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DONALDSONVILLE... O elal Journal of the state of Louisiana, Parish of Ascynsion and Town of Doualo, VOLUME IV. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., BATURDAY, APRIL 24, -W 5. 'I nn m. - `...... n I u nl•u mn | n un. L nnn r 'i l m=-* II_ . I niul umlX_- ,, , ,, -- • • • " •,~~L~? 5~llt Snalbsonbillte if. Amieus Humani GOneris. Published Every Saturday, at -DeauldonyiIle, Asaessiem Parish, La., -ar- -- Y--. LINDiEN E. SENTLEY, -•irota AND PaoPRIaroR. oe 4py., .n year, ... .. $ 00 A.,,s ; , ,leyn,-,...... -....... 15-- •0 op e year .................. 15 00 Twol • o;.na year .............. 12 00 Pseiyl i.variably in oddrnco. AD V~BTI$ING BA •ES: II eqp is the ppae occupied by ten lines 4fth teypo, alpt& of an inch.J equAaas. 1ipo.4 2,p mos. 6m.s. 1 year 1 square.. $-3 3 5 00$ 5011 600 Sequares. 500 800 9 5 15 00 3 square. 7 00 00 12 5 19 00 '25 00 4 sqaa. 8 01400 150 23 00 3000 re. 10 00 160 17 0 27 00 35 00 11 18 19 00 30 00 41 00 7 sqa . IS 30 W .0 $ Mg 3B008 40- .1500 200 240 36 00 4800 coln. .15 4002 504 4 0 0 00 70 00 solams. 15 00 42 40 58400 70 100 00 column. 45 52 50 60 90 00 125 00 Trasil•at advertisements $1 00 per square .sret insertion; each subsequet- insertion, S7 ea'ts. Al .eial notices $1 00 per square each a~ubllestion. Editorial notices-in local columns, 20 meantaer line. Brief communications upon subjects of ipublic interest solicited. No attretion paid to.anonymnous letters. The editor is not responsible for the views ,of correspondents. Address: Caery, Donaldsonville, La. Agents iror the Chief. AsCansIox PAm1saN Wm. G. Wilkinson, Doualdsouville, La. Gervais authreaux. " I~oanad Duffel. I)r. John Doaninique, Dominique's Landing. As nstus Knight.. Linwood Plantation. Dr. A. B. Robertson, Dutch Stores. John Dixon, New River. J. B. Hebert, .. " Alef. Meyers, Manchae and Port Vincent. nL5xwnInI. Thes. Melntytn New Orleans, La. Chas, O. Donaad, - Geo. P. Rowell & Co., New York. P. H. Walker & Co., Ialtimore. Maryland. owell & Chesman, St. Louis, Missouri. W The amount of the outstald- ing warrants agdainstOnalchita parish is found to be about $,(000. g'" Senator Gordon declines to al- low his uname to be used as a candi- ,date for nomination of Vice President. 0 Just 26,U ,O cards, in 9147 .,packagr0.l.re shipped from the poM- ,tal-card factory in Springfield, Mass., .during the quarter ending January 1st. W Planters in this section have never before begun planting openr- tions with so much vim as this sea- smn. Every one interested not only hoping but woginmg fr better times. Sparta (La.) Times. IT Mr. H. F. Durant has spent $1,000,000 on building, near Natick, Mass., a college exclusively for the female sex. Every officer and teacher from' the president and' professors downward, is to be a woman. PA Cedar county, Iowa, has a con- tract for furnishing twelve million trees to plant on each side of the Northern' Pacific Railroad. The trees are to extend from Minnesota west- ward, and are designed to protect the track from snow. A party have recently returned to 8ioet City, frotn the Black Hills, report that they found gold every- where they prospected. They brnmght home several rich specimens of quartz, which, good judges say, will assay .$1000 to the ton. There are now about 3000 white sminers in the hills digging for the precious metal.-Ex. 90 On the reconmuendation of the " Divhies.Suh periutendent, the follow- ng Board of Schqol Directors were alpointed for CSadnto arislh by the State Hoard of Education: C. C. An- toine, G. L. Smith, William McKen- in, 8. A. IHamilton, M. A. Walsh, E. W. Durant, H. P. James and Rufus lenfre•e" tW We notice that the Clhamnber of Commernuc'as resolved itself into a volunteei p~himmittee to aid the extta session of he legislature in passing proper laws. We thliuk the Chamber had lbetter amuse itself with some- thing els. It is so liable to mnake mistakes when it dabblejs with plit- ical subljects, or cani4 problem.-- Ntate Reyist~e. M We were taken to task the other day for not publi sding a mar- riage that had lately ecfrnted, and, couiplaints have been miade at our neglect to publis i !eaths." J• te plr- ties who get married or li$p an inot take the trouble to plotify ns 'bf4 that fact, they can g o ua1ntarried'aid un- buried so far as we" re concerned.- Thib. B&stiad. 17' Before leaving New Qrleans 'Mr. Wheeler was coianulted by several Conservative members of the loulm e rrlative to ti-ir peatr, with matia iority, to un•seat 'tie menlw.rn now Ioldilg vats froii" the nparishes of, Avoyelles, Iberia 'and Caddo. 'His reply was that thoee nier•i ers could lot lhe'nmserted bY the Conmservatives or by tle Legislatre i without vio- lating tite terms of tih award, and this opinmion was expressed by him" to a doutrie edifferent pe r eine.-N.' (. -•:,•... " The People" Agaia Defeated. [F~oma thb x. 0. tepuliaa, April 17th.] 1 Wieu time vote for Speaker had grie taken, yesterday, and thestiUccess of M: Estilette ainnounueed, Mr.- Witz,, his -chief competitor, indalged= his feelingspn a speech of ousal erableh warmth apd bitterness. He probably felt his deliat keenly, and somrething may be pardoned in it man smarting under a real or imaginary wrong. Yet, lie was deliberate enough in most that he, said" and arraigning tile House for thie choice it had made, he stepped a little outside of -strict par'- liameutary propriety. He charged that Gov: Kellogg, Gen. Sheridan and Marshal Packard have schemed and planned to defeat the wishes of the l~pople. This is nothing unusual. A defeated Democrat is very apt to sup- pose the people are it sympathy with fim, and he generally attempts to prove his position by denying that those who.oppose him are a part of the people. As a .historical fact; Mr. Wilts represents the minority of the late coalition banded together with the sole object in view to defeat, the Republican party. The Repubiltans are people in as full a sense of the term as tihe Democracy, and any member of. the House is and of right ought to be quite as capable of know- ing what his constituents want as Mr. Wilts does. It would not be true to say that nobody .wanted Mr. Wiltz to be Speaker. Doubtless many of them, and uot;ably hisown colnstituents, did; but it is a notorious fact that his per- sistent opposition to compromise,' based upon his hostility to Governor Kellogg, has greatly impaired his popularity. Some of the leading men in the late coalition strenuously op. - posed his election. The Republicans went solid against him. We are quite willing to believe that Governor Kellogg, Genenal Sher- idan and Mr. Packard, or either of I them, knott quite as well what the people want as `the uasuccessfum as- I pirant for the Speakership does. And i when the opinions imputed to them I are ratified by the lopular branch of the General Assembly, by seven or I eight majority, we feel a strengthen- a ing of impression which amounts to I absolute conviction. But iappvears the afourbon faction t are not satisfied. There is to be war, bitter war waged' against the Gover- nor and every thing else which tile I people do not like from this time for- waid. The terrors of this threat are a greatly modliiied'by the well known a tact that the doughty warriors who threaten to become assailants have generally been sleeping in their wanr paint for several years. Especially is I this the case with those who happen c to be out of office. If they can pros- c ecute the, balance of the caupaignl I with increieked vigor in consequence f of the latest afrl'fit to " the people," f the result will lie a prolougation of i the fussing that has kept this State in a hot water since the war, driven comn- I merce away from this port, and selnt d cotton whirling to tihe seaboard over literal lines of transportation as fast Ii as steam can carry it. But it will s never restore the Last Ditchers to h power, nor imake the world believe qi thait,when a few New Orleans politi- cians take nluff all tihe people of the ii State sneeze. There are people in c this State of whom Mr. Wiltz and his a political associates take no account. 0 Blut they are a living fact. They are s patting in their claims to recognition, I and tihe politician who expects to suc- s ceed by disregarding therm and their I demnands must be both. blid and deaf, i THiE RGESORED MURILLO.-Somlle- thing of the Spanish love of art and a good deal of the Spanish regard for ceremonials was lately illustrated in the reception given the fragment of the fanmous painting of Murillo, not long ago recovered ini New York, and returned to Seville, whence it was tak&en. The Madrid Gazette gives a tull account of the ceremonies of re- turning the fragment to the cathe- dral, where the mutilation occurred. The picture, or rather the recovered portion of it, was received at the door of the cathedral by the dean and sev- eral canons, when it was taken to the vestry and the grating' closed to pre- vent the entrance of the people, whno uotwithstanding a heavy lain, were gathered in arn im mense conclourse out- side. The picture was then exposed and examined by a great number of officials and artists, who were to tes- tify that it was the one abstracted. It was discovered that the painting had fortunately sustained little dam- age, the general sentiment being that in artistic hands, the work of reatolua- tion could be made nearly perfect. As soon as the tirst examination was over, in order to eahnlm the anxiety of the people, the picture was drawn close to the grated door of the chapel, and then seeing it, the populace broke tforth in wild huzzas and exclamlat.ions of joy at the spectacle. It is also said that the work of restoration will prob- ably be miade public, so ardently do the people demand it ; many of the observers actually weeping with joy at the casual glimpse tirst offered theml of too mulcJh-alisedl features of the adored maint. That is the man- ner in which a work of art of tJe class is received in Seville. It is difficult for practical Anglo-Saxons to under- stand a religious and artistic senti- ment so abnv~egl. devhelaed. [P On the 'kth inst., tile annual parade of tItt Thilsdaux Fire Depart- ment will talke plafce. Dueling In Nevada. [From Mark Twain's Charity Lecture.] Virginia City was a bloodthirsty place, and the tirst twenty men plant- ed in its burying ground were mur- dared.. Dueling- here was a pastime. The main who fought a duel was more respected than if he had murdered two men. I have a tale to tell ypu about dueling which hats a moral 'in it. People who pay aL dollar for a lec- ture ticket have a right to something with a moral in it. For two years I was city editor of a newspaper in Virginia City. I was then promoted to be the editor. I lasted a, week, but I made an uncom- mon lively sheet of it while I lasted. I brought on a quarrel with the editor of an opposing paper. I suppose I called him a thief or a body-snatcher. It was customary for the man who offered the insult to make the chal- lenge. So I challanged the editor whom I had quarreled with. I will call him MAr. Lord. My party were anxious for mae to fight. I knew Lord wouldn't so 1 sent the challenge. Shortly after 1 received a note from him, declining to meet me. This dis- gusted the boys and exasperated them, but I was calm. I anm always calm. I sent another challenge, and another, and another. Lord began to grow bolder, and at length accepted. I was mortified, but began to practice. I went out to the barn, set up a rail against the barn door, first putting a squash on the end of it. This was to prpesenlt 1•r. Lord. In regard to in- tellect, the chances between Lord and the squash were in fatvor of the latter. I began to practice, first at the rail, and then at the squash, and last set- tled on hitting the barn door, but missed all three. My friends were with me, but, after I had shot away a while, we heard Lord's party practicing on the other side of the barn. It looked bad, for if they should find out what I had been doiug there wasn't any sight for me. But just at that juncture a small bird flew by, andt my second, wiho was a major and at beautiful shot, tired at himi, cutting away his headl as clean as a knife would have done. He picked up the bird, and Lord's second came ta nnintg lup to see, hiow the thing had blen done. Says hle, " That's a fine shot. How far was lie when lhe firedt " " Abouta thirty paces," the major answered. Tihe second's face was pictuCrelque at this. It was rich to see him glow sick-to get blue under the gills. " Does he do that often I " thie fellow next inquired. " Well," said any sec- aond, "about four times out of five." I knew the major was lying, but I couldn't interrupt him. Lord's sec- aotd returped to his gang and took his man home. On examining it was foulnd that Lord had hit the mlark fourteen times out of seventeen, and if hoa had fired these ftiarteen shots about nmy systema, any skin would not have heldl ).y principles. Now I think dueliang a batd custaiom, atil I want to warnll the young agailnst it. I wouldn't fight a duel now. If a mnani should aend nme a challeage, I would take him by the han:d and lead him to a jquiet place alnd kill hlim. One of the peculiarities of Nevada. is that there are only a few indigen- oue animals there. I want to empha- size that word inidigenous. It isn't often'that you get a lecturer who has such a fluency as that. Well, the only indigenous animals are rattle- snakes, Indians and the horned frog. The horned frog, they say, spits vit- tiol at you. It doesn't make any dif- ference whether lie has seen you or note They never did so to Ime. I wouldn't take that from a frog. You may think I have exaggerated. I differ from George Washington. He couldn't tell a lie. I can, but I won't. PIWFKSSIONAL INcoM•s.-Some one has been guessing at and gossipping about the moneyed reward of well known professional men. Charles O'Conor, it is said has a larger income from his practice than any lawyer in America, the Jumel case alone bring- ing him a million and a quarter in money. Sir Roundell Palmhner, who was opposed to Evarts at Geneva, makes $120,000 a year, which is more than Evarts average receipt for his New York practice. For defending Johnson, Evarts received $10,000( and it is not thought he will be paid a greater siin f•r worrying Tilton. MAr. Sergeant Ballentine of tlhe Lon- don bar, who has gone to India to defend the Guiacowar of Bardora in a prosecution for murder, gets $50,000 for this case alone. Beach of Tilton's counsel is thought to be working for a contingent fee. Jeremiah Black is said to trouble himself noreablout his case than his fee, preferring to win and get noth- ing than lose and be paid liberally. Great actors are as well remunerated as great lawyers. Booth mnade his $12,000 a month. Jeftfrson has even passed this sum in the same tine. It is thought that in a season of forty weeks Clara Morris will make $70,- 000, while Charlotte Ctlshmnan's lin- gering farewells are a kind of dra- imatic bomanza. Boucicault., lbetween his royalty as a play-wright and his skill as play-actor, is pocketing $2000 every week at Wallack's. Great phy- sicians find millions in their healing art, Mott Parker and Clarke making as much as $100,000 each in a year's practice. Subscribe for the CuIE.-, 3 a year. News Items. Garibaldi is ill. V Beecher is being cross-examined, No more yellow fever at Key West. Central America is unusually tran- e quil. Galveston is about to build a grain I elevator. Seventy spinners at Lowell, Mass., have struck. Baron Bruno,; the Russian diplo- f mat, is dead. The striking Pittsburg iron workers I will resume labor. John Kelley has been re-elected sachem of Tam many. WalterJ. Brown & Co., New York wool merchants, have failed. Wagner's brewery at Sparta, Wis., burned last week. Loss, $60,000. ,Leander C. Dyer of Tenn., has been Sappointed U. S. Consul at Tennessee. Youngman and Anderson's paper mills at Columbus, Ohio, burned on the 16th. A Mitchel memorial meeting at Charleston, on the 15th, was largely attended. The Detroit and Milwaukee rail- road has beens placed in the hands of a receiver. King William of Prussia has signed the bill withdrawing grants from the Catholic Church. Telegraphic communication has been established between Havana and Santiago de Cuba. The Supreme Court will not render a decision in the Grant parish case at the present term. Troops remain in the disturbed mining districts of Pennsylvania to maintain the peace. Fighting has occurred between the savages and Chinese of Formosa, pro- voked by the latter. All the vessels of the Atlantic squadron of the navy have concen- trated at Port Royal. The striking weavers of Philadel- phia refuse to yield until their de- mandsa are acceted to. The Republicans elected their can- didate for Mayor of Paterson, New I Jersey, by 8000 majolity. Ferdinand Blanknmeyer, a German, residing in Jersey City, has been ar- rested for killing idis wife. John Jones, aged 17, shot and killed Robert Ferres, aged 21, near Sower- ville, Teun.,.on the 13th. The Carlists surprised Fort Aspe, near Santander, and carried off 200 prisoners, and four cannon;. The Tennessee has been fitted up as the flagship of Admiral Reynolds of the Atlantic squndroon. The Democrats of Trenton, N. J., elected theitr entire ticket with the exception of the tax receiver. A movement is on foot for the ea- tablishment of an international bu- reau of weights and measures. The remains of Judge A. A. Atocha of New Orleans were buried in Mount Olive cemetery, Washington, D. C. Prussia proposes to abolish all re- ligious orders in that country except those empnlloyed in nursing the sick. f The ship Cornwallis, fromn San r Francisco for Liverpool, was wrecked r on Pitcairn's Island. Crew saved. Four men were drpwned by the r overturning of a pleasure yacht in the c Charleston harbor, on the 13th inst. I Trains on tihe Union Pacific rail- t road were detained last Saturday by floods, in the vicinity of Fort Laramie. c Mrs. E. L. Erwin, a highly respected young widow lady of Hannibal, Mo., drowned herself and cbild on the 16th. Agents of the French government have made contracfts i;a Bohemia for I 10,000 horses, to be delivered in June. The Carlists are charged with seis- ing a nulmber of women and threat- ening to shoot them unless ransomed. The great California trotter, Occi- dent, is training at Philadelphia to take part in the coming season's races. Dan Bryant's funeral took place in New York last week and was attend- ed by an immense concourse of peo- Rusk & Co's., wheat elevator at In- dinnapolis, bhrned on the 13th. with 30,000 bushels of grain. Loss, $70,- 000. Pepills Gonzales, Cuban insurgent general, died of lockjaw resulting from a wound received in a recent battle. Two men being refused admittance into a hotel at Wales, Ills., attempted to force an entrance, and both were killed. A mast named Hiram Porter was arrested at Cincinnati on Satnrday last, for raising a check from $100 to $5100. The humane society at Bolougne- voted Paul Iilonton a gold medal for his exploits with his life-s ving ap- paratus. Geo. A. Ahrens of the firm Qf Ster- ling. Ahrens & Co., New York, conm-" mitted suicide last Saturday. Cause unknown. The number of Christians killed by" the Turks in Roumania and Bulgaria during the past th.e months: is esti- natetd at 27. Frankl Kelly, thlteen yt6 (tf hge, was killed 'in 'Metwtpih, lnItt' eek, 1y jamldng from a wagon whhileklstesiaj. were running away. S A druakpn.Swe4e JIled two Weq, stabbed a woman and cut hii own throat at Collinsville, Conneeticut, on Friday of last week. The government seientiata about to explore the.Black Hills coantry will be escorted by six companies of cav- airy and two of infantry. The owners of the royal Opera House, London, enjoined the ABieri- can revivalists, M aody- andt Sankey, from using the building. The Neew York .Metlodist Confer- ence has protested against the ap- portioiminent ot State money for the sulpport of Catholie schools. A party of minlurs in the Blieki Hills were sorroaudered by Indians and one of their number killed. The miners were rescued by troops. Three scientific Parisians aseended to such a great height in a bd~Resn, last Saturday, that two were -ati- cated and the thisd nearly so. On the evening of the 29th inst, pelformances for the support and ed- ucation of Dan Bryant's children till be given at all the New York theatres. SSharkey, the escaped New York murderer has been recaptured in Cuba, and.left Havtnu for New .Yotc in charge of a detective, on the 14I. An Industrial Congress which met at Indianapolis last we'ek adopted resolutions into suppo of the strikiag miners of th!e autheracite coal regitn. From 40,000 to 50,000 people tpok part in the Lexington centeni•ial cel- ebration last Monday. Gen. tranft and Vice President Wilson were prae- Henry Miller of New Orlean Ibids fair to carry off the first prize in the Chicago billiard tournament now in progrest. 1S leads the- sere at pwts- ent. Three thlumsatd spinners wilt be out of employnmentl at Lowell, Mai, in a few days, consequent upon a re- duced pro•duttion of fabric by '•the mills. After an exciting delbate, the Eng- lish House of Commnons rejected a petitiou for the dismaisal of the judges who sat at the famous Tichborne trial. , Gen. - A. E .. Shiras,. Comanisery General of Subsistance. died at Wash- inrton last week, aged 64. Col. Amos Beckwith has been pasigned to fill the vacancy. Captain General Valmnaseda is pre- paring fort vigorons campaign agsinst the Cuban insurgents. Two captured Cubans sentenced to death have been pardoned. The Philadelphia Anti-Slavery So- ciety celebrated its centennial on April 14th. Vice President Wilson, Fred. Douglass and Lucretia Mott, madie speeches. Midshipman W. H. Cox of Jones- born, Tenn., was drowned at Annap- olis, Md., on the 14th inst., by the up- setting of a boat in a creek near the Naval Academy. Commapder Lull's party have com- plet•d Their survey of the isthmus from Panama to Aspinwall, and pro- nounee it the most feasible railroad route yet surveyed. More depredaltions havie been com- nitted on the 'Texas border by Mexi- can raiders. The greatest alarm pre- vails and the settlers are flocking into the towns for protection. The weight of snow broke down the can vass of Baruum's, hippodrome at Philadelphia, on Tuesday of last week. Forty permins were beneath but none were seriously hurt. The supplemental elections in Rhode Island haviplg resulted favorably to the regular Republicans, there is every priobability that. Lippet will be chosen Governor by the Legislature. By a decision of tle U. S. Circuit Court at Little Rock the Mississippi, Onachita and Red River and the Pine Bluff. and Chicot railroads will be placed in the hlands of receivers. The dead body of Daniel Askew, with three bullet holes in the head, was found near the residence of the James blrothers, Kearney, Mo., adi it is supposed he was murdered by those desparadoes. Advices from Hayti report mueh disturbance. Numbers of English and American residents have appliecd to the eonsuls of their countries for proteeioun front arrest by the Haytian government. Five colored lintel waiters were ar- rested at Grand Junction, Miss., last week, for robbing the mails. Three were discharged, one turned Staite's evidence, and the fifth plead guilty of the roliery. Two colored nmen were hanged at Beaufort, S. C., on the 6th inst., for the double crime of arson and mur- der, in having entered a store in June. 1874, killed the clerk, robbed him, and set fire to the prnli•ses. Professor Donaldm on made a one- cessfutl balhoou ascension from Bar- num's hippodrome. last Saturday, ac- complmniird by finr journalists.` The party aheded safely at Vincentowu, 150 miles frsom the starting point. James F. Aiklen, a meahclnt at Lake Providence, La., was assassin- ated by a mani niamtednTherrell, on the 12th inst. Aiklen was seated at his desk writing, whl.n Therrell crept tup b•hid hiiu und s"hot hinm in. th!e bIack. A ;heay• b•aiesalu partjag .ele- The worth of woama-deQ ble•syo, .... 0 manl. (•arti6 idters are not croW*4detad l Atreet ears. A door+ h I iklife ta&ei bth' ait•i? l w L If there iu 1tkh oba urteat beats four cs& i#a kladaitd- sti- able wife. At a recent CoyfoCulrs -beeeetweg two girls the one wjiLthe Iema! rer " Bend me a letter of true Ein ard- ness or a paroxysmal Firs "--write, as gushing lover. Why, is the capital of Turkey like a whimsical patieistr 'Because it's con- stant to no pill. Carlyle is ot a fit man foe a census taker. He salys "ng0l4uuI ,is popu. itated by 40,000,000 souls--mastljy fools." A little man olberved thatn hod 'ad two negative qualities *he never laay long ln `heis 'and le never watsed a great eoat. st. Loums has 1O,O00 .do*s. The natives wear a sectiou of stovepipe on each leg during the niad do sea- son. A plain Wisconsini- man, hornOed at over-hearing. his Wife ejecuate, "T' ih's thle kiad of. a~etl.apa pia I, am," went out to attempt suicide. A Troy bigamnist ran out of a back door while his two wives were light- lng over the question as to which should have him, and lins not o nce been seen. When a Detroiter was take d " the- other day by a traveller ifp ha had been,in Brooklyns m l stple t to • .. ply: " Do I look like oote of t iat sort f maen, air . A Milwaaukee woman, rg ae with cOlumltiitlO Iegg•d sie d r l to give her smet••iug.th•t would keep her up until the verdict of te Alphr trial was published. " I don't care muelt about the bugI," said Warniley, to the head of a ge- teel boatding house, "' but the fact is. madam, I haven't theaitood to spare; you see that yourself." It has tIas ' OdjvX. Arms usually belong b lt_ •a " persuatioa, because they all keep the day of their going up a profound se- cret. A Chicago man thinks thatthe worst speller ough.t to get the Dkikeonary, and the winner should eiave ae • .erasr ai sorrel," or somue other gardeun ase, like them Greeks. The Providence Pree says it frver heard in fnnen? oration -orf wr, and seldom in private -onversation, the opinion expressed that a man with 10,000 income had gone to hell. Every man who mails a package salject to the new postage rated drcps it into the hole with the wish that Senator Hamlin had to sit firt tWo hours on a hot shoveL-.ree Press. The average Gorilla of. Central Africa,unow-poits to Stanley and his balnd of explorers, and pathitticaly reminds his grand children that "st' is whalt- they may one day epeat to come to." "Don't call on me for thre des ," is what an Ashland girl posted on,- front gate, and she further ad~ " I'm' going to eat' some-- oniMis Iti week if . never- • hate anothetfbeani" -- Cle velad Herald. Tw men neasuned Charles H.) Miller simultaneonsly had divorce suitsu • a New Haven court. A der i tn: die case was granted. Both Millers tias the decision for their own, and re- married, and the Miller who isn't divorced, therefor hmias two wives on hand. A quiet, peaceable gentleman in Philadelphia has recently given up business, sent his family into the country, and calmly awnonucc' his' determination of devoting the re- mainder of his life to discovering the mani who sent him a piaving stone by express, with $17 charges on it.- Nook's aunday Times. A Nevada woman reeently knocked down seven burghars, one after an- other. Her husband watched her from the top of the stairs, and felt e. brimful of battle that he eonmdn'tmwal off until he hal jerked his eightrear- old b•y out of bed aid "" whaledl'' hium soundly for not getting up and helping his mother. "Have yon a;y eggs ?" inqirir ae peaefald hooking old man as he leaneet over the eoimmter of a hardware store recently. " No sir-this is a hardware store; we keep nails, stoies, tefr." answered the clerk. Well, I di4 want somne eggs," .slowly drawled h - old man, " but I hain't particular, and you may give me a pound of nails." " Are you going iftr"thiit'angar T" flled a Jrnlrette (Mlch.) mnotlerti, her boy, who was in tie street. " Ams I going after Ltha; sugar 1" 4W e the youth in a sancy aimd ii ieli tole ; Ihlt jist tIElit heltalfpl i'd Its see, his father esmniti p iehio d lida, asudJle aid v ury-respctfally amed lh,- ingly : " Why, of entr.e I ant, Ina ; 1 didn't know \vo.n needed it right away." lEve'r. ,aeni ,i should subscribe ft- t?,e local ,palpe'. Take the CItfst.t.
Transcript of The Donaldsonville chief (Donaldsonville, La.) 1875-04...
DONALDSONVILLE...O elal Journal of the state of Louisiana, Parish of Ascynsion and Town of Doualo,
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Wm. G. Wilkinson, Doualdsouville, La.Gervais authreaux. "I~oanad Duffel.I)r. John Doaninique, Dominique's Landing.As nstus Knight.. Linwood Plantation.Dr. A. B. Robertson, Dutch Stores.John Dixon, New River.J. B. Hebert, .. "Alef. Meyers, Manchae and Port Vincent.
nL5xwnInI.Thes. Melntytn New Orleans, La.Chas, O. Donaad, -Geo. P. Rowell & Co., New York.P. H. Walker & Co., Ialtimore. Maryland.
owell & Chesman, St. Louis, Missouri.
W The amount of the outstald-ing warrants agdainstOnalchita parishis found to be about $,(000.
g'" Senator Gordon declines to al-low his uname to be used as a candi-,date for nomination of Vice President.
0 Just 26,U ,O cards, in 9147.,packagr0.l.re shipped from the poM-,tal-card factory in Springfield, Mass.,.during the quarter ending January1st.
W Planters in this section havenever before begun planting openr-tions with so much vim as this sea-smn. Every one interested not onlyhoping but woginmg fr better times.Sparta (La.) Times.
IT Mr. H. F. Durant has spent$1,000,000 on building, near Natick,Mass., a college exclusively for thefemale sex. Every officer and teacherfrom' the president and' professorsdownward, is to be a woman.
PA Cedar county, Iowa, has a con-tract for furnishing twelve milliontrees to plant on each side of theNorthern' Pacific Railroad. The treesare to extend from Minnesota west-ward, and are designed to protect thetrack from snow.
A party have recently returnedto 8ioet City, frotn the Black Hills,report that they found gold every-where they prospected. They brnmghthome several rich specimens of quartz,which, good judges say, will assay.$1000 to the ton. There are nowabout 3000 white sminers in the hillsdigging for the precious metal.-Ex.
90 On the reconmuendation of the "
Divhies.Suh periutendent, the follow-ng Board of Schqol Directors werealpointed for CSadnto arislh by the
State Hoard of Education: C. C. An-toine, G. L. Smith, William McKen-in, 8. A. IHamilton, M. A. Walsh, E.W. Durant, H. P. James and Rufuslenfre•e"
tW We notice that the Clhamnber ofCommernuc'as resolved itself into avolunteei p~himmittee to aid the exttasession of he legislature in passingproper laws. We thliuk the Chamberhad lbetter amuse itself with some-thing els. It is so liable to mnakemistakes when it dabblejs with plit-ical subljects, or cani4 problem.--Ntate Reyist~e.
M We were taken to task theother day for not publi sding a mar-riage that had lately ecfrnted, and,couiplaints have been miade at ourneglect to publis i !eaths." J• te plr-ties who get married or li$p an inottake the trouble to plotify ns 'bf4 thatfact, they can g o ua1ntarried'aid un-buried so far as we" re concerned.-Thib. B&stiad.17' Before leaving New Qrleans
'Mr. Wheeler was coianulted by severalConservative members of the loulm errlative to ti-ir peatr, with matia
iority, to un•seat 'tie menlw.rn nowIoldilg vats froii" the nparishes of,Avoyelles, Iberia 'and Caddo. 'Hisreply was that thoee nier•i ers couldlot lhe'nmserted bY the Conmservatives
or by tle Legislatre i without vio-lating tite terms of tih award, andthis opinmion was expressed by him" toa doutrie edifferent pe r
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" The People" Agaia Defeated.[F~oma thb x. 0. tepuliaa, April 17th.]
1 Wieu time vote for Speaker hadgrie taken, yesterday, and thestiUccess
of M: Estilette ainnounueed, Mr.- Witz,,his -chief competitor, indalged= hisfeelingspn a speech of ousal erablehwarmth apd bitterness. He probablyfelt his deliat keenly, and somrethingmay be pardoned in it man smartingunder a real or imaginary wrong.Yet, lie was deliberate enough in mostthat he, said" and arraigning tileHouse for thie choice it had made, hestepped a little outside of -strict par'-liameutary propriety. He chargedthat Gov: Kellogg, Gen. Sheridan andMarshal Packard have schemed andplanned to defeat the wishes of thel~pople. This is nothing unusual. Adefeated Democrat is very apt to sup-pose the people are it sympathy withfim, and he generally attempts toprove his position by denying thatthose who.oppose him are a part ofthe people. As a .historical fact; Mr.Wilts represents the minority of thelate coalition banded together withthe sole object in view to defeat, theRepublican party. The Repubiltansare people in as full a sense of theterm as tihe Democracy, and anymember of. the House is and of rightought to be quite as capable of know-ing what his constituents want as Mr.Wilts does. It would not be true tosay that nobody .wanted Mr. Wiltz tobe Speaker. Doubtless many of them,and uot;ably hisown colnstituents, did;but it is a notorious fact that his per-sistent opposition to compromise,'based upon his hostility to GovernorKellogg, has greatly impaired hispopularity. Some of the leading menin the late coalition strenuously op. -posed his election. The Republicanswent solid against him.
We are quite willing to believethat Governor Kellogg, Genenal Sher-idan and Mr. Packard, or either of Ithem, knott quite as well what thepeople want as `the uasuccessfum as- Ipirant for the Speakership does. And iwhen the opinions imputed to them Iare ratified by the lopular branch ofthe General Assembly, by seven or Ieight majority, we feel a strengthen- aing of impression which amounts to Iabsolute conviction.But iappvears the afourbon faction t
are not satisfied. There is to be war,bitter war waged' against the Gover-nor and every thing else which tile Ipeople do not like from this time for-waid. The terrors of this threat are agreatly modliiied'by the well known atact that the doughty warriors whothreaten to become assailants havegenerally been sleeping in their wanrpaint for several years. Especially is Ithis the case with those who happen cto be out of office. If they can pros- cecute the, balance of the caupaignl Iwith increieked vigor in consequence fof the latest afrl'fit to " the people," fthe result will lie a prolougation of ithe fussing that has kept this State in ahot water since the war, driven comn- Imerce away from this port, and selnt dcotton whirling to tihe seaboard overliteral lines of transportation as fast Iias steam can carry it. But it will snever restore the Last Ditchers to hpower, nor imake the world believe qithait,when a few New Orleans politi-cians take nluff all tihe people of the iiState sneeze. There are people in cthis State of whom Mr. Wiltz and his apolitical associates take no account. 0Blut they are a living fact. They are spatting in their claims to recognition, Iand tihe politician who expects to suc- sceed by disregarding therm and their Idemnands must be both. blid and deaf, i
THiE RGESORED MURILLO.-Somlle-thing of the Spanish love of art and agood deal of the Spanish regard forceremonials was lately illustrated inthe reception given the fragment ofthe fanmous painting of Murillo, notlong ago recovered ini New York, andreturned to Seville, whence it wastak&en. The Madrid Gazette gives atull account of the ceremonies of re-turning the fragment to the cathe-dral, where the mutilation occurred.The picture, or rather the recoveredportion of it, was received at the doorof the cathedral by the dean and sev-eral canons, when it was taken to thevestry and the grating' closed to pre-vent the entrance of the people, whnouotwithstanding a heavy lain, weregathered in arn im mense conclourse out-side. The picture was then exposedand examined by a great number ofofficials and artists, who were to tes-tify that it was the one abstracted.It was discovered that the paintinghad fortunately sustained little dam-age, the general sentiment being thatin artistic hands, the work of reatolua-tion could be made nearly perfect.As soon as the tirst examination wasover, in order to eahnlm the anxiety ofthe people, the picture was drawnclose to the grated door of the chapel,and then seeing it, the populace broketforth in wild huzzas and exclamlat.ionsof joy at the spectacle. It is also saidthat the work of restoration will prob-ably be miade public, so ardently dothe people demand it ; many of theobservers actually weeping with joyat the casual glimpse tirst offeredtheml of too mulcJh-alisedl features ofthe adored maint. That is the man-ner in which a work of art of tJe classis received in Seville. It is difficultfor practical Anglo-Saxons to under-stand a religious and artistic senti-ment so abnv~egl. devhelaed.
[P On the 'kth inst., tile annualparade of tItt Thilsdaux Fire Depart-ment will talke plafce.
Dueling In Nevada.[From Mark Twain's Charity Lecture.]Virginia City was a bloodthirsty
place, and the tirst twenty men plant-ed in its burying ground were mur-dared.. Dueling- here was a pastime.The main who fought a duel was morerespected than if he had murderedtwo men. I have a tale to tell ypuabout dueling which hats a moral 'init. People who pay aL dollar for a lec-ture ticket have a right to somethingwith a moral in it.
For two years I was city editor ofa newspaper in Virginia City. I wasthen promoted to be the editor. Ilasted a, week, but I made an uncom-mon lively sheet of it while I lasted.I brought on a quarrel with the editorof an opposing paper. I suppose Icalled him a thief or a body-snatcher.It was customary for the man whooffered the insult to make the chal-lenge. So I challanged the editorwhom I had quarreled with. I willcall him MAr. Lord. My party wereanxious for mae to fight. I knew Lordwouldn't so 1 sent the challenge.
Shortly after 1 received a note fromhim, declining to meet me. This dis-gusted the boys and exasperatedthem, but I was calm. I anm alwayscalm. I sent another challenge, andanother, and another. Lord began togrow bolder, and at length accepted.I was mortified, but began to practice.I went out to the barn, set up a railagainst the barn door, first putting asquash on the end of it. This was to
prpesenlt 1•r. Lord. In regard to in-tellect, the chances between Lord andthe squash were in fatvor of the latter.I began to practice, first at the rail,and then at the squash, and last set-tled on hitting the barn door, butmissed all three.
My friends were with me, but, afterI had shot away a while, we heardLord's party practicing on the otherside of the barn. It looked bad, forif they should find out what I hadbeen doiug there wasn't any sight forme. But just at that juncture a smallbird flew by, andt my second, wihowas a major and at beautiful shot,tired at himi, cutting away his headlas clean as a knife would have done.He picked up the bird, and Lord'ssecond came ta nnintg lup to see, hiowthe thing had blen done. Says hle," That's a fine shot. How far was liewhen lhe firedt " " Abouta thirtypaces," the major answered.
Tihe second's face was pictuCrelqueat this. It was rich to see him glowsick-to get blue under the gills." Does he do that often I " thie fellownext inquired. " Well," said any sec-aond, "about four times out of five."I knew the major was lying, but Icouldn't interrupt him. Lord's sec-aotd returped to his gang and tookhis man home. On examining it wasfoulnd that Lord had hit the mlarkfourteen times out of seventeen, andif hoa had fired these ftiarteen shotsabout nmy systema, any skin would nothave heldl ).y principles. Now I thinkdueliang a batd custaiom, atil I want towarnll the young agailnst it. I wouldn'tfight a duel now. If a mnani shouldaend nme a challeage, I would takehim by the han:d and lead him to a
jquiet place alnd kill hlim.One of the peculiarities of Nevada.
is that there are only a few indigen-oue animals there. I want to empha-size that word inidigenous. It isn'toften'that you get a lecturer who hassuch a fluency as that. Well, theonly indigenous animals are rattle-snakes, Indians and the horned frog.The horned frog, they say, spits vit-tiol at you. It doesn't make any dif-ference whether lie has seen you ornote They never did so to Ime. Iwouldn't take that from a frog. Youmay think I have exaggerated. Idiffer from George Washington. Hecouldn't tell a lie. I can, but I won't.
PIWFKSSIONAL INcoM•s.-Some onehas been guessing at and gossippingabout the moneyed reward of wellknown professional men. CharlesO'Conor, it is said has a larger incomefrom his practice than any lawyer inAmerica, the Jumel case alone bring-ing him a million and a quarter inmoney. Sir Roundell Palmhner, whowas opposed to Evarts at Geneva,makes $120,000 a year, which is morethan Evarts average receipt for hisNew York practice. For defendingJohnson, Evarts received $10,000(and it is not thought he will be paida greater siin f•r worrying Tilton.MAr. Sergeant Ballentine of tlhe Lon-don bar, who has gone to India todefend the Guiacowar of Bardora in aprosecution for murder, gets $50,000for this case alone.
Beach of Tilton's counsel is thoughtto be working for a contingent fee.Jeremiah Black is said to troublehimself noreablout his case than hisfee, preferring to win and get noth-ing than lose and be paid liberally.Great actors are as well remuneratedas great lawyers. Booth mnade his$12,000 a month. Jeftfrson has evenpassed this sum in the same tine. Itis thought that in a season of fortyweeks Clara Morris will make $70,-000, while Charlotte Ctlshmnan's lin-gering farewells are a kind of dra-imatic bomanza. Boucicault., lbetweenhis royalty as a play-wright and hisskill as play-actor, is pocketing $2000every week at Wallack's. Great phy-sicians find millions in their healingart, Mott Parker and Clarke makingas much as $100,000 each in a year'spractice.
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News Items.Garibaldi is ill.V Beecher is being cross-examined,
No more yellow fever at Key West.Central America is unusually tran-e quil.
Galveston is about to build a grainI elevator.
Seventy spinners at Lowell, Mass.,have struck.
Baron Bruno,; the Russian diplo-f mat, is dead.
The striking Pittsburg iron workersI will resume labor.
John Kelley has been re-electedsachem of Tam many.
WalterJ. Brown & Co., New Yorkwool merchants, have failed.
Wagner's brewery at Sparta, Wis.,burned last week. Loss, $60,000.,Leander C. Dyer of Tenn., has beenSappointed U. S. Consul at Tennessee.Youngman and Anderson's paper
mills at Columbus, Ohio, burned onthe 16th.
A Mitchel memorial meeting atCharleston, on the 15th, was largelyattended.
The Detroit and Milwaukee rail-road has beens placed in the hands ofa receiver.
King William of Prussia has signedthe bill withdrawing grants from theCatholic Church.
Telegraphic communication hasbeen established between Havana andSantiago de Cuba.
The Supreme Court will not rendera decision in the Grant parish case atthe present term.
Troops remain in the disturbedmining districts of Pennsylvania tomaintain the peace.
Fighting has occurred between thesavages and Chinese of Formosa, pro-voked by the latter.
All the vessels of the Atlanticsquadron of the navy have concen-trated at Port Royal.
The striking weavers of Philadel-phia refuse to yield until their de-mandsa are acceted to.
The Republicans elected their can-didate for Mayor of Paterson, New IJersey, by 8000 majolity.
Ferdinand Blanknmeyer, a German,residing in Jersey City, has been ar-rested for killing idis wife.
John Jones, aged 17, shot and killedRobert Ferres, aged 21, near Sower-ville, Teun.,.on the 13th.
The Carlists surprised Fort Aspe,near Santander, and carried off 200prisoners, and four cannon;.
The Tennessee has been fitted upas the flagship of Admiral Reynoldsof the Atlantic squndroon.
The Democrats of Trenton, N. J.,elected theitr entire ticket with theexception of the tax receiver.
A movement is on foot for the ea-tablishment of an international bu-reau of weights and measures.
The remains of Judge A. A. Atochaof New Orleans were buried in MountOlive cemetery, Washington, D. C.
Prussia proposes to abolish all re-ligious orders in that country exceptthose empnlloyed in nursing the sick. f
The ship Cornwallis, fromn San rFrancisco for Liverpool, was wrecked ron Pitcairn's Island. Crew saved.
Four men were drpwned by the roverturning of a pleasure yacht in the cCharleston harbor, on the 13th inst. I
Trains on tihe Union Pacific rail- troad were detained last Saturday byfloods, in the vicinity of Fort Laramie. c
Mrs. E. L. Erwin, a highly respectedyoung widow lady of Hannibal, Mo.,drowned herself and cbild on the 16th.
Agents of the French governmenthave made contracfts i;a Bohemia for I10,000 horses, to be delivered in June.
The Carlists are charged with seis-ing a nulmber of women and threat-ening to shoot them unless ransomed.
The great California trotter, Occi-dent, is training at Philadelphia totake part in the coming season's races.
Dan Bryant's funeral took place inNew York last week and was attend-ed by an immense concourse of peo-
Rusk & Co's., wheat elevator at In-dinnapolis, bhrned on the 13th. with30,000 bushels of grain. Loss, $70,-000.
Pepills Gonzales, Cuban insurgentgeneral, died of lockjaw resultingfrom a wound received in a recentbattle.
Two men being refused admittanceinto a hotel at Wales, Ills., attemptedto force an entrance, and both werekilled.
A mast named Hiram Porter wasarrested at Cincinnati on Satnrdaylast, for raising a check from $100 to$5100.
The humane society at Bolougne-voted Paul Iilonton a gold medal forhis exploits with his life-s ving ap-paratus.
Geo. A. Ahrens of the firm Qf Ster-ling. Ahrens & Co., New York, conm-"mitted suicide last Saturday. Causeunknown.
The number of Christians killed by"the Turks in Roumania and Bulgariaduring the past th.e months: is esti-natetd at 27.
Frankl Kelly, thlteen yt6 (tf hge,was killed 'in 'Metwtpih, lnItt' eek, 1yjamldng from a wagon whhileklstesiaj.were running away.
S A druakpn.Swe4e JIled two Weq,stabbed a woman and cut hii ownthroat at Collinsville, Conneeticut, onFriday of last week.
The government seientiata about toexplore the.Black Hills coantry willbe escorted by six companies of cav-airy and two of infantry.
The owners of the royal OperaHouse, London, enjoined the ABieri-can revivalists, M aody- andt Sankey,from using the building.
The Neew York .Metlodist Confer-ence has protested against the ap-portioiminent ot State money for thesulpport of Catholie schools.
A party of minlurs in the BliekiHills were sorroaudered by Indiansand one of their number killed. Theminers were rescued by troops.
Three scientific Parisians aseendedto such a great height in a bd~Resn,last Saturday, that two were -ati-cated and the thisd nearly so.
On the evening of the 29th inst,pelformances for the support and ed-ucation of Dan Bryant's children tillbe given at all the New York theatres.
SSharkey, the escaped New Yorkmurderer has been recaptured inCuba, and.left Havtnu for New .Yotcin charge of a detective, on the 14I.An Industrial Congress which met
at Indianapolis last we'ek adoptedresolutions into suppo of the strikiagminers of th!e autheracite coal regitn.
From 40,000 to 50,000 people tpokpart in the Lexington centeni•ial cel-ebration last Monday. Gen. tranftand Vice President Wilson were prae-
Henry Miller of New Orlean Ibidsfair to carry off the first prize in theChicago billiard tournament now inprogrest. 1S leads the- sere at pwts-ent.
Three thlumsatd spinners wilt beout of employnmentl at Lowell, Mai,in a few days, consequent upon a re-duced pro•duttion of fabric by '•themills.
After an exciting delbate, the Eng-lish House of Commnons rejected apetitiou for the dismaisal of the judgeswho sat at the famous Tichbornetrial. ,
Gen. - A. E .. Shiras,. ComaniseryGeneral of Subsistance. died at Wash-inrton last week, aged 64. Col. AmosBeckwith has been pasigned to fill thevacancy.
Captain General Valmnaseda is pre-paring fort vigorons campaign agsinstthe Cuban insurgents. Two capturedCubans sentenced to death have beenpardoned.
The Philadelphia Anti-Slavery So-ciety celebrated its centennial onApril 14th. Vice President Wilson,Fred. Douglass and Lucretia Mott,madie speeches.
Midshipman W. H. Cox of Jones-born, Tenn., was drowned at Annap-olis, Md., on the 14th inst., by the up-setting of a boat in a creek near theNaval Academy.
Commapder Lull's party have com-plet•d Their survey of the isthmusfrom Panama to Aspinwall, and pro-nounee it the most feasible railroadroute yet surveyed.
More depredaltions havie been com-nitted on the 'Texas border by Mexi-can raiders. The greatest alarm pre-vails and the settlers are flocking intothe towns for protection.
The weight of snow broke down thecan vass of Baruum's, hippodrome atPhiladelphia, on Tuesday of lastweek. Forty permins were beneathbut none were seriously hurt.
The supplemental elections in RhodeIsland haviplg resulted favorably tothe regular Republicans, there is everypriobability that. Lippet will be chosenGovernor by the Legislature.
By a decision of tle U. S. CircuitCourt at Little Rock the Mississippi,Onachita and Red River and the PineBluff. and Chicot railroads will beplaced in the hlands of receivers.
The dead body of Daniel Askew,with three bullet holes in the head,was found near the residence of theJames blrothers, Kearney, Mo., adi itis supposed he was murdered by thosedesparadoes.
Advices from Hayti report muehdisturbance. Numbers of Englishand American residents have appliecdto the eonsuls of their countries forproteeioun front arrest by the Haytiangovernment.
Five colored lintel waiters were ar-rested at Grand Junction, Miss., lastweek, for robbing the mails. Threewere discharged, one turned Staite'sevidence, and the fifth plead guiltyof the roliery.
Two colored nmen were hanged atBeaufort, S. C., on the 6th inst., forthe double crime of arson and mur-der, in having entered a store in June.1874, killed the clerk, robbed him,and set fire to the prnli•ses.
Professor Donaldm on made a one-cessfutl balhoou ascension from Bar-num's hippodrome. last Saturday, ac-complmniird by finr journalists.` Theparty aheded safely at Vincentowu,150 miles frsom the starting point.
James F. Aiklen, a meahclnt atLake Providence, La., was assassin-ated by a mani niamtednTherrell, on the12th inst. Aiklen was seated at hisdesk writing, whl.n Therrell crept tupb•hid hiiu und s"hot hinm in. th!e bIack.
A ;heay• b•aiesalu partjag .ele-
The worth of woama-deQ ble•syo, ....0 manl.
(•arti6 idters are not croW*4detad lAtreet ears.
A door+ h Iiklife ta&ei bth' ait•i? l w LIf there iu 1tkh oba urteat
beats four cs& i#a kladaitd- sti-able wife.
At a recent CoyfoCulrs -beeeetwegtwo girls the one wjiLthe Iema! rer
" Bend me a letter of true Ein ard-ness or a paroxysmal Firs "--write, asgushing lover.
Why, is the capital of Turkey like awhimsical patieistr 'Because it's con-stant to no pill.
Carlyle is ot a fit man foe a censustaker. He salys "ng0l4uuI ,is popu.itated by 40,000,000 souls--mastljyfools."
A little man olberved thatn hod 'adtwo negative qualities *he never laaylong ln `heis 'and le never watsed agreat eoat.
st. Loums has 1O,O00 .do*s. Thenatives wear a sectiou of stovepipeon each leg during the niad do sea-son.A plain Wisconsini- man, hornOed
at over-hearing. his Wife ejecuate,"T' ih's thle kiad of. a~etl.apa pia I,am," went out to attempt suicide.
A Troy bigamnist ran out of a backdoor while his two wives were light-lng over the question as to whichshould have him, and lins not o ncebeen seen.
When a Detroiter was taked " the-other day by a traveller ifp ha hadbeen,in Brooklyns m l stple t to • ..ply: " Do I look like oote of t iat sortf maen, air .
A Milwaaukee woman, rg ae withcOlumltiitlO Iegg•d sie d r l togive her smet••iug.th•t would keepher up until the verdict of te Alphr
trial was published." I don't care muelt about the bugI,"said Warniley, to the head of a ge-
teel boatding house, "' but the fact is.madam, I haven't theaitood to spare;you see that yourself."
It has tIas ' OdjvX.Arms usually belong b lt_ •a "persuatioa, because they all keep theday of their going up a profound se-cret.
A Chicago man thinks thatthe worstspeller ough.t to get the Dkikeonary,and the winner should eiave ae • .erasrai sorrel," or somue other gardeun ase,like them Greeks.
The Providence Pree says it frverheard in fnnen? oration -orf wr,and seldom in private -onversation,the opinion expressed that a man with10,000 income had gone to hell.
Every man who mails a packagesalject to the new postage rated drcpsit into the hole with the wish thatSenator Hamlin had to sit firt tWohours on a hot shoveL-.ree Press.
The average Gorilla of. CentralAfrica,unow-poits to Stanley and hisbalnd of explorers, and pathitticalyreminds his grand children that "st'is whalt- they may one day epeat tocome to."
"Don't call on me for thre des ,"is what an Ashland girl posted on,-front gate, and she further ad~" I'm' going to eat' some-- oniMis Itiweek if . never-• hate anothetfbeani"--Cle velad Herald.
Tw men neasuned Charles H.) Millersimultaneonsly had divorce suitsu • aNew Haven court. A der i tn: diecase was granted. Both Millers tiasthe decision for their own, and re-married, and the Miller who isn'tdivorced, therefor hmias two wives onhand.
A quiet, peaceable gentleman inPhiladelphia has recently given upbusiness, sent his family into thecountry, and calmly awnonucc' his'determination of devoting the re-mainder of his life to discovering themani who sent him a piaving stone byexpress, with $17 charges on it.-Nook's aunday Times.
A Nevada woman reeently knockeddown seven burghars, one after an-other. Her husband watched herfrom the top of the stairs, and felt e.brimful of battle that he eonmdn'tmwaloff until he hal jerked his eightrear-old b•y out of bed aid "" whaledl''hium soundly for not getting up andhelping his mother.
"Have yon a;y eggs ?" inqirir aepeaefald hooking old man as he leaneetover the eoimmter of a hardware storerecently. " No sir-this is a hardwarestore; we keep nails, stoies, tefr."answered the clerk. Well, I di4want somne eggs," .slowly drawled h -old man, " but I hain't particular, andyou may give me a pound of nails."" Are you going iftr"thiit'angar T"
flled a Jrnlrette (Mlch.) mnotlerti,her boy, who was in tie street. " AmsI going after Ltha; sugar 1" 4W ethe youth in a sancy aimd ii ielitole ; Ihlt jist tIElit heltalfpl i'd Itssee, his father esmniti p iehio d lida,asudJle aid v ury-respctfally amed lh,-ingly : " Why, of entr.e I ant, Ina ;1 didn't know \vo.n needed it rightaway."
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