The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1879-12-27
DONALDsoNvIILE SATURDAY, DECEMBER a. 1879

Z, DECEMBER "a, 1879.
thugs that do lie about the law, just
when you don't expect it, that no.
body, except the lawyer for the de-
fence, was surprised when Judge
Nelson decided that the grounds of
the suit were good, and if q man can
recover damages for the sequestered
affections of his wife, there 10 no
earthly reason why wife should not
be damaged when some heartless
buzzy appropriates her Dutchman.
/ hope she may get her damages in
full, and that such other punishment
be meted out to this recreant widow,
as the revised statutes may call for,
that postefity may learn THAT q
Dutchman can no more be appropri-
ated by q widow than Presidents
message or a Secretary's report by
an editor, without condign punish
ment following. -
A sad case occurred in the Brook
IyD courts on Thursday. A father
appeared against his son, sixteen
years of age, accusing him of the
crime Of burglary. If it had been
simple robbery, the boy might get
off with term in the county jail,
but burglary is a States prison Of
fence, and it is possible that the boy
may expiate his offence by long
term in Sing Sing. The father is ev-
identity shrewd man, for be marked
a Dumber of silver dollars and put
them away where he knew his son
would find them, and just as the boy
WAS purloining the money the faith
er made descent on him and cap
tured him right in the act. It must
have been great triumph, and can
imagine the satisfaction of the father,
as he stood in the witness box and
testified against bis own SOB, who
stood trembling at the bar. If the
boy is a t:1ief, and would steal from
his own father, it is possibly proper
that he should be punished, yet l
could not help asking myself as the
two stood face to face, which of them
was the more culpa5le. Perhaps if
the father had spent a little more
time in the training of his children,
aud less in other pursuits, he would
not have to stand as the accuser of
his own frst-born, the flower of
whose young life may be passed in
prison cell. ...----4...s...-
A polite exchange of civilities is
just taking place between the mag
mates of the metropolitan press, with
regard to the purloining of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury's report and the
Presidents message. Rogue, villain,
scoundrel and thief, and an outsider,
judging them by the different esti-
mates they form of each other, would
suppose that the entire lot of them
we're can didates for the penitentiary.
Stocks are still upon the ragged
edge. Outside orders have fallen of,
but now the wolves are eating up
each other. The specnlators are
playing battle dore and shuttle cock,
with Erie starting at 40 in the morn
ing, falling to about 81 at noon, and
recovering its. lost ground generally
before the adjournment of the board.
Most of the California mining stocks
got black eye, owing to the late
deal of the Bonanza Kings, and now
the boys are standing back like Ma
cawbar, and waiting for something to
turn up.
Our Italian immigration this year
has exceeded that of any other since
the foundation of the republic. To
judge By the general appearance of
these arrivals, there must be fright
full tax on soap in the glorious king
dom of Italy, and even the low price
of that useful commodity in the king
dom of Yankee Doodle seems to
lack appreciation, so these noble Ro-
mans cling to the soil that they love.
They may not always be the most
intellectual portion Of our foreign
population, but they are certainly
the strongest. Hoping they may all
make money enough to return to the
land of Caesar aud Scipio Africanus,
there to bask in the shadow of St.
Peters, and upder the c1umbliDg
walls of the Coliseum, am
-. Truly yours,
BROADBRIM.
A Religious Quarrel Catholic Reform
ists-An Angel Of Charity in Trouble
-Oomstock's Assault Upon Crime.
New York, Dec. 20, 1879.
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