The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-10-29

with handsome. young
and an army of servants.
He joined half dozen crack clubs,
among them the Jockey Club, the Polo
Club and the Coaching Club. He drove
his dog-cart in the Park, his tandem and
his drag. His fingers were covered with
rings, and on his left wrist he wore a
bracelet, the parting gift Of some fair
from his watch-chain dangled
charms, the trophies of
female victories. : His mother
knew his mode of life and suffered it to
60 on without rebuke.
The owner of a certain great 1newspa-
per saw him and admired; him; their
modes Of life were just alike, and lie
covered his vulgar hands with rings and
affected the same ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of
dress their example debauched azlarge
number of young men-and now you
can see the effects of it at any public
gathering. Things that would have
been considered disgraccful by--..their
fathers are now boasted of aud done
with impunity by the sons; one-half
the men you meet in the street try and
affect their style. It's tho thing to speak
of marriage and women, and
every Tom Fool has some .stale joke
about mothers-in-law. / can only say,
God help the mother whose daughter
allies her young life with these efigies
of men. l know not where the response
bility lies, bnt it must lie somewhere.
Go to your race courses, parade of
your coaching clubs, and:mixed up with
some of the. very best women in New
York you will find mon whose lives are
an open and standing disgrace. Many
Of our dandies wear corsets and affect
airs that would have sickened Brummell
Or Beau Nash, and withered arms,
spindle-shanks, pigeon breasts, pale COM
plexions and paper heads. Yet the girls
think it's Just too sweet for anythingH =
and, as a consequence, the fellows think
it's just thesthing to do.
The week has had its list of casualties
and crimes, among which are couple Of
brutal wife-murders, both of them by
lrishmen. In one case the worthless,
vagabond Of husband had
followed his unfortunate wife for eight
years, and at last struck her down in a
butcher shop, surrounded by a dozen
people. Though he has sworn for. sew
eral years that be would kill his wife, he
processes to know little or nothing about
it, and, l expect, will plead emotional
insanity. The other case was where a
drunken husband shot his wife, and all
the family relations-even tho murdered
woman's sister-endeavored to shield the
murderer. The necessity Of a physicians
certificate, to enable the family to bury
the murdered woman, led to an examin-
alton, whom a..large bullet hole was dis
covered in her left breast, aud the
in q beast]y state of intoxica-
ton, was arrested while sitting by his
wife's coffin.
A terrible accident-if accident it can
be called occurred in Brooklyn. A
boy by the name Of Heathcote was at
tending the shooting gallery at 122
Broadway, where you take five shots for
ten cents. An unknown man had
fred four shots, when the target fell !;
young Heathcote stepped ont to replace
it, when the man fred the fifth shot aud
coolly walked out Of tho gallery. The
shot struck young Heathoote in the neck,
killing him instantly. He lay in front
of the target several minutes before he
was discovered, and the man who shot
him had disappeared.
The effort to arrive at some general
understanding among the Democrats is
SO far q failure. Make Boss Kelly King
Kelly and every thing would be lovely
but some of the old hard heads can't sec
it, 80 the fight goes on. The Republicans
look ON complacently and say, "Go it
Tammany, give 'em thunder!" anc
"Sick 'em, Irving-shake 'em, old fel
low !" realizing, as Billy Birch remarks
that ats an ill wind that blows no
where"
For the next twenty days we will b
busy saving the country. In the mean
time, the tide of trade rolls in a mighty
food. Orders, orders, orders-goods
goods, goods! till you can't rest. Hotel
full; theatres rushing; churches in full
blast, Beecher endorsing the heresy o
Brother Thomas that there is no Gehen
ma (revised edition). How can we go
along without it with Guiteau on ou
hands' don't know, do youf If yol
find ont, send me word, and oblige,
Truly yours, BROADBR1M.
NJ. Jules GODDARD and NJ. de Fonvielle
the distinguished aeronauts, have in
vented an electrical stationary balloon.
The balloon contains apparatus, drive1
by the electric current, which, it
claimed, will keep the balloon suspende
at any level so that it can neither ascen
or descend.