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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-27

FATAL ACCIDENT Mr.. 6. ). Gatewood OF
Caroline county, while unloading barrel OF
A ,ur FROM a wagon at the Milford depot, 90
"Wednesday last was struck BY The end OF the
nlank on which the barrel was being rolled, the
result of which was coocusSlon OF the brain,
from which he died in a few hours. The deccas-
leaves wife ADD three children. -Ffetertchs-
I,lr0 UeruH
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-10-27

RAppAHANSocK OYSTERS The Underwater
Index has the following 10 regard to the oyster
trade 10 that sectlou:
Few have auy idea Of the magnitude Of this
,rade, and yet not half OF its profits are made
by our own people, and why? The oysters arc
which take them to Northern markets, aud
after deducting the freight aud other expenses
uake large profit Captain Spot;swood,, who
commanded the Virginia oyster ravy, aud who
was stationed on the Rappahaunock last VIII
ter, lately informed the writer that he dlscoV-
cred and surveyed an oyster rock OF twelve
miles 10 extent about twenty or twenty-five
miles from the mouth, which has not been
known within the memory OF the Oldest oysfet-
men, the reason being that it is covered WIN
sea grass some twelve or fifteen inches thick.
He says the oysters found on this rock are
quite equal to if not better than the coumon
tysters taken near Norfolk.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

By the upsetting of a fiatboat on Grand
River, Idaho Territory, six soldiers and one
citizen were drowned few days ago. Five
others succeeded in getting ashore.
A negro named Ed. Shields, convicted in
Spencer county, KY, of an infamous outrage
upon woman, was taken from the Sheriff
recently by band of about forty men and
hung to crossbeam of a bridge.
A special from Kearney, Mo-, to the Chiea-
go papers, gives particulars of the killing of
another detective by the notorious James
brothers. The victim was found dead and
covered with blood in the road four miles east
of Elkhorn, Ray county. A card crossed with
blood was pinned to his coat and inscribed /:
"This shall be the fate of all Pinkerton's de-
tectives who come to hunt the James Brothers.
[Signedl JESSE JAMES, FRANK JAMES"
A handkerchief was found in the murdered
man pocket marked P. K. Cole.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
The Ba0bab.

The baobab is a plant of monstrous size,
the most colossal and the most ancient
vegetable monument on earth, has round,
woolly leaves, which consist of from three
to seven leaflets radiating from common
center, and giving them somewhat the ap-
pearance of a hand, and a magnificent
white flower. It is an enormous tree,
holding among plants the place that the
elephant holds among animals-a hoary
witness of the last changes which the earth
has undergone, and deluges that have
buried beneath their waves the production
of early ages. Several baobabs that have
been measured were found to be near
seventy-seven feet In circumference.
From its branches hang, at times, colossal
nets, three feet in length, and resembling
large oval baskets open at the bottom, and
looking from the distance like so many
signal flags.
it would tske fifteen men, with their
arms extended, to embrace the trunk of
one of these great trees, which, in the
countries through which the Senegal
flows, are venerated as sacred monuments.
Enormous branches are given off from the
ground and spread out horizontally, Civ
ing the tree diameter of over 100 feet.
ssEach of these branches" says Mr.. Dan
ton, sswould be monster tree elsewhere,
and taken together, they seem to make up
a forest rather than a tree"
1t is only at the age ofsO0 years that the
baobabs attain their full size, and then
cease to grow.
The fruit of this tree is oblong; the
color of the shell passes in ripening from
green to yellow and brown. The fruit is
called ssmonkey bread.'' 1t contains a
spongy substance, paler than chocolate
and filed with abundant juice.
The bark is ashy gray in color, and al,
most an inch in thickness. The negroes
of the Senegal grind it down to powder,
and in this state they use it to season theil
food and to maintain a moderately free
perspiration, which enables them the more
easily to withstand the heat. 1t serves
also, as an antidote for certain fevers.-
Wonders Of Vegetation.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
CONGRESSIONAL.

APRIL 16.-sSemate.- Carpenter intro
duced joint resolution favoring the recognition
of Cuba Consideration OF the bill providing
for a new election in Louisiana was resumed,
and long and sharp debate ensued, but no ac-
ton was taken. Hoase.-The entire session was
devoted 10 the consideration of the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill, after
getting through with four pages of which the
House adjourned.
APRIL 17.-Sendte.-The Louisville and
Portland Canal bill and the bill providing for 8
new election in Louisiana were taken up and dis
eusSed. No action was taken on either. Ad-
journed to Monday. House.-A joint resolution
to furnish rations, forage and clothing to people
suffering from the inundation of the Mississippi
and tributaries was referred to the Committee on
MiIitary Affairs The House went into Com
mittee of the Whole and soon after adjourned.
APRIL 1s.-Senate not in session.-House.
Mr.. Cox introduced resolution, accompanied
by letter from Mr.. Thurlow Weed, of New
York, rendering the thanks of Congress to Sir
Lambton Lorraine. commander of the British
Tigate Niobe, f'for his generous lnterposItion at
Santiago de Cuba in protecting the lives of the
survivors of the Virgin1us expedition Re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
-. The Appropriation bill was again
under discussion; Mr.. Clymer made an arralgn-
ment of the Republican party for corruption and
extravaganza, and was replied to by MIR. Kelly,
who declared there never had been IN American
history an era of such profigacy, dishonesty and
istrations of Pierce and Buchanan. Without
making any progress on the bill, the House ad-
journed.
APRIL 20.-,Senate.-The only matter Of
general importance discussed was the Louisians
bill, and this was again put over, and after ar
executive session the Senate adjourned; House
Mr.. Giddings moved to suspend the. rules
and pass a bill for the better protection o.
the frontier settlements of Texas against In
dians and Mexicans, by the construction
nfr,fn nf q Inn
from Denison, Texas, to Fort Sill, Indian Terri
tory, and thence along the northern frontier line
| of settlements and by various military posts t6
Brownsville, and appropriating $190, 900 for that
purpose Agreed to, and the bill was passed. :.
Mr.. Poland offered resolutions for the recognl-
ton of Cuban Independence, being the same re-
Gently introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Carpen'
ter After some time spent in discussion on ths
Appropriation bill, the House adjourned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

A deficit of nearly 100000 has been discov-
cred in the Treasury of Green Bay, Wis, and
Anton Burkart, City Treasurer, cannot be
found to "rise and EXPLAIN
Governor Kellogg of Louisiana telegraphed
to the President on the 18th as follows: " The
unprecedented rise in the Mississippi, aided
by violent local storms, has caused most
disastrous overflow. Six or seven of the
largest parishes of the State are already un-
der water, and thousand people, white and
black, are without food or shelter and in dam
ger of starvation. Theemergency is so great
that feel constrained to appeal to you direct
ly, asking the General Government if possi-
BILE to extend to these poor people the same
relief that was given in the scarcely more
disastrous calamity at Chicago" President
Grant replied that, Congress being In session
at this time, he did not feel authorized to or
der Government aid, but would refer the
matter to that body.
Official kilograms received at New Orleans
on the 20th, stated that the whole country,
from Monroe to the mouth of the Red River,
was under water.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
The Recognition of Cuban Indepen-
dence.

Mr.. Carpenter introduced in the Senate, on
the 10th, the following resolution proposing
to recognize tie independence of Cuba. 1t
was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Relations:
Whereas, 1t is the clear and undoubted right of
any American colony to sever its connection with
the mother country, and establish itself as an in
dependent nation when ever the good of it's people
require it; and Whereas the people OF Cuba have
declared themselves tree and independent of
Spain, have established a government for them
selves, and abolished negro slavery, and for
more than five years have successfully resisted all
the efforts of Spain to reduce them TO submission
and re-establish the condition of negro slavery;
and whereas, the war between Spain and
Cuba has been and is now being conducted
with q degree of barbarity shocking to all Chris
tendon, and there is no reasonable prospect
that Spain will ever be able to re-establish do
minion over the people of Cuba; and whereas, in
consequence of the proximity of the seat OF war
to the United States, the war has been and IS IN
furious to the interests of the people OF the Unit
ed States and it is evident that proi0ngat10n
of the contest will only result in great suffering
and bloodshed, to be followed by the ultimate
recognition of the independence of Cuba by Spain
herself; therefore, be 1t
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America, In
Congress assembled, That it has become the duty
OF the United States to recognize Cuba as one of
the independent nations of the earth, and that
the United States will observe strict neutrality be-
tween the eontending parties during the further
prosecution of the war, and will accord to each
of them belligerent rights and equal privileges
and advantages in all ports and places within the
Tinted States
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
GoOd.Natured People.

The specially social quality is good ma
ture, amiability, the desire to please, the
kindness of heart that avoids giving Of
fense, and cannot bear to hurt anyone's
feelings. A good-natured person may
frankly disagree with you, but he never
offends. He quarrels good-naturedly.
He boxes with gloves on-when he fences
ever so deftly, there is a great soft button
on the end of his foil. He may satirize,
ridicule, open up all your weaknesses and
absurdities, but so kindly that you cannot
help loving him. He cannot say harsh,
hard, bitter, or contemptuous thing, be-
cause he has no hardness and no contempt.
This is simple, natural goodness, like the
goodness of fond and friendly animals.
1t may not be high moral virtue; there
is no particular merit in it any more than
in beauty or any natural gift; but It Is
very delightful quality, and those who 90
not possess it should initiate those who
do. Just as we avoid in person, dress, or
manners, anything that may give disgust
or pain. so must we do in our CONVERSE
ton. We must no more use vulgar ex-
pressions than we would wear vulgar gar
ments. Our talk should be as clean as
our fingers. We should no more bite one
with our words than with our teeth. An
angry word is as bad as blow, and sa-
tirieal word is like sting. If we are
never to say anything to- person that
will give him disgust or pain, we must De
even more careful not to say anything OF
any one which will injure him in the est.
nation of others. Playful, good-natured
criticism upon the little foibles and pecr..
liarities of others may be no harm, and
even useful, but it ceases to be good-na'
tured when it gives pain. Slander is SIN
much worse than theft. Charity forblds
that we should even tell the truth, when
that truth can wound and injure. The
best rule is to say all the good we can o.
everyone, and to refrain from saying evll
unless it becomes a clear matter of duty
to warn some one against him.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
FOREIGN.

The annual budget submitted by the Chan
eellor of the.Exchequer to the House of Com
mons shows surplus of f5, ,492 600 for the
fiscal year ended March 81. The expenses OF
the Ashantee war are to be paid out of this.
The Chancellor proposes to dispose of the
surplus for the coming year by reducing the
income tax one penny on the pound, abolish
ing duties on sugar from the first of May,
creating additional terminable annuifies to the
amount of E450,00 reducing the national
debt Ct ,O00, 900 in ten years, contributing f1,-
100000 to the relief of local taxation, and
abolishing horse licenses. These measures,
it is estimated, will absorb 5000, 600 of sur.
plus, leaving residue Of f462, 900. A reso-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
Night Work and Day Work.

To those engaged in the work of getting
out daily. newspaper, says the Baltimore
American, the question as to the number
of hours that shall constitute a day s work
is a theme in which they feel 70 direct in
terest. They must commence work when
the work is ready for them, and not stop
until it is done. The old rule of - from
sunrise to sunset - would be a glorious re-
lief to them, and as to eight hours consti-
tuting days work, they would regard
themselves as transformed to heaven OF
bliss. There are few persons engaged in
a newspaper office who work less than
from twelve to sixteen hours per day, and
during the winter season not less than ten
of these hours are by gaslight, closing at >,
4 and O'Clock in the morning. While
other people are sleeping soundly IN their
beds, the editor, with his corps of assist
ants, is busily at work preparing to spread
before his readers at the breakfast table
news from all parts of the world, with a
complete record of the days and nights
doings in his own locality. When ordi-
nary mortals get up in the morning the
newspaper man is just turning in for his
first nap. Twenty years ago the american
was put to press at 10 O'Clock in the eve
ming. A few years later II o'clock was
the hour, and from that time to the present
the closing hour has been extending into
the morning until o'clock is now about
the time for ending the g days work = in
the editorial and composing rooms. Fast
presses, equal to the printing of 10000 to
Il, 900 copies per hour, have thus become
essential to the rapid delivery oAthe paper
to the carriers and news agents by this
turning of night into day. The telegraph,
which formerly closed before midnight,
now ticks steadily on night and day, and
the newspaper people must wait and watch
for its ticking to the last possible moment.
IF the newspapers do not, therefore, go
into spasms over the exciting question of
limiting days work to few hours OF
daylight. it must be attributed to their eE-
Wy of those who are blessed with calling
| that will permit of such luxuries.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
Youthful Couples.

A Providence paper says: So far as
the Rhode Island statutes are concerned
there is absolutely mol limit of age at which
parties may contract marriage. 1t is not
unfrequent that children of fourteen or
fifteen years of age are married In this
State, and for all the laws to the contrary
even more tender babies than that may be
united in marriage without the knowledge
or consent of their parents. In State re-
port of registration we find the marriage
mentioned, in single year, of couples of
the following ages: Eighteen and four
teen, seventeen and fifteen, sixty-one and
fifteen, seventy-six and thirteen. And yet
such outrages upon common decency and
public veal are strictly in accordance with
the laws of this State. This defect IN our
marriage laws has had the effect TO make
Providence a Gretna Green for runaway
matches of minors from all the surround
ing States. Scarcely a week elapses that
applications are not made for an examina-
ton of the records by distracted parents
from this and other States to ascertain it
their minor sons or daughters have been
married here. Much too often they find
their worst fears realized"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09

The cattle stock number about $4,000
head, out of which are branded annually
about 5000 head of calves. Great efforts
have been made by Capt. King to intro
duce a fine breed of cattle, in which we
believe he has succeeded, his last importa-
ton having weathered the past fall and
winter in remarkable condition, now be-
ing thoroughly aeclimated and out of dan
ger.
Next comes the horse stock, consisting
of mares, colts, mules, jacks, and horses,
numbering about 5000 head, out of which,
in favorable seasons, are branded from
], 400 TO l,500 head of colts. Like the cat
tie stock, large sums of money have been
expended in the Introduction of fine stall
lions and jacks, until the stock has at
tanned to degree of fineness unsurpassed
ln this portion of Texas.
The sheep stock number 10000 head i'm
proved Merine, yielding an average of four
pounds of wool to the head. In this, as in
his other stock, the owner has spared no
pains nor means. To improve the texture
and staple of their feeces and increase the
size of their bodies has been his great aim,
which frequent importations of fine bucks
amply testify. His main sheep rancho is
known as Las Borregas, taking its name
from the stock most frequenting that
range. From here the stock are distrib-
uted to best suit the grazing grounds.
This stock has for number of years been
in charge of Capt. J. S. Greer, who has
taken pains and pride in their successful
culture.
The last but not least of the stock of
this rancho consists in an unknown num-
Der of hogs. Five years ago 1000 head
were purchased and turned loose upon
the range, since which time but few have
been slaughtered or molested in any man
tween G, 900 and 1000 head. A paekery.
two miles above the rancho, for the
slaughtering of surplus and rough stock,
furnishes them, with the food obtained in
the thickets, an abundance to keep them
continually in fat, sleek condition.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
TROUBLE IN ARKANSAS.

Elisha Baxter ForcibIy Elected from
the Governors Office and JOsepn
Brooks EnstaIled-A Collision Imml.
nent-The General Government re
fuses to Interfere.
Governor Elisha Baxter Of Arkansas was
on the 10Th inst, forcibly elected from the
gubernatorial Office by the Sheriff and an
armed posse, and Joseph Brooks, rival can
didate in 1872, and since contestant for the
office in the courts, installed in his place. The
Associated Press kilograms from Little Rock
give the following statements:
About one wear ago Brooks commenced
suit in the Circuit Court of Pulaski county tor
the Office of Governor. About the same time
the Attorney General commenced suit against
Governor Baxter, by quo 1oGTTGfet0, IN the
Supreme Court. That court rendered a de-
cision that the courts of the State had no
power over contested election for the office
Of Governor, and it was generally regarded
that the matter was settled, so far as the
courts were concerned. The Legislature, ID
1873, opened the returns, and declared that
Baxter was elected. Nothing more was
thought of the matter particularly, until a
few days ago, when the attor-
neys of Governor Baxter desired that
the case in the Circuit Court be taken up
on demurrer, with view Of disposing OF the
same. An understanding was had that the
demurrer should be submitted and argued
next week. On Monday. during the absence
of Judges English and Compton. the attor-
neys of Governor Baxter, Mr.. WhIpple, the
attorney of Brooks, arose, and stated that it
had been agreed between himself and the
counsel of Governor Baxter thata demurrer
to the Jurisdiction of the court should be sub
mitted. This, although in the absence OF
Governor Baxter's attorneys, was thought
| nothing of at the time. Yesterday morn
| ing, about II o'clock, when there were but
| few ia the courtroom, Judge Whytoek an
| nounced his decision, overruling the demur-
rer, and none Of Baxter's counsel being
present to answer, plead over, or move fol
an appeal, Judgment OF custer was Is issued :,
a writ placed in the hands of the Sheriff
and in five minutes from the time an armed
band, headed by Joseph Brooks, were in the
! Governors office, demanding possession. Tht
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
A Funeral Minus a Corpse.

The Merchants Life Insurance Compa-
ny of New York was recently selected as
the victim of one of the most barefaced
and bungling swindles ever conceived in
the catalogue of ways that are dark. One
DIR. Uhling insured his life and that of one
Louise Germs with reciprocal policy.
The insurance was to go the survivor, the
sum being $4,000, with the understand
ing that he was to marry the girl in a few
days. On April he presented an atfida-
vit Of the death of Louise Germs, and
burial permit made out in her name, upon
which he demanded the insurance. The
officers of the company obtained an order
to exhume the body of Louise Germs, and
found a coffin marked with the name and
age of the girl. When opened the coffin
was found to contain nineteen bricks,
carefully wrapped up in paper and secured
in their places with Ia h. Speculation
turned in the direction of horrible crime,
and the police followed up the case in the
belief that second Bowlsby tragedy
would be unearthed in addition to the
bricks. The affair was determined by the
arrest of the principals, DR.. Uhlinlg,
Louise Germs, and the undertaken Whe
buried the bricks. The contents of the
coffin were fitting emblem of the ex.
tremly hard cheek Of the wenld-be swind'
! Ter.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-09
DoNALDsoNyILLE, La, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1874

luton for the abolition of sugar duties, as
proposed in the budget, was Immediately
moved and passed.
The steamer DAnertqae, of the French
Transatlantic Line, which left New York for
Havre on the 4th inst, when about seventy
five miles out from Brest, foundered at sea in
a storm. The passengers and crew, with the
exception of the second officer, were rescued
by English, Norw egian and Italian vessels.
The courageous conduct of the officers and
crew of the lost steamer is highly praised by
the passengers.
There has recently been put on record in
London a mortgage, made by the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company as trustees, of the
real estate, franchises, rolling-stock and all
appurtenances of the Erie Railway Company.
The mortgage is for thirty million dollars, to
secure the second consolidated mortgage
bonds.
A London telegram of the 17th reports a
terrific gale, lasting for three days, in the Eng
lish Channel, and the loss of number of un-
known vessels with all on board.
The funeral of DR.. Livingstone took place
in London on the 18th, and was the occasion
of the grandest pageant, it is stated, witnessed
during the present generation. Dean Stanley
oficiated, assisted by the Sub-Dean and Cam
ons of Westminster Cathedral. The process
sion was immense, and many of the stores
and places of business were closed. Stanley
headed the pall-bearers ON the right, and
Wainwright on the left.
The abandoned French steamer II IAmeTiQne
was picked up by the steamer Spray from
New York, in latitude At degrees north, lon
gitude 8 degrees west, on the 10th, and towed
into Plymouth harbor on the 18th. The pas
sengers' baggage and the most of her cargo
will be saved intact. The official report of
Captain Rousseau of the EAnseriqae says
that on the 14th the danger of sinking became
evident, and consultation of officers being
held, it was decided to abandon the ship i'm
mediately.
The House of Commons has voted grant
of E25, 900 to Sir Garnet Wolseley, as recon-
mended by the Queen.
The Carlists in the north of Spain have or
ganized the Government with regular cabi-
net, in which General Ellis is Minister of War
Admiral Vinalet, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
and Senior Penal, Minister of Finance and the
Interior,