The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-02-10

remaining In Russia, Tue sooner tney Kill
them off the better.
The bad boy who thinks this world
was mado for skating pond, has been
in his glory all the week. Every thing
is frozen fast; the public parks, in which
are located all of our skating ponds,
have been the scene of our winter carni-
val. There is a class of persons who
seem to think that this globe was made
to skate on and for nothing else. The
ball is up on all the public ponds, and it
may astonish You to learn that Brooklyn
aud New York pay nearly fifty thousand
dollars to furnish the amusement OF
skating to the people.
1t is not necessary to tell you that the
Union Square is one of our crack theatres.
The other night during the progress of
the play, three fashionable young ladies
were indulging i'll conversation, which
was heard all over the house. An old
gentleman behind them whose attention
was fixed on the play, remarked soto roce
that if they wished to converse they had
better 80 outside. A young gentleman
who was in their company made some
remark to the old gentleman, who as a
return, planted his left mauley in the
young mars right optic, and for few
moments it seemed as if we were to have
small edition of the Franco -Prussian
war. A stalwart policeman interviewed
at the proper time and hostilities were
suspended till the conclusion of the per-
formance. Next day they were before
the Police Justice, when the old gentle
man apologizcd for backing the young
mans eye, and all parties retired reason
ably satisfied.
| The recent calamities by fire and flood
have been the means of gaining all album
dant harvest for the. revivalists, who are
now working in the vineyard of the Lord.
Brother Barnes, the Mountain Evangelist,
and Brother Talmage Of the Tabernacle,
see judgments in every fire and wreck,
apparently forgetting the fact that quite
as many saints are swallowed up as sim
ners. Still, the dispensation has brought
crowds Of repentant reprobates to the
anxious seat, and the revivalists are
doing "a thriving business.
The Passion Play, which set all New
York in fever Il month ago has quietly
dropped ont of sight. DIR. Fulton says
it was extinguished in answer to prayer; !;
the Herald says that it was owing to the
influence of the respectable. press, of
which that paper is the principal expo
nent. Salmi Morse says that it was in
response to. demand of ignorant bigots,
and to tell the truth, it does look little
strange that Morse should be denied his
Passion Play when we have almost the
same kind Of thing exhibited at one of
our leading Catholic churches, where
the scenes in Christ's life are given from
Bethlehem to Gethsemena. Hundreds
flock to see it nightly, the performers
being young mon and women, who are
members of the church, and the princi-
pal stage manager is the priest Of the
parish. Already large amount of money
has been made by the exhibition, and for
the life of me cannot see the difference
between that and the Passion Play.
The death of a lady this week, whose
name I withhold, calls to mind, bit of
romance, which took place a few years
ago. 1t was just ut the close of the war
that grand wedding took place in one
of our wealthy families up town, the in
terested parties being the daughter of
one of our merchant princes, and splen-
did young fellow, who had just been
admitted to junior partnership in tho
firm. The bride was yonns, beautiful
and rich, and the groom, though not
wealthy, a fine business man, with the
confidence of his finn aud the most fiat
tering prospects for the future. The
honeymoon passed like dream, and the
young couple were installed in u beauti-
full house, the Gift of the BRIDES father.
After few months of welded bliss the
young husband kissed his bride one fine
spring morning, stepped out of the door
and she never saw him after; no word,
no explanation, no defalcation in the
books Of the firm. Nothing only the fact
that he was gone. The police were set
to work; large rewards were offered, and
finally it was discovered that man an
swering his description had committed
suicide in q village in Ohio. The body
was exhumed and identified by the cloth
ing he wore. The widow put on weeds,
and life insurance company, in which
his life was insured, paid policy of
$1,000, exacting the usual bond in such
cases. Months passed away, and sec
ond suitor appeared for the hand of the
young widow. Every thing was settlea
for the wedding, when one morning
letter was received from the husband to
say that he had joined the army as n
private, and was then attached to Il regi-
ment fighting Indians on the plains. He
had enlisted under an assumed name, and
told where he could be found. He gave
no explanation for his strange disappear
ance, but there was no question about
the identity Of the handwriting. On its
receipt the girls father Immediately paid
back the insurance money and started
West in search of his son-in-law In the
mean time an engagement had taken
nlaIa with the Indians and the recraant