The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-24

ply them 10 longer. And NOW the kaaves
who have made their bogus patriotism
their capital are trying the old dodge Of
another attack on the British Lion. MFR.
Ecclesine and all such political dema-
gegues and .txamps may howl and fume,
but they know it is much safer to air
their patriotism in the Cooper Institute
in the New York than in Tipperary,
Dublin OR Sligo.
Fridsy closed the accounts Of the mnr-
leress, McGloin and Malone. In neither
Of these cases was thers the slightest
grounds for .lnitigation-both the mr.
.ders were brutal as brutal could be.
Malone murdered his girl-wife, who
was. scarcely fifteen years of age, and
McGIoin butchered an Innocent and un-
offending man who was attempting to
protect lis property. He was in 10 jeo-
pardy himself; he could have escaped
with his plundery but lac murdered the
man for the pure love of murder and the
desire to do something that wonld make
him stand we'll with his murderous COM
paniolis. A more thorough brute never
went to the gallows-and yet, us the day
OF his execution approached, there were
dozens oftine ladies beseging tue Tombs,
anxious to have u parting interview
with the assassin. Fruit, flowers, bon
bons and photographs were sent him. 1t
is usual 10 allow IL prisoner sentenced to
death considerable latitude-as much, i'll
fact, as is compatible; with his safe keep
ing-but it is IL shocking phase ofhun.an
character when women, calling them
selves respectable, lavish such tenderness
and luxury on u mnrderous brute, while
hundreds Of yirtuous women aud chill
dlen are almost perislling Of starvation
around them.
The lively fight at present going OF,
between Mrs. Blake; and DR.. Dix is the
talk of the town, and | am happy to be
able to say that the sympathips Of the
more intelligent and respectable people
are OH the side Of the weaker vess Ell;
perhaps YOU think Latitude to DIR. Dix,
but do not-not that consider Lilly
Blake Il much weaker vessel than DIR. Dix
for intellectually and physically l
think she is worth Il dozen of him. DR..
Dix is one of those antiquated fossils
who forgets, OF never new that the world
moves; what Il crusty and disappointed
old ba cheur, one Saul of Tars,ls, said
some ninteen or twenty hundred years
ago, has more weight with this clerical
than tho accumulated wisdom
o all the succeeding centuries. DR.. Dix
is constantly halping upon the duty of
women ta take care OF her home, her
husband and her babies. DR.. Dix is in
the receipt of Il comfortable 1000 IL
year, and is quite ut Il loss to know how
people have such struggle to live. He
ltocs not appear to know that there are
thousands of worthy hard. worki,,2 wo-
men in this city who have no homo of
their own; who have no husband and
who have no baby, but who would be
very glad to have the crumbs that fall
from DR.. Dix's table. Dr. Dix is one of
the Sanhedrins that guard the great
treasures of Trinity Churcll's vast estate
How large that estate is none but the
elect know, aud they guard the secret
with Il Jealousy that dciies Investigation
but DIR. Dix may have read somewhere
. that the race is not to the swift, nor the
battle to the strong," aud il Lilly Blake
. stricken down in the fight there are
'thers TO take her place. President
Barnard of%Columbia College, aud tile
'espectable faculty Of Harvard, may
,racY their feet aud place their backs !
against tho doors of their colleges, but |
sooner Or later the women are bound to |
get iii. One 10y one the barriers have |
1ccn swept away and new avenues have
)ccn opened for women's advancement,
md she will not he satisfied till she
stands The equal Of her brother in her
ace for life. DR.. Dix is endorsed by a
yet of old dummies who ought to have
,ccn i'll their graves years ago, but Mrs.
Blake has the sympathy Of the great
,ody ofpeople of heart and brain who
link that the living present is of inf
ntciy more consequences to lis than the
lead past.
liza country debating society wants Il
lno'ty question, allow me to suggest
'ne: Which had Il man better be, am
l"nsest ,nan or IL thief2 III had i; cllai,ce
II the arstinatllt / shotil.l say lie had
better he IL thief, that is if we take he
experience of poor jerry Grove as Il
Jerry Grove was salesman
nut of luck ; one misfortune succeeded
mother, till at last poor Jerry Grove
ouud himself in the street pe,llling
for Il living. Now the
avs of the city of New York says that
'",l'lltr shall pay i, license, and Jerry
rowe had no money to pay \; prldlins
rom early morning till late at night he
nul.l barely earn enough for food he
onld not beg; he would not steal, AMI
,ew York says he must not sell, So the
My thing that was left for Jerry Grove
vas to commit suicide or starve. What
,nd of law is it that forbids ii man.
nder penalty Of imprisonment, to earn
n honest living. There is !. screw lm s.
ONE" here, when poor Jerry Grove is
brown into Jail for trying te carr, a crust
u keep his little ones from starving.
ay Gould or Vanderbilt can squeeze the
iarkct and make u barrel Of flour or II
oind of beef cost twice as much as it
usht to do; they are smart, they go
l"tl'el in purple and fine linen; they
re honored and respected, but Jerry
rowe is confined with murGerers and
lieses. Poor Jerry Grove! Perhaps
'newhere in the golden future he may
q able 10 look down on Dives-there