The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-07-09

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1t Affects the City-The End Of a City
Belle-She Flies from Her Husband with
q Foreign Count, and after a Life Of Mis-
cry is Buried In POtter's Field-Oilds and
Ends, Etc, Etc.
NEW YORK, July 2, 1881.
EDITOR CHIEF:
If it were not for the cr,mina, classes
| there would not be an item this week
worth reading. The good people have
either gone away or are going. Minis
| ters are as scarce as huckleberries in De-
ccmber, and deac0ns and church trustees
| are by no means plentiful. Our pious
| folk find recreation as necessary rs sin
ners, and the absence of the preachers
and tho closing of the churches compels
| them to fast for while, for the bread Of
life is nowhere to be had, now that the
temples are closed. But the criminal
classes never close their temples; they
are open at all times and in all seasons.
The Summer and the Winter solstice
come and go; the Autumnal and Vernal
equinoxes succeed each other, but they
never rest night and day, Summer and
Winter, Sunday and holiday; their lynx
eyed vigilance is ever Oh the watch
The minister with fifteen or twenty
thousand a year, living in magnificent
mansion, clothed in purple and fine linen,
surrounded with servants, finds rest and
recuperation necessary; but the sinners
he is paid to save never need recnpcra-
ton OF rest, they are ever and always
ready.
We are moral people and an intel
lectual people; we represent the brains,
the pocket and the stomach of the ma
ton; we give manners and fashions to
smaller communities, for which they can
never he sufficiently grateful. Person
ally, however, we make al exhibition OF
ourselves which our country cousins
would do well not to follow, and which
makes them incontinent'y inquire what's
tue use of all your churches
Last week q couple of brutes were adj
vertised for glove fight, which was
witnessed by two hundred people who
each paid ten dollars to see these muir
derous brutes pound each other to num-
my. l am quite willing to admit that
the community would have been bene-
fitted if both of them had been killed ;
but the nation is debauched and de-
graded which tolerates these brutal OK
libitions. The affair was publicly adj
vertised, and the tickets were hawked
about OIL the floor of the Stock Exchange
for these aesthetic gentlemen are the
chief patrons of such affairs. Two thou
sand dollars were taken for admission ut
tho door, and Il purse Of five hundred
more was subscribed by the keeper OF
thieves den. The battle was advertised
with gloves but in what particular that
prevents it's being prize fight can not
conceive. The gloves with which they
fight are murderous implements, hard as
iron, and fatal as the blow sledge ham
mer. Only four rounds were fought, and
in that time one Of the contestants was
beaten to jelly. No arrests were made,
not even complaint was entered tor
breach of the peace, though principals
and spectators had rendered themselves
liable to States prison. 1t is commen-
tary on the vigilance Of our three thou
sand police that the fight was known in
every runl-mill and brotlel in the city
but they never heard of it at police head
quarters, and the captain of the precinct
when spoken to about it, did not con
ceiye it possible; but, as l said before
the churches are all closed, and the olt
adase is realized: "When the cat il
away" ETC., ETC., etc. The fact is tina
no one feels like being particularly good
for the weather Of the last few week
has made number Of physical and mora
} wrecks. You can't sing cold Hundred
and coronation with any degree o
/ vim if you are losing money at the rat
Of thousands of dollars day, and thi
unreasonable weather not only affect
the watering places, but it is far reach
, inp in its effects, and strikes down man,
kinds of business besides. The dry good
and clothing interests have already suf
fered severely; there has been virtual.
little or no call for any class Of Summe
goods, The new line of iron steamers t.
Coney Island continue to come and g
empty, one day Of passable business be
ing succeeded by i; week of desolatio'
and despair.
In the way of interesting news | Sc
that the church of the Rev. j. Hyatt
Smith is offered for sale. He was electe'
! to Congress from the city of Brooklyl
last Fall, by combination of Democrat
, and Republicans, and the Lee Avenu
!, Baptist Church, of which he was pastor
was supposed to be one of the most pop
ular in the city Of Brooklyn, but it nov
appears that the whole affair was one 9
fraudulent pretense, and that the chnrcl
like many others, was hopelessly sunk
debt, and that the Rev. Mr. Smith coul
not even collect his own salary. Las
week a merciiess savings bank whic
held mortgage of s26 900 on it, swoope
down upon it; they toreclosed on til
: property, and in few weeks this POI
ular temple will pass under the hamme
of the auctioneer.
The fight which is now going on {