The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-15

The Great Revival at the Brooklyl
Tabernacle-Need of Saving Grace
Story of Life in the Streets-vande erbilt'
New House-The Meeting of the None
Kings-Large Immigration, Business
Stocks, Etc.
NEW YORK, March IS, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
It is a genuine pleasure, in this wicked
city, to be able to record anything like :
frst-class revival, where hardened sin
ners are gathered in like harvest sheaves
giving us the assurance that though the
devil may have pretty heavy mortgage
on New York and Brooklyn, lie is moi
going to have it all his own way while
Brother Talmage aud Major Cole are OIL
top of the ground.
suppose it is no news to any one to
tell them that Major Cole is an Eyangel-
ist, who has done good service in the
army of the Lord in the West, and who
hearing that the Sodom of Brooklyn and
| the Gomorrah of New York we've sadly
in need of spiritual grace, concluded to
| assist Brother Talmage in bis assault
| upon the Evil One, aud the result, I
believe, has been much more satisfactory
to Brother Talmage and Major Cole than
1t has been to the We certainly
stand Ill need of saving grace if we
believe the reports in the papers; though
am inclined to think that there is a
class of sinners that neither prayer nor
saltpetre would save, and for whom
birthstone is the only proper preservative,
and this brings me to the point that I
am awfully sorry the real good, old
fashioned Gehenna is getting out of style.
| don't see how we are going to get
along without it.
A few days ago woman and six
children were picked up in the streets
starving and perishing. The father was
all honest and Industrious man, but he
was out of work and sick. Ore article
of furniture after another went to the
salesroom or the pawnshop, and, when
they had nothing left to sell, their
landlord thrust them out into the freez-
ing streets to die. I want a small
Gehenna for that mans special use, and
I'd give him a private box, all to himself,
nearest the fire. Now comes the incredi-
BILE part Of the story: The wretched
woman says that she was in the streets
for three weeks, and that she and her
children slept under sheds, and in empty
aud out t-houses, gathering
their food from ash-barrels and swill-
tubs, like dogs. Had she been thief, or
fully attended to; she would have been
we'll fed and cos1iE.,it tsbiJ lodged; bat,
unfortunately for her, she was neither
But she was afflicted with curse inf
ntely worse than theft she was sick
and poor, and, for three " eeks of mortal
agony, not one person in these two great
cities Of over million and half of
inhabitants appears to, have heard her
cry of woe. don't mean to say that we
have not valid excuse; we were busy
with the walking match at the time, and
few of us had any leisure to spare on SO
matter as perishing wo-
man and Il few starving children. Besides
this, we had number of other things
on hand. Aside from the forty eight !
thousand dollars we had to pay for the
match, we had to raise quite a
sum for the suffering Jews of Russia,
several hundred of whom are now in
New York, with further installment of
S3O, 600 promised, shortly after the blue
birds fly. Then it cost us nearly $24 900
for the Arion Carnival, and several
thousand more to the Anti Chinese fund |
then there was the expense Of the
badge to Capt. Williams, the
clubber, with numerous expenses, among
which might enumerate, entertaining |
Ehe select committee of the Board Of |
Aldermen aud members Of the Legisla- |
ture. So you can plainly see, after all |
ths, there was very little left for any
body's children.
When the police picked this poor
creature up; four of her children lay
huddled together like pigs, OH the bare
sidewalk, and the mother, in the last |
stage of colo and staryat,on, sat, with 4 .
\ little blue peaked infant on her breast, |
lpon the doorstep, dying.
On the corner of Fourth Avenue and |
Fourteenth street is the Office Of the
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals. 1t is admirably furnished and
endowed. Its officers are
nen of great heart and untiring energy,
,ver on the alert to save the poor brute
rom unnecessary labor or suffering.
No human savage can, with impnnity, |
impose on lame horse or sick dog
where the officers of this society, can
zee them. Tying a tin-kettle to a ours
all would scarcely be atoned for by a
TX months sojourn i'll the penitentiary,
while the discharge of a bootjack at a
Thomas-cat on the top of the |
fence would be regarded as ample /
grounds for an Indictment for man
slaughter. By proper consideration of
he foregoing reasons, you will see at
,nce that we had our hands too full, |
dogs and cats, and Russians,
lnd pedestrians, to attend to any triflins |
outside matters. However, am happy I