The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-13

raised an outcry at once, and lust at tina
moment the cars stopped at station
The thief got off on the platform an,
was followed by the woman who ha,
been robbed, and the lady who dis
covered tile theft. They both asked tll
gate-keeper to arrest the thief, but h
boldly stepped fforward aud said on
was his wife aud the other his sister
and before the dazed gate-keeper an,
the astonished ladies could recover them
selves he stepped upon the cars just a
they were starting, and left them stand
ing on the platform, then the genius O
Morse came to their aid The telegraph
was called into requisition and the pick
pocket was arrested at the next station
just as he was stepping from the cars.
l am going to devote little time al
soon as possibly can to find out JUS
exactly what the marriage rules of New
York are. At one time public cohabita
| tion and acknowledgements was considered
a valid marriage. It was as easy to gel
married here as in Scotland, Where the
ceremony consisted in jumping over a
broomstick; but a case has just been
decided here against the woman where
she had publicly lived with the man ten
| years, and had been acknowledged by
his family and had borne his name. Sc
for the future ladies had better look to
their certificates. One of the forms OF
divorce in this State forbids the party
who is cast in the suit from marrying
again, and this decree in the Forrest case
kept Mr.. Forrest single till the day Of
his death. A short time since man
who had been divorced under a similar
decree went to Connecticut and took a
wife, and with her lie returned to New
York. The penalty of his crime was
States prison. He was arrested, tried
and condemned, but appealed to the
Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court
decided that they had committed no
offense in New York, as they did not get
married here, and they had 10 power to
take cognizance of an act done in another
State, and as the marriage was valid
there it was valid here, and consequently
he had committed no crime getting
married in Connecticut but if he had
done it in New York, States prison would
be his portion.
The suicide Of the youngest son of th.
late Commodore Vanderbilt was some
thing of sensation, though it is
circumstance that might have beef
looked for any time for the last twent,
years. His father may not have bee1
according to the standard of the Y. NJ
C. A. model man, but it is alst
certain that his youngest son embittered
the closing hoars of his life. He would
not see him when dying, and III his will
cut him off with I: beggarly provision,
and even, that small stipend was within
the contTol of his brother William, whom
he heartily detested. His father was
hardly in his grave when Cornelius
commenced his contest of the will and
ripped up the whole story of his fathers
life It was not pleasant reading; the
town, whose taste is not very refined or
mawkish, was shocked and scandalized
at the revelation. William H. got dis
gusted at last, aud although he had
sworn by the big boot that he never
would yield a peg, the merciless scalpel
of Scott Lord cut him to the quick, and
he compromised at q; cost of over seven
millions. Cornelius got one Of the mil
lions and the control of what his father
had left him, and from that time to the
present he has lived for himself and
himself alone. The world owes him
nothing, and now that he has gone he
has left no sign or mark behind that
should entitle his name or memory to
one word of commendation.
Patti walks off with $4,000, the
result of forty nights hard labor, during
which time she must have actually been
employed ABOUT one hour each night !;
tolerably fair pay that; few such
angels would empty the National Trea-
sury. In the algebra Of Wall street, the
stock market is an unknown quantity
which 10 fellah can find out. A sharp
decline this week is only the precursor
of a rise next. The weather has been
unsettled and business is rushing.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
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