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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-05-11
BIacksmiths.

The undersigned have fitted up the Shop
on the
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
MenrLr. ALA.. september 80. ISIS.

IN. w. L. JGRGIELEWICA.
Dear lSir-Please send me three bottles of
your ANTf-RHEUMATfC MIXTURE for some
trends had a bottle last spring which
had splendid effect. Respectfully,
FRANK DRAXLER.
Clerk Circuit Court, Mobile County, ala.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Mr.. Packard visited the White
House few days ago at the Presi-
dents request and remained several
hours in confidential confab with the
chief executive of the nation. 1t
would be interesting to know just
how these distinguished gentlemen
argued and harmonized their differ
ences, but the public thirst for infor-
nation upon this point must remain
unquenched until one OF the other of
the interviewers chooses to relate the
particulars. There seems to be no
doubt that the redoubtable chieftains
did become reconciled, and the Cir
cumstance has greatly strengthened
the probability of Mr.. Packard's ap-
pointment to the vacant New Orleans
Collectorship. By placing the ex-
Marshal in such a comfortable posi-
ton, Mr.. Hayes may hope to quiet
the qualms of his own conscience and
conciliate Republican sentiment, while
it is more than likely that Mr.. Pack
ard, snugly esconsced in the Collee-
tors chair, dispensing fayors among
his tried and trusty followers of the
old Custom House faction" would
soon cease to cogitate audibly upon
the perplexing proposition /: How
can Hayes be President and | not
Governor
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
Sheriff's Sale.
State of Louisiana-Parish Court-Parish O
Assumption.
Walter Pugh
VS.. No. 100.

Drs 1SODeFJ 1aW0Ss
DY VIRTUE of and in obedience to a
ID writ of ieri fdciaS to me directed by
the Honorable Parish Court of the parish of
Assumption, in the above entitled and num-
bered cause, and bearing date the Goth day
of February, A. d, 1873, / will offer for sale
at public auction, at the Courthouse in the
town of Donaldsonyille, parish of Ascension,
on
Saturday, the Goth day of April, 1878,
at II o'clock A. NJ, the following described
property, to wit:
A certain LOT OF GROUND situated in
the town of Donaldsonville, parish of As.
cension, and fronting on the Crescent Place,
bounded on one side by lot number four, on
the other side by lot number six, and in the
rear by letnumber sixty-nine, said lot be-
ing of an irregular shape and being desig-
mated on the plan Of the town of Donaldson
vile as let number five.
Terms and Coaditions-Cash in United
States currency.
Parish of Ascension, March I6, 1873
P. 4 JONES, Sheriff
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
T0rtures that Need mot be En-.
6mx.AA

People suffer great deal of pain unneces-
sarily. Among fortunes that need not be en-
dured are those inflicted by the rheuma-
tism and govt, since the aerid element
in the blood which produces them
by contact with the sensitive covering of the
muscles and joints may be eliminated by
the use of that matchless depurent, Hostet-
ter's Stomach Bitters, before the inhamma-
tory symptoms are developed to any great
extent, When it is considered what excru.
chatting fortunes rheumatism infliets, and
what tendency it has, when fully devel.
oped, to attack the heart, the advisability OF
an early use of such reliable antidote be.
comes at once apparent, The rheumatic
virus is expelled from the blood by increased
action of the lidneys-which act ms strain.
ers-produced by the Bitters. and the sui
ferer will find, if he uses this supreme de.
fensive ageEt, that he will be protected
against return of the agonizing complaint
dyspepsia, fever and ague, liver and bowel
complaints and other maladies, are also
cured by this admirable remedy.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
jenkins AnnihilatOr
The Great Southern Remedy for
RHEUMATISM, GOVT
AND NEURALGIA +!


Those terrible enemies of human happi-
ness, Rheumatism, Gout and Neuralgia,
heretofore seemingly unoonquerable, have
indeed found their master in Jenkins Anni-
hilator. We have the testimony of men of
the highest standing in Louisiana and other
States, that after suffering indescribable
pains for years, from which they sought re-
lief in vain by visiting the Hot and Warm
springs of Arkansas and Virginia, and by
using dozens of remedies more or less highly
praised, when, in fact, hope had almost died
out, they have found relief from pain by the
use of the Annihilator, and by continuing it
for short time, have been perfectly cured.
The Annihilator is preparation purely
vegetable, agreeable to the taste, and may
be taken without fear of any injurious re-
suits by the delicate as4well as the robust in
constitution.
10 Price 81 90 per bottle. For sale by all
Druggists. Ask your Druggist for circular
containing certificates, or send to
N. JENKINS & CO., Proprierors,
New Orleans, La
FUNLAY 81 THOMPSON. Wholesale Drug
gists, New Orleans, La, General Agents for
Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Arkansas and Florida. mra9-ly.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Pensions! Pensions Soldiers and
Sailors war of 1872 or Indian wars,
their widows and all pensioners whose
names have been dropped from the
Rolls. can now secure Pensions. Send
stamp with full history of case to
Presbrey aud Green, Patent Attor.
neys, 500 9TH St, Washington, D. C.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
ANDERSON RELEASED.

The Supreme Court last Monday
announced it's decision on the appll-
cation of the State for rehearing IN
the Anderson case, and as was TO
have heen expected from the exhaus-
tive character and unanimity OF the
original judgment rendered by the
Cont in this now celebrated case,
the petition of the Attorney General
was overruled, thus confirming and
making final the decree in Ander-
sons favor. Counsel for the prisoner
ut once applied to the Superior Grim
ipal Court for an order directing his
release from custody, which was IS
sued, and during Monday afternoon
Mr.. Anderson walked forth from the
parish prison free man. He re-
paired at once to the Custom. House
and resumed the even tenor of his in
terrupted duties as Deputy Collector
of the Port, acting Collector al
interim.
While majority of the State
newspapers have accepted the Su-
preme Courts decision as the con-
scientious ruling of honorable and
able Judges, few of the ultra Bour-
bon journals receive it with uncouth
revilings, and indulge in reflections
upon the occupants of the Supreme
Bench which are simply disgraeeful.
This abuse of the editorial license
must react upon the perpetrators-it
will certainly fail to prejudice fair
minded and thoughtful citizens
against the distinguished gentlemen
who compose our Supreme Court,
and whose personal characters alone,
without regard to their sworn obliga-
ton, are ample guarantee that no
finding of theirs could be Influenced
by aught but the purest motives and
the highest conception of official
duty.
There is no evading the fact that
Anderson and his colleagues of the
late Returning Board have escaped
punishment upon legal technicalities
alone; but they are as clearly emit
tied to this common method of escape
as persons charged with other crimes
would be. The Supreme Court Car
not consider questions of fact il
cases brought before it; its sole prov
ince is to expound the principles o
law involved, and this was the cours,
properly and unavoidably pursued il
the Anderson case. If the prisoner
guilt had been much more clearly
proven and his offense the blackes
in the criminal calendar, these fact
could exercise no influence upol
the finding OF the Supreme Court II
the premises.
1t is plain to our mind that thu
motive of these assaults upon the Su
preme Court is political. The Bour
bonistic element of the Democrats
party is preparing for an Onslaught
upon the Nichols administration
with view to success in the fal
) election, and this Anderson decision
is counted upon to furnish consider
! able amount of campaign thunder.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Hon. John w. Foster, United States
Minister to Mexico, embarked at New
Orleans, for Vera Cruz, last Sunday.
When be reaches the City of Mexico
the nature of the instructions he was
called to Washington to receive will
be made public. No doubtthey have
direct bearing upon the question of
recognizing the Diaz government. Mr..
Foster alleges that published ac-
counts of his interview with the Con-
gressional Committee on Mexican
Affairs were entirely imaginary, as
the consultation was secret.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Congressman E. John Ellis, from
this State, characterizes the decision
of our Supreme Court in the Anderson
case as mastery and unanswerable.
Mr.. Ellis is a lawyer of fine ability,
and his opinion is similar to that OF
nearly all who view the matter in its
legal aspect.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Gen. Grant, his wife and son, visited
the Pope on Saturday last, and were
received with every mark of distinc-
ton. Cardinal McCloskey presented
the visitors to the Pontiff.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

had Chronic Rheumatism for ten years
have taken four bottles of Jenkins Rheuma-
tism, Gout and Neuralgia "Annihilator, +"
and feel perfectly well. C. HEMIL.
Planter, Labadieville. Lafourehe par, La.
EP= Treatise on Rheumatism, Gout and
Neuralgia, mailed to any address, free of
charge, BY writing to
N. JENKINS & Co., Projectors,
New Orleans, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

"Butcher Burriel," the brutal Span
ish General who ordered the execu-
ton of Capt. Joseph Fry and the
Virginius crew, is dead.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06

Senator Eustis will please accept
the thanks of the CHIEF for the most
comprehensive and valuable batch of
public documents which we have yet
received from any member of Con-
nrnss
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-04-06
Saturday, April 6, 1878.

The national Senate has confirmed
the appointment of M. II. Twitcheli
of Louisiana as consul to Kingston,
Jamaica.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
The Tailor Bird.

Within the last few years, the inter-
esting habits OF this celebrated bird
have been thoroughly investigated and
described by DR.. Jerdon and others,
but with more especial fullness by Mr..
Allan Hume. From their accounts, we
gather that the real nest is deep, soft
cup, inclosed in a leaf or leaves, which
the bird sews together to form its re-
ceptacle. This is at various elevations,
often high up in a mango tree, but as
often low down among the leaves of
the edible eggplant (SOLG11atn1 eSculent-
NM. The nest varies in appearance ac-
cording to the number and kinds of the
leaves made use of, and is usually chiefly
composed of fine cotton, with few
horse-hairs and fine grass-stems, the
use of which is obviously to enable the
cavity to retain its shape permanently.
In some cases, the nest is described as
having been made of wool, down and
hOrse-hair, and one, mentioned by Miss
Cockburn, as made of the down of
seed-pods and fine grasses. Mr.. Hume
has found these nests with three leaves
fastened at equal distances from one
another into the side of the nest, and
not joined to one another at all. He
has also found them between two
leaves, the one forming high back
and turned up at the ends to support
the bottom of the nest, the other hiding
the nest in front and hanging down be-
low it, the tip only of the first leaf be-
ing sewn to the middle of the second.
He has also found them with four
leaves sewn together to form a canopy
and sides, from which the bottom of
the nest depended, and also between
two long leaves whose sides, from the
very tips to near the peduncles, were
closely and neatly sewn together.
For their sewing, they generally
make use of cobweb, but silk from CO.
coons, thread, wool, and vegetable
fibers are also made available. DIR.
JerdOn states that he has seen a tailor
bird watch a native tailor until the lat
ter left the verandah where he was at
work, then hastily seize some pieces of
threads that were lying about, and fly
off with them in triumph. Mr.. Layard
describes nest of the tailor-bird made
entirely of cocoanut fiber. With the
same material II dozen leaves of an
oleander had been drawn and stitched
together. -ScriJ11er
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
The Story OF Two American Boys.

Some forty years ago, a young man
from the Keystone State, descendant
from the Quakers, was travelling in
Kentucky, on horseback, on some bust
ness connected with Philadelphia
house. He was poor and struggling
hard to gain the means of livelihood.
One night he stopped at a rude LOG
cabin to seek shelter for the night.
The accommodations were few; but
upon condition that the traveller would
sleep in the same bed with one of the
elder sons of the family-there being
quite number of chidren-he was told
he might stop over night. These terms
were accepted. When the comforts of
the horse had received due attention,
and Il primitive supper of corn-dodgers
and pork had been partaken of by the
family and their guest, the beds were
prepared, and our travelling friend,
with Il stout lad of eighteen years. re-
tired to the attic of the cabin. The
stranger was young man of fair intel
ligence, reasonably well versed in what
was going on in the world. His fellow
for the night was of an inquisitive turn
of mind; had read all the books he
could find in that sparsely populated
part of Kentucky, and was extremely
anxious to obtain an education, but
was destitute of means to accomplish
that worthy object in the usual way.
Finding his travelling friend was intelii-
gent, he talked to him nearly the whole
night, obtaining from him a fund of
information, and, in confidence, ex-
planned to him his ambitions, his priva-
tions and his hopes. The night passed
rapidly in this conversation. Kindred
spirits had met. Before separating, the
kind traveller, believing that he could
be of use to his young friend, suggested
to him that his acquaintance in Phila-
delphia might enable him to procure
books for him at liberal discount, and
he gave the farmer boy in the back
woods a card containing the names of
a firm of booksellers with whom he was
well acquainted, promising that on his
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
Line Engraving and Etching.

In line engraving, which is the high
est style of the art, the effect is produced
by missions on copper or steel plate,
cut by the graver or BURN, and the
various effects of light and shade, dis
lance and perspective, the textures of
drapery and accessories, flesh tints, and
the expression of features, are all pro-
duced by a corresponding variety of
lines engraved into the plate. To take
an impression from this plate its sur
face is covered with a thick oily ink, so
that all the lines are eff'ectually filled.
AS this smears the entire plate, the
printer next rubs off the superiluous
ink, first with Il cloth then with the
palms of his hands. The surface is now
clean, but the ink still remains in all
the lines or missions. The sheet of pa
per which is to receive the impressions is
then dampened, and laid upon the plate,
and both are passed under a roller, the
result being that the ink is transferred
from the i..cisions in the plate to the
sheet of paper.
Next in importance to line engrav,
ing comes etching, and some authori.
ties give this process the first place.
In etching the plate is first covered
with coat of wax or resin, which is
dissolved by heat, and allowed to hard.
en-. The tool used is the point, or etch.
ing-needle. With this the lines and
dots of the designs are traced through
the wax on to the surface of the copper
plate. Aquafortis is then poured on
Il al
copper wherever line has been made,
the wax meanwhile protecting the other
parts. After repeated billings by aqua.
FORTS, according to the effect desired
the plate is cleansed from the acid and
wax, and is then ready to be printed
from in the same manner as a line en-
craving.
From the difference of the two proc.
esses it will be seen that the character
istics of line engraving are beautiful
precision and symmetry of form, while
the etching eXcels in freedom anC
sketchiness; and while long years o
practice are essential to the former, til,
latter can be produced, after littl,
technical study, by any one who cal
draw. Hence, when a painter under
takes to engrave one of his own designs
he naturally resorts to etching; on tn,
other hand, when professional en-
graver undertakes to make an elabor
ate reproduction OF an important paint
ing, line engraving is employed. Th,
late M. Theirs, who was a high author
ity on matters of art, esteemed etchin!
even before the painting itself, as tn
freshest and directest exponent of
painters art inspirations.-Harper
Magazjae for AugUSt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
" Hotter Than India"


"This is hotter than India said a
gentleman behind the counter of a
prominent cigar store on Fourth street
to an Ecening Post reporter, who was
buying a weed.
How do you make that out?"
81 mean one suffers more from the
heat as it now RACES here than do the
white people in India. | was in India
nine years Sergeant in one of the Brit
ish regiments stationed on duty there,
and | know that | have suffered more
from the heat the last three days in St.
Louis than ever did in all the years
was in India. The reason is that the
temperature, high as it is, is equable
it ranges all the year around from
say 10 to l20, and the system gradual
ly becomes accustomed to it. While
here the changes are so sudden that in
the extreme heat people are Frustrated
at once"
"How do the white people in India
keep cool?'
"The hot winds that blow there seem
TO come straight from furnace, and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
The Trade in Frogs.

One of number of places engaged
in this traffic is down at Chisholm S
Rapids, Canada, and extends along the
Trent to Percy Boom, five miles from
here. The frogs at these places are
very numerous. They inhabit the low,
marshy localities about the river, and
grow to an extraordinary size, some of
them, known as the gosling frog, so
named from their attributed power to
kill Il gosling, being as large as ten or
a dozen of the ordinary sized ones.
They are caught by means of small
nets, which the catchers manipulate
with considerable deXterity. They are
shipped and sold at the rate of one
cent apiece. One man at Chisholm's
Rapids lately captured, we are told,
LOO in one day. Others again, they
tell us, catch from 200 to 400 per day
Cdmpbelyord Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10

to protect themselves from these winds
masses of seaweed, called taties, are
erected in front of all the doors. stretch
ing in slanting direction from the top
of the door to the ground, and these taties
are kept wet by natives throwing water
upon them all day long. Drafts of air
are produced in the rooms by what
they call poncas, like the movable fans,
kept in motion by steam, that you see
in the restaurant. Only the poncas are
about sixteen feet long and three feet
wide, and native keeps pulling them,
standing at one end, by means of q
rope. Attached to the bottom of the
.pOncas are curtains, which sweep down
within six inches of your face when you
lie in bed. You find your bed, though,
covered with bugs; you can sweep them
off in handfuls. If you clear the bed of
them by placing it in the sun. you find
it covered the next morning the same
as ever"
Are sunstrokes frequent?'
mot as long as the men are not on
duty. From six a. m. to four p. m. it
is dangerous to sit in the sun. During
one march which my regiment made
in 1858, about fifty men day were
struck in that regiment alone. A man
would begin to laugh, then to cry, and
in fifteen minutes he would be Il corpse.
[ have seen their skulls split open as if
some one had struck them on the head
with an AK, and you could see their
brains boiling while the skull itself
became black. Very few men ever sur
vive sunstroke, and if they do, it al
ways leaves its work upon the mind. -
| 81 InaLie El.etlia1lr Pnet
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-08-10
Life in a Live House.

Another singular development of in
sect life is that shown by the class
known as ichneumons, which deposit
their eggs within those of other insects.
being provided with an ovipositor
which enables them to pierce the eggs
of the other insects at the moment they
are laying their own, and thus deposit
ing them inside of this singularlv
chosen receptacle. This does not pre-
vent the original egg from being duly
Matched out; but in time the unhappy
insect that thus comes into existence
finds that it has to give itself up to the
new life that is gradually developing,
and calmly yields up the ghost. The
new insect or insects Gas sometimes a
great number of the smaller eggs are
deposited III one of the others) now
have their own way, and they soon eat
their way out of the living house in
which they have been harbored, and
fly away as unconcernedly as if another
life had not been sacrificed to theirs
The accompanying sketch is that of q
very pretty white and red caterpillar
that | found on the leaf of a wistaria.
1t appeared to be alive and well, as if
resting for moment on the leaf, hold
ing on to it with its little feet, while
the wind caused the leaf to sway back
ward and forward. Observing what
appeared to be some regular black
spots on its back, [ examined it more
closely, and found them to be little ORR
fees, arranged in regular order dag
onally across the back; and while OBJ
serving it | saw little pairs of eyes
peeping through the holes. and after
ward tiny mouths eating around the
edges; gradually little heads appeared,
and then an arm was put out, and by
and-by another arm; and then a body
was drawn up, followed by two long
hind-legs, and instantly pair of Cos
samer wings developed themselves, and
away flew the creature into the air. |
counted no less than fifty of these holes.
and one by one there flew out of each
an insect, so that this poor caterpillar
had been dragging out miserable ex-
istence with Il family of fifty foreigners
inside of him, ready in due season to
take possession of his whole organiza-
ton and convert it into a birthplace
and residence for themselves. On ex-
amining the caterpillar after the last
parasite had taken its flight, found
that its whole structure had been con-
verted into compact arrangement of
cells, and nothing was left of the orig
inal animal but its outer covering, hold
ING on with its little feet firmly fixed to
the leaf while these fifty microscopic
pirates appropriated its life to them
selves.-Egdert Il. Viele, in Harper'S
Mdg0zjne for AugWSt.