The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

actress Corrinne from her mother, because
she sang in the wicked theatre IN the
opera of cinderella, Or the Glass Slip
per-" The child had every thing that
her heart could desire. She was splen-
didly cared for-lodged in the finest
apartments in the best hotels. She had
her own waiting-maid, and her private
carriage, her coachlnan, and every luxury
that money could provide. Not one child
in hundred thousand was as well cared
for and as we'll taught as Corrinne; yet
this society labored for weeks and spent
hundreds, if not thousands of dollars to
tear her from the control of her parents,
but they never troubled themselves about
the Dougherty children till both their
parents were lying i'll Potter's Field.
Another case worthy of their attention
was brought to light in Brooklyn. A
girl was arrested for stealing. She had
been servant in respectable family,
and had stolen property to the amount
of $3.50. The defense was that the girl
was kleptomaniac and did not know
the difference between right and wrong;
that her moral sense had been perverted
by cruel and unusual punishment; that
it was no unusual thing for her father,
who was German, to strap her down to
the floor, and, stufing her mouth with
cotton to stihe her screams, beat her
with a buckle attached to strap until
she was black and blue. This was the
testimony of the girls mother. Many OF
the neighbors knew the facts, but the
officers of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children were, so busy nos
ing about theatres that they never knew
it till they heard Of it in the police court.
The officers forbade a Brooklyn gentle
man to let his child sing in the theatre,
but allowed her to sing the same songs
in church concert. The outrageous
conduct of the officers of the society in
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of disgust, and it is fair to presume that
their charter will be considerably modi
fed before the winter is over.
The Bunthorn Of Patience, Oscar Wilde,
is a success. The critics may "phoo,
phoo" as much as they please; they make
fun of his long hair and his knee -breeches,
but he can afford to snap his fingers at
the whole crowd, and he needn't care q
snap what they write about him. Every
body who is anybody is dying to know
him, and his main difficulty now will be
to get out of New York alive. Fete after
fete-party after party-breakfasts, dim
ners and slppers are rendered him by the
hundred. He could eat City dinners a
day if he felt so disposed, and full as
many brea fasts and lunches. The girls
are all dying to know him, and even
staid mothers are all of twitter at his
arrival. 1t is said that the waiter the
other morning carried up half bushel
of cards, and they still keep pouring in.
Don't, for moment, let any one suppose
that this English @sthete is a milk-sop.
He stands six feet three in his stockings,
and will turn the scale at hundred and
ninety; he can clear thirteen feet at a
standing jump, and strikes blow about
enual to the kick of tirst-class mule.
So look out, boys, if this nice young man
comes your way don't say any thing un-
civil about him in your paper while he
is around, for you may get yer 'ed jolly
! we'll punched, mo boy, and don't You
forget it.
| A good man met his reward i'll the City
of Churches this week. The Rev. Henry
Martin Scudder had his salary raised to
ten thousand dollars 4 year, and it now
looks as if they might present him the
parsonage besides. This is gift we'll
bestowed and well-deservcd. Among
the most eloquent Presbyterian divines
in the land, belonging to family whose
name has been connected with Gospel
work in every quarter of tho globe,
Henry NJ. Scudder loses nothing i'll COM
parison with the most brilliant and de-
voted members of his race. A true and
earnest servant of Christ, attending
| faithfully to his Masters work, he has
won the love and admiration of one o1
the noblest congregations in the city o1
Brooklyn. 1t is especially gratifying te
| know that this substantial addition te
hisworldly goods was entirely unsolicited
by him, aud the gift does honor to the
congregation and the pastor.
Wall street is yet a barren wilderness
and the Promised Land is only dimll
seen from Pisgah's heights over the head;
of Jay Gould, VIM. II. Vanderbilt, ant
Russell Sage. We are all watching tt
see under which thimble the joker is.
wish / knew, I'll make my pile and retire
this being poor all the time is getting tt
be monotonous. I'd like to give some
other fellow my chance, and get new
deal. "Bulls" and "bears" are staring
at each other, spelling for fight, bu
one is afraid and the other dare not.
confess / should rather enjoy a littl'
scrimmage, but whether it's "bar," O
whether it's sbull," doesn't make Il bi
of difference to
Truly yours, BROADBRlM.