The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-07-25

| NIL OF lie, ne lanu6 IN states prison. Ill
ill-gotten wealth will do him no furtho
good-a convict's garb and a convict's foot
will be his portion for the next ten years
No clemency for Budenseik; clemency t.
him would be cruelty to innocent thou
sands. This city and Brooklyn are full o.
Budenseiks, and our virtuous neighbor OF
the New Jersey side of the river has hel
share. live would stop this kind of mur
der there most be an example, and such or
example as will not be soon forgotten.
The New York Worlds held to be q bfiah,
and shining example Of the effect Of eatsr.
=, "rise and push; yet for the past few weeks it
has been going rough-shod for Jake Sharp
and his Broadway railroad, which neverthe-
less has gone through quicker than any pub
lie work ever undertaken in New York. Sew
enty or eighty numbering stages crowded
that thoroughfare throughout the day. You
could seat ten people in one of them by un-
comfortable crowding; every passenger was
his own conductor, but We clung to these
old arks as if they had been q blessing.
l have no word to say about the methods
by which Mr.. Sharp got his franchise. 1t
is quite immaterial whether he gave Duty
and Rielley aud Driscoll aud McShane
twenty thousand dollars each for their
votes or not; he got them aud the bill went
through according to law. The Supreme
Court SO decided in his favor, and under
the terms of his charter Mr.. Sharp keeps
Broadway in order, and If his income holds
as it has begun, he will pay the city from
900 to 800, 900 year for its use. The
city has good bargain, and the cars are a
positive blessing. never hoped to soe a
surface railroad on Broadway, and I con-
fess that had all of an old New Workers.
prejudice against it; but now the cars are
running own up that was mistaken, and
in thirty days from this time If anybody
should attempt to move the cars from
Broadway believe it would lead to a riot.
The Worlds bitter opposition is senseless
and stupid, and not ut all in keeping with
its enterprise in other directions. Mr..
Sharp and his associates may have a good
thing, but the city will realize more by the
bargain than she ever received for all the
privileges she has given since her incor-
poration.
Doctor Talmalee has left Us to enjoy a
season of we'll Learned repose on the other
side Of the water. Occasionally may have
INDUCED in little pleasantly at some of
the Doctors methods, but never in the
spirit of malice or disrespect. The Doc
tor has his peculiar way, and without that
way he would not be Doctor TalmaRe. As
a hard and earnest worker in the oause OF
Christ, there are few in this land that sur
pass him. He is Calyinist through and
through. You can call it Sheol or Gehenna,
or Tophet, or anything else, but to the Doc
tor it means lake of burning brimstone
at the very uncomfortable temperature Of
seventeen million degrees with q heavy
weight on top of the safety-vslve. There
ia no f0olishness about the Doctor; he takes
his straight and red-hot at that; but aside
from hia theology, more genial gentle
man does not live. As he intimated some
time ago he has no objection to roller
skating-miyht possibly take spin him
self; and ms individual opinion is that he
would be heavy weight at base ball, if he
only batted the ball as hard as he bats tho
devil, no pitcher could stand in front of
him. In Brooklyn where he is known, there
are few men held higher in public esteem,
and in his promised vacation he carries
with him the love of his congregation and
the Godspeed of the entire community.
Brother Beecher will soon HE him to his
rural retreat, where the hay fever cometh
Many of the churches ara closed for the
summer, and several that remain open
have the mildest forms of preaching. What
wonder that the evil one, aided by Levy's
cornet, Pat Gilmore's band, Chinese fire.
works, the mermaid, the merry. .go-round-
ers, the hobby horses, the centrifugal rail-
ways, the big COW and the monster elephant.
not to mention the lager, pretzels, saur
kraut, Frankfort sausages, Bolognas and
other temptations that enlnesh the feet of
Us poor innocent sinners-what wonder, /
say, our shepherds being gone, that We fall!
When think of these things / sometimes
tremble for my own virtue; but l tighten
my belt, and begin to whistle "Hold the
Fort" l find it great comfort, though
not altogether satisfying.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
Smiths Bile Beans are the best anti-bilious