The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

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rus quarter of million dollars to destroy'
he proposes to make illuminating gas which
will cost about q dollar thousand feet.
We shall make light of our garbage for the
future. According to this benefactor of the
human race every poor family throws away
enough material in twenty-four hours to
light house for week.
Our sister city, Brooklyn, has broken out
with a new plague. This time it is elope-
nent. She had alarming symptoms before,
but now it has become an epidemic. Four
husbands mourn their absent spouses, the
complaint in every instance being, "Gone
Off with a handsome man" If they were
American we would think nothing of it,
but I grieve to say that the largest matri-
monial defalcation has been among our
foreign population, Germans, Swedes
was q little Dane, who stood about four
feet in his stockings, whose stately partner
! lowered above him one foot and four inches.
The wife was exceedingly good looking;
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humanity, could not be called handsome;
and while a man four feet high might be
considered for a poor girl quite good
catch in Denmark, in the United States he
soon began to find that it did not amount
to much when compared with other men.
Mrs. Jenson being. young and pretty soon
| found admirers, and after hanging on the
fence for some time started off for parts
unknown, leaving four feet of disconsolate
humanity behind her. The next case was
quite similar, with the exception that the
lady depleted her husbands bank account
| to the extent of $500. She cabbaged all the
| tables and chairs in her husbands absence
| her larceny even extending to pair of
boots, his Sunday hat, his Sunday suit, two
| pet canary birds and a cat. The lone
ly husband say that he will not run after
her, but he wishes that fellow would bring
back his clothes and boots.
see that Emil Giro has got into trouble,
and l sincerely hope they may be able to
keep him in jail to the day Of his death.
This is the miserable rascal who appeared
in the Christancy case as witness against
Mrs. Christancy, and broke the poor
creatures heart. He testified on the trial
that he stopped at hotel with her, and it
was the opinion of many of those who
watched the case that the vagabond ought
to have been kicked out of the witness box.
Ihave no word to say about the morality of
the case, but have my own opinion Of the
wretch who, after leading woman astray
as he professed to have done, could then
step into the witness box and betray her.
Even if the facts were as he stated, he
should have suffered crucifxicn before ap-
pearing ON the stand against her. If con-
victed of her grave offence, he should have
died rather than have been the instrument
of her conviction. They may be greater
crimes in the calendar. but there is not one
meaner Or more contemplate than that of
which this miserable hound has been guilty.
He defrauded a weak widow who was look
ing for husband out of $4,000. as she
alleges, under promise of marriage, and
when he got the widows cash he refused
to fulfill the contract. I have no sympathy
for an old fool who at sixty years of age
can be caught by matrimonial advertise
ment. 1t would be very foolish thing for
a girl of fourteen. but for frowsy old
widow of sixty, she deserves tc be ducked
in horse pond. The whole affair was most
ridiculously absurd from first to last. The
fellow who inserted the advertisement
demanded a photograph, and the old lady
sent him one taken thirty-two years before.
The picture made his heart thump like
steam engine. He asked to see the original,
who came to New York to exhibit, and
the sight of his newly found love nearly
threw him into galloping consumption.
However, he got $4,000 of the widows
money, and now she has him in Ludlow
Street jail, and hope she may keep him
theretill she gets her cash back,
1t requires no ghost to- come from the
grave to assure US of lively campaign.
Since ths Democratic nominations have
been completed the city seems to be alive
with Cleveland Legions and Plumed
Knights. think you will see some start
ling regalia before the election is over. At
the rooms of the Republican National Com
mittee they have Plumed Knight in glis-
tening armour, and if this style of uniform
should be adopted BY the campaign clubs
the exhibition would be a most imposing
spectacle. The Republicans have fairly
opened the campaign, and the Democrats
are preparing to give Cleveland rouser.
This week will mark the closing chapter
of the last Arctic sacrifice. It seems only
short time since we turned out to bid
Greely God-speed as he sailed away to
the frozen north in search of those who
were lost. Then came long months of the
keenest agony, when we began to realize
that those who went forth as saviours had
themselves perished amid the icebergs and
the snow. The nations heart was stirred
to its innermost depths, and relief party
was sent out to look for the lost ones. The
rescuing party lost their ships and came
near perishing themselves. As it was, one
brave sailor drifted out to sea and was never
heard of after. In few days we shall vel
come the survivors of the Greely party,
and long mourning procession. with sol
emn music and muffled drums and flags
draped in mourning, will be our tribute
of respect to the men who persisted. And
there let it end. No more martyrs, no
more tales of heroic suffering. no more
widows and orphans of Arctic explorers to
sadden our hearts with their cries and tears.
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