The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

Itseems as if we would never get through
with rascality. The Scoville trial in con-
nection with Day & Lord has unearthed
perjary, forgery, lying, stealing, breach OF
trust, grand and petty larceny, and lots OF
other crimes, too numerous to mention
Speth, the manufacturer of the forged
plates for the Mexican bonds, and whc
figured in the bogus railroad tickets, whe
also made the plate which played SO con.
spicuous a part in the Mayer perjury case
last week, comes again to the front as the
assistant of Scoville with more bogus
plates. Mrs. Scoville, under an assumed
name, got several thousand dollars some
where and placed it where the dogs could
not get at it. The fact is the Lords and
the Days and the Scovilles are queer lot
they have always been in trouble. Some
years ago old Daniel Lord was robbed of a
hundred or two hundred thousand dollars
worth of bonds; he got them back some.
how, but the thieves were handsomely re-
warded and never came to grief for tha,
offense, at least. Then the old man in his
dotage married woman young enough te
be his granddaughter, and for several
weeks his sons kept New York on the gu,
rsue by trying to get at him, but he kept
himself locked up in his house till the
honeymoon was over. It is an unsavory
trial, and 1 suppose there are many more
Wards and Scovilles on Wall street, and
one of these days they will find them out.
General Grant gave a elincher to the
World on Wednesday. One of its enter
prising reporters in spirited article told
just exactly how General Badeau wrote
Grants new book, and it was given with
such plausible detail that some stupid peo-
pie might possibly be deceived, bot Cen
eral Grant came out hat-footed and gave
the World people to understand that he
was the author of his own work-so the
World took the back-water.
The fearful collapse of the Buddenseik
building in this city couple of weeks ago,
is supplemented by more terrible catas-
trophe in Brooklyn; building in which
700 people we're employed collapsed like an
empty egg shell, and then caught fire, car
rying death and dissolution to Heaven only
knows how many, for tie roll of the dead
not yet complete. Our city is full of just such
death traps, originally built FOR tenements,
and then altered into factories, loaded with
heavy machinery and tons upon tons of the
heaviest kind Of goods-what wonder they
fall to pieces on the slightest provocation?
An awful responsibility lies somewhere, I
wonder if the municipal authorities can
find where it Is?
The city has been further enlivened by
the trial of Dick Short, the would-be as
sassin OF Capt. Phelan, and a more brutal,
rHurderous-lookingr ruffian than this same
Dick Short it would be hard to find. Wher
ever such rascal can be found it would be
quite safe to hang him on general princi
pies, on the ground that the world would
be much better without him. Captain Phe-
Ian turned up for the prosecution. all
prophecies to the contrary notwithstanding,
and from the manner in which he goes
heeled for fight, whoever tries the Job of
assassinating him again will find he has
undertaken very heavy contract. The ac-
luittal of Short was good deal like a
charge of Irish dynamite-nobody expected
It. So as American justice has triumph
antly vindicated Short, we may expect
20 hear that Capt. Phelan has been ,en,ored
oy order of No. /, X. c.. p.
Quite as much of sensation was the dis
;overy of the old rascal Fish's connection
With the unfortunate Sally Reber. 1 am in
'lined to agree with Sir Peter Teazel: "It's
l -w wicked world, and the fewer we praise
n it the better.''
Our sister city, Brooklyn, is jubilant, for
'apid transit, after years of travail and disap-
polntment, is at last an accomplished fact,
md they have the advantage of us on this
'lde of the river-they ride for five cents.
don't know how many elopements have
occurred in the past week, but they have
been numerous. One old woman who
ought to have been thinking seriously about
Ter future state, ran away with boy of
who might easily have been her
grandson. Poor old woman, I guess she
las found out her mistake by this time.
A female evangelist in Brooklyn, assumed
he pastorate of the p. M. l.. Church, and
t was not long before she got the congre-
cation, deacons, trustees and everybody
'lse by the ears. The regular pastor tried to
get possession, but he was quickly knocked
'ut by the lady's husband; the assistant
pastor came to his principals assistance,
md two black eyes and broken shin tes-
lily his friendship and devotion. Mrs.
Gardner still holds the fort and expounds
he true gospel to sinners and unbelievers.
The collections for the last two Sabbaths
will not enable her to buy a yacht this sum-
ner, nor to make missionary trip to tAe
Holy Land, but if she only sticks to the
good old orthodox gospel she has the best
wishes of
Yours truly, BROADBRIM.
Through London by Canal.
lt would astonish many Londoner to be
old that he can go Through London by
ANAL" Nevertheless such is the fact; and that