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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
CONGRESSIONAL.

April. 23.-jSeaate.-Nob bills were brought
to vote, and the only question of public inter-
est discussed was the Louisiana bill, upon which
Mr. Merrimon made a speech Hoase.-A num-
Der of bills relating to the finances We're intro
duced and referred. The Appropriation Dill
was discussed at some length and seven pages
disposed of.
APRIL 24.-Sendte.-An amendment to the
Internal Revenue act was passed, providing that
no legal document or paper required by law to be
stamped, which was made, signed or issued in
the Northern States prior to the lst of January
1868 shall be deemed or held as invalid, or OF no
effect by reason of the failure to impose thereon
the required stamp Mr. Merrimon eoncinaea
dom presented the report OF the Com
mittee on Transportation, and made
aea1 easthy speech R e1pansGMa to Monday
House.-The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President, transmitting copies
of all orders and correspondence IN relation TO
the troubles in Arkansas, IN answer TO resolu-
ton of the House. Referred. Consideration oi
the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Appro-
priation bill was then resumed, and alter DIS
posing of all bat six pages, the House ADJOURNED.
April. 25.- Senote.-Not in session.
House. The whole session was devoted to the
consideration of the Legislative Appropriation
bill, which was finally completed, and the House
adjourned.
APRIL 27.-SeRGte.-The entire session
was devoted to eulogies on the late Senator sum-
ner The speakers were Messr5. Boutwell,, Thur
man, Morrill, of Vermont, Pratt, Sargent, Sher-
man, Wadleigh and Anthony. Appropriate res
olutions We're also passed, and sent to the House
for their concurrence. House "A few bills wers
introduced and referred, when the Senate resolu-
tions in reference to the late Senator Sumner be-
ing received, further public business was dis
pensed with. Eulogies were delivered by Messrs
E r. Hoar, Lamar, Orth, Rainey, Dawes Pot.
ter Kelley, Nesmith, G. f. Hoar, Conger anC
philliUg
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
The Value of Cigar Tips.

While upon benevolent topics, / wonder
if any gentleman in the United States has
ever considered the amount that can be re
allied by collecting and selling the tips
from cigars that are cut off and thrown
away before smoking. In Dantzie one
poor boy is fed, clothed. and schooled each
year from the result of these sales. In
Berlin a small asylum is supported by
them. One general collector and receiver
is appointed he appoints under-collect-
ors, and they their sub collectors, and so
the good work is widespread. and every
one feels an interest in it. At first was
quite amused to see with what precision
gentlemen cut off and put into their pock-
cts that which | had been accustomed to
see at home bitten off and thrown away.
Finally, | inquired why these bits OF to-
bacco were so carefully preserved. and |
was quite astonished to hear of the mag
nifieent results of this trifing economy.
Is it not at least worth trial, if the benev-
olent people of our country have not al
ready adopted it?-Berlin Cor. Cincinnati
Gazette.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
FOREIGN.

There was an exciting scene in the Eng
lish House of Commons on the oath. Mr..
Smollett moved that the suddenness of the
late dissolution of Parliament is deserving of
the censure of the House. He characterized
the act as a coup d'etdt by which the last
Government sought unconstitutionally to re-
tain power. He declared that Mr.. Glad
stone had resorted to the use of STRATA
gem, which was ungenerous to his friends, in
solent to his opponents, and barely honest to
the nation. Mr.. Whalley seconded the motion.
Mr.. Gladstone stigmatized the assertion that
the dissolution was secretly planned as untrue,
absurd and impossible. He challenged the
repetition of the word " trickster," which had
been applied to him, and upon the refusal of
Mr. Smollett to repeat it he charged him with
a lack of decency and manliness. He defend
ed the act of dissolution, which he declared
would have been more inconvenient had it
been postponed. On concluding his speech
Mr.. Gladstone left the House. The motion
was negatived without discussion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16

crusaders obeyed by marching up and down
in procession in front of the saloon. Wag-
ner's men then commenced washing off the
pavements, using water freely, and at about
o'clock the ladies withdrew and went to a
neighboring church, where they held a prayer
meeting.
The 9th of April was observed as memo
rial day in many portions of the South. AT
Augusta and Atlanta, Ca, and Montgomery,
Ala, business was entirely suspended, there
were imposing professions, and the graves of
the dead soldiers were appropriately decora-
ted with flowers.
The Globe Theater in Chicago was burned
,ell thetmorning ofthe 9th, and VIM. III. Har-
rison, late Treasurer, was arrested on a
charge of setting it on fire. He asserted his
innocence and his ability to prove it.
Advices from the Teche country, on the
9th, reported erevasse and water still ris-
ing. The indications were that Morgan's
Texas Railroad would be partly submerged,
:. .Brashear City was oyerfowed and
much property destroyed. :. :. In West
Baton Rouge three hundred families were
homeless.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
Live Like Lovers.

Married people should treat each other
like lovers all their lives--then they would
be happy. Biekering aud quarreling
would soon break off love affairs; conse-
auently lovers indulge in such only to a
limited extent But some people-men
and women both-when they have once
got married think they may do just as
they please, and it will make no difference.
They make great mistake. 1t causes all
the difference in the world. Women
should grow more devoted and men more
fond after marriage, if they have the
slightest idea of being happy as wives and
husbands. It is losing sight of this funda-
mental truth which leads to hundreds OF
divorces. Yet, many man viii scold his
wife who would never think of breathing
harsh word to his sweetheart; and many
wife will be gldm and nlorose on her
husbands return, who had only smiles
and words Of cheer for him when he was
her stiitor. How can such people expec.
to be happy
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16

A WRITER who has devoted his life to
raising onions, says: None but novice
would ever thin onions. | did it the first
year, aid spoiled full one-quarter OF the
crop by the operation, and have never re-
peated it. Onions will grow in bunches,
and I think bottom better where they
.erewd each other, even though the center
ones are lifted entirely out of the ground
So long as the roots reach into the soil,
the bulbs VII keep ON growing. though
they may be an inch or naore above the
surface of the ground. Where the seed is
sowin by drill,' there will be no occasion
for thinning, except possibly where the
drill stops, and spoonful of seed falls in
one spot.'' =
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
POETRY.
HOMAGE.
BY WILLIAM WINTER,

White daisies on the meadow green
Present thy beauteous form TO me:
Peaceful and Joyful these are seen,
And peace and joy encompass thee
1 watch theIns%hefe they dance and SHINE
And love them-for their beauty's thine
Red roses o'er The woodland brook
Remember me thy lovely face:
So blushing and so fresh its look,
iSoswiId and shv its radiant grace.
kiss them in their coy retreat,
And think oflips more coy and sweet.
Gold arrows of the merry morn
Shot swiftly over eastern seas,
Geld tassels of the bending corn
That ripple in the August breeze,
Thy wfldering smile, thy glorious hair,
And all thy power and state declare.
White, red and gold-the awful crown
s0f virtue and of beauty too!
From what height those eyes look down
On him who proudly dares 10 sue.
Vet, free from self as God from sin
lis love that loves nor asks to win.
- It.s
Letme butlovethee In the flower,
The waving grass, the dancing wave,
The fragrant pomp of garden bower,
The violet on the nameless grave,
Sweet dreams by night, sweet thoughts by day
And time shall tire ere love decay.
. EafA 20
Let me but love thee ia the glow
When morning on the ocean shines,
Or in the mighty winds that blow, g..#
Snow-3aden through the mountain pines
in, all that S fair. or grand, or dread
And all shall die ere love be dead
s.ssssss,.. Galaxy for May.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16

CANNED FRuIT.-This should be the
main dependence at this season of the yea8.
Those VINO are wise use their dried fruits
with the fresh, while the latterseaEi be had,
and then the canned fruits will be in order
for these warm spring. days, when the
more exaeting appetite requires fresher
and more delicate viands.s Nearly, If not
quite. all canned fruit is better if scalded
and sweetened (h necessary and the sugar
cooked in before using, and in dong this
the more delicate fruits should be cooked
as little as possible. No fruits should re-
main open long; for they will spoil gust as
quick as fresh fruit under the same eir-
! cumstances.- Herald Of Health.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
onImEs avn oAsuALTIEs..

Captain John Reeves and three other men
were drowned off Cape May by the capsizing
of boat, on the 22d.
At Boughton, Ark, a few days ago, fight
took place between party of citizens and a
gang of horse thieves whom the former were
pursuing. Three of the thieves and one citi-
zen were killed and another citizen wounded.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
cowMERcE ANDINDUsTRY.

Gold closed in New York on the 21th, at
113 Is. n
The Pennsylvania oil producers have agreed
upon a stoppage of all wells for period of
ninety days, beginning April %. ltis claimed
that there is large surplus of OH in the mar
ket, and that the prices are so low as to
threaten bankruptcy to the producers.
Following is the comparative cotton state
ment for the week ending April d:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16

THE Chicago papers report that on week
DAYS General Sheridan dashes along the
boulevard behind four Government mules,
but on Sundays he trots out team OF
handsome bays.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
Transfusion of Blood.

At the last sitting of the Paris Academy
of Sciences, an interesting paper was read
on the operation of TRANSMISSION OF blood.
At the time the operation was decided
upon, the patient Ia woman) appeared to
be on the brink of the grave; the pulse
was imperceptible, her weakness such that
she was unable to move, her eyesight all
but extinguished; she was unable to speak,
and nothing would stay on her stomach.
DR.. Behier performed the operation III the
presence of number of students. de
said it was highly important the blood to
be injected should be pure and in its nat
Jlral state. without being deprived OF its
fibrine or allowed to cool. Such prelimi-
naries had been considered necessary IN
order to prevent ceagulation in the vein !;
but there was no need of them if the ope-
ration was quickly effected The blood
should not be dead, but living. One OF the
fusion to be looked upon with disfavor
was the difficulty of introducing the nozzle
of the syringe into the vein. The late Dr.
Nelaton had proposed to obviate tins by
an incision of the skin an inch long. IN Or
der to bring the vein into. view. Or. Be
hier prefers opening the vessel with a
lance, as in blood Lettings; he recommends
the injection to be performed slowly, GO
prevent the sudden repletion OF the right
ventricle of the heart, which would cause
asphyxia and death. The quantity OF
blood administered in this case was not
more than eight grammes. The possibility
of success is now proved beyond q donDl
after controversy which has lasted up
ward of two centuries.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16

THE manufacturers of ofoleomargarine, the
new substitute for butter in New York,
employ persons TO collect grease and fat
from butchers shops and private dwell
Iings. Think of buttering slice of toast
with refined soap fat,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

transforming it into II bower of beauty. a
committee Of gentlemen send out the invita-
tons and attend to the commissariat one
sending hamper of game cooked another
a boiled ham, third fruit, a fourth
biscuit, cake, and the like, until all the
essentials of banquet are supplied, The
guests set the table, do the waiting, and have
a very lively time, everybody being bound to
contribute something toward the success OF
the entertainment"
Copies of any of above publications may
be seen at the Bookstore of Osman Il Hape.
man, where subscriptions are received and
single copies kept for sale.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

The women about Evansville are good
draumcrs. In Oldpn times they would have
hucn regarded ~ pr0pheiCsseS but in these
m2tteroEiact days they are only empty dream
crs. Some tim" since watch was stolen,
un3 i \ oman had dream which led direct
w. % H. recovery OF the watch and the arrest
ol lAc .4lrG This was th~uglt To be Il re
markabt, 9ccEicnt More lately Il woman
dreamed Il % Il stranger came To her house
and asked Or "a s;lct lodging. II was civ.
. cn him, but lriJrc .etiring he slipped his
shoes outside l,c door In the morning the
stranger was goalc, and also a considerable
sum .ot money lie woman wakencd her
husband, told her 4 lean and she was laughed
Il, as &sual. She ure.mcd it thrice the same
Hight. some weeks after this her husband
had been Ia town and brought on, to his
home good sum o; money. in the evening
Al Stranger applied for Il nights lodging and
wac Eivth good supper and puj 10 bed IN
one OF the upper roDm~ Before The lady re
tired with the dream in hey mind-shc open
ed the door and outside she found pair of
shoes in the precise position OF he shoes IN
her dream. She then recalled all the vivid
particular 60! her dream. She showed her
husband tbe shoes. and again reminded hIm
OF what She had told THAI night whcn he
laughed %, her So. lie NOW lhodght there
might tr sunctLiug like "a warning Ia 1t after
all. go ar luHdyt us toLSl" 6Jrr.ilrd shotgun
and aa;.lcd Inc tOom Wigir The treasures
we've AIngt miCr.ghl >Gr" enough the
Stranger cana creeping down stairs with u
d.rk.luGtvln IN his hand. and Began 20 make
q critical examination of tie premises. One
of iac first discoveries hc made WIS The man
ot the huEse. sitting with his qua ia his
hands. keeping guard over hi household
gods. lie tnid the stranger - leave, and the
stranger lefi. He pat on his shoes outside
lie door and quietly walked away. The wo-
man ,rowed all tbc rest nf that might. The
unrra,cful brute told her, however, that
dreams never come true, - more did hers
i"r the man did no, get tl.e moncy.-Sf. Lou
- R.b
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24
MORAL.
Fall of a MOnstrous Aerolite.

Trenton MOI Correspondence Chicago Tmes.l
few DAYS since the inhabitants of the
vicinity of Farmersville, hamlet OF Llv-
ingston county, in this State, were startled oy
the appearance in the heavens in broad day
light of an immense ball OF ire, Or meteor,
falling with inconceivable velocity to the
earth The spot of its fall was visited by the
awe.struck citizens in crowds to learn more
of the strange apparition. A man was found
who had been al work in the woods close by,
ana who seemed almost distracted by fear,
but who soon recovered himself sufficiently
to tell what he knew o. il. He sad as he
was to work he heard sound like the fierce
screaming of huge shot from riiled can
non, accompanied by a rushing noise, like
the sweep Of tornado. Looking about to
discover the source of SO strange sound, a
bright glare like flash of lightning attract
ed his eye upward, and he beheld, apparently
coming directly toward him, mass of fire
"as big as IA mountain Before he had time
to escape it, II struck the earth quarter OF a
mile away, ard the shock was like an earth
quake The party approached and found a
glowing mass, which prevented close inspec.
ton by its radent heat 1t cooled oil gradu.
ally and now presents the usual appearance
of such bodies, being black, shining mass
of metcorc iron, but its huge size is unprece-
dented 1t is described as reaching height
of full twenty feet from the surface OF the
ground and as being twenty or twenty-five
feet in damter, This seems almost incredi.
BILE, but as hundreds of respectable and truth.
full people have seen it, and all tell the same
story, the facts force themselves on our be.
lief 1t is supposed, and with good reason
th.t at least half Of it is buried out Of sight;
out up To This time no means have been
used to ascertain the depth of ITS penetra
ton.
The largest sgrolie on record to my know
hedge is one which fell in Asia Minor, which
was estimated to weigh $4,000 pounds. But
this huge monster from the upper deep vii!
weight nearly as many hundred weights.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

An operator sits at a table IN room dark
ened by curtain. On the left hand stands
little instrument named the projecting galvan-
ometer," the invention Of Sir William Thorn
son, without which Atlantic telcgraphy
would be Il slow process not exceeding two
words per minute, instead Of eighteen or
twenty, the present rate
This delicate instrument consists of tiny
magnet, and a small mirror swinging On a
lsilk thread the two together weighing but q
few grains. The electric current, passing
along the wire from Valencia, defects the
magnet to and fro. The mirror reflects Il
spot of light on to scale, in a box placed at
the operators right hand, where, by its osciI-
ation, the spot Of light indicates the slight
movements of the magnet, which are too
sill CHIT TO be directly seen
This little swinging magnet follows every
change in the received current, ana every
change, great or small, produces Il correspon-
ding oscillation Of the spot Of light on the
scale. 4 code of signals is 50 arranged, by
which the movement of the spot or lght l.
made to indicate the letters Of the alphabet.
When receiving message from Valencia,
the operator watches the m0ycmcnt OF the
little specll, which keeps dancing about oyer
the scale on his right TO the practical eye
each movement of the spot Of light represents
"a letter Of the alphabet, and It's sc".--
ingly fantastic motions are spelliHr ont tte
intelligence which the pulSings of the q, T.
tric current are transmitting between The two
hcmisphcrcs. 1t is truly marvellous TO no.
ticc how rapidly the experienced operator
discnimgles the irregular oscillations Of the
little speck Of light into the letters and words
which they represent.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

The soft, ",louch," or roundtopprd lclt
hat, now 50 commonly worn, was never "a IA
yoritc hcad-cOvering for gentlemen until the
advent of kosSuth in This country. Before
that time this style OF hat was monupo'iatd
10y brigands and loatrrS The high silk hat be
ing used by gentlemen for dress and the cap
!Or rainy DAYS anu fatigue wear. Al thc time
of thc prominence ri the political party DIES
lgLatcd Know NothngS,' a style ui soii hat
WAS affected bv its adRcreutN. After hoSs uth :
triumphal ;uur through The United States.
limitations "i the soft hat Worn ny him be.
came the rage, mankind generally being glad
10 exchange the cUmhTous "~'"N-pIpc,' Tor
the more convenient soft hat
At the present time 'Ic majority ui men in
New York wear felt hats. They ag' consid-
cred propcr tor every occasion. They aIc
tossed about used COR fon'.bSil> and Hooked
up" IN stock exchange, and are worn al
church and in nIll dress suits. They POSSESS
the charm OF uncertainty which the always
prim beaver does no,. Men who are fasti H.
aus in their toilets look especially well III sofi
hats but the unlidy man, who Grams The Suit
hat ON I'm hurry. adds the c,,J rh,T To- his
.louchy appearance Dandic> and .'swclS"
a,lupi The soft hat because II can Lc arranged
10 suit their style of beauty II can be ele
gnniJy knocked in on one side. or drawn
down ou the other. in Just u iriie Of dcSpcra-
do fashion. sufficiently To give occumm-ly
handful air or 10 I've sci on the head without
spot or wrinkle Gnd invests the wcarer with
the appearance Of Purlianical pieiy. Soft
hats are most convenient for men who run
the cuantletni "dTummers' al times, and dis
guisc their faces by pulling down the rim-, and
hey ase especially adapted y" sru'l'E,H o.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-01-24

He is a man who has travelled. Men now
in business at the West are in general older
than the States where they live, and so must
have travelled Not one in six OF the Nebras-
khan. was born in Nebraska No Nesterner
perhaps has voyaged as far as Bayard Taylor,
and some few olher EasterlngS. But west.
travellers are more multitudinOus. Or clgh-
teen Americans who chartered CAIRO steam
er to go up the Nile in 1868, ten resided IN
Detroit or west Of 1t. The proportion would
be larger today. In western village you
always find those who before settling have
rovea over a dozen states. But in New En-
land you constantly encounter those who
were never out of their native county. Tween.
ty wears ago there lived in South Danvers,
NJ ass, one Miss Eden, near one hundred years
old. During the century OF her pilgrimage,
so far from journeying to Philadelphia or
even New York. she had ne yer been in Dos
ton, though born within thirteen miles OF IT.
Her most distant expedition had been fve
and one half miles to Marblehead. She had
been there only once, and that for the purpose
of having the small poX, some years before
the revolutionary war 1t will be long before
the West can show such "a phenomenon, Fix.
ed like Il plant to one peculiar spot"
All the better for the West. Each man
there finds what he can do best, il not in one
place, then in another. Along the Burning
ton and Missouri River Railroad In Nebras
Ka there are many who have bought lands
on long credit, and are developing them into
grain and stock farms with their earnings in
Wisconsin lumber camps, California digglngs
or while freighting TO Colorado and Montana
1t speaks well for Nebraska, that legion'
flock there from SO many quarters
where they earned money to make start
with. Nebraska is for farmers, and farmers
for Nebraska. PROF j. ID. BUTLER.