The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-02-07

which in England is the distinctive
language of the thieves; they smoked
and chewed, and swore like Older
ruffians, and were equipped with knife
and pistol, which they were not afraid
to use upon occasion. Two of these
young villains stopped little girl al
mid day, and in crowded street, and
robbed her Of her purse containing
fifty cents, having first taken in the
situation and weighed all the chances
of escape when they were searched,
knife well sharpened and an old iron
pistol were found upon the younger
highwayma n, who declared that i" he
only used them to frighten people
lie didn't mean to kill 'em." Notwith
standing this pacific declaration, the
pistol contained half ounce slug that
would have given the coup de grace
to the keeper of Dutch grocery store,
or settled the accounts of an impru-
dent bank cashier and sent him to
that land where stock operations
never imperil the characters of the
population, and shaving notes and
thieving discounts are unknown.
Another heavy villain, aged nine, in
company with an old companion in
crime. aged seven, was picked up by
the Sexton while trying to rob a
church, and when searched 10 the po-
lice office, was found in possession of
a kit of burglars tools, which would
have cracked bank vault or a safe
deposit. The crop looks exceedingly
promising, and if we only succeed in
this as we'll as we do in other business
lines, we will be under no necessity Of
importing our thieves-the native ar
ticle will answer for all practical pur-
poses.
don't know why we should trouble
ourselves about what transpires in a
neiyhboring State, but New Jersey
being only separated from us by a
river, all legitimate and respectable
scandals seem as if they belonged to
ourselves, and it is therefore no great
wonder that the fall of couple of
Methodist clergymen has produced
quite ripple upon the surface of our
religious waters. The sin of one, in
the eyes of your correspondent, was
not very serious offense: he simply,
and, l trust, atfectionately kissed the
ladies of the congregation-but not
all, and that was the rock on which
he split; he overlooked the wife of
deacon. and the maiden sister of a
trustee. 1t is true that one was fifty
seven and the other sixty two, but it
was fatal error, nevertheless, and
one for which he deserves to be dis
ciplined, and l hope they will do it in
such fashion as to convince all these
osculatory shepherds that no member
of the congregation, however old Or
ugly, eau be sighted with impunity.
The other case was much more fla
grant, and l fear has destroyed the
pulpit usefulness of prominent
Young evangelist. Though only "a,
and in the first year of his pastorate,
he had already advanced sufficiently
far in spiritual grace to plan an elope-
ment with another mans wife, and
carry a loaded revolver in his pocket.
The neral atmosphere of Jersey seems
to be fatal.to church regulations, no
less than a round dozen having gone
to grass within the last FIVE years.
don't know that the average Jersey
Delilah is a whit worse than her sister
Of New York, but certain it is that her
shores are strewn with the wrecks of
clerical regulations, which should he
warning to conference to send none
but the oldest of pilots into those
treacherouS rocks and qnicksands-
preachers who, like Paul, didn't care
bunch of rope yarn for women, and
who was so particularly down on the
whole sex that he would not even let
them speak in meetin'
Still, we ale not so good on our side
of the river as to be entirely without
Ieproach. Last week we unearthed
another clerical victim, who was
starving lot of children to death.
For months and years this fendisll
system of torture had been going on,
till the wretched little victims were
reduced to skin and bone. Among
savages, they would have torn this
brute to pieces with wild horses. In
the light of higher civilization, We
may politely request him not to do it
again. The Shepherds Fold will,
from this time forth, hold "A place in
the calendar of infamy nneqnaIed in
modern times, and the clerical shark
who assumed to be its director will
stand iu story as no bad type Of the
devil-who is now supposed to be
myth.
Even while I write third ecc,e-
siastie has fallen from grace by at
tempting to kiss his cook-shade of
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