The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-31

ply them no longer. And NOW the knaves
who have made their bogus patriotism
their capital are trying the old dodge Of
another attack on the British, Lion. Mr.
Ecclesine and all such political dema.
gognes and :tsamps may howl and fume,
but they know it is much safer to all
their patriotism in the Cooper Institute
in the New York than in Tipperary,
Dublin or Sligo.
Friday closed the accounts Of the muir
.leress, McGloin and Malone. In neither
Of these eases was there the slightest
grounds for mitigation-bofl the mnr-
ders were brutal as brutal could be-
Malone murdered his girl-wife, who
was scarcely fifteen years Of age, and
McGIoin butchered an Innocent a.sS I'M
offending man who was attempting to
protect 4is property. He was in no jeo-
.parsly himself; he could have escaped
with his plumber, but l,o murdered the
man for the pure love of murder and the
desire to do something that wonld make
,him stand well with his murderous COM
panlens. a more thorough brute never
went to the galIows-and yet, as the day
of his execution approached, there We're
dozens of fine ladies besieging the Tombs,
anxious to have parting interview
with the assassin. Fruit, flowers, bon
bons and photographs We're sent him. 1t
is usual to allow apiisoner sentenced to
death considerable latitude-as much, in
fact, as is compatible; with his safe keep
ing-but it is IL shocking phase of human
character when women, calling them
selves respectable; lavish such tenderness
and luxury on Il murtlerous brute, while
hundreds Of virtuous women aud chill
dlen are almost peiishing of starvation
around them.
The lively fight at present going on
Tween Mrs. Blake and DR.. Dix is the
talk of the town, and l am happy to be
able to say that the sympatliea Of the
more intelligent and respectable people
arc on the side of the weaker yess eli
perhaps you think Latitude to Dir. Dix,
but do not-not that l consider Lilly
Blake IL much weaker vessel than DR.. DIX
for intellectually and physically l
link she is worth IL dozen of him. DR..
Dix is one of those antiquated fossils
who forgets, OF never new That the world
what il crnsty and disappointed |
Did ba chelur, one Saul of Tars,ls, said |
some nlhteen or twenty hundred years !
ago, has more weight with this clerical
mummy than the accumulated wisdom
) all the succeeding centuric8. DR.. Dix
$ constantly laaping upon the duty of
women to take care of her home, her
husband and her tables. DR.. Dix is in
he receipt of Il comfortable $4,000 Il
car, and is quite at Il loss to know how
eoric have such IL struggle to live. He
oIs not appear to know that there are
thousands of worthy hard working wo-
len III this city who have no homo of
heir own; who have no husband and
Tho have no baby, but who would be
cry glad to have the crumbs that fall
rom Or. Dix's table. Dr.. Dix is one Of
he Sanhedrins that guard the great
treasures of Trinity Churcll's vast estate,
low large that estate is none but the
ect know, and they guard the secret
18th jealousy that driies vcstigatiou;
ut DR.. Dix MAY have read snluewhere
that he race is not to the swift, nor the
attic to he strong" and if Lilly Blake
stricken down in the fight there are
hers TO take her place. President
armand of Columbia College, and tile
spectacle faculty of Harvard, may
acc their feet and place their backs
,alnst the doors Of their colleges, but
oncr or later the women are bound to
It III. One by one the barriers have
zen swept away and new avenues have
'rn opened for wonlel's advancement. f
nj she will not be satisfied till she
ands he equal of her brother in her
&c for life. DR.. Dix is endorsed by
t ut old dummies who ought to have ,
on in their graves years ago, but Mrs. l
axe has the sympathy of the great
'dy ofpeople of heart and brain vino
ink That The living present is of in.i-
tcly more consequences to us than the
ad past.
If Il country debating society wants Il \
lofty question, allow me to suggest
e: Which had man better be, an
nest lnan or a ,llief2 i'll had i; cll:ii,c. [
the arstimel,t / shonIsl say lie had j
tier lie Il thief, that is if we take the
perIence of poor Jerry Grove as
terlon. Jerry Grove was Il salesman
t of luck; one misfortune succeeded r.
other, till at last poor Jerry Grove v,
lnd himself i'll the street ,1u,l,llng G.
Interpreters for Il living Now the l'
Ms of the city of New York says that a :.
'''lltr shall pay II license, aud Jerry &
owe had no money 10 pay: prduling q
m early morning till late at night he
I'D barely earn enough for food; he
ild not beg: he would not steal and Nj
W York says he must not sell, ST. he
~ thing that was left for Jerry Grove
) I" commit suicide or starve. What al
ut of law is it that forhids man.
'!rr penalty Of imprisonment, to earn :
honest living9 There is screw 10. s. q
ne" Here, when poor Jerry Grove is "
own int" Jail for trying te earn il crust r.
keep his little ones from starving. w.
Gould or Vanderbilt can squeeze the
ikct and make u barrel Of flour or Il
md ct beef cost twice as much AS it. hr
ut to do; they are smart, hey go in.
thed IN purple and fine linen; they rio
h"nored and respected, but Jerry Viz
we Is confined with murlerers and thu
ives. Poor Jerry Grove! Perhaps att
'rwhere IN the golden future he may -
able 10 look down on Dives-there