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~ Minden Democrat: A mad dog
appeared in town and bit several other
dogs and IL hog. ALI the bitten aai-
mails were killed.
Eg Monroe IntelIigencer A one
story frame building belonging TO
Capt. f. b. Stubbs took fire aud
burned TO the ground.
1 Assumption Chronicle: j. c..
"Thiac of Paincourtville has been ap-
pointed by Gov. Nichols Tax Coliee-
tor for Assumption. The appointment
meets with general favor.
u West Feliciana Sentinel: Abe
wilkins, an aged colored man, died in
Bayou Sara during tiie night of the
18th inst. He had been in bad state
eof health for some time previous and
Wemained without shelter throughout
tthe night, which was very cold one.
I Washington Enterprise At
tthe residence of Mr.. Z. Plonsky, on
Monday night, Mr.. j. PlOnsky and
Leopold Kaufman were play
striking at each other when one acei-
.dentally overturned the lamp, which
exploded, severely burning Mr.. E.
Plonsky's adopted daughter Mary.
~ Iberville South: The people
of Baton Rouge are again moving in
the matter of constructing a narrow
gauge railroad fro.n that city to Clin
ton. Capt. Chas. A. Brusle, ap-
pointed Tax Collector of this parish
by Gov. Nichols, qualified this week
by furnishing good and solvent bond
of $50, 1000.
U New Iberia Sugar -Bowl: A
Frenchman who gives his names as
Louis Lefeule is in town, with certifi-
Gates frop. Gen. Ord aud others stat
fug his wife aud three children were
killed by Indians and he SO woaatled
that he can not work, aud hence Reeds
charity He has Galveston paper
giving the same statement.
E Morgan City Register The
store of Edgar Bass took fire in the
roof Sunday morning from detective
flue. Fortunately it was discovered
in time to prevent any serious DAM
age Will there be bridge built
over the bay here if the railroad is
.extended7 An attempt to bridge it
by driving piles a few years ago
proved unsuccessful. The water in
some places is said to be over one
hundred feet deep.
y Marksville Bulletin: A little
daughter of w. w. Edwards, ESQ.,,
met with cad accident. Herself and
brother were playing with blow gun
when the latter in jocular way blew
the arrow at his little sister, putting
sher eye out. The little girl had al
ready lost an eye. and this sad oc-
.currence makes her blind. IA con-
siderable acreage has already been
planted in corn, but we fear that the
late heavy, beating rains will cause
the grain to rot and necesaitate an
other planting.
1 Tensas Journal. A most dis
tressing casualty occurred last Sat-
,urday night on the Waveland planta.
ton in this parish. One OF the houses
in the quarters near the gin was
burned to the ground, and an old col
ored woman and her two little child
rem perished in the flames. There was
Il horse tied to the back gallery, and
it alsQ became victim to the devOur-
ing clement. 1t made the most fran
tic efforts to get loose and when |
finally released, it tottered around to
the front of the house, and before it
could be prevented, rushed into the
fire and was destroyed.
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This is the Abbeville Banner's opin

This is the Abbeville Banners opin-
ion of the situation and the probabil-
tiles of the future:
1t is useless to blink the truth. Let
us make up our minds for the worst
and prepare accordingly. He who is
forewarned is forearmed. The delay
and vacillation at Washington means
Packard and not Nichols. There
never was time when Hayes could
have so easily disbanded Packard as
on the day of his Inauguration. Every
day the ultra Republicans gain
strength and the Conservatives are on
the wane. We are betrayed and sold
out to hopeless confusion and anarchy.
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Domestic.

A snow slide near Alta, Utah, killed
two persons.
Ex-Gov. Emory Washburneo of Mass
achusetts is dead.
Six buildings in the business portion
of Manchester, Va, burned.
The brig Sunshine, from Port Royal
for England, was abandoned at sea.
The steamer Florence sank in Ar
kansas river with 1000 bales of cotton.
Prof. S. C. Bartlett of Chicago acs
cepts the Presidency of Dartmouth
college.
There is great distress among the
unemployed in Pennsylvania mining
regions.
r. A. Wathou, captain of the brig
Isabel, was washed overheard and
drowned.
Ex-Speaker Randall visited the
Massachusetts, Legislature and was
cordially received.
Two unknown schooners capsized
off Cape Ann. The fate of the crews
has not been learned.
Louis Rice, Boston hotel keeper,
died from excitement during fire in
an adjoining building.
A saw mill boiler exploded near
Worthington, Ind, killing twelve per-
sons and wounding seven.
j. w. Marshall, ex-first assistant
postmaster, was appointedlsuperinten~
dent of railway mail service.
An unknown white man jumped
overheard from the ferryboat Sarah,
at New Orleans, and drowned.
Anotht soldier of the 10Th Infantry,
named James Fay, was killed at New
Orleans by drunken comrade.
Two young men at Antrim, n. H..
ended political discussion by fight
ing, and one shot the other fatally.
The Fort Pitt boiler works and
Wilson, Snyder & Co.'s brass foundry
were destroyed by fire at Pittsburg,
Pa.
Steamship Rustland, from Bremen
to New York, went ashore at Long
Branch and is total loss. No lives
lost.
Four cars of a passenger train weie
thrown from the track near Augusta,
Ga. A mail agent was slightly in-
jured.
Treasury agents seized $500 fine
cigars, Sc, 600 cigarettes and large
quantity of leaf tobacco smuggled into
New York.
The World Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York has been or
dered to show why receiver should
not be appointed.
The Lackawana has been ordered
to Mazatlan to investigate the deten-
tion of American vessels by the GUS
toms authorities there.
A New York woman while intoxi-
Gated laid ON an infant and smothered
it to death. She is under arrest,
charged with homicide.
Peter B. Sweeny, notorious for his
completely with the Tweed ring, has
returned to New York 20 testify in
the suits against the ling.
The large Boston dry goods firm Of
Jordan, Marsh g. Co., have compro-
missed the suit against them for under
valuation, for $50, 900 aud costs.
1t is reported that Kingan, the fugi-
tive member of the New York Produce
Exchange, is reported to have been
murdered and robbed in Canada.
Six Cinnamon clearing land in Butte
county, CAL, were attacked by whites;
five were killed and the sixth escaped
slightly wounded By feigning death.
The steamboat Gov. Garland, from
Pine Bluff for Memphis, burned forty
miles from the mouth of the Arkansas
river, with $50 bales cotton. One pas
senger was lost and the pilot slightly
burned.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24

We copy this pleasant personal no.
tice from the Assumption Chronicle of
last week:
The popular and gay commander of
the Era No. 8, Capt. Joe Dalferes,
Col. Soaring Taylor, a wealthy young
planter and very clever gentleman
withal, Edward Nichols Pugh, ESQ.,,
and r. N. Sims, Esq, both leading
lawyers of DonaldsOnville, La, were
among the visitors at this village, on
Monday, the 18th inst. Col. Taylor
reports favorably on the crop pros
poets of Ascension. These gentlemen
are always welcome visitors here, and
left highly gratifed with the warm
receptions of their many friends in
this center of civilization. Come Of
ten, gentlemen, and enjoy the Iospi-
talities of the bijou village of Lonisi-
ana-one that furnishes the whole
State with Governors and lesser lights.
When the term of its present Cover
nor expires, this village will supply q
few more of the same sort. A few
more left, gentlemen, not eager for
the fray, but for the gubernatorial
succession, you bet
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24
AGENTS FOR THE CHIEF.

WIN. g. Wilkinson, DonaldsOnville, La.
DR.. John Dominique. DOminique's Landing
j. b. Hebert New River.
Alex. Meyers. Manciiac and Port Vincent.
II. H. Bloomfield, Bayou Goula. La.
j. Curtis Waldo, New Orleans, la.
Geo. Z. RoTell & Co, New York.
Rowell 81 Cheslnan, st. Louis, Missouri.
c. A. Cook & Co, Chicago, Illinois.
Bates g. Locke, New York
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24

The Lafourche Union closed its
fist volume last week, and in an ar
ticle apropos of the occasion the edi-
tor remarks:
We have not escaped the intoler-
ance of public opinion, nor the petty
tyranny with which some people de-
light to annoy those who publish a
Republican journal, opposed to them
i'll politics, still We are mnch gpatified
to note thu recent change that has
come over many of our citizens, anu
that the Union is daily gaining in
public favor.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24
The New Cabinet.

The Boston Watchman furnishes
the following condensed biographical
sketches of the members of the new
Cabinet:
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Transient advertisements 81 90 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
T5scents.
All afficiaI notices 81 90 per square each
publication.
Editorial notices-in local columns, 90
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. Donaldsonville. La.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Hon. Charles Devens of Massachn-
setts; born in Charlestown, April 4,
1890; graduate of Harvard and stud
led law; United States Marshal
from l849 to 1853 during Fillmore's
administration; entered army in 1861
as Major, closing his army record rs
Brevet Major General Judge of the
Superior Court in 1867, from which
he was advanced to IL position on the
Supreme Judicial Bench of Massachu-
setts, which he occupied when invited
into the Cabinet.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24
SECRETARY OF STATE.

VIM. NJ. Evarts, Esq, of New York;
born in Boston, Feb. 6, 1878; at
tended the Boston Latin school; was
graduated at Yale in 1897; also at
Harvard Law School; was admitted
to the bar in New York in l841 /;
Counsel for the United States before
the Geneva Commission in 1872.
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POSTMASTER GENERAL

Hon. David NJ. Key of Tennessee
born IN Green County, Jan. 80, 1924 ;
"a farmer until of age; was graduated
at Hiwassie' College in 1880; Presi-
dental elector in 1856; held a Judge
ship; Colonel in the Confederate army
during the Rebellion appointed
United States Senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Andrew
johnson.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

Hon. John Sherman of Ohio; born
at Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1923 !;
studied law with his brother, Judge
Chas. T. Sherman of Cleveland is al
so brother to Gen. VIM. T. Sherman !;
has done service in Lower House of
Congress, and succeeded Salmon p.
Chase in the Senate.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24

E Monroe Intelligencer A one
story frame building belonging to
Capt. f. b. Stubbs took fire aud
burned To the ground.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-03-24

~ Minden Democrat: A mad dog
appeared in town and bit several other
dogs and II hog. ALI the bittea aai-
mails were killed.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24
The nar and the nencI..

An eminent English Judge, Lord
Hatherley, once expressed his ideas
Of judicial conduct and bearing In
the following terms:
1 have always thought that honor
and dignity We're best studied by
not talking about them, but by
practical courtesy of language, and
bv never allowing any outbreak Of
temper between any member Of the
bar or the bench. The dignity of
the bench is best maintained by
hearing first all that persons have
to say, by keeping yourself on your
guard, and forming a covenant with
yourself, as It were, TO let every
matter be fully placed before you
allow yourself to form an opinion,
much less to pronounce a decision
upon the subject. And certainly
you ought not to disqualify yourself
from the Office of a Judge BY ex-
pressing strong opinions when only
one side has been heard. That Is
not my opinion Of judicial dignity.
i will only say that during the forty
four years J. have been at the har,
and the nineteen i have been ON
the bench, / have studied to act ON
these principles. IL is impossible
for any man TO say OF him that he
has carried them out successfully,
but at least / have never lost sight
of them. At the bar or on the
bench have never had an alterca-
ton with any human being.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24
WHOLE NO. 2,313.

/ be got rid of by aprOper vote. When
everybody understood the value of
his vote, he would vote with a re-
ligious sentiment which was the ex-
preston of the true religion-human
brotherhood. The Republic which
was desired was one of order and
progress, having horror of agita-
tions and troubles; for it was not
the Republicans who plunged
France in adventures, carried on a
caste policy, and dreamed of the SUI
premacy of one man. The peasantry
would determine the future OF
France, for 8, ,00a, 900 electors out of
10, ,000, 600 were agriculturists. They
were told he was a man of disorder,
or man desirOus of power for the
sake of power, and that he was the
enemy of those who governed
France. "No!o exclaimed M. Gam
BETA, 81 am the enemy of no man.
/ am the enemy of banefui ideas, of
despOtism under whatever form,
whether the brutal CSeSarism of the
ID of December, which led us to
Sedan and Metz, or the ambiguous
and wheedling form of the Inquisi-
l1OtAg VI JNSuAAlollAs w = dIG GAidIktu
with creating the clerical spectre,
but everything attests its presence
and activity. Have you not seen
pulpits converted into political plat
forms, and heard words uttered, not |
by sacred, but by an electoral ora
tor. / have never attacked religion |
and its ministers when keeping to |
their religious, moral and sentiment
tai domain, but will always oppose I
men who try to make an instrument |
of domination and tyranny of what |
should be a means of consolation and |
assistance. Whatever |
happens, have confidence. The ma
jority are about to return to Yer
sailles with fresh mission. 1t re-
turns with the feeling of the insult |
which it has received, but which the
country has sufficiently repaired
with the feeling of duties to fulfil,
and a resolution to do its duty-its
whole duty. 1t is not for me to state
its resolutions; but, without ex-
ceeding legality, and energetically
enforcing it on all, it will make pre-
vail the only authority binding on
the highest as on the humblest, on
those who recognize as on those who
deny the national sovereignty"
The speech was enthusiastically
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

III. V. Redheld, the correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
has commenced to discuss the Ten
nessee debt again, and In recent
letter, says:
"The Governor has called the
Legislature to meet i'm extra session
December 5th to take action I'm re-
ference to the State debt. At last a
majority of the creditors have offer
ed to shave down their bonds forty
per cent, which was the figure
named by a committee Of creditors
last winter, but not generally ac-
quiesced i'm by the rest. TO bring
them to terms, the Legislature put
the tax rate down TO one mill on the
dollar, and hastily adjourned. IL
had the desired effect. A majority
of the creditors now agree to take
new bonds at the rate of sixty cents
on the dollar, seeing that they are
otherwise in fair way TO get moth
ing. That is, for instance, man
with 81 900 Tennessee bond had
rather exchange it for 5000 new
bond, giving the State $400, than To
lose all. The State officials gener-
ally, from Governor Porter down,
think the sixty per cent. proposition
a very liberal one, and that the State
should accept. But the Legislature
showed its hand during The regular
session, and fear will not meet the
creditors half way. From what we
know of the conduct Of the hOnOra-
BILE members, we may expect them
to attempt to beat the helpless cred
tors to fifty per cent, or even forty,
and / know several members who
insist that thirty-three cents Is suf-
ficient.
Were / a creditor / would prefer
TO wait until the next regular ses-
sion, taking my chances with new
body rather than with the old one,
which put itself so cOnspiciously
upon the record as favorable to re-
pudiation, or the next thing to H."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

If intolerant skeptics and super
stitious theOlOgians could catch the
spirit of the following extract from
an article in the New York World,
the society would be spared a good
deal of nonsense and religion make
a gain of its great boast and its great
lack-charity eff the reasonings
of the various sciences were applied
to one another as indiscriminately
as those of theology to science and
those of science 20 theology, we
should havea conflict of the sciences,
as well as a conflict between religion
and science. If the geologist should
insist on the consideration Of the
heavenly bodies in strata, our OBJ
servatories would become n chaos.
We are not entitled for this reason
to consider geology unfounded. IL
the crystallographer should insist ON
the classification of animals accord
ing to anges, faces and specific gray
ity, wall of anguish would arise
from the geological collections of the
world. On this account IL crystal
lOgraphy absurd ? When q narrow
theology would make the decree Of
some church council or the fallible
Interpretation of some portions of
scripture a criterion for scientific
verify, are we to reject religion,
the chief center Of all that we call
pure aud good? And If science adj
vances some doctrine that throws a
radiant light across the realm of ma
ture, but stands in conflict with our
present views Of the bible, are we
Justified in proclaiming an antagO-
nism between religion and science2
A deeper view of both religion and
science, a broader view of their his
tory, faint glimpse ofthe one Cause
movable or unknowable of both
nature and spirit, would make both
sides more prudent and more toler-
ant. The words of Bacon come
back to us after three centuries with
emphasis, 10 encourage US
in our doubts, 10 raise our loftier
hopes: Truth is the daughter Of
timc.'"
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24
Waste and Wamt.

Either man must be content with
poverty all his life, or else he will
ing TO deny himself some luxuries,
and save, to lay the base OF indie
pendence i'm the future. But II a
man defies the future, and spends
all he earns (whether his earnings
be one or ten dollars day,) let him
look for lean and hungry want at
some future time-fOr il will surely
come, no matter what ne thinks.
To save is absolutely the only way
to get solid fortune; there Is no
other certain mode. Those who
shut their eyes and ears to these
plain facts viii be forever poor, and
for their obstinate rejection Of the
truth, mayhap will die in rags and
filth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

MOBILES cotton factory appears
to be an established fact. A COM
pany is organised, and though not
all the capital stock that was desired
has been subscribed, the directors
are about to start the enterprise with
l,345 spindles, which will consume
about 300 bales Of cotton yearly, and
replace il with Sl00,O0O worth of
yarn. The Register says the COM
pany has the advantage Of three
cents per pound over the New Eng
land manufacturers, which Is $i5
per bale, or $2,O00 for 300 bales,
handsome dividend in itself, while
at the same time labor j. cheaper,
theweatherless inclement, aud there
is market right at home. Though
this may be the beginning of COM
petition with eastern manufactures,
the world Il large enough fOT all,
and we welcome anything that
promises new prosperity for the
South.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24
Let Your Neighbor Alone.

No people are such thorough nui-
sances as those who are perpetually
meddling with the business of their
neighbOrs-who are always on the
alert for anything suspiciOus-al
ways ready to believe the worst of
everybody. Reader if you belong
to that unfortunate class we pity
you. 1t is impossible that you can
find out anything that is going on
in your vicinity, you must be in
state of continual torture. A pry-
ing minds needs food, and without
it suffers. Then try to conquer the
unhappy peculiarity. What is it to
you if your neighbor does bring
home a brown paper package and
covered basket? You will live just
as long if you never knew what they
contain. 1t is none Gf your husi-
ness. And If your fighty neigh
Dor, Mrs. Lightfoot, indulges her.
self in a new bonnet while her
devoted husband wears patched
boots, you need not fret about it
he is the only sufferer, not you. No
need to make q hue and cry over
her supposed extravaganza. The
money did not come out Of your
pocket, and consequently it is none
of your business. What if the min
lister does call on Ann Smith twice
week? Why exercise brain about
it? Suppose she has an awful tenn
per-and powders her face, as you
say she does-her temper will not
trouble you. Mind your own con-
Germs. What difference does it make
to you if bold Maria "cuts out"
modest Mary? You need not tor
ture Mary by long stories of what
you have heard concerning the mat
ter. III thought l would tell you,
my dear. I speak for your good.
Somebody should put you on your
guard against that treacherous girl"
As a natural consequence modest
Mary, her Womanly pride aroused,
shrinks into the background, leay-
ing the field open to her victorious
rival, SO you crush good girls
heart because you will not mind
your own business. What II they
do have three pairs of stockings
over at Squire Hills? Haven't
they got "a right to? AS long as you
don't do the washing it needn't
trouble you. What right have you
to watch theiF eloFhes=line? Em-
p1oy your time better. 1t may be
perfectly true that dashing Mrs.
Gay signals to young DIR. Wilde
from her back windows. But who
gave you the privilege of watching
lady in her own home, where, if
in any place, her privacy should he
sacred 2 Her disgrace is nothing to
you, it is none of your business, If
we had our way, meddlers should
be punished like any other offender
against the rights of others.-E!r.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

p. ST. was told a few days since
by a gentleman of distinction, who
had just returned from Europe, that
an English company, formed for the
purpose of investing large amount
of money in the mineral lands of
Tennessee, was deferred from doing
so by the prevailing apprehension
of Reputation, and the general stag
nation that must follow repudiation.
/. G. II.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-11-24

The notion that only the sons of
rich people were appointed to West
Point Is a disapprOVed by statistics.
A table of the parentage Of the 522
cadets appointed during the last five
wears shows that 90 were sons of
farmers, 65 of lawyers, "a of mer-
chants, "A Of mechanics, 40 of phys
icians, 80 of army officers, 20 Of pa.
rents of no occupation, and the re-
mainder-163 in number-Of parents
engaged In "A different occupasions.
The parents of 465 of these cadets
are In moderate circumstances; Of
38 are in reduced circumstances; of
10 are poor, and of II are in affiuent
circumstances.