The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-01-31

serve as a model for Locke ON tn
Understanding" Three atrocious mur
ders, :lalf a dozen suicides, an unusua
number of robberies, several defalca
tions, and appalling accidents, mari
the terrible calendar of the week.
On Sunday night, while one mar
was hacking another to pieces with {
carving knife, not more than thre.
blocks away a human brute was
stamping the life out of his poor sick
wife with his bOOt-heel. In the house
where this frightful murder was per.
petrated, twenty people were carous.
ing within call, yet not one of them
heard her last cry of agony, or the
screams of her affrighted children, as
they sat through the whole of that
desolate night, in pool Of blood, be-
side their dying mother. So brutal
had been the attack of this inbuman
savage, that when bis victim was dis
covered she had every rag of clothing
stripped from her poor, bruised body !;
an infant, three weeks old, lay beside
her, all dabbled with her blood, and
three other children, the oldest only
eight years Of age, were starving and
freezing in that horrid chamber of
death Strangest of all strange things,
when the poor wretch recovered con-
seriousness short time before she
died, she utterly refused to testify
against the brutal husband who had
murdered her, and died will, lie
upon her lips to shield him from the
punishment Of his crime. #
A week ago tug-boat was seen
,nadly rushing along the river, seem
ingly bent on destroying every thing
in it's path ]; whistles were sounded in
alright, all sorts of alarming signals
were given, but, needless of all, the
tug rushed madly on its way at last,
the engineer, attracted by the III usual
noise, came out on deck, aud, rushing
up to the pilot house, found the pilot
dying OH the floor; he seized the
wheel; and was then in as much of q
dilemma as he was before, for there
was no one to stop the engine, and
in the midst of the river full of boats,
he dare not leave the wheel at last
he reached an open stretch in the
river, when he rushed from the wheel
and stopped his engine, then setting a
signal of distress, assistance came,
aud SO, by a hairs breadth, We es-
capped a frightful accident. The next
day, the possibility of such an acci-
dent was suggested to the trustees of
the Brooklyn Ferry, over which forty
thousand people cross every day.
These self-satisfed old fogies had
we'll considered the danger; they had
viewed it in every possible light, and
they came to the sage conclusion that
there was not the slightest chance of
such an accident on any of their boats.
The next day the ferry boat Fulton,
loaded with passengers, was just ready
to leave the slip, the chains were un-
hooked, and all that was required to
start her was the signal from the pilot
above. They waited and waited, but
no signal came; and at last, losing all
patience, one of the deck hands rushed
up to the pilot-house, and in his chair.
stark dead, was the faithful old pilot,
William White. He had fallen at his
post; and if bis death had occurred a
few minutes later, it might have in
volved the lives of hundreds, and
plunged a whole city in mourning {;
since then, two pilots stand at the
wheel, and the threatened danger is
averted. Two ferry boats crashed
into each other at mid day, and though
one of them was sunk, there was for
tunately no loss of life.
Brooklyn seems to be quite as nm
fortunate in it's political leaders as the
city of New York. One Boss Nc
Laughlin has been recognized as the
leader of the Democracy, occupying
relatively about the same position
J that John Kelly does in the city of
New York, with this difference, that
John Kelly is regarded as bolte1,
while Mclaughlin prides himself on
his legitimacy, and takes his politics
as he does bis whisky, straight. .'Un-
easy lies the head that wears a
crown" says somebody, aud the Nc
Laughlin crown is not the easiest of
diadems. A certain Robert Furey
, disputes the right Of succession, and
unfortunately there is not quite room
enough for two kings in Brooklyn. 1t
is true that Brooklyn is in the County
of Kings, but that does not help the
matter bit, so of course there was
bound to be a row. One boss sough,
the elevation of q henchman named
McGairy, while his rival tied fast to a
"gintleman be the noime Nv Casey ,
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