The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-02-18

AOpolul3 tuo progress WAS T1plO 6tOck-
holders, in the prospect Of an early COM
pletion Of the work, were bouyant, when
on the Goth Of July the water Of the river
broke in upon them, twenty men lay
buried at the bottom of the shaft, and
the work Of months was ruined. The
shock was SO terrible and the loss SO
heavy that many thought the work
would be abandoned, but such an idea
never entered the heads of the projectors
At a cost of 800, 900 they rescued the
remains Of the men who perished and
gave them decent sepulture. They then
provided generously for their families,
and clearing away the ruins of the old
work, they started anew. At the pres
ent time they have completed their tun-
mel nearly eight hundred feet under the
river bed. Night and day it goes stead
lily forward, and in about two years they
expect to have it completed, so that 240
trains can pass through it every "a hours.
The length, of the tunnel, from opening
to opening, will be $4,000 feet; heighth
16 feet, and breadth, IA feet. The inte-
rior will be white, illuminated by the
electric lights, and the locomotives that
draw the trains through will either be
the I. ew electric motors or the new smoke
consumers. The ventilation is expected
to be as perfect as human geniss can
devise.
This week has been saddened by the
death of great and good man whose
memory will be reyered wherever hn-
manity has an apostle and lover. do
not speak of DR.. Bellows as church.
man; not as the disciple Of a peculiar
dogma, or the apostle of an ao yanced
creed but as an humble follower OF the
Man of Galilee, whose whole religion
was summed up in a couple of lines:
" Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thy
self" On the battlefield, among the
wounded and dying; in the Jesolate
homes of the suffering soldieps; in the
abodes Of sickness and darkness aud
sorrow, the work of this dead Christian
soldier can be seen. His life's pathway
is strewn with honor and blessing, aud
the thousands whose eyes he has dried
and whose hearts he has made glad will
now stand as witnesses for him in this
his supremest hour Of trial. Blest in
life and blest in death, rest in peace /,
I. ,reat Christian soldier! Thy fame is
n. NV secnre. No storm can wreck, no
liel thing stroke can mar it; but, ex-
alted among the canonized saints of hu-
rnanity, thou passeth away with the
Of thy Master ringing in thine
ears: "N Tell done, thou good and faith
full servant; enter into the joy Of thy
Lord"
=. e,.n ciaT circles ENC week has been
me of constant surprises On Monday
;he stock ma arket got black eye. On
Tuesday it can ,e up groggy, bat smiling
)n Wednesday the wind was knocked
,ut of it and it went to grass, and ON
as Toodl es Says, Things took
, turn" and now it really looks as if
here might he boom yet. Sam sllck's-
ID vice ought not to be 70 rgotten: "Never
anless you're s.'re| On gen
,ral principles this is most excellent adj
,ice. Wall street, like the " 'hlte man,
$ berry onsartin." 1t is u gtod deal
ike seeing cat on the edge Of a sharp
fence. You can't most always tell winch
way she will jump. 1 shall keep my eye
Oh that financial grimalkin, aud if lte-
tect corporate mouse i'll any syndicat
you may he sure, if there are
any ducats in it, I'll give my friends in
The country the first chance to make
fortune.
Truly yours, BROADBR1M.