The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-05-15

railroad iron, which is now being laid
down on the New York Central road.
This is worse than fault; it is a
crime. And yet no one can blame
Mr.. Vanderbilt. Mr.. Vanderbilt did
what every sensible man will do; lie
bought where he could buy cheapest
and best, and there are other railroad
magnates who will do the same thing.
When questioned in regard to his
purchase, Mr.. Vanderbilt replied that
tile rails were better than any he
conld get in the United States. After
all our blow and froth about the SUI
periority of our native manufactures,
it is a bitter pill to swollow, but I
suppose we will have to take it.
The season has been particularly
disastrous one upon the ocean, no
less than the remnants of six crews
having been brought into New York
last week from vessels abandoned at
sea. It is especially fortunate that
these disasters have been confined to
our mercantile marine. Our passen-
ger vessels have fortunately escaped,
Notwithstanding the fact that the sea
is alive with them. Our streets are
crowded with emigrants, and the En-
igration Commissioners are kept busy
night and day.
The sensation of the week has been
the murder of IA Mrs. Nellie Stokes by
her infatuated lover Edward Ken
nedy. The murdered woman was
only nineteen years of age, and had
parted from her husband few weeks
before on account of some trifliDg
quarrel. Kennedy, who was a sailor,
came to board at the house where
Mrs. Stokes was stopping with her
aunt. Young Kennedy became COM
pletely infatuated with Mrs. Stokes,
and on her refusal to marry him, shot
himself. He was taken to the hospit-
al, and during his illness, Mrs. Stokes
was constant visitor. As soon as he
recovered, he returned to the house
where che was stopping, and renewed
his suit. On being refused a second
time, he shot Mrs. Stokes, and then
attempted to kill himself. Unfortu-
nately he was not successful, so that
we have another murder case on the
calendar.
The accident at the Madison Square
Garden seems to have shaken the
very foundations Of the city. One of
our great dailies has discovered that
whole blocks of aristocratic buildings
uptown are raised upon piles driven
into the mud, and that green and
Shiny tide Gibbs and flows in the cellar.
These buildings are il the most fash
ionable quarter Of New York. Dives
lives, but Lazarus can fi0d no place iD
this stately pile to lay his head. Per-
haps when they get filed with stock
jobbers from Wall street, and chaps
who have drawn prizes in the Louisi-
ana Lottery, and fellows with long
bank accounts, effected through the
syndicate Oh grain, the foundation
may give out, and the walls may
tumble, and the roof cave in, and
then we shall have :: Growers quest,
and the verdict will be "sarved 'em
right
And this brings me to the Dog
Show. OF course we must have SEN
sation in New York. A murder, an
elopement, a sudden disappearance, a
French cook manufactured into for
eign Count or something of that sort ;
IL revival or a walking match, it makes
no difference, and when these fail US,
we fall back upon the puppies. We
are going to have a Dog Show. The
globe has been ransacked for ours,
and we are going to have them all in
New York. Every thing in the shape
of dog flesh, from Siberian blood
hound to skye-terrier, the miserable
sore eyed mannikin that the fine lady
carries in her muff, the black -muzzled
bull that ornaments the front of
butchers cart, the villainous spitz,
suggestive of hydrophobia all the
snarling little curs that run through
the fence and get a nip at the calf of
your leg before you know it; we are
going to have them all. The exl,ibi-
tion takes place in Madison Square
Garden, and that the lives of these
| valuable CANNES may not be placed
in jeopardy, council of eminent archi-
, tects has been called. Every part of
the building has been thoroughly ex-
amined. New supports and braces
have been placed in the roof and
walls. The lives Of the dogs have
been insured, and five medical exs
perts have been engaged to take
charge Of the canopharmaceutical de-
partment. This is eminently proper
and just; "every dog has his day"
| bnt one can not help thinking that If
one half the care, foresight aud hu-
manity which is expended on these
dogs had been given to the multitude