The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-08-07

terics, hut took 4 calm review Of the
| ground, like sensible people as they
were. The gentleman declared that
his wife was q much better woman
| than he expected, and the lady
vowed that her husband was a much
better man than his father, 20 the
principals being satisfied, there was
nobody else to- please, and at the
present writing, the honeymoon still
goes on.
The parsons have all taken fight
for the different watering places,
leaving us poor wretches, whose
bank accounts are not plethoric, to
battle with the arch enemy alone.
don't know whether christian minis
ters, as general thing, labor under
the impression that the devil goes
out of town for the summer, but it
would certainly appear 80, for they
close up the majority Of the churches,
and the few that remain open are
guarded by such weak brothers, that
even very little imp would not be
afraid to attack them. The Lions Of
the Tribe of Judah are all gone
Beecher is off il the Wcst, and the
pews of Plymouth are empty; Hall
and Storrs and Tying aud Colyer all
have gone. Trinity and Grace
churches, for the time being, are
turned over to assistant rectors, the
s2O, 600 ministers doubtless consider.
ing that any kind Of gospel is good
enough for the miserable wretcl,cs
who can rot go to Newport, Cape
May, Long Branch or Saratoga. Per-
haps they are right, aud perhaps
they are not. l Isuppose we shall all
find it out ourselves somewhere in
| the "sweet bye and-bye."
All fear Of water famine is past
Phew! how it did rain. If this sort oi
thing goes on much longer, our fins
will begin to grow, and the web will
come between our toes, furnishing,
in our own proper persons, a magDifi-
cent illustration of the truth Of the
Darwinian theory that man has, in
every age, been fitted for the condi-
ton in which lie has been called upon
to live. We don't calculate now the
number of inches Of rainfall, we do
it all by fathoms. If we want to
know how much rain has fallen in
the night, we throw a clothes line
out Of the second story window, with
a f1at-iron attached to the end of it,
and you can hear the e"ok below out
about daylight in the morning, BY
the mark, fve."
The big hotel at Rockaway Beach,
Of which l gave you an account some
time ago, has come to present grief.
The bank, at the start, had about
three quarters of a million, but the
money is all gone, and the hotel is
far from finished. It will take at least
three or four hundred thousand dol
lars more to complete it, and the
money is not forthcoming. This week
about four hundred hands struck, and
at one time it looked as though the
strikers, who had not been paid their
wages, would burn the hotel to the
ground. suppose compromise Of
| some kind will be made, but the hotel
will not get under way this summmer,
so the stockholders will have to wait
another season for the dividends.
The great tunnel under the Hudson
river caved in on Wednesday morn.
ing, buryiug twenty men among the
ruins. Most Of those lost were married
men, and they leave behind them fam
lies stepped in the bitterest poverty
Here is a chance for Bennett. Perhapl
few thousands spent among the poor
people, 80 suddenly bereft of Their
protectors, might I've quite as useful al
if sent to Connemara or Wicklow.
The shipping business still remain,
active, freights being higher than
they have been for some time past
The shipments Of wheat for the weet
| have amounted to three million and 8
half bushels, and all We have in store
at the present time is about one
weeks supply. In the better grades
of wheat the advance has been from {
cent to a cent and half, the lowel
grades of -four selling from - 40 t.
"a 60, and the finer grades ranging
from Sc 90 to ~ 90.
The sudden disappearance Of twt
prominent Brooklynites, who have 90
questered large sums of money, ha
caused large futter in the City o
Churches. One was the pink of pro
priety and honesty, and for twent!
years in the Sunday-scbool he ha
been held up as pattern for all th'