The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-13
OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBRlM


OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRlM.
A Favored City-Broolslsn's Scientific and
Political InfaIiib!es-Holiday Goods and
New Fashions-What Some Rich Men
Did with their Money-An Epidemic of
fittings Robbing a aPenitentiary-Ame
ica's New Operatic Star.
New York, Dec. 8, 1884,
ltDIroR CHIEF:
1t is fortunate for New York that it has
such neighbor as Brooklyn, for the city of
churches acts as a political and religious
balance wheel to us benighted sinners OH
this side of the river and keeps us meta
phorically up TO standard time. New York
can not be called strictly orthodox. Free
thinking and loose scientific notions -four
iah Hike q green bay tree, and II You hap
pen to mention such thing rs miracle,
these new fiedged philosophers say with
Spencer and Huxley, prove 1t. But as !
remarked ut the beginning New York is
fortunate In lying 50 near to Brooklyn, and
Brooklyn Is fortunate In possessing two
such enterprising and energetic ministers
as Justin D. Fulton and Dewitt 1'almage.
If the Republicans had only followed Full
tons advice Blaine would have been Pres
ident to-day, while Talmage knocked the
underpinning from Darwin, Huxley, Her.
bert, Spencer and Tyndall, and proved sat
lsfactorily to himself that they we're moth
ing but set Of presuming ignoramuses,
who were playing upon the credulity of a
confding world. 1t is lucky for Darwin
'squelched by Talmage. You will see at a
glance the superiority of Talmage. OAR
win was only theorist, dreamer who
drew his conclusions from lot of ab-
struse and disconnected facts, but Tai
mage knows exactly how the thing was
done and as q matter of course, it is much
more satisfactory to have the evidence of
man that knows like Talmage than fel-
lows who only think they know, like Hux-
ley, Darwin, Spencer and Tyndall. The
old Mosaic account of Adam and Eve in
the Garden of Eden, is good enough for
Talmage; he dom t want to go back to the
time when Adam IS great, great, great, great
| grandfather sat up on the top of a seventy
| foot telegraph pole cracking CO ,oanuts fol
his breakfast, OR munching bananas Oh
guavas for his supper: no ring tailed monk
| ey for Talmage. It is much easier for Tai
mage to believe that Eve was manufactured
out of rib, than that she was eyolutec
from Pollywog. At any :rate he settled
Darwin's hash, and you need not expec
| to hear of him again. Great man, grea
man, Talmage. Fulton holds ont at ths
Tabernacle, otherwise known among ths
profane as the Rink. It is one of the larg
est buildings in Brooklyn. It was here ths
Evangelists Moody and Sankey sowee
their gospel seed about ten years ago; seed
which regret to say. was not sown on fal
low ground, but which fell among tht
rocks and was devoured by the fowls of th'
air, for scarcely sickly shoot remains tt
mark the passage of the Evangelists. AT
| ter that the Rink served the unrighteou
for walking matches and boxing matches
profane dances and other wicked doings
At last it was rescued from the clutches o
Satan by Brother Fulton, and for the las
four years he has been having hand tt
hand fight with the world, the flesh ant
4 FJ1It ho1i
the Rev. DR.. Burchard that the Democrat
ic party is the party of Rum, Romanisn
and Rebellion, and he feels assured tina
if Brother Blaine had only nailed DR.. Bur
chard's flag to his masthead, he would hav
left Grover Cleveland to the quiet seclusio1
of our capital at Albany and James g
Blaine would have made triu1nphan
march on the White House in the City o
Washington. When will our so-calle
statesmen learn wisdom? Here was Blain
in Brooklyn; he might just as we'll hav
called on Fulton as not, and Fulton coul
have told him just how to win, but wit
unpardonable stupidity he did not call o
Fulton, and behold the result: he got LEFT
Served him right. It will be warning t
the next Presidential candidate.
Thanksgiving week. The stores are a
filled with, fine goods and from now ii
New Years we may look for grand holida
time. .e
Taking up the papers you hear the or
of hard times. It's difficult thing to X
alize itlas you walk through the great thol
oughfares of. New York and Brooklyn
Hardly. in the memory of living men ha
there been such costly extravagances i
Dress. The wives of mechanics and trade;
men dress better to-day than a fine lad
could dress forty years ago. Walk alon
the west side of Broadway or through Foul
teenth or Twenty, third streets On an
pleasant afternoon, and among the thot
sounds you pass, representing every grad
of society, it is rare to meet poorl
dressed woman. This is more particr
larly noticeable at o'clock IN the afte1
noon when the down town factories 81