The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-03-20
DoNALDsoNvILLE LOUISIANA SATURDAY MARCH 20, 1880

Of the elevated roads now in opera,
Men. Imagine yourself perched on or
elevation just about level with the
. second story Of an ordinary house
. no such chance was ever offered be.
fore to get an insight into city life
The hidden secrets which were re.
vealed to Mepllistocles, as he foated
/ at night over the city Of Madrid, here
find parallel and counterpart. Al
you dash along in your serial fight
you catch instant glimpses of the
most remarkable domestic phenom
} ena. In one room I discovered q
mother vigorously spanking her baby,
white in the next house, an individual
with his face half shaved grinning at
j an exceedingly dull razor, which had
. evidently brought him to stand
, ;, still. Along, on either side, slatttrnly
looking women, and frowzy looking
girls, with arms akimbo, vacantlv
/ stared at the passing train. Occa-
sionally natty. looking brakeman or
nobby conductor exchanged winks
with some Hebe in dormer window,
who evidently had not heard, or did
not care for Article %, recently pro-
mulgated, wherein all conductors are
expressly charged to keep their eyes
! on the back of their hat bands while
rattending to the duties of the train,
and brakemen are expressly forbidden
Ito ogle maidens, widows or wives, on
1.-The pain Of instant decapitation. A
man who had been absent from the
city for thres years, would fail to
recognize nearly one-half of it. In
one sense it is the most gigantic swim
die Of the age. The actual cost of one
road was $4,000, 900, and the stock
was watered till it represented S45,-
100000. On this vast sum it pays an
yaterest of 10 per cent, while a large
surplus has been steadily accumulat-
ing. to provide for future contingent
cies. 1t may be and doubtless is,
great convenience to the travelling
public. 1t certainly is an immense
advantage to Cyrus Field and Uncle
Sammy Tilden, both of these unfor-
tunate gentlemen meekly confess to
having bagged round million, but
think they are much too modest. l
think that three millions apiece would
not he far from the figure, with prob
bly, nought or two to spare.
We are going to have a new mining
board in New York which will rival
the one in San Francisco. The pres
ent mining board is small affair, and
will be stricken with acute paralysis
as soon as the new board starts. The
first hundred seats were sold by the
committee at five hundred dollars a
seat, the next hundred at one thou
sand, and the third hundred at two
thousand. There are several hun
dred more applications than there are
eeats to cell, and it looks now as If
mining etocks were going to share in
the general boom. Certain it is that
there will be some pretty tall kite
flying in the next ninety days.. but
when the zenith is reached, then look
out for squalls. s.-
It has been an unhappy week for
ministers. Of course you have heard
through the New York dailies, how
COwley was railroaded off to the pen
itentiary, and how he looked in his
cropped hair and his convict suit, in
the prison, where, few years ago,
acting as chaplain, be told the poor
wretches there confined, that i" the
way Of the transgressor vas hard"
Perhaps next Sunday as he sits among
his fellow-convicts to listen to pious
exhortation, among the Episcopal re-
sponses, he may utter that one with
an JUNCTION that he never felt before,
which says "Lord be merciful to as
poor miserable sinners.p Last week
a Methodist minister ran away with
his wife,s sister, from the beautiful
camp ground of Sea Cliff. The pair
were caught and brought back, when
the wife, refusing to prosecute, the
villain was set free, while the wretclle.l
girl who had wrecked her life and
blasted her hopes BY an act of shame
less infdelity to her own sister, was
cast adrift upon the town, without a
friend, and had to be taken care Of
by the Town Constable. An ex- Bap-
tist minister, living at Hoboken, ran
away with his wife's dearest friend,
leaving behind him, a broken hearted
wife stepped in poverty and grief, and
a couple of lovely children, who will
look for their fathers return in vain.
Mr.. Hayden, accused Of the murder
of Mary Stannard, will lecture here
on Wednesday next. AS he has had
an amount of free advelt ltising, to
uli ch tha nress of the IInitad States