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Judgment.
Alice CeIestine Gondran, wife of Emile
Weber, VS.. Her Husband.

Alice CeleSt1ne GOnOran. WIG OF Emile l..
Weber, vs.. Her Husband.
PARISH CoURT OF ASCENSION.
NHI4IS case having been fixed for trial was
j. accordingly taken up pursuant to assign
ment. The law and the evidence being in
favor of plaintiff, Alice G. Gondran. and
against her husband, Emile Louis Weber,
dett., it is therefore ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the community of acquets and
gains heretofore existing between the said
plaintiff and defendant be and it is hereby
dissolved, and that there be separation OF
property between the said parties. 1t is fur
ther or dered and decreed that the plaintiff
have the full and free 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.
tSigned) H. o. MAHER,
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LOCAL JoTTINGS.

Aw, by Jove! what a wet vain
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-09

A large party of colored excursion
lists from New Orleans visited Donald
soeyille per special train last Satur-
day and remained until Sunday eve
ming. They were accompanied by an
excellent brass band and most of the
party put in the greater portion of
their time dancing in the D. s. c. b.
Hall, which had been engaged for the
occasion. The visitors probably had
as much enjoyment as could well be
crowded into the time of. their stay,
and left for home in high spirits.
A shooting affray occurred at Dom
inique's Landing, Sunday before last,
resulting in the serious Wounding OF
colored man named Carey, recently
arsived from New Orleans, by Ed.
Coleman, also colored, who lives in
the first ward of this parish. Cole
man is said to have been under the
influence of liquor, and to have shot
without any provocation whatever.
The weapon used was revolver, and
the ball entered the left lobe of
Carey's left lung. DR.. Dominique at
tended the injured man and after
dressing the wound had him sent to
his home in New Orleans. With due
care he will recover, which is fortu-
nate for Carey. We have not learned
whether any attempt has been made
to call Coleman to account for his
outrageous aud murderous assault.
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H. o. MAHER,

A true copy of the original iudg
ment on file in my office. Clerks
@ Office, parish of Ascension, La,
@N ! this 9TH day Of june, A. d. 1877.
l.. Z. BENTLEY, .
Clerk of Court.
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Il Young GfrPs supernatural and
EIustDe BedfefLOtO.

The good people among the hills of
Morris County, N. j., have found excite
ment in the case of a young girl said to
be grievously vexed by the devil" and
whose condition is as unaccountable as it
is deplorable. The girl, according to the
Worlds informant, is the daughter of
Elijah Nichols, blacksmith of the Glen
don Iron Company at Hurdtown. She
predicted evil against her fifteenth birth
day, which fell on the 18th of October
last, and since that date she has been
bed-ridden and paralyzed. At times
there appears under the counterpart of
her bed presence as of a rat, a rabbit,
or cat swiftly moving from place to
place, and eluding detection. In vain
is the bed stripped, or the patient re-
moved to another place; the presence
is only powerless to act when the mother
sleeps with the child. The physicians,
no less than the clergy, and the common
folks of all the countryside are baffied.
Crowds come daily to see the mystery.
On one recent occasion, Mr.. Richards,
the Mayor of Dover, held his stiff hat
above the "presence and the hat re-
ceived blow that crushed it. Violent
blows have been given to the hand, TO
cane, and to other objects held out over
the place where the presence was,
and, needless to say, attempts to grab
the presence" has failed. All the while
the girl lies moaning as if in terror or
pain, and her position in the bed would
be plainly such as to show that the
mysterious movements were not caused
by her. The girl has been known to
abstain from all food for the space of fif-
teen days, and for some weeks past she
has only received little milk daily, yet
her face is fair, and, when visitation is
not nigh, her sleep is apparently health
full. Her parents are plain and honest
people, who view this as an affection,
not to be turned to account for notoriety
or money. The neighbors, unable to
account for it in any other way, have
solemnly decreed witchcraft against an
old woman living among them, and
charms are in active demand.
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Notes.
IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.1

--N'NN
A Thousand Islands hotel tempts its
visitors with a blue conservatory, but
we don't believe they'll find the place
any more Pleasant-on that account.
Marcus Caius Aurelius Smith regis
tered as tramp at an up country station
house the other day. No wonder man
with such name as that should evince
a Roamin' disposition.
The man with the buster has appeared
on the street once more. He says,
When l was at the Centennial last
Sum but nobody stops to hear him
complete the sentence.
A Staten Island man, who took his
boy home pet goat the other afternoon,
now offers the animal for sale at reduc-
ton of fifty per cent. on actual cost. 1t
eat up table cloth, two shirts, and four
croquet balls the first night, and lunched
Oft box of clothes-pins the next day.
When the Geographical Society meets
tonight it would be interesting for them
to set on foot an inquiry as to how on
earth it happenens that both Albert and
Victoria Nyanza Lakes were represented
on certain Dutch traders map. dated
ITO, to which we can refer them.
Spilkins was having drain put down
through his front garden the other day,
necessitating a general tearing up of
tagging and flower bed. A neighbor
CHANGED to pass and asked what was the
matter. "Oh," replied Spilkins, "Pm
in the position of man who has been
turned out of house and home" "How's
that, asked the other. "Why," said
Spilkins, pointing to the scene of demol-
ition about him, don't you see I've
had to take up my bed, and walk Z"
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Household Helps,

PANAELA.-Wet two Boston crackers
in boiling water; let them stand five
minutes; then cover with cream, with a
pinch of salt. Or break up the crackers
in boiling milk, sweeten and flavor with
nutmeg.
How TO BURN KEROSENE WITHOUT
DANGER.-Cram the wick into the
lamp, fill up the interstices with sponge,
and saturate the whole thoroughly with
kerosene; as long as any oil remains in
the wick the lamp keeps burning, and no
danger need be apprehended from upset.
ting and even breaking the lamp. A
lamp 30 used is perfectly safe.
POISONING FROM IVA correspond
ent writes to the New England Farmer
thus: The following is an infallible
remedy: Boil wood ashes enough to
make a strong lye; wash the poisoned
Fart OF this; let it remain few minutes
and wash off in soft luke-warm water !:
when dry anoint with fresh grease. Re-
peat this process as the poison develops
itself, and one or two applications will
cure the most obstinate cases. 1t acts
like magic.
CAKE SYLLABU8.-Half I'LL a glass
hosl with thin slices of sponge-cake or
almond cake. Pour on sufficient white
cordial to dissolve the cake; then rub off,
on pieces of losfsugar, the yellow rind
of two lemons, and dissolve the sugar in
pint of rich cream. Squeeze the Juice
OF the lemons on some powdered sugar
and add it gradually to The cream beat
the cream to a stiff froth, and then pile
It ON the dissolved cake in the glass
bowl. Ornament the top of the sylIa-
bub with circle of roses.
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RaflrOadfsag IN India.

A railroad incident occurred recently
on one of the East India lines, which was
as startling as it was singular, and may
be said 10 be one of the most miraculous
escapes on record. A train was ap-
preaching bridge on curve. When
the bridge came within sight, at dis
lance of three hundred or four hundred
yards, the engine-driver was horror
struck to discover that it was completely
in flames. Finding his break power
totally useless in the emergency, he
jumped off, as die also the fireman, inst
as the train entered upon the burning
bridge, over which it rushed, fortunately
with undated speed, through continu-
GUS fame that rose furiously above the
height of the railroad cars. The wooden
sleepers were on fire, and parts of the
rails themselves were red-hot. The whole
train, composed of number of cars,
passed safely over, and not a passenger
was injured or scorched.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-23
Ben. Butier on sheep Farming.

From an Interview in the New York SUM-
"Turned sheep farmer to get into the
United States SenateI That is a new
kind of political scheme. Of all the
ludicrous stories told about me, l believe
this is the don't know. though"
as though his mind required to other
stories that eclipsed it in grotesq ueness.
81 don't know. No, somebody must
have dreadfully needed a paragraph"
he said, seriously. 81 don't own an
inch of land in Colorado, and don't ex-
pect to. l have never negotiated for
any land there, and never expect to
represent Colorado in the Senate. NV
son-in-law, Mr.. Ames, is, and has been
tor some years, in business in Min
nesota that l think is perfectly salts
factory to him; at least, l never have
seen any indication on his part of a wish
to lean upon his father.in-law for sup
port"
"Not even when he was Governor of
Mississippi, Generalp'
Ben. Butler smiled and went on :
Colonel Craig has never won, for he
never had any lawsuit about Colorado
lands. He acquired lands there by
purchase, and lent him money ON bond
and mortgage on them, or advanced
money, and that, l presume, is how the
story originated. No, l shall not become
sheep farmer until"
Here two harps and violin on the
Sidewalk opposite the open window
struck up "The Sweet By and By" and
General Butler left his sentence un-
nGished.
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A Remarkable BIRD story.
[san Jose (CaI. } Mercury


A queer bird story was related to us
yesterday. Messrs. L. Page and son were
cutting wood on Albright's place in the
foothills, near San Jose. They had no.
ticed for several days that number of
birds remained constantly upon tree
near them. Upon cutting down the
tree they discovered limb with hollow
cavity some two feet in length and three
or four inches in diameter, in which were
two full grown birdsof some goodly sized
species. There was small aperture
through which the birds were supplied
18th food by their mates. The limb was
cut and the birds liberated. Neither of
tlsn was able to fly, having evidently
never been out of their imprisonment
How they came there is a question. 1t is
more than probable that the mother bird
was small, and though able to make her
nest in the hollow of the tree and rear
her young could not extricate them, and
they did not gain strength enough to
help themselves until the hollow had SO
closed that escape was impossible. Those
who examined the birds think they are
about two years old. They had been fed
from birth by their bird fellows through
the aperture in the limb of the tree.
A nobler instance of devotion even the
human family never exhibited.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-23
"What Every body Says 1I.y~t be True ~

The incontrovertable testimony offered by
those who have used DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription induced the doctor to sell it
under positive guarantee. Many ladies
have refrained from using it on account of
general feeling of prejudice against adver-
tised medicines. Let me ask a question.
Are you prejudiced against sewing machines
because you have seen them advertised? or
can you doubt the ingenuity and skill re-
quired in their invention? Again, would
you refuse to insure your house because the
company advertised that it had paid millions
in losses, and yet had capital of several
millions? Do such advertisements shake
your confidence, and create prejudices
Then why refuse to credit the testimony Of
those who have found the Favorite Prescrip-
ton to be all that is claimed for it in over
coming those ailments peculiar to your sex !?
Why submit to the use of harsh, and perhaps
caustic treatment, thts aggravating your
maladv, when relief is guaranteed, and a
positive, perfect, and permanent cure has
been effected in thousands of cases?
WABASH STATION, ILL.,, October oath, 1876.
R. V. PIERCE, M. D., Buffalo, N. V
Dear Swallow me to extend my most
sincere thanks to you for the great benefit
Favorite Prescription. She suffered almost
intolerably before using your medicine, and
| had tried the skill of several physicians
but to no purpose. Finally, / thought |
would give the Favorite Prescription trial,
and she is now sound and well.
Very gratefully yours, D. A. HUNTER.
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Napoleon at Mass.

Napoleon at Mass in the Schonbrunn
Chapel, after Austerlitz, is thus described
in the diary of DR.. Reeve, just pub
lished: "He was alone in the Emperor's
tribune on one side of the altar on high,
his pages and attendants in adjoining
seats. His countenance struck me as
very remarkable, fuller, broader, and
fatter than | had expected to have seen
it, and his person stouter and older than
usually represented. He has the usual
marks of the sanguine melancholic
temperament, dark hair, small dark eyes,
rather fixed than animated, and very
piercing countenance; the forehead
high, nose somewhat Grecian rather
than aquiline, and cheek bones and
chin rather prominent, his physiognomy
is striking and there Isl deal of character
displayed in his countenance."
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latter of its acridity and disagreeable

latter of its acridity and disagreeable
odor.
A PIECE of flannel is better to wash
the face with than a sponge. The slight
roughness cleanses the pores of the skin,
and prevents those little black specks,
which so many people complain Of, and
try every remedy but the right one
(soap and water and rough toweD to
cure.
A FRENCHMAN has found that saw
dust, dried and sifted clear of the larger
particles, is better article than hair to
be used in mortar for the purpose of
keeping it from peeling off He made
his mortar by mixing one part of cement,
two of lime, two of sawdust, and five of
sharp sand, the sawdust being first well
mixed dry with the cement and sand.
IT is well to know that carbolic acid,
so useful as disinfectant, is deadly
poison when taken into the stomach.
Several deaths have occurred in England
through drinking it by mistake, and it
has been current that no antidote to ii
has yet been found but physician
writes to London paper to say that, ac-
cording to Huseman, an efficient remedy
is found in saccharate of lime, and that
ordinary liquid calcis saccharatus (B.
P.) may be used for the purpose.
A VERY important work is to let off
any water that accumulates upon the
surface. This requires constant atten-
ton, and the use of hoe or a shovel.
Whether there is crop in the ground or
not, it is equally necessary to do this
thoroughly, else the soil is soaked and
dries very slowly. The amount lost
through water remaining upon fields
would each year buy for every farmer
who permits it a good paper and more
books than he could well study in year.
Barn-yards, especially, should be freed
from water; the wash from the roof
should be carried off before it has soaked
through the manure and dissolved out
all the valuable parts of it.
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The Markets.

ATI.-Flour-Quotations range as fol-
lows TO- Patent, $lO@il: fancy, IS 1899 SO; family
IS 259s so; spring IS 25@S 65; extra. 81 65@7 90;
Wheat prime to choice white is quotable at 81 rs
81 So; prime to choice red is beld at 81 60@l rs
amber, 81 75@1 So. Corn, 4E@4sc Rye, No. q 75@
timothy, $l1@lS. Mess pork, s14@14 Is. Lard,
fND1ANAPOIIs. = Flour Fancy, ss@s so;
family, s7S75o; extra, IS 5o@7; Grain Wheat
45c. Oats, 43@45c. Rye, No. 2, soc. Lard, prime
steam, &c.; Kettle, lo@@11c. Hogs, 81 ESQ
Observation-Disclosures ss@s so; extra
family, 1907 50; No. l. 81 5O@s rs; fancy, IS 759
10 Grain-Wheat, red, 81 65 amber, 81 rs. Corr,
white, SIC; mixed 4ac. Rye, soaSs Oats, white,
NEW YORK. -SriourMNo. '/?a 3, So SOFAS; super
fine Western and State, 8575@6 25 common to good
choice Western and State Sc sOa7; common to
choice white wheat Western extra 81 0597 u.s. fancy
white wheat Western extra, 81 $500; common
St. Louis, IS 75@io 25 Minnesota patent process
extra good to prime, and choice to double extra,
ss@l1; Rye flour. 81 25@5 10. Grain-w heat
90 Ss a as rye sss sSss7 barley gus eo and
$l3, Lard, prime steam, SO 05. Cotton, 115s@
PHILADELPHIA.-Flour - Western superfiRe
10 1896 %; Western extras, Sc 50@6 10; Minnesota
extra family, S8 75@9 IS; Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
Indiana extra family, IS 1899 Is: high grades $40
oil: Grain-Wheet, Pennsylvania red. 81 95@
Rye, Pennsyl vania. ssc. Corn, yellow Western,
tOc mixed t995sHc. Oats, Pennsylvania, 47@
4s cry, White Western, 4s@5oc.; mixed, l4@4oe.
Corn is quiet at go s62c in store Oats are scarce
and firm at 55G65c. in store. Pork is easier at
$l6 co. Lard is quiet fierce, 11c.; kegs, 12c. Bulk
Meats are dull and nominal; shoulders, SIC; clear
lib sides, SIC, and clear sides, SIC. Bagging is
dull and nominal at 12(012%c.
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might be written in the gradual processes of
improvement wrought out in articles of food.
Every progressive step is public blessing.
To no one article is more due than to
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER This with
proper care insures the most delicious and
digestibie bread, biscuits, pastry, etc.
WILHoFT's IONIC is not panacea--is not
cure for everything, but is catholicon
for malarious diseases, and day by day adds
fresh laurels to its crown of glorious success
Engorged Livers and Spleens, along the
shady hanks of our lakes and rivers, are re-
stored to their healthy and normal secretions.
Health and vigor follow it's use, and Chills
have taken their departure from every house
hald where Wilhofts Anti.Periodic is kept
aud taken. Don't fail to try it. G. r.
FINLAY & Co., Proprietors, New Dreams.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
/ SELL more of Hatcn's Universal Cough
Syrup than of all other similar preparations.
/ have sold it for about six years, aud my
customers would certainly not continue to
buy it If itwere not valuable remedy.
c. c. HIGGINS, Friendship, All. Co., N. Y.
Sold by JOHN d. PARK & SONS, Gin
cinDati, O..
To HoUsEKEEPERs. The attention OF
heads of families is invited to the superior
quality of BURNETT's FLAvoRING Ex-
lhAOlo. 1hOy "tO hiShiy
have all the freshness and delicacy OF the
fruits from which they are prepared and are
less expensive.
RHEUMATISM cured at once by Durang's
Rheumatic Remedy. Send for circular to
Helphenstine Bentley, Washington. d. c.
INFORMATION worth thousands to those out
of health. Self-help for weak and nervous
sufferers. Facts for those who have been
dosed, drugged, and quacked. The new
Health Journal teaches all. Copies free.
Address, Electric Quarterly, Cincinnati, o.
A POSITIVE Cure for atism-Du.
raDg's Rheumatic Remedy. Send for cir
cular to Helphenstine & Bently, Washing
ton, d. c.
Before buying any Turbine Wheel, send for
N. f. Burnham's New Pamphlet and Re-
duced Prices. Adds P. o. Box 513, York, Pa.
DURANG's Rheumatic Remedy never fails
to cure rheumatism. Sold by all druggists.
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AFTER an experience OF over twenty-five
years, many leading physicians acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
PILLS, the most popular remedy of the day
for biliousness, headache, liver complaint
and diseases of digest on. Sold by all drug
gists. Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co.,
New York
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, A SMOOTH sea never made a skillful
mariner. Neither do uninterrupted
prosperity and success qualify man for
usefulness or happiness. The storms of
adversely, like the storms of the ocean,
rouse the faculties and excite the inven-
ton, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the
vOyager.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-06-23

THE Sultan, though chronic sufferer
from tooth-ache, won't let a dentist come
near him. The Turkish jaw break
ers don't seem to be popular even at
homo
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Burnett;s Cocaine,
Burnett's Cocaine,
Burnett's Cocaine,
'ble remedy for
DANDRUFF,

Is an invaluable remedy for
DANDRuFF.
,n,,. BosToN Oct. 30.
the irritation which caused it, have entirely disap-
peared, and my hair was r6ver before / n 40 good
condition. A A FTTIER
Badness. .s.
s.., CHIC NGo. May u, 1871
siL 70 the recent use of your F." CocoaiDe' INV pre
viously bald mead has been covered by a luxnrianf
growth OF hair had always esteemed Your prepa-
natl d az Dressing knowing many persons who
garded 1t very highly such, but never before
knew how valuable 1t was a restorative
J. G. LEWIS,
LOSS OF HAIR,
v..o BANGOR, March 3, ISos
used In my family for the last eight years 1t not
only stepped my wifo's hair from coming out but
increased It's growth. am also under obligations
10 TINS same Cocoaine" for saving my own hair
his valuable preparation. }. g. MITCHELL.
IRRITATION OF THE SCALP.
VAUDEVILLE. ME-, Sept IS,
purchased bottle only, Tor the purpose of a
hair dressing; but to my surprise, it has entirely
removed thJ irritation of so iong standing. / have
RECOMMENDED il to several of my friends who wen
ainlctei ~ The same way, and it has wholly rradi-
cated the disease JOSEPH HILL, JR.
HAIR-DRESS;Nc.
NEW YORK, Sept. e.
For some time past have been using your Cocoa
Inc, and think IL far preferable to ANYTHING haw
ever used for the hair. FRANK LESLIE.
JOSEPH BURNETT & CO., Boston,
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MRS. MERCY STUDLEY, of Brewer,
Maine, aged one hundred and three
years, does the family washing every
Monday.
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STOCK MARKETS.

CINCINNATI.-Cattle-- Common to medium
81 5O@4 u.s. good to choice butchers grades, "a SOFA
40; fair to good shippers, 81 1895 SO. Sheep and
Lambs-Common to choice sheep, 81 5094 rs; fair
to good lambs, S4@6.
BUFFALO-Sheep clipped, 81 rs; good, SIS;
Workers, "a s5t15 05.
NEW YORK.-Beef Cattle-A few selected prime
and extra steers sold at 1214@121ac. per ID. Some
toughest cattle went as low as 10910ac., but 1917
@12c was the range generally, and included me-
dunn to good native and Texas CATTLE both corn-fed
and distillery fed. Sheep and Lambs-Common to
good clipped Western sheep. 1905. Lambs with
moderate sales brought $780, for common to
prime Virginia, Kentucky. and Tennessee stock
and s@l0c: for ordinary to choice Jersey
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Beef Cattle Best CATTLE
$6@6 80 per 100 lbs; medium to good, IS 25g5 So
common TO fair, "a SOFAS. Sheep-S46a5 25. Hogs
Workers, "a 1904 so; Philadelphia, S44O@5
WOOL.-1n Boston, the market is bare of double
extra and above. Medium and extra Ohio and
pennsylvania, 4094214c.; double extra and ABOVE
z6YaSc Michigan and Wisconsin, 56@40c. Super
and extra pulled was in good demand at 30Ca46c
In Cincinnati, dealers are buying freely, and pay
the quoted prices. desirable lots commanding full
figures. We quot Dnwashed fine me rino 2I@
&C.; clothing 22az5c medium deiaine, 27a2sc:
long combiDg, 3l933c Washed-Medium fee ces
27@2sc.; fine fleece, 80 a3sc.; delaine feeces, 30a
&c.; long eombing, a5@S7c; tub-washed, 3O@34c
Pulled, 27@28c
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PONDS EXTRACT.-"The Vegetable Pain
Destroyer" There is no pain or ache it will
not abate, no bruise or burn it will not
extract the agony from.