davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02
Why Women We'd.

Some close observer of our social
relations having looked about among
his married female acquaintanees,
ventures to give the following list,
with an attempt to indicate the rea-
sons which influence too many to
marry -
Number one has married for home;
she got tired of working in q factory
or teaching school she thought mar
ried life on earth was but moonlight
walks, buggy rides, new bonnets, and
nothing to do.
Well, she got tired of her home;
whether or not she got tired of incum-
brances, this deponent sayetll not,
inasmuch as this deponent docs not
positively know.
Number two marlies because she
had seven young sisters and her papa
narrow income. Perhaps she would
have better consulted her own inter
est by taking in light washing on 60
ing out by the day to work.
Number three married because Mrs.
sounded better than Miss. She was
twenty -nine years and eleven months
old, and another, month would have
transformed her into a regular old
maid. Think how awful that would
have been.
Number four married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills.
Her husband married for precisely the
same reason so they are both lament
ing at leisure.
Number FIVE married because Fam
ny White had q nice. husband, and
she was not going to be left behind.
Pity she couldn't get married as well
as other folks.
Number six married because she
was poor and wanted riches. She
never counted on all other things that
were inseparable from riches.
Number seven married because she
would ike to travel. But Mr.. Num-,
Der Seven changed her mind after
ward, and all the travelling she has
done has been between the well and
the back kitchen door.
Number eight married out of spite,
because her first love had taken to
himself a second love. This piece of
retaliation might have done her good
at the time, but in the long run num-
Der eight found it did not pay.
Number nine married because she
loved her husband with all her heart
and soul. And size loves him still,
and will prbbably continue to love
him, and is the happiest wife in the
world-so she says.
We haye the right motive at last
-one which is above all others.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

NEWSPAPER MEN.-There is no
class of people who do so much good,
or work so, hard, as newspaper men.
They publish good papers, and they
strain every nerve to do it, but the
populace do not consider this, or the
fact that newspapers are fair index
of their own intelligence and enter
prise. Some papers put up with all
sorts of expedients to get along, when
there are scores of influential men
who are greatly benefited by the pa
pers who do nothing to sustain them.
They might speak a good word for
them, get their friends to subscibe for
them, sustain them with their adver-
tising patronage, and thus remunerate
the hard-working newspaper men.
Every citizen ought to be animated
by sufficient pride, if by no other
motive, to sustain good papers, and
thus see them worthy representatives
of the people.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

for his profanity. There were now
five en- the other side and six on ours,
when the teacher of the other school
took the foorEand we saw that there
was blood in his eye the moment he
said :" we Will now proceed to spell
Bible proper hames.n
This exercise soon thinned our
ranks. Four pf the enemy and one of
ours went down at one shot, on "Neb-
uchailnezzar.n sour girl" let go of
our hand and wilted on q Pharaoh
before we coul I'D inform her whetherit
commenced with For 2, and finally
we keeled over on the simple word
Isaac, and the champion was a small
boy of ten Years, who was named
after the soa of Abraham, and the
onlylword which he could spell was
that with which he had won the day.
But the sorrows and troubles of our
youthful days never lasted long, and
we had soon forgotten our defeat, in
the happiness of having the rosy
checked girl all to Ourself in the back
end of the sleigh, and with three buff
falo-robes that we had stolen to con-
ceal our faces, and render mintellig-
ible the whispered words of sympathy
and affection that we poured in under
the g kiss-meE quick" hood that COW
cred her curls. Two mittens held our
four hands, and the few strong pepper
Minis drops HAT we had been boarding
up for the occasion, were dull and
tasteless compared to the condensed
extrpct of sweetness that we daringly
snatched from her lips when crossing
the bridge ON our way home. She
said she had /" forgotten that there
were so many bridges on that road,n
while we-Well, gentle reader, you
canIot have forgotten how the old
thing worked in those days before the
war; -Iftusrgle Herald.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

Thos. d. Worrall, who says he rep
resents Jefferson parish, also that he
is the great ~ am" has turned his
influence against the Administration,
and, says he, " IF it had not been for
me, Warmoth would to-day be stand
ing at the bar of the Senate, impeach-
ed for high crimes and misdemeanors." !"
Now, if Worrall is the honest man he
would wish the people to believe he
is, why did he support Gov. Warmoth I?
Why did he not bring him before the
bar of the Senate? Or has the Doctor
Just now discovered that the Governor
has committed these misdemeanors? :?
Have you too, Doctor, been sucking
pap, and suddenly discovered that it
does not flow continually? If so, be
quiet; there is still a place in the min
istry where you can re-exereise your
devotion to the colored race by order
ing them to take back seats, as was
the case some three or four years past
in New Orleans. 1t is currently re-
ported that Hon. Rev. DR.. Worrall is
something like the Virginia Legis-
lature is said to be-: You never know
when you are done buying him.
-Lafourche Times.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

REAnING IN RAILWAY CARs.~-Most.
If not all who read on railroads. are
sensible of weight and weariness about
the eyes. This sensation is accounted
for on high medical authority by the
fact that the exact distance between
the eyes and the paper can not be
maintained. The conclusion and os-
cillation of the train disturb the pow
ers of vision, and any variation, how
ever slight, is met by an effort at ac-
commodation on the part of the eyes.
The constant exercise of so delicate
an organ of course produces fatigue,
and if the practice of railroad reading
is persisted in must result in perma-
nent injury. Added to this difficulty
is bad or shifting light. The safe and
prudent mode is to read little, if any.
The deliberate finishing of volumes
in cars is highly detrimental,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

One of the finest retorts on record
is that made by an English ambassa-
dor to French king, of whom he
asked the release Of certain Huguenots,
who had been thrown into the Bastile
for their religion. "What would your
master, the King of England, say, if
sued for the release of the prisoners
in Newgatef" said the King. The
answer was ready: g Your majesty
may have every one of them, if you
will claim them as your brethren
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02


The expedition sent out by the New
York Herald to find DIR. Livingstone,
and get advance news of his discov-
cries, is likely toinerease the wonder
ment of the English journalists. 1t is
altogether the most remarkable ex-
ample of newspaper enterprise in
modern times. Their Abyssinian cor
respondent set out from Bagomoyo,
near Zanzibar, with a force consisting
of 3 white men, % soldiers, 4 super
numeraries, 81 pagazis or carriers,
in all lib persons, q donkeys and 2
horses, and at last advices had reached
a point 525 miles in the interior.
Eight thousand dollars were expended
at the start, for cloth, beads and wire,
which constitutes the circulating me-
dlum or money of Interior Africa.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

A man who cheats in small meas
ure is measureless rogue. If he
gives short measure in wheat then he
is rogue in grain. If in whiskey
then he is a rogue in spirit. If he
gives bad title to land, then he is a
rogue indeed. And if he cheats when
ever he can, he is indeed, in spirit, in
grain, a measureless scoundrel.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

Representative Worrall has again
got upon the rampage. The idea oc-
Cured to him yesterday to be Speak
er, and forthwith he moved to declare
the Speakers chair vacant. Three
votes seconded his ambitions exer-
tions. These hardly constituted a
majority of the House, and Mr.. Worrall
relapsed into melancholy eontempla-
tion of the vanity of human ambition.
= M. O. Republican.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

At Louisville, few weeks since, in
the City Court, a negro lawyer ap-
peared for colored client, and ex-
amined witness of the same hue-an
event hitherto unknowniin the annals
of Kentucky jurisprudence.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

1t is said that green tarlatan dress
contains arsenic enough to kill man,
and yet men do not seem to be afraid
to 60 near green tarlatan dresses.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

A newly-invented photometer
proves that light penetrates 100 faith
oms below the surface of the sea-
seventy fathoms more than hitherto
supposed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

A heart broken maiden of Syracuse
did not apply to the law for a balm
for her lacerated affections, but,
watching her opportunity, gave her
tickle lover a good, sound thrashing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

New Jersey has apopulation as large
as that of New York City, but hangs
her nurderers. The consequences is
that last year only six men were
killed in New Jersey as against one
hundred and forty-six killed in New
York.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

The New York Sun nominates for
President Lyman Trumbull, and for
Vice President Samuel j. Tilden.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

Communications may be addressed siml1y
"CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La, or 10 the e't-
tor and proprietor personally.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

'sBoys will be boys" is nonsense.
Boys will be men-if they live long
enough.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1872-03-02

Transient advertisements. 81 per square flrst
insertion; rs cts. each subsequent insertion
All official advertisements 81 per square each
insertion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-19
RAILROADS ann STEAMBOATS,
Maine Central IL. Il.
la & scss. - "a zsasss sszssss e. rssE.sg3

"
Summer Arrangenent-Com Commencing
July 18th.
On and after July 18th, Passenger Trains win
ieaye Augusta. for Portland and Boston, at 545
l.i5 A. A., 1870 p. NJ; Tor Bath Lewiston and
Portland, 545, II Is A. NJ, 300 Z. NJ: for Bangor
33J y. a., and 4.lj +. NJ, for BangUr, Dexter Bel
ta7t md SkOW hogan, 4lj L. NJ, Tor Hallowell and
Gardiner, 54j. W HIS \. NJ, 21j 30o, q 90 r NJ
The 80 and Il.45 Trains connect at Bath for
RoohlaHd.
The 30 and II q \. VI Trains connect with the
nra"d Trunk Railway at Yarmouth for Montreal.
The .i5 \. VI. Train connects at Portland with
me Portland Ogden -Durg Railroad tor Baldwin,
9lyeburg and Conway.
The $50 a. Vi. Train connects at Bangor with the
+. \. A. Raliwa, for Houlton Fredericton
saiais ana 81. John, arriving III st. John at 8 p NJ
treighs Trans leave Augusta for Portland and
ssston at 9o5 \. 81; tor ohoHh, gan and Bangor at
1890 \. ".
Trains arrlve-From Boston at $50 A. NJ, 400
tha e:l3 L. NJ; from Bath, Lewiston and Portland
0 l0.3D \. NJ, i.G0 and Sl5 p. NJ; from Skowhe
tdn, iieti1st Dexter and Bangor at / A. ~ NJ and
lo.5o +; NJ; from Gardiner and Haowell at 100,
-? and l0.30 a. NJ. l.30. 4.00, $50 and S.l5 r. NJ
teeht Trains arrive-from Boston, Portland.
ba'h and Lewiston At $50 \. NJ, anu 10 80 A. NJ,
rom Bangor Dexter, Belfast and Skowhegan at
800 y. N.
JAS. VI. LUNT, Genl snpt.
July ID, l6t2. l.. l.. LINCOLN, Asst. Supt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-19
NO. 224.
For the Journal.
ANDovER, SEPT. II, 1872.

ANDovER, SEPT. IL, 1872.
rainy day yesterday detained us here,
and we were very glad to be in such good
quarters, and so beautiful place, which, like
Goldsmith's ''Sweet Auburn might well be
called the 'loveliest village of the plain"
We went to visit the emery mandatory,
so called, although the powder here prepared,
we are told, Is not emery, but similar in Its
qualities, and quite as useful for many pur-
poses. 1t was once analyzed by DIR. Hayes
OF Boston, and found to contain 90 parts in a
hundred Of silica. 1t was discovered in dig
ging well in the vicinity. The mineral bed
or deposit is of considerable extent, running
or twenty feet beneath the surface of the soil.
Il is a fine powder of blush drab color
when dry. shaft has been sunk which is
about ten feet in diameter, and the mineral
was at first raised in buckets by steam en-
gine. The bottom of the shaft seemed to fill
up as fast as the mineral was taken out, prob
ably from lateral pressure, the powder being
loo Sc like quicksand. The workmen becom.
ing afraid to risk themselves in the shaft the
powder was subsequently, pumped up, dried
IN the sun, and then shoveled into bin pre-
pared for the purpose. The building occu-
pied by the machinery is on side hill, and 10
three or four stories high in the rear. The
only process required after procuring the
mineral, is to sift it, which is done by steam
1t is then put into casks and sent to market
Five tons have been sent at a time to Boston
to be used in the manufacture of emery soap,
said to be the best soap to remove stains from
the hand. The superintendent thinks money
may be made out of the business, but thus
far it has not been very profitable. The prin-
cipal proprietor has several other irons in the
fire, and cannot give personal attention to
this manufacture. In fact, it is yet but an
experiment. The finest powder Is excellent
for cleaning silver, and it is used to clean
knives and to polish machinery. 1t resem.
bes the powder called Tpoli, which is man.
utsctured in Ohio.
This morning the wind has changed to the
northwest, the fog is lifting and the clouds
are breaking away. Every thing indicates
favorable day for the prosecution of our jour
ney. The soil in this region is very different
from that on the Kennebec After a rain
the roads are about as hard and smooth as
before, aud it is only occasionally that we
find mud puddle, and then it is not troub-
lesome one. We have scarcely seen any in
dications of frost on this excursion. The
temperature is mild, and rather too warm at
times, than too cold. Even in the evening it
is pleasant to sit without a fire. A rainy day
is rather dull here, as it would be any where.
But with the help of few newspapers, one
or two books, and good deal of cheerful con.
versation. we have found it very passable.
SENIOR.
The New York herald., 1872-12-07
MRS. STOVES READINGS.

The finest audience of the present course assem-,
bed at Association Hall last evening to hear the
readings from her own works by Mrs. Harriet
Beecher stowe. II filed the hall completely and
represented the best culture and reAnemeat
of the city. Mrs. stowe is not 30 well
known to our own ''city folk as to be beyond
the necessity of description, as she has made her
home ever since she became famous in the breezy
hills OF New England and the tropical everglades OF
Florida. She Is an old lady with curly gray hair.
but a remarkably bright merry face. she
has the face Of her brother, Henry Ward
The tie happy aisnees occasional with that merry.
minded preacher. She wore gray silk dress on
ns Se her cnrv har was doned W ana
dem. She used eyeglasses, and occasionally
dropped them by the chair to enjoy without en-
dangering their integrity the hearty laugh with
which she had injected her audience.
Mrs. stowe began her readings with Yankee
told by 'sam LAWSON to the boys in the field
picking huckleberries. II was entirely in the
broad Yankee dialect as really heard in New Eng
thrust upon her audience such sue. sue
was kept in hearty laughter throughout the entire
story. Sans epigrammatic definition OF Huda,
.one Of these iacnitlzed women" his assertion that
days is 'mazing means o. grace" and the ex-
preston OF his opinion in speaking OF the minister's
open on Provdences lookin' out who's to be che
next One,n brought down the house, while the story
OF "The Tom Turkey proved very c0nclusively
that Mrs. stowe is, as Sam describes ParsOn Nor
rll to be- "a master hand at gcttin' or story"
selections were also read from "Uncle Toms
Cabin,' but Mrs. Stoves Southern dialect is not
so genuine her Yankee and although the audience
enjoyed her account OF chow Topsey grOwed,"
the reading was not so faithful a dramatic repre-
sentation as the Yankee scenes The readings
concluded with story called ''Laughng in Meet
inv which the reader vouched for as being told
to her by the very soberest OF New Englands
s0lemnest sort Of ministers, and the audience de-
parted having enjoyed thoroughly pleasant
entertainment.
The New York herald., 1872-12-07
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Frank p Blair Is c0nvalescent
Francis Herman Is attending the Supreme Court
In Washington.
Ex-Leutenant William Bross OF Chicago Is at
the st. Nicholas Hotel.
statue OF Chief Justice Taney is shortly to be
dedicated at Annapolis, Md.
General J. g. Foster, OF the United States Army,
is at the Fifth Avenue HOTEL
General r. b. Ayres, of the United States Army,
is in quarters at the Astor House.
General Dyer, Chief of the Ordnance Bureau. is
again very i'll with Bright's disease
Colonel F. Palfrey, OF the United States Army, is
Installed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Captain James Kennedy, OF the steamship CITY
OF Montreal, is at the New York Hotel.
MIR. Paul B. Du Chaillu, the African traveller will
sail for Europe on the steamship Atlantic to-day
United States Senator s. @. Pomeroy OF Kansas,
yesterday came ON from Washington. He Is at the
Astor House.
General Manager J. N. Mccullough, OF the Pitts.
burg and Fort Wayne Railroad, is registered at the
ST. Nicholas HOTEL
Mr.. George Carter has resigned the editorship OF
Appletons Journal His successor is Mr.. Bunce
formerly an associate.
Thurow Weed has given up the fragrant 'weedr
in the seventy fifth year of hts age and the lteth
year OF his smoking
ueheTat JaWes r. farnSWOTtn, MEMBER OF Con-
gress from Illinois, yesterday arrived at the st.
Nicholas Hotel from washington.
Judge Hunts appointments to succeed the vene.
rable Justice Nelson is very favorably commented
on by the lawyers practising in the Supreme Court.
Robert Dale owen, the lecturer and writer, has
perfected ali arrangements by which he will be.
come the lord OF beautiful Brooklyn young
lady.
Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley has accepted an invitation
from the newspaper Orrcspondents at Washing
ton to be their guest at banquet to be given at an
early date.
Rev. Mr.. watson, whose death sentence for the
murder OF his wife was lately commuted to i'm
prs0nment for life, Is stated by the British Medical
Journal to show no signs OF insanity. On this side
OF the ocean we never look ior insanity alter con.
victi0n
W. H. Appleton, OF this city, has forwarded 10
the Mayor or Chicago check for $4,000, the
amount realized from the sale OF paintings c0ns
tributed by the Dusseldorf artists in aid of the
Germans Of Chicago who were burned out by the
great fire.
The Senatus Academicus OF Edinburgh Unver-
sity has received from the brother and sister OF
the late Sir John Watson Gordon a communica tion
proposing arrangements for assigning to the Uni
versity EI J. 900 Tor the foundation and adequate
endowment OF a Chair OF Fine Art, in memory Of
their distinguished brother. and to De called "The
Watson Gordon Chair Of Fine Art"
The contractor for boots for the French army
during the late war viii, surrender NJ Lille, when
the cause viii pe tried. Tho defendant Mr. Car
The New York herald., 1872-12-07
SALE OF THE DERBY.EVRARD COLLECTION.

The sale at Clinton Hall last evening was quite
well attended. Though the buyers were in largo
numbers there was yet great many "lookers-0n
in Venice who had been drawn by the announce.
ment OF many fine paintings being comprised In
the collection. The bidding, though not exceed
ingiy lively, resulted in the realization OF fair
choice Of paintings was not SO marked az on former
occasions. Neither good paintings were glaringly
dsparaged nor less meritOriOus Over-vallied
The following arc some OF the higher priccs:-
"Cattle and Figure Il. BURNER, Ss2s; ''fhe Dts
pute," y. Cartan Paris, ss45 "The wine Tast-
sea- scape," cSares +. bansisny bisiss ssas; LAKE "o OF
Brientz, in switzerland" +. Roiiraln lIsrusses,,
s695; ''The Marriage OF the Adratlc," Zem, +.
PARIS 275; 'sfhe Combat" Eug. .verbOeckhoven,
s2,a25; '.On the Nile" F.. Fromentin. $3.50:
..sendezyons on the beach. r T. BURNER, n, $3.50;
"Happncss and! Charity" Carl Muller, $975:
s.E0yp'an Giri,r Emile vcrnet LecOmte S5cOs
"The Amateurs" v. ChavOt, $A5; 'sTlse
Italian ExiIes," r. Portal, $685. '.Sad News"
Jongne, g. 4So; .'Grandiatner's Birthday" Gustavs
Jundt, 1910; .'The Fruit Sellers by Caade-iigbt.v
Vauschudei r., 81, $780, presents Tor Grandfather
H. Saentin. $e20 "Wnter Near Slrasburr,'.
KiombccK and Eugene yerboeekh0ven, al. go:
'sihe Convalescent," g. Dansaret. s42,; 'srhc Con.
Countess" Florent Wiilems, &5, 400; .ssneep ana
Landscape" Eugene verboeckhvvcr Al ssO: ssStilt
Lie ana Figures, Dens.er ana G,,pi ly7h: ssIhs
Dead Brd," Professor John q. Meyer Won BreSnsa.
$1.575.
THIS EVENINGS sALs
will close the series, and at ii the most noted PC
lures OF tne collection viii Ne sold. Among tNcsa
are ''fhe Cavalier" 10y j. H. r. MeissOuter. al earn
ting to Play" Wm AdOphe Bougucrr,aw and Ha
the Uoado,r." L. Uakaowicx
The New York herald., 1872-12-07

pee. 10 IN Sngiishman. and N 10 understood shae
several kngssh bset manufacturers are involved
IN the inquiry. Lord Granville has gwen tustruc-
tions for the Engfisn consular agents to watch the
proceedings. shoddy u not . purely American in
stitution after all.
Among the fair debusantes in Washington soc,ets
the coming Winter viii be Miss Nef,ie Grant. n,ss
Madge Dent, daughter Of General Dent; Miss FISH,
daughter OF Secretary Fish; Miss Sophie Radlord,
daughter Of Admiral Radford; Mtss Kilbourne who
has Just returned with her mother from Europe
alter two years. absence; and Miss Bartiey. dasgM
ter OF Judge Bartley and niece or CeneraI
Sherman.