The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-27

Nfeh are gwen notice that II they want a
May feast they had better get one up for
themselves, as the Evangelical Chris
tians do not want them. It is hard to
believe this in 1882, and in the third city
Of the Union. The miserable bigot who
raised the disturbance has 10 business in
the United States; he only lacks the
power to bring the burning foggot, the
thumbscrew and the boot such Il crea-
tare might have stood beside Calvin
While Servius burned at the stake, and
prayed to God to make the fire hotter.
The historic trial of Nj. Beecher is not
yet forgotten, where perjnred witnesses,
and many of them evangelical, sought to
pull down and drag in the dirt one of the
grandest pillars of the church. The trial
Of DR.. Talmage, with all its scandalous
detail, its bitterness and false swearing,
seems but thing Of yesterday. The re-
cent disgraceful legal encounter between
Bishop Hare and Mr.. Hinman has
brought merited punishment to the de-
fendant, who stands pilloried before his
fellow countrymen as liar and defamer,
with verdict of $4,000 which, it is to
be hoped, may teach him to bridle his
scandalous tongue. 1t is scenes like
these which have brought the church
into disrcpute, and which crowds Robert
lngersolPs lecture-room on Sunday
: nights with throngs of anxious men and
women, asking the way to he saved.
The flight Of Gould and Vanderbilt for
pleasanter pastures has left the stock
market without bell-wether, so the
dock is all at sea. The execution of
Friday has had but little effect on the
murderers of this city. Murder is as
rife as ever; Sindram's cell was hardly
empty before there were new applicants
ready to step into the vacant shoes.
Tuesday witnessedza a murder here that
! for unmitigatel brutality, is almost with
| out parallel i'll the annals of crime. A
drunken yagabond, who had been curse
| for years to faithful and industrious
wife, absolutely hewed her to pieces with
a jack-knife, aud up to the present mo-
ment of writing he has not exhibited the
slightest regret at what lie has done.
The escape of VIM. Corners, who brut-
ally murdered his wifa last winter, seems
! to have emboldened this latest candi-
date for the gallows, who, notwithstand-
| ing the terrible example of Friday, thinks
hanging is played ont in New York.
A man who, ten years ago was mill
ionaire, feted and fattercd, honored and
petted, with no rses and carriages, SER
wants and followers, country house and
town house, art galleries ana handsome
bank account, in fact, every thing to
make life joyous and happy; this man
was only saved from PotteFs Field by
the charity Of friend, and he was fol-
lowed to his humble grave i'll Greenwood
by single carriage.
They are now busy recognizing the
Democracy of Brooklyn, which, for somc
years past, seems to have been organized
only for the purpose of defeat. Brook
lyn like New York is Democratic city,
the Republicans being in decided mi
nority. But you have undoubtedly read
somewhere that the race is not always to
the swift nor the battle to the strong;
and it would seem as though Brooklyn
was magnificent illustration of this
adage; for somehow the Republicans
manage to come out on top and gobble
all the good offices, from mayor to pound
keeper. The rejecting portion of the
Democrats got tired Of that sort Of thing
and concluded thai the best thing to do
was to reorganize and harmonize, and
have general shake hands all around
let by-gcnes be by-gones aud face the
common enemy in solid phalanx. A
committee of ono hundred was formed
for the purpose, III which were many dis
cordant elements. In one of the con-
fnsed wards were two rival factions
fighting for supremacy; they were even
1y divided between French and Italians,
The French party were named McCarty
Driscoil, sweeny, Murphy aud O'FIynn.
The Italians were named O'Brieu. Kelly
Donovan, McManus and Hcnnessy. The
Frenchman, McCarty, keeps one of the
most prominent whisky shops in the
ward, and O'Brien, the Italian, carries on
the same business. On Saturday last,
O'Brien had completed a plan of harlno.
NOUS organization for the Democracy of
Brooklyn; but as lie was passing the
castle Of McCarty, the latter with a host
of retainers at his back, charged into the
O'Brien camp, and the next thing in
order is a couple of coroner's inquests.
1t is almost unnecessary to add that DEM
ocratic harmony in Brooklyn is, at this
writing, quite incomplete.
Next to Bob Ingersoll in popular inter-
est comes the dog show the finest COL
lection Of the doggiest Of dogs, the
ruggiest Of pugs, the pnppiest of pups,
and the bulliest of bulls. The same fat
women are here who attended last years
show, lugging dogs around done up i'll
camePs hair shawls and sealskin sacks,
Dogs and horses have a very equalizing
infiuence-tine gentlemen and fine ladies,
ministers and Congressmen, merchants
and stockholders touch elbows with
gamblers, thieves. street -peddlers and