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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28
INSURANCE AGENCIES.

" MAURIN, General Fire Insurance
v = Agent, Mississippi street, over Fer
nandez's barber shop. Represents irst-class
companies with over s5O00O,0 900 of capital.
Policies issued directly from agency with.
out delay.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

TNO. SOLOZANO, dealer in Groceries,
d Wines and Liquors, Crockery, Tinware.
Notions ETC. No. 81 Railroad Avenue, be-
tween Conway and St. Michael streets,
Donaldsonville.
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DRY GOODS. GROCERIES. Etc.

n LANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods,
H. Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General
Merchandise, corner K. R. Avenue and
Taylor Streets, one block frou Railroad
Depot.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28
HOTELS AND BoARD1NG-HoUsEs.

DORT. E. LEE HOTEL, at Marx 1srael's
e, old stand, corner Mississippi and Les
sard streets Jos. Lafargue, proprietor. Bar
and billiard room attached. First-class en-
tertainment and accommodations.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

IIfY HOTEL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor,
~ Railroad Avenue, cor. Iberville street.
Bar supplied with best Liquors.
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BLACKSMITH.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

n RYBIsKI, Apothecary and Druggist
b. Mississippi street, between St. Patrick
and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's
store.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
We Houmas street. dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

M ISRAEL s. CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
N1e Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, etc., corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

nAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and No
II tary Public. Donaldsonville. Office ):
One block below the Courthouse, on At
takapas street. leSo
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
Nls 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.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28
TINSMITH.

n OUIS j. RACKE, Tinsmith. Mississippi
IL street, at Lemann's old stand. Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28
CONFECTIONERIES.
LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS.

NNHE PLACE, Gus. Israel, manager,
Il Corner Lessard and Mississippi streets:
Billiards, Lager Beer, Best Wines and
Liquors, Fine Cigars. etc.
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BARBER SHOP.

TDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law,
u Attakapas street, opposite, Louisiana
Square. Visits Napoleonville on Mondays.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

Run Mad-The Rich Looked
After and the Poor Forsaken-Little Cor
rinne and the Dougherties~CscarW Wilde
and the Creme de la Creme-A Worthy
Minister'S Good Luck-WaH Street, Etc.
NEW YORK, January 81, 1882.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28

DERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
ID Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts.
Piows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
niture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place
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Joseph GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
u Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries.
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery. Furniture
and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods.
Rlue Store. Mississippi street.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

is an unlucky day to "buck the tiger
and the belief in this superstition is verified
in the thinning out of all the banks on
that day and night.
The same signs and omens apply to the
game Of draw poker, and vingt-un, per-
haps, however, in more modified form.
Such little tricks as
PLAYING BAREHEADED,
or covered, sitting at certain points of the
compass, and the like, are indulged in and
believed to great extent Many poker
players will refuse to go into a game if
they learn that before their coming in
seven hands had been played without
" jackpot" In horse-rasing bets, buyers
of pools depend more OH an odd name of
the racer than any knowledge Of his pow
ers, and peculiar name in a shirt horst
mot favoritel as usually seized upon.
Lottery policy buyers, however, cap the
climax in depending for success on signs
and dreams, and the interpretations of the
latter are innUmerable. Ii a colored man
receives the suggestion for throe-num-
bered . row from white man he in
variably adds another number for that
reason. Every dream, however vague
and ridiculous, has its signfcatiOn
Dream books tell what numbers should
be played for the incredible vision of see.
ing a COW climb tree backward. o
dreaming about dogs, horses, women OF
guerlallas Should the player dream O.
/ pink-legged elephants shelling peas, anC
the book furnish no Interpretation. the
writer will Immediately c0njure ny ;
row and take the dupe's money. 1t il
safe to say that every policy low playe,
in the city is prompted by some one of th,
thousands oMens, so numerous as to b.
beyoud calculation, and while the igno
rant policy player presents the mos
ridiculous side Of the belief his flash,
brother. who sit, before the green cloth
is just as supersiltiouS and Just as rdicu
lous. ~ y. T. Press.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

The betrOthal of Princess Beatrice to
Prince Frederick William of Hesse, now
reported, will dispose of the very last of
Queen Victoria's many children leaving
for royal matchmaking proclivites only
the grand children to operate ON. The
English Queen, remembering her own
happy union with Prince Albert, has once
more, it seems, turned to North Germany
for a consort for one of their offspring.
The aged poet Tennyson will probably
have to stir himself to compose fresh
nuptial song, but he can doubtless take
comfort in the thought that it is the last,
as even poet laureate will not reasona-
bly, expected to climb Parnassus every
time the now numerous third generation
may choose to marry.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
The Effect Of Drink.
EY MRS. :. NJ. /. HENRY

\ man once said TO me. {" do not ,;rink
because like il. but for the eaerts'. This
remark set me thinking. especially As he
was a ragged and wicked illustration Of
his text.
What are the effects Of drink:
|. II perreffS the conscience ot man. Il
matters not how innocently he begins the
use Of alcoholic drink, or how moderately
he takes it, or in how mild a form. 1t
does the saMe work in his conscience. 50
that he will "call evil good and good
evil; put darkness for light. and light for
darkness put bitter for sweet and sweet
for bitter" He will be wise in his own
eyes and prudent in his own sight
although he may be in fact profigate
and given TO all recklessness: and will
Justify the wicked for reward, and take
away the righteousness Of the righteous
from him
The man who drinks is not law
abiding citizen" He will break the law
of the city or State to get drink, and tell
you that you have no right to any law
that interferes with his freedom in this
regard.
He becomes untruthful, SO that even
under oath he will periure himself to
Justify the wicked"
He seems to have no conscience con-
cerning the Sabbath, often spending its
sacred hours in grossest sin.
| He has no regard for the house of the
Lord He dees not seem to acknowledge
that the worship of God has any claim on
him. He has forgotten his obligation to
God. God is not in all his thoughts" :"
and his name is only on his lips in BIAS
phemies that make the heart of the honest
man sick with sorrow.
He has no sense of shame, and the i'm
moralities in which he indulges without u
blush are too terrible to mention, and for
all this he will make a defense against
truth and purity.
.. Drink deadens the affections of man.
The drunkard forgets his love for father
and mother, for wife and children. He
will sacrifice his own home to crafty his
appetite; spend the money which should
buy bread, fuel, and clothing for drink
rob his children of the meansof education
for drink. He has often taken the lives
of his own kindred. He does not seem to
understand the love of God and the ten.
derness of Christ.
Rum is demon which has natural
hatred for all that is true and tender in
the human soul, because these are like
God, and he is the enemy of all that God
lsves.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
Rich Enough.

Judge Hilton, who inherited large
part of A. T. Stewards estate, and whose
withdrawal from business caused a great
deal of talk if not censure brought out MIR.
Talmage in defence of the act. In a re-
cent lecture he said so far from deserv-
ing this disreptuable carricature and in
dustriOus lying of the public in regard to
his private affairs, l think he deserves
great credit for his common sense. The
simple fact is, he got enough money and
stopped. With ten fortunes he ought to
have been satisfied, and was satisfied.
He gives example to ten thousand men in
this city who have enough and do not
know it. Instead Of stopping, like Judge
Hilton, while they have health and
strength to enjoy what they have garnered,
they go on toward their graves asking for
more-an ass crouching down for more
burden. There are merchants in the
counting rooms looking through their
spectacles and trying to see if they can't
pick ap another sixpence before they die.
They ought to have quit fifteen years ago.
They ought to have got out of the way
and given the boys chance. What a
commentary on the diseased state of the
public mind on the subject of money-get-
ting, that SO few people can understand
that it is possible for a man to get all he
wants of this worlds success l think it
is one of the most exhilarating facts that
in this century we have found a man who
had enough money to stop.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
An Appeal to the Women.

SMYRNA, DEL. Nav 19. 1882
MIR. EDITOR Will Won allow, ~.
through your W. c. T. [. column to an
pe'ti 10 every woman Of Smyrna havipg .
la'her, son. husband and brother tho,
irequents anyone of the resorts of r,,v.
dnhkefs with which our town is cursed
10 Jon hands with our Union and labo,
that the time may come when il can ~,
longer be said that in many cases thew ond
theirs are deprived cf comforts and cvo,
hcceSsarlss Of life, because those or whom,
'heY have to depend for support carry
thelr earnings to the rum shops ia hnl,,
NIL Golfers Of the death dealing proprietor<
for frequently men :, Of our communi,,
are to he seen retling and staegerinu f.
their homes almost at the dawn Of tho
Sabbath.
Instances are becoming too common
where 4 woman who, after hours of vain
waiting has gone at the midnight hour 10
! one OF these rum holes in the hope G. res
culns ior the time being. one who should
have been her protector, and has been
compelled to submit to the insults of the
heSotted wretches infesting the place.
One case is ora record where child SEN,
10 induce drunken father to return 10
his home, was kicked like dog from the
door by The brutal proprietor. that he
might retain his victim within. so long
as there was 4 dime 10 he extracted from
his pockets.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

There are some curious characters in
this world. A hearing was recently had
before the Surrogate of New York city
in the contest over the will of the late
Sarah Burr, who left $S,OOO,OOO to benevO-
lent and religious societies. Mrs. Burr, it
was testified, was miser of the meanest
order; that she kept but one fire in winter
to save coal; the cooking utensils were of
the meanest description, and in boarding
her millions she almost starved herself to
death. Mrs. Burr also refused TO allow
some silver-plated ware which she had, to
be cleaned, because the process of clean
ing would wear off the plating.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

But few young men who enter upon
life of intemperance ever stop q moment
to reflect upon the awful consequences.
They seem to get lost in the excitement
and madness produced by the intoxica-
ting poisons. When they arrive at the
stage in which it requires an effort fer
them to pass day without drink, they
begin to realize the sad predicament into
which they have allowed themselves to be
drawn. Oh, that we had the influence
to prevent young men from taking the
initiatory step to drunkenness.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
BY TIE STREAM.

Sweet, tangled banks. where ox-eyed daisies grow
And scarlet pOppies gleam
Sweet changing lights that ever come and go
Upon the quiet stream!
Once more see the fash of splendid wings.
As dragon-fieS fit by;
Once more fOrme the small sedge- warbler sings
Beneath a sapphire sky.
Once more feel the simple, fresh content
found in stream and soil
When golden summer slowly came and went.
And mine was all their spoil
find amid the hOneysIckle flowers,
And shy forget me-nOt,
Old boyiSh memories of lonely hours
Passed in this silent spot.
0 God OF nature, how thy kindness keeps
Some changeleSs thing on earth!
And he who roams far off and tolls and weeps,
Comes home to learn their worth
Gay visions vanish, worldly schemes may fall
Hope proves an idle dream,
But still the blossoms flourish red and pale
Beside my native stream
-The Sunday Magazine.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
Gard Lore.

Cynical and incredulous, intensely mat |
ter-of-fact in all his dealings, suspicious of
friend and foe alike, it seems most
remarkable paradox that the gambler, the
man who lives from day to day and from
year to year, as thousands do, on the
chance turn of Il die, card, Or the whirl
Of wheel, should be of all others tainted
with an iMeradicable superstition. 1t is no
CXaggeration to say that ninety-nine out
of every hundred professional gamesters
in this as we'll as other cities are thorough
believers in luck-not luck run wild, but
luck produced and retained by certain
methods alleged 10 be infalible The
alarming extent TO which gambling is car
rca on to day affords an excellent oppor-
tnnity for aRy investigator to learn how a
man trained to disbelicVe not only human
nature, but almost the actual evidence of
his own senses, will risk the last dollar he
has in the world or refuse to venture
copper, just as the supposed fates may
dictate. Amateur gamblers can disregard
these many omens during their novitiate
they may laugh TO scorn the advice of
older companions to play only on certain
days in the week, or to eschew certain
suits of cards in their play but sooner or
/ lates they give in and become devoted
/ believers in all the thousand and one signs
/ supposed to cluster around every green
topped table
would no more think" said long
mustached bediamond fellow yesterday,
as he fingered with white, claw-like hand
a heavy gold watch guard, "of sitting
down at Il game of short cards, or buck
ing at faro with a cross-eyed man in the
room, than would of betting on clothes
horse against st. Julian. No, sir; cross
eyed men in o card-room are noted for
bringing bad luck. never knew it to
! fail )"
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
~ ~. : IT = \
Philadelphia Letter.
AN AWFUL GHOST STORY
ABOUT BRIDES-TGLEGRAPH REV0-
LCTION-HERE AND THERE AMONG
THE NEWS.

Are you fond Of ghost stories? They
had a nice little ghost excitement the
other day on Washington avenue. next
door to n coal yard. Here was haunted
house. From the upper story and garret
OF this abode of terror came frightful and
unearthly noises. There were vocal
SQUADS which seemed to he the coarse
walls Of lost spirits. What business any
lost spirits should have in the garret of a
Washington avenue house was nobody's
business and so the people in the house
did not investigate it. Only they were
afraid to go upstairs to see. That was ALL
In the night there were noises like gigan-
tic snering accompanied by what seemed
to be the tramp OF captives loaded with
chains The heuse is an old one, with
lots of rooms and passages. CuriOusly
enough little old mule was missing from
the coal yard, and it occurred to his
owners that there might be some cOnnec-
ton between his absence and the mys-
teriOus ghost. Srarch was instituted and
the wretched and hungry little beast was
found in dark passage on the upper
floor. Nobody knew how he got there.
To get him down without br. akng his
miserable neck required good deal OF
engineering. He wanted to come down
hind-end-first, but this was considered
risky. so they coaxed him with head OF
lettuce, tied to the end of long pole.
There are now no more ghosts in that
! house
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Iowa is marching rapidly in the direc-
ton of constitutional prohibition. The
question has been submitted to the people
to be voted ON next September. The
largest meeting ever held in the State
took place in Des MOines the other day,
ana there was unbounded enthusiasm for
prohibition. Glorious Iowa! Kansas offers
her hand cordially to her coming sister in
the galaxy of sobriety and progress =
Junction City Kan Tribune.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

One of New Yerk's famous physicians,
DIR. Willard Parker makes the astounding
statement that one-third of the deaths in
New York City are the result, directly or
indirectly, of the use of alcohol, and that
in the last thirty-eight years 10000 per-
sons have died of its use in the city.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

To Den Cameron: Why not change the
name of your State to Simonsylvania, or
D0nsylvania. or Camerontown, or Simon
vile, or Donberg? A plain blunt man
like you ought to call things by their
proper titles.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Why is it that the fashion magazines
never show the styles for fat girls ?-RurdI
Exchange. Because the less style a fat
girl puts on the better she loOks.--Phila-
deJphiG NelUS.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Whittier frequently tires himself so
much in writing autographs, that he can
not write letters to his friends. He gets
between $500 and 5000 requests each
year for his signature.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
Philadelphia, Nay 10, 1882.

Early in the season there was a great
scarcity of potatoes, but lately they have
been imported in such large quantities
that the supply far exceeds the demand,
and they are left to rot upon the DOCKS.
thereby creating nuisance. From which
it would appear that it is even possible to
get too much of a good thing.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Terrible itching and scaly humors,
ulcers, sores and scrofulous swellings
cured by the Cuticura and Cutieura Soap
1.-THE great skin cures) externally, and
Cuticura Resolvent blood purifier) inter-
nally Ask about them at your druggists.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

The Bridgeton, IN. j. News has Two
political editors-opc Democrat and the
other a Republican. One writes Repub-
lican gospel one day and the next day the
Democratic editor grinds out Democratic
thunder in large doses.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

CAN'T GET IT-Diabetes, Bright's Dis
ease, Kidney, Urinary or Liver Complaints
cannot be contracted by you or your fam
lily if Hop Bitters are used, and if you
already have any of these diseases Hop
Bitters is the only medicine that will posi-
lively cure you. Don't forget this, and
don't get some puffed up staff that win
ONLY harm YOU.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

The roses of pleasure seldom last long
enough to adorn the brow of him who
plucks them, for they are the only roses
which do not retain their sweetness after
they have lost their beauty.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Not drink, not sold in bar-rooms, but
a reliable non,alcoholic tonic medicine,
useful at all times, and in all seasons, is
Browns Iron Bitters.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

Beware of strong drink, it is q demon
let loose upon the people that viii send :
their souls to perdition
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

| is new claimed that sorghum, SO ex-
tensively cultivated some years since on
the Peninsula, and 50 unanimously drop
ped by our farmers, can be raised to ad-
vantage as Il sugar producer in Texas,
Louisiana. Arkansas, Mississippi, lower
Missouri and Tennessee.
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
Furniture of all kinds.

ParOr and Chamber suits Bureaus Bedsteads Ch8 irs
Lounges. Tables Stands Mattresses Spring Beds and
every thing in the Furniture Line guaranteed at or
less thah City prices for the same quality Of goods
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

A compositor in setting up the toast
"Woman-without her, man would be
savage, got the punctuation in the
wrong place, which maded it read:
"Woman, without her man, would be a
savage
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24

When have a baby at breast nothing
is so useful for quieting my OWE and
baby's nerves as Parker's Ginger Tonic.
1t prevents bowel complaints, and is bet
ter than any stimulant to give strength
and appette-4 NeWdrk Mother
Smyrna times., 1882-05-24
THE WEDDING SEASON.

The pleasant practice Of having plenty
of weddings about this time of the year
keeps up gleriously. The science ofgiving
appropriate wedding entertainments is
now of the advanced accompaniments of
high civilization. The caterer, the dress
maker, the uphOlster and the florist, each
has an important part. Each bride wants
to OutdO every other bride in elegance of
entertainment and completeness of trous-
seau. But it is in the matter of bridal
presents that brides and their friends are
most ambitious. OF course silver is the
leading article for wedding gifts, but it is
supplemented by rich variety CT almost
everything else. 1t is remarked at most
of the fashionable weddings that large
majority of the presents come from Bailey
Banks & Biddle's. 1t is one of the pleas
ant features Of this house that whether
you go with five dollars or five thousand
to procure something suitable for . gift.
the article is there, to please the most ex-
acting fancy, and neatly ticketed with its
unalterable low price