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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-03-13

Clinton Watckman: Capt. G.. C.
Comstock sold on Monday Last to
Messrs. T. B. Lyons and David Pipes,
tue Clinton and Port Hudson Rail
road, with all it's rights, privileges
and responsibilities, for the price and
sum of SOS, 900 cash.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-03-13
9onalosonbille Cbief.
Two Dollars Year.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
Pourth Judioisl District.

Fourth judicial District.
Comprising the parishes Of Ascension, St.
James, st. ohm the Baptist and st. Charles.
District Judge. Henry Z. Duffel,
District Autobiography. B. Earhart,
Post-ofice address, DoDaldsonville, La.
Regular terms of Court in Ascension open
on the third Mondays Of May and October.
Eighth Senatorial District.
Comprising the parishes of Ascension and
st. James.
State Senator. Pierre Landry,
Dopaldsonville. La.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
American Cattle Abroad.
THE DEMAND FROM GREAT BRITAIN
ON REDUCED SCALE. i

THE DEMAND FROM GREAT BRITAIN
ON A REDUCED SCALE.
LONDON, Feb. 12.-The Liverpool
Courier says: '"The imports of Anieri-
ican live cattle, so far this winter have
been on reduced scale, partly in con
sequence of the lower prices ruling
here and partly because of the great
mortality attending the transit. The
steamers matches during bad weather
have to be battened down, impairing
ventilation and rendering the air where
the cattle are penned so vitiated that
the animals soon succumb.J This diff
ficulty has been overcome in one steam
er. Her owners have patented a CON
trivance whereby heat, passing through
funnel, which, according to the de-
scription of the coal used, has been as
certained to range as high as 900 de
grees Fahrenheit, is made to draw off
the vitiated atmosphere from the cat
tle-pens. Fresh air is supplied by ven
tilators through the iron deck-houses.
The dangers of the voyage have thus
been greatly reduced. On Tuesday
this steamer landed at Birkenhead 616
cattle in excellent condition out of 821
embarked at Boston.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
BrieTetS.

FIJI people dry the cocoanut for ex-
port and call the product "copra'o Six
thousand acres OF Fiji are devoted to
cocoanuts.
Atlanta, Ca, last year distributed
$1,000 mules which came from Ken
lucky and Tennessee. The colored
man who works the fields of the South
likes a mule better than he likes a
horse.
When you purchase fish by the pound
the scales are always thrown in.
An editor lately returned tailor's
all indorsed, "Declned-handwriting
Ilegible."
Leap Year.-She-Are you engaged
for the Germanp lie with eagerness)
No, Pm not. She (wIth pity)--Oh,
that's too bad ! Good evening. See you
later.
1t is a mean woman who will paste
years plate of fashions for bonneus into
this years fashion book, and lend it TO
her female friends just before Easter
Sunday.
Poindexter, who killed Curtis, at
Richmond, because he spoke in>ultingly
to Miss Cottrell about her pretty foot,
and is now serving term in PRISON, has
taken out a license to marry the young
lady. ao<I
1t IS surprising that some of our en-
terprising dramatists have not construct
ed scene In which safe is hoisted in
to a fourth story window. 1t always
draws big audience in our tieets.
The Hoboken minister who kissed his
cuok was asked to resign. 'sIhe minis
ter was not wlse," suggests the Oil City
Derrick, ale should have kissed the la
dies of his congregation, and his salary
would have been raised"
While in the parlor with her beau, q
Cincinnati girl rushed from the house
and threw herself in the canal. This
proves that the only safe way to court a
airl is take her Oh the lap and hold her
there.
Dan Rice met Mr.. Moody in Chicago,
Saturday, and going up to the Evangelist
said:--"Look a here, Moody, heard you
was around tellns the folks as how |
wasn't converted. Better let up on that.
pard. Don't cold deck me ON the first
deal. Pm glin' to run sfx-pole triple
tent show next year,and If hear of you
lellin' folks ain't converted IN sue you
for sande. / will; hope to never see the
back of my neck if don't"
A soldiers widow in an eastern Con-
nec.icut town, who has had little In this
life excepting hard luck, poor nenents,
AID childerD, and plenty OF nothing ex-
capt poverty, recently had come to her
from a grateful country over $1,000 as
back pension due to her on her soldier
husbands account. With this wealth in
hand she got husband, though two min
isters refusal to marry her to him, put
into her three low-siudded rooms that
rived as apartments for five children
three chamber sets, red plush sofa and
handsomely turned chairs, piano for
herself and violin tor her second hus-
hand. and declared:-"I have had enough
poyerty ih my life, and If don't have
style now with all this mony, then it's
because can't" The happy family is
now actually "living high and sleeping
in the attic"
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
Il PeaciL In q Mna,s Bodu.

Some weeks ago Hartford, Conn.,,
man had fall and was rendered iEsen-
sible. After being taken home SUR
geon discovered slight wound in his
body, close by the heart, and thought the
man had been either stabbed or shot,
A few days later, however, small pieces
of black lead began to come out of the
wound, aud it was then concluded that,
In falling, the point of lead pencil
which the man had in his vest pocket
had penetrated the body. Probing later
brought out little wood. The surgeons,
who have watched the case with much
Interest, used the knife, and, to their as
tonshment, whole lead pencil, which
had been sharpened but once, was ex-
tracted. 1t was 90 inches long aud the
wood was spit in two. It had been COM
pletely imbedded below the chest and
not half an inch from the heart The
man is very weak but it is thought he
will recover. ( 81 t.1t
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
Heaven on Earth.


A COLONY THAT HARBoRs JOHN TIL
BAPTIST, ABRAHAM, ISAAC AM
" JACOB. $50 as A.s+lte w.
From the Weston fOregon) Leader.
Nine miles from Walla Walla is sit
uated colony OF Davisite Mormons
They call their organization the King
dom of Heaven on Earth. They be.
lieve that spirits return and take upon
themselves new bodies, and that the
spirit of Jesus Christ, John the Reve-
lator, John the Baptist, st. Peter, and
about half the other old Apostles,
King David, Moses the lawgiver, Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob, have returned,
been born over again and that they
now have those sacred children in that
colony, and are only waiting for them
to grow up, when they shall conquer
the whole world. They have a sacred
corral in which those children usually
play, which none can enter without
taking off their shoes. Davis has a
daughter about Q years of age, who, it
is claimed, is the great eternal mother
of spirits. She is the motor of her
fathers spirit-in fact Of all spirits
and is to be mated by her father to her
brother in the flesh, who is the great
father of spirits. r..r -
Davis claims to have the power over
life and death; that he and all who be-
lleve faithfully in his doctrine may
live as long as they please. Neverthe-
less, his wife, the mother of Jesus, died
last spring, and Davis was complain
ing of i'll health when we saw him last.
The child Jesus is red haired, and
wears it long, and is slightly freckled
in the face, has long aquiline nose, a
clear blue eye, and pleasant express
sion. Members of this colony never
shave or cut their hair, and seldom ev-
er comb it. The Gentiles have nick
Lamed them "the barber-killers. p
They hold their property in common,
but Davis holds the deeds, titles,
etc. f,t ... .ss.tf..fr .ltr...I,
They do not believe in marriage
They argue that Jesus was neither
married nor given in marriage, but
was as the angels in Heaven, and that
in the Lords Prayer Jesus prayed !:
"Thy kingdom come. Thy viii be
done on earth as it is in Heaven."-
And now that His Kingdom has come,
and His win is done on earth as it is
in Heaven, they are married no more,
but mated by Davis to suit himself.
Davis claims to be the Holy Ghost,
the true representative of the Eternal
Father of Spirits, the Standard of Is
rael, and Commander-in-Ch Chief of
Heaven and Earth. In a pamphlet
published by him he says:.s Itis Gods
will that you do my will forever and
ever" Davis is a Welshman, and
the remainder are English, Irish,
Scotch, Scandinavians, Canadians, and
a few back-woods Americans. When
gathered together for service they
would remind one of Mark Twain,s
unprejudiced jury. When we left the
camp of Israel young Jesus and John
the Revelator were trying to lassoo
some young ducks. st. Peter and
John the Baptist were riding around
on their stick horses mocking the
ducks with their quacl1, quack, quack,
while King David and Moses were
some mud marbles.
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14

Oil City Derrick. An Oil City Irish
man, having signed the pledge, was
charged soon afterward with having
drank. "Twas me absent-minded-
ness, +" said Pat, "an' habit have of
talkin' wild meself l sed to meself,
sez l, Pat, COON in an have dhrink. ;
NO, zer, sez I, I've sworn off. Then
I'll drink alone, seq to meself. AN
Pll wait for yes outside sez I. An
whin meself cum out, faith an he was
dhrunk."
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
A Dreadful disaster at Sea.

LONDON, February 12.-The steam
er Constance, coal laden, from Cardiff,
for Malta, foundered in gale on Mon
day last, off Lands End. The crew
were all drowned except two, who
we're rescued by steamer having a
black funnel with two red bands,
which is believed to be bound for
America 90. = ~ L-L.L-
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
14.7S2 Dozens
dies. Gents and Children's
HO.IERY.
,,,.n,t. 18th str ee,, Philadelphia.

when our buyer visited the great centres of the Hosiery 'aae
Last France and Germany prices were lower tnan ever 0eos
En'n' factories were running loss simply to keep oper
g , Hinder the stimulus of low prices and the eager
Ill we placed orders amounting to
The daily gazette., 1880-02-14
l4.782 Dozens

Fancy silk In ChiIdrens Cotton, 10
Ladies 100 doz aoz' c.,., poncv doz
English Lsle do
English doz Cotton,
/, ren
io SILK, II
unblached Lsodoz
Iise l1odoz
" Cotton 5o doz
|l@d"s ,c"r,nan Unbleached, 1906 doz doz.
Lisle, Unbieached,
MF ~ In Mems Cotton. 81 doz
Unbleachfd Sdoz
Fancy UDbeached Lise s. do
English SILK Cotton, 100 doz
English
Engish Coon ~ Cotton 7i2 do
,so * aoz IN Mens erman Unbieachsd 8O5 doz.
h hardly steamer from the other side for the next thirty
~ ,bove some new Hosiery for We have opened many
and are daily opening We feel confident our prices will
UNI 1 criticism and beyond competition ha u
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Successful Poultry Raising.

In raising poultry or stock it should
be the aim of every one to keep it
healthy and improve it. You can do it
very easily by adopting some systemat-
ic rules. These may be summed up in
brief as follows:
l. Construct your house good and
warm, so as to avoid damp floors, and
afford a flood of sunlight. Sunshine is
better than medicine.
.. Provide a busting and scratching
place where you can bury wheat and
corn and thus induce the fowls to take
needful exercise.
3. Provide yourself with some good
healthy chickens, none to be over three
or four years old, giving one cock to
very twelve hens.
4. Give plenty of fresh air at all times
of the year, especially in summer.
5. Give plenty of fresh water daily,
and never allow the fowls to go thirsty.
6. Feed them Systematically, two or
three times day and scatter the food
so they can't eat too fast or without
proper exercise. Do not feed more
than they will eat up clean, or they will
get tired of that kind of feed.
z. Give them a variety of both dry
and cooked food; a mixture of cooked
meal and vegetables is an excellent
thing for their morning meal.
s. Give soft feed in the morning, and
the whole grain at night, excepta little
wheat or cracked corn placed in the
scratching place to give them exercise
during the day.
9. Above all things keep the hen
house clean and well ventilated.
10. Do not crowd too many in one
house. If you do look out for disease.
II. Use carbolic powder in the dust
NC bins occasionally to destroy lice.
u. Wash your roosts and bottom of
laying nests and whitewash once week
in summer, and once month in winter.
Is. Let the old and young have as
large a range as possible-the larger
the better.
IA. Don't breed too many kinds of
going into the business. Three or four
will give your hands full.
Is. Introduce new blood into your
stock every year or so, by either buying
a cockerel or sittings of eggs from some
reliable breeder.
16. In buying birds or eggs, go to
some reliable breeder who has his rep
utation at stake. You may have to pay
little more for birds, but you can de-
pend on what you get. Culls are
not cheep at any price.
IL Save the birds for next years
breeding and send the others to market.
In shipping fancy poultry to market
send it dressed. -Rurdl Nebraska.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
journalistic Amenities.

The unsophiscated readers of those
influential Journals doubtless imagine
that the editor of the Petaluma PeGCillc
and Vallejo Vengeance are bitter and
forocious foes. 1t is quite possible that
neither of these gentlemen would speak
to the other in their respective towns
for untold wealth; it would spoil the eff
feet of the terrible personal denuncia-
tions INDUCED in throughout each
issue of their respective sheets. But
away from the glare of the rustic eve
the case is entirely changed. These
warriors of the flowing pen met in San
Francisco last week and took lunch to-
gether-something of almost weekly
occurrence, we understand. Happen
ing to occupy the next box to the twain
in the restaurant, we naturally over
heard some of their conversation.
- How is it, my dear old boy, you
called me 'putrid pirate of perdition'
only twice in your paper yesterday"
said the PeGCi7le man, reprOachfully,
- 1t was hardly the square thing when
| designated you as a scalawag of the
neither slums' four times on Wednes-
day"
. 1t was entirely through the stupid
ity of my assistant, dear old friend. |
wrote with my own hand a half-column
leader headed The Crawling Reptile
Squirms Again, but high-rate circus
adj. came in and crowded it out" re-
piled the Vengeance proprietor.
That was tough luck" sighed the
PeaCiBe director saving away on his
crop; Il felt it all the more as that
very day announced that you served
two terms at Sing Sing for burglary,
and there was no doubt of your having
deserted three wives in Texas"
just like your kind of thoughtful
ness" returned the other molder of
public thought, as he ordered more
coffee. - was also exceedingly graft
fed and touched by your article of
Sunday last week, to the effect that l
committed forgery at nineteen and that
my mother was a colored woman
90, don't mention it, old fellow; be-
sides, didn't you say, the day before
yesterday, that l cheated blind widow
out of her last cent and was ridden on
a rail in New York for infanticide?''
There was a moment of retrospective
silence, during which both cronies were
too full of emotion tos peak. Finally the
Vallejo man said, softly:
Il didn't mean to tell you, Bill, old
man-in fact, intended it as pleas
ant surprise for you-but the truth is l
am working up a superb item connect
ing you with the Nathan murder, with
absolute proofs, and affidavit of a con-
fession said to have been made by you
when sick in the Penitentiary for
arson
Heaven bless you, dear boy! l don't
know how 1 get along without you these
dull times. However, tomorrow L Il COM
plete beautiful little thing I've been
working up, proving you to be the
younger Bender, and appealing to the
Vigilance Committee to turn out. I'll
send you proof"
And paying their checks the two al
lies Lit cigars and walking off arm in
arm.-SGn Francisco Post.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Flying Men.

The Daily Ne1cs the other day got to-
gether a rather long list of persons who
are said to have either succeeded or
failed in the attempt to fly. But no
place was found for an ingenious specu-
lator OF our own nation, who failed in
deed, but had a good reason to give for
his failure. This was Kthelmer, a
monk of Malmesbury in the eleventh
century, as recorded by William, the
chronicler of his own house. He made
himself wings after the manner of D9-
dalus, took flight from the top of a
tower, flew, it is said, for the space of
a furlOng, but then fell and broke his
legs. The reason that he gave for his
failure was that, besides the wings to
fly with, he had omitted to add tail
to steady his course. He lived to see
and to moraliZe on the comet of 1866;
but he could have hardly lived long
enough for William of Malmesbury to
have heard the story from his own
mouth. Ethelm9r is not recorded to
have done, or tried to do, anything else
out of the common way. Not so a
Sicilian magician of the eighth century,
who, if we may believe the local his
torian Fazello, flew from Constantine
pie to Catania. He is called by various
names - Diodorus, Heliodoras, and
others. But he was wonderful per-
sonage altogether. To begin with, he
was one of the very small class who,
like Lord George Gordon. from Chris
tians have turned Jews. Then, strange
trade for Jew, he became a manu-
facturer of idols, and popular belief as
signed to him the well-known elephant
carved in lava, which is still to be seen
at Catania. He turned men into beasts
and did many other magic wonders, and
when he few it was not out of scientific
speculation, like the monk of Malmes-
bury, but to escape from a sentence of
death. But when he got home he found
a Bishop who could do greater wonders
still, and he was burned at last. Are
any of these stories suggested by the
curious tendency which not few peO-
pie have to dream that they are flying?
The feeling in the dream is most agree
able, and some one may have been
tempted to try to make it a reality by
day. The tale of Heliodoras is too
much; but there is nothing incredible in
the tale of Ethelmar, save his fiving a
whole furlong. And this is the kind of
improvement which would be sure to
get added to the story in the time be-
tween Ethelmer himself and the his
torian who recounts his feat.-PdU Mall
GGzette.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
jackson Patriot. ]


In 1874 DR.. Jacob Meyer, Saint Louis,
Mich, gave the following opinion: The
Hamburg Drops deserve to be recommended.
] have prescribed them for irregularities of
the liver, disorders of the stomach and dis
eases originating from these disturbances,
and have observed the most satisfactory re-
suits. The Drops also cure constipation in
short time,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14

-Novelists continue to represent a
lover as going on his knees when pro-
pounding the matrimonial conundrum,
just as they have always done time out
of mind Some contend that thus is not
true to nature, while others, principally
young ladies, maintain that it is. But
those who have never been popped to
don't know any thing aboutit, and those
who have won't tell; so the outside
world will probably be left in doubt until
all things shall be made known.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Thin Seeding OF Wheat.

Mr.. WIN. J. THOMAS, Sandy Spring,
Nd, gives the following in the Anleri-
can Farmer as the result of twenty-five
years experience:
"More than twenty years ago. when
drills came into use here, one of the
strongest arguments in their favor was
that we could save half a bushel of wheat
per acre Git was customary to sow two
bushels per acre by handy by using the
drill. | could see no good reason why
less quantity would not do sown broad
cast; consequently l sowed field by
way of experiment, using one bushel
and four quarts per acre, at the same
time doubling the quantity sowed on one
land. The yield was twenty-six bushels
per acre on the field; did not keep the
one land separate, but the difference was
very perceptible. That sowed at the
rate of two bushels per acre was much
thicker than the part sowed with Is
bushels, and the heads were not much
more than half as long. So satisfied
was l with this trial that l have con-
tinued to SOW Is bushels per acre for
the last twenty years, and have raised, l
think, quite as good crops as most of
my neighbOrs. In 1876 Brother S. 2.
Thomas had just purchased a drill, and
from some cause some of the gearing
gave way, and in renewing it one of the
cogs was misplaced, causing the drill to
sow three pecks per acre instead of five,
as intended; and, although he reported
the fact to me when l got the drill, had
so much confidence in the result of thin
sowing 1 proceeded to sow a twelve
acre field. The field had been in corn
that year, and the next spring (1977)
no one would have supposed there had
been wheat sown there, it made so little
show. But at harvest it stood pretty
thick, and the telling part was in the
long and well-flled heads, making SO
bushels on the field per acre"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Best Stove We Ever Used.

After many years trial, we are satisfied
that the CHARTER OAK is the best Stove we
ever used, and cheerfully testify that it is
the best adapted to the wants of the general
public Of any stove in the market.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
"Now Well and Strong"

SHIPMAN, IIIlnOlS.
DIR. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y:
Dear Sri wish to state that my daughter,
aged eighteen, was pronounced incurable and
was fast failing as the doctors thought, with
consumption. l obtained half dozen bot
ties of your Discovery for her and she COM
menced improving at once, and is now well
and strong. She took the Discovery last fall
Very truly yours, REV. ISAAC n. AUGUsTIN
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
A Warning.

Coughs are caused by the changeable
weather of autumn, and, If neglected, are
apt to continue all winter. II cured now the
lungs will gain strength to Withstand the
severe trial of winter and spring. Piso's Cure
is the best remedy. Fifty centbottles are
sold for . cents.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14

"A critic says the best writing is to
be found in letters. He says: ''Take
the letters of any one of half dozen
girls, and you will find the English 10
charming" Probably, but what sort
of fellow could he be who would have
letters from half dozen girls2
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
THREE OF The BEST BOOKS FOR
SINGING CLASSES.
THE TEMPLE.

81, or SD per dozen. BY Dr. W. o. PERKINS.
Such full sized book the above has this advantage
over smaller one: After you have been through its
excellent elementary course, have sung its cheerful
Songs aud Glees its Spiritual Songs It's Hymns, Tunes
and Anthems you have hand large collection
which is Just the thing Choir practice and also for
Home singing Dr. Perkins is we'll known as one Of
most skilful conlpilers.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14

The Standard, Syracuse, N. Y, is the jour
nal from which the following extract is cut:
THAT the proprietors of Warmers Safe Rem
edies are entitled to q monument is unmis-
takably true. 1t is an irdisputable fact that
these parties must be and are looked upon as
Good Samaritans y
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
The Most Desirable Stove to Buy.

All our customers agree in saying that the
CHARTER OAK is without doubt the best
Cook Stove they ever used or sold, and be-
lieve its large high oven. ample warming
closet, and an excellent Reservoir, make it
the most desirable stove that housekeeper
can buy.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1880-10-14
Bakes Perfectly.

The CHARTER OAK COOK STOVE now in
my kitchen has been used ten years. 1t
bakes perfectly with less fuel than any stove
that know of; is perfectly clean, no dust or
ashes escape into the room, and cheerfully
recommend it to any housekeeper wanting a
first-rate stove.