The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-09-10
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Church Troubles Among the Catholics il
BrooAlyn-The End of Il Lovers Ouarre
| -Ratsbane as an Antidote-How to Ge
Rid of a Wife-Here They Are, a Dollal
Head, Only Il Dollar-Lively Times OF
the Produce ExcI,ange-Milliors in it i
| You Know Where to Look for Them
General News.
New YORK, August q, 1884,
EDITOR CHIEF:
One of the finest churches in the city
of Brooklyn is st. Anthony's, at Green
point. The congregation is large, aud il
not wealthy, respectable. For elone
| time past Il difference has eSts9&d be
tween the pastor and the people with re-
gard to the expenditures Of the church
the congregation wishing to supervise
! their accounts, and the priest insisting
that it was none of their business A
mortgage Of $4,000 was put upon tho
church, and al thoush the congregation
gave literally, the trustees, of whom the
Bishop WAS one, allowed the mortg gage
to lapse, and at the foreclosure sale the
Bishop bought the property in his own
name, although forbidden to do so by
The laws of the State of New York, and
forthwith proceeded to place another
mortgage on the building. Then came
fight. BY our laws, the right Of prop
erty vests in the congregation, and not
in any general religious sect the cen
gregation demanded an accounting, and
stranselzs;. enough. -"'11iiilc declaring the
the s5sre <Afoniidcnce in both priest and
Biszabcen sasssserting Shat they did not
pe':.F" that either Of them would do
any thing wlvs:s for the world, never
thelcss they say that S7o,uv1 have disap-
pcared in some mysterious way or more
than sufficient to have paid off the mort
gage and to have left a handsome surplus
in the treasury of the church. The priest
and the Bishop have had sole charge Of
the funds, and they told the congrega-
ton, point blank, that they would give
them no satisfaction whatever. Then
the congregation appealed to the Cardi-
nal, bat he refused to take a hand in the
fight, as he thought the Bishop was
abundantly able to do his own fighting.
Then the congregation threatened to
bring the matter before the courts-but
on last Sunday the Bishop played his
trump card, and it now remains to be
seen if there is backbone enough in the
congregation to stand by their colors.
Father Murphy, from the altar, on Sun
day. last, gave the refractory members
Of the church to understand that if they
dragged their Bishop before court of
law, then he would excommunicate ev-
cry mothers son Of them, and send them
to that place where ice is at a premium
even in the month of December. l am
little afraid that the anathcna maranatha
will prove too much for our Grecnpoint
friends. It's all very well to get into
,sv 10y. with a Chinese wash man, or the
With ii .:s lager beer saloon, but
and broll you ana is-..ss, - san bake you
sand millions Of years, it is !. -: -.
ferent affair; so | expect the Green
pointers Will have to knock under and
swallow the Bishop, mortgage and all.
Lovers are given to doing foolish
things; nobody is surprised at it; every
body expects it; but it is seldom that |
feel called upon to record as foolish an
act as that committed by a Youthful
lover on Monday last. A youth of TWEEN
ty, named PIdgeon, fell in love with a
girl Of fourteen, named Stillwell, who
lived a short distance from his fathers
house. The Pidgeons did not like the
stillwells, and thought their son was
making goose of himself, AID forbade
his visits to the Stillwell house but he,
like a lutiful son, did not care a whistle
for the old man, nor, indeed, for the old
woman (his motherl, and the more they
told him not to go the more he went. At
last his father grew savage, aud told him
that if he liked the stillwell girl better
than his father and mother the best
thing he could do was to pack his valise
and remove at the earliest possible mo-
Inent. So the boy packed his grip-sack
and went, and from that time till Mon
lay last he was happy as a clam at high
water at the Stllwell mansion. On that |
lay he inyied his young lady-love to go
II Coney Island, but she, in tantaliziny
manner, refused. He then told her that !!
{ she did not go with him he would take |
he money he had il his pocket and buy