The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-22

president, or such a trustee or cashier OF
the list Of its membership. Collections
are taken up, and Mr.. - is very
liberal when the envelope from his pew
is opened it is found to contain $1OO fol
the Board Of Foreign Missions. In Ia few
weeks or months it turns out that tile
man is thief; that every dollar be gave
was stolen. The church was actually
receiving stolen goods; but have yet
to hear of an instance where the money
SO received was given back. A case in
point occurred only few weeks ago in
Newark. The cashier in the Mechanics
Bank, who robbed the bank of over a
million, was liberal patron to several
churches. His contributions in the past
ten years have amounted to thousands
of dollars. He is now serving his time
in the States prison, a self-confessed
thief, and yet not one dollar OF the
stolen money has been returned by any
church to which he contributed. One
thing is certain, a white cravat and q
church endorsement will not answer in
place of an actual count Of the funds.
There have been number of very ugly
rumors, but have been unable to trace
them to any reliable source and we are
now in hopes that we know the worst
Of The robbery Of the Fourth National
Bank.
the libel suit now going on between
Bishop Hare and the Rev. Mr.. Hinman
There is only one conclusion outsiders
can arrive at, either Mr.. Hinman is
guilty, or he is not guilty. IF he is not
guilty then the Bishop is liar and a
perjurer if he is guilty then Mr.. Hinmah
is q liar and q perjurer there is no
getting away from it that they are not
both telling the trnth; and of one of
them, at least, the Episcopal Church
should be proud to get rid of at the very
earliest opportunity. The details of the
trial are simply shocking, and I am glad
to see that, for once, even the vilest
papers in the city lave abstained from
giving the disgusting particulars to the
pnblic. 1t is not a pleasant matter to
discuss, but the prominent position that
both these persons occupy in the most
aristocratic and exclusive church in the
land makes the whole disgracefnl bust
ness very much to be depiored. If the
Bishop has slandered Mr.. Human, and
out of mere spite and vindictiveness has
endcuvored to compass the ruin of q
worthy and estimable man, / think that
the s23,o 900 he sues for wosrid he exceed
insly reasonable damages; and I should
| hope, in addition to being nulcted the
! cash that a brief sojourn i'll the pentcn
! tiary would not be out of the way, but
If on the other hand Mr.. Hinman is guilty
of what the Bishop says he is, then a
good, stout rawhide and the pillory are
none too good for him.
| The vendetta, which started between
our artists at the opening of the Water
color Exhibition may really turn out OF
some service to the public.
erybody knows that i'll collection
of thousands of pictures there are neces-
sarily some very bad ones, but the
Hanging Committee threw out fifteen
hundred, and some fthe rejected pictures
were actually better than many which
were admitted to the highest places in
the Academy. If the truth must be told,
the Hanging Committee at the Academy
generally make ont to give themselves
all the good places. ifa young artist
gets in, he is usually stuck away iii a
dark corner, and il lie ggumhias, when
the next exhibition occurs, he is pat
down among cranks, aud he don't get III
at all. The best thing he can do is to
grin and bear it, and wait till he grows
old Il; his only chance of promotion IS for
some of the old fossils to die, and that
they most positively refuse to do.
think the fine arts must be conducive OF
health, for there are men i'll the Board of
Directors in the Academy who were
rusty old customers when / was boy
I am no chicken, but there are about a
dozen old mummies there who bid fair tt
attend my funeral. think the result oi
this artistic war will be that we shat
have two Academies, and the new blood
will be of decided advantage to art
True art is naturally democratic, but al
aristocracy has gradually crept into it
which, while it may pant!er to the pride
and serve the purpose of the few
paralyzes and kills all that is truly
ennobling in it.
"How do you like Patti :" is ill every
: body's mouth, and all l can say is, tina
no singer of any note has appeared her,
for wears who has created less enthusiasm
than Madame Adeline Patti. The house
have at no time been crowded. Every
; body who is any body went to hear Al
: least once; her individual efforts Lav
received moderate applause, but ther
the matter ended. Socially she has beel
, as much pariah as Bernl,ardt. No OH
, cares to know her outside of the theatre
i and have reason to believe that sh
| most bitterly regrets having visited he
!. native city. Had she stopped away sh
! might have imagined that people wer
E dying to see her, and she might hay
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