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+ cxcelleut new houses, with celsatHt from to
iorooms arranged for and and all modern I'M
Also, threo large 1ad elegant bE1ck houses
eea vtqdovs lasse pazff.;s r. fsT so IT,
no building lots that will soon double In value An Or
any Of the property will bo sold On easy Or
and iooS for yourselves. WARREN, KEESRY co..
1856 Dca1bo1n-st.
T10R RSALE-WASuINGTON uEIGHTS-so ACRES.
close to station and improvements, only $1t9 PeE
acre Il cash; cheap Mt S1W" po1 aese. sAoaHS q
WARE 81 Washagt1n-st-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

comes Secretary of State for the Home
Department; Rt. Hon. Henry Austin
Bruce, present Secretary Of State for the
Home Department, is elevated to peer
age, and Rt. Hon. Hugh Cumming EARLY
Childers, present Chancellor of the Duchy
of Lancaster, is created a Marquis. The
Marquis Of Ripon, Hon. VIM. NJ. Baxter,
will resign. Hon. John Bright will enter
the Cabinet as Chancellor Of the Duchy Of
Lancaster. .t.
The Spanish Cortes has passed a bill
granting constitutional guarantees to
Porto Rico.
A Vienna dispatch says that in his late
interview with the Count de Chamb0rd,
the Count de Paris acknowledged the
former to be the head of the house OF
Bourbons and Of the royal line of France.
Henri Rochefort, with eighty nine other
French convicts, has been transported ta
New Caledonia. 49,. -,'. -s q
A Vienna paper reports that Count de
Chambord has accepted the throne Of
France, formal tender Of which was re-
Gently made him by a deputation of Le-
gitimists. tr' -7''2 H. f3f'i
A Madrid dispatch, July s, says that
Valencia had tunconditionally surren-
dered, and General Campas occupied
the city. The submission of ,Carthagena
was expected to follow immediately.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
A Man Worried with Money.

Greatly to my delight 1 met my old
friend George Williams away down Will
liams street.. He was just from the city
of Charleston, where he rains as king,
and was in very happy frame of mind
l mean financially. knowd George in
Nacoochy sum thirty years ago when ne
used to work like q nigger in a little corn
patch on the side of the hill and carried
water in big soap-gourd to keep his
truck from burning up with the drought.
He was always hard workin, and mighty
liberal man according to his means. He
is liberal yet, but in spite of all he can DO
his money will akkumulate faster than ne
can give it away. Pm afeerd this worries
him, and it does look pity to see man
SO discumftted with money in his de-
clinin years: Considerin that he Isl Geor-
gia Methodist, l hav thought he might
Build en- a college in Nacoochy, just to
spite old Vanderbilt in Tennessee. I've
no doubt he will do it if he ever thinks OF
it. notised that he was quite thin in the
flesh, and remarked that it was a favora-
BILE circumstance, for he could come
nigffer goin through the needless eye the
scriptures tell about when the time COM
eth. That thing has bothered me SO all
nv life, I've been afeerd to lay up any
money. The truth is, however, L have
never had chance as yet, and the pros
pect for the future is mortal dim.
George says that money is all vanity
and vexation of spirit, and the way he
talked about the trouble and the care that
it brings, know he would have cheer
fully given me few thousand dollars If
he haden't had such high regard for my
family. He was afeerd it would prove
burden instead of blessin. He sed that
when he was up on visit to his Nacoo-
chy farm last summer, he put on some
old clothes and an old hat, and started on
a tramp around the plantation. Gettln
tired after while, he set down on log
bv the, side Of the road and q man cum
along with an OK wagin and, ses he,
& Mornin, sur" "Good mornin,' ses
George. "Do you work for George w.
williams ?'' "Yes, sur" says George.
aHow much does he give you . year!'
"My vittels and clothes and tobakker,
and paws my doktor's bills,'' says George.
show long have you been workin that
way?' ssAbout thirty years. says
George. "Well, you're an old fool, and
that's lust the way the stingy old cQss
has made all his money: Good mornin,
sur" and he popped his bark whip and
drove on.-ssBiU A1p," IN augusta (Ga.
NbronieA
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
Proposed Oll-Pipe to the Seaboard.

There is now an effort being made, and
with alleged success, to form company
to pipe oh from the petroleum o. us regions gns.; to
The proposition is one which will: OF
course. III strike the general reader with
smazement, and command the serious at
tention of scientists and mechanics; but
# must be remembered that this is the
sThe men at the head of the piping
.ohanoe are shrewd and practical. Some
of them are identified with the greatest OF
our Of material projects, and understand
~ ur.c;seIv what they are ABOUT. They are
rpesolyed to put this thing through, SO
that in q few years we may expect to see
nlugs @ on the Delaware front from which
ships viii be loaded with the oily freight
running through pipes direct from the
tanks on Oil Creek.-Phila. Press.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
Miscalneous Selections.
BIZ THE SEA.

SLowLYtadily, under the moon
swin4e nde, in its old-time Wav.
Never IT, an0 never too soon
And evening and morning make the d.v
Slowly yeadily over the sands.
Andfr the rocks, 10 fall and dow
And tfWave has touched . dead man. h.,.
And one has seen q face Wr Emour' Asnus
They've borne the good ship on her wav
Orf1ed her deep from love and ioht:'
AND, as sney SINK at our feet to -dey.
ARho shall interpret their measa - ar;oh+
Fo1eir separate voices of GRIEF .nal.hs..,e -
offending at last in one solemn tone.
AIDniy this song of the waves I hear
for ever and ever His viii is done,s,
silly, steadily, to and fro,
wings our life in its weary wav:
~ ct its ebb, and now 1t its how
nd the evening and aRoains make thu day.
Grrow and happiness, peace and strife.
Fear and rejoicing, its moments know
low, from the discOrds of such q life
Can the clear music Of heAyex hoWS
ct to the ear of God itswells.
ana TO the blessed round the throne
Weeter than chi1esof Sabbatin bellaI Isy
Forever end ever His will is done!,,
From {" Quiet Lite" byA A.D.R.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
A Leipsie Tragedy.

A terrible tragedy is narrated by the
German papers. Herr Schweinhoff, a
merchant Of Leipsic, aged sixty five years,
after losing his first wife, married a young
girl of eighteen, who, of course, was only
enamored of the old mans wealth.
Schweinhof had by his first wife q son,
who seems to have been rather wild. On
returning home after two years. absence,
the son, who was aged twenty five years,
commenced liason with hts stepmother.
Schweinhof suspected the intimacy, and
determined to be avenged. Having ac-
quired proof of the Reachery Of the
couple, he awaited the opportunity. On
July 5, he took horse and rode to a
country house then occupied by his wife.
Entering the grounds, he saw her and his
son seated at the edge Of small lake, en-
gagged in conversation. He ct once put
spurs to his steed and trampled the Wo-
man under the horses feet. She, flying,
fell into the lake. The son sprang upon
the father, and, during struggle which
ensued after SchweinhoH had been pulled
from his horse, he stabbed him fourteen
times in the face and breast with poniard
which the father had carried in his own
belt. Then he ran to the rescue Of his
mistress, and leaped into the water, but
strength failed him before he reached her.
The lifeless remains of the guilty pair
were recovered an hour later. Ieipsic
was in state Of CONSERVATION.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

Monarchs, his throne began to tremble.
meanwhile, our company all mounted,
and with ropes in hand at safe distance
surrounded the tree still supporting the
year, while one man was left to give the
lew nn1shing strokes needfu1 to bring it
uown, and another held the horse of the
chopper close by, so he could mount and
not only be safe from the claws Of the
Dear, but also to secure, if possible, our
mucn coveted and long sought prize. By
"a tms sum nme the eastern sky was beginning
% Snow signs Of approaching day. Look
u out y cries the watch, SO he is coming!"
The man at the tree hastily leaves it and
mounts his horse A tremendous crash
follows, and the tree is leveled to the
ground. All eyes are earnestly scanning
the vast pile of limbs branches,
and leaves for the now pros
trated bear. We did not have to
wait long. for with tremendous snort,
that would raise the hair on the head Of
one not pretty brave, as well as accus-
toned to the unearthly sound, the bear
issued from the pile of debris, not to try
even to make his escape, but to avenge his
insulted dignity, upon his persevering
purSuers.y E&G LIT 9 b e. ftEhA zs$ " y
Now began in good earnest the fun so
long delayed by the bears previous man.
euvres. Out upon the nearest horses came
the bear; back went horses and riders;
on came the bear, until clear space was
obtained for the action of the ropes and
horses. Two ropes were thrown over his
head, and as soon as he found he was
caught he sat down upon his launches,
took first one rope and then the other
in his fore paws, and deliberately drew
the horses and riders up to him until SO
near that they were obliged to cast loose
the ropes in order to back clear OF the
bear. This kind Of play lasted for about
two hours, until the bear had taken no
less than eight Of our ropes from us.
But by perseverance and determination
we finally succeeded in getting two ropes
over his head, and at the same time one
over each of his hind feet. These pulling
in different directions caused him to lose
his balance, and he came down upon his
back with his fore paws exposed, which
were soon entangled by the ropes, which
now came thick and fast upon the strug-
Cling giant. After about another hour OF
intense excitement and fearful struggle,
he was securely bound, and lay powerless
for harm and impossible of escape. The
struggles had been terrible, the excite
ment intense, and the victory complete.
We were allowed only the Joy Of his cap
ture, however, as the infuriated beast re-
fused to remain captive, and died in an
hour after his forced surrender and con-
finement. We retired to our homes glad
we had taken the bear, but sorry we
could not keep him for the proposed bull
f7Dht
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
A Wooden Railroad-Fifteen Miles an
-J. s 81 Hour with Ease. b. 81" 900"

The Clarendon Is. C.) Press contains a
lengthy account Of the wooden railroad
or tramway which has beenilately built,
and which brings Manning Courthouse
in communication with the outside world.
The South Carolina Central Railroad
had been allowed to drop through the
hands of the original projectors, and
considerable amount of cutting out and
grading had been accomplished, when
Messrs. Land and p Pritchett, large tnrpen-
tine distillers, doing very large business,
purchased the right of way and set about
to construct road that would take their
products to market. F-.,.5 49,.
The road from Manning to Lanes
Turnout, on the Northwestern Railroad,
was cleaned out and graded and laid with
miles long. The bed is constructed pre-
cisely as all other railroads are. The
whole structure is precisely similar to
other railroads except, in place of iron,
this road has wooden stringers, four by
five inches, fastened down to the cross
ties by long iron spikes passing through
both stringer and cross-tie, making the
stringer both steady and firm. These
stringers arg five inches upon their face,
and the tracks or wheels of the running
stock are five inches upon their face. The
friction in running being distributed over
wide surfaces, the injury to the rails will
be much less.
The fianges of the wheels are two and
half inches deep, thereby preventing
any probability Of running off. A por-
ton of the road has been in operation five
months, over which trains have been rum
ming daily, and most of the stringers are
smooth. The rolling stock is common,
but quite ehectual. The engine is worth
only 81 800 bat is sufficient to carry seven
or eight cars, loaded, at the rate of fifteen
miles per hour. The proprietors are now
gone to the North for another engine of
greater capacity. The road is regarded
as a saccess, and answers ali the purposes
of a frstrclass iron road. The road has
cost about 81 200 per mile. By this road
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
How She Became Green.

Mr.. Green was q good looking man,
verv-he dressed well-was we'll posted
up In matters of business, and had the
reputation of being smart man. But
Mr.. Green had lived thirty years without
a WIFE,. 1t wasn't his fault, for he was
fond of the society of the fairer sex,
owned fine house. which he rented 1or
his board. and there were plenty OF mar
riageable ladies In the village.
How happened it, then, that Mr.. Green
remained In state Of single blessedness!
Want of courage. Mr.. Green was COW,
ard among the ladies. True, he could
pick up q iady's ndkerchief, hold skein
Of warn, OR give his arm in the pOhtest
manner to escort lady from church. He
had seen at least half dozen women he
would have married, or who would have
married him but he never could muster
sufficient courage to ask either OF them
whether she would or not.
~ One evening he was visiting at the
widow w,Saith,s-Widosp pSmith-n0t tWens
ty-six years had flown over her head, yet
she had been a widow three years, and
had lonvE put of her Widows weeds. She
was pretty, had placed her only child be-
side her husband in the graveyard, ana
sighed for companion and many time
had she remarked to her friends she won
dered why Mr.. Green did nOtget married.
He was an occasional caller at her house,
and would have married her at an hours
notice. But she did not know it. lie mad
never whispered to her of love. ~
He could talk about crops-the growth
of the village-the industry OF the young
men, and all other matters which the
widow did not care to hear about, but the
g one thing'' which would have struck
her ear as the sweetest of sounds, he never
mentioned. a.
On the evening in question, the widow
was excessively annoyed by her domes-
tics. Hardly was Mr.. Green seated when
Bridget made her appearance at the door.
"Mrs. Smith, if it plaze you," said the
domestic, twill you look into the kitchen
for minute ?"
Scarcely had Mrs. Smith returned, when
the bushy head of John, the hired man,
was thrust into the door, with:
s'Mrs. Smith, -.f, 4..f...
Chow 1 hate the name Of Smith," said
the lady.
Mr.. Green's eyes dilated for a moment
he opened his mouth and exclaimed In
hurried accents: ft .,
make it Green, ma'am-make it
Green!' .sis g. ..+tiiE. ali 5n tl,9.
And in less than month there was no
6 Widow Smith, in our village.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
The Secrets Of the Chinese Inquisition

The examination Of the charges Of con-
spiracy against the members Of the mys-
terious Chinese tribunal has been deferred
until next Tuesday, and in the meantime
the police are making every effort to &C.
cure evidence for their conviction. The
safe taken from the council room still re-
mains at the police headquarters. The
Celestials refuse to open it for All inspec-
ton of its contents. The curiosity to
know what it contains is intense, many
believing that the tales Of the Spanish in
QUESTION would pale before the startling
revelations which an inspection Of the
records of this society (supposed to be in
the safe) would bring to light. On the
other hand, there are those who regard
the Chinese as too cunning to place on
record any of the more serious judg-
ments of this council.
Their mode of procedure with doomed
offender is dark and secret. A hired as
sassin is chosen among their lower classes,
the victim pointed out, and the assassin is
offered certain sum, generally supposed
to be 81 600, to put him out of the way.
The man who is thus condemned is not
appriseG of his sentence, but the hired as
sassin dogs his steps and watches his OPP
portunity. At a time when he least sus-
poets it the quick dagger pierces him from
behind, or the favorite weapon Of the
Chinese, the murderous hatchet, cleaves
his brain, and he falls victim to this
''fearful power" His body is either cut
up into pieces and burned, or secretly
buried, or placed in sack and anchored
in the bay. His bones do not return to
the Flowery Kingdom. How they ac-
count to the home Government for this
noncompliance with one of their strict
est rules is unknown. but Chinese inge-
nuity is equal to that small requirement
in the line of falsehood.
Two or three years since Chinaman
was found drowned IN the river near Sac
ramento few days after he left this city.
It was well known that he was under the
ban with this society-in fact, that he had
defied their power. The evidence that he
had been toully dealt with was conclu-
sive. He had a brother in this city who
spoke English we'll. He did not make q
move toward discovering his brother s
assassin, but meekly bowed to the SUI
preme power of this terrible society,"
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 1.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

A WOMAN seventy-five years Old, at
Ripley. Mississippi, walked five and half
miles to market, lately, carry ing on her
hack seven turkey gobblers, twenty two
chickens, twenty-four dozen eggs, and
six pounds of butter, and she does that
sort m Of thing regularly. 1w the express
companies must love her!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

The Chicago Lster-Oeea's asserts that
while an old lady lay i'll with meningitis
at her house in Laporte, Ind, last week,
her son procured some boards from the
cellar and proceeded to make coffin in
the same room. She begged him to de-
sist, but he refused, and the coffin was
about finished when she died,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
Desperate Battle Between a Man and
MOccasin.

A correspondent of the New York
World, writing from Sumter, s. c., Au-
gust 2, says: A most exciting battle took
place a few miles from this town a few
days since, between well-tO-do farmer
and snake, described by the gentleman
as a moccasin, perhaps of the highland
species. The gentleman, who IS we'll
known to me, and for whose accuracy and
truthfulness [ can safely v0uch, was re-
turning home from town with bis wife and
child in buggy drawn by two spirited
horses, when his horses stopped in evident
alright at the sight of a monster snake
lying across the track some distance in
front of them. Giving the reins to his
wife, the gentleman left the buggy and
selecting piece of fence-rail advanced
and struck the snake one blow, when the
rail unfortunately broke and left him de-
fenceless. The snake Immediately dashed
at him and ran him.ffercely, until finding
man made for his buggy, which he barely
with great force against the wheel as he
inmped in alongside his wife. In mo-
ment the gentleman had his buggy whip
in hand, and with the butt of it had a
desperate fight with the monster, which
continued its determined efforts to effect
an entrance to the buggy. The horses
becoming uneasy and the wife dreadfully
alarmed, the lines in her hands were
somewhat relaxed, and the team made a
squirt which at once carried the party q
hundred yards from the scene Of conflict.
Looking back and finding that his enemy
still held the field and showed no DISPOSE
ton to run, the gentleman again left the
buggy, and securing stout and reliable
club returned and renewed the fight. As
he advanced, and when within few feet,
the snake sprung at him with distended
Jaws, when welI-directed blow laid him
on the ground, where he was soon dis
patched. The snake was five inches in di.
ameter and nearly nine feet long, and
although the dog-days are considered as
infusing more than ordinary venom and
malignity into the serpent tribe, yet this
furnishes one of the very few and GER
tainly most remarkable Of instances in
this section of a snake attacking and en-
gaging in persistent and continuous fight
with man, and showing no signs of re-
treat, but acting on the offensive through
out and fighting to the death.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06

TH1RrY-rHREE widows belong to one
sewing society, in Watertown, n. z, and
the sound of a pair Of boots going by the
house where they meet is enough to stop
all the machines and needles.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-06
News from Abroad.

A recent letter from Japan says that on
July 81, some 10000 men, mostly farmers,
armed with bamboo spears, assisted by
the former Damio's retainers, armed with
swords, attacked the Government castle
at Tukuoka, set fire to the buildings, de-
stroyed all the official books and papers,
and killed six officers. The telegraph
line from Nagasaki to Kokukom was
utterly destroyed and the overland
mail road blockaded. A report had
reached Nagasaki that the houses
of all the people in Halati and
the country round about, who
would not join the insurgents, had been
burned, and the banks had been robbed.
The cause of the revolt is, that the Gov
emment has required the taxes of the
farmers to be paid in money instead of
produce, together with the probable fail
ure of the rice crop. a4,t t3
A terrible earthquake occurred at Bal
luno, Italy, on the night of June 70,
causing great destruction to life and prop
| erty.
! sc. Calsopp, Conservative, has been
elected from East Stafordshire to fill the
vacancy in the House of Commons, caused
by the death of Mr.. McClere.
We learn by cable dispatch, Augusts,
that In consequence of the recent dissen-
sions in the British Ministry, the Cabinet
has been reconstructed, as follows: Rt.
Hon. Mr.. Gladstone will combine the
Premiership with Chancellor Of the Ex-
chequership; Rt. Hon. Robert Lowe, the
present Chancellor of Exchequer, be-
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-10
CONFIDENCE MEN.
now ONE OF THEM swINDLEs AN
OLD MAN OUT OF HIS RAIL
ROAD TICKET.

Thomas Corners, . citizen Of Vicksburg,
applied to our authorities yesterday for
aid to help him In getting to Chicago.
To them he related the following history
Of bic misfortunes since his departure from
home: He bought second class ticket at
vicksbure to Chicago, for which he paid
$2a 80. Everything went oil right on his
journey until hs reached Columbus, KY,
night before last, when he became . vic
tim Of misplaced confidence. On stepping
from the train on board Of the transfer
steamer Illinois, he was approached by .
youngish looking man, who seemed TO act
In the capacity of clerk Of tho boat, ask
ing him (Conners) IL he had ticket. "Of
course have" said Corners, handing his
ticket TO the assumed clerk, who detached
. small piece from what Conncrs thought
the ticket, handing back the balance tell.
ing him, IAN right, go back afr"
Shortly after, when the clerk Of the
boat called on Corners for his ticket he
drew forth from his pocket the piece
handed back TO him by the assumed clerk.
But 10, and behold, it was nothing more
nor less than a railroad programme, or
time card, and Of course, Of no value what.
ever. Then for the first time he became
aware that he had been swindled by a
sharper. Unfortunately Corners is here
without money or friends and four hum
dred miles away from homo.