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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-05-07
DAYTON, KY,

Brockway's photograph gallery near
the car stables 10 the latest improve
ment.
Charley Macarthur says it's only
question OF time-the running of dunn
mics. Don't take too much time. The
people want change.
Rev. DR.. Dudley, Assistant Bishop OF
the Diocese OF Kentucky, will preach
and administer the rite Of confirmation
at st. Johns Episcopal Church Wednes-
day evening next.
LUDLOW, KY.
Charley Carroll, Jr., will open his
handsome store In week or two.
The trial of Ben. Shotts Injunction
has been postponed until the June term
of the Chancery Court.
Dale Williams has received flattering
offer of an engagement as pitcher from
the Providence, &. l., Baseball Club.
Councilman Ed. Plummer went on a
pleasure excursion to Taylorsport yes
terday on Commodore Marks beautiful
steam yacht.
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Cincinnati Live stock Market.
FINCUNH M

The following are the receipts and shipments
Of live stock Ior the past 10 Dcarsi
Cattle. Hogs. Sheen.
Receipts. ts.................. b66 2349 SO
ShIpments. ts............-" IL 2865 ....
HOGS-The market is active and firm at
previous prices. Common, 81 50a4 20. medium
IS OOa5 ~, good TO choice So 30a5 IS per Genital
gross.
CATTLE-Market Arm and fair demand.
Common SO 0Oa3 so, medium 50 Toad %, and
good to choice "A 50a5 50 per GENITAL gross.
SHEEP-Are in active demand and market
firm at $3 OOa3 Is for inferior, $4a4 so for me
dium, "a 75a5 50 for good to choice, and s6 76a6
for extra perc.ental gross.
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firm but quiet and no material

The following is the 80 Z. NJ. report OF New
York Stock Market, as received by Lea, Ster-
rett q Co., 2S West Third street:
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For POnarOY.

For POmer0y.
THIS DAY, 7th, at p. Nj. POSITIVELY.
NS ONO No. A. Pres. LodwicK, Master.
lI6s38i88a% Freight received at all hours on
W harf boat, foot Of Broadway. w.
HOnsheli Supelintendent,
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Cincinnati Type Foundry 20.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
Southern Improvements.

President Hayes has removed all
obstructions to the payment of the
monies appropriated by the last Con-
gress for Southern improvements.
They will go mainly to cleaning
rivers and connecting water courses,
in the interests of navigation and
the cheap transportation of products.
The next step of the conciliatory
policy of the administration is an
nounced as the speedy completion of
of the Southern Pacific railway, and
the encouragement of all measures to
which the South is entitled by virtue
of her population, productions and
proportion of revenues contributed
to the general government. 1t is
with profound qualification that we
witness the dawniDg of the rule of
reason over partisan seetionalism in
the Capitol, and we shall look to the
extra session of Congress for hearty
endorsement of the good work al
ready begun. One touch of justice
subdues a dozen thoughts of bitter
ness in the minds of ex-Confederates,
and the President may safely follow
the line all mer.-Attakapas Reg
SSter. ~
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

ton, no one knows which among them
to trust,

ton, no one knows which among them
to trust.
Business is getting better every day.
The course of President Hayes has
given backbone to the trading inter-
est. Whether his policy be right or
wrong, it is policy, and men know
what to depend upon. The South,
relieved from the uncertainties that
have so long hung over it, is plucking
up courage, and preparing for busi-
ness, and the effect is observable. Her
merchants are buying goods and pay
ing for them, confident that they will
find their account in the general re-
vival they hope for. The Russian
Turkish war has frightened up mat
ters, for the price of breadstufs has
gone up, the farmers are paying their
bills to the country retailer, and he,
in turn, is coming here to make good
his stock. In short, we all feel en-
couraged, and hope that the good
times we have hoped for so long are
here at last. PIETRO.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
Our New Senator.
TMinden Democrat.l

Judge H. NJ. Spofford, the newly
elected United States Senator, is well
known in North Louisiana. 1t was
here that be made his first appearance
in Louisiana. He emigrated or carpet
bagged South in the year 1889, from
Massachusetts,. Savannah, Georgia,
was his first stopping place. He at
tempted to practice law in Georgia,
but for some reason was unsuccessful,
and was about starved out when for
tune called him to Louisiana. About
that time Judge Edward Allcott, then
a prominent lawyer of this place, also
from Massachusetts,, was requested to
write for teacher for the school in
this place. He wrote to Spofford, and
it was through him the present Sena-
tor found his way to Louisiana. He
taught school several years, during
which time he studied Louisiana law
in Judge Allcott's Office, and when ad-
mitted to the bar entered into part
nership with him.
When Judge Spofford made his ap-
pearanee in Minden he was about the
seediest looking specimen of the genus
homo that ever tramped to any coun-
try in search of his fortune. He wore
an old coat which he continued to
wear for two years-in fact he wore
that coat as long as it would hold to-
gether and until it was so greasy that
it would have been good stock in the
establishment of a frst-class soap fac
tory. @ R
1t was here that he wrote and pub
lished the Louisiana Magistrate, a
book well known to the legal fraterni-
ty. In this connection the following
annecdote is told: Some years after
the sc Louisiana Magistrate was pub
lished Judge Spofford, then q lawyer
of considerable distinction, was en-
ployed in case before a Justice of
the Peace somewhere in one of the
out of the way places in North Louisi-
ana. The Judges book was not alto
gether correct, but the Justice had a
copy of it and believed in the letter of
the law. The Judge was for the
plaintiff. and the law as laid down in
the magistrate was plainly in favor of
the defendant. The Judge tried to
convince the Justice that he wrote
the book when he was a young man
and had naturally made some mis-
takes, but the Justice simply looked
at linn and said, "What, you wrote
this book Q" and bringing his fist
down on the book with force that
shook the log house, said, " No sir,
this is the law and / decide this case
in favor of the defendant"
After entering the practice of law
the seedy school teacher rapidly rose
to distinction, and was first elected
District Judge in 1852, and in 1854
was elected Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. Judge Spoford's first
permanent home in the South was in
Minden. Many old friends speak of
him in the highest terms and rejoice
at his elevation to the Senatorship.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
NUMBER 36.
Weekly News Summary.
Domestic.

The U. S. steamer Dispatch has
sailed for the Mediterranean.
Burroughs 81 Wing, Richmond to-
bacco brokers, failed for 500, 900.
Johnny Gillen, aged Is. was acci-
dentally drowned at New Orleans.
At Straitsville, O., 400 striking
miners made turbulent demonstra-
tions.
James R. Leans, Boston post-office
clerk, has been arrested for robbing
the mails.
The grand commandery of Tennes-
see Knights Templar met at Memphis
last week.
The President has issued his proc
lamation convening Congress in extra
session October Is.
The Franklin cotton mill, at San
quoit, N. Y, burned 100 men thrown
out of employment.
A switch engine overturned at Chi
cago, killing five persons and severely
injuring two others.
Anxiety is felt for she steamship
City of Brussels, which left New York
April 81, for Liverpool.
The annual meeting of Southern
underwriters association opened at
Atlanta on Wednesday.
A negro, charged with assaulting
white woman, was shot dead by the
husband at Cedar City, Mo.
The fremen of Carrollton, La, eel
ebrated the seventh anniversary of
their department last Sunday.
Rev. John Miller of New Bruns-
wick, New Jersey, has been suspended
for advocating heretical doctrines.
Two Mexicans who robbed and
| murdered Henri de Forrest at Santa
Cruz, CAL, were captured and hung.
The name of Murat Halstead. editor
of the Cincinnati Commercial, is men,
toned in connection with the Turkish
mission.
John T. Daley, millionaire and
proprietor of the Windsor Hotel, New
York, went to lonely house near q
country village and hanged himself.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

A most remarkable freak of nature
is thus described and vouched for by
the Marksville Bulletin:
Seven months ago the cabin of a
colored man living few miles south
of this place, was consumed by fire,
and large magnolia tree standing IN
close proximity to the hut, was ig-
nited. Since that time it has stea dily
been burning, and neither the drench-
ing rains of winter nor the driven
SHOWS of January could quench the
flames, and strange TO Say that this
tree is now green with leaves and full
of large and perfect blossoms. The
smoke still issues from tbe tree, evil
dencing the fact that the slow work
of destruction is unremitted.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
Monroe Intelligencer.

At last, after nearly six months of
uncertainty and excitement, our local
troubles have ended, and Francis T.
Nichols is Governor. AS Republican
we hoped for different result, while as
an observer of passing events, we felt
satisfied long ago that without great
change in our party this would he the
outcome finally. 1t is useless to in
dulge in vain regrets, idle recrimina-
ton, or to blame any ore for this, least
of all President Hayes for we be-
lieve he was governed in his course
by patriotic and honest motives. AS
a citizen it behooves US to support
the government that promises us
protection, and as a Republican to
let the experience of the past guard
our party in the future against fall
ing into the same errors. Let us
hope that this result will bring about
that era of good feeling and material
prosperity among all classes of our
people, of which we heard so much
during the last canvass.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
Foreign.

The Car has returned to Moscow.
Two Russian assaults on Kars were
repulsed.
Abyssinia has again declared war
against Egypt.
American minister Washburne has
returned to Paris. .z..s
The defeat of the Russians at Ba-
toum is confirmed.
The Porto accepts German protect
crate of Russian subjects.
Turkish divers destroyed eleven
Russian torpedoes at Poti.
Shipwrights in the Glasgow district
of the Clyde are on strike.
The Porte protests against the
Russo -Roumanian convention.
England is sending large quantities
of war stores to Gibraltar and Malta.
The town of Rein, on the Danube,
was bombarded By Turkish monitors.
The Transvaal Republic, South At
rica, has been annexed to Great Brit
ain.
Turkey has declared blockade OF
the whole Russian coast OF the Black
Sea.
A fire in warehouse at Matanzas,
Cuba, destroyed 1000 hogsheads of
Sugar.
Reports of recent outrages prac-
ticed upon Christians in Turkey are
denied.
Prince Milan invites Gen. Tcher-
nayeff to resume command OF the
Servian army.
The conflict between church and
liberalism in all Spanish America is.
waxing warm.
The Danube has been completely
obstructed by the Russians at the
mouth of the Pruth.
Three Turkish monitors bombarded
Ibrail, but drew off on account of the
weight of the Russian FIRE.
The German Emperor is visiting
Alsace. He was warmly cheered by
the popuiaee of Strasbourg.
Noisy anti Catholic demonstrations
| were made Dy Paris S6uuenJS, VINO
were dispersed by the police.
The insurrection of Meridites is
virtually ended. Sixty Meridites were
4 arrested and taken to Seutari.
The reported capture of Driga Pass
by the Turks is contradicted. The
Montenegrins still hold the pass.
Greek troops attacked a Turkish
detachment which crossed the from
tier of Epirus in pursuit. of brigands.
| It is believed the Russians are ad-
vancing leisnrely in order to give the
Turks time to calmly consider their
situation.
| The Turkish press law has been
suspended and all newspapers pub
| lished in Turkey are now under con-
troll of the government.
| An English steamer entering the
harbor of Kertsch without the neees-
sary precautions, was totally de-
stroyea by torpedo.
The first engagement in Herzeao-
yina since the expiration of the arm-
, istice occurred on the Both ult. An
insuYgent force attacked the Turkish
vanguard near Neyesignea killing tif-
teen.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

Charles Tienan, a notorious gam
bier of st. Louis, during the burning
of the Southern Hotel, saved the lives
of several of the inmates of the build
ing, and lost his own life ip an effort
to rescue others. Evil hahita do not
always destroy the generous feelings
of humanity and sympathy that are
innate in mans breast. 4ttakapas
Register.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
shreveport Telegram.l

Gen. Nichols, who to-day is pre-
sumed to be Governor OF Louisiana,
is gentleman in all his instincts and
promptings-and as soldier, citizen
aud gentleman, sans peHr, sans re-
pr0cke. He is not arbitrary, aggres-
sive or disposed to ignore the rights
and privileges of those who opposed
his election. If it is his fortune to be
Governor of Louisiana for the present
term, we feel assured he will deal
justly, fairly and most eonscientiously
with all.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

II st. Charles Herald: The rev.
enue cutter John A. Dix passed our
little town on Monday last, with a
party of visiting engineers from the
North and West on board, to take "A
look at the Bonnet Care creyasse.
w West Feliciana Sentinel: Measles
and whoopiag cough, in some cases
combined, have inv AIDED almost every
household in our two villages. Nearly
all the youngsters have it, and some
of the older one have not been eK
empG.
~ Clinton Pcttriot- Democrat: The
smallpox has entirely disappeared
from this parish. Corn as general
thing has Eecei we'd it's second work
ing, is knee high and growing rapidly.
Cotton is zap but in consequence of
the chilly mornings looks any thing
but as ithrifty as our farmers would
desire.
st. John Meschdcebe: The store.
sana. residence of Mr.. Hcnorat Rod
Irigueswere totally destroyed by fire.
Ar old colored man named WASH
,ington fell dead in the field on Mr..
,Valsin Marmillion's plantation -
sWhne Mr.. Eusebe Cambre was split
ting a log, the wedge few up in his
5faca and put out one of his eyes.
gg Iberville South: The saw-mill
eapd lumber business of this town is
increasing rapidly. Thousands Of logs
are now in the bayou and still they
come every day. Hundreds of men
are employed and new saw mills going
up which will give employment to
MANY more. The prediction that we
made in 1872, that Plaquemine would
one day be the greatest lumber market
in the State, is about to be verified.
u Morgan City Register Owing
to lack of business all the clerks on
the Morgan steamships were dis
charged. The labor performed by
them will in future fall upon the pur-
sers. Seven cases of smallpox IN
town; one new one this week; four
convalescent One OF the Morgan
locomotives jumped off the track in
front of the Register office Lot
Lewis, a colored boy, shot pistol
ball through his finger.
~ Assumption Chronicle: A col
ored man with his two children were
burned to death in their cabin on Mr..
Anatole Lallande's plantation last
week. A coal oil lamp was left burn
ing in the cabin and the suppositlon
is that it exploded and ignited the
clothing and other combustibles In
the cabin; and so speedy were the
inroads of the fire that all escape was
cut off The fremen's fair, April
% and %, was perfect snccess.
Sufficient funds were realized to pur-
chase suitable pump and equipment
for the company.
| Thibodaux SentiRepS Terre-
bonne correspondence: Marsh Glib
son, who was shot in quarrel with
Willis Haines died from the effect OF
his wounds We We're shown q
white partridge. killed by well
known sportsman of our town. Will
some of our naturalists rise and ex-
plain "A young man by the name
of Whitney, while picking moss IN the
swamps of Chacahoula, fell from
tree fifty feet high, and had his legs
and arms severely fractured. The
wounds, though very painful, are not
thoaght be dangerous.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

Transient advertisements ST 90 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
IS cents.
All official notices 81 90 per square each
publication.
Editorial notices--in local columns, 90
cents per line.
Brief Communications upon subjects of
publie interest solicited.
Ne attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views
of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF. Donaldsonville. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
Republican Press Opinions.

To complete our condensed report
of the views of the Redublican press
of Louisiana relative to the recent
transfer of the State government to
Democratic control, we add the fol-
lowing to the extracts published last
week !:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

The Tom Parker was the first steam
boat that ever appeared upon the
waters of Lake Lafourche. 1t ram
down to the ferry from Beuf river
the other day, and surprised the in
habitants of the shores of that beauti-
ful sheet of water with the shrill notes
of its whistle. e.-Richland Beacon.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

Three of the ten colored Lowndes-
vile, S. c., murderers, Wightman
Allen, John Allen and jenkins Whit
ner, were hanged at Abbeville Court
House. The sentences of the other
seven were commuted to imprison-
ment for life.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

The Fiji Prince, William Pitt Ie-
leichoku, brother of King of Hawaii,
and heir apparent to the throne, died
April 10. Princess Lydia Kamakalka
Silmakala Silenokalavi, eldest sister
of the King, has been appointed his
successor to the throne.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
The Baton Rouge Aduocate tenders

TIC BatOE Rouge AdC0Cdte tendeTS
this advice to its contemporaries:
The Democratic and Conservative
papers can do better service to Loulsi-
ana now by ignoring politics and by
advocating the development of all her
resources than by continually harping
upon political problems that will solve
themselves in due time. immigration,
agriculture, commerce, railroads and
other enterprises now need the closest
attention of the press.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

We agree with the Donaldsonville
CHIEF that the days of the Returning
Board and bulldozers are over, and
we have no tears to shed over their
demise. g Let the dead bury their
dead" and let us live only for the
present and future RtchL0nd BeGeoN.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

The Bey of Tunis offers the Porte
$4,000 infantry and 5000 cavalry. pro-
vided the Porte pays part of trans-
portation and equipment expense.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

A carriage returning from funeral
at Pompton, N. j., was struck by a
locomotive. Three persons were killed
and Swo fatally injured.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

N. C. Musselman, president of the
Union Banking Company of Philadel-
phia, is charged by the cashier with
embezzlement of the banks money.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

Mouktar Pasha, Turkish commander
on the Georgian frontier, claims to
have checked the Russian advance
in that direction.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12

Iskender Khan, nephew of the
Amoor of Afghanistan, has gone to
Constantinople to offer his services
to the Sultan.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-12
AGENTS FOR THE CHIEF.

ASCENSION PARISH.
WIN. G. Wilkinson, Donaldsonville, La.
DIR. John Dominique, Dominigue's Landing
j. B. Hebert, New River.
Alex. Meyers, Manchac and Port Vincent.
ELSEWHERE.
Il. H. Bloomfield, Bayou Goula. La.
j. Curtis Waldo, New Orleans, La.
Geo. z. Rowell & Co., New York
Rowell g. Chesman, ST. Louis, Missouri.
c. A. Cook & Co.. Chicago, Illinois.
Bates g. Locke, New York
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-07-04
Why She Accepted Him.

The "Powhatan estate was for two
hundred years the property OF the Mayo
family, and here, as the story goes, John
Howard Payne fell madly in love, when
in Richmond, with Miss Maria Mayo (af-
terward Mrs. General Winfield .Scott),
q famous Richmond belle in her day, and
remarkable for her wit and intelligence,
as well as for her extraordinary beauty.
Poor PAYNE laid his heart at her feet,
butshe is said to have toyed and coquetted
with it, and then to have flung it aside.
When MI hope of winning the fair prize
was abandoned, Payne went to Europe,
where he remained for nearly twenty
years, and where he wrote his Home,
Sweet Home" which was first sung IN
his opera of "Clare," at London. This
traditional incident in the life of Payne
revives another (and one still current in
Richmond) connected with General
Scott. It is said that when he first ad-
dressed Miss Mayo, he was only cap,
tain in the regular army, and his suit
was sunmarily dismissed. Afterward,
when major, he renewed the proffer of
his hand, but with no better success.
The third time he wore the epaulets OF
general, and these promptly secured his
acceptance. When asked by one of her
friends why she had thus suddenly
changed her mind, Miss Mayo is said to
have replied "In my estimation, there
is q very decided difference between q
captain, or even major, and general
in the American army."-Scribner's
JId0u-ine,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1877-07-04
An Interview with Sitting Bull.

Father Martin, of Standing Rock, reach
ed Bismark, d. r., recently on his return
from visit to Sitting Bull. He found
the old scalper On Frenchman's creek,
about forty miles north of the British
American boundary. Sitting Bull re-
fused to hold council with him except
in the presence Of one of the British Of
ficers. Accordingly, after delay of one
week, the attendance of Majors Walsh
and Irwin and Captain Allen, from Fort
Walsh, was secured, and after long
talk Sitting Bull determined to quit
fighting and to remain in the British
possessions. The British officers an
swered him all would be we'll if he be-
haved himself and did not commit depre-
dations on either side OF the line.
Sitting Bulls followers are divided
into three bands, and number in all
about 32O lodges or 1000 fighting men,
and Father Martin is satisfied that they
have had enough of war and desire now
to be let alone. In crossing the river
this spring they lost nearly all their
camp equipments and much of their
ammunition and many of their arms, and
are now in no condition to pursue the
warpath.
The British officers believe they can
control the sale of arms, and it is not
proposed to allow the Indians any except
the arms and ammunition needed for
hunting purposes.
Sitting Bull had grievous complaints
to make against the United States. He
said his father turned him off and he was
forced to 60 to his grandmother for pro-
lection, and therefore he would not talk
until his grandmother was heard from ;
but when the British officers came he
talked very freely, with the result stated.