The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-01-24

tuVuSu uOt uuSuuS. NVul1oo Cn0's -
common with many othtr tllonghtles'
and foolish persons, I ma. have
laughed ut the Counts abortive his
trionic efforts, and perhaps Miss Avo
MIA Fairbanks may not have escaped
my ridicule. If such is the case,
humbly ask her pardon, aud trust
that her poo, friend, now thai he has
passed the narrow gulf which divides
Eternity from Time, somehow "'
somewhere may tiud that peace and
that rest which his fellow men denied
him here.
On Tuesday poor young creature
was discovered III Il garret in the
slums-dead !! The room was desti.
tute of furniture, and there, on the
bare 1oor, deserted and alone, she
died. Only a few months ago she
found employ mrpt in the very best
stores in the city, aud her father, 4
we'll ,o.lu mechanic, brought her uI
in comparative luxury, but she had
The fatal gift of heanty. aud in an evil
hour SHE. listened to the voice Of the
t.Mpter, who lured her to her ruin
In spite "f every effort 10 save her she
went down step by step, till after
s..nnding ever, depth of infamy aptl
shame. she died Of starvation, neglect
and rum, at the agt4of twenty -one.
One Of the most deliberate Snicidrs
tina, has occurred for many months
was that If "A German gentleman VIII"
attempted tn blns his brailsont while
llr still had twenty one dollars in his
pocket. aud three hundred dollars il,
the hank. There appeared to be moth.
ing in particular the. matter with him,
only t:,at the world was not quite.
good enough for him To live in. am
free to conftss that. according to MY
OWL private opinion, it is not much Of
a world, bnt then it ia the best We
have at pItsent--a,Id We know pretty
we'll what it is-and We don't know
much about that other ,,Iact-ahd just
think What d time /, fellow could have
on three hundred and twenty dollars +:
C"ney Island next summer, with all
the modern improvements; prospec-
tive walking matches Ton future O'Lea-
~ or Ashley belts; Pinafnre; the
Princess Toto aud the Pirates of PEN
zance oyetrrs at Dorlnn's and pate
de toi gros at D+lnonico's; Lemonade,
viii, stick in it, ut the summer gar
deus; ice cream and drives in the
Parks-there ia no eud to the good
things that tl,ope three hundred and
twenty dollars would have bought,
which now ia lost to humanity forever
in that financial Golgotha, the pound
0f the Public administrators. 0 foolish
German! How could you do it7 Why
could you not have sent the three hun
drrd to Bruadbrim, and reserved the
odd twenty for your funeral expenses
German philosophy bah !! the ma ~
who could be guilty Of such foolish
thing AZ that is not worth an obituary
not CO.
Supertine scoundl els are not, by any
means, rare il New York or slsew here.
The crop is always about equal to the
demand, and indeed it is frequently
largely in excess Of the reasonable
wants of an intelligent and enlight-
eHttl community New Games
Lloyd Haigh into court-and by way
of parentl,esis | remark that have a
particular affection for auy man who
@plite his name in the mildie-well,
Mr.. J. Lloyd HaigI,, as l said, comes
into court, and for duuble-distilled,
dycdin- the wool rascality l think he
can double discount any swindler and
villain that We have lately had any
thing to do with, and theu beat him Il
hundred points iu the game He was
Il church trustee, Il shining light in
the Sunday school, aud IL perfect bo-
nai,ea to all sorts Of charitable xs4o-
Citations he used to kiss all the pretty
girls in his class, made love to all oi
the teachers, and as fitting climnx
to Il moral life, married four viyea in
succession, one Of them being Mise
Jennie Hughes, the sparkling queen
"f variety show. How lie escaped
All Indictment for higamy i. is now im.
possible to tell. That he did not ma,
~ a halt dozen more was not his fault
! for q number Of his matrimonial ven.
lures were frustrated by the ss.dder
appearance of wife No. l, who appear,
to have been his aveugiug Nemesis
He finally, By an adroit swindlin1
operation, i'll substituting the wire o
another manufacturer for his own. GO
the contract for furnishing the wir.
for the great suspension bridge be
tween Brooklyn and New York h.r'
he attempted to ruin the great worl
by tile substitution of infe,iu, wire
and when detected he was brough