The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-16

OF the case.
A woman named Hall, in Brooklyn
sued for divorce from her husban,
and asked for maintenance and th,
custody of her children. She had beer
trapped into marriage with one whe
was known to be a lunatic. He had
assaulted his mother, and beaten bis
wife SO that her life was CONSTANT,
in danger, till at last, being unable
to endure it longer, she fed to the
courts for relief. She had no money,
however; her husbands family were
rich, and yet in the face of all these
terrible facts, it looks as though now
the poor woman would be entirely
driven out of court. Verify, verify,
this atrocious plea should make the
name of Polly Bodine stand accursed
III the calendar, 'for hers was the first
case in which it was admitted to our
courts.
notwithstanding the general de-
preston, there seems to be quite a
stir IL art matters the National
Academy is open with choice and
excellent collection. By the way,
saw something last week, which
landed me back more than quarter
OF century; it was an old daguer-
reotype, or rather a new edition of
the old daguerreotype, the invention
OF 6. Frank E. Pearsail. the eminent
photographer of Brooklyn, a gentle
man who ranks at the head of his pro-
fesslon in this country, and whose inn
proved, or | may say, perfect photo
graph, has never been surpassed.
One of the great features of his in
Vention is the restoration of old and
faded pictures, imparting to them
beauty and permanency surprising
their original excellence this discov-
cry is invaluable to those who have,
on these old time pictures, the faces
of those whose voices we shall hear
no more we have seen them fade
away year after year, till not
shadow remained, but Mr.. Pearsall
can summon these spirits from the
deep, and give us our loved ones
again.
Another pious defaulter stands ex
posed in the person of Augustus NJ.
Turney, teller of the Bank of North
America for almost ten years he has,
by ingenious manipulations of the
books, covered up a defalcation of
100000. He was model of Chris
tian piety, II Jealous worker in the
church, and his integrity in. all that
time was never even suspected by his
associates in the bank of which he has
been an officer for twenty-five years.
The shock produced in our social cir
Gle is not less than those we suffered
from the defaIcation of Gilman and
the perjury of Case.
Young Donohue, the great oyercoat
thief who nearly ruined his father,
one of the most respectable tailors in
Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to six in
dictments for grand larceny and will
go to S tate's Prison for at least ten
years. His plan was to go to his
fathers customers and get their over
coats while they were away from
home, on pretense that they needed |
repairing. He then sold or pawned |
them, and used the money in having
a high old time. Altogether, he stole
about fifty. If they had all prosecu-
ted and he had received the full |
benefit of the term, he would have
been restored to society, an altered |
man, in about two hundred and fifty
years.
A terrible tragedy occurred in an |
up town tenement house. A poor
lHshwoman went out to look for |
work, leaving her four little children
in charge of a careless girl AS soon
as the mother was out of sight. the |
girl went on the street, leaving the |
children sleeping in their beds. Sud-
denly smoke was seen to issue from
the room, and the father, who arrived
that moment, rushed in for his chill
dren bht it was too late. When he
got them out they were dead.
The return of Harry Genet created
general 6utter This miserable
thief wouid scarcely deserve notice
if it were not for the magnitude of
his crime aud the romance of his es
cape. The whole crowd of Ring
thieves, stripped of their diamonds
and glamour, have long since sunk
below the level of the vulgar footpad
who knocks the unsuspecting traveller
down with and-bag or bludgeon,
and robs him oD the highway.