The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-30

ceedlngiy pretty girl mas been hanging IN
all the print shops and photograph galleries.
One firm adopted her likeness on its bust
ness cards, and instead of having to give
them away, found ready sale for them at
ten cents piece; they went off like hot
cakes. Every dude in New York bought
one, and many of them set them up in their
little shrines, such as one used for the wor-
ship of saints, ETC., and by constant devotion
were supposed to earn claim on the origi-
nal. This pretty little creature was Lillian
Russell, or Leonard, formerly of the Bijou
Theater and Toney Pastors. For over a
year she has been the rage and with little
but pretty face to recommend her, she
has been the talk of the town. Whole regi-
ments of paper-headed ninnies have gone
crazy about her, and though she has been
gone couple of weeks, not one in ten of
the numbskulls have yet recovered their
senses. Of course, you know that she ran
off to England with Solomon, the COM
poser, and although Miss Lillian has done
a number of foolish things sinceher advent
in public life, she will find nherareturn to
New York, if she ever comes back, that
this last escapade is about as much as the
public will bear. I don't wonder that the
country girls heads are turned when they
hear of the success of such "a person as
Lillian Russell. Two years ago@she would
have been well paid as supernHmerary at
six or seven dollars week, and now half
dozen managers or more are in despair be-
cause they have not been able to secure her
for three or four hundred. Never mind,
girls, don't get excited, Lillian Russell is
born, but she is not yet dead. Wait till the
curtain rings down.
Columbia College is exercised. or ought
to be, for it is said that young blood, a
student there, has been caught stealing at
the Athletic Club. Now the Athletic Club
is one of the swell clubs of New York. It
embraces almost all the valuable muscle
and good deal of the brains of our young
New York swells. A dude has no business
in the Athletic Club. To amount to hill
of beans in that association, a fellow must
be able to run, jump, row, box, fence, per-
form on the rings or the horizontal bar,
stand ON his head, walk on his hands, ride
on a bycicle without tounching the cross
bar, turn somersault or handspring,
and in addition to all this he has got to be
thoroughly respectable and properly en-
cofo orf4o NV
Judge the surprise of a member when he
went to his closet after exercising to find
that the small change had disappeared from
his pocket. At last watches began to.van-
ish, and finally wallet with three hundred
dollars melted into thin air. Members be-
gan to eye each other with suspicion; all
sorts of traps were set; at last detective
was engaged and he soon located the gay
and festive robber. He gave up the money,
confessed the robbery and asked the priv
ilege of resigning; but this was denied him.
The case came up @haf0Eea.he eanh last week.
and the offer of his resignation was rejected
with scorn, and on the vote of the club, he
was ignominiously expelled. The offenders
name was mercifully suppressed by those
he had robbed, doubtless to give him a
chance to reform; but no matter how
thorough his reformation, the memory of
his crime and expulsion will haunt him to
his grave and in after years he will realize
that the way of the trangressor is hard.
We have had a little respite after the ter
rible solar wave of last week. Wall street
took heart with the first cool breeze from
the north, and stocks went up with boom.
Bulls and Bears have been locked in loving
embrace all the week, though each keeps an
eye on the other for fear he would get left.
On the whole the week has been comforta-
Bile on change for buyers and sellers, and
the boys can now see their way clear to
Saratoga, Newport and Long Branch with
an easy bank balance for the exegencies of
September.
Our Chinese boom exploded by sending
one Chinaman to Blackwells Island and
fning his Welsh wife 800. Not much
damage after SO much thunder and light
ming.
A Bohemian reporter says that Billy Nc
Glory has $4,000 in the bank, all made
within two or three years. Verify, virtue is
its own reward.
All who can get away are flying to the
summer resorts. Coney Island is in full
blast once more. Fare, 25 cents. Hither
will I HE me to get surcease from toll.
Lager five cents thimbleful. The size of
the glasses is shield against intoxication
to person of moderate means; they run at
an average of about forty-seven to the
quart, so that any thing like reasonable in
ebriation on lager at Coney Island, is not to
be thought of.
Hoping that you may be able to test its
delights before the season closes. am
Truly yours, BROADBRIM.
The soothing and restorative effects of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral are realized at once in all cases
of colds, coughs throat or lung troubles, while
its far-reaching and powerful healing qualities