyndall. Theold Mosaic account of Adam and Eve inthe Garden of Eden, is good enough forTalmage; he don't want to go back to thetime when Adam's great, great, great, greatgrandfather sat up on the top of a seventyfoot telegraph pole cracking co ;oanuts forhis breakfast, or munching bananas orguavas for his supper; no ring-tailed monk-ey for Talmage. It is much easier for Tal-mage to believe that Eve wasmanufacturedout of a rib, than that she was evolutedfrom aPollywog. At any !rate he settledDarwin's hash, and you need not expectto hear of him again. Great man, greatman, Talmage. Fulton holds out at theTabernacle, otherwise known among theprofane as the Rink. It is one of the larg-est buildings in Brooklyn. It was here theEvangelists Moody and Sankey sowedtheir gospel seed about ten years ago; seed,which I regret to say, was not sown on fal-low ground, but which fell among therocks and was devoured by the fowls of theair, for scarcely a sickly shoot remains tomark the passage of the Evangelists. Af-ter that the Rink served the unrighteousfor walking matches and boxing matches,profane dances and other wicked doings.At last it was rescued from the clutches ofSatan by Brother Fulton, and for the lastfour years he has been having a hand tohand fight with the world, the flesh andthe d-l. Brother Fulton believes withthe Rev. Dr. Burchard that the Democrat-ic party is the party of Rum, Romanismand Rebellion, and he feels assured thatif Brother Blaine had only nailed Dr. Bur-chard's flag to his masthead, he wpuld haveleft Grover Cleveland to the quiet seclusionof oiur, apital at Albany and James G.Blaine would have made a triumphantmarciFon the White House in the City ofWashington. When will our so-calledstatesmen learn wisdom? Here was Blainein Brooklyn; he might just as well havecalled on Fulton as not, and Fulton couidhave told him just how to win, but withunnbakiotable stupidity he did not call onFulton, and behold the result: he got left.Served- hm~ right. It will be a warning tothenext-1residential candidate.

" vngi•geek. The stores are ~li~e2hit w fline god and from now tillNew Years we may look for a gland holidaytime.

Taking up the papers You hear theni ayof hard-times. It isadifficult thing to -alize iI: yoa: walk through the grea tVhor-oughhl es. .o'- Iebw York and Br•ooklyn.Hardig.inh..mqmory of living men hasthere been saih' eostly extravagances indress. The wives of mechanics and trades-'men dress better to-day than a fine ladycould dress firtyyears ago. -Walk=Png-the west side of Brpadway or through Four-teenth or Twenty:thitd streets on anypleasant afternoon, and among the thou-sounds you -pass, representing every gradeof society, it is rare to meat a poorlydressed woman. This is more particu-larly noticeable at 4 o'clock in the after-noon when the down town 'factories are

turning outt their shUb as ftonathedensehives in the lower part of the city. -Amongthem all it is rare to see a poorly dressedwoman. Of course there are some ex-traordinarylpersons who especially desire tomake themselves conspictuous, but this islike any other disease and has to be bornewith equanimity.

The prevailing styles of goods are mar-vels of beauty, and in the general make-upof them there is a most exquisite tasteworthy of all commendation. When weremember -the flaunting abominations offour or five years ago we feel that we havereason to thank Providence to have reachedour present vantage ground. Taste hasvastly improved; the dresses that cost somefour or five dollars a yard no longer do thework appointed for the city scavengers.

The craze for blonde heads has gone outof fashion and our angels are coming backto their natural colors, though I confess itlooks odd to see one-half of a woman'shair a bright golden yellow and the portionnext her head of a very respectable chest-nut, but as it tells of returning commonsense we feeel like forgiving one of themost unpardonable follies of- which oursisters have been guilty-since Eve wentapple hunting.

I was talking with a gentleman largelyengaged in business-a man who .hadtraveled extensively and knew the world,and he remarked, ifa man wants anythingthat is to be found on the face of the earth

he can get

tit in this city. This may seem

a bold assertion, bW we have grown won-

derfully. As you pu; along the 'treets in

the stores you see the richest of orientalhangings, tapestries, laces and all sorts of

beautiful and costly goods, bronzes, ele-

gant ale-naes, articles of vertu and orna-

mont, such as a few years ago could onlybe found in Pnris, London, or Vienna. Itwas a rare thing for a foreign artist of

repotation to send a picture across thewater, and now they come by thousands,many indlfferent canvisses cfndlg readypurchasers among the over credulous Yan-

kees.A number of colossal fortunes have been

piled up among as within the past twentyyears. It goes for saying that not a sing!eone of our newly fledged millionaires knewthe difference between a Raphael or aRtnbens, or a John Smith, or a Tom Brown.The late Mr. Stewart gave $50,00P for RosaBonheur's lHorse Fair, and he knew asmuch about its artistio merits as one of thehorses in the picture. A capital judge oflinens and calicoes, well versed in silks andcloths, besides being something of a classi-cal scholar, he knew no more about picturesthan a hod carrier. Yet he built a finegallery, which nobody is allowed to enter,and he imprisoned within its brick wallsthree hundred thousand dollars' worth offine pictures which might just as well be inthe catacombs of Egypt as in his whitemarble palace on the Fifth Avenue.

A very different man was Marshall A.Roberts. He was a very rich man and onewho knew the value of a dollar as well asany man in the city, but :he was a broad

gauge man of liberal principles and.exquis-ite, taste and he was blessed with a wife

just as good as himself, and he was willingthat the millions of the poor should sharethe blessings of his abundance. First hethrew his magnificent picture gallery opento aid some charitable institution, and fi-

nally he admitted the public on stated days,and this was kept up almost to the day ofhis death. It was an inestimable boon tothe lovers of art and one that will not soonbe forgotten. Mr. Vanderbilt did some-thing of the kind last winter, and the pub-lic are in hopes that he will not be wearyof well-doing, but with the return of frostwill give them another peep at those fa-mous pictures which only a millionairelike himself could ever have brought to

this side of the Atlantic. Jay Gould has

some pictures, but no one ever sees them.What a year this has been for jiltings. I

have before me a list of twenty brides andgrooms who were deserted in the last yearat the altar's foot. Four faithless brides

and sixteen recreant grooms. Only theother night our fashionable colored societywas moved to its innermost depths by thedesertion of one of the most enchantingsable belles in the city. Like many otherromantic young maidens she had fixed her

affections on a coachman. (What in Jeru-salem is there about these coachmen?)Well this particular Jehu walked off with

this young lady's affections as if he hadbeen driving his own horses. The wedding

day was fixed, the friends were invited, the

feast was. prepared, the minister was onhand, the bride stood decked in orangeblossoms, but the groom came not. Whenhe should have been promising to love,

honor and cherish, this faithless groomwas grooming his horses at a stable onClinton Avenue. After waiting a longtime the bride went off into hysterics, theminister went without his fee, the bridal

party went without their supper, and thedoughnuts, wedding cake and charlotterusse remain unconsumed to this day.

This coachman business ought to be playedout, though from present appearances Mrs.Huiskamp Morrisini may turn her escapadewith her coachman into golden ducats; Itis not near so romantic to say that she is

married to a ticket taker as a coachman,but before she finishes her concert tour shewill find that the fellow who looks out for.the ticket box is a much more important

person than the fellow who sits on thecoach box. -

I have often remarked that wheneverI want a point I have to go to Brooklyn for

it. The latest is the robbery of the KingsCounty penitentiary. Some thieves brokein and carried off the cash. f you haveany prisons out your way keep an eye onthem or some daring burglar may runaway with the cells and the keepers.

The success of the new operatic star,-Miss Emma Nevada, was so pronouncedthat-we shall have no further occasion to

import; foreign singers. Each appearancehas" been a triumph never before accordedto an American singer. She is as good asshe is talented, and America mlay well be

proud of her newstar.gours truly, BROARDBRIM.

BY ANDREWIANG

Be. enhetw hee is re.

W t 'gho eis i ajou'desire.To. make yourh leapgnblood run slow!

sow Ol% how grave how wise we grow!iritm:atp as ghostut-n e up chill-

Bave se that troopin how .The B tals oiat ilt

The •eastaean takin is r andy re-On Christm, eve, oldasooends wl

As one b ine -the si- ~ejore,We men ,aU silt taoaL troe-

fich ls bhas menmoorym to show,Suli voices from the dirtane. thrill,Ahm•mhecom0 with Christmas snow,

ewe all can raise at will.

Oh shiltie : f'thei villae choiriYour casl on the midnigh trow!

Oh, 'ri .tacsro.-pthe nlt anh•ie.wBeatbiak-thie Brnbe o rtih woei

Reniew ten sAr tah -- omBe welcome• all, to comet go,

Friend, srumcord, a.soon or slowWe rart, like guests who'veJoved#heir-

Foget tebmnotnor mourn them so,

ration-The Iqaew Trk. Seaators1ip-

tion of the' Wesbingtim Monument, etc.Wexigorox, D. C.,)December 8,1884.

The first week of the possible thirteen ofthe Congressional session has passed anddt'is difficult 'to ind enough proceedings tobase an obituary on. An immensenumberof bills have been introduced and a bound-less lot of talk indulged in, but when thatis said, there is not emuch to tell. The con-mittees, however, are hard at work, andsome of them promise to submit bills be-fore the holidays.

The House committee on post-oces •andpost roads have a number of impbotantbills on their 11*t to which they intend toask the early atteptoun of Congress. Inclu-ded among tbhse are the postal telegraphbill, another whiho regulates the mail ,oon-tract system more carefully, a third whlahchanges the basis of componsation to rail-roads for carrying the mails, na fourthwhich deals with the letter rate of poptage.All these are matters of importance andshould get a hearing. It is to be doubted,however, if the committee iswise in puttingthe postal telegraph bill at the head of theirlist, as this subject is on of great diffieultyand sure to exite a protrted debate,They would do better to follow the exampleof the shipping and public landso ommitteeand present rstto the Houe H those meas-ures on whlch there will be little or no con-troversy.

The contest over the New York Senator-ship excites much interest here, and theprogress of the fight is eagerly watahed.Hon. Frank Hiscock has left his place inthe House and gone to New York to puthimself in good position for the Senatoriallightning to strike him. I saw Hon. Ste-

phen French of the Empire State a fewdays ago when he was in Washington witha committee of Republicans to confer withPresident Arthur in regard to this contest.At first he refused to be interviewed, butafter a moment hq reconsidered and said,"I don't mind saying that the President iswilling to accept the Senatorship if it shallcome to him in the right way-as the prac-tically unanimous offer of the Republicans.But he will not enter into any scramble,and so far as any of his friends steeringhim m the race or making a contest, hewill not permit anything of that kind. Iwill further say that I believe when the Re-publicans-the members of theLegislature,I mean--come to consider the matter, theywill see that the right and proper thing todo is to elect President Arthur. I thinkthat any man who studies the politics ofNew York at present can see that. In my

opinion, it will become so apparent in theinterest of the Republican party that thePresident is the man for the place, that hiselection will be practically unanimous. Inthat case he will accept. You can say thatmuch."

Leaving Mr. Arthur's personality out ofthe question, there are many considerationsof a public character that make the electionto the Senate of a man who has served inpresidential office desirable. No man ac-quires so extensive and thorough a knowl-edge of public affairs as the President. Heis brought in contact with representativemen from every part of the country, and ismade to understand the merits of everymatter of public concern. Through hisCabinet he acquaints himself witlPthe es-sential principles and incidents of our for-eign and domestic policy, and by personaland confidential intercourse with diploma-tists, politicians and business men of everytype he acquires a fund of information anda familiarity with the detail of governmentwhich preeminently qualify him for legisla-tive functions. It has been proposed, onthis account, to admit our ex-Presidents to

a seat in Congress. Such a step might,perhaps, be a too yadical departure fromthe principles of the government, but it is a

pity to lose the services of men so pecu-liarly fitted for participation in the coun-cils of the Nation, and for this reason it is amatter for congratulation when circum-stances permit their retention in publiclife.

The capstone of the Washington monu-ment was set on Saturday at 2 o'clock inthe presence of a small party of invitedguests. Although the obelisk is now com-pleted, there is much work still to be done.Probably the most important matter re-maining is the design for the base of-the

monument, which has n6t been selected yet.Much finishing work on the interior is tobe done. The memorial stones are beingplaced in the interior wail, and those incharge are exercisinga flie taste in draw-ing the line between stones to, be excludedon aceount of serving as advertisementsof the donors, and those which can properlybe used. The American flag now "oatsfrom the fagsaff at the apex of the monu-ment, 600 feet above the ground.

I hear that a number of Naval officers arelikely to be dispatched to Nicaragua at anearly day to look over the canalroute again.

Yours truly; " A ERT.

Vitol bos, a French farmer redmi g in

Avoyelles parish, committed siide S ,yhanging himself to a ttee.

Preparing rheAneong Rhe k.sMsawlo. . ..

Nw 0le, de Nov. 7, 418t.EMroa CarEa:

No event of rceant de As provoked somuch ex itementsas-the. jrder of A. $.Murphy on Monday last. As a depotykeeper of the city jal ih As i , ha•' • fa gang of prisoners engaged leagout the drainage ana'l s a the O:,. r 1LClaiborne and St.h Phii •teet. a about

he ouldoverlookoprat•• s, esucoerdiwith his a isdn hmelWg d,8t••l [ etSuper atndent oal rnary. LoUki3ngsup the street towards the rivet Early ret-marked: "There ae im.e tws o =of. Ford'scourt owfios." l• phr leok"d nip ,rasnaw thainet

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h ree Mu thb rs, tl bo de Re-conder Thomas B. Ford, his brother Pat.ri•sk and his b rother-in-lw John rpb y,a police officer, ame afrom amound the cor-net of Claiborne street., All wert armed,the two former wtirb a revolver i -P : t .hand, and without a word~of arning th i -opened a re on Murphy, who sprang to hisfeet and faced them. ,leI ,e by• se;.g rwas slightly wounded at theft B.•e laphy experienced sonme ltaletg ip gstnghis weapon from he bp po ul and walklto the middle of ;the eieet, b utt onighis coat to get at his pletl. The. s-sailants approached him fromg oppoSite-aides. He istero t random, ho •aut taktngefect, and then ran up Clb .strlettowards Dumalnae , r pe rdores gainedon him rapidly and oopttinae P t r 'h.

e tuorned ouat Dua ee. thecorner e it •ie said the brother of ludge Fold took de-liberate aimH, bired, ad mortlly woudedMurphy, who after a low steps il 1 F1irm.sag and Riotor, a Negro, who dame up, 1

his body. Then all walket rapidly sway. IThe Chief of Police arriv edo aoonte, artrested the Fords, and Coat coigers O ateo I

cind, Bader and Buokley. From the homyoof his mother the funeral of Murphy wan ,conducted by Washington Fire Company tNo. 20, of which he was grand marshal. As Ito the cause of this affair, some mdnthsrago Murphy was brought before SecorderFord, who deed him for being draink nsadIdisturbing the peace, maiing also an entryin the record books Thii is a hoodlum,a dead beat and a city o'noiia' Ilupbyposted handbills all over thet Citya denouo t

ing Ford as a coward, lar, thief and per Ijuroer. He was arrestea or ac minat libel Iput under peace bonds, and the csue caste I

up last week, but was mcontln edbcatise Of ian important murder ase. Marphy declaredhe would prove all he charged, employedable lawyers and his a, host ofwlt, essesi.The assassination of Murphy took placein broad daylight, in the presence of 'er-haps thirty witnesses, yet up to this-writingbecause of fear, complicity, or a desire toavoid annoyance, not a single oneii of theassailants has been identified. Washing- jton Fire Co. No. 20, employed ex.JudgeWhitaker to assist District Attorney Adams,and Jefferson Steam Fire Co. No. 22. ap-

propriates $50 for prosecution. Gov. Mo-Enery offers $1000 reward, and the Mayor,Chief of Police, and court oficers are busywith the case. The fact that witnesses areunobtainable, together wit i the conned-tion of the alleged murderers to the citygovernment is exasperating Membersa ofthe Produce Exchange signed a call for amass-meeting, but cooler heads, doubtlessremembering the results of a similarmove-ment recently in the city of Cincinnati,caused it to be suppressed. There is some

talk of organizingsa law and order league,but as this is on the same line with the sup-

pressed call, itis not probable that it willlead to anything exitraordinary. The dis-grace to the city is keenly fell, and the de-

mand that the murderers must be discov-ered and punished is deep and intense.

Major Burkeis a very basy man. Friendssay the overwork is aging him fast, li hur-rying forward theEipositis. Thdre is adaily arrival of exhibits, machinery s up,and commissioners from everywhere arecoming in. There is an appreciable in-crease of people on the streets, but ourbusiness men report no material advancein trade.

There is some agitation among printers.-

The proprietors of several job offices haveadvertised for and are employing non-union printers. The new daily Commnuercial Bulletin is manned by non-union men,and it is expected that proprietors of themorning dailies will ask for a reduction inrates. This proposition will probably -be

consented to, as the conditioms ofallclassesof business require a moderate and con-ciliatory spirit on that line.;

Yesterday afternoon Col. W. M. Small-wood, a veteran commercial editor, onceupon the Times, but recently of' the Pica-

yune, passed away to his eernal rest. Hewass a painstaking, valuable writer, and

genial with his associates. The ProduiExchange, of which he was a leading or-ganizer and the secretary,acdompa ied hi

remains to Metairie cemetery this after,

noon in a body. He ws a native;or f Mis-

souri, Colonel of a Federal regiment dur-ing the war, seiretay of th1e Democr;tioState Committee of - on 'its' reoar

ganization, and Poetmaster of New' (i=leans under Andrew 6hisoib

More eanBn GENAi DOBSERYER.

It appears that our fri &i E. fetier otthe Donaldsoaville. s so "mu• •eh nkwith the election during. week that he,or his foreman, failedtO ' date lineein their forms of th i Cha-:irales $srai5l

BrotherOarewIs mistaken. T-h datsofthe paper was all right,but itwasn'tyrintedunmiesix days after the date and we tookadvantage of the situation to publish some.electio0•news. Of course it was mr ile-

inclto our Contemporaryt to d m atterr-ferring to an eleetionofu the ttluaa, in apaper bearing date.. of he lAsli a ehisconclusion that our-toesttypogracdaiear--penter had committe- u ronelgicaL.

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the as. Russell Lowell, Aminffti in s-intends to take-up his- m o14e

The Popeissaeid to bem.i a fim aswith tlocal politicof I ,~na-tive Gothaznite.-

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a Capt. Dully, and matey of tihs wua&-Migno tte, who liaim be bo4y =food to keep- themselvoes aim, ,hvew beetsentssiced-todeath: 5 : -_ + . : .

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