The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-06-05
ters stand by the father, iC looks as if
Mr.. Williams had not been harboring
an angel in disguise.

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Mr.. Williams had not been harboring
an angel in disguise.
A terrible case occurred on Tues
! day; boy only II years of age was
discovered on the sidewalk, opposite
| his house, dead. It appears that the
day before he was seen with man
who induced him to drink till he be-
came intoxicated. He was brought
home in a perfectly helpless condition,
and laid On bed, where for time
he slept in drunken sleep. 1t is
supposed that he woke up half dazed
in the night, and groped his way to-
wards the window, where he fell out
upon the sidewalk and was killed.
The business Of shipping paupers
to this country is not new one. No
doubt it has existed, to a greater or
less degree, ever since the foundation
of the Republic, but at the present
time it is getting especially onerons
and burdensome. Germany, Switzer-
land, Denmark and Sweden have each
tried hand at it, thinking, no doubt,
that it was cheaper to pay passage
to America than to support pauper
for life; but now Russia enters the
list, and it was only a short time ago
that Whole family was landed in a
state of utter destitntioD, whose reg
ular business was beggary at home.
We could stand it when we had the
emigraDt tax to fall back on, but,
now that that resource has been de-
clared unconstitutional these paupers
have to be supported by the city of
New York. The reports Of the differ
ent public institutions are before me,
AID it appears that the city OF New
York, at the present time, is support
ing nearly $4,000 applicants for it's
bounty. Among them are the little
waits of the streets, the halt, the lame
and the blind; and an army of nearly
5000 insane and demented go to make
up the amount. To see that these
poor wretches do not suffer unneces-
sarily, requires the most constant
watchfulness, for many of the people
who have charge Of them abuse and
rob them of the meagre supplies that
charity doles out. A female Cowley
has been discovered III the person of
the Superintendent Of the Home for
Friendless Girls. This institution
seemed to have a special claim to the
consideration and rnasfty uf yf1u pu6ifc.
There is something so forlorn about a
young girl reduced by poverty or
sickness to ask for charity in large
city, that home where the poor and
deserving could be temporarily as
sisted, appeared to be one of our great
needs. AS soon as it was started, the
gifts of the charitable were bestowed
upon it, and it has only just trans
pi:ed that its presumed charity was
cheat and fraud. The girls were com
PEELED by the person in charge to pay
three dollars and a half up to six dol
lars week, and if they failed through
sickness, or other cause, they were
turned into the street A respectable
young girl, in the employ of the great
dry goods house of Lord g. Taylor,
took board in this Home for Friend
less Girls. For many weeks she paid
up regularly, and every thing was
lovely in the Friendless Home but,
in an evil hour, she was taken sick,
when an ambulance was called, and
she was bundled off to the hospitaf
On her recovery, she went back to TIN
Home, but there was no room for her.
She then asked for her trunk, but a
couple of days board were due, and
they refused to give it up. The gill
promised to pay when she got work,
but the charitable superintendent of
the Home for Friendless Girls was in
exorable. At last, in desperation, the
girl threatened to sue them in the
courts, and then they threw her trunk
out into the street. When institu-
tions, pfofessedly religions, are guilty
of such villaipy as this, it is not at all
surprising that Bob Ingcrsoll draws
large audiences, and that religion
falls into disrepute.
1t is a long time since the bears :"
hove had such complete control of the
stock market; but the "bulls +" have
been fairly driven to the wall, and
the holders of small margins have
gone out of sight, to be heard of
! nevermOre.
A pleasant episode in the week has
been the annual parade of the Sun
! day school children Of Brooklyn. This,
| in B1ooklin is the great festival of the
year, overlapping, in its magnitude,
every other holiday. Nearly 10000
children participated in the celebra
tion, which was one of unqualified
enjoyment. They were all cleanly
and beautifully dressed, and the pro-
!. ccssion on Clinton Avenue WAS one
i of the l0veliest l ever beheld.