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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
SATURDAY, JULY T. 1871
HydrOphobia in Grant Parish.
[Colfax Chronicle. /

We published an account few
weeks since of the death of daughter
of Mr.. Vercher from hydrophobia,
having been bitten by rabid dog
three months and five days before the
malady showed itself. A gentleman
who lives near Mr.. Vercher called on
Sunday last and informed us that, at
the time the girl was bitten, a young
dog on the place was also bit. In a
short time this dog went mad, and was
seen biting two chickens, and Mr..
Yercher shot him. About ten or
twelve days ago those chickens also
went mad and they flew at and fought
every thing they came in contact with,
even to stick of wood. A little son
of Mr.. Vercher. about FIVE years old,
was attacked by one of the chickens,
which pecked him in the side, drawing
the blood, Mrs. Vercher seized the
chicken and attempted to break its
neck, and then flung it into the river,
but it swan out and was killed. The
other one was then shot by Mr.. YER
cher, the little boy calling out to his
father that he wanted him to burn the
wound. Being asked if he could stand
it, he said, Yes, will cover up my
head. | don't want to go mad, and
die like my sister, His father then
heated piece of iron and burned him,
and he bore it like man.
A near neighbor to Mr.. Vercher had
two pigs bitten by the same dog that
bit the little girl. He put them in the
pen to await the result. Both of them
have died of hydrophobia.
On Saturday, the 26th ult., a cat
belonging to Mr.. Seals, took hydro
phobic fit. After she recovered from
it she looked very wild and vicious :
made an attack upon the chickens in
the yard-and would have done mis-
chief if the children had not taken
sticks and killed it. 1t is supposed
to have been bitten by rabid dog.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
A ReYOIting Tragedy.

The Rapides Gazette thus relates
the particulars of IL bloody affray
which resulted in the killing of the
husband and brother of Il newly mar
ried lady and the wounding of her
father. Such q bereavement as hers
seldom finds a parallel. The Gazette
says: /:
From a private letter received by a
gentleman in town we learn that sad
tragedy occurred last Saturday in the
vicinity of Hineston. The facts as
given are briefly these Calvin Bass
was enamored of the daughter of
Jacob Gunter, and persuaded the
young lady to elope with him. The
couple went straishtway to the resi-
dence of Parsou Duff, a Baptist
minister residing in Calcasieu parish,
who united them in the holy bonds OF
wedlock. With sense of having
done what was honorable and right,
Bass returned with his bride to the
neighborhood of her home, and put up
ut the house of Rolep Weatherford
Having learned the whereabouts OF
the bride, Jacob Gunter, her father,
and David Gunter, her brother, armed
themselves and started forth. On
arriving at the spot where the honey
moon was to have been passed, David
Gunter without word shot his new
made brother-in law. Bass staggered
but before falling, drew pistol and
shpt his father in-law. ThereupOn
the brother-in- law who was standing
set upon the brother inlaw who was
woun, led and ended his life once aGd
for all With u knife. David Guntel
managed to get his wounded father
home. Constable Thomas Neal made
the next move by organizing a posse
and starting out to arrest David
When he saw them coming Davit
started to run, and the posse, to stol
him, fred upon him and brought hin
down. DR.. w. Hobby, who was called
in, thinks that David will not recover
and that the chances for his fathe2 arr
slim. This is Il very sad and singular
catastrophe, and the predicament 9
the young lady is calculated to eZcitt
the keenest sympathy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

The North is said to he afraid of the
South, that it will control the country,
its government aud its policy. With
IL few years of peace these fears will,
in measure, be realized. Not that
the people will be arrayed against
each other with Mason & Dixon's
line to divide them on questions of
political or social interest, but the
majority must rule, and the genial
sky and fertile soil Of the South will
furnish the home of the future rulers
of the country. AS matters are to-
day, the Mississippi valley controls
the United State. In few years the
southern portion Of the valley will do
the same thing. There is nothing
alarming in this prospect. The IN
tegrity of the country will not be
prejudiced, by this change OF political
mower from the East to the South.
State Register.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
BLAND NED,
BY IRWIN RUSSELL

BY IRWIN RUSSELL.
Who is dat 'ar-a-playing2 Shucks wish
WASH blin';
But when de Lord he TUX my eyes, he left my
yeahs behind;
Is dat you, Mahs'r Bob l. ! fought rec'nized
l said / knowd twas yer soon's heercd de
fiddle goin'.
Shai dat amt right-iust le' me show you
how to play dat tune
/ feel like could make dc fiddle talk dis at
ternUUn.
Now, don't you see dat counters JeS Ieetie
bit too high
Well, nebber mini guess you'll learn to
tune her by-and-by.
You's jest like all musifiapers dat learns to
play by note;
You amt got music in you, so you has to
hab it wrote >;
Now dat amt science-why de debbil don't
you play by yeah!
Fo dat's de onlies' kind oh music tittin' for
to heah.
Do ypp suppose. when David was pickin' on
dc harp,
He ebber knowed de difference atwixt fiat
an a sharp!
But any tune you called for, he could pick it
all de same,
For David knowed de music, dough he
didn't know de name.
Now, what shall begin on /! Somefin' lively
fas' an quick
Well, sab, jes' pay attention, an I'll glib yoH
"Cap'n Dick"
Yah! yah, young Mahs'r don't you feel jes'
like you want TO pat
You hab TO practice for awhile afore you
ekalS dat
Dere amt nobody 'roun dis place kin play
wild Uncle Ned;
Dey isn't got it i'll der fingers, neider in der
head;
Dat fiddler Bill dey tall Ks about heard him
play piece,
An declar' it sounded like fox among de
geese.
A violeen is like an CONAN, mighty hard to
guide;
An mighty hard to keep in order art"r once
it's hpyed-
Dere's allus sometin bout it out oh kilter
more or lest,
An faint de tancest looking ones dat alius
does de best.
Dis ycr's a splendid ins sment-I spec it cost
Il heap;
Ou ~ " nave ulo lOl
to keep
1t ain't no use to you, sab, for without it's in
de man,
He kant get music out de finest fiddle il: dc
Ian.
1t 'quires power of science for to fiddle,
sab, you see,
An scienct comes by nature; dat's de way
it is wild me
But, Lord dat Bill! it muses. me to hear
him talkin' big
You never heer'd braggin' fiddler play a
decent jig
Dat Bill, he's caution, sab! wonder now
whar he
An other folks J know of-yes, l wonder
whar dey'll be
In hebbin, wien de music's playin', an de
angels shout
If Bill should .jine the chorus, dey would hab
to put him out.
Well, good-bY, Mahs'r Bob, sah; when you's
muffin else to do,
Jes' send for dis OF darkey, an hell come
and plaT for you.
An don't give up your practisin'-yOu's only
seDenteen,
An maybe when you's OF as me you'll play
de Nioleen
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

USt. John MeSchqcebe: The fair
and concert given for the benefit of
st. Peters Church yielded the round
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
Louisiana Board of Immigra ion
GAttakapas Register.l

tAtldhcpHto
Uuder the provisions of the act of
1874, says the Picayune, Governor
Nichols appointed Messrs. DIR. VIM.
Bogel, w. P. Freret, Daniel bennett,
aud A. Kreutz, commissioners of i'm
migration for Louisiana. DR.. Bogel
was elected President, Mr.. Freret re-
cortling, and Mr.. bennett the cores
ponding secretary.
The law contemplated tax of two
dollars per head on all immigrants
arriving at the port Of New Orleans,
to defray the expense of the Board
of Commissioners, but the law proved
imperative and yielded no revenue.
The board will rely upon the gen.
erosity of public spirited citizens for
means to issue descriptive pamphlets
and circulars, and give proper atten-
ton to correspondence from abroad.
We trust they will not be disappointed.
When the Legislature next assemblies
it will be called upon to supply the
requisite funds for effective work.
| There is no mistaking the existence
of tendency to move Southwark by
the dissatisfied and unemployed la
borers of the North, provided fair
inducements are offered. The West
has lost some of its charms, by
rapidity of growth aud density Of
| popula ation, while the grasshoppel
plague continues to affiict.
The board can do good, and should
he co-optrated with by town, city
and parish associations or corpora
tions for tho better promotion of it,
object.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

ES OC. JONI 4HeSCHtctOc ti0 IAN
and concert given for the benefit of
st. Peters Church yielded the round
sum of $500.
gM Madison Journal: Two little
cOlored children were drowned while
swimming in the barrow pits at the
Buckhorn plantation.
D Morgan City Register. There
are twenty prisoners in the parish Jail,
all colored. Seven among them are
charged with the crime of murder.
EyRapides Gazette: The Sheriff of
Grant parish, with a posse of twelve
men, brought to our parish Jail for
safe keeping Gilley Hadnot, who is
under arrest for killing his brother-in-
law.
Assumption Pioneer: Falcunda
Berniclaud killed colored girl named
Eliska Bernard, ON the goth ult., and
then made his escape. The mortal
wound from which the young girl died
was inflicted with Il pistol.
w Thibpaaux Sentinel: Alfred
Johnsan, a colored Yapth aged twelve
Years, residing upon the plantation of
Mr.. ]. r. Freeman, accidentally 81 bot
and killed colored girl by the name
of Nancy Scott, aged fifteen years.
Eg Lake Charles Echo Gen. F. D..
Chamberlain, U. S. District Courts
Commissioner for Calcasieu and spec
tally empowered to fix and accept
bonds of intervenors for logs seques-
trated in the case of the u. S. as.
Joseph Hampton ct al, has arrived
here and ppened his court.
tg Natchitoehes Vindicator: A
French mslkmau named John was
drowned, at the g bluff" " above the
city, while bathing in the river sun
day evening. The body was recovered
- Two men III yawl were arrested
at Montgomery, upon telegraplic in
formation charging them with being
escaped murderers from Red River
parish. Their names are Morgan and
Petty.
yTangipalloa Independent Rev.
Flanders Curry, colored preacher OF
the Methodist Church, was stabbed
and killed by George Richardson
without any proyocation whatever.
Richardson, who made his escape, is
about % years old, rather tall, straight
and muscular; eyes light, hair dark
and complexion bronzcd. In speech
he is slow but distinct. He is said to
have been crazed with liquor when he
committed the heinous crime, and to
have been seeking to kill one OF the
Messrs. Aey, his neighbors.
sgNew Iberia Sugar Bowl: A mid
die aged German, whose name is not
known here, who reported himself
lately from Georgia, where his wife
and only two daughters had died sud
denly, stopped in Royville, having
previously walked from Berwick's
Bay mp the Teche. He said he was
on his way to Texas, where he had a
son living, and calling at the store OF
a merchant, asked nights lodging
He was refused through fear of small
pox, when he bought half loaf oi
bread and piece of rope. Next
morning his body was found in lot
near blacksmith shop where he bad
hanged himself.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
Weekly News Summary,
Foreign.

Greece has issued paper money.
Bulgarians are arming against the
Turks.
Gen. Grant and wife visited Queen
Victoria at Windsor.
The Bey of Tunis tenders a present
of mules to the Porte.
Gen. Diaz says Lerdo may returu
to Mexico unmolested.
A cotton spinnery burned at Glas-
gov, ousting 500 hands.
Russian cavalryiare spreading.oyer
the interior of Dobrudscha.
All of Gen. Zimmerman's troops
crossed the Danube at Galatz.
A boiler exploded at Turnstall,
England, killing eight persons, and
wounding thirty.
Heavy fighting took" place at Nick
opolis and Sistova. The losses on
both sides We're heavy.
Thirty thousand Russians crossed
the Danube at Sistpya and attacked
Bjela, but were repulsed.
There are fears of famine in Bull
garia. The Russian armies find it
difficult to procure supplies.
The Turkish monitors, caught by
low water in one of the branches of
the Danube have been summoned to
surrender.
1t is reported England refused to
mediate at the solicitation of Monte
negro. The Montenegrin situation
is i'll stdta quo.
Germany, Italy and Austria have
forbidden the export of horses from
their dOminions. Russia wants to
purchase 10000 horses.
Grand Duke Nicholas at the head
of the 9th army corps crossed the
Danube near Simnitza, driving the
Turks from their position.
The Russians before Zerwin and
Batoum were defeated and driven
back. The seige of Kars has been
nearly raised in consequence.
| Servia is actively pushing prepara-
tions for taking part i'll the war
against the Turks. She has ordered
at Paris accoutrements for 50, 600 men.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

Judging by the way the Democrat
brandishes its editorial tomahawk
over the heads of Tilden and Hen
bricks. we feel safe in saying that the
LouisiaEa Democracy has no use for
the COppeyhead peace Democracy of
the North. State Register.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

Charbon, from what we can learn,
it still on the increase in our partsh.
Some unfortunate planters have lost
every mnlc, and many horses and
COWS have died. Almost every con-
ceiyabla remedy has been tried, and
although no specific has yet been dis
covered, we are inclined to think
that whiskey given internally and
counter irritants to the swollen spot
is the best treatment.
-Pointc Coupee Pelican.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

The Secretary of the Navy directs
that laborers in the Navy yards shall
he employed with reference to skill
and efficiency, and without regard to
politics. No officer or workman is tn
be required to contribute money for
political purposes, and none are to be
discharged for political reasons. En-.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07
Domestic.

Minister Noyes sails for France to-
day.
Decrease of the public debt in June,
$3,I25 900.
Kenneth Raynor has been appointed
Assistant Treasurer.
Thomas Cayanagh died from sun
stroke in New Orleans.
Two men named Bellinger and
Pierce were carried over Niagara falls.
Every street lamp in Waterbury,
Conn, was destroyed by hail storm,
Simon Bell, white, shot and killed
John Carter, colored, in Burke county,
Ga.
The ship Gov. Morton burned at
South West Pass, with 4609 bales of
cotton.
A steamer exploded on Silver Lake,
Mass, scalding eighteen persons, six
fatally.
Judge Samuel d. Evans, ex-member
of Congress from Texas, is dead, aged
65 years.
ClCCUCtl
in honor of the defenders of Fort
Moultrie in 1776.
The steamer Red Wing hurst q
steam pipe near Keokuk. Three killed
aud ape wounded.
Secretary Sherman is inspecting the
lighthouses and life saving stations on
the Atlantic coast.
The main railroads of the North and
West have reduced the wages of en-
ployees ten per cent.
Epliraim Holland, the Cincinnati
ballot-box stuffer, goes to the peni-
| Tertiary for thirteen months.
The steamer Thompson Dean was
sold at auction at Cincinnati, bringing
$4,000. She cost S150, 900.
Drexel g. Co. of New York will adj
vance military officers three monthsA
pay at six per cent. per annum.
In the Yale Harvard boat race at
Springfield, Mass, Harvard won.
Harvard also defeated Columbia.
Gen. VIM. G.. Leduc of Minnesota
has been appointed commissioner Of
agriculture, vice Watts, resigned.
The heaviest rain for years fell at
Utica, n. Y. The Mohawk flats are
flooded, and the canal overfiowed.
Cadet Henry o. Flipper, the coioted
graduate of West Point, has been
assigned to the 10th regiment of cav
airy.
| Gen. Mata, appointed by Diaz min
lister to the United States, has applied
for recognition at the State Depart
nent.
Robinson Palmer, one of the first
Senators when Maine was first admit
ted to the Union, died in that State
last week.
Jarvis Anderson, supposed to be-
long to an extensive band of thieves,
was taken. from Jail and hung at
Hickman, Ky.
Thos. Redd and VIM. Little, brotl.-
! ers in-law, had fatal quarrel, in
which Reid was killed aud Little
mortally wounded.
Victor A. w. Drummond, secreiaty
of the British legation ut Rio dc Jan
: Giro, has been promoted to the same
!. position at Washington
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

A large quantity of potatoes was
recently shipped from Bayou Sara to
st. Louis and Chicago. How's this
for the i" blarsted South, whar they
don't raise nothin' but cotton and
fishin' poles ?'- Rapides Gasette.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

Transient advertisements 81 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
rs cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per square first
insertion; each subsequent publication 50
cents per squara.
Editorial notices, first insertion, 90 cents
per line; subsequently, 10 cents per line
Brief communications upon subjects OF
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonyille. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-07-07

Collector Wilkins of Baltimore, re-
fssing TO resign, has been suspended.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-21
Only voluntary Contributions" are
Tolerated.


Another plank in Hayes civil-service
reform platform has proved too rotten to
stand the pressure OF actual use. Secre.
tary MeCrary has knocked the prohi-
bition of political assessments into frag-
ments, without saying so much as by
your leave!" to the president. The sec.
rotary insists that while compulsory asses
ments are prohibited, the clerks and en-
ployes Of his department are to be allowed
to make voluntary contribution" without
restraint. That sets the reform" back
exactly to where Grant left it. Only vol.
untary contributions were tolerated under
the last administration, and every employe
had the privilege of making or refusing
free gifts to The party treasury-with the
alternative Of losing his place if he neg,
lected or refused. That is exactly yhat
McCrary's qualification means. Sherman
is also understood to be furloughing the
clerks Of Lis department who hail from
Ohio. with advice that amounts to com
mand that they shall 90 home and vote
There isn't much of Mr. Hayes Civilser
vice reform manifesto left. If he doe
not intend TO be made the laughing-stocl
of the country by his treacherous ant
rebellous secretaries, he will make an eff
fort to save the remainder, even if it j
necessary to lose a member Of the cabinet
or two, in doing it,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-21

A meeting Of government employees
from Ohio was held in Washington the
other evening, at The house of one OF the
number, the sixth auditor Of the treasury.
The clerks we're called together for the
purpose Of listening to an urgent appeal
from an emissary Of the Ohio republicans,
who implored his hearers TO send men aud
money for the relief Of the imperiled party
in that state. The most curious circum-
stance connected with the meeting-in fact
the only one that gives it general interest
was the volunteering Of statement by the
appointment clerk Of the treasury to the
effect that although the administration
had decided some time ago to stop grant
ing leave of absence for elections, he was
authorized to say now that every clerk
who desired to 90 home to vote would be
allowed from five to seven days, which
would not be charged against him.
These statements we're accompanied by
exhortAtions to contribute literally, and thu
aSsuIHuCS luht tuc plSSAuShb OluVA nOulS
not be enforced against persons taking par
in the Ohio campaign. 1t might he inter
estinE in this connection to know WIT
authorized" the appointment clerk tc
inform the employees of the treasury de-
partment that the formal, published orders
Of the president of the United States ar,
TO be treated with contempt, and to assure
them that they would not only have full
immunity for disobeyiug those orders, bu
would also receive full pay from tht
government while travelling on their OWL
private business. How many of the clerk
were persuaded to accept the leave o
absence thus offered them, is not stated
but the dispatch from which the foregoing
account is cleaned sadly confesses tina
$50 far as obtaining money was concerned
the meeting was failure, as most Of Nh
clerks declined TO contribute"
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-21
THE NEW JERSEY DEMOCRATS.
The Platform---A Good Thing for
worlringmen to Read.

The state democratic convention Of New
Jersey, which nominated Gen. Geo. B.
Mcclellan as governor, on Wednesday,
adopted the following platform, (which: we
respectfully refer to the careful considera-
ton of the workingmen and others of this
county:
l. The democracy of the state of New
Jersey in convention assembled, reafirm
the principles contained In the national
democratic platform adopted at st. Louis
in 1876. We denouuce the frauds and
crimes OF which our candidates for presi-
dent and vice president are prevented
from occupying the positions to which they
were chosen by decided majority of the
popular and electoral vote.
| 2. We congratulate the supporters of
free government throughout the United
States on the fact that even the means Of
these frauds and crimes, has found it
necessary in order to receive the respect
and support of any portion Of the American
people, to adopt the democratic policy Of
local self government and abandon all
further devices to perpetuate sectional
jealousies.
3. The democratic party, embracing 10
its ranks all classes of our citizens. most of
whom are workingmen, believe that all
legislation should have for its object the
greatest good to the greatest number. We
, therefore oppose all special legislation for
corporate or individual interests at the
expense of the people. We recognize the
, needs and sympathize with the working
men OF the state in their prevalent distress
? We advise the enactment of such legisla-
} ton as will enable US to collect statistical
, information relating to the interests OF
labor and capital with a view to harmonic
these interests and place our industries up
= on a more permanent and scientific basis
D 4. HonesE toll and legitimate business
are the true basis of nations prosperity
Official salaries ought never to be so high
as to be sought after for mere pecuniary
S gain. Salaries, fees, and the costs OF liti
E CATION have during the past years of re
, publican legislation been so largely in
, creased as to become absolutely burden
some. The times demand and the
necessities of the people require radica
D reduction of all such salaries, fees, AM
, costs. The usury laws should b,
revised and reformed, ard pc
cent. should be restored as tn,
f uniform legal rate of interest 10 thi
+; state without impairing obligations of con
, tracts,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1877-09-21
A Modest Fraud.

Mr. Hayes is modest. far more modest
than the common run of party machine
made otficeholders. To the people of Gin
ciunati, the other day, he said
We do not claim for the administration
the advantages that come to the country
from good crops!" If Mr. Hayes goes on
that way, he will destroy whatever capita
THE party" may hope to build upon. The
man who will not claim that republican
administration" is the producing cause Of
good crops is plainly not the man the
party machine requires at the head of the
government.