The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-04-12

and left her for dead. Fortunately, the,
were caught and sentenced to States pris
on, one for ten, and the other for fifteel
years. But the saddest part remains to b.
told: the wretched woman never recovered
from the shock of the assault; she has beer
drinking ever since; and on Friday sh'
wandered off, and On Sunday child o.
which she had charge was found starved tt
death in her wretched room.
We are having an unhealthy time with
our evangelists. Father Kimball, who fol
several years has been dispensing the bread
of life to our metropolitan heather, pre-
faced with crackers, cheese and hot coffee
is sued for board bill of $125. The evan
gelist says it is only $50 and that he is rea-
dy to pay, but his landlady says it is the
original figure, and won't take a cent less.
Another evangelist Aued the destroyer of
his happiness and iithe abstractor of his
wife for 100000, but on the trial it ap-
peared that he had been living in glass
house himself, and that he had done those
things which he ought not to have done, 80
the court would not allow him to throw door
hicks at anybody else's greenhouse-and
he got up and busted. Bishop McNamara
of the Reformed Catholic Church has been
pulled up before the courts for rent, and
bright and shining temperance evangelist
ran away with his landlady's jewelry and
sealskin sacque, and is now, no doubt, en-
joying himself in Colorado.
mentioned in one of my letters few
weeks ago that there was religious con-
vulsion in the Baptist church of Brooklyn.
Several pastors have left, and the exodus
still goes ON. / don't know that our Bap-
fist brethren are especially belligerent, but
they certainly change pastors of!ener than
any other denomination. if, of course, we
except the Methodists, who change by
church ordinance. And the singular fea-
ture is that after q portion of the congrega-
ton has succeeded in driving the pastor,
out, when he is ready to depart the con-
gregation all begin 10 cry, "they pray with
him; give him firstclass character; make
him present of $1p; give his wife new
waterproof and pair of rubbers,'' and as
the carriage drivea III with the disgraced
minister and his wife there is another gen.
eral boo hoo, as though they had lost the
last of their rich relations. There is q good
deal OF humbugging about this sort of
thing. have in my minds eye most ex-
cellent Christian gentleman who labored
for. his flock with all of his heart and soul
for years. He felt proud of his church and
his work, which was indeed labor of love,
but his congregation was divided, and
faction of deaconss and trustees followed
him with maligniR that could not have
been worse if he had been convicted Grim
inal instead of noble Christian gentleman.
For years he boresthe trial with mistaken
christian tortitud., hnt at last his spirit
broke and he resigned. Last week, the
very men who plotted his ruin and even
tually drove him out, were loudest in their
prayers for his future prosperity, and it |
would have required dozen pocket hand
kerchiefs to dry their tears when the minis |
ter went away. Vice Phypocrife, tire le
humbug.
As I prognosticated in my letter of three |
weeks ago, Anna Wallingford, the adven-
turess, who had one Halves arrested for
bigamy, is now under lock and key with q !
very fair prospect of States prison for five |
years. She has ruined many men, and it
will be u fitting close to an ill-spent life.
It is not all complimentary to our police |
system that a highway robbery was COM
in the afternoon in the presence of several |
hundred people, and the robbers escaped,
after holding possession of the avenue for
an hour, and murder was committed at !
3 o'clock in the morning in house full of |
people and the:murderer got off.
A bridegroom, made happy last Thurs
day, got all the welded bliss he wanted in
six days, and OH Wednesday morning blew
The top of his head of. /
Everything that's vile and disreputable
in the city is leagued against the amend
ments to the charter now introduced by
Mr.. Roosevelt, recommended unanimously
by the Committee on Cities. The body
polite is now rotten to the core.
The suicide of wretched girl who en-
to perform an auto DIT fe by pour
ng kerosene all over herself, is one of the
most shocking things that ever occurred in
The city.
The Irish Dynamite Club is busy at work,
f sound and blowing go for anything.
The stock market has got the dyspepsia-it
needs tonic.
The weather has been all sorts, and bus
ness is beginning to boom.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
BY lack of open air exercise. and the want of
sufficient care the matter of diet the whole
physical mechanism often becomes impaired
Turing the winter. Ayers Sarsaparilla is the
proper remedy to take in the spring of the year
o purify the blood, inyigorate the system, ex-
ute the liver to action. and restfrt the healthy