The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-01

teen solid columns of praise that came III
from every section of the country, pub
lished by the Chicago Ne,us. Authors, re
ligionists, pious preachers like Beecher
politicians and Journalists joined in to swell
| the praises Of Arthur, the good President
Arthur, the true citizen, Arthur, the elegan
gentleman. And then, too, to hear from
the lips of the redoubtable Henry Waiter
son, =" am proud of Chester A. Arthur az
| my President and as my fellow citizen
| Was not that enough to calm all fears anG
| give hip a feeling of perfect security? And
| as he journeyed on to Yellowstone, had he
not reason to indulge in the most soothing
| reveries and to settle it in his own minc
that, with such an unexceptional man with
in reach, the Republican party would seeh
no other? Dream on, your Excellency
Thou art the man! Dnless-well, we shall
see.
told you it was IN easy matter to get G
| divorce in this State, and am not sure that
we are not far ahead Of Illinois. The dock
ct for the present term of court presents
100 applications for divorce and 1883 will
probably witness more divorces in Phila-
delphia than any previous year. Reading
over the list, notice that the majority OF
applicants are women. What does that
shoW-that there are more fault-fnding,
exacting women, orfmore trifing, intoler-
able men? / can not answer that question
satisfactorily, perhaps, but of one thing !
am certain, and that is Of the perfectly
dreadful condition of society in all its
grades. Actually, it seems to me some
times that the preachers might as well at
tempt to watt back the angry, rushing,
roaring waves Of the sea with their breath
as labor to turn back the biilows of sin and
misdoing by pulpit exhortations and warn
ings. could not blame them if, disheart-
ened and discouraged, they pronounce
themselves a failure. Despite the teach
ings of the bible, despite the influence of
the rector, despite the eloquent pleadings
of the pulpit, divorce is the common order
of the day and people have ceased to look
upon it as any thing very bad.
Two thieves who had practiced fraud
successfully on the Pension Office few
days ago were as successfully exposed and
arrested. They induced woman to act as
their cat's-paw and represent herself as a
Mrs. Carpenter, who was entitled to pen
sion for the death of her husbaud-a mem
Der of the Pennsylvania volunteers. The
vouchers were signed, the check for S17S5
was given to the woman, and all went along
swimmingly, for Of course the check was
cashed at the United States Sub Treasury
Office. But how about the division? Well.
there was just a little bit of quarrel over
that, and the woman. feeling that she was
imposed upon, infogared the detectives, and
vowed she only went into the affair to
further the ends of justice and that she in
tended to tell all the time. Her desire to
aid justice came rather late-it would have
been a little more effective had she given
the information before the check was
cashed. The rogues were caught and $1635
of the amount recovered. When the wo-
man found herself incarcerated she did not
feel SO anxious to furtherstho ends of JUS
tice.
There are about 1000 Chinese in this city.
One of them, Chang Fou, has become am
bilious to be policeman and has peti-
toned the Mayor to appoint him-argues
that he understands his people and could
accomplish more with them-help the good
and ferret out the bad more easily than
could the white man. The Mayor was not
convinced. Manypromirent business men
were interviewed on the subject. None OBJ
jected on account of the religion of the
Chinaman. Some said, if he is honest,
strong enough, capable, and a citizen, he
should be appointed; some roared with
laughter at the very idea of Chinaman
done up in regulation dress with club in
his hand; some said they would not trust
one of the almond-eyed individuals to guard
their property, but all agreed that the poor
fellow would have hard time; that nobody
would respect a Chinaman; that the boys
would torment him and that the amount of
persecution which he would endure would
render him about useless.
POsTgCRIPTs.
Contrary to the rule, August has been
cool and comfortable. No "dog days "yet.
President Buchanan was the first one to
apply the terms log rolling" and "boom"
to politics.
The legislative farce at Harrisburg con-
tinues; for which the people pay $4,000 day.
The army worm in solid phalanx has
moved down whole fields of tobacco in
Lancaster county.
Vast quantities of rags are shipped to
this city from Egyptian ports and are used
in the manufacture of paper.
Carlyle said "There are 10000, coo people
in England, mostly fools" America, my
when several more swimmers are anxious
to throw away their lives in the Niagara
rapids?
GOOSEQUILL.
Hon. E. r. Towle from Vermont called on us
a few days since and we enjoyed a pleasant H.
terview with him. h1r. Towle is the proprietor
Of the Grove Hill Farm at West Berkshire, Vt.
and is also the agricultural editor of a leading
Vermont paper, and a member of the Vermont
State Board of agriculture. He came into Can
ada recently to investigate an exceedingly inter
esting case of diphther.a, which was miracu-
lously cured by a new method of treatment
We publish this week an article headed Dip.
theria.' from him, showing the result of his in
vestigations. His writings are familiar t.
Vermonters. and we trust we may again be
favored with something of interest from tht