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Respectfully SD bmitted, So
Eas FRANCIS yICkNAIR,
uz4 H.i Parish Treasurer.
The Grand Jurors were then dis
charged.
The anticipation that. our local at
torneys would refuse to practice be-
fore Judge Marks in civil matters has
been agreeably disappointed, as noS
a day has yet passed in which some
proceedings in civil suits have not
been taken, and Others are assigned
for consideration next week.
The Charles May arson case is fixed
for Tuesday, the Hugh Millersmurder
case for Wednesday, and the Arrieax
murder case for Thursday next. To-
day the case of the State as. George
Wolffrome, for horse stealing, is on
the docket.
It is expected that, with hard work.
the criminal docket may be cleared
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LOCAL JoTTINGs.

Loeb's new spring goods are the
prettiestin town. Every body is GO
ing to see them.
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"a special meeting of Ascension
Hook and Ladder Company will be
held Monday night.
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The members of the st. Joseph
Brass Band and their friends will
anuse themselves at a ball to he
given under the auspices of the band
at ID. s. c. Il. Hall on the 9TH of july.
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Judgment.
Alice Celestine Gondran, wife of Emile T..
~ Weber, Her Husband.

Ahce Celestine Gondran, wife of Emile T..
@ Weber, VS.. Her Husband.
PARISH COURT OF Ascension,
TNHlS case having; been fixed for trial was
Il accordingly takenup pursuant to assign
ment The law and the evidence being in
favor of plaintiff, Alice e. Gondran. and
against her husband, Emile Louis Weber.
dett., it is therefore ordered, adiudged and
decreed that the community Of acquets and
gains heretofore existing between the said
plaintiff and defendant be and il is hereby
dissolved, and that there be a separation Of
property between the said parties. Its fur
ther ordered and decreed that the plaintiff
have the full and fret, administration of her
paraphernal property which she may become
possessed OF, either by donation, succession
or otherwise.
Thus done, read and signed in open Court
on this 9TH day of June, 1877, Parish of
Ascension
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Dog Notice.

\ accordance with ordinances of the cor
Il poration, public notice of TEN DAYS is
hereby given that all dogs running IN the
streets of Donalds0nville without mtlzzfcs
will be poisoned by the undersigned.
Donaldsonville, La. June l6. 1877.
SAM. IL. ST MARTIN,
Town Constable
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Mr. Bernard Lemann is having large
quantities of brick hauled to his va
cant lots on Mississippi street, and we
presume work will soon be. begun
upon the large store which Mr.. Lemann
proposes to have built.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-23

See advertisement of sale by the
Sheriff next Saturday of watches, jew
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-23

elry and silver-ware. The announce
ment is made by a thoroughly re-
sponsible party.
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PARISH TREAsURER's OFFICE.
Dopaldsonyille, June 10, 1877.
February Is, 1877.
10 cash reed from Gustave Dugas,
late Parish Treasurer, in U. S. eur
;, rency, $1,000 ..-.-.-.......<,..S 815 25
Tnamt received from same party in
: serips, for sale of ferries, .--.,.-. 517 so
To amt. received from same party in
serips Tor back taxes, ...--...-.. I5s340
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FOUR MONTHS OF
Good Health
FOR Is CENTS.
ANY PERSON WHO WILL BUY BOX OF
PARSONS PURGATlvE PILLS.

- - SVg
and will take one ~ each night for four raj
nights and will do this every third (3dl week
during the months of June, July, August
and September, will not be troubled With
Fever and Asue. nor HEaIarious
Fever, nor any of, the diseases resulting
from miasmatie poison, common in Missouri.
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.
If Parsons Purgatfve Pills can
not be obtained at your nearest store, send
- cts. to the undersigned, and the pills shall
be sent, post paid. by return mail. Physi-
clans supplied by mail at 50 so per thousand
in bulk. As this is but little more than half
price for standard pills by the thousand,
cash must accompany the order. The Recipe !
will be cheerfully sent to any physician ON
application. We will send Parsons Pills by
mail to responsible parties on commission at
- per dozen, sample dozens at Sl35, cash
with the order. 49, ! fss
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
COLLINS Bros St I,ouis Mo.
e. W. Jones d Co..---.-.-M Memphis, Tenn.
2. y, HART d Co.---.---. New Orleans, La.
G. J. LINCOLN & Co. Little Rock, Ark. |
H. Z. THOMPSON 81 Co. -. Galveston, Tex. |
ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO '.EsS
4. .. JOHNSON & Co.
tun2s-1y BANGOR. MAINE, Proprietors. /
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sggssg s@sa M $I49l Is
By cash paid to different parties on
different appropriations as per
vouchersEo / to 10, both Inclusive, 647 IS
Scllps on hand for sale of ferries. J.. SIT 50
Serips on hand for back faxes, -. 15S 40
Cash on hand, U. s. currency, to
credit of different appropriations, IG7 40
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Crops arc doing splepdidly in the
seventh and eighth wards. The farm
aers have been blessed with several
good showers of rain and they are
preparing to lay by their crops" This
Is the cheerful text of memorandum
which Mr.. Winfree kindly left at the
CHIEF office the other day.
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PARISH TREASURER.

PARISH SCHOOL BOARD TREASURER.
Upon examination of this office, we find
that the books and papers are kept in good
order ana all disbursements supported by
the proper vouchers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-02
The COSsack.

The Cossack is little Russian, about
five feet five, even on his high heels, but
at once sturdy and wiry. His weather.
beaten face is shrewd, knowing and
merry. His eyes are small, but keen;
his mouth large, and between it and his
pug nose-rather redder than the rest of
his facets tuft or wisp of straw COL
ored mustache. His long, thick,
straight hair matches his mustache in
color, and is cut sheer round by the
nape Of his neck Below the neck the
Cossack is all boots and great coat. He
is more armed than any man of his
inches in Europe, and could afford to
lose q weapon or two and yet be an
average dangerous customer. Weapon
number one is the long, black, fagless
lance, with it's venomous head that
seems itching to make daylight through
somebody. He carries carbine, slung
in an oilcloth cover, on his back, the
stock downward. In his belt is long
and well made revolver in leather case,
and from the belt hangs a curved sword
with no guard over its hilt. His whip
completes his personal appuytenanc s;
he wears no spurs. He rides, cooked up
on high saddle with a, leathern band
strapped over it, wiry little rat of q
pony.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-02
to marry a little girl without pigtail and 1
am very happy, my darling-are you3'
every very" she said and she was.
Dangers from the Dead.

That the dead should kill the living
seems paradox yet nothing is more
true. Indeed we venture to say that
every year in our land corpses murder
more people than assassins do. Not
only have intramural interments poison
ed whole blocks and quarters, not only
has drinking water contaminated by
grave yards yearly spread disease and
death through country hamlets, but be-
fore the process of decomposition conf
mences there is often great and press
ing danger from infectious disease. We
quote recent instance:
DR.. GOldie, the medical officer OF
health for Leeds, England, in his report
to the local authority, states that every
one of thirty people who attended the
wake of an Irish girl who recently died
in that town from typhus fever we're at
tackled by the disease and no fewer than
nine of the cases ended fatally"
So strongly have the needless dangers
of exposure at funerals impressed the
medical mind, that the health board OF
New York have issued circular recon-
mending that no public or church fune.
rails should be given to persons dying OF
either diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles
OF whooping cough.
In Chicago also, where scarlet fever
and diphtheria have been severe this past
winter, the recommendation of one hun
dr9d medical men in council was in these
words
"There should be no public funerals
of any patient who had died of any in,
fectious or contagious disease. Remem-
Der that the separation of the sick person
from the well is the most certain means
of preventing the spread of the disease. .
A writer in the Baltimore Physician
and Surgeon, last December, went SC
far as to advocate the passage of law
on the subject (the average American
man looking upon "law" " as cure-all
on every occasion). He thought il
should embody the following provisions
l. Whenever any one dies of contagious
disease, the publication announcing the
death should state cause of death.
2. No person except the immediate
family should be permitted to attend the
funeral, and the handling and burying
the body should be intrusted to persons
who devote themselves to that business.
3. A sufficient number of carriages
should be kept for the special purpose
of attending these funerals, and the
hiring them for other purposes should
be prohibited, under the severest penal
ties.
These are good suggestions, but peo-
pie should learn and obey them out of a
natural sense of sanitary propriety, not
out of obligation to statute. .-Medjcal
and Surgical Reporter.
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Turkish TitieS

Sultan-The sovereign of the Turkish
empire-the recognized organ Of all ex-
ecutive power in the State. His head
quarters are at Constantinople.
Porte-The government of the Turk
ish empire.
Sublime Porte--The official name of
the government, sc-called from the gate
of the sultan's palace.
Grand Vizier-The chief minister of
the Turkish empire.
Divan-'The Turkish council of State
the cabinet"
Grand Mufti-Chief interpreter of the
Mohammedan law and head of the "wise
men"-jurists, theologians and Hteratj
who assemble for consultation on his
order. He is mostly styled the chief of
the faithful. A writer says fetoO0 or
decree from him would summon around
the standard of the prophet all the fa-
natical hordes of Islam to fight to the
death against the "infdels, in the firm
belief that death on the battlefield is a
sure passport to paradise.
Pasha-Governors, viceroys, COM
manders, civil ond military rulers of
provinces.
Deys-About the same as pasha.
Sheik-Ihe name given the heads of
Arabian tribes or clans. It means elder,
or eldest in dignity and authority.
Osmandi-Turkish official.
Islam-The religion of Mohammed.
Islams-Mohammedans themselves.
Mussulman-A follower of Moham-
med.
Ottoman Empire-Another name for
the Turkish empire, and derives its
name from Osman, its founder.
Osmanlis-The Turks proper.
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have been trying to find you out for months. "
81 thought you - And then she did not
know how to go on, so added, almost piteously:
Il am the gOverness here"
care you? Oh, see, then, that is the rea-
son I've not seen you before, l suppose"
"Do you really know Miss Dunlop?" the
heiress asked, coming up, and speaking in her
coldest manner.
Maggie wished sincerely she could sink into
her shoes and bury herself
"Why, of course do; we have been play
fellows ever since we were born-hayen't we,
Maggie?"
And Maggie, feeling she was being backed
up, answered brayely:
Eyes"
"Oh, indeed how interesting !" Then, turn
ing to Maggie: "Will you be so good as to be-
gin waltz, Miss Dunlop? This was to be our
dance, 1 think, to Alic, and she sailed of
with him triumphantly.
He came up to her directly after the dance
was over.
~ went down to Porlock to try and find out
where you had gone to, he said, "but nobody
knew"
at didn't matter" she said, huslily, letting
her fingers wander vaguely over the keys to
make believe she wasn't very interested in what
he said.
eyes. it did-it mattered great deal. Why,
I've got box full of curiosities for you-clubs
W lSLU WiIu, anu u nIlle uedIneH Sou OF Two,
and a statue of Buddha and all sorts of things.
told you l should bring you them home. Dc
You live here-I mean in this house?"
He said these last words under his breath,
for the heiress came up, and the next minute
he was carried off to dance with Mrs. Somebody
at the other end of the room, but not before
Maggie had nodded a reply to him. Soon after
this Miss Patterson came up to the piano, and,
saying she wished to play herself, and that
Maggie looked tired dismissed her without her
being able to get even another look at Alic.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-02
The Family.

The family is the educator of the race.
Here men and women are made. What
they are in the world, that they were in
the family as children. The family is the
place where first the lessons of law are
received, and where the whole character,
in view of law has a direction given it.
The citizen is made in the family long
before the time for voting or activity has
come. When Napoleon said, in answer
to Madam de Stael's question about
Frances greatest need, Mothers" he
asserted the all-potent influence of true
life. The family is the greatest means
for the development of character. What
a world does it present for the affections
to abide in Where in all the earth
beside are sympathies so warm, love SO
pure and fervent as here? All that gives
value or beauty to human character finds
in the family at once an atmosphere in
which to expand and develop the ele-
ments which shall bring it to the highest
perfection.
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Fashion Notes.

Sleeveless sacks and jackets are still
worn.
Light-colored shoes will be worn this
| season.
The Tally-ho hat is broad brimmed
Panama.
There is an effort to revive the pagoda
sleeve.
The MODESTO is the new name for
chemisette.
japanese designs on note paper are
very fashionable.
Small sized Charlotte Corday shawls
are worn in Paris.
Bonnets composed entirely of flowers
are worn with very dressy toilets.
New garnitures of roses and leaves
have tiny shells hanging amid the foliage.
Black or white straws are prettler, in
better taste and more ladylike than those
in colors.
The edges of the newest linen collars
and cuffs are needle worked with red,
blue or gray.
Elderly ladies are adopting the long,
loose paletot of black silk, trimmed with
passementeries and lace.
Draperies are not tied back so tight,
but skirts are made narrower, so as to
produce as close an effect as ever.
Rubber grasses are mingled with the
violets, roses, mignonette and forgetme-
nots of corsage bouquets.
Large cravats of white muslin, trim
! med with fine lace, are worn knotted low
in the throat of summer toilets.
New linen collars are cut low in the
throat, but they have revers that fold
closely SO as to conceal the throat.
The gateuses, or dust cloaks, of this
season are long, loose princess paletots,
with two large back and two front
pockets.
Princess dresses are not appropriate
for confirmation toilets. They are un-
becoming to youthful figures, and re-
quire more garnitures than the occasion
demands or permits.
For Breton costumes our large houses
sell along with the material for the dress
all the trimming necessary for it that
is, the embroidered bands and the
requisite number of buttons.
White dotted, barred or plain Swiss
dresses are to be worn this summer over
slips of pale blue or rose-colored lawn.
The dress is then trimmed with bows,
iabots, and "panel " trimmings of rib
bons to match the color of the slip, or
of contrasting color.
Confirmation toilets are most tasteful
when made up with rigid simplicity. A
plated corsage, a skirt trimmed with
simple folds or scant bias volantes, the
neck and wrists finished with a simple
ruche, and round the waist white rib
bon sash tied at the back, is the correct
style.
Partisan toilets of white muslin and
lace show several contrasting and har-
monizing cclors in the ribbons with
which they are trimmed for example,
one has ribbon bows, cascades and clad
ders of straw color, olive, brown and
pale blue another of pink, pale blue
and tilleul another, olive green, brown
and cream color and fourth of Maza-
rim blue, canary color and opaline gray
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the Colorado beetle. -MasSachu8ett
PLOughDlan.
Needed Information.

At ten o'clock the other forenoon a
man wearing doubtful look appeared at
the stamp clerks window in the post
Office and asked for a postal card and
facilities for writing. He was a long
time getting ready to put his pen to the
card, and he had only made a stroke or
two when he called out:
How do you spell 'JimP"
"Why, Jim, of course" answered
the clerk.
"Dont look as if it was right" said
the man, he held up the card and scru-
tinized the word. "Sure you haven't
made any mistaken"
"That's the way, of course" growled
a by-stander. How else can you spell
the name ?"
"That's so-how could ?" smiled the
man, as he looked again. "I'll put
Jim against any other style of spelling
every time. Now, his other name isis
well, knock me down if [ haven't for
gotten Why, hang it, 1 have known
him for ten years, and now [ can't think
of his name Jim-Jim-Jim-J-i-m
yum l'
He looked around in helpless way,
and one of the small crowd finally said +:
"You can write the message, and
think of the name afterward."
ESQ 1 can. want to say to him that
his wife is sick abed, his landlord is
bowling around for rent, and that he'd
better come home. How do you spell
it ?"
"I'll write it, answered the clerk.
He couldn't read your shearograpy, "
said the stranger. "Jim isn't much on
education, and [ have to write just as
poorly as [ can or he couldn't make out
a word. Less see Do want to start
off with P. S., or what ?"
81 should say: You are wanted to
home to once, if it was me-" suggested
a car driver, who was after stamp.
"Twouldn't do" sighed the man,
shaking his head, "I wouldn't dare
spring the thing on him suddenly, or
he'd make for Canada. The place to
tell him to come home is down here at
the bottom"
"Where is he ?" some one asked.
"Why, in-in-in-why, blister my
ears-why p
"Ill bet you've forgotten the place r'
shouted the car driver.
"J-i-m, Jim-J-i-m, Jim, and he's in
-in-J-i-m, JimP' gasped the man, as
he looked around with an appeal in his
eyes.
The crowd mentioned twenty different
places, but he shook his head at each
one.
eff you can't think of his name, and
can't remember his address, how are
you going to send the card ?" asked the
clerk.
"That's so-how am II" sighed the
man. eff you was me you wouldn't
send It would you?"
81 don't think [ would.
"Then I won't. If his wife can think
of his name and the place where he is
shed better write it."
When he walked away he carried his
hat in one hand and scratched his head
with the other, and muttered:
"J-i-m with a great big 'J,' and
blister my ears with great big 'B.
and I ought to have written his name
down on the door or somewhere. Less
see ! Jim, and he's in in-in - and
he disappeared up Congress street. -
Detroit Free Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-02
Getting Even With an India Prince.

A curious story, by the way, comes to
us from India, says correspondent.
The viceroy had received some offense
from Scindia, and could not avenge it
openly; whereupon be meditated and
took the following deeply deliberated
method of retaliation When q large
number of native princes came up before
him to make their obeisance, no sooner
did the offending Scindia enter than the
viceroy sprang forward with unwonted
effusiveness and kissed him on both
cheeks. Such contact from an alien and
n Christian is the EXTREMIST taint ma
tive can receive. Scindia's own wives
would not come near him in one mo-
ment he sank in the eyes of all India
from aprince to pariah, and ever since
the poor man hos been undergoing puri-
flying ceremoniais, costing a large part
Of his fortune to cleanse him from the
viceregal kiss by which he was betrayed.
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CiStern Water.

In our climate, where rain is abundant
during q considerable portion of the
year, the water falling upon the roof of
any house, if properly collected and
stored, is ample for the whole supply of
the family which that roof shelters. This
water as it falls is ordinarily free from
any impurity that can affect its taste,
and from every source of serious foul
ing, though after a long-continued
drought it is well to divert and discharge
upon the surface of the ground the first
ten minutes flow of a showcase that
the impurities of the air, and the dust of
the roof may be first removed. After
this first dash, lead to the cistern all that
follows. Even with this precaution the
water will be more agreeable for use if
filtered There are numerous systems
for making filters in cisterns, but no
other is so simple, nor so durable and
satisfactory as the separation of that part
of the cistern from which the suction
pipe leads by wall of brick and cement.
1t is simply necessary to build a wall of
brick set on edge (two and a half inches
thick), so as to include about one-quar-
ter Of the area of the bottom, sloping it
back so as to terminate against the side
Of the cistern at a height of from four to
six feet. This wall should be so well
cemented at its joints that water can only
pass through the material of brick, and
for strengths it form should be slightly
bulging. A wall of this sort, measuring
say six feet at its base and rising to a
height of six feet at it's highest point,
will transmit an amount of water suf-
fcient to supply the demand of the most
constant pumping that any domestic use
can require.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-02
Putting his Horse to Bed.

In book written by Major Charles
Lotus, formerly of the royal navy
and late of the Coldstream guards,
occurs the following passage: His
uncle asks: Where are you going 2
I am going to lay my horse, Ireplied. [
{ Lay your horse 2 he said, what do you
mean 2 In two minutes L explained.
'Oh = said he, [ should like to see that
performance, and, jumping up, he was
followed by all the gentlemen to the
stables. Now, how is this done p
The grooms were bedding up their
horses. 1 walked up to mine, and COM
menced by patting him on the neck, and
taking to him in soft, low tones. He
began paving first with one forefoot,
then with the other, and evidently knew
me and my voice. Taking snaffle
bride, [ put it on, pulled him gently
back into the stall, rubbed my hand up
and down on his knees, and then, put
ting my mouth to his ear, whispered
into it, as if talking to him. He began
Immediately to move, and, bending his
knees, slowly let himself down on his
near side, I at the same time keeping
well clear of him, while still patted him
on the neck. When [ took the bride
off. he settled for the night. Now,
said I, hes safe, and will sleep all
night. Come away = They We're as
tonished. Why said my uncle, Il
shall send you to Astley's amphitheater
and make your fortune. Where did you
learn this p From my own groom, 1
replied."