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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-03-18
Proceedings of Common Council
Town Of Donaldsonville.
REGULAR MEETING

REGULAR MEETING.
CoURr-HousE, March Z, 1882.
The Council met this day at 4 O'Clock P.
NJ, Mayor Israel presiding.
Members prsscnt-D. Variant. C. Kline,
first ward John Ramirez, Joseph Ferrier,
second ward; David Ross, third ward.
Absent-Henry Het Their, third ward.
On motion of Jos. Ferrier, duly seconded.
the Secretary being absent Mr.. James Ray
was appointed Secretary pro tenn.
The minutes of tho last meeting were
read and approved.
The following report was received and
referred under the rules:
COLLECTORS OFFICE,
Donaldsonville, March, Z, 1882.
To the Mayor and Common Council of
Donaldsonvillo
Gentlemen-As per resolution of Town
Council of last sitting, Feb Z, 1889, to make
final report of all amounts received and
paid cut during the past year 1881, 1 have
the honor to submit to your honorable bod
tho following final report of ali amounts
received to date, as follows:
Taxes for 1879. 5 Is
Taxes for 1880. al 82I
Taxes for 1881 815 ~
,r4, 1900
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-03-18

A letter from our esteemed friend, Mr..
Solomon Barmon of New River, brings
the sad intelligence of the death of his
sou, John D. Barmon, who passed away
on the 9th inst, after an illness of four
months and half, leaving young wife
and child to mourn the loss of an affec-
tionate aud indulgent husband aud
father. We tender our sincere sympathy
to the bereaved relatives.
As matter Of public interest and
almost necessity, and at the sacrifice of
time and space which we should have
been glad to devote to other matter, We
make room in to-day's CHIEF for the
ordinance relative to parish licenses just
framed and adopted by our Police Jury.
As licenses will become delinquent on
tho 1st of April, it was necessary that
the ordinance should be promulgated at
once.
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pEMOyAL! REMOvALl
. Goette.
Boo! &~ES!.s Make,
Donaldsonville. La.

Donaldsonville, La.
Having established himself in new shop
on Railroad Avenue formerly property Of
Mr.. JOS Hiss), is now better prepared thar,
ever to receive old and new customers, and
to execute with neatncss, cheapness and
dispatch all orders for work in his line.
Thanking the public for the liberia! pa tron-
age heretofore extended him. he respectfully
solicits a continuance of their favor.
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lars; when travelling in one-horse vehicle,
fifteen dollars; when travelling in two.
horse vehicle, twenty -fve dollars.
SUsTENANCE AND REFRESHMENTS.
Section 5. Be it f..rtser ordained, etc.,
That for every business of keeping Il
hotel or boarding house, when lodging
aud eating are CON biied the license
shall be based OH tie number of fur
n'shed lodging rooms for guests as fol-
lows, viz:
First class, when said rooms are in
number twelve OF more, and less than
fifteen, the license shall be thirty dol
lars.
Second class, when said rooms are in
number nine or more, and less than
twelve, the license shall be twenty dol
lars.
Third class, when said rooms are in
number six or more, and less than nine,
the license shall be fifteen dollars.
Provided, that no person who keeps a
boarding house i'll connection with
schools or colleges, for the accommoda-
ton of students and employees thereof,
shall pay any license as boarding-house.
Provided further, that no license shall
be required when the number of said
rooms is less than provided for in class
three; that for every business of lodging
alone the license shall be- estimated on
the same basis as for hotels and board
lug houses, but graduated at one-half
above rates.
That for every business of bar-room,
cabaret, coffee-hoase, cafe, beer saloon,
liquor exchange, drinking saloon, grog
shop, beer house, beer garden or other
place where anything to be drunk or
eaten on the premises is sold directly or
indirectly, the license shall he based OH
the annual gross receipts of said BUSH
ness, as follows, viz:
First class, when said receipts are Ave
thousand dollars or more, or less than
seven thousand and five hundred dol
lars, the license shall be seventy five
dollars.
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sULPHURIu ACID.

nave now on hand heavy supply of supbc Planters
and others in need of this
chase of and will unerse Orleans prices 54Iy
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-04-21

A negro prayed earnestly that he and
his cslored brethren might be preserved
from their 'supsetting'' sins. '.Brudder,"
said one of his friends at the close of the
meeting, ''you hain't got de hang OBJ dat
ar word. It's 'besettin' not upsettin. .
Brudder," replied the other, ''if dat's so,
It's so. But was prayin' de Lord to ease
us from de sin OBJ 'toxication, an eff DAT
amt an upsettin sin dunno know what
am.''
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1882-04-21
WEST

Mail Train through to Washington and Baltimo.
without change of cars, and make close connectio
at Harper's Ferry with Express Trains fOr the Yves
! S.N MILLER, Ticket Agent.
w NJ. CLEMENTS, TIC. PRINCE
Nj of L. S. of T.
dec16 G. *. LORD,
GEM. Pass. Agent.
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9oetrp.
Pharmaceutical Operates.


We clip from the Druggist of Chicago,
the following exceedingly clever parody.
which is there credited to the pen Of DR..
Shorthand Harris, of Mason City, Iowa:
INTRODUCTORY,
Conceive me, if you can,
A quite too-too drug man,
Obiging and clever, impolite never,
A happy-to-meetyou drug man.
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
reliable honest drug man.
An always fresh stock drug man,
A depend for-a-surety, absolute purity,
Chastc, conscientious drug man.
PRESCRIPTIONS
A thoroughly posted drug man,
A faithfully careful drug man.
A man bern to wrestle with mortar and
psstle,
sure-cure- dispensing drug man.
PnRruNKRIEs AID TOILET ARTICLES.
A highly delightful drug man,
An attar-ef-roses drug man,
An ultra-poetical, super @thetical,
Very sweetscented drug man.
FANCY GOODS
An exquisitely-tasty drug man.
An awfully lovely drug man,
NICE irresistible, truly artistieal,
Leader 0f-all drug man.
GRAND FINALI.
An exceedingly pleasant drug man,
A popular price drug man,
A very dolectable highly respectable,
Anxious to please-you drug man.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Exhaust steam should not be dis
charged into brick chimney the steam
will disintegrate the mortar, and the
chimney be injured.
The great Sibley Cotton Factory at
Augusta, Ca, the cost of which with its
machinery was over S500,000, was
completed recently and went into regu-
lar operation, giving employment to
several hundred hands. 1t is one of the
finest factories in the country.
Inventions which meet human
wants are now readily adopted in the
most unexpected quarters. The tele-
phone has been put into use in Russian
Turkestan, where Samarkand can talk
at a moments notice to Katty-Kourgan.
And yet it is only few years since that
instrument received respectful attention
in civilized countries.
| Major Gaumet, of the
Twenty Regiment Of France,
has patented an instrument, which he
calls ''telelogue," for signaling pur-
poses. The signals consist of the alpha
bet and figures silvered on dead black
ground, and these are illuminated at
night by lamps with strong reflectors.
A powerful telescope is the receiving in
strument. For signaling to distance
of two and half miles, the whole ap-
paratus need not weigh more than five
pounds.
There are nearly 5000 species of
| beetles known to science in North Amer
ca, and this is but one of seven orders
of insects. On account of the depreda-
tions of single species out of this 5000,
plum culture has been practically aban-
doned in many portions of the country
where the best means of fighting the
pest are as yet unknown. Where the
remedies are understood and faithfully
employed, fully one-fourth to one-half
of the damage is averted. Does not this
speak volumes for the science of ento-
mology?-N. Y. Tribune.
The cultivation Of the cassava root
is attracting the attention of California
farmers. 1t is said to be more profitable
to grow cassava than corn. Cassava
fourishes in moist, bottom land. 1t
is grown for the purpose of furnishing
glucose, a substance now extensively
used in the manufacture of beer and as
Il substance for honey and sugar. The
figures given are as follows: Corn
yields 80 pounds of glucose to the bush
ell; cassava yields about the same
amount per bushel. But a corn crop
ranges from 80 to 60 bushels to the
acre, while cassava crop is often 20
tons. So the yield of glucose from an
acre of cassava would be nearly ten
times greater than from an acre of corn.
The nualitV il SuneriOr
Experiments made at different times
and places with reference to the spon-
taneous combustion of oily materials
concerning which so many opinions have
been put forth-appear to demonstrate
the fact that small quantities really take
fire quicker than large masses. 1t is
also ascertained that sponge and wood
dust saturated with oils and turpentine
do not burn, while combustion follows
in about thirty-seven minutes in wadding
that has been soaked in strong oil var
nish, but not until a period of nearly
fourteen hours in mass Of cleansed
cotton waste which has been saturated
with the same materially Y. Sun.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. MORGAN addressed the Senate
March 2l, on the necessity of a prompt tariff
revision by a committee Of Congress in
preference to the commission. The Chinese
bill came up in the House, but again went
over.
A. III. THOMAS, JR., son of Rev. Al
bert FL. Thomas, of Memphis, Tenn, was
found dead ON the front porch of a grocery
store in the northeastern suburbs of the city
the other night. He was lying on his face,
with a bullet-hole through his body. His
right hand grasped a pistol, four chambers
Of which had been discharged. The mur-
dered man was about "A years old, and had
been studying law for some time. He was
of quiet and gentlemanly disposition and
was much liked by his acquaintance. Sew
eral theories are advanced as to the cause OF
the murder; the most reasonable one is that
about a year ago young Thomas shot and
killed a negro on his place, who abused and
threatened him. This negro was a cousin
Of Clint HiIlyard, notorious desperate of
the vicinity, who swore q vendetta against
Thomas.
IT is rumored in New York that the
Mutual Union Telegraph Company has in
formally agreed to transf its wires to the
Western Union, and that the Baltimore &
Ohio line will also be handed over to the
moster enterprise, part Of the consideration
being majority of the directors of the New
Jersey Central Road in order that the Balti-
more and Reading roads may have easy ac-
cess to New York.
J.R. CAMPBELL, a prominent farmer
and stock-raiser living near Ypsilanti,
Mich, was killed the other day by runa-
way team, his neck being broken. His wife
and daughter, who were with him, were
also badly injured.
A DISPATCH from Lynchburg, Va,
saws one man was killed and dozen others
were seriously injured by the fall Of hotel
porch at White sulphur Springs.
PARTICULARS of q shooting affray
near Wallace, Kans., have just been re-
ceiyed. Two brothers named Wooten, with
another discharged employee named Gull
lom. robbed section house and fatally
shot the foreman, Pttman, his brother, and
another man, and then started across the
plains, The wounded men were placed in
the hospital at Fort Wallace, where one Of
the Pittman brothers died on the 18th.
George Edwards. Deputy Sheriff. and
posse started in pursuit
SARGENT ROWE, prominent citizen
Of Carroll, Ohio, was fatally shot by boy
named Owens, 16 We rrs old, a few days ago.
Owens had assault ed R,we's son. and was
severely puni he'd for it. Meeting Mr..
Rowe in fr3nt OF the p st-office some time
aft rwar, the boy irel three shots at him,
two g ing through the lungs and one lodg-
ing in the shoulder,
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
PITH AND POINT.

A Pennsylvania man who swallowed
q horseshoe nail is kicking lively.
Clara Louise Kellogg will not sing
any more after she gets married. 1t is
said she will lecture. Baltimore inner.
ic0n.
1t is said, s'Fortune knocks once at
every mans door," In most cases it
must have knocked when the man was
out.-Nca0 Orleans Ptcayasne.
Mr.. Hirschcliff, of Massachusetts,,
has been fined $40 for putting his arm
around two young women. He probably
won't waist another so this year.
Louisville C0urier-Journal.
A little son of an evangelical cler-
gyman 'wished that he could die and
90 to heaven" "Why?" asks his
grandmother, feeling that he is getting
too good to live. " Cause want to get
some Of the pennies I've been giving to
God. 1.-THE Judge.
Sc The blush of maiden is caused
by nature sending out signal of warn
ing" most beautifully says recent
aesthetic scientist. And the blush of
young man is caused by-wel, perhaps
we are talking about nonentity.-NeU
Haven Register.
"A dramatic exchange says: "Frank
Mayo is now playing in the Streets OF
New York" What is he doing, making
mud pies? PhiLalelphio Bulletin. No,
he is making filthy lucre.- WttIaans-
port Sun and Banner. Those are offal
iokes.- .-PhilatlelphiG NeUs.
-"Well, my fine little fellow. You
are getting along at school nicely, sup
pose," said gentleman caller to his
best girls small brother. "Y-e-e-th,
thir.'' "What are you going to be when
you grow upP' "I'm going to be
lat, Just like you, thir." "Sammy,
Sammy!" said his sister, reprovingly.
well, you thaid he wath fiat, and if
can be fiat when | grow up can be
used real nithe by the girlth. ."-New
HaUen Register.
A little Oil City girl knelt down to
lay her evening prayer, one night re-
Gently, and remained in the supplicat-
ing position SO long that when she rose
her father asked: "What have you
been doing, dearP'' "Saying my pray
ers,'' answered the girl. "Why do you
pray SO long, and what do you say?"
sOh," replied she, gravely, 81 say the
Lords prayer over twice You see, in
the morning I have to hurry to get to
school in time, and don't have time to
pray, so I just say it over twice
night. ."--M Cetv Derrick
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
Herr Karl Geh

Herr Karl Gehmia, of Berne, after
series of experiments extending over
several years, has succeeded in producing
artificial mother-of-pearl, indistinguish-
able in every respect from the natural
article. 1t can be nodded in any shape,
produced in any color, is impervious to
heat and cold, and its price will be
much less than the ordinary mother-of-
pearl.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
FORTY-SEyENTH CONGRESS-.

MR., GARLAND's bill for the improvement
OF the Mississippi came up in the Senate, on
the 18th, and was referred to Committee on
Mississippi and Tributaries. The bill directs
the Mississippi River Commission to cause to
he constructed or repaired and hept in order
such levees along the banks Of the Mississippi
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.

HENRY HEALY, carpenter employed
At the Homestead (ra.) Steel Works, who
was set upon and beaten by the strikers
while on his way to work, died on the 10Th
from the injuries received.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

An editor living in Florida wrote
SIT is years since we have experienced
such thing as winter" After the
paper went to press he committed sui
eide, and simply because the compositor
had set up the last word ''water"
instead of twinter. .''-Rochester Erpress
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, OF Missouri,
-. odvertised to sell the Hannibal & St Joe
Railroad, in October, at the door OF the
courthouse in St. Louis, all efforts toward
compromise having failed.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

The wild horses pasturing in the
pampas of the Argentine Republic are
estimated to number two and a halt
million.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

At Omaha, Neb., March 10th, the
Grand iury reported indictments for assault
T-i,b intent to murder against President
Walsh and Committeeman Shannon OF the
7 ohor Union. The two men were arrested
warrants we're issued for the apprehension
ot other leaders.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

THE Valley of the Mississippi, for a
distance of 900 miles, is overflowed to a
width OF ten TO 100 miles. The greatest suf-
fering is apparent between Vicksburg and
Memphis. The loss of human life is believed
to be in excess OF one hundred, and stock is
diving from starvation at every mile of the
overflow.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

THE Iroquois Club, of Chicago, cele-
brated the 11jth anniversary Of Andrew
Jackson's birthday (Marth 15) by grand
banquet at the Palmer House. Speeches
were made by Thomas A. Hendricks, Frank
Hurd, Col. Villas. and others, and letters
from Sam. j. Tilden, Senator Bayard, and
other distinguished persons were read.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

THE attorney for Sergeant Mason is
moving for writ Of habeas corpus, on the
ground that the court-martial had no juris-
diction in time of peace, and that it imposed
an excessive punishment. Over $4,000 sig
natures have been attached to petitions cir
culating in Chicago for the pardon of the
accused, and similar efforts are being made
in every town Of Importance.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25

GEN. STURGIs, military governor of
the Soldiers Home, Washington, D. c., in
his testimony before the Senate investigating
committee, says that no portion Of the mon
ey appropriated has been expended for pro-
yiding means of recreation to the inmates,
and charges that the choicest products Of the
farm, dairy and conservatory have been de-
livered to two members Of the board of
managers at their residences. Material and
mechanics have been used in adorning their
homes at the expense Of the Government
Surgeon Gen. Barnes and Commissary Gen.
MacFeely are the two members named.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-27
THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS.
Current transactions at The Various Dis
trIct Offices.

Building permits were issued yesterday to John
o. Williams, to make repairs on l. street, between
Ninth and Tenth streets northwest, to cost $3.50;
william Coleman, to build one brick greenhouse
on New York avenue, between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets northwest, to cost 1880; Market
Co., to make repairs at Ninth and II streets
northeast TO cost $500.
The Commissioners have notified Mr.. Hurt,
president of the W. Il G. II. r. Company tina. the
which the hill horses stationed at the corner Of
First and ID streets are destroying the trees and
boxes on the street hill they also informed Mr.
Hurt that II the oiiense is not stopped they will
prosecute the company.
Mr.. 4. l.. IIolbrook has been granted permission
TO lay water main from the intersection OF and
Boundary streets northeast, along boundary to
Fourteenth street northeast. The Commissioners
have also granted permission to Mrs L, A. Cole
man to extend water main on Tenth street north
east 10 ID street northeast both without expense TO
the District.
The Commissioners have notified owners of
vehicles used for the transportation of passengers
that their license must he renewed by July l.
House bills ITO authorize the Southern Mary
land Railroad Company TO extend a railroad into
and within the District OF Columbia" and ITO
vacate n certain part Of Rock street, in George
town, in the District of Columbia" have been sent
to the District Commissioners for their views upon
their merits.
citizen living in the vicinity of sixteenth and
streets complains of the constant looding of his
and other cellars after every rainfall, in response
to which the Engineer Commissioner reports that
the damage cannot be abaled until the compile
ton OF the Boundary street sewer.
Thirty seven burial permits were issued yester-
day by the Health Ohcer, twenty -four of which
were for young children, the causes Of death
being cholera infhntum and other diseases pecu-
liar to children at this season Of the year.
petition was sent to the Commissioners yes
teriay signed by tilly-three residents of South
Washington requesting that the law relative to
forced against the Baltimore aud Potomac Rail-
road Company,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-27
Mr.. n,gcIow,. continued Ab.ence.

A REPUBLICAN, reporter called yesterday upon
Thomas $. Burr the father.in.law of b. +, Bige-
low, late teller of the Bank of the Republic, who
talked with freedom concerning the lattcrs dis.
appearance. He said that the Irregularities com.
mitted at the bank were entirely within the means
of his son. in law TO make good, and that the lank
was amply secured The late business associates
of Mr. Bigelow appear greatly panied at his misfor.
tune, and the feeling toward him is that Of sympa
thy. Mr. Bigeows long and fi hIul service and the
friendships he has created act strongly in his favor
and prompt the utmost lenency toward him in
the embarrasSments now surrounding him. Mr..
Burr being asked his opinion as TO the where
abouts of his son.in-law, said with great feeling
that he believed hewould soon return to his home
but that lie was wholly ignorant as to where he il
or what are his movements Mrs. BigelOw fears
that his mind may have given way under his
trouble, and that he may have done violence to
himself This fear is increae ed by the fact that he
took his pistol with him, which he never had
carried before. She Is in the deepest distress
thinking only of the dreadful possibility that he IL
dead or sick aud suffering. Mr.. Burr says that the
household which Mr.. Bigelow lett has no thought
OF the financial disaster and that If he will but
return his presence will lii the great load OF
trouble which now brushes them Mrs Bigelow
cannot much longer endure the present agonizlng
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-06-27
KEYSTONE REPUBLICANS.
Preparing for the CampaIEn-A Housing
Meeting Last Night.

An adjourned meeting of the Pennsylvania Re-
publican Association was held at Marinrs Hall
last evening, Vice President Crawshaw In the
chair, J. NJ. Ash officiating rs secretary. The
vice president introduced to the association Its
president Hon. Joseph X. McCammon, who,
amid tempest Of applause, took the chair In
response to this compliment Mr.. MoCammon
thanked the association for the stand they had
taken IN his behalf aud said that he proposed to
buckle on his armor aud battle for the success OF
the Harrisburg ticket. He then introduced TO the
assemblago
HON. WILLIAM NJ. ARMSTRONG, UNITED STATES CON.
MISSIONER OF RAILROADS
In response to the calls for a speech Mr.. Arm
strong made powerful address in favor Of the
regular ticket, which was most enthusiastically
applauded, and upon concluding he was rendered
the unanimous thanks of the association. Mr.
Armstrong with thirteen other gentlemen were
then admitted to membership, AFTER which suita-
BILE resolutions in regard to the late Louis Leclcrc
member Of tho association recently deceased,
were adopted. Following this
THE FOLLOWING STANDING COMMITTEES
for tho campaign were announced: Executive
John $. Blair, Joseph Brown, T. $. Buchanan, John
Cole. Finance-J. W. Deneane, Howard l.. John.
son, @. W, Fisher Pol!tical-J. +. Linden, chair
man; Robert McMcrris,, secretary IIs!s district
ith, j. N. warron, lr, 9th, r W Forney: 9Th, :. Z.
Ash; 9Th, Charlie. Barnes sth, T. II. Harner Mh, N.
i5,S hS!'ni iTh Wh a G,os3n ih H., d i ntHwn
W Phillips; 18Th, j. k, T. Gleason; 10TH D. $.
Foster; l7th, D. 9. Yingling; 18th, Gains Grum-
biughi 10Th, 4. A. CobNugh 2Oth, James Prince;
2lst, Il. L. Ollphant; 221, G. W. Furcron; 231,
W. y. Morganj 2iih, z; X. clifton; 25th, Thomas
II. Martin Goth, j. b. Taylor; 9Th, A. McC. Will
SON. The thanks of the association we5c then
rendered to William g. Russell for the able and
efficient manner in which he performed the
duties of chairman of the last campaign commit
tee. Mr.. Crawshaw then offered re olution,
watch was unanimously adopted, indorsing the
Nomination of Hon. Marriott Brosius as Congress-
mnn-at large, after which the association ad-
JJurned 10 meet Monday, July 81, next.