The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-05-08

only be a week or two when this
dreadful lesson will be forgotten, and

dreadful lesson will be forgotten, ant
some new evangelist, or some fgesl
contestant for = walking belt, vii
completely eradicate all remembrance
Of the calamity. which has given tt
the city such a shudder. Meanwhile
it will be interesting to know how fal
Mr.. Vanderbilt is implicated in tht
transaction, and if it shsll appear that
to save few thousand bricks, and Q
few extra days labor, he wantonly
imperiled the lives of those who fre
qnented his Garden, hope the sub
stantial damages that he will have te
pay will be caution to others HAVING
charge Of our public buildings, and
teach them that human life is some
thing that can not be trifled with,
with impunity.
The month Of April, for many
years back, has been the season fol
religious reunion. The opening buds
Of Spring, the vernal green Of the
grass, the sweet carol of the birds,
seemed to have softening influence
on the hearts Of men, and it appeared
as if they came together in more
liberal and catholic spirit, prepared
in forgiveness and love, to initiate
the example of Him who spake as
never man spake" before; but it
"seems the very error uf the moon
that comes more near the earth than
she was wont, and makes men mad. y
Our usually quiet and orderly friends,
the Quakers, are suffering another
internal earthquake between OrtI,o-
dox and Hicksite. The aristocratic
EpiscOpalian Cburcl, finds its peace
endangered between anti-surplice,
holy water and genufections. The
proud old Catholic Church finds un-
repentant rebels in her midst, who
have received the imposition of
hands, and whose absolutions from
sin Is just as valuable as that of Car.
dinal McCloskey or tue Pope. The
Methodist conference was at logger
heads from the opening to the close
Of its session, and now the Calyinistic
communion, represented by Drs. Tai
mage, Spear aud Van Dyke, aud
numerous smaller fry, open their
batteries on each other by an ex-
change of compliments which, if
true, would render them tit for any
other vocation than the pulpit. |
was in hope that this unseemly, un-
christian like and disreputable quar-
rel would have ended year ago;
but, like Banqno, Bro. Van Dyke
will not down, and | think that the
first peace of mind lie is likely to ex-
perience will be on the day of his
funeral.
You will doubtless remember that
| mentioned trial wherein woman
sued for the loss of her husbands
affection and support. The defendant
was a widow, fat, fair and 36, and
the cause Of the disturbance, the COM
plainant's husband, aged thirty years,
= little curly headed tailor, weighing
1O7 pounds. The widow aforesaid
took desperate fancy to the tailor;
the tailor's 'ooman did not fancy the
widow; the tailor's 'ooman was
homely and poor; the widow was
fair to look upon, and loaded with
guilders. Flesh and blood is flesh
and blood, whether in tailor or Con-
gresham, and it is not at all sur
prising that under the provocation,
the knight of the shears fell from
grace. So far every thing went lovely
with the widow and tailor: ice
creams, lager beer and pretzels, nit
schweitzer kase were among the
lUxuries that made tile breezes Of
Coney Island appear like the Garden
of Eden, but the wife who was left in
her lonely home in Poughkeepsic
couldn't see it in that light, aud she
determined to have her tailor or S2O,.
coo. Now, $4,000 would lie an exor-
bitant price for a tailor, Of reasOna-
BILE proportion and orthodox weight.
The trial lasted several days, a won
derfnl deal of forensic eloqnence was
exhausted on both sides. The COM
plainant declared, after her lawyer
had closed, that she never knew be-
fore how much she had been
wronged, and the defendant was
more than astonished to find tailors
were qnite so valuable; $25tN were
the final damages assessed the in
jured wife regretting that she had
not few more to sell at the same
price; and the widow vowed that
5000 would be no sum at all for such
an amiable, sweet little tailor.
Several frightful suicides have
frightened us from our propriety, two
of them l'eing gentlemen Of wealth,
for whose self destruction no reason
able cause can be assigned. In chris
tian charity let Us hope that reason
tOttered and fell "ere the silver
chord was loosed and the golden
bowl wa< brokeu," and that the inter-
position of the Almighty saved them
from a crime scarcely less terrible
than murder.
It now looks as if We had done
with polar waves for season, at
least, and as with the lengthening
days the disrepntable eastman dimiD- /
ishes his bills, the infamous ice man
stands like lion in the path, more
terrible than army with banners.
Wall street is again on the ragged
edge, aud though the past week has
been more favorable to the bullsn
than the week which preceded it,
still the wisest heads are unable to
tell what a day may bring forth.
The first of April, with its divi-
ilends and daes, was going to make
money plenty, but more than half
the month has past, and 6nr sacks
are not yet plethoric, and money
lenders are as scarce as huckleberries
in December.
The weather of the past few days
Las made us send up a prayer Of
thanksgiving and praise for our
viciuage to Coney leland, Far Rock
away. Ocean Beach and Long Branch.