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

Dental position III the. Dock Department
for years, was discovered to be default
er to the extent of nearly $4,000. He
was such nice, pious nan, that no one
suspected him; bat iWhen detected, to
save himself from State prison, he was
allowed to refund ths money. 1t has
long been supposed that the office of
Commissioner of Jurors was nice little
bonanza, but nobody on the outside ever
dreamed of the extent of the looj; some
say it was worth 100000 per annnm,
and some say more. There are thousands
of jurors to summon, many of them rich,
who, having important business, would
pay u reasonable sum rather than sit on
jury i'll the dirty, foul-smelling Tombs
There are bankers and brokers, and mer-
chants of high and low degree, and these
are the men who are generally selected;
of course they come down handsomely
and they never sit on a jury. A couple
of clerks named Keegan and Kerrigan
have just been bounced from the office
Of the Commissioner of Jurors, and there
is hope for New York yet when Tam
many politician is bounced for taking
bribe. l expect that Tammany thinks
the world is coming to ln end.
A couple of weeks ago rufian by the
name of John Kenny, a bill poster, was
sentenced to the penitentiary for life, for
murder in the second degree. That day
Kenny got a pistol from some one and
committed suicide i'll his cell by blowing
his brains out. 1t is all offence punisha-
BILE with ten years Imprisonment to fur
nish arms or implements of escape to
prisoner, and the Sheriff has been active
ever since trying to find the man who
gave Kenny the pistol. It is supposed
they have found him at last in the per-
son Of Layden, another ruffian, who now
stands a fair chance of passing the bal
ance of his days in the public service.
Kenny's brothers, who at first appeared
very anxious to find the culprit, have
been very much exercised since Layden's
arrest. One of his brothers, Mike Kenny,
declared that he knew the man who fur
nished the pistol, but he would not tell
who it was. The theory is that the wea-
pom was furnished Kenny, not for the
purpose of committing suicide, but to
assist him in making his Escape as he
was passing from the prison van to Jail,
but the opportunity did not present
itself, SO in despair he blew out his brains.
He was an outlaw and ruffian, aud can
we'll be spared.
Nothing smore gratifying in our social
life than the fine art revival among US.
There has never been time .when the
pictures Of American painters brought i,
better price than they do at present. It
is not every one who can afford Meis-
sonier, a Jerome or Sehreyer, but even
the poorest man now can afford to hang
IA little bit of color on the wall, which
shall remind him of woods and fields and
trees, though the sky is almost shut out
by the huge piles of brick and mortar
that tower around him on every side.
Scarcely day passes without an impor-
tant sale Of pictures. Pic lures by native
artists, which few years ago would
scarcely have brought a hundred dollars,
now readily bring three, four aud five
hundred dollars. No man or woman
need now be without picture, when u
splendid landscape with gilt frame can
he bought for two dollars and half
not a Claude Lorraine, a Turner, nor
even Cropsey, but Il heavy amount of
color, nevertheless, for two dollars and a
half
Idon't know that there is any very
close connection between landscapes and
clergymen, but some of the bright and
shining lights of the Methodist Book
concern seem to have been "doing those
things which they onght not to have
done, and left undone those things which
they ought to have done, and there is no
health i'll them" The plain English Of it
is, that through their ignorance, stupid
ity or kuavery they have allowed IL min
ing shark from Arizona to fleece large
number of Methodist lambs, and that
thousands and thousands of dollars have
been obtained from poor ministers and
others, which never would have been
obtained but for the tlarins endorsement
of those plous experts. 1t now appears
they had timely warning; the agent
whom they sent out was informed of the
fraudulent character of the Isabella
mine, but notwithstanding that fact, he
came back and gave his rose -colored re-
port which has led many poor people to
ruin. Clergyinen have not been success
full miners as a rule. The Methodist
Book concern, and the religious papers
connected with it, had better contine
| themselves to the cure of souls, and
leave mining to tenderfeet and sinners.
Good and successful miners, as IL rule,
swear and chew tobacco. A good miner,
| if he be good miner, frequently gets
drunk. A good Methodist, if he be a
good Methodist, does none of these things.
Ergo, the two do not work we'll together.
| Our great bridge is rapidly approach
| ing completion. Ere the Ides of March
shall have passed we hope to see it blaz-
ing with the electric light, the contract
for that purpose having been approved
this week. expect the opening of the
| bridge will be the OCCASION of a grand
Jubilee. 1t ought to be, for it celebrates
the marriage of two of the greatest cities
on the continent. Brooklyn, long the
lodging house of New York, is now wrest-
ling with her for commercial supremacy,
her magnificent waterfront giving her
| advantages second to 10 city in the
world. Two million of people are thus
brought together, so that there are not