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Middletown transcript., 1871-06-17
SPECIAL.


IN ihe invention Of tbe Ktng ll-t.ffr. il mas w.
.-ucl TIM, i, should combine all the Good qun!i-
Ties OF every other washing machine. and al ihC
same time la have mol u single objectionable ira-
iurc Such a machine Is The Kim. no rubbing
no wearing aud tearing and last but not least,
labor made easy.
you cannot purchase a King lither in your
place, send ug The
RETAII. PRICE. si5.0o.
aud We viii forward the same to you free OF
freight. To places " herr no one is selling II any
Que is not satisfied and wishes TO return the ma
chine after ,aon,hs trial, according to dircc-
tions, We agree 10
REFUND THE MONEY.
free Of freight.
so- Sstatg drlicr, generality 10 nhoa literal
di,c0un!s ere made.
King Washing aiae iiinc - Manuf. 60.
li6a. III, lil3 MILLER STREET,
may 3-ly Philadelphia
Middletown transcript., 1871-06-17

WANTED, Immediately. l5o, 600 feet OF GUN,
ELM and POPLAR TIMBER, suitable for making
our si.ye peach baskets.
WORDEN EVANS, SuyRSA, DIT.
Middletown transcript., 1871-06-17

Whereas certain persons are cnacavoring To
prevent Us from, making and selling our Slave
Peach Basket, hy eis.minG Letters Patent, pub
l'sh for the information of u persons interested,
the following cmnen, legal opinion;
Middletown transcript., 1871-06-17

i,l.o own lie very high bred and very tAs
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Louisiana State Register pro-
pounds some very pointed interroga-
tions to the New Orleans Times:
The Times is very prompt to defend
the ante-beIlam politicians of Louisi-
ana, from charges of speculation and
fraud preferred against by them Gen.
Sypher. What does the Times think
about the Dick Taylor canal contract !?
What does it think about the bonds
that were issued to the Baton Rouge
railroadg What does it think about
the bonds issued to other railroads,
and for which never Il dollars worth
of work was doneg What does it
think about the. State debt, and of the
city debt, which are both legacies
from the Democracy, and for which
nothing can be shown? What does
it say to the Houma land swindle
which Senators Slidell and Benjamin
perfected in Congress against the set
tiers in Terrebone parish? What ex-
cuse does it offer for the armed vio-
lence which contended for the possess
sion of New Orleans in 1857? Where
have all the millions of public taxes
collected in Louisiana before the war
disappeared7 Who are responsible
for our present political evils in the
State but the Democrats /? Who create
the divisions that exist in society at
present whereby color is made the
test of fitness for Office instead of cap
ability or wortha Who approach the
Legislature and secure gigantic mo-
nopolies ? Read the charter of the
Levee Swindle, of the Noyes Drainage
job, of the Slaughter-house bill, Of the
Water-works Humbug, and tell MS
who the incorporators are. And then
stop fooling.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

place in the economy of the nation
and the world to fill, and cannot be
spared. In the end it will certainly
recover. But there lis much of uncer-
tainty and difficulty in the interval.
The sudden withdrawal of this great
and busy community from the sphere
ofcommercial life will produce wide
spread confusion and disturbance of
values apd relations. Chicago is a
heavy creditor of New York, and the
whole North West is the creditor of
Chicago. At time when money is
not oyer-plentiful, there comes this
sudden and unexpected demand for
large sums to meet this fearful ext
gency, We hope the prudence and
GOODNESS which the emergency requires
will not fail. There is no justification
for q panic. There seemed some dan
ger of one yesterday in the first shock
of the frightful intelligence, but the
tendency was handsomely srlrmounted
in the afternoon. There is little
doubt that our insurance companies
will be able to pay all their losses.
When this is done all can then unite
in deyising the means to repair the
damage Of the fire. But in the mean
while the immediate and pressing
question is that of hunger and cold.
One hundred thousand people are
houseless and famishing. The cities
of the West have spoken promptly,
and honorably, voting large supplies
OF money and food. New York will
doubtless to-day do its whole duty In
its organized and corporate meetings.
But this is Il case where every citizen
has the privilege of making some of
fering to humanity. Let none neg
lect it. No greater calamity ever ap
pealed TO the hearts of men. Let New
York show herselfthe first of the cities
of the nation in charity, as she is first
in power.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Turner Hall faction placed its
support of the President on condi-
tions and contingencies that have not
happened. The Custom house iniqui-
ty and outrage have not been punished
or even condemned by the President
The party which demanded thiS as
their sine qua non must now CHI lose
between whining, pusillanimous, IN
conditional submission. or resistance
and reorganization of their forces On a
new base and strategy. Which will
they do IN. O. Times.
We have but few principles in ON
mon with the Journal from whicfs the
above is extracted, and we fully Zap
preeiate its motive to be the divi ion
and destruction of the Republican
party, still the question it propoSnds
is a pertinent one, and we unite With
it in asking, (which will they dof"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28
Robbery i'm New Orleans.

The Semi Heekly Louisianian relates
the following
Another big robbery has been per-
petrated in the city in the middle OF
day. By some strange method, one
of the bank boxes of Messrs. Nalle g.
Cammack was obtained from the
banking House of Pike, Brother g.
Co., ON Camp street, on Wednesday
last, by a person unknown to the
bank, although Messrs. Nalle & Cam
mack were accustomed to send par
tieular clerk for their boxes when
wanted. The detective police were
at once informed, and set about their
work while IN the papers was an
advertisement Offering a reward OF
$1,000 for the return of the stolen
papers. No information was obtained
till Thursday morning, when the por-
ter of the National Theatre discovered
a tin box and+a bundle of papers in a
wagon on the street and on examin-
alton, they turned out to be the
greater part Of those stolen the pre-
vious day. The detectives are still
on the alert, and it is believed they
possess such definite information as
can enable them to fix the robbery.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

1t is entertaining to read the speech
es of the Democratic politicians made
before the elections in the States which
recently gave Republican majoritieS.
Their boasts of the victories to Be
achieved and the annihilation of tile
opposing party to be accomplished,
possess an air of vanity rendered nj
diculous by subsequent events which
is very amusing. These speeches teach
us a lesson in regard to the uncertain
ty of future incidents in general atld
the result of elections in particular!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Houston Union says: Captain
J. M. Hart, District Clerk and Regis
trar of Falls county, came down on
some private business. He says that
after the election he was arrested on
bogus charge and taken to Waco
before the United States Commits
sioner for trial, and was acquitted.
All sort of intimidation was used dur
ing the registration and election by
the Democrats to prevent a fair elec-
ton; but Notwithstanding the county
gave General Clark majority of
thirty. He says that about three
hundred Republicans were prevented
from voting. He was several times
threatened to be shot, and at one
time rope was attached to tree for
the purpose of hanging him, but that
a committee of twenty citizens inter
fered and prevented it. He says that
majority of the white men who reg
istered were so ignorant that they
could not sign their names, and yet
those same men are among the most
bitter opponents of the free school
law. Thus it is all over the State.
Ignorance and Democracy going hand
hand. as twin sisters of rebellion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

George Thorp's house, and the Cath
olic Church.
Third, Blackbird Island was liter
ally burned up.
THE SCENE AT wILLIAMsyILLE.
By Guillaume Delaluzerne, from
Uniontown, we learn that the entire
settlement of Williamson Brothers
mill, five miles from the shore of Lit
tie Sturgeon Bay, was burned on Sun
day night. The proprietor, John
Williamson, with his wife and two
children-h his entire family-ar burn
ed to death, and about fifty-three
other persons in the same settlement
perished.
Later.-Charles Kusterman, of Lit
tie Sturgeon, writes us farther partic-
ulars. There were 12 families about
the mill and So men in and about the
mill. Of all these people but two
were saved uniniured, and ten injured
persons still living were found, and
We're sent on Monday by the tug
Ozaukee to Big Sturgeon Bay, for
medical treatment. Every other in
dividual in the settlement is dead.
Mr.. Gardner sent twenty-five men to
chop through the woods to this settle
ment, our correspondent being one of
the number; they found the remains
of six persons in one house, and piled
the partly charredremains of fifty five
bodies of men, women and children III
one pile, Three or four persons at
tempted to save themselves in well
containing three feet of water. One
of them had his head badly burned,
and the others were burned to death.
Latest.-One of the party sent out
by F. b. Gardner called upon us on
Wednesday. The party went from
Little Sturgeon to the head of Little
Sturgeon Bay by tug Ozaukee and
thence chopped their way through the
timber fallen across the road for four
miles. The other mile they elambered
over the timber. On the road they
found three of the wounded trying to
reach the shore. Others of the wound
ed got to Kent's place, four miles from
Big Sturgeon, where they are lying.
Reaching the site fNVilliamsonville,
they found 40 living creature but an
OK. Twenty-nine human beings lay
on a spot about 10 feet square, some
with arms and legs burned off, and all
with clothing gone. A few rods off
on every side were others, and man
and child were found dead in well.
They found 55 dead bodies, and think
the total number must be from 60 to
20. :.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Tammany Democracy of New
York city have held their convection
and nominated their candidates. Nm.
NJ. Tweed, the big "boss," is nonA ma
ted for the State Senate.
The Reform Democracy hayelllso
held a convention, consisting of four
hunded delegates, and selected caadi-
dates. Mr.. w. w. Curtis, in spaech
before this convention, said that. the
Tammany party intended to practice
fraud at the coming election, and yhat
the only remedy against this woul be
to suspend repeaters or fraudulent in
spectors from lamp posts, and h be-
lieyed the law would protect sue, ac-
tion. The following are amongt the
nominations OF the Reform party 4 For
Judge of the Supreme Court, ex-JRdge
c. Barrett; for Judge of Common Peas,
Judge Charles P. DAILY; for Regiiter,
Gen. Franz Siegel.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

slUsT APPRECIATION OF THE VALUE
OF THE COUNTRY PEEss.--.The follow
ing testimonial from j. B. Dinsmore,
Esq, will be read with interest, as
based upon a varied experience in
advertising:
"My opinion of the relative value
of city and country newspapers, as
advertising mediums, is decidedly in
favor of the country papers, price and
circulation being equal.
:. should prefer to have my adyer-
tisement inserted in country paper
having 500 circulation rather than
have it in 500 copies of city daily
paper. The country readers have
fewer papers, and more leisure and,
consequently, read their papers more
thoroughly and take better care of
them; while the daily paper, after
being glanced at, is thought no more
of than last years almanac. My opin-
ion is based ON twelve years study
and experience in the business
Messrs. Job Moses & Son are among
the oldest advertisers in the United
States, and give their testimony as
follows:
After an experience of twenty
three years as an advertiser in many
newspapers, il is our opinion that the
same amount expended for an adver-
tisement in a large number of country
weekly papers, pays much better
than in small number of daily and
weekly newspapers, i. G., the aggre-
gate circulation being the same. Our
reasons for this opinion are that the
country weekly is read thoroughly,
and to a certain extent, the matter in
the advertisement is believed almost
as much as the editorial articles,
while the city dailies and weeklies are
not read thoroughly, and the adver-
tisements areEknown to be advertise
ments, and nothing more. Further
more, the country newspapers are
generally preserved for future refer-
ence, while the city newspapers once
read are seldom referred to after
ward. And as regards Patent Medi-
cines (so-called) it is an undoubted
fact that the country people consume
the greater portion of those manufac-
tured. d."-Neacspdper Reporter.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

Joe Coburn, the noted pugilist, is
out in card to the public, in viii fell
he states that his coming "mill with
Jem Mace, the English champion, will
be his last appearance in the prize
ring. This fight between Mace and
Coburn, for the championship of the
world and few dollars besides, is to
take place on the 30th of Noveml' yer,
within one hundred miles of New Or
leans--if the authorities do not pre-
vent it. Coburn is now training in
New Orleans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

Thirty five years ago James Gordon
Bennett wrote to Mr.. Van Tramp beg
ging the loan of two hundred dollars
to keep the PenRsgtUanidn, news
paper he was then carrying on, from
eollapsing. Mr.. Bennett is now taxed
for $6,250, ,000.-Erchange.
If the acquisition of all this wealth
was the natural consequence of the
attempt to borrow two hundred dol
lars, let the man who begged lis for
loan of fifteen cents the other day
take courage; for if the ratio given
above can be relied upon, he will be
worth, thirty-five years from now,
somewhere in the neighborhood OF
four thousand six hundred and eighty
eight dollars and sixty-seven cents.
If he had only known this newly dis
covered rule he would very probably
have asked It's for n thousand dollars.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

A recent municipal election in Car
rollton, La, resulted in a Republican
victory, Gilbert j. Harrison, ID coloed
imam, being elected Mayor. Mr.. Har-
irisoe has since resigned the position,
however, and Governor Warmoth APP
,pointed Mr.. Zuingfius Mckay, former
ly District Attorney, to fill the va
cancy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

We find the following deserved
compliment to an excellent journal in
the New Orleans Nihdilleuse, of the
2lst:
The Attdkdp0s Register of the pres
ent week is brinful of good things.
There are few men more capable of
getting up a good paper than Hon.
Emerson Bentley. His efforts are
raey, without being vulgar; sharp,
without being abusive; pointed, with
out being libelous. We have never
seen an article in the Register that
would offend the good taste of the
most fastidious, OF one that hus-
band would be ashamed to have read
in his family. Such papers are too
rare in the present age, and for this
reason, are the more valuable. We
would be pleased to have an exchange
of two numbers each week, so that we
could keep a complete file, free from
the rayages of the shears.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Banner, an excellent journal
published at our old home, JeffersonF
Wis, makes its appearance on ou
table in a new dress. We are glad t|l
note this evidence of deserved pros
perity in pecrmiary point of view
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The Republicans of Plaquemine par
ish held rousing meeting one day
last week, and endorsed the State and
National Administrations, the Turner'S
Hall Convention, and tie State Cen
iral Executive Committee chosen by
that Convention.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

The collections made in fifteen Ca
tl,olic churches, In New York, Sun
day, in aid of the Chicago sufferers,
aggregated $40, 900, with. eleven chur-
ches to be heard from.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

TO the Devil with all such Repub-
licans as Carl Schurz. Homer Iliad.
Be careful about sending them there,
if you don't want to run across themI
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

There was slight fall of snow a
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, ON the 10th inst.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

i" 1t is not always pleasant to write
the TRUTH" says the st. John the Bap-!
fist MeschGcebe.
You are not afflicted with many uni
pleasant episodes on that account, ard
you, Mr.. Meschacebe
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28

Communications may be addressed simply
CHIEF. Donaldsonviile, La.," or to the edi-
tor and proprietor personally
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-28
Space. lwk. / mo. mos. I6 mos l Vt.

Transient advertisements. 81 per square first
insertion; IS cts. each subsequent insertion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-31

SHOOTING MESSAGES UNDERGROUND. The
use of tubes laid underground for the trans
mission of small parcels, letters etc., from
center points in Ia &c cities to the ,dista Mt
suburbs, has been applied to transmission of
telegraph messages since the Government
took possession of the telegraph llnesin Eng
land. The enormous population and extent
of London makes the transmission. of tele-
graph mesrages by wire from the central
Office to the suburbs matter Of complication,
involving loss Of time and increased expense.
For example, a message arriving from the
country at the central office for delivery in
Whitehall, would, at one time, have been
transmitted by wire to the ssub-station, at
! Charing Cross, and sent out thence by a
messenger. This system occupied consider.
able time, employed a large number Of clerks
and instruments, involving the construction
wires, and double the risk of errors in trans
mission. By the employment OF the ,pneu
matte tuoe, the message, after being tran.
scribed at the central station, can be shot
through the tube to the station nearest the
abode of the person to WHOM it is addressed
there to be taken out, put into an envelope
and dispatched by messenger to it's destin
alton. Experiments recently made on the
working Of this system prove that velocity
of about five hundred yards,a minute car bt
obtained. A message from Telegraph street
to St. Martins lie Grand, a distance of 65G
yards, was transmitted ia enc minuee and
forty seconds. Another was sent from the
same place to Temple Bar, z, 058 yards, in
four minutes. In these instances the tube
was worked both by pressure and by vacuuEc
Iby vacuum alone the time required IL
about one-thigd more. --..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-31
ADVENTURE, Devotion, AND DEATH


! One of the most remarkable instances oil
woman's attachment to man, and heroism
under adversely, came to our notice to day
To begin at the commencement, we WILL
state that in 1850, young lady in the city
OF Auburn, n Y, the daughter Of wealthy
parents, eloped with a young man named
Miles, a railroad engineer, and both pro
ceeded to Cleveland, Ohio, and afterwards
to Toledo. They were pursued by an in
furiated brother of the young lady, and in
the latter place, to avoid detection after
the marriage ceremony had been perform
ed, the young lady arrayed herself III male
attire. In this disguise, and while selling
apples, she passed her brother several
times on the street without recognition ON
his part. Shortly afterward, early in the
war, the two went south to Nashville,
Tenn, where Niles procured employment
as locomotive engineer, his wife engaging
as fireman, still keeping up her disguise.
Between Nashville and Chattanooga a
shot from a rebel inflicted serious wound
upon the engineer, and he was taken to the
Governn4 ent hospital at Murfreesboro,
Tenn His wife followed, and to her care
ful, nursing. Niles owes his life When
sufficiently recovered to endure the hard
ships Of travelling they returned to Cleve-
land. A few months later he alleged cold
discoveries at Mandock, Canada attracted
them tinker, and the t&lfe accompanied
her husband, still in masculine garments
The yicisSitudee Of her career, exposed 70
hardships and accidents, were too severe,
however, and few weeks since she died
at Cleveland after brief illness. Niles,
who is now in this city, is aman Of about
forty years of age,and does not refer to the
heroic devotion of his wife but in terms of
the warmest admiration Oshkosh North
tCeSteTn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-31

A Mothers SToRY.-As was about to
enter my nursery, to look after my little
ones, / observed tile youngest, a boy of
three years of age, looking over a book
which he had taken from shelf, resem-
bling q family Bible, used before morning
and evening prayer in family. Struck
with the unusual solemnity Of his manner,
I watched his movements. With great
precision, and apparent devotion he we2t
through the exercise threading and sing
ing, and kneellng for prayer, IL initiation
Iof his fathers daily example.
And never was manner, voice or gesture
more properly copied. prifing as was
this circumstance, SO deep and solemn was
the impression made upon my mind, that
10 this time [ feel myself mentally ex-
claiming :"What manner Of person ought
we to be, in all holy conversation and
g0dliness," Never till that moment had
my mind dwelt upon this momentous
fact, though so often repeated, that the
future characters and eternal destinies oil
children are usually, at very early peri
cd, stamped by paternal example; and
now felt that an amazing influence mast be
exerted upon young children by the man
ner in which their parents conduct FAM
ly prayer,-B001geJ5cGt Messenger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-08-31

EARLY FRUGALITY.-In early childhood,
YOU lay the foundation OF poverty or riches, in
Che habits of your children. Teach them to
save everything for their own use, for
that would make them selfsh-but for some
use. Teach them to share everything with
their playmates; but never allow them TO
destroy any thing. once visited a family
where the most exact economy was observed,
yet nothing mean or uncomfortable. 1t is
the character to be as comfortable on little,
as others can be with much. In this family,
when the father brought home package,
the older of the children would, Of their own
accord, put away the paper and Irvine neatly
tearing them to pieces. If the little ones
wanted piece of twiee to play scratch-cra'
die or spin a top, there it was in readiness ;
and when they threw it upon the floor the
elder children had ne need to be told to puI
it again in it's place.