The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-15

was base, or coWardly, or detestabse among
men. There is something superlativel!
shocking in the open advocacy of the mos
horrible means of assassination. From
present appearances the elements of dis
cord are already among these murderous
thugs. and it is the hope of every decent
manEthat they may blow each other up, and
thus remove one of the most serious obsta-
cles to Irish liberty.
LI suppose you have noticed in the papers
of last week several references to the arrest
of one Nathan L. 81. Hawes, on the charge
of bigamy. The case is peculiar one.
| Mr.. Hawes is an engraver in the American
Bank Note Company, and up to the day of
the present trial, has borne most excel
lent character, but nothing is more certain
! than that Mr.. Hawes has a plurality of
wives, and as if to make the matter more
securely binding, he was married to his
last wife twice. Mr.. Hawes asserts that he
was drunk each:time, but it is much to be
feared that this excuse will not absolve him
from thespenitentiary, though it now looks
as if the Delilah, who got him into the
scrape, might possibly keep him company.
Mr.. Hawes was married several years
ago to charming young Brooklyn belle.
But the course of true love did not run ex-
actly smooth, and he and his first love
parted. And last summer, while rambling
over the sands at Coney Island, he met his
second fate in gentle Annie, the complain
ant in the present case. She was no chicken.
And if, US the poet sagely remarks, ''the
proper study of mankind is man." the
stock of information that this young lady
possessed on that subject would have fur
nished respectable encyclopaedia.
Many years ago she joined hands before
the altar with Captain Wallingford: of the
U. S. A. His wife asserts that he fell in
Indian battle on the frontier, if he did, I
can only exclaim, "happy fellow, he was by
far the luckiest of her numerous husbands"
Her next capture was also military man,
Lieutenant Tiffany, the son of the cele-
brated Methodist minister of that name.
She claims to have got divorce from him.
And she next turned up in Philadelphia,
where she ruined a promising young law
yer by the name of Bepkert whom she &C.
cused of stealing a United States $1,000
bond. The charge was dismissed, but it
broke young Benkert's heart, and he never
recovered from the shock. She next
tackled another prominent lawyer of Phila-
delphia, whom she accused of bigamy-and
she ruined him. She then travelled through
the West under various names. In one
place she was known as the Modoc, and in
another as Big Casino, and she became no.
torious as Moll Jentiles. If half of what
she is accused of is true, it is about time
that stop was put to her matrimonial ven
lures, and the present trial, while it may
ruin poor Hawes and send hm to coventry,
it will destroy the future usefulness of Miss
or Mrs. t-de-ye-call-' EN- in divorce
cases, If it does not land her in the peniten-
tiary.
This is the Paradise of female adventur-
ers. There is another suit going on now
where the mother claims 10000 damages
for the loss of her daughters services,
where the testimony on the witness stand
of a former lover of hers would seem to
make her services exceedingly dear at any
price.
The latest revelation in the Salmi Morse
suicide is that McGibney, who was asso-
Cosmopolitan, gave him beating the night
he made away with himself. Salmi Morse
was an exceedingly vain and pretentious
man. When he failed to get his Passion"
play before the public, he wrote the play of
sOn the Yellowstone, (which he got an am
bilious amateur to play, and induced an in |
dividual by the name of McGibney to put |
up 5000 cash. Poor McGibney's money
went up in a balloon, and looking upon |
Morse as the author of his ruin pitched into
him on two occasions, the last time being |
the night when he plunged into the freeing g |
river. 1t is only little over two years ago !
since he arrived in this city with pretty |
respectable fortune. He WAS an eminent |
Iinguist and particularly we'll versed in |
Greek, Latin and Hebrew. He spoke |
fuently, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
and English, in addition to which he was |
graceful and an easy writer. He had no |
bad habits; was naturally gentleman,
though somewhat self-asserting and con-
ceited; and yet with all his advantages his |
life was failure, and with talents and &C. |
enough to have made the |
fortunes of a dozen men, he dies bank |
rupt and is buried in suicides grave. |
The weather which was like spring at the |
opening of the week, took sudden turn |
and plunged US into mid winter, with all |
that that implies. The weather is execra-
BILE, and if Lent is q season of corporal |
punishment, we are getting the full benefit !
of it. could stand the fshballs and salt |
but don't like the cold and |
snow. It has brought business to stand |
still. We don't know whether winter has !
ended or just begun.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.