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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

ANNoUNcEMENTs.-Our terms for
announcing candidates are So 90 tor
precinct and county Offices; for larger
districts $40 O0.-sTRIcTLY IN AID.
VANCE.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

Now rs the time to buy your fruit
cans. Stones and Mason's self-seal-
ing cans, 1 and 2 quarts from 81 %
per doz. upwards, at
VIM. GIEsENs.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

AMONG this weeks arrivals at Briggs
we notice q fiue lot of self.sealiug glass
fruit jars.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

The funeral of Mrs. l. B. Donaldson
will be preached at the Christian
Church t.. morrow by Elder William
son,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

OWING to the change in the firm the
undersigned has determined to sell
out the old stock of merchandise on
hand for cash at cost.
WIN. GIEsEN.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22

Our B. B. G., were again beaten,
but by smaller majority" by the
Lockhart club on Saturday.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-22
NEW Hardware, just received, at
DONALDSON Il JoHNsoN's.

THE EVENT OF THE SEAsoN.-Our
COW has calf!
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The Finishing touches" are bein
nut upou the Hof heinz Hotel.
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QUERY: "Why will men smoke
common tobacco, when they can buy
Marburg Bros. Seal Of North Caro-
Ina at the same price?" Feb. Ely
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
How Many Will Return +?
st. Charles Mirror.

The Legislature adjourned on
Thursday last after a continuous ses-
sion of sixty days. A retrospective
view of its proceedings does not dis
close the fact of its having accom-
plished any of the great reform meas
ures desired by the people and upon
the platform of which the majority of
the members were elected. The de-
mand of a majority of the country peo-
pie for q constitutional convention was
ignored, and instead few amend
ments cutting down the salaries of the
Governor, Supreme Judges and 9th er
State officials are to be submitted to
the popular vote in November next.
The huge water and gas monopolies
of New Orleans were left untouched,
and even the amendment proposing
to forbid the creation of monopolies
by succeeding Legislatures was. voted
down. We will scan with much in
terest to roll-call of the next Assembly
and note how many of the loud-
monthed reformers will be returned
by the constituencies whose demands
they have refused to entertain.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
Unload the Faithless.
Morehouse Clarion.

The Radical politicians of this
State have been getting quite bold oil
late, owing to the wishy- washy
policy pursued by the Democratic
members of our Legislature, and
seem to think that there will be some
chance for them to get into Office
again at the next election. But they
need not lay any such fattering unc-
ton to their souls. The victory
gained over the cohorts of Radical
ism in 1876 was won after q hard
fought struggle, in which many sacri-
tices had to be made, and we do not
believe our people intend to let the
fruits of that victory slip from their
grasp yet awhile. When the cam
paign opens the people of Louisiana
will be found solid against the
enemy, no matter in what form it
may present itself. 1t is true, some
of the men elected to office by the
Democratic Conservative party have
been weighed and found wanting,
but this is no reason why we should
become lukewarm and again give the
State over to the robbers and thieves
who have plundered us SO mercilessly
in the past. Instead of this, throw
those who have been unfaithful over
board and elect new men.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
State Aid for the N. o. Pacific
Railroad.

TIE General Assembly having
passed bill granting the loan of 3d.
5000 in State bonds to the New Or
leans Pacific Railway Company, Sc
cured by first mortgage on the COM
pany's property, Gov. Nichols an
nouced his approval of the measure
in the following message, dated March
IL:
To the Speaker and Members of the House of
Representatives of the State of Louisiana !:
Gentlemen-I have the honor to
inform you that / have this day
approved the bill originated in your
honorable body, entitled: "An act
to authorize the loan of State bonds
to the New Orleans Pacific Railway
Company, to provide means for the
payment of the principal and in
terest, ETC., etc." / entertain grave
doubts whether this bill does not au-
thorize an increse of the debt of the
State beyond the limit fixed by ar
ticle 2 of amendments of 1874 to the
constitution, and also as to whether
the provisions of article Ill of the con-
stitution have been complied with.
have, however, affixed my signature to
the bill, in Difference to the large ma
jority which it received in both
Houses of the General Assembly and
also to the great difference of opinion,
as to it's constitutional points, which
exists among the jurists of the State
and also from the further considera-
ton that the constitutional question
involved, which most embarrasses
me, is one not patent on the face of
the bill, but requiring investigation
of fact and a decision thereon, more
properly judicial than executive in it's
character. ] deem it right and prop
er to inform the General Assembly,
that whilst | have approved the bill,
my intention is to provoke decision
by the highest tribunal of the State,
on the constitutional questions in
volved therein, before signing the
bonds provided for in this act.
Very respectfully,
FRANCIS T. NICHOLS,
Governor of Louisiana.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
THE TWO GLASSES.

I
There sattwo glasses filed to the brim,
On rich mans table, rim to rim,
| One was fuddy and red as blood,
And one as clear as the crystal food.
Said the glass of wine to the paler brother:
Let us tell the tales of the past to eacl
otter;
l can tall of the banquet and revel and
nnrth,
And tie proudest and grandest souls on
Fell uHder my touch as though struck by
slight,
Where was king, for ruled in might
From the heads of kings l have torn the
trown,
From the heights of fame l have hurled
men down;
/ haFe blasted many an honOred name;
] have taken virtue and given shame;
1 hare tempted the youth with sip, taste
Far greater than king am /,
Or tan any army beneath the sky.
hare made the arm of the driver fail,
Andsent the train from the iron rail
] have made good ships go down at sea,
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me !;
Forthey said: Behold how great you be
Fame, strength. wealth, genius before you
fall,
For your might and power are over ALL"
" 10 ho pale BROTHER" laughed the wine,
g Can you boast of deeds as great as mine y
Seid the water glass 81 can not boast
OF king dethroned or a murdered host;
But can tell of a heart once sad
By my crystal drops made light and glad,
OF thirst I've quenched, OF brows I've
laved
Of handsI have cooled and souls have
saved
l have leaped through the valley, dashed
down the mountain,
Flowed in the river and played in the foun-
tain,
Slept in the sunshine and dropped from the
sky;
And everywhere gladdened the landscape
and eye,
have eased the hot forehead of fever and
pain,
have made the parched meadows grow
fertile with grain.
can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill
That ground out the -four and turned at nv
will.
can tell of manhood debased by YOU,
That lifted and crowned anew.
cheer, help, strengthen and aid;
gladden. the heart of man and maid
set the chained wine-captive free,
And all are better for knowing me-"
These are the tales they told each other,
| he glass of wine and palcr brother,
As they sat together filled to the bri1n,
0n the rich mans table, rim to rim.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
Future Great Cities.
Baton Rouge Advocate.

We are happy to be able to an
nOunce that Baton Rouge possesses a
warm friend and strong believer in
her nigh prosperity in Capt. Eads, oil
the jetties, st. Louis bridge and river
gunboat fame. From one of the COM
mittee sent from here TO New Orleans
to secure a favorable consideration
from the State Legislature of the con
stitational amendment for a removal
of the capital back to this place, we
learn that the Captain recently ex-
pressed himself as confident that in
not more than five years from now a
magnificent bridge would be span
ming the Mississippi at Baton Rouge,
equal in grandeur and in massive
proportions to the st. Louis bridge.
Capt. Eads expects that his proposals
to Congress for the securing of unin-
terrupted deep water navigation on
the Mississippi the whole year round,
and for preserving the low lands of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas
from inundation through his jettying,
Strengthening, aud securing process,
will be adopted by Congress, ap-
proved by the President, and there
after carried to successful execution
by himself. All this will naturally
result in SO increasing the commercial
Importance of the river, and the pro-
ductiveness, wealth and population
OF the Mississippi valley that import
ant traverse lines of railroads running
due west from the Atlantic seaboard
to points far west of the river, will at
once spring up into existence, that
will, the Captain thinks, necessitate
the construction of at least four great
railway bridges south of St. Louis, at
Memphis, Vicksburg, ,Natchez and Bat
on Rouge. And these bridges, whenev-
er built, will unquestionably increase
the commerce and trade of these
places, and in short time double, if
not treble, their population. From
any one but Capt. Eads these roseate
for the future of our
city would indeed appear far too
bright, if not entirely visionary and
chimerical, but coming from a man
that has been for years accustomed
to carrying gigantic enterprises on to
successful completion-in whose yo-
cabulary the word fail has not as yet
been found, and with whom to plan
is but the forerunner of an execu-
tion-these anticipations are far more
acceptable, and to be heard of with
at least pleasure, If not with firm
hopes Of their early realization.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16

Our school system ought to be de-
centralized. A central junta in New
Orleans ought not to control the ap
pointment of the directors and through
them the teachers of every remote par
ish. The only thing comparable to it
is Louis Napoleon's centralized i'm
perial system. The people of each
school district ought to levy their own
school taxes, as is done in free States,
and there might be one experienced
educator or local superintendent in
each parish. The people ought also
to decide what text books shall be
placed in the hands of their children.
Sugar Planter
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
DONALDsONvLLE, LA, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1873
LINES TO BEss.
RY A LAW STUDENT.

1A n Law bIUOEAIs
Believe me, Bess, when declare
A title. deed my heart,
And you the party of the first,
And the second part.
To you I've given my whole love,
With no Remainder over
If you betray that trust, l will
An action bring-of trover.
Now don't Demur when this you read,
But own you feel conlpunction,
Or my suit will Prosecute,
In spite of your Injunction.
NY case-its one in Equity
I've Pleaded with precision;
You know the Points; why will you then
So long Reserve Decisions
You owned to an Attachment once,
When the question Mooted;
But now 1t seems to me you act
AS if you were no,e-saited.
make no Dilatory Plea;
I'm driven TO distraction;
You know how long I've Courted you;
Come, in ny case, Take Action.
If you resista Civil Suit
I'll bring 1t Cupid's Session,
And there, Plaintiff lover, ask
For Judgment by Confession.
But, if, in spite of Judgment mine,
You willnot hear me still,
I'll get an Order from the Court
To administer your Will.
Don't failto file an Answer-Brief
To this, my Declaration,
Lest, losing patience, shall make
A Characterization.
---Ne.c York Puck.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
One of Those Amendments.
st. Landry. Democrat.

To illustrate the operation of the
proposed amendments to the Con-
stitution in cutting down expenses,
we will take that proposing biennial
sessions of the Legislature fixed
salary of $500 per session to the
members aud limiting their travelling
expenses to expenses necessarily in
Cured by shortest route.
Under act No. IL of 1872 each men,
Der of the Legislature was allowed
20 cents per mile, each way, going
and coming. Eight dollars per day,
for each day; thirty miles were con-
sidered as days travel, and the dis
tanee from Opelousas to New Orleans.
fixed at 400 miles. Under the opera
tion of this statute our two Senators
and FIVE members of the Legislature
would receive for mileage going and
coming $3.50 each or $Il20 for all. In
addition they are allowed 26R days
to go and return -four days is enough)
at eight dollars per diem, making,
1898 33a each, or an aggregate of
of 1888 33s. This added to the S1l2O
for mileage makes the total mileage
and per diem allowed them on the
road whilst going and coming
S2753 33s.
These same seven members would
get under the proposed amendment
about $40 90, thus reducing that head
of expenditure just s2653 and then
instead of going every year as now,
they will only go once every two
years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
One Year of Mr.. Hayes.
st. Louis Republican.

After all that can be said about the
shortcomings of Mr.. Hayes and his
lack of skill in management, the I'M
proved state of things which his ad.
ministration has brought about must
be recognized and acknowledged. It
is true he has lost the support of his
own party without securing that of
the Democrats; it is true he failed of
an admirable opportunity to strength
en- himself with the people when he
refused to approve the silver bill it
is true his civil service reform scheme
has heen so transformed that there is
little Or nothing left of it; aud it is
true he has managed to divest himself
of nearly all the authority and influ-
ence that his station ought to bring.
But for all this, his administration is
a great improvement over that of his
last predecessor. There is no district
ring permitted under it. There are
no detestable favorites and f1unkeys
like Babcock and Shepherd nourished
by it. The Southern States are no
longer proconsular provinces, but CO.
equal States. The animosities which
the Grant administration assiduously
cultivated have given place to good
order and good feeling; and the peace
which Grant merely promised has
become an actual fact under Hayes.
The departments have materially i'm
proved, rings have been broken up
and higher standard of official con-
duct has been imperceptibly intro
duced. The civil service has been
partly reformed in spite of the failure
of the particular way in which it was
to be reformed. Partisan politics have
been SO nearly banished from the dis
cussiOns at Washington that there is
no organized power that can be called
all opposition. Secretary McCrary
of the War Department, is great
over Belknap and Cam
eron; Schurz is great improvement
over Delano and Chandler; Thomp-
son is far better than Robson, and
Devens is far better than Williams,
Pierrepont and Taft. These things
must be credited to Mr.. Hayes in
the balance for the first year
of his administration, and they largely
the faults on the other side.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
NUMBER %.
Weekly News Summary,
Domestic.

Home savings bank, Boston, has
suspended business.
Three large Philadelphia provision
houses have failed.
"A Mr.. Hodges was killed by light
ming near Memphis.
A heavy snow storm occurred in
wyoming last week.
The steamboat City of Chester
burned at Memphis. Two lives lost.
VIM. Bowsher was convicted nj
Cincinnati of the murder of his wife,
Chas. Auber, a German laborer.
hung himselfin New Orleans board.
ing-house.
General Sherman has been chosen
regent of the Smithsonian Institute.
vice Babcoek.
An incendiary fire destroyed eyery
business house in the village of Spar
tansburg, N. j.
Three brothers were fatally ipiured
by the explosion of railroad torpedo
at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
A high wind blew down an Episco-
pal chapel and tore the tin roofing off
from other buildings in Atlanta.
A new gasoline machine exploded
at Harrison, Ohio, killing member
of the Town Council and u little girl,
The steamer Timer sailed from
Philadelphia with twenty six locemo-
tives built for the Russian govern
ment.
Gen. O. o. Howard, charged with
embezzling $3.50, 600 as Commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau, was ac-
quilted.
DR.. Cornelius Boyle, provost mar
shal of Gen. Lees army at the time of
the surrender, died at Washington,
Monday.
Collector Wade of Savannah has
broken up nine distilleries and can
tured several distillers in Elbert
county.
DR.. Bray Hawker, with several
others, convicted at New York of
producing an abortion, were SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment.
Postmaster General Key refused to
allow the Attorney General to ques-
ton the right of mem bers of Con-
gress to become bondsmen for mail
The great railroad bridge spanning
the Raritan river at New Brunswick.
n. j. :, caught fire from the sparks of q
passing locomotive, and was almost
entirely consumed.
Mayer & Nathan, and N. Nathan
N Co., wholesale Cincinnati tobacco
dealers, who suspended last month,
we're arrested, charged with secreting
goods with intent to fraud their
,reditors.
Several houses were destroyed by O
tornado in Creecy county, Ky. The
amily of Vincent Wesley and two
'thers stopping at their house were
lilled. In another part of the county
drs. John w. Morgan was killed.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
Foreign.
Yellow fever in Rio Janerio.

Yellow fever in Rio Janerio.
The italian ministry resigned.
Canadian Parliament has been
prorogued to April IL.
Bismarck is said to favor English
occupation of Egypt.
Public gambling in the city of
Mexico has been prohibited.
Archduke Francis, father of the
Emperor of Austria, is dead.
A second cable has been laid
between Jamaica and Santiago de
Cuba.
England proposes that Greece be
admitted to the Congress of European
powers.
Seven hundred Circassians perished
on the steamer Sphinx, burned near
Cape Ella.
Tbessalian advices state that insur-
gents hold NIL of the province except
the towns.
Capt. Hill and three of the crew of
the English ship Bertha were washed
overheard.
France and Italy intend to propose
the naturalization Of the Bosphorus
and Dardanelles.
The visit of Grand Duke Nicholas
to the Sultan will be less oatentatious
than at first proposed.
1t is not Austria's present intention
TO annex Bosnia or Herzegovina, but
events may alter heI policy.
Three blocks of buildings in the
business centre of Panama burned.
Loss $500, 900; insurance $3.50 900.
Heavy foundations have caused
much damage to crops in Cnba.
Waterspouts destroyed four planta-
tioas.
The Austrian government asks the
Reichstrath for grant of 10000, 900
forms to meet possible war contin-
geneies.
A brilliant fete in honor of Gen.
Grant was held at Athena. The
ancient temple of Pantheon was bril-
liantly illuminated.
The Prusaian Minister of Finance
will send agents to the United States
to study the American system of
tobacco taxation.
Another peace meeting at HYDE
Park, London, was broken up. The
duke of Teek, mistaken for Count
Schouvaloff, Russian Ambassador
was insulted aud hustled blythe mob
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
Worse and More of 1t.
Natchitoches Vindicator.

There has been a decided advance
in the price of lumber in the rural
districts during the past week. Po-
litical collins will be constructed with
whiclr to everlastingly bury. beyond
even the sound of Gabriel's horn, q
large number of vinegar bitter states
men who have gone in I" with Char
ley Howard and the niger to /" patch
up " the Radical Constitution. These
men. will find the coffins ready and
the funeral professions formed on
their return home. No one will be
on hand, however, to read the service.
They don't deserve it.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16

In the Darrall Acklen contest be-
fore the national House of Represen-
tatives AckleD has been seated. Dar-
rail- was the Republican candidate
and was seated at the extra session of
Congress upon prima facie showing.
The evidence before the committee to
whom the contest was referred dis
closed fraud and pejury in large
quantities. Yet still Hayes is Presi-
dent and the vote of Louisiana was
counted for him.-C Claiborne Guard
ian.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16

The following is q description of
the new dollar: On the adverse side
of it is a head of Liberty en- profile,
with a luxuriant head of hair, and
crowned with cap and coronet sur
rounded by stalks of wheat. Above
the head is "E Plpribus Unum - be-
low, the date 1881 The reverse
side has an eagle with uplifted wings,
two stars, the words " q. S. of Ameri-
ca semi-circularly arranged below
this inscription is " In God We Trust.n
Below the eagle the coin is stamped
+" One Dollar. .n-Eg.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-16
SQUARES. | IN o. . mos. 3mos. 6mos. lyear

Transient advertisements 81 per square
irst insertion; each subsequent insertion,
Z5 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
of correspondents.
Address: CmEF, Donaldsonville, La.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-11

PRESIDENT HAYES need have no fear
of Montgomery Blair. He possesses
neither political influence nor the re.
spect OF politicians in his own State,
but can box the political compass more
1extrously than any other man in the
country, Two years after his retire.
ment from President Lincoln's cabinet
he was a pronounced Democrat, and
from that time to the present has been
on almost every side OF every question
that has commanded public attention.
HE chief talent is peculiar faculty OF
getting his own hatchet on the grind
stone without regard to his neighborh'
rights. He illustrated this trait very
handsomely when he secured a seat in
the New York Convention OH the ground
Df being wild for Pendleton, and began
at once figuring in the interest of his
brother, General Frank Blair, for the
second place on the ticket. The memo
rial which has just made him conspicu
pus 10 Blair's own work; rest assured o
shat. II it were any part OF a genera
plan, some other man would have beef
selected to champion it. Montgomer.
Blair at the present day champions onl.
his own schemes.