The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-05-28

girls everywhere would 10 we'll to profit,
showing what an indomitable will can
10. One night, when only ten years of
age, she made up her mind she could en-
lure that life 30: longer; then escaping
from her keeper cabin into the wild
woods, she started out to seek her for
tune. Think Of the start, little
wretched, ragged, ignorant waif, floating
put on the great world alone, without
rudder, compass or friend to advise her;
that world where so many thousands
sink ont Of sight and perish every year,
who have every advantage and every
hope. Footsore and weary she reached
q town, and there she begged something
to eat. No one, Of cource, cared about
taking charge of the dirty, ragged little
beggar; but still she tramped OH from
place to place, protected by some guar
dian angel from the perils of the way,
till at last, after weeks of suffering and
toll, she reached New York. Here she
was picked up and good Samaritan
took charge of her. In a very short time
she was cleaned and dressed, and it was
not long before she found time between
her daily tasks to learn to read this she
in an incredibly short space
of time, and then she essayed other
studies. Kind friends aided her, and at
last she began to think of the accom-
plishments which she saw other young
ladies possess. At the age of fifteen she
secured a clerkship in the same store
where she now has charge of one of the
principal departments. No one stands
higher with her employers than she, and
now beautiful and accomplished, at the
age of twenty, it is rumorcd that a
wealthy young gentlemen will soon lead
her to the altar. So then the poor little
Mollie Mcguire waif from the Pennsyl-
vania mountains may yet be wealthy
woman. forgot to add that the Mollics
traced her to New York, and for several
years made desperate efforts to recover
her, but were frustrated by thc friends
who had taken charge of her.
About year ago the wife of a wealthy
Wall street broker was robbed of about
$1,000 in jewels and cash, and what
made the matter more mysterious was,
that they were hidden away in u secret
place, known, as they thought, to no one
but the lady aud her husband. The
police department was informed, special
detectives were set upon the job, ser
wants were examined and DISCHARGED
and the key to the mystery was never
discovered till Wednesday last, whe,
the broker met q lady friend walking
down Broadway with pair of magnif.
cent solitaire earrings which he had pre-
scnted to his wife few years ago. The
broker was asto"ishei, and questioned
the lady as to how they camo in her pos
session. At first she stontly declined tt
tell, and it was not until a warrant wa.
fiourished in her face that she acdnowl
edged the fact that she had Won them o
the brokers' wife at little game of draw
poker ut the ladies' club. The broker
wife proved to be most inveterate gam
bier, and she had lost her money ant
jewels at play. Her husband, like mos
OF the Wall street men, indulges in t.
little game of draw occasionally himself
but ho does not care about having hi
wife take hand. The discovery led t,
considerable of scene, and as the lad.
is no chicken, and is abundantly able t
take her own part, it looked for I, time u
if there would he wigs on the green, bu
friends stepped in, and better council
prevailed. So the lady has gone to visi
an aunt ut the Catskills, and the HUSBAND
is a regular attendant ut the Cooper Iu
stit"te revival meetings.
1t is estimated that the month of Ma
will show the unparalleled record Of owe
10000 added by emigration to our popu
lation. If it be true that every abl
bodied man and woman adds q thousan
dollars to the material wealth of til
nation, then in the month Of May, 1881
We have increased the wealth of til
country many millions of dollars. Til
Mormon emigration has been uncommon
ly large, and more ignorant, hrntalize
set you would scarcely find OH the fac
of the earth, and yet these Mormon evan
gelists take the true Christian method t
gain converts, and it would he we'll
our churches and missionary societit
would try the same experiment. The
don't dose their converts with sermon,
and moral tracts they give them so,n'
thing to eat, they lift them out of the
miserable bondage and poverty, pay the
passage to the United States, and att.
they are here help them to home, Civ
them clothes to cover them and food
put in their stonachs, and that is IL
sort of religion that a Hottentot can III
derstand. We have Christian in Ne
York who seems to understand his bus
ness. He could be found at Fulton ferl
every morning with big boiler c
wheels, and he gave the poor fellow
Who had had scant breakfasts, or l
breakfasts at all, q cup Of good cotf'
and chunk Of bread for cent, aud
they had not the cent they got 1t f
nothing. don't know that any of the
converts will ever reach the promis.
land, or "read their titles clear to ma
sions in the Skies" but am morally &c