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For Is years we have manufactured
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past two years we have been manufac-
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Albert Lord lost one of his best
horses last week.
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RIVER FALLS CHAPTER, R. A. H., No. As.

Stated conversations on the I'd and 4th
Tuesdays Of every month.
g. w. MAPEs, Ii. p
r. S. FREEMAN, Secretary
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Drs. Yarnall, of st. Paul and Min
neapolis. will revisit River Falls pro-
fessionally on Friday, Dec. 18th, one
day only, ut the Commercial House.
They treat all chronic diseases of every
name and character. Have made a
speciality of female diseases for over
thirty years. Consultation free.
Home offices in Rogers Block, Bridge
Square. st. Paul, and Fences Opera
Block, Minneapolis.
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The drop curtain recently painted
for the new stage in Brackets Hall
gives evidence of superior artistic
skill. The design is a landscape in
Ireland-a beautiful lake surrounded
by mountains. The painter, o. H..
Beadle.i is also preparing for this stage,
scenery complete for all ordinary en-
tprtainmpntS.
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A bill prohibiting the sale of lager
beer and cider over a month old has
passed the Vermont Legislature. A
law prohibiting the sale of liquors as
beverage has existed in the Green
Mountain State for some time.
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G. II. Nichols will, for the next
sixty days, sell Organs at strictly
wholesale prices.
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Wheat bran is 50 cheap in some
parts of Minnesota that it is used in
locomotives in place of coal.-Er.
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II. q. of G. IT. Convention.

The 23d District Convention of the
Good Templars will hold their next
meeting at Esdaile, Dec. and 6, 1878,
Phil. Allen. j., G w. c. r.. will pre-
side. A. w. OGn.vIE, ID. G.
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Stated Communications on the LIST and Sd
Tuesdays OF every month.
r CLRARY, w. NJ.
JSo. L. Moody, Secretary.
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Grand Concert!

A five-year-old mare for sale. In
quire at Junction Mills.
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house and Lots for sale,

ha. C a honse AID a few choice lots on Elm
Street in the village Of River Falls, which |
will sell on easy terms. Inquire at the Jour-
NAL Office SIT LESTER GRIFFIN
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Branch office, cor +. and 9TH SITS. Wash
ingtol', - G.
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G. II. NICHOLS,
30.3t Prescott, Wis.
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The following acrostics were sent to
Mr.. G. NJ. Lowell by an aged friend
whom he met while on recent visit
to the East:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
:" MOTHERS FOOL. -

" 'Tis plain to me, said the farmers wife
''These boys will make their mark in life };
/ They never were made to handle a hoe,
And at once to college they ought to go.
Yes, john ana Henry, It's clear to me,
| Great men in this world are sure to be;
But Tom he's little above fool
So John and Henry may go to school.
Now, really, wife," gueth Farmer Brown
As he sets his mug of cider down,
TON does more work i'll day for me-
Than both of his brothers do ii three.
Book learnin' will never plant beans OF corn
Nor hoe potatoes, sure as you're born
Nor mend q rod of b, oxen fence:
For my part, give me common seuse."
But his wife the roost was bound 10 rule,
And so 20 the boys were sent to school;
While Tom. of course, was left behind,
For his mother said he had no mind.
Five years at school the students spent,
Then each one into business went.
John learned to play the flute and fiddle,
And parted his hair tof course) in the middle
Though his brother looked rather higher
than he,
And hung out his shingle-" II. Brown,
NJ d.
Meanwhile, at home, their brother Tom
Had taken notion " iuto his heed,
Though he said not a word, but trimmed
his trees,
And hoed his corn and soved his peas;
But somehow, either by hook or crook"
He managed to read full many a book.
Well, stho war broke out, and Captain
Tom,"
To battle hundred soldiers led;
And when the enemy's flag went down,
Came marching homie as :. General Brown"
But he went to work ON the farm again,
Planted his corn and sowed his grain,
Repaired the house and broken fence,
And people said he had common sense"
Now common sense was rather rare,
And the State-House needed portion there:
So our q family Ounce moved into town.
And the people called him Governor
Brown"
And his brothers, that went to the city to
school,
Came home to live with mothers fool"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
The Best Way to Advertise.
The Burlington HaaUkeye says :

A standing advertisement in n
newspaper. set boldly out, attracts a
good deal of attention and becomes
transfixed in the mind of the reader.
1t may not be noticed at first, but
after awhile the lines grow familiar to
the eye and become stamped upon the
mind. The advantage is made an
parent in this way: The subscriber
III the course of time wants some
thing in the line of goods kept by the
man whose advertisement lie is filmil-
lar with. He naturally visits that
advertisers store and buys. what he
wants, for though he may never have
been inside the place before, he feels
thoroughly acquainted with every.
thing about it, and free from that
embarrassment which no one likes to
show wiieff=out ON a shopping tour.
A good advertisement kept constant.
iy III Il paper is like a finger board in
q cross road-it removes all difficulty
in finding the right place.
To which an exchange adds the
following: The above is all very
true, and We may add a little more.
Some of our patrons say. don't want
u standing advertisement; / will in
vest in locals. But few men in the
hurry of business attend to sending
in locals to a weekly paper regularly,
and much of the time is not repre-
sented. This country is constantly
being peopled with new customers.
They come with money and stop
with acquaintances. The country
paper is the first thing that is asked |
for. Il the iudicious advertiser is
represented with judieious adyer-
tisement, he may profit thereby but |
if his face in the way of type has I
been omitted, and the locals forgot
ten, as they often are, the new conner
when he goes to purchase his outfit |
will look for the sign of the store |
which he saw announced in the
standing ads. They are taken as ali
index to business places just MS much
as the painted sign or goods displayed
in front. locals in connection with
al advertisement frequently changed
are good, but the two sl,olild go to-
gether, and in the end are the most
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23

On Monday the ladies of Capitol
Hill receive, 40 yesterday we took oc-
casion to call upon the well known
writers, Grace Greenwood, (Mrs.
Lippincott) and Mary Clemmer. The
latter is only now recovering from
the recent shocking accident with
which she met, having been thrown
from carriage, cutting her head
badly and crushing one foot. She was
looking charming in blue silk robe,
invalid's cap of white lace and blue
ribbon, and blue ribboned slippers.
Her home is very attractive, rich,
tasty and elegant. The walls, car
pet and furniture coverings are of a
light gray tint, while her pictures
and other ornaments are all indica-
tive of real life and real work. Grace
Greenwood we found i'm less rich
quarters, attired less elegantly, but
with no less evident soul and heart
for the world about her. This estima-
ble lady, gifted and famous, is new
erthcless poor in this words goods.
and lives on the third floor of n
rented house with her husband, a
Department clerk, and her young
lady daughter. | should say she is
nearly 60 years old, and her face,
which unmistakably speaks of great
former beauty. has always, in these
days, q look of sad weariness. AS
usual, she is engaged in extensive
charities. Her manner is enticinp.
natural and unreserved. She seems
like one who has lived to see that the
innumera5le little foibles and vani
ties and affectations of life do not
pay. Her heart is in full sympathy
with the world, and none ever go to
her for help of any kind in vain.
Hence, | fancy. her pecuniary lack.
SENTINEL.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

l
Turkish Parliament was dissolved.
| The Italian iron-clad Terrible
wrecked near Salonica.
The Car and the Sultan exchanged
personal friendly dispatches.
There are 800, 900 Russian troops in
Roumania and more coming.
Russia insists that the United States
shall participate in the conference.
Russia consents to an early meeting
OF the European Congress at Baden-
Baden.
The English coasting steamer C. NJ.
Palmer was sunk in collision and
fourteen lives lost.
The threatened rupture between
Austria and Russia has been ayerted
by the intervention of Bismarck.
Russia has suggested to the Porte
the desira bility of removing the Mus
sulman population from Bulgaria.
There were several encounters last
week between Turkish troops and
insurgents in Thessaly and Crete.
The Greeks again crossed the from
tier near the town of Arta, in Albania.
The Porte sent q thousand men to re.
sist the invasion.
The German bark Otto burned at
sea. Two men were seen on board.
but their attempted resuuo by the life
boat of II passing vessel failed ON ac-
count of the prevailing storm.
Insurgent General Jesus Perez was
killed in an action with Spanish
troops, in Cuba, and DR.. Bravo, mem
ber of the insurgent Congress, taken
prisoner. Vincento Garcia and other
insnrgent chiefs have resigned their
commands.
A portion of the English feet en-
tered the Dardanelles, but remains as
a point some forty miles from Con-
The Russians have not
occupied the suburbs of Constantine
pie, and the two powers will maintain
their military positions pending tho
of the powers.
The marriages of the Princess Char
Iotte, daughter of the crown prince of
Germany and granddaughter of Queen
Victoria, to Bernard, hereditary prince
Of the duehy of SAKE of Meiningen,
ind of Princess Elizabeth, daughter
If Prince Frederick Charles, to Au-
sustus, hereditary prince of the grand
tuchy of Oldenburg, we're solemnizcd
1t Berlin on the 18th.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23

Transient advertisements 81 per square
Grst Insertion; each subsequent insertion,
rs cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per square first
Insertion; each subsequent publication So
cents per square.
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
ofeorrespondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonville. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
A Murderer Captured.
[W. Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.


Some time ago Il planter in ane of
the lower parishes was killed by one
of his laborers under these circum-
stances: 1t chanced to be pay day,
and after disclrarging his obligations
to his employees, II few words arose
with one of them, which resulted in
the rascal's drawing pistol and kill
ing the planter on the spot. Since
that time he has been sought in vain
by the officials of justice, although n
heavy reward was offered for his ar
rest and imprisonment. AT las: he has
come to grief. A few days ago, two
detectives appeared in this parish,
looking like anything but officers, and
informed one or two of our citizens of
their business here They had spot
ted their man on Crosse Tcte, but be-
fore making the arrest, they came ont
here in order to telegraph to the city
for more accurate details of his de-
scriptioB. The information from the
city was just what they wanted and
the murderer was at once arrested and
taken to the city. We are not at lib
erty to give more specific details of
the manner of arrest for fear of injur-
ing the labors of the detectives in fu-
ture. They deserve great credit for
their energy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
Domestic.

shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Mass,
ended.
| Fourteen stores in Midway, Ala.
| burned.
| Plainfeld, N. J., Savings Bunk,
| bursted.
A 81 100000 fire occurred id New
York on the 18th.
Ten buildings were destroyed by
fire at Hampstead, Texas.
The small pox is raging in epidemic
form at Bremond, Texas.
Judge Geo. w. Paschai, of Texas,
died at Washington, aged Is.
The steamer City of Dallas
burned and sank at New York.
A large warehouse, containing 1000
bales of cotton, burned Mt Savannah.
The body of Mrs. Ben. Pittman of
Cincinnati was crcmated at Washing
ton, Pa.
Half the Chinese quarter at jack
son, CAL, was swept away by the ris-
ing of Jackson Greek.
The old mansion of Daniel Web
ster, at Marsh6eld, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
Emily N. Marble, who killed her
husband, was convicted of murder in
the second degree at Detroit.
A young man was wayIaid aud
murdered by Harry Foxwell, a saloon
keeper, near Carthage, Va.
Hon G. Wiley Wells, appointed
consul to Hong Kong, declined that
Office, aud has returned to America.
Rev. DR.. Woodbridge, rector of thu
Monumental Episcopal Church at
Richmond for forty years, is dead.
DR.. T. e. Spencer of Cambridge is
charged with manslaughter for aban-
doning patient at critical period.
The unusual spectacle of three po-
licemen Oh trial for murder was pre-
sented in New York Court, one day
recently.
The house of a colored man near
Ironton, Ohio, burned. Three chill
dren, who were alone in the house,
were consumed in the flames.
Peter Meyers, insolvent banker,
convicted of felony in the manage
ment of his business ut Carthage, Mo-,
was sentenced to two years ot impris-
oBment.
Robert Perkins, a eolored fugatiye
from justice, was arrested in New Orr
leans. He is accused of the murder
of his partner, Henry Owens, near st.
Lonis, in 1873.
Morris Field, Memphis clothing
merchant, was arrested ut the instance
of his New York creditors, charged
with shipping off goods and making
fraudulent assignments.
After the funeral services for Vic
tor Emmanuel in Florence, on the 9th,
bomb was thrown among the crowd
and five persons slightly wounded.
The police with difficulty prevented
The lyncling of the person who threw
the bomb, T. ho is probably insane.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23
Our New York Letter.
Seven Il ears in a MaI.ENOuSe-
Arrest of the Notorious Mad.
ANA ResdeIl-Tle Talking Mon
keys-A Grand Pageant.
New YORK, Feb, I6, 1873.

keys-A Grand Pageant
NEW YORK, Feb. l6 1873.
EDITOR CHEF:
| It's a very good world we live in,
| To lend, or to spend, or to give in,
But to borrow, or beg, or to come by onei
It's the very worst world that ever va
known.
sometimes feel like registering an
oath that | never will say anything
in commendation of my kind again
am gradually coming to the conclu-
sion that we are bad lot, aud that il
there is not He'll there ought to be
one to be used on special occasions
recently ven tured the opinion that
perhaps we were growing better. Itake
it all back now; in fact am fully con-
vinceG that we are a good deal worse
than | ever thought we were before.
and | join with Sir Peter Teazel in
the unqualified opinion that It's
a-wieked world, and the fewer we
praise in it the better"
1t scarcely seems possible that
here, in the great center of American
civilization, that We should find the
terrible realization of Charles Reads
story of " Very Hard Cash" Yet such
is the shocking fact that stares us in
the face, that for seven years wo-
man has been confined in a mad
house because she had the misfortune
to be heiress to $4,000. Had she
been poor she might have had the
blessed privilege of liberty-she
might have marched up and down the
bowery and Chatham street morning
and evening, with the thousands of
poor who exc out their miserable
lives for two or three dollars week.
But Miss Susan Dickie was an
heiress; $l90,000 are not picked up
from every huckleberry bush so her
dear brothers and sisters thought
that the best place for her was IA
madhouse. Now, l am willing to adj
NIT that if any fellow saidI had
$3.50, 900 it would be good and justi-
fable grounds for sending him to a
lunatic asylum. But Miss Dickie
really had the stamps, and her broth
ers and sisters wanted to get them,
md so they concluded that the short
est way of accomplishing this lauda-
Die purpose was just to clap her in a
nad-house. / could have suggested |
/ much more merciful way than that
! giant torpedo or some nitro-glycer-
ne, Paris green or Prussic acid
either one of theae would have been /
equally effective and much more re-
for in the way that / sug-
rest these miserable gossips would
lave little or nothing to talk about,
IS dead people tell no tales. Well,
,oor little Miss Susan Dickie has
,een shut mp for seven years in the
3loomingdale mad house, and it was
lone on the certificate of physician
Who had only seer her for ten min
ties, and who knew no more about
Ter complaints or the nature of her
than he did about the
'ack of his head. lie got a good fat
ce for his opinion, which was pos |
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-23

Early last week we heard an old
weather prophet say that this wonld
be a dry month, because the moons
horns were pointing upwards, and
we straightway planted bed of
onion sets. The next day there was a
rainfall of twelve inches, and now
We are lying in wait to scalp that
prophetr-Lake Charles Echo.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-25

less than cheapening meat, and render.
ing the lives of horses tolerable by get
ting people to become hippophagists.
Ii the ultimate fate of the
horse was to be sent to the butchers
shambles instead of to the slaughter
house, cabmen, he opines, would be more
merciful to the beasts they drive, and
the poor would be able to fall back from
deer beef and mutton upon cheaper and
more nutritive meat. Since hippophagy
has been introduced here more than
twelve thousand horses annually have
fallen into the stewpans and soup pots of
the French capital. 1t appears, indeed,
that the supply is scarcely equal to the
demand. On sitting down 1 felt, I con-
TESS. somewhat nervous 1t occurred to
me that sundry chevaline diseases were
taken by incubation. NJ. Ducroix, who
suspected my misgivings, informed me
that the inspection of horse flesh for the
flesh market is more close than that of
beef. The living animal has to pass a
veterinary surgeon, and when it is re-
duced to the condition of butchers meat
1t is again subjected to a microscopic
examination. Some members Of the
society for the protection of animals
have invited NJ Ducroix to London to
make arrangements for a horsedesh
banquet at the Crystal Palace, prepared
by French cook.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-25

difficult to conceive how man could have
made any progress in civilization till he
had beasts of burden and trained animals
to help him in hunting. AS an illustra-
ton of the evolution of domestication the
substitution was mentioned of the horse
for the OK for the beast of burden, as it
was gradually found that it was more
profitable to keep the OK in good condi-
ton for food. The domestication of
birds appears: from what evidence we
have, to have commenced long subse.
quently to that of the mammals. The
study of the remains of the human
occu pancies often contributes to knowl-
edge of the origin of the people. For
example, the goat remains found in the
lake dwellings point to the people having
come from a warmer district and
having taken that useful milk-pro-
ducer with them. We have no
record, no tradition =. even, as
to who first attemp pied domestication
but there is, Professor Rolleston thinks,
sufficient reason for believing that the
dog was the first animal to be domesti-
Gated, the pig the second, and the OK the
third. The methods for calculating the
history of domestication are, for pre-his-
toric times, the study of the remains of
pile dwellings and other living places,
burial places and peat moses. The stalls,
sites, kennels, stables and gardens of to-
day supply knowledge of some OF the
effects of training. Coins and monu-
ments supply useful historic evidence,
but the absence of representations of
animals from those of any particular
period must not be taken to imply they
were not Familiarity known. In consid-
ering the evolution of the domestication
of the dog, it seems probable that as
men used pitfalls for the capture of ami
mails for food, and these pits would con-
tain remnants attractive to dogs, the
dogs would soon be attached to the pits.
would have an interest in their being
we'll supplied, and would join with men
in driving animals, and thus a common
interest caused a mutual attachment,
In the concluding portion of the lecture
the effects of kindness in training We're
referrad tn and kindness tn all animals
advocated. London Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-05-25

1t would require a separate letter to
give all the different forms of marriage in
days gone by, but now they resort to the
missionary, and have adopted the ways
of the whites, and they seem to think it
the best way, and try to initiate their
white sisters and brothers to the best of
their ability.
An Indian will always avenge any
personal wrong done him, even should it
lead t. his death, and their memory of a
wrong done them lasts for life, but by the
kind actions of humane government and
good examples of the missionaries, school
masters, etc., hope there will be great
change. Civilization will do it in time.
Happy is he who makes another man
trust God more than he did before. He
has done great and influential work in
creation.