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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-18

currency bill, Mr.. McDougal in the Chair.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Bright, Whit
thorne, Cotton, and Scudaer.
MARCH a.-Senate.-Mr. Bogy submitted
a resolution instrueting the Secretary of the In
terror to report to the Senate what towns in Mis-
souri, are entitled to public lands to aid schools
the quantity due such places, and whether pat
ents have been issued therefor by the United
States. Agreed to-. The Chair laid before the
Senate sundry resolutions of the Wisconsin Leg
islature in regard to the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi River and its tributaries, and for the i'm
provement of the Wisconsin River; also,
bill from the Secretary of War
transmitting "a report of the Board
of Engineers who made an examination of the
bridge over the Mississippi River at st. Louis
both of which were referred. The morning
hour having expired, the Senate resumed the con-
sideration of the bill to provide for the redemp-
ton and reissue of United States notes and for
free banking. A motion by Mr.. Morton to strike
out the section Of the bill providing for the re-
demption of United States notes in coin
or interest bearing bonds on the 1st
noes, 23 Two other amendments providing
for areturn to specie payments were lost. Adj
|journed. Householder call of the States sever
al bills were introduced and referred. "A short
discussion ensued on the Centennial bill, but
without reaching any vote the House adjourned,
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The Costly Mistakes of Civil En-
gineers.

President White, of Cornell University,
makes the following strong assertion IN
recent lecture: s~
"Another great department bearing on
a multitude of industries, directly and nl-
directly. is civil engineering. Take one
among the fields of its activity. We have
in the United States about &c, 600 miles OF
railway, and every year thousands OF miles
are added. I do not at all exaggerate
when I say that millions of dollars are lost
every year, by the employment OF halt-edu-
Gated engineers. Proofs OF this meet you
on every side. Lines in wrong positions;
bad grades and curves, and tunnels cut ana
bridges built which might be avoided. All
of us know the story. But this is not an.
Hardly community which has not some
story to tell of great losses entailed by bad
engineering in other directions. Here It
is the traffic of great city street inter-
rupted for a year because no engineering
can be found able to make the calculations
for a skew arch; bridge, thing Wficn
any graduate of well equipped depart
ment of engineering can do; there IL Is q
citv subjected to an enormous loss Dy tne
failure of its water supply system because
the engineer employed made no calcula-
ton for the friction of water in the pipes !;
in another instance it is awhole dlstrlcG
sickened by miasma, because hait-taugnt
engineer was entrusted with its drainage:
| we must prepare men for better work; and
for every dollar thus laid out, we shall ere
ate or save thousands. Nay, we shall save
lives as well as money. Mr.. Baldwin Lat
ham, in his recent book on Sanitary En-
gineering,' and DR.. Beal in his work on
diseased Germs, show by statistics that
proper application of engineering to
sewerage would save one hundred thou
sand lives yearly in Great Britain alone,
and the same truth holds in this conn-
| trV -
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-18
VOLUME III.
POETRY.
WHY?

Why is the wrong 80 streng,
And the right so weak and poor
Why goes black bread to the patient man,
And gold to the evil doer?
Why dies the noble cause
We periled life to save,
While the baleful growth of an upstart sin
O'ershadows nations grave2
Why died that Widows son?
He was all she had to bless.
The children crowd round the selfish heart,
And gain but cold caress.
Who reads the riddle right ?
And who can answer why
These clouds sweep over our mortal life9
Not you, brave priest, nor l.
Why came throbbing pain
To that heart SO firm and fair,
While the crown of wealth and OF bllthesom
health ~
Some lesser angels wear
Why went that young life out
On honor's perilons road
The caIptng tongue and the jealous mind
Stay here to wound and goad.
A picture once saw
Three crosses against the sky;
And the heaviest cross was the highest one:
Perhaps that answers why. =
To wave the banner and wreath
Was the privilege of the Jew;
But the boon to carry that heavy cross
-GaiGry for April.
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How the Japs Dress.

The dress of the Japanese, says writer,
IS plain, but quite neat and comfortable,
and, be it said to their praise, far surpasses
our own in point of physiological fitness.
The men and women both wear gar
ment very much resembling the old Ro-
man toga, which is fastened about the
waist with broad girdle. The women
wear the hair in very nice way, some
thing after the waterfall style, minus the
false material. The men wear theirs pret-
ty much as the Europeans do. 1t is the
custom for the ladies as soon as they marry
to black their teeth and shave their eye
brows, in order, I suppose, to prove their
affection for their husbands, and / should
think it ought, for it renders them horri-
bly, ugly. The young misses are usually
very good looking, and some of them
beautiful, but none of them can compare
with our young girls at home. They are
accepting the modern Improvements with
wonderful celerity, and are making rapid
strides on the road of civilization, and
rapidly distaneing their neighhors over OIL
this side.
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A Skeleton Man.

There is at present on exhibition
through the country towns of England a
skeleton man, whose physique presents
phenomena of so extraordinary nature
as to have merited description in the
London Lancet. DIR. John III. Salter, of
the Royal College of Surgeons, gives the
following account of this s'living anato-
N.Y." ssHe is thirty-four years of age,
stands four feet six inches high, and
weighs forty-nine pounds. His father is
dead, having succumbed to the effects of
old age his mother is living, and also two
sisters, who are healthy, married, and
well grown. He is himself quite healthy.
and, except in appearance, constituted
much the same as other mortals. His
arms and legs are simply bones, abnOr-
mally small, covered with rudimentary
muscles so minute that their outlines can
with difficulty be seen or felt. The head
is somewhat large; the face extremely at
tenuated; the teeth prominent; eyes blue,
without lashes. The skin of the cheeks is
stretched tightly over their projections of
bone, and the chin and lower parts of the
face are wrinkled and wien. He eats,
drinks, smokes, sleeps, takes exercise,
and shows fits of temper like spoiled
child. He is said to have never had day s
| illness in his life; to be not particularly
sensible to cold; to be capable OF lmblblng g
alcoholic drinks in considerable quantities
and the only faculties which seem to be
defective are his hearing and speech, the
latter of which is. expressed in sepulchral
tones and in jerky manner. He can
walk mile or two at stretch. He shakes
hands strongly and heartily. His breath
ing is normal. He has good head OF
brown, straight, fine hair; rudimentary
eyebrows; no hair elsewhere over his
body. His joints are large, and so is his
| abdomen his chest is of fair size.''
/ The most curious question that arises Is
as to how this man can possess so much
strength as he does with so little muscu,
lar development; and why his tissues are
| not nourished to a greater extent by the
quantity of food consumed. There has
been no alteration in his weight for ter
years.
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CONGRESSIONAL.

MARCH 27.-Sendte. dte.-Consideratio of the
Financial bin with its various amendments, oc-
Dupied most of the day. sharp debate arose
between Messrs. Logan, Morton, Schurz and
Morrill,. No vote was reached, and the Senate
adjourned until Tuesday House "A number OF
ton was debated at some length, but nothing de-
cisive accomplished.
MARCH 26.-Senate.-A petition of Fitz-
hugh Lee for the removal ofhis political disabii-
ties was presented and referred. The House
bill to appropriate S30 coo to continue dredging
| at the mouth of the Mississippi was passed
Mr. Ingalls, introduced bill to enable the people
| of New Mexico to form q Constitution and state
| Government and providing for the admission OF
| the State into the Union. Referred. Mr..
Wright from the Judiciary Committee reported
unfavorablY on the bill to remove the political
| disabilities of John c. Cabali, OF Texas.
| Nir. Caball recently accepted the nomi-
| nation for State Office. ).... Consideration OF
the bill to provide for the redemption and reissue
| of United States notes and for free banking was
/ then resumed, the question being on the amend
ment of Schurz to strike out eightytWo and insert
| ffty-six, SO that the maximum limit OF United
! States notes should be 1886, 900, 200 instead Oh
S3-2, ,000, ,0o0 as reported by the committee. Re-
| jected-ayes, 1S; noes, 10. An amendment by Nh:
| Wright, that the 't maximum amount OF United
States notes is hereby fixed at $4OO, 900, 600, -
was adopted--ayes, 81; noes, 26. Various other
| amendments and substitutes were offered, pend
! ing discussion on which the Senate adjourned.
House. 1.-The bill to regulate commerce Dy rail-
| road between the several States was passed.
| ayes, 121; noes, 116. The bill as passed is,
with but slight modification, the same as report
ed by Mr. McCrary, of Iowa, from the Commit
tee on Railways and Canals. on the 18th of
January. 1t enacts that all railroad lines
carrying freight and passengers between
the different States, whether owned by one
or various corporations, shall be regard
ed as employed in commerce among
the several States, and shall be liable for any vio-
lation of this act They are forbidden to charge
more than fair, reasonable rate for transporta-
tioa of freight passengers, which rate is to be
aseertained and fixed by q Board of Railroad
Commissioners to be appointed by the President,
with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to
be residents of each Of the nine judicial districts
of the United States. The Currency bill was
then briefly discussed and the House adjourned
MARCH 28.-Sendte.--Not in session
House The session was for debate only on tbs
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-18
PITH AND POINT.

The world is looking-glass and gives
back every man the reflection of his own
face. Frown at it, and it will turn and
look sourly upon you; laugh at it and
with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.
AN exchange, under the head of ssAn
hour with our business men" describes
two saloons, and ends the items with the
remark, "This completes the round OF
the business houses on the public square"
THE remark of severe lady, who says
that male is only mule spelled wrong, is
supplemented by the New Orleans Plea
ystsse with the declaration that, accord
ing to Latin authorities, woman is asu-
tier.
THE Cincinnati Enquirer offers to bet
$500 that no fashionable lady ever goes to
bed without first looking in her glass, and
a rival is willing to risk the same sum that
no Cincinnati editor goes to bed without
drinking out of his.
THE world is governed by three things
wisdom, authority and appearances.
Wisdom is for thoughtful people, authori-
ty for rough people, and appearances for
the great mass of superficial people who
can look only at the outside.
IFyou cannot be great river, bearing
vessels of blessing to the world, you can
be little spring in the dusty wayside OF
life, singing meTrily all day and all night,
and giving cup of cold water to every
weary, thirsty one who passes by.
DocToR REID, the celebrated medical
writer, was requested by lady of literary
eminence to call at her house. "Be sure
you recollect the address," said she, as she
quilted the ROOM No. Chesterfield
street, g Madam said the doctor, 8
am too great an admirer of politeness not
to remember Chesterfield, and, fear, too
selfish not to remember number one"
In one of the eastern towns of Massa-
chusetts lived, some years ago, Uncle Bill
-, a hard-working stone-nason, man
of ready wit, but, unfortunately, too much
addicted to drink. Regularly each morn
ing at an early hour he made a visit to the
grocery store to lay in stock OF the ar
dent for the days consumption. With
the same regularity the Rev. DIR. C., a
kindly-natured orthodox clergyman, IN
quest of his morning chop or midday
roast, sought the village butchers shop.
! After meeting often in their morning
walks, DR.. c. at last felt it his duty to
mildly reprove Uncle Bill for his easily be-
setting sin. So one morning after their
usual hearty salutations, the good doml-
ME began: You and / walk out early,
| Uncle Bill; but do you ever reflect now
different are our errands?a ~ ssWell, fol
that matter,n said Uncle Bill, s II we
bring the thing down to Scriptea' test, my
errand will come out ahead ssHow SO 2
asked DIR. c.. Why, you walk after
the flesh, but walk after the spirit.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-18
Man An Inferior Animal.


The discoveries and observations OF the
scientific world are gradually, but surely,
bringing man to the conclusion that he Is
a very inferior kind of animal after all. AS
a child he is perfectly helpless, and were IL
not for the watchful eyes of some tender
adult, he would go on killing himself with
poisonous red berries and stuffing solitaire
balls down his idiotic little throat from
generation to generation. When was an
infantile dog, usually called puppy
ever known to go and eat anything Ihat
wasn't good for him, or to make donkey
of himself standing at the doors OF reilg-
ious edifices and staring while groWn-up
young lady-dogs were returning from dl-
vine service? And yet the human puppy
does all these, and much more abundantly
Now there are ants-not human aunts, put
the other singing things. Most sensible
insects they are, too. They always keep
on hand stock of neuters, whose busl-
ness it is to look after the grubs upon the
approach of danger. There are two sets
of neuters; one to care for the more ma
ture, the other for the feebler laryae.. NOW
what do our human neuters-unprod oductlve
bachelors we mean-do? Do they look
after the babies and train them up IN the
way they should go, allowing the fathers
! to 90 and provide for the householdf NOT
| a bit of it They look after the "grub,'
sure enough, and patronize the liquor sa-
looms and steal all they can lay their hands
on, and are generally about the most use
less membranes of the human family
Such are our neuters, and sorry pictures oi
human intelligence they are, too. Wei
might Solomon say to the neuters OF TINS
day and generation "Go to the ant, thor
sluggard; consider his ways, and be wlse.'
-T,zfer-0 0eea1
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Jacksonville, Neosho county, Kansas,
an old man named Ames was recently shot
and killed by his son-in-law, Pierce. The
murderer was arrested and locked up, but a
mob took him from the Jail and hung him to
the limb of tree until dead.
AT Vicksburg, Miss, on the 26th, Thomas
Calkins, an ex-policeman, attacked j. W.
LAWNS, local editor of the Vicksburger, cut
ting him in the neck with knife. LAWNS
then shot Calkins twice, killing him instant
ly.
In Covington, KY, ON the 2Sth, Col. W. G..
Terrell shot and almost instantly killed Har-
vey Myers, attorney for Mrs. Terrell in suit
for divorce against her husband. Mr.. Myers
made brief statement before his death, to the
effect that Colonel Terrell came into his Office,
and, insulting him, was ordered out. Refus-
ing to go, he took hold of him to put him out,
when Terrell pulled out a7pistol and dis
charged the contents into hisl body. Colonel
Terrell, after his arrest, stated that Myers
seized him, pushed him into the hall and to
the head of the stairs, and, fearing he might
push him downstairs, he shot in self-defense,
and then fell from exhaustion. Col Terrell
had until recently been the Covington reporter
of the Cincinnati Commercial, and was a
short time ago stabbed by another man on &C.
count of an article published by him in that
journal, from the effects of which he was still
suffering.
Two freight trains came in collision on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Jersey City
on the 28th, killing the fireman and brakeman
and fatally wounding the conductor, named
Metz. The accident is attributed to careless
ness of the telegraph operator at the sigma
station, who ordered one train to go on wher
he had instructions to detain it until the othel
passed. The operator was arrested.
Blodgett, the New Hampshire wife mur
derer, has defrauded justice by hanging him
self in his cell.
/ By the bursting of the steam-pipe on tht
steamer Sam. J. Hale, above Memphis, OF
the night of the Goth ult., three Of her crew
were killed and others injured.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
pERsONAL AND POLITICAL.

A number of representatives from the tax
payers of South Carolina called upon the
President on the 9th, and made statement,
reciting the alleged evils with which the tax
payers of South Carolina were burdened, and
earnestly hoped for some measure of early
relief therefrom. The President responded
that he was glad to meet the delegates, and
very sincerity deplored the alleged grievances
with which they in common with the tax
payers of the State were afflicted. He did
not, however, see wherein the Executive or
Legislative branch of the Government could
interfere with State affairs.
Theodore Tilton denies, in letter to the
Congregational Council, that he has ever ''ut-
tered SANDER against any human being"-
Henry Ward Beecher not excepted.
The New York Supreme Court has granted
an order to show cause why writ of man.
damus should not issue against Judge Davis,
on motion of counsel for Tweed. They claim
that there were certain exceptions taken in
the course of the trial and noted by the stem
ographer in his minutes which the Chief JUS
tice improperly refused to allow in setting the
case on appeal. An order is made returnable
the 23d of April next. The counsel for Tweed
were given until the 18th of the same month
to submit further affidayits.
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COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Gold closed in New York, on the 30th, at
113 IA.
Nine hundred employees in the Erie Rail-
way machine-shops at Susquehanna Depot,
Pa, struck for the payment of wages on the
25th. The tracks were blockaded, and only
mail trains were allowed. to proceed.
The Ways and Means Committee have
agreed to report an increased duty of fifty
cents per gallon, and 30 per dozen, on still
wines.
Professor Forshey, of New Orleans, and
Captain Eads, Of st. Louis, were before the
House Committee on Railways and Canals on
the 9th, discussing the best plan of outlet at
the mouth of the Mississippi River, Captain
Eads advocating his jetty system, and Prot.
Forshey opposing.
Reports received by the National Crop
Reporter, to the 10Th of March, of the condi-
ton of the growing wheat, show that in sew
en- of the heaviest wheat-producing Western
States, with the exception of Indiana, the av-
erage is six per cent. above last year at the
same date. The prospect for fruit crop
continues excellent. Estimates of the amount
of old corn on hand, March IS, were-in nli-
nois, 4,S50,000 bushels; in Iowa, 3,775.000
bushels. The amount in other States is insig-
nifcant.
The Erie Railway strikers at Susquehanna
Depot continued to blockade the road at that
station until the 29th, allowing none but the
mail trains to proceed. On that day the
Governor of Pennsylvania dispatched several
regiments of troops to the scene of the diff
Guilty to take possession of the Company's
property and protect their rights. The men
had two months pay due, and seemed deter
mined to hold out until they were paid in full
| by the Company.
Following is the comparative cotton state
ment for the week ending March 27:
1874. 1878
Net receipts for past week
| all q. s. ports.......... 63,0-6 %, 1858
Total receipts from Sept.
to date all U. S. ports. 3,364, ,906 ........
| Exports for past week
| from all ports. .......... rs, ,443 A,T9l
| Total exports from Sept.
to date from all ports.... 2,0S5,5T 1854, ,04S
Stock now on hand at all
U. s. ports. .............. 661, ,Sl9 539, ,66e
In the appropriation bills reported to Con.
gress up to the 1st inst, there has been a re-
duction of between 81, 100000 and $12 ,O0O,
600 from the revised estimates of depart
ments. The committee, it is stated, conf
IDENTIFY expect to be able to effect an aggregate
saving of $25, 100000 in the total appropria
tions this year, as compared with those O.
last season.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

1t has been ascertained that II. C. Bennett,
pension agent at San Francisco, who myste-
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A BAD habit to get into-A coat that is
not paid for,
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-02-26
secret Orders

MASONIC.
Fayetteville Council No %, r. and S.M. @.
B. Boyles, T. l. NJ; Jas. II. Burnam, Re-
corder-msets Bird Monday night in each
month
Union Chapter No. 18, Roya Arch Masons,
Fayetteville-J. s. Vaughn, H. p; j. Y.
Gill, Sec.-meets End Monday night in each
month.
Jackson Lodge No. GO, +. and A. NJ,
Fayetteville, d. W. Clark, W. NJ; Geo. B.
BOyles, Sec-meets 1st Monday night in
each month.
Petersburg No. 123, W. Il. Runaway, ".
N; W. Z. Smith, Sec.-meets Ist Monday
night on or after full moon in each month.
Pleasant Plains No. 305, NJ. d. Hutchin-
son, W. NJ; John j. Rawles, Sec.-meets
Friday night before each full moon.
Mt. Hebron 344, Norris Greek, S. G. Nc
Collum, W. NJ; Z. Taylor, Sec.-meets Fri
day night on or after full moon each month.
Sulphur Spring No. 400, Oregon, James II.
Warren, w. NJ; David L. Harris Sec.-meets
Saturday at 2 o'clock on or before the full
moon in each month.
Mulberry 404, T. j. Allison, W NJ; ".
W. James, Sec-meets Let Tuesday night
on Or before full moon
Macedonia -, near Goshen, VIM. A. Gill,
SEN, W. M; VIM. A. Gill, jun, Sec-moets
Friday night before each 18th Sunday.
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LINCOLN COUNTY.


Mare, sorrel, white spot and knot on her
back caused By saddle, both hind feet white,
IS or 20 years; L NJ Shearin, 18th dis, Feb
6-$5
Cor, white face, back and belly, brindle
sides, crop, swallow-fork and underbit in
left ear mutilations In right, supposed to be
dogs, straight horns, about 4 years; Alex
Lazenby, Feb 2--Ss
Three Cdtue-one COW. red and white
speckled, crop off each ear and swallow-fork
in the left-the other two small bull year
lings, one white with red ears, no marks or
brands perceivabie; the other brown, with
crop off left ear and underbit in right, the
cow II or Is years old. the bulls about eight
months; Elijah Philips near Camargo, Dec
l3-all at $3.50.
Ttco iSteers-reddish, some white spots
on one about its head. one has a sfu Doth crop
off each ear, the other 4 smooth crop off
the right and under bit in the left, about 10
months old; Robert Brown, near Camargo,
Dec 49,. so each.
Horse, gray, nearly blind in left eye, n
bout IA hands ! inch high, no brands or
marks, about years; Green Dye, cold, 2
miles cast o. Mulberry village, Nov. $50
MADISON COUNTY.
Mare, black, medium size, years; " "
Humphrey, on Mrs Robinson's plantation,
10 miles from Huntsville Oct l..
LIHEsToyE COUNTY.
Horse, gray. scar from fistula on right
side of neck, about u hands, years; FL
chue CotFman, at his home, July 15-$65.