The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-01

| in Brooklyn. Inc Judge IS an Ir1shman
and she poured her story into sympathi2
ing ear. The young man was decoyed t
Brooklyn by letter, and promptly arres
ted. He had not been long behind priso1
bars before he repented of his misdeeds
The Judge was sent for, and in less tim
than it takes to tell the story the twain wer
made one. While the denoument ma
seem to be perfectly satisfactory, canno
congratulate the girl A wretch who ha
to be coerced into an act of common justic
and humanity, is not person to b.
trusted. It is just such brutes that kicl
the lives out of ther wives with their boot
heels, and whose histories fill the pages o
our criminal calendars.
The other case has not ended quite 81
guard who ran away from Canada, leaving
his bride at the altar foot. It is singular
in our criminal penalties there has been NJ
adequate punishment invented for crime
like this. The mere penalty of few thou
sand pounds would be little or nothing te
Walter Wilson, but not all the gold o1
Opher or the diamonds of Golconda Car
ever bring sweet peace again to the heart
of that proud, deserted girl. New York
does not feel proud of Mr.. Wilson's pres
ence, and the quicker he takes himself of
the better we will be pleased.
At last we havegot rid of Billy McGlory.
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| drel a pious boom was dismal failure,
and was disgrace to the paperheaded
| ninnies who undertook it. One prominent
| minister declared before his congregation
that from his soul he loved poor Billy Nc
Glory. Perhaps he did, but it is just that
! kind of ministers who bring such constant
disgrace on the church. We have philan-
thropists by the score III New York who
| would give their last dollar to aid some
| notorious murderer or thief, and who
would pass starving widow and her
children, or man who had not been guilty
of any crime, without giving them cent.
Billy was run in on Wednesday to Black
wells Island. His blazing diamonds, and
his fancy suits, aud fast horses, and fast
women, are all left behind, and now he
wears striped suit though he will not feel
strange, for among the thieves and con-
victs at the penitentiary he will find plenty
that he helped to make, the worst of whom
is better than himself who now look ON
him with sovereign contempt for trying to
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We are sadly exercised in our divorce
court. Il has just been discovered that
distinguished and highly esteemed citizen
of Brooklyn had been working the divorce
dodge for all it saas WORTH. and perhaps a.
good deal more than 1t was worth. For
years past, a number of advertisements
might be seen in the leading newspapers of
this etropoiis-Absoiute divorces procured
without publicity no fee till the divorce is
granted. Now, III the State OF New York,
there is only one ground of absolute di-
yorce, and that is adultry. A separation
can be procured for abandonment, drunk
enness, non-support, and number of
other things, but this will not entitfe the
woman Or man to marry again. There are
thousands of men and women too cursed
by being lIi-mated their wi,oie lives blasted
without hope OF release except III death.
The villains understood this, and their
advertisements brought thousands OF fappii-
cations. Although no fee was demanded
TIL the divorce was procured, q deposit of
SI 80 or 81 CD was insisted Oh to pay ex
penses. John e., Law, Deputy Clerk Of
the supreme Court OF Kings County, be-
came the partner of a rascal named Mum
roe Adams. Adams had fictitious part
ner named Clark, whose name figured on
all the divorces, but whom nobody ever
saw. Between these two precious scoun-
drels, thousands and thousands of fraud
uleut divorces have been procured, and the
unfortunates who have been deceived and
have married again, now have States
prison staring them i'll the face, not to
mention hundreds of iilegitlmate children,
the offspring of these bigamou5 marriages.
Certain it is that nothing. has occurred Ill
the past years which has given US such
lively shaking up.
The death Of thomas Kinsella, the editor
in-chief of the brooklyn iEGgte has been SO
widely noticed by the press that + canno.
pass 1t by i'll silence. L can recall no other
man on the New York press that at all re-
sembled him, except Hugh hastings, but
Hugh Hastings had educational advantages
thai Mr.. klnseila never enjoyed, and he
never exercised 1.-THE of the power and
influence that Thomas KInseiia exercised
Without education, except what he won
himself, without any social advantages, he
raised himself by sheer force OF pluck and
principle to the frons rank of American
journalism. AndIf any man thinks that it Is
an easy task let him try it. On the staff of
ali the great journals of New York are
young men by scores-bright, keen. edE-
Gated, enulous of fame, ready to make any
sacrifice III the race for life aad lis rewards.
The man who mounts over the heads of
men like these must have uncommon stuff
irx4
of them behind. He was the hardest hitter
and the falrest fighter that ever took hand
in political warfare. For tiften years his
life has been one long battle against the
vilest and most corrupt clements of his
own party, and while he never succeeded
in making thorough purgation, the fear
of his lash held public robbers in check.
whose crimes he hated and whose fellow
ship lie despised.
have piled up gold by sharing the plunder
of the thieves, but to the dead mans honor
be it said ne stood by the best interests of
the city OF Brooklyn, though by doing so
he jeopardized his life and fortune. 1t is
not often we see such an assemblage about
the bier of any man. One of the chief
dignitaries OF the Catholic church read the
service. Henry Ward Beecher was one of
the pail bearers. There were Jews aud
Baptists and Quakers, Presbyterians,
Eplscopalians and Freethinkers. Religious
and political lines seemed to be utterly
broken down. and as many mourning Re
pubiicans as Democrats stood by the coffin
of the dead journalist. Whatever faults he
may have had were those of generous
and noble nature, while his scorn of every
thing base and mean, and his high esti-
mate of political honor, will live to be re-
membered as one of the highest examples
that has done honor to American jour
naiism.
The weather has been beastly. Yes, That
is the best English word can think of =
baastIy.