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

Anu HcTc b lOF lHe udS IHcF0 DClOFt,
And here's for the blue eyes that loved me
And here is for thee, oh, Strathmore.
Our BrOadbriln Letters.
War Against the Oats-The Fasting
Doctor-A Peculiar Marriage Sum-
NOR Exodus Of High Toned Parsons
Terrible Accident in the Hudson River
Tunnel, Etc, Etc.
New YORK, July %, 1880.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The exact point at wl,icl, humanity
ends and insanity begins has been
discovered at last, by no less person
than Henry Bergh, one Of the greatest
philanthropists of his own or any
other age. Mr.. Bergh, as all the
world knows, is the founder Of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Dogs, donkeys, horses,
calves and pigs send up nightly pray
ers for blessings on his head, that is
if calves and pigs ever pray. But
there is pint, as Mr.. Slick re-
marked, beyond which even humani-
ty can not 60, aud in the language Of
Pinafore, at is the cat!! It is the
cat!!!" The gentle soul who never
listened unmoved to the squeal of a
pig or the moan of a street cur has at
last discovered an animal outside of
the pale Of human sympathy, and
unworthy of the protection of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. You may not now
assault Grimalkin with stray boot
jack the nocturnal puss is still safe
from the vagrant jnnk bottle, or the
worrimeDt Of disreputable ours; but,
nevertheless, the sentence of death
has gone forth against the entire
feline race, which are justly cons;d-
ersd outlaws, not entitled to safety
or protection. War has been de-
clared against the cats in New York,
and it is now proposed to kill all cats
on sight, if found unmuzzled after a
certain date. The Common Council
has been trying for some time to
frame the ordinance, bat l think
they will find it much easier to frame
the law than to get rid of the cats.
What remains Of DR.. Tanner con-
tinues bis starvation race, and the
less there is Of him, the more the
public want. to see him. When lie
was fat nobody cared for him; now
he is lean as July chad, they pay
twenty Eve cents head just to take
a peep at him. If he dies, l respect
fully suggest that they put on his
tombstone Nathaniel Tanner. NJ. T.
A week ago l gave little sketch
Of a brother who married his sister
and now comes another case, quite as
remarkable, Of a gentleman who,
twenty years ago, fell il love with a
young girl, at an evening party, on a
short acquain tance, married her. The
gentleman was about forty, and the
girl about eighteen. A disagreement
took place shortly after their mar
riage, the girl discovering that her
husband was q widower, aud the
father of boy almost as old as her.
self. She never saw her step son,
and shortly after the difficulty with
her husband, the couple parted,
never to meet again on earth. Years
rolled on, and the young bride oi
eighteen became q woman of thirty
eight, and at last her lone widow
hood was lightened by the attention
Of gentleman who offered her his
hand and heart. Sucl, snitore don't
grow ON every huckle-berry bush,
and the widow very sensibly &C.
cepted him. The only circumstance
that seemed at all singular was the
fact that the name of her second
husband was the same as the first
but as she had assumed her maiden
name after the flight of hubby No. l.
hubby No. 2 never gave the matter a
thought, nor troubled himself about
the cognomen of the gentlemen
whose vacant shoes be occupied. Or
the bridal tour, however, the wife
grew inquisitive about her new hus,
bands relations, and, to her aston.
ishment, discovered that she hai
married her own step-son. On th.
discovery neither party few into hys