The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-06-04

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bright yellow .gaiters, and his hand.
were covered with gloves of the same
color. The effect was stunning; every
body that passed along the street looked
at that young man; if his only object
was to excite attention lie was a success
for heard Il young lady remark as she
passed him, 4:e0h, my, isn't he sweet? q"
| The change of the last week has been
| marvellous: the weather has been cold
and gloomy much of the time, but the
parks are clothed in their gayest and
most beautiful attire. The coaching sea-
son is Row in successful operation Many
| people look upon it as fashionable folly,
but if a man has plenty of money and
don't know what to do with himself, it
is much mere sensible and manly en-
joyment to hold the ribbons and crack
the whip over four spanking bays, tax
ing healthful recreation yourself, and
giving enjoyment to numbers Of your
friends, than to dawdle away your time
in clubhouse, or waste your existence
over game of poker.
Hogs have been creating terrible
disturbance among the large provision
houses DOWNTOWN. The fact is that the
srunter has got to be an important factor
IN our social economy. The news that
pork had gone up on Tuesday almost
produced revolution, and when it was
supplemented by Il rise in lard thought
the people We're crazy. | no longer Won
der that the pig has the most comfortable
quarters in some Irish cabins. He is
elnincntly respectable, and begin to en-
tcrtain a high regard for him myself,
since find there is money in him.
An amusing case has occupied the
courts during the week, of Il lady who
sued IAN eminent physician for malprac-
tice i'll administering dose of strycll-
nine. She AYERS iu her complaint that
her future is destroyed, that her consti-
tuition is shattered, and that the only
consolation she can look toward to to re-
lease her from her suffer;ngs arc twenty
five thousand dollars and death For a
dying woman she is a remarkably healthy
ghost. She takes a belt ribbon of a yard
and quarter, and she acknowledges to
turning the scale at one hundred and
eightytwo pounds pretty good for Il
ghost. The learned counsel on the OF her
side tenderly inquired If whisky lad
anything to do with it, and while the
lady modestly replied that she OCCASION
ally took q nip, she Indignantly denied
that she indulgcd in bitters before break
fast, as she asserted that her appetite
was always good, al assertion that no one
would attempt to deny when they meas
urcd her avoirdupois. The court was,
however, somewhat startled when tAey
examined her matrimonial relations. She
did not know exactly how many times
she had been married, where her hrs-
bands were, or how many children she
had had. The question WAS put, "Was
it two or ten 2 and the lady could not
remember. At present writing l hardly
think that She will recover that twenty
five thousand dollars.
This week a meeting was held of in
tluent!al minister's several lrn0lnina-
tions being represented, the object of
which was to stop the alarming increase
of infidcllty in the laud 1t was men
toned as significant evangelical fact
that while thousands of acknowledged
Christians attend our churches without
contributing Il dollar to their support,
or, if they put anything in the contribu-
tloll-boN, the offering is generally in
copper, that iniidcls and scotfers at re-
ligion would pay one dollar and two dol
lars q; seat to hear Bob Ingcrsoll, the
atheist. People crowd the Cooper In
stitute if Moody breaches or Sankey
sings; thousands rush out to hear them,
but when the collateral is called for, it
has to be gathered on the outside, and
many hopeless sinners are found among
the contributors. Is it that the priests
are too far from the pcoplc2 Are their
preaching and practice near enough to
each otherl Is not something needed
besides long prayers and moral tracts
Perhaps another ball of fire like that
which burst over Brooklyn last Sunday
may help us to a clear understanding.
Yours truly,
BROADBRIM.