The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-07

dILcI years VI uetay, tIiCy iCCSlSc0 ~ lew
! cents on the dollar. In another case it
cost seventeen dollars to disburse one,
and, after using SAC, nqe, the receiver
appeared to think tie creditors ought to
consider themselves fortunate that they
we're not called upon to pay all assessment
| to enable him to close the estate. Laws are
supposed to exist for the protection of
the people; but here judges high i'll
place have prostituted their offices by
the appointment of Il pack of thieves
more destitute of honor and honesty than
the sneak who picks your pocket or the
rnifian who knocks yea down with IL
sand bag. The sen Of one judge occu-
pied a prominent place among these
piratcal wreckers, while brothers, faith
ers, uncles and cousins have all been
sharers of the stolen goods. No more
disgraceful revelation has taken place
for years than the exposure of the admin
istration Of these bankrupt concerns
Our State prisons are full Of criminals
who have never beeu guilty of the fla
grant thefts of these receivers appointed
by our honorable courts.
While am not able to declare that The
past six weeks has been % season of
mourning, we are not at all sorry that
the period OF enforced penance is over.
There is but little as yet to remind us Of
coming spring. A polar wave swept
down Oil MS about the middle of the week,
which awakened the most lively recol-
Iections Of Sir John Franklin, DR.. Kane,
Capt. Ross, and Tysons thousand mile
journey Oh an iceberg. notwithstanding
the fact that spring refuses to come, the
styles are hcre--but they still remain an
attraction i'll the store windows. You
can't make a woman look like spring
fairy in a seaskin sacque or an otter
dolman; furs and flowers don't go well
together, even though the furs are real,
while the flowers are artificial.
Mrs. Lilly Devereux Blake has been
tanning the jacket of the Rev. DR.. Dix
again. 1t is in vain that Dr. Dix declared
in his closing Leuten sermon that women
were better than men; that they were
comforters, instructors, and, in short,
angels in petticoats. Mrs. Blake is not
to be fooled with any such soft sawder;
she is too old o bird to be caught with
such inferior chatf. She has lcctured
every night, and unless the Doctor, like
Crockett's coon, comes down shortly and
shows food meet for repentance, lie will
wish that he had never been born, or
having been born, that mill stone was
tied around his neck and that he had
been drowned in the sea-
But while Madam Blake has been
fighting for women's rights, Brooklyn
has given us II conspicuous example Of
woman's failure. 1t is now three years
since the Rev. Anna Oliver assumed the
ministry of the Willonghby Avenue NJ.
E. Church. She had to fight to get pos
session, and when, after {; protracted
struggle, she did at last get in, she found
the cushions all gone from the pews the
communion table and the baptisnlal font
were carried off-evcn the carpet on the
floor and the Bible had disappeared :;
and while the steeple and foundation
stones remained intact, there is no GER
tainty but the retreating saints who had |
possession before the Rev. Anna Oliver |
came in, would have bagged them, too,
if they had only had time. Anna was
not discouraged. She felt that she had |
u mission to preach the gospel, so she
raised thousand dollars, and assuming
Il mortgage of $4,000, entered into pos
session; for she said to herself, ''If the
debt only $4,000, multiplied by four
that gives you $4,000; now, if 50 900 will |
give me a quarter cash, shall own the
church." Size went to work with will
She preached and lcctured, and called to
her aid such outside help as she could
get, but it appeared as it she was forgot
Ten by Him who feeds the ravens; at
my rate, her salary, which was modest
one, did not come, and the collections
we're oitcner in copper coins than other
more valuable metals. Miss Oliver was
Is near saint as you make them; but
wen saints are not allowed to stay in
heir boarding-houses without depostng
he collateral. Besides all this, the Con-
erence refused to acknowledge her as
christian minister-the unfortunate dec
aration of that grabbed old Jew, ST,
'aul, who had evidently never heard
Mss Oliver preach, had more weight
With the old fogics Of the Conference
han the living miillstraton of Miss Div
r. SO, after maintaining an unequal fight
Or three long, weary years, Miss Oliver
N Sunday last hauled down her flag and
dvised her congregation, which is not
numerous, to seek the bread of life else
'here. Had Miss Oliver been young and
retty, no doubt she would have had a
luch larger congregation hut in re-
lrlng from her pulpit to an humber and
quieter walk in life, she carries with
er the consciousness of having done her
uty to the best of her ability, as she ui-
erstood it. .
Stocks have not yet doomed. and If !,
'ould not take much to give us another |
lack Friday. i
Yours truly, BROADRRII