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be Wise and Happy.

If you will stop all your extravagant and
wrong notions in doctoring yourself and fam
lily with expensive or humbug cure-alls that
do harm always. aad ase only natures sim
pie remedies for al your aiments-you will
be wise, we'll aad happy, and save great ex-
pense. The greatest remedy for this, the
great, wise ami good will tell goa. ia Hop
oa It. See another coluun.
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1ROQUOIs.

1RUQUUIS.
The YanLee came down With ,oro Era1 m
his hack Wv WV"
And lis c0iors were cleaning with cherry
and hIack.
He flashed to the front and the British Star
Dnled.
AS the field died away and the fayorite failed
Like tha leaves nj fha aummar uhan tha
simmer is preens
The faces Of Peregrine,s hackers were aeen
D'"o-> ~ ~ y 1900
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raises itself proudly above its humble
companions, wooded and green-clad il
all the beauty of the season o peaceful
and pastoral scene Of wandering herd!
and growing crops spread about its slo
ping sides, where once, in the early his
tory of Mississippi, the stealthy and sup
pie form of tho moccasined savage, tn,
armored soldiers, proud and naughty, O.
Spain, and the home-spun clad soldier,
of our own frontiers had gazed dowr
upon the mighty stream, willow-fringed
SO far beneath them. What changes
have taken place since then! The widest
dreams of fancy could have scarcely con.
ceived them; civilization has made the
wilderness to blossom like the rose, and
the Mississippi, whose 1ilent watere
were then only disturbed by an occa.
sional pirogue or raft, is now national
highway. Through oil, those hills have
stood, mute witnesses Of q couutry's
change; high above all sorrows, all Joys
of the earth rigid sentinels of the con-
queror Time, asking no.mercy of pitiless
storms nor yielding to the soft blandish-
ments Of sun and sky. "Men may come
and'nen may co." but the eternal hills
alone remain immutable, stern guardians
of the past and charged with the secrets
of futurity.
Ihave enjoyed, in fullest measure, the
delicious moonlight nights of this month.
Were ever nights so balmy, so intensely
clear and silveryi In the Aower-gar-
dens every blossom, every leaf, changed
into almost spiritual beauty by tho
magic alchemy of the earth's fair satel-
lite, doubled itself in distinct shadow
upon the brilliant ground beneath. Just
outside Of my window, in the depths of
a climbing rose, q family of mocking
birds for three summers past have built
their nests, and all through the sweet
scented and dewy nights the dusky little
troubadours have sung in most entranc-
ing strains of the beauty of the scene. As
soon as one clear, gushing voice is silent
another minstrel takes up thc serenade
until have wondered if ever Schehera-
zade dreamed of any thing as perfect in
the marvellous land of the East. By-the-
by, do you know. that Schchcrazale's
mirror Of oriental chivalry and grace,
!" the good Haroun Abraschid," was any
thing but what the Arabian Tales have
painted hint A robber, o murderer, q
traitor, q drunkard and periurer, the
beauty of his person, the culture of
his mind and the brilliancy of his court
shed halo around him which effectually
hid his vices and made him sole star of
all that place and time." What terrible
iconoclasts thoso latter-day historians
are. I owe them grndge for destroying
my childish illusions. Sic traaait gloria
mundi! VILLETTE.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

The deepest known worked mine is
III Australia-a shaft having been sunk
1900 feet.
Experiments at Woolwich have
demonstrated that the transmission OF
detonation from one mass of gun cotton
to another not in contact is so rapid that
row OF gun cotton reaching from Lon
don to Edinburg could he fred in two
minutes
Replying to the question whether OF
not our ancestors were acquainted with
the peculiar physical condition known
to US as somnambulism, DR.. Regnard OF
Paris said in a recent lecture that one OF
the most accurate descriptions of SOM
nambulism in existence was that in the
sleep-walking scene of Macbeth.
In a communication to the st. Peters.
burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein
recommends the use of sulphate of
alumina as the best practical disinfec-
tant. He states that the best method of
making the salt for disiDfecting purposes
is to mix red clay with four per cent. of
sulphnEie acid, and to add to the mixture
some carbolic acid for destroying the
smell of the matter to be disinfected.
Late researches are showing an as
tonishing vitality of disease germs.
Pasteur has investigated case in which
cattle died of carbuncular fever twelve
years ago, and were buried at certain
spot in walled garden. Guinea pigs
have been inoculated with the matter
secured by washing samples of the soil
and died quickly with well-markcd
symptoms of carbuncle. OF seven sheep
allowed experimentally to pass q few
hours daily on this spot, two died of the
same disease in the course of six weeks,
the rest of the flock remaining unaffec-
ted. This seems to provo hey ond a
doubt the existence of disease germs for
space of twelve years.
Says recent writer: fsWhat has
been the ultimate fate Of the Egyptian
mummics stored with care in the rocky
vaults aud pyramids OIL the banks of tie
Nilei They have in these later times
been dragged from their recesses and
ground into powder. as an article Of
commerce to be exported to Europe
The cereal crops of England are partly
produced from the mummiGed remains
of human beings who walked about the
streets of Thebes three thousand years
ago. The bodies of venerable Thehans
-swells in their time-laM to rest in
fond anticipation of securing a mortal
Immortality, sold at SO much a ton to
fertilize the exhausted soil of an island
in the German Ocean. That is what the
ancient Egyptians have got by all thei,
skill in protracting the dissolution q
. mortal remains. Their marvellous pre-
parat;ons have ended in fayorabl;
anoted-manure :"
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NUMBER 4s.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.

| AVIoISus
Young ladies in London now all carrv
canes.
Queen Victoria is said to be great
matchmaker.
The Duke Of SAKE Coburg Gotha died
at Vienna recently.
Charles Christian Bruyns, an eminent
German astronomer, is dead.
Queen Victoria recently attended the
funeral of her kennel master.
More than 5000 day was cleared at
the Old English Fair in London.
Sara Bernhardt is to have 500 night
at the Paris Vaudeville this Fall.
A society in memory Of the murdered
Car has just been established in Russia.
Farmers near Dagman, France, have
killed 600o rats in their fields in single
day.
The Car and his family were enthusi-
astically welcomed by the inhahitauts Of
Moscow.
All Of the French crown jewels will be
sold and proceeds devoted to the mu.
| scum fund.
The domes Of the great churches in all
the large Russian towns arc plated with
gold to the thickness of a quarter of On
inch.
BY desire Of the late King of Prussia
his heart was inferred in a heart-slapen
marble casket at the foot Of his parents
grave.
Chinese boys are to be removed from
American to European colleges, because
they are becoming imbued with republi-
can ideas.
The English Government is consider
ing the question Of an international kid
mapping and the slave trade in the West
ern Pacific.
Thirteen hundred sheep, with their
shepherds, were overwhelmed by an
avalanche in the Canton of Grisons,
Switzerland.
The Emperor Of Germany has con-
ferred upon an American tho order of
merit made vacant by tho death of
Thos. Carlisle.
Parsees around the "Towers of Silence"
whittier tho corpses of Parsees at
bombay are taken Immediately after
death to bo devoured by vultures-will
often wait and watch until every atom
of the flesh Of those they love has been
consumed by the birds.
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Domestic.

The Presidents mother is out Of danger.
Guiteau belonged to Beecher's church.
New York claims q, 900 sclf-supporting
women.
In New Jersey it is against the law to
fish on Sunday.
The jury in the Owen case were hanged
in effigy at Mobile.
The great brooklyn bridge is rapidly
approaching completion.
The business portion of Lebanon Tenn,
has been destroyed by fire.
A paper dome is being made for the
now observatory at West Point.
Sunday free concerts are given on Bos-
ton Common, at the city's expense.
The steamers Idlewild and Oceola Belle
burned at the Memphis wharf, July 81.
Newbnrypert, Mass, and Ottawa, Ont,
experienced earthquake shocks June 90.
Minnesota had a cyclone which, carried
men through the airand skinned chickens.
Under tho new Kentucky tramp law
two Negroes were sold at auction ut Lex
| ington.
| A Milwaukee woman drowned herself
by resolutely holding her face in basin
of water.
A flock of 1G0 blooded sheep were
killed by lightning in Nodaway county,
| Missouri.
The baby elephant born in Philadel-
pllia March l3, 1881, weighed 213 pounds
| at birth.
Many Southerncrs want Garfield to
| visit the South after he is completely
| recovered.
| In Chicago persons who throw banana
peel On the sidewalk arc subject to q
fine of $40.
The subscription of s25o,OOO, raised
for Gen. Grant, will be presented to him
! in a few days.
from the Long Branch pier, except upon
payment of ten cents.
A fashionable Long Branch woman
has her two pug dogs brought to tho
table three times daily, and fed to tho
best of every thing FROM silver plate.
In the trial of Boston spiritual mt
dium, she asked permission to introduce
tue testimony of discmbodied spirit.
! The suspension bridge over the Alle-
| ghany river at Pittsburs was partially
destroyed by fire June %: loss, 10000.
A woman hanged herself three times
in one night in Springfield cell, and
each time was cut down before she was
quite dead.
| A turtle seven feet long, four feet wide
and weighing about 900 pounds, was
caught the other day by net in the
| ocean near Fire Island.
The watering places are becoming dan
gerous rs there are alligators at Lake
Massabisir, n. H., sharks at Long Branch
and Coney Island and swapping turtles
at Clau.aEs:ua.
Tile body OF Bishop Smith, at one time
of high standing aud influence i'll the
Mormon Church, and exposer Of the
Mountain Meadow massacre. has been
found in Sonora, Mexico, under cireun-
stances indicating murder.
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SQUARES. mo. 2 mos. 3 mos. 6mos. year

Transient advertisements 81 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion,
rs cents per square.
Official advertisements 81 per squarefir
insertion; each subsequent publication 50
cents per square.
Editorial notices, first insertion, 20cents
per limo; subsequently, 10 cents per line.
Cards of six lines or less in Business Di-
roctory, five dollars per annnm.
Brief communications upon subjects Of
public interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
Tho editor is notresponsible for the views
OF correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, ,DonaldsOnville. La.
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M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
Ns Goods, Clothing, Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, Furniture, Hardware, Crock
cry, Trunks, ETC., corner Mississippi and St.
Patrick streets and No. "a Railroad Avenue
Everything at lowest figures.
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DONALDSONvlLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
SEWING MACHINES.

m A. KINGSTON, dealer in all kinds of
i New and Second Hand Sewing Ma
chimes, l55 Railroad Avenue. Needles, Oil,
Attachments and everything belonging to
the sewing machine. Machines sold, ex-
changed or rented on easy monthly pay
ments. Machines given on trial. Repairing
q speciality.
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DONALDSONvIILE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY AUGUST e. 1884,
A TORN BANK NOTE.

Tattered and dirty, yet welcome guest
In bravest company and in stateliest hall,
Nor scorned by the most fastidious Of them
all;
BY daintiest jeweled finger kindly pressed,
Though soiled from grimy factory or stall
Purveyor OF the banquet and the ball,
And poor mans loaf prince like a beggar
dressed,
fall,
Since sovereign worth can show itself so
small.
To value not the virtue by the vest;
A workman's garb may clothe royal breast,
A dim, dull scabbard hides a weapon keen,
The shrine may glow behind curtain mean,
And hands Of horn disguise king or queen.
-Harpcr's Weekly.
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TOsEPH GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
q Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture
and MI kinds of House Furnishing Goods,
Blue Store, Mississippi street.
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~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
VI Houmas street, dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro-
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
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DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Etc.

u cy Groceries, Provisions. Plantation and
Steamboat Supplies. Canned Goods, Wines,
Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ale, etc, Dry Goods
and Notions, corner of Mississippi and Chet-
imaches streets, OPP. River Ferry.
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A y. VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods,
As Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes,
Hats, Groceries, Liquors, Furniture, Hard.
ware, Tobacco, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber,
Bricks, Carts and Wagons; Loeb's corner,
Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street.
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" ISRAEL Il CO., dealers in Dry Goods
Nls Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, ETC., corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
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ID CAMEL, Agent for Louisiana Life In
L sur.nce Company, Mississippi street,
cured by deposit of reserve fund in the
State treasury.
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TNO. SOLOZANO, dealer in Groceries,
% Wines and Liquors, Crockery, Tinwarc,
Notions, etc. No. q RailrOad Avenue, be
tween Conway and St. Michael streets,
DonaldsOnvillc.
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DERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
ID Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts,
Plows, S.ddlery, Stoves and TiRware, Fur
niture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place,
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HOTELS AND BOARDING-H HOUSES.
sar,l streets. jos. Lafargue, proprietor. Bar
and billiard room attached. Firstrclass en-
tertainMent and accommodations.
rITY HOTEL. p, Lefeyre, Proprietor,
~ Railroad Avenue, cor. Iberville street.
Bar supplied with best Liquors.
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RE LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
Nle ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries.
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup.
plies, at Lelnann's old stand, Mississippi
street. G.. FEITEL, Agent.
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DAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and No
IL tary Public. Donaldsonville. Office :
One block below the Courthouse, on At
takapas street. je25
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INSURANCE AGENCIES.

" MAURIN, General Fro Insurance
W Agent. Mississippi street. over For
nandezs barber shop. Represents first-class
companies with over $5O, ,OOO, 900 of capital
Policies issued directly from agency with.
out delay.
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CONFECTIONERIES.

nONALDsoNv'I.E CONFECTIONERY
~ by A. Grilhc, Mississippi street, nea,
St. Patrick. Branch on Railroad Avenue
near Opelousas street. Cakes. Fruits, Nuts
Soda Water, Ice Cream. Cakes. Ice Cream
and Syrups for weddings and parties fur
nishcd on short notice.
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BARBER SHOP.

EDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law,
~ Attakapas street, opposite Louisiana
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TINsMITH,

II OUIS J. RACKE, Tinsmith, Mississippi
IL street, at Lemann's old stand Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
WORK AND RECREATION.
Why Dog Fight Possesses F'ascfna-
lions Over Manual Labor.

In the Eastern manufactures Whel
the workmen rush out to see circu
pass the shops they are locked cen
minute for the time thus occupied
In this country the adoption of such {
plan would soon result in the Workmer
owing more than their wages. When
the miner don't discern the shift boss
in the drift he pulls out his pipe, takes
a quiet smoke and spends half an hour
telling his partner how he made his
first strike in 40. Bricklayers work
ing by the day lose more time cutting
off chews of tobacco than would in the
course Of year build a wall around the
town. Carpenters stop to talk politics,
and laborers spend three hours a day
explaining the stock situation at the
north end. A good illustration of the
privileges enjoyed by the typographical
fraternaty occurred yesterday in the
APPEAL office. A dog fight started in
front of the office and every printer in
the place laid down his stick to 60 out
and watch the fight. Presently the
devil offered to bet 50 with the foreman
that the black dog would win, which
wager was immediately raised to So
and accepted. Then another printer
got into a dispute with the owner of the
spotted dog and in the row which fol-
lowed the printer lost ten minutes be-
fore he had thrashed his man. The
devil won his bet and the typographical
force adjourned to Fischer & Decker's
to take some beer and talk over the
stirring events of the day. 1t was just
of an hour from the time
the dog fight began before the compos-
itors were back at their cases. These
things would meet our severest
censure did not the editor also retire
from the tripod to share in
the excitement and pleasures of the
scene. To the weary typo wrestling |
with bad copy dog fight presents at
tr actions which cannot be we'll resisted,
and men who have shared in the tur-
MOL of the contest and braced up with |
KIein's good beer will do double the
work in the next two hours.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
A NOVEL THEORY.
About the Attempt to Wreck the Over
land Train.

NEVADA CITY, Cal, Sept. 5th. "A
correspondent talked to-day with two
prominent detectives, who advance the
theory that the wrecking of the Central
Pacific train at Cape Horn Mills was
not the result of desire to plumber, but
done in hopes of intimidating the rail
road company into putting on extra
watchmen along the route, and thu
making positions for themselves or
friends. The detectives think the pow
der, masks and other things found
there were left for effect simply. They
have interviewed Chadwick, the ex-
press messenger, and also firemen Hen
derson and Hackett, none of whom
claim to have seen any armed men or
other person whom they thought at the
time were robbers. Had the wreckers
desired to stop the train by simple
means, they would only have been OBJ
liged to turn the switch slightly. 1t
Is DelleVed by IHe detectives tHdI the
sanguinary remarks credited to the
robbers were in part the utterances of
men connected with the train, and in
part imaginary. The night was so
dark that many of the scenes alleged to
have been witnessed by the passengers
could not have been discerned without
the aid of lanterns. ae
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
The Editorial Tramp.

H. Z. Osborne, editor of the Bodie
Free Press, came down from the Lake
last night, where he had been spending
three weeks with his wife and baby.
He talks glowingly Of the good fishing,
and backed his boasts by leaving half a
dozed fine trout at the APPEAL office
Whether he bought them or caught
them is no business of ours. In yester-
days Free Press was a three-column
letter on the Lake and things in and
about Carson. Mr.. Osborne leaves for
Bodie this morning.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
The Other Albion Cases.

Two cases between the Richmond
and Albion are still pending in our dis
trict. Both were called yesterday and
continued for the term. The injunction
it is supposed goes over with them.
This action shows that the next move
by the Albion for relief is to be in the
State Supreme Court. The case on ap-
peal to that tribunal will probably be
pushed with all possible dispatch. The
Albion attorneys seem to think that
they will be able to get hearing next
month. When the situation is fully ex-
planned the Supreme Court is likely to
act promptly in the premises.-Sentieek.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
The Cunning Season.

Now is the time to pull shotguns out
of the back of wagon by the muzzle.
A we'll made gun can always be counted
on to go off if pulled the proper way
and kill the man at the end. Guns
failing to respond under the circum-
stances have some inherent defect in
the lock-spring. The matter can be
remedied by filing the springs and re-
moving the stiffness. Never buy gun
if you can borrow one of a neighbor.
Let it fall into the slough a few times,
lose the ramrod and break the lock.
Then when you return it the chances
are that he will give it to you and buy
another for himself. You can always
sell the old one and borrow his new one.
Always plan to start out at 4 in the
morning and sit around the livery
stable until $3.50 for the horses to be
hitched up. During this interesting
period you will learn lots about horses.
If you fail to bring home anything 60
round and swear at the man who sold
you the ammunition.
By leaving few ducks and sage
hens at the nearest newspaper office a
deal more can be learned Of the chase
than is gathered by curSory perusal,
of this article.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-08
BASE RANGE BLACKMAILIxG.
Something OF the Wretches who Live OF
the Enterprise Of Others.

| The Eureka Leader of the 9Th has the
| following expose of the practices of a
ring of scoundrels who assist in retard-
! ing the progress of mining camps
This morning our reporter met quite
a prominent mining man on the street,
and inquired of him if he knew of any
thing new in the mining line. He re-
piled, eyes, / do know of something
very interesting in mining way. 1
have lately made a very promising dis
covery, and think that have big
mine. ] am at present projecting my
title, and also negotiating with parties
in the East for the sale of the property;
but 1 cannot give you any particulars,
as do not want the matter published"
We inquired as to his reasons for with
holding the news, and he said; 81 will
tell yen what my reasons are. In twenty
four hours after the facts were published
1 would be pounced upon by black
mailers, and my prospects for sale
might be ruined; therefore I propose to
keep the matter as quiet as possible
until 1 have the purchase money in my
hand" Like conversations as the above
are met with almost daily by the re-
porter, and we give it merely as speci-
men brick, to show how easy it is to
gather mining news in Eureka. The
gentleman with whom we were talking
informs US that he has already had
more than one sale spoiled by black
mailing, and says that there appears to
be regular ring, both here and at the
East, who make it business to dispar-
age the claims of others, in order to
hold up their own properties on the
Eastern markets. This "dog in the
manger" policy may be ofbenefit to the
few who follow it, but it certainly is a
great detriment to the district, and car
not but injure indirectly the parties
who are engaged in it.