The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

habit OF reading the papers and recreatlng
on Sunday and they will never be turned
from it. To those who are unwilling to
have their minds distracted ON Sunday
there is much in the most careful journal
ism that is Objectionable, bnt surely even
those most Indifferent to religion and care
less of the respect due the day, must feel q
shock when they open paper Sunday
morning and are confronted bywhole pages
of lottery advertisements; such a one as
greeted us few Sundays ago in the Press.
There were three of the reading columns
taken up with very fattering account Of
the Louisiana State Lottery, purporting to
be copied from the Chicago Times; in real
ity, it was a decoy lottery advertisement.
There is an old law in this State forbidding
the sale of lottery tickets or the advertise
ment of lotteries, but a District Attorney
construed it to mean that the advertiser of
the lottery could be fined and imprisoned,
but the publisher of the lottery advertise
ment could escape. The Legislature has
just passed a law which imposes the fine and
imprisonment on the publisher as well as
the advertiser. Some of the journals took
advantage of that technicality in the law,
but there were many honorable exceptions
many who were not tempted to fill their
pockets by swindling the people. Ii lot
teries are an evil, and most assuredly they
are, is not any man grossly culpable who
publishes lottery advertisements the more
so when he allures people by fine speeches
and induces them to risk perhaps their all
in the hopes of making a fortune?
There is great deal said about mans
kinship to the monkey, but when / see
almost every day accounts of the prize ring
[ am led to conclude that he is not far re-
moved from the wild beasts of the forest
that tear and kill each other without reason
or mercy, and find it very difficult to believe
that he is made in the image of God and
endowed with heart and intellect. Phila-
delphia suburbs has ever been fayorite
place for prize fights. One took place in
Delaware county, on Decoration day, be-
tween big butcher, named Donelly, 35
years old, feet 6 inches high, weighing 1853
pounds, and brickmaker, named Clinton,
80 years old, feet 9inches high, and weigh
ing It's pounds. They were equally matched
and the battle lasted 81 minutes. Certainly,
If courage and endurance go for anything,
they excelled. Donelly was nearly over
come after the fifteenth round and his
friends wanted him to retire, but he yelled
more Of good fight in him and refused to
give up. Clinton wasso exhausted after the
thirty-frst round that he failed to come to
time, and so, Donelly, who was in the same
condition, by hairs breadth, as it were,
bore off the palm. Such exhibitions are an
outrage in the land and should be abolished,
but fear never will so long as the first peo-
pie in the land, those whose minds and
hearts have been cultivated and refined and
from whom we naturally expect loathing
of such things, smile upon them and even
applaud the good hits.
PosTscRJPTs.
Strawberries sold this week for a penny a
boz.
Leather belts are worn with jerseys, and
jerseys of all colors are the rage.
Mr.. McMurtrie, one of the most distin-
tinguished of Philadelphia lawyers, will give
his opinion for $500.
Mr.. Cables star seems to be ON the wane.
His last book is pronounced failure.
John l.. Sullivan received $500 as pitch
or of the Athletic Club in his game of base
ball in this city.
Cockade bows or rosettes have quite taken
the place of corsage bouquets. They are
loops of ribbon in three colors-shades that
blend.