The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-15

they have done, in their endeavors tt
assist their co-religionists, but it was al
in vain. $4,000 or 10000 immigrants
every one of whom was clamorous fol
assistance, has taxed the charity Of the
New York Jews to such an extent that
at last they have been compelled to
throw up their hands. 1t has cost the
Jewish commission here fully $25, 900 a
week, and instead of diminishing, the
evil seems to be on the increase. The
halt, the lame and the blind have been
sent here; for it appears as though the
parties in Europe who send them over,
were anxious to get rid of material that
was likely to prove a public burden.
Not less than half million Of dollars has
been raised among 4he Jews of New
York but this is only a drop in the
bucket. Most of the immigrants expect
the United States will present them with
farm fully stocked and sent them to it
in "a palace car, or if they see fit to stop
in the city, will give them a brown stone
house. Some of the immigrants have
plumply told the committee that they
wanted to work they would have staid
| III Russia. This immigration Question
has got to be Jumbo on our hands.
see only one way out Of it, and that is to
constitute ourselves into a board of home
missions, furnish each new arrival with
q Moody and Sankey hymn book and q
bagful of good advice, aud let them go
West. Good advice is the only cheap
article we have in the market now. The
new immigration, if it could be properly
directed, might be made to have a most
Christianizing influence on the heather
Of Salt Lake. Turn few cargoes Of
these Russian patriots into the city of
the saints and don't think that a man
could be found from the Laramie Plains
to the Wasatch Mountains who would
take more than one wife at dose. No
human being would ever think of taking
two such wives. 1t would kill polygamy
dead as Il door-nail.
Brooklyn, as usual, comes to the front
to help us out with new sensation. A
popular minister has just been discovered
there, who has been preaching under a
forged certificate for more than year
II hoe nrf1 1af Of hnl u
dozen different religions, and has been
kicked out ont of one after the other
hav ing been in turn an EpiscopalialH a
Methodist, a Presby terian and Baptist.
He was quite liberal in his views, and
when one church kicked him out, like a
true Christian he forgave them and weht
to the next church. Notwithstanding
the fact that he was proven a fraud and
cheat, he was allowed to puach last
Sunday, though it now looks as though
there would be situation open for a
new minister in a week or two.
The heat of the past week has driven
people by thousands to the seashore.
All of them seem to have morbid desire
to see somebody killed, and the boats
have resolved to give the treat if it can
be procured. Last Sunday there were
fully forty thousand people at Coney
Island The steamboat Columbia on her
way to Rockaway Beach passes the
Island. On the Columbia there were at
least 5000 people. While passing, one Of
those professional jumpers and swimmers
leaped from the wheelhouse and swan
ashore, distance of about a mile; when
lie made the leap there was a general
desire to see him, and there was general
rush to that side of the boat; for
minute or so her guards were completely
submerged, and it looked as though the
boat would upset and plunge her living
freight in the water. The peril was
realized more by those on shore than the
persons on the boat; and they may
esteem themselves fortunate that all the
New York papers Of Monday morning
had not, i'll great, big loaded lines,
" Trighyu1 accident at Coney Island"
There is no discount now on the hot
weather. Now is the season for the local
missionary to visit the tenement houses.
Think Of it; six or seven people sleeping
in room with no window i'll it that
opens to the sky !; a little air-hole opening
into uosome hall, loaded with unholy
vapors and unchristian smells; from 100
to 200 people in single house; and
then wonder why that class of people
ever want to live in city-but they do;
and they would not live in the country
if you would give them house. A good,
wholesome mouthful of pure, fresh
country air would give half of them the
erysipelas or cholera morbus. Our creme
de-la-creme have departed; the most of
the fashionable churches are closed for
the Summer. Wall street is bracing it
self for the Ides Of September, when we
are going to have that boom in stocks.
With the faithful / watch and wait.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
Bailey's Saline Aperient is now recognized
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dyspepsia, etc. It cools and
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