The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-17


liar, have occurred in different parts of the
United States, ten of them in New York
Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Two of these
cases have occurred within the last week
the most startling and atroeious being that
of a woman past middle life and a boy
scarcely out of his teens. The story seems
more like the legend of a mad house than
a history of every day life. The husband
hears the story of lis ruin from the lips OF
his faithless wife, and then condones bel
offense, and takes her betrayer beneath
his roof. When he finds her mad infatua-
ton for this boy-who was young enough
to be her son-could not be broken, he offers
to send the erring pair to Germany. Then
| they resolve to die together. It is no sud
den impulse everything is arranged like
clock-work the wife sits down and calmly
writes to her husband that he will find her
body in Central Park at such time, and,
true to her appointment, the body lies at
the designated place at the exact hour
Hardly anything in history or fiction can
equal this latest horror. New York has
had to suffer in reputation for this crime,
and yet not one of the parties lived in New
York; all of them were foreigners, and
lived in other States.
Our sister city, Brooklyn, is much exer-
cised by an attack on her fair fame by one
of the lay preachers who attended the recent
convention in that city. Rising in his place
on the last day of the convention. he de-
nounced it as the wickedest city in the Unit
ed States, or the world. It would be inter-
| esting to know where this person got his
information, for people who have been liv-
| ing there all their lives failed to make the
discovery which this blatant donkey says he
| discovered while he was in Brooklyn, though
he was supposed to be engaged in the lay
preachers convention every moment he was
in the city of churches. I have known
Brooklyn tolerably we'll for many years, and
in my capacity as a newspaper writer have
occasion to see all sorts of life. Ihave seen
much of this world-few of its great capi-
! tails have been strangers to my footsteps
but notwithstanding the testimony of this
peranbulating lay preacher, I declare it as
my opinion that the city of Brooklyn is one
of the most orderly and best governed cities
of its size in the world. It is virtually
part of New York-only narrow river di-
vides them. New York has an immense
criminal population, not her own, but
recruited from all the capitals of the old
world. New York has been desoIated BY
riot, robbed by the officers whom she elect
ed to protect her Brooklyn, on the other
hand. has escaped all these calamities
there have been few robberies and no vio-
lent subversioE of public order, and it is
safe to say that there is not in the United
States to-day city If any size where life
and property are safes' than they are in the
city of Brooklyn. I speak now whereof l
know, and any person at all acquainted
with the facts will take my word against
that of all the lay preachers i'll the late con-
vention.
The death of Cardinal McClcskey has
filled many hearts with grief, outside the
Catholic Church. Cardinal McCloskey willie
probably not as great man as his prede-
cessor, Bishop Hughes, has had the gooo
fortune to rule his Church in less troublous
times, and to reap the harvest which that
great prelate sowed. The Catholic Church
has been fortunate i'll its Bishops and Arch
bishops, and the selection of Archbishop
McCloskey as Cardinal was most fortunate,
and to New York, al least, gave most un-
qualified satisfaction. His singularly pure
character, and gentieness and charity,
earned him the love and respect of thou
sands who did not believe in his religion and
had never set foot inside his church. Few
men are as ready to die as he: he could look
back to long and useful life, rich with
golden deeds Of charity. In the bitter
religious strifes which have rent this city,
no man, jew or Gentle, but mentioned
Cardinal McCloskeys name with love and
reverence. No doubtthe aged priest longed
to go, for already he could hear his Mas
ter's voice saying, "Nell done, thou good
and faithful servant
The sentencing of Ellen Peck. the noto-
rious confidence woman, closes for the time
being, an eventful and stormy life. She |
never looked for herdupes among the weak |
and the foolish, but she tackled the smart
est business men and robbed them every
time;she never flew at small game. She got |
$50, 900 out Of Babbit, the soap man, and
Grady, Notorious fence. out of
81, coo worth of diamonds. She got 5000
worth of diamonds from a firm on Maiden
Lane, and has been mixed up with hun
dreds of swindles for the last fifteen years.
but justice overlook her this week, and now
she goes to States prison for four years
and half
The investigation Of the Excise Commis-
sion gives us little cause for congratulation.
Shang Draper, the burglar, and Abe Coax
ley, the thief, get aiicense as readily as
the Brunswick or ths Fifth Avenue Hotel.
houses and disreputable resorts
of thieves and harlo.s find grace in the eyes
of our Excise Commissioners, and flourish
like a green bay tree.
The polar wave that struck US early in
the week brought cut camel's hair shawls
and furs.
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
A woman with pleasant smile, clear skin,
bright eye, generous expression, elastic step,
hearty hand-shake and courteous welcome.
Such woman is not the victim of debility,
anguor. dyspepsia She has overcome these
pests by using Browns Iron Bitters the worlds
great tonic. Miss l1lttie Benson South Par
sonheld. Me-. says, After using Browns Iron
Bitters for weakness and lack of appetite and
energy, felt like an,ther person't