The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-13

can remove the felOnS Dranu from nj
brow, or obliterate from his visions q
the night the little starving spectre
that must hover about his couch to driv
him into madness.
New York las park on which it la
expended many millions of dollars. Tn
cost was great, but this imperial cit.
gave its consent, and although inaugu
rated at . time when our political affair
were in the hands of band of thieves
and other bands succeeded them, no on,
complained. In an evil hour we ap
pointed Park Commission, and from
that time to the present We have had M
peace. Each commissioner seems to b.
afraid that his fellow commissioner vii
control more Of the public plumber thar
he will, and the consequence has been &
continuous fight for years. the revenue,
have been sqnandered, the beautiful
pork is going to ruin, and that which
even in the day of the Tweed Ring, wa,
tho city's pride aud boast, is now j:
standing monument Of our disgrace. The
meeting of tho board resembles bean
garden. 1t is reproach to the city ol
New York that such board as tho Park
Commission is allowed to exist q single
hour.
On Tuesday man had his legs severe
ly crushed while attempting to get on a
Hudson River railroad freight train. He
was allowed to lay ON tho sidewalk two
hours while the department of red tape
was finding out whose business it was to
attend to him. After telegraplling and
parleying for a couple of hours. an am
bulance was found at last, bnt when
it arrived, the poor fellow had departed
for that place where ainbulauces arc un-
known.
The week has been notable for the
number of charitable excursions which
arc intended to & i've the poor and
wretclled u breath of ocean air. st. Johns
Guild leads off the good work and twelve
hundred little hearts were made glad
for o day at least. l did not see the
names of Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Will
liam II. Vanderbilt or James Keene
| among tho number of contributors. It
may he that these 6nancicrs arc not in
the habit of letting their left hand know
what their right hand doeth, but, as far
as tho public knowledge Of their bcne-
factions is concerned, they are all over
the left.
Whether it is owing to the absence of
our ministers and the closing Of our
churches, l know not, but our people
have not been nncommonly good during
the past week, many atrocions acts Of
violence darkeninS the calender. A
brutal father nearly beat his son to
death, and, undoubtedly, would have
completed the job unless prevented by
the police. An Italian organ grinder.
maddcned by jealousy, attempted the
assassination Of another Italian, with
every prospect Of success. The bcauti-
full Jewess, Eva jacobs, whose confidence
operations and larcenies almost set our
police wild for the past two years, was
sentenced on Wednesday to two years
and u half in the penitcntiary, and was
conveyed from the court in Mysteries.
1t seems to be the opinion of many
very sensible mon that our humanita-
rianism is a cheat and a fraud, and that
for certain class of criminals there is
no punishment so potent as the whip
ping-p post. 1 confess am that way Of
thinking myself, for there is class of
criminals that decent treatment is thrown
away upon. They are brutes by nature,
and nothing but brutal treatment can
reach them. One of them, the other
night, went to q Chinese laundry, and
while the nnoffcnding Cl,inaman was
industriously at work, this savage threw
a huge paving g-stonc through his win
dow, nearly killing him, and the cow
ardly act was applauded by all Of his
villianons associates. Only few weeks
ago another Chinaman was assassinated
by some Of the same gang, and his slay-
ers are yet unwhipped Of Justice.
The busy note Of preparation is already
sonn4lin. for the operatic and dramatic
season. Edwin Booth has kept in seclu-
sion since his return, and his plans for
the coming season are not yet matnre,!,
though it is probable that his f;,ther-ill-
law, Mr.. Mcvicker of Chicago, will he
his general manager.
The gallant Colonel Mapleson of Her
Majestys Opera, will not have it all his
own way the next season. Max Stra-
kosoh comes to the front with Gcrster,
the divine, and in all probability, We
shall have good French, Spanish, Italian
and German companies, aud a tirst-class
dramatic company from China. If the
saints only look out for the sinners half
as we'll as the sinners look out for them
selves, it looks as though We might have
lively times. Stocks unsteady, aud the
bears have sent the bnlls to the wall.
Truly yours, BROADRRlM.
Many strange sounds, real or inlasin-
a,y, have been heard in the working of
natures processes. There has been re-
ported to exist Oh distant island in the
Bay of Bengal phenomenon known as
the I" Barisal guns," which is oftsu heard