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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-01
The ssLuxury of Woe.o

1t is nothing but fashion that compels the
black garb as the sign of a grief that may
be more apparent than real. In this re-
spect many of the Oriental nations are
more poetical than we, for they adopt not
black, but yellow, as the color to be worn
by those whose friends have preceded
them to the grave. They do this, because
yellow symbOliZes the entrance of the de-
parted spirit into the great yellow light of
the rising dawn of eternity, a day that is
to be, where there shall be no such thing
as night or darkness.
The compulsory wearing of black among
Christian nations may be small matter to
the rich when one of their family or friends
departs to better world; but to the poor
it is a serious business, and adds new ter
rOr to the death which they deplore the
terror of an expenditure which they cam
not afford without depriying the living of
that which is necessary to their life, and
crippling their resources for many months,
or it may be years, of painful abnegation.
The luxury3of woe to the men and wo-
men of ten thousand a year may be as at
tractiVe luxury as any other, and the
black attire may be made as coquettish to
the female eve and mind as the gaudiest
colors in which it may please beauty to be-
diZen herself, or responsibility to make her
self look more seemingly respectable. But
to the woman in the middle or lower class,
with possibly half dozen children to fit
out with suits of the prescribed color of
death, the question of mourning, which
fashion forces upon the observance of rich
and poor alike, is one that may sometimes
be too closely connected with insolvency or
the pinching of the stomach to be agreea-
BILE to the contemplation of the head of the
family, or of her who claims to be more
than half the head and the whole heart of
tha establishment
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DoNALDsoNv1LLE, LA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER /, 1878.

The steamer Mary r. Poe. from St.
Louis to New Orleans, took fire Oct. IL, at
p. m, and was burned to the waters
edge. The disaster occurred at Island No.
26, about one hundred miles above Mem
phis. There were sixty-fiye passengers
on board, of whom four were lost togeth-
er with the chambermaid and cabin-boy.
Part of the cargo consisted of seventy-five
barrels of oil, which burst and spread over
the water in sheets of flame, burning
many of those who had escaped from the
boat.
A shanty, occupied by family named
Kelly, at Toledo, was destroyed by fire,
Oct. Is, and Kelly and his wife and grand
child perished in the flames.
Detectives James Irving and Philip Far
ley, of the New York detective force, are
alleged to have been guilty of malfeasance
in connection with the case of the Bank of
England forgers, and complaints have been
duly lodged against them with the Police
Commissioners. The detectives deny the
truth of the accusations against them.
The Commonwealth Block at Topeka,
Kansas, was burned on the morning of
Oct. 20. Nothing of any value was saved.
Loss about $100,0O0 insurance $4,000.
In the Stokes trial few days since, con-
siderable of sensation was caused by the
evidence of Patrick Logan, who was
court officer on the first trial, and who
had in his charge at that time two of the
hotel servants, witnesses for the prosecu-
ton, named Hart and Redmond. Logan
testified that these witnesses admitted to
him that they expected $1,000 each for
their trouble, ,sand Redmond told him that
they had been furnished with copies of the
testimony to commit to memory. Logan
says he had heretofore concealed these facts
through fear of the friends of Fisk, and a
rigid cross-examination failed to shake his
testimony.
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POETRY.
THE MOVERS.

BYw. D. HowELLs.
Parting was over at last, and all the good-bys ha
been spoken.
Up the long hillside road the white-tented wa
gon moved slowly,
Bearing the mother and children, while onward
before them the father
Trudged with his gun on his arm, and the faith
ful house-dog beside him,
Grave and sedate, as If knowing the sorroWfu
thoughts of his master.
April was in her prime, and the day in its dew!
aWaking;
Like great flower, afar ON the crest of the east
ern woodland,
Goldenly bloomed the sun, and over the beautiful
valley,
Dim with its dew and shadow, and bright will
its dream of river,
Looked to the western hills, and shone on the
humble procession,
Paining with splend0r the children's eyes, and
the heart of the mother.
Beauty, and fragrance, and song, filed the all
ike q palpable presence.
Sweet was the smell of the dewy leaves and the
flowers in the wild wood,
Fair the long reaches of sun and shade in the aisles
of the forest.
Glad OF the spring, and of love, and of morning,
the wild birds were singing.
Jays to each other called harshly, then melloWly
futed together;
Sang the. .orioie songs as golden and gay as his
a
Pensively piped the querulous quails their greet
ings unfrequent,
While. on the meadow elm, the meadow lark
gushed forth in music,
Rapt, exultant, and shaken with the great joy of
his singing;
Over the river, chattering, aloft in the air,
the kingfisher
Hung, ere he dropped like a bolt, in the water
beneath him;
Gossiplng, out of the bank hew myriad gW1tter-
ing swallows;
And in the bows of the syeamores quarrelea and
clamored the blackbirds.
Never for these things halted moment the Nov
ers, but onward,
Up the long hill-si road the white tented wagon
moved slowly,
Till, the summit, that overlooked all the beau
tiful valley,
Trembling and spent, the norses came to astand-
still unbidden:
Then from the wagon the mother In silence got
down with her childten,
Came, and stood by the father, and rested her
hand on his shoulder.
Long together they gazed on the beautiful valley
before them:
Looked on the weil-known fields that stretched
away to the woodlands,
Where, in the dark lines of green, showed the
milk-white crest of the dog wood,
Snow of wild-plums in bloom, and crimson t1nts
of the red-bud;
Looked on the pasture-felds where the cattle
were lazily grazing
Soft, and sweet, and thin came the faint, far
notes of the cow-bells,-
Looked on the oft-tnpddela lanes with their elder
and blackberry borders,
Looked on the orchard, a bloomy sea, with its
bilows of blossoms,
Fair was the scene, yet suddenly strange and all
unfamiliar,
AS are the faces of friends, when the word of
farewell has been spoken.
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MISCELLANY.
The Maniac Sea Captain.

The following thrilling circumstances
are derived from the history of the New
York marine. On bright morning in Oc-
tober, l849, an American packet-ship in
the Liverpool trade, left the anchorage in
the lower bay of New York, and went on
her way to the sea. She was deeply laden
with an assorted cargo. Being a staunch,
fast ship, and having experienced officers
and full crew. it was expected that her
voyage would be safely and speedily per-
formed.
Captain Benson, the commander, was an
"old sea-dog," as the saying is. Boy and
man, he had spent the best portion of his
life on the ocean and there was no cap
tain sailing out of the port who was re-
garded as more thoroughly reliable in
every particular. He was now advanced
in years, and he declared that after few
more voyages he would retire. He had
made money, and besides interests in other
vessels, owned one-half of the one which
he commanded. During the previous voy-
age there were some peculiarities in his
conduct which attracted the attention of
his mates, and was mentioned to the
agents but nothing further was thought
OF it.
The gallant ship passed Sandy Hook,
and when well off the shore the pilot left
her. The wind was fair, every sail was up
and drawing, and willing crew were put
ting everything in order for ocean naviga-
ton. When the pilot went over the side,
ne said, Captain Benson, l VIII report
you as having a falr WIND, and gong IKE
racer.
:" Az, ay,' shouted the captain y" let all
New York stand by and look. I'm bound
to beat everything that floats or ever VIII
float. Look out for my report 1rom Lon
don, or from the bottom OF the Atlantic
Idon't know which. Ha, ha, ha J"
The language, It's tone, and the iaugn
We're all SO strange that the pilot could not
help turning to give Look OF surprise at
the face of the captain. This was all, how
ever, and the next moment ne was in his
boat, tossing amid the waves, while the
ships sails, under orders from the captain,
We're again filled, and she fairly flew on her
way.
The captain of vessel is king at sea.
His orders are law, and any interference
with him or them is mutiny- crime pun
lshable with death. Hence it can be seen
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FOREIGN.

The London Times Paris correspondent
on Oct. IL telegraphed as follows: From
exact information it appears that the mon
archical parties have come to an absolute
agreement. Chambord has made conces-
sions which are satisfactory to the liberal
monarehists, and the following will be
submitted at the opening of the Assembly.
The proclamation of hereditary constitu-
tional monarchy, the King promising lib
erty of conscience and equality before the
law as the right of all. The monarchists
are confident of majority in the Assem-
bly,. It is said that four hundred and six
teen deputies are pledged to support the
restoration of royalty.
John Bright has been reelected Member
of Parliament without opposition.
A Madrid dispatch of Oct. 10 says that
the frigate Fernando el Catolico was acci-
dentally run into and sunk by the Numan-
cia (both insurgent vessels) and nearly all
on board were lost.
A Paris dispatch reporting the agree
ment between Count de Chambord and
the Monarchical parties in the Assembly
gives the following additional points of the
programme to be proclaimed at the open
ing of the session: The eligibility of all
persons to civil employment, universal
suffrage, reasonable liberty of the press,
and the tri-color to be maintained as the
flag of France. This last point, however,
is open to mutual concessions. The dis
patch also says the Assembly is called to
meet not later than the 9th inst.
A dispatch from Rome, Oct. 20, says !:
The General of the Society of Jesuits was
to-day officially notified by the govern
ment that the order must Immediately va
cate the premises occupied by them in this
city. The Committee of Liquidation of
Ecclesiastical Property, appointed under
the law for the abolition of religious cor
porations, to-day took possession of six
converts. The rectors read protest,
which the committee accepted, and then
handed to each inmate a certificate for his
future income. The United States and
Portuguese consuls also protested against
the seizure of certain portions of the Fran
cisean Convent, on the ground that they
were the property of citizens of their re-
spective nations.
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CoMMERoE AND INpUsTRY.

Gold closed in New York, October 20,
at 1889.
The Manufacturers Board OF Trade, at
Fall River, Mass, has voted to recon-
mend the suspension of all mills two days
in each week, and to run only eight hours
a day during the other four days for the
present.
The st. Louis Clearing house Associa-
ton have fixed upon October 27 as the
date upon which the banks of that city
shall resume currency payments.
A Washington dispatch of Oct. II
says the average condition of the cotton
crop has fallen off from SO to 7S1 since the
first week in September. The October
status of crops is materially reduced. The
season must be of average length and COM
paratively favorable for picking to insure a
crop equal to that of last year. The State
averages are as follows: Virginia, 80; North
Carolina, Ss; South Carolina, 80; Georgia,
80; Florida, >76; Alabama, rs; Mississippi,
70; Louisiana, 65; Texas, so; Arkansas,
SO; Tennessee, 90; Missouri, 80.
The following is the comparative cotton
statement for the week ending Octo-
Der IL:
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Silk Culture in California.

Mr.. Romolo Bonhomme, the silk-crll-
turist, who lately arrived here from
Europe for the purpose of inves-
tigating the resources of California,
and especially Los Angeles county,
as to its adaptability for the culture of the
silk-worm, has just completed his visit to
all the localities where the white mulberry
tree grows. He reports very favorably of
the trees, and says they grow easily in this
climate. Mr.. Bonhomme is of the opinion
that California will, In the course of few
years, be the silk-producing country of
the world, and that he has seen finer
specimens of the silk-worm in California
than ever in Japan. About $10,000,00
is annually expended for the silk eggs by
italian and French merchants. Last year
an Italian silk-culturist alone bought 500.-
900 ounces of silke eggs, and paid $4,000, 900
for them. This money goes into Japanese
pockets, but could be partially brought to
California in the course of a few years by
cultivating the silk-worm as an article of
export. Our climate possesses every re-
quisite for the successful production of
this source of revenue.-Los angeles Star.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-01

WILLIAM P. ENSIGN, formerly of Troy,
N. Y, IAN expert in opening and construct
ing complicated safe locks, was lately ar
rested at San Francisco for picking safe
locks in that city. He had been engaged
in his burglaries for year, and had given
the detectives a good deal of trouble. En-
one of his safes and advertised to give it to
anybody who could take it out.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The result of the election in Ohio on the
State ticket is so close that on the evening
of October 16 both sides claimed the cleo
ton of their candidates. The Legislature
is Democratic.
The Republican majority in Iowa is es-
timated (Oct. 16) at about 10000. They
also claim the Senate and House each by a
small majority.
President Grant attended the reunion
of the Society of the Army of the Tennes-
see, at Toledo, O., Oct. 16.
President Grant had a reception at Cleve-
land, Oct. IL.
Ex-President johnson has made affida-
Wit to his claim for $73, 900 against the First
National Bank of Washington.
A Columbus (O.) dispatch of Oct. 10
says that both parties conceded the cleo
ton of Allen as Governor by from 600 to
700 majority. The remainder of the State
ticket is claimed by the Republicans.
Hon. Ellis I'll. Roberts, of New York,
has covered his back pay into the Treas
ury.
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their plans for pushing it through Con-
gress."
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
PutFIsu-ruen rabl..

Bet iowaz en ypuF table, q whole nosegay II
yuu cam gat &, q hut two OF tlnna a. : ninala
haWer, . ruso. . pink, dAisE. B<fng : fsB
ezisies o. butteF1ups FROM your last fiofd work.
nd keep shen alive in = little astar; preaazsa
but bun1h Of ch0veE, oz = hAnaful Of 6ouering
srzss, 6ne Of the most elegant Of natures pro-
duosions, and you hsve something on your table
that reminds you Of God's creation. and gives
you link with the poets that have done ii most
honor. Put roae or lily or violet on your
table, and you and Lord Bacon have . custom IN
common, for this great and wise man was in the
hehlt ef having flowers in season set upon his
table We Believe, morning, noon, and night I;
that = 70 say, st Al his meals, seeing thst they
we're growing all day. Now, here IL = fashion
that viii last you forever II you plssss-never
change with silks and Salvets and silver forks,
nor be dependent on caprice Of some fne gem
tlemAn or lady who have nothing but caprice
snd changes to give them importance md SEN
aAtion.
Flowers on tins morning table are especially
suited to them. They look like the happy
Eakening Of the creation, they bring the per-
fums of the breath of Nature into youF room;
they seem the very representative and embodi-
ment of the very smile Of your home, thejgraces
Of good morrow, proofs that some Intellectual
beauties are in ourselves or thoee about US, some
Aurora Oif we are 30 lucky as to have such q COM
panion) helping to streW our life with sweet
neee, or In ourselves come masculine wilderness
nos unworthy to possess such . companion or
unlikely to gain her.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
South New Jersey Affairs.


Salem has public library of 2200 volumes
The glass works Of Bodine Bros, Bridgeton,
employ 800 men and boys.
Cape May has l,067 chimneys, according to
the report Of the City Marshal
The Cape May season openes with promise
Nearly all the cottages are already rented.
Fair township, Cumberland county, has two
hundred and nifty acres planted in strawberries
The glAssWorks belonging to Messrs wArrick
4 StAngsr, at GlAssboro'. were destroyed BY fire
recently. Loss about ESQ, 900.
The Moore Bros., at Clayton, will eject an ad.
ditonA and fourth glass house and twenty
sight dwellings for their employees this sum
mer.
Richard GrieF, Of Salem, has been chosen Pres
ident OF the West Jersey Mari and Transporta.
ton Co., at the recent annual meeting OF the
company.
Twenty-Five new cottages are under contract
or process Of construction at Wenonah, q new
town on the West jersey B. B., miles from
Woodbury..
The Bndgeton city council Ia not grAntins
any licenses. At the Lass meeting is refused Z
license any beer saloons and the application o.
Elkinton to keep an inn and tavern, in the ThirC
ward was lost by vote Of one yea and Eve nays
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
De We Have 1--WE Rxi.tssees /,

In discussing the subject, at the last meeting
of the Delaware county. Pa, Institute. John NJ.
Broomzn related an anecdots told to him when
8 boy. A Welsh girl living with the parents Of
Samuel Evans OF Delaware county, acquiring
English when eight years old. completely forgot
the Welsh tongue. but when so years old receiv-
ed parAytic stroke, and thereafter recovered the
Welsh language. and never again spoke English.
Other curious Incidents were related by Amos
Bonssn. showing dual existeDces, and their relA-
ton to the phenomenon Of memory.
DR.. La Fuseell had frequently read Of such
cases, and related some Of them, one Of the fe-
verish rAyIngs Of an igorant woman who spoke
in Greek and Latin this unconscious memory
was traced back to . Learned minister who read
aloud in these languages when she Was but nine
years Of age. Dr. Edwin Fussell Aiso discussed
these phenomena at length, saya the American,
and related some personal experiences Of recur-
ring memory. His theory was that nothing Is
really lost to us in this Me-nothing at least in
one generation. Besiaes We had predispositions
to disease, and even peculiar habits OF thought,
those frequently leAping over generations.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
U..,-az


The West Chester Ftldgs Record says: On
Wednesday morning last, two men in the fem
ploy Of W. 7. & n. Painter, Birmine ham, were
sent to cut OF the butt log OF large white oak
which was lying felled on the steep hill side by
the creek road. The men we're cautioned to
block the log mp carefully, but sometime after
ward loud cries for help were heard and on hur-
rying to the spot one OF the men, Philip Cole,
vas found with the log lying across his stomach.
With great labor he WAS got out and tAken home.
The lower part Of his body was badly crushed by
the heavy log, which was about three feet in di-
Ameter. The blood oozed out Of his ears and he
suffered greatly. Ii appears that after saving
the log OF. Cole in spite of the protestations of
bis comrAde, knocked the blocks out TO ''see the
log roll Getting tangled In the brush as it
started he jumped on the log when he was
whirled around with it, and on striking the log
passed up to his stomach, when it struck . tree
which stoppedit But for this it would have pass
ed over his whole body and he would have been
instantly killed. As it is, his injuries are very
serious.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
Our pIIslsser e Hayti.

The Ee,c National Era naturally feels pleased
with the success Of the colored minister-resident
Of the United States at HAyti, Hon. z. d. Bias.
sstt. 1t says he has lately been gaining fresh
lAurels. He forced the government TO respect
the rights Of American citizens BY making it pay
agent At MiragoAre. Mr.. Bassett was appointed
At critical ilncture, and has served through
the most trying period Of our relations with
Hayti. Through all OF his negotiations If not
always strictly approved, he has won the conf
dence of the State Department, and has reflect
ed credit upon his race. We feel confident the
President viii retain him a. an encouragement
TO colofed men Of ability and as an earnest of
his determination to appoint not the worst but
the best colored men 70 office.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
Newark,
Correspondence Of the Commercial

Correspondence Of the Commercial
PRoPERIT CEAsGE.-AndreE Donneu. Rsa
having bought Of Mrs. Garrett the properly
known as GaTetts store and dwelling ,is improy.
ing it in many particulars. The store is being
converted into pArlor and porch OF very ornate
kind while porch is also being built to the back
Of the house. The grounds are also being very
greatly improved The carpenters work is keinq
done by saml, Darlington, and the painting by
7. BAnistsr.
EsLARsrsG.-The johnson Bros are putting
up an addition to the carriage and blacksmith
shops owned by ]. B. Luton, TO make room fol
gangvsy and platform. This is what was Lut.
toms Hail.
MILI1sERT.-Miss Margaret Pennington ha.
opened her millinery store which makes = verJ
pretty show. 1t EAs fitted up by T. B. McKin,
sey.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
The Pepna. Fl.h Cennl-.isn.

At the recent meeting Of the Fish Commis
sioners in Harrisburg, it WAS decided to proceed
at once to the discharge Of their duties under
the law. The New Jersey Legislature having
failed TO make an appropriation, nothing will be
done this season in the Delaware river, but theJ
purpose to deposit in SusquehAnna sufficient ovi
to produce 10000, coo shAd next season. Setf
Green, inventor Of the chad Matching boxes, ii
expected IN Harrisburg soon, when one Of biz
boxes will be placed in the river above the Col
umbia dam, and several of them below.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16
SpsfIal AlIns.
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At fhls ss@snn Il ms year snen ~ pEudent house
ksepezs are Raeksng away thslf fHzN and voollsR
gooda andllzEtnR their heuseM IN order for the an
pEoaez.ng zsEnHass. ne guessiuns very naturally
the moth Z" How shah we get nd OF such pests
- reaches, bugs, ants, &c. ~
Tne best known insect desiroyerF. are
C0rr0zzve Subitznate,
An active polsOa best suited for use on seastssda
and furniture. under the waahbaasds and alonE ne
edges Of carpets, in the form OF solution.
CARRoLEU ACID.
which destroys sll tha lover order OF plants and
very dluts Etste IS It leaves tsrTy odor behind,
which, though wholesome Is somewhat persistent {
Persian insect Powder
PyresAran Rossum., IN innnesat vegetable powder
whieh eaeetualiy banishes Ants, Moths, Bags. RED
or Water Roaches, and al small insects, when pro-
perry applied and Is pronounced By many fuSTiers %
be one Of the best and cheapest articles In use.
GUM CAMPHOR,
which, being volatile. peEneaies the entire mas or
bundle Of goodss and is soon dlssiI ated when the
goods are opened for use again.
GteHfsCorfh's Roach Pois0ss,
We have found. from several years sxperisnce, TO
Of Reaches. Unlike many ether preparations they
attracted by this Artse dey0urng Il with great
ayidity and are not likely TO die in their hiding
All the above articles sold In any quantity and in
formation c'ncerning their use and nature cheer
Z BsINaHuRsT Co, Apsthecaries
COT. Sixth and Aarkst Streets.
Wilmington.
Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-05-16

The New York Times Of to-dsy publishes Let
missioner to Vienna, strongly denying the char
ges against him, and Ascribing them TO ''ths sc-
cursed mAlignity and unhallowed ambition and
vanity Of John Jay These letters are address,
cd TO President Grant and Secretary Fish, and
are accompanied By sworn stEtsmsnts to the
EAunA effect