The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-20

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temperance to a we'll filled church; not
one in hundred that he breaches to
stands In need of temperance salvation,
ono-half Of them could not tell glass Of
lager from bottle Of ginger pop, and
certainly would not distinguish the diff
ference between whisky cocktail and
rum punch. Whenever there is a tenn
! perance meeting, with some distinguished.
speaker, these goody goodies always
crowd the pews, while the poor n,iser-
able drunkard that the meeting was Or
ganized to save, would scarcely be al
lowed within a block Of the church. For
several days past IL drunken brute has
been seen parading the streets of Brook
lyn, attended by miserable, elpaciatetl
little boy. A short year ago this poor
drunken tramp was the owner of hap
py home, with every thing comfortable
around him, but the devil in the shape
Of rum, possessed him, and his wife too
fell victim to tho curse they lost their
home; article after article, found its
way to the pawn-shoP, and at last the
pair were turned out upon the street !;
the mother found shelter with some rel
ative, but the boy stuck to his poor
drunken father brute as he was, ragged,
degraded, soaked with rum, he loved the
boy with whatever remnants of affection
that remained in his brutal nature; the
two became inseparable night and day.
On Sunday last tho poor child followed
lis father from one rum shop to another,
till at half past two he stopped at the
house Of an acquaintance who observed
that the child looked very i'll. The father
took off his coat, and throwing it on the
floor, told poor little Johnny to lay down
on it, while he went to find doctor.
Little johnny laid down, and IL woman
in tho room remarked that he was very
quiet; thinking that lie was resting, she
did not disturb him for q few moments,
and when she did approach him, the
spirit had fed, and the sorrows of the
poor little tramp were ended.
Another case was made public, where
an entire family, father, mother, and five
children, were discovered almost in a
state of starvation caused by indulgence
in rum. The father and mother were
committed to Blackwell's Island, and
the children were turned over to the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children.
A young husband choked his wife to
death while maddened by drink; SO l
think that it is about time that we have
a temperance revival, but it must he
held in the slums and not in the churches.
f, The class that needs salvation will not
20 to church, tho churcl, must come to
them, or they never will he saved. One
disadvantage that New York labors un-
der is that it is the receptacle for the off
scourinss Of Europe mixed up with the
most desirable class of emigrants; among
them are thousands of the most desperate
criminals, and strange as it may appear,
all of them find friends. Let a man be
suspected of being a notorious thief or
murderer, and forthwith funds are iul-
mediately subscribed for lis defense,
and ladies' send him boquets.
An Italian bandit, who used to amuse
himself in Italy a few years ago, cutting
off mems noses, and clipping their cars,
was recently brought here from New Or
leans, under a writ of extradition from
the Italian government. Probably nc
more brutal ruffian ever stretched hemp
there is not the shadow Of Il doubt about
the Villains identity. And yet because
the government asks u few days grace tc
get its witnesses into court, u terrible
hue and cry is made about the abridg
ment of personal liberty. Tho fact is
there is too much personal liberty.
There is not Il day goes by that a meet
ing is not held in some part of the town
where murder and assassination art
openly advocated and applaudcd. Hart
man, the Nihilist, gives the Herald eight
mortal columns iii defense Of assassina
ton, and only day or two after nearly
as much space is accorded to the muir
Gerous plots of one Grove, a lamplig ghtel
of Peoria, Illinois, and O'Donovan Rossi
all -unsavory Irish patriot of New York
Ad, ancell liberalism seems to consist o
helping yourself as literally as possibI,
to whatever belongs to anybody else
never earning any thing yourself, bu
looking out for some fellow who works
and then going halves, and when 80,
have used up your half then so for th'
other fellows.
A Brooklyn stock-broker had som'
difficulty with farmer about the ren
Of place in the country, and it is al
legged that the farmer tried to blow th'
brokers' house up with dynamite boml,
The case is now before the courts, and i
the facts alleged are proven, the farme
may board at the publc's expense for
few years to come.
The majority Of our churches are close
and those that remain open are empty
Camp-meetinss are all around, some o1
the sea-shorc and Others in the hills.
regret to know that it is only the goo'
people who go to camp-meetinSs, fo
there is certainl, no diminution in til
crop Of city sinners. Like the poor, "
have them always with ms. The saint
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