The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-01-26
which the people of the United States now
seek to make him one Of the dancing pup

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pets.
Lord Coleridge on parting from us an
nounced the arrival of Matthew Arnold q
the greatest living Englishman. Lor
Coleridge did himself injustice. One 6
the greatest living Englishmen bid us goo,
bye when he left our shores. "A gentleman
modest, courteous and wise, an honor to En-
glish jurisprudence, and an honor to man
kind. 1t is indeed a singular sight to Sc,
all classes of our people losing their head
over man whose works they never read
and who if they had read them would have
found them much beyond their comprehen.
sion. We cant all be aesthetic philosophers
There will be as long as the world lasts
plain common minded people, who are TN.
able to split hairs when the question is on
their God. They have an old-fashioned
| God that they say their prayers to when
they go to sleep nights, who they feel COM
forts them in sorrow, who ightens their
burdens Of grief, and to whose protecting
care they commit themselves with hope
when death comes near, without a doubt
and without fear.
Matthew Arnoldts God is very beautiful
god for educated philosophers but the old
fashioned God will have to do for the com
mon people at present. I honor the men
who, through suffering and persecution,
have fought for an idea for the advance
mens and elevation of humanity. These
are the saints worthy of canonization.
But the laborer who comes in at the
eleventh hour is scarcely as worthy of his
hire as he who has borne the heat and bur
then of the day.
1t certainly is Il remarkable craze from
which we are now suffering. We have En-
glish actors, English singers, English
preachers and English taiiors. The most
fashionable modiste is, Like Worth of Paris,
an Englishman. In fact, we might begin
to fear that the perfdious Briton was Try
ing to undermine our republican instifu-
tons and capture our eagle, if we did not
find consolation IN looking over the list of
cupboard of Aldermen, and then we find
hope for the republic of the future in the
names of Carroll, Cochrane, Duffy,
Fitzpatrick, Foley, Mclaughlin, O'Neil,
OBrien, Reilly, DriscoH, McCarty and Mo
Quade. These, fanked by clerks like Hol-
ohan, O'Grady and McShane, inspire us
with hope that the British Lion is not 90
ing to have it entirely his own way.
Mrs. sLan.gtry.made her first appearance
at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on Monday in
a piece called Peril, drama Intended to
show how far married woman may tempt
the fates and not fall from grace. Mrs.
Lsngtry ought to be able to play that part
we'll. woman who can trust herself alone
In Pullman car for weeks with one of the
best-looking young fellows in America, in
dulgfng in champagne suppers and all that
that implies, until her reputation is on the
ragged edge, certainly oughtto know seme-
thing about Peril. Still, if she had no
more ardent lover than Mr.. CoughIan, she
might squeeze through without any serious
injury, though appearances would be de-
against Eer. Notwithstanding its
fine dresses and magnificent scenery, the
piece wassa failure. for the .woman can't
act. She Goes not know what it means.
Old fools, and they are plenty, and young
fools, and they are not scarce, will pay from
two to five dollars to look at her, but after
all, as Sir Charles Coldstream remarks,
:" there's nothing in it,
Religious matters are being stirred up
quite lively in our sister city, Brooklyn
Eyatt Smith, the erratic Baptist minister,
who forsook his congregation to go to
Congress has returned to the pulpit, till the
country needs his services at Washington
again. 1t is not likely that his religious
services viii be disturbed very soon, as
those who loaned him money on which to
get elected had to take fifty cents on the
dollar. The Rev. Justin Fulton of the |
Rink is being sued by the Rev. General
Conway for his salary as assistant pastor. |
Dr.. FGiton says he does not owe Gen. Con- |
way a cent, and Gen. Conway says DR.. Full
ton is a yell, I won't tell you what he /
did say, but it signifies a person who does
not tell the truth. DR.. Fulton testified that |
be considered his late assistant as dead
beat, and General Conway considers the
pastor of the Rink as q fraud.
A row IN the Lee Avenue Baptist Church
ended in kicking out the board of trustees
and the election of new board. The fight |
has been a bitter one, and, if we are to be-
Iieve the accounts the rival factions gave of
each other, the penitentiary would be a |
more fitting place for them than a church
The auction of Plymouth pews brought
premium of over s25,ooo, a slight falling
OF from last year, but still larger pre-
MUM than is paid by any other church in
the country.
The progress of civil liberty in our land
was elegantly demonstrated On Monday
night by some apostles OF Herr Most. The
German dry goods clerks formed an early
closing association, and this being free
country they commanded the dry-goods
stores to be closed att o'clock. One un-
fortunate German on Broadway did not
obey their command, so they hired band
of music and got some transparencies with
the notices, Down with tyrants, :. We
will have our rights, ETC., and with paving
stones and soda-water bottles they smashed
his windows, which cost eight hundred dol
lars. Hurrah for the eaglel Who says We
are not free? Altogether too free, says
Yours truly. Ba0ADBRIM.
Ayers Pillzars the best Of all purgatives for
family use. They are pleasant. safe and sure,