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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-06
RAND ANNIVERSARY
FInEHIEN'S PARADE
AND CELEBRATION
ASCENSION HOOK & LADDER
- EOHR.ANT no. /,
AT
Donaldsonville, Sunday, May Il, 1882.

The eighth anniversary of Ascension
Hook and Ladder Company will be cele-
brated by i, parade as above, and q ball at
night for the benefit Of sufferers by the
overflow.
|. Honorary and contributing members of
| the Company are cordially invited tn pirti
cipate without further notice.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-06
TRAVELLERS, GUIDE.
NEW ORLEANS PACIFIC RAILWAY,
TINE TABLE.

For rates and information. address,
NJ r. SPELMAN, =
General Freight and Ticket Agent
II. 8. MORSE, Supt.
OFFICE: No. 20 Camp street, New Orleans
The National tribune., 1882-09-28

"Well I don't care nothin' at all about
known'," 1 says, very proud, and then what
does do but lay my head on the table and cry
like a baby.
Jim was over beside me in less then min
ute huggin' and kissin rae as hard as ever
he could.
ou-don't-love-me-n :" sobs,
kind o broken.
"Yes l do, tool Don't cry darlin', don't
cry!"
"And you love me better'n Maria, if amt
so stunnin', don't you, Jim?"
"a milleeOn times better. I'll tell you all
about her. You SEQ"
But don't want to hear, JIM wouldn't
know for nothin' at all 1 can trust you, Jim,
and-and-and she amt regular beautiful is
she?"
"Homlier than you are! Hasn't got near as
soft cheeks or nice little nose. Couldn't hold
a candle to you, no way"
"Well, then, l don't care about her one b;tl"
l says, putin my arms round his neck.
"We'lI have a regular good time spendin' our
money, won't we, Jim?"
We'll, l reckon We'll continue to have as
good times as milleeonaires generally does"
And then when 1 had given HIM just one
more hug went to washin' the Dishes
To be continued
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Tender RecolIeetions of a Blanket.
From Haper's Dra,Uer.1

About year ago the smallpox prevailed to
some extent in Austin, and there were great
apprehensions at the time of the dread disease
becoming epidemic 1t was during this excite
ment that a sad-eyed cOlored man entered a
pawnbroker arena on Austin avenue with q
blanket under his arm, which he offered as
collateral security for temporary loan of a
dollar. The contracting parties disagreed on
financial issues, the pawnbroker asserting
with considerable pOsitiveness, that he was in
viting financial ruin to take possession of him
if he advanced more than a slick quarter on
the blanket, while the negro stated if the times
were not so panicky, five dollars would be no
inducement for him to part with the blanket.
Why, you are out of your mind" said the
pawnbroker, running his arm through hole
in the blanket at was not worth three dol
lars when it was new"
know dat, boss, but I hates to part wild
dat blanket on account OBJ de tender recollec-
shuns connected wild it."
"Eh?" exclaimed the alarmed pawnbroker.
pearly drop ran down the dusky nose, and
as he tried to swallow a big lump the colored
man said, Dat blanket belonged to my wife's
mudder, who died yesterday wild de small
pOxes, but yer can hab it fer quarter"
People wondered why the colored man with
blanket came out of the shop in haste, as if
fired out of cannon, but he knew why. He
wanted to get good start so as to beat load
of buckshot, with which the pawnbroker was
preparing to vaccinate him
The National tribune., 1882-09-28
The Test OF Brain Power.

When Bishop Whitaker was in Candelaria,
Nev recently, he took a stroll in the outskirts
of the camp with party of ladies and godly
gentlemen. A man was seen laboriously turn
ing a windlass which hoisted from shaft q
bucket filled with rock. The only thing re-
markable about the man at the windlass was
his hat, the crown of which was cut clean off,
allowing the hot sun to pour down upon a per-
fectly bald head, some waggish friends having
recommended this arrangement as sure to pro-
duee crop of hair. The bishop and his party
stood watching the man toiling and grunting
at his heavy labor for several minutes, and the
kind-hearted clergyman spoke up with con-
Germ and said:
My friend, why don't you cover up your
head? This hot sun will affect your brain"
Brain, is it?" cried the man, as ne gave the
windlass another heavily-creaking revolution
"Begob, an if 1 had any brains dye think I'd
be here pullin' up this bucket?"
The bishop and his party hastily retired as
the gentleman at the windlass proceeded to
express between tugs and in avery strong way,
his opinion of men who had been born, like
himself, without brains
The National tribune., 1882-09-28


heart. ] think he had been at one time or
derly-sergcant of his company (H, Fifteenth
United States infantry. He enlisted at Co
lumbus, Ohio, in the year 1861. He was never
married"
Those of our readers who have become inter
ested in tie adventures of the escaped prisoners
and wish to read Of their hair-breadth escapes
from the dangers through which they passed,
would do well to send fifty cents to w. II.
Newlin, Danville, H., and procure a copy Of
his book.
The four surviving comrades, Newlin, Suth-
erland, Smith, and Wood, after encountering
all sorts OF adventures, finally reached Gauly
Bridge, in West Virginia, and found a camp
of Federal soldiers
ANY Of our readers who are acquainted with
facts bearing upon the fate Of Robert g. Tay-
lor, Company g. Second Massachusetts cavalry,
or Watson c. Trippe Company II, Fifteenth
United States infantry. are requested to COM
municate them TO THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The eRdl
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Go Away.
[Federick LGngbridge.1

With bumpy swish and curdled roar,
Sweet Mary's churn goes drumming;
Yousg Reuben leans on the low half door
And hopes that the buffers coming;
Then signs and signs, and drops his eyes
What words can his feelings utter?
80, drop me down in the churn,'' he cries,
And make me into butter"
She rests her hands, and gazing stands,
AT sound of his words vaeary,
Then plies the staff with lightsome laugh,
80, go awayI" says Mary.
If a maidens word means aught, they say,
The opposite sense is in it.
So Reuben finds in her "Go away!"
A lust come in a minute
81 hope" says he, Il may make so Free"
With a grin and a nervous stutter,
My answer should be to your ears" says she
If L could but leave the butter"
His arm on the shelf that holds the deli,
He looks across the dairy;
"shall go to herside? Shall dare her pride?
%, so away!" says Mary.
He takes the hint and he takes kiss,
With fears and inward quaking;
She does not take what he takes amiss,
Nor seem in an awful taking.
Sweet kisses he takes so loud and fast
That he takes her breath completely;
He takes her tight in his arms at last,
And still she takes it sweetlyl
The heart of the boy is wild with joy;
He has won her-his bird, his fairy;
''rlI go right OF for the ring Tonight"
20, go away!" says Mary,
The National tribune., 1882-09-28
The Belle of Prairie Place.
by J. 4. MacOn.1


No use takin' bout de Big Bend gals,
Dat lib de county line;
For Betsey Jane, fun de Prairie Place,
Jes leabes 'em way behine.
Oh! you neber could find sch likely 'ooman,
Eff you search out all creation;
She beat eb'rything in de Flat Creek Quarters,
An she clean out de Old Plantation.
She totes herself like a flynn squirrel
And she clam out de niggers all aroun';
An lor' how de jew draps get OFF de grass
When she draps dem foots on de groun';
She's nice as a right meller apple on the tree,
An she look mighty pretty and snug;
Her moufs jes sweet de eornoob stopper
Dat come out de 'lasses Jug.
Bundle bee light on de red clover bloom:
'Possum eat simmons in de fall;
Robin ketch de fishin' 'wum out in de tieP
An III ule chaw his corn in de stall;
Big hawk watch whar de little chicken scratchin';
Spider look out for de fly;
Niger stan still an he bow an he scrape
When he see dat gal so byi
Calf come lopin when de old cow call him,
'Possom-dOrg run to dc horn;
Gar vine clam up de tall oak tree,
An mornin'- glory wrop roun' de corn;
Nigger turn 'roun an he come mighty quick
When he hear dat pretty gal laugh,
An she hang on his arm like de vine on dc tree
When dey bofe go walkin' down de pail!
Her eyes glib light like fox-tire CHUNK,
Her teef all white de snow;
Niggers in de cotton patch keep lookln' back
When dey see her come chopin out de row;
She gine to crowd de hands when de crab-grass
CROWN,
An she kill all de weeds as she go;
An she kiver up de furrer wild cloud O. dus,
When she bus dem cIods wild her hoe
-Nes0 Orleans Tmes-Denloerat,
The National tribune., 1882-09-28

Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court, albeit
every inch judge, "hath a pretty wit"
While on the bench in Massachusetts,, a lawyer,
not over-stocked in the upper story, and noted
for verbosity and shallowness, was trying a
case before him. The case was plain, so there
was little use of argument and Master Shallow
had the strong side, but he was determined to
Improve the occasion"
The judge leaned over and said:
Mr.. -, the Court is with you without
argument"
But will you not hear my argument?"
Oh, certainly" said the judge
Then ensued characteristic harangue of an
hour or two. AT its conclusion the Judge
said:
Mr.. -, the Court is still with you, not
withstanding your argument"
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1.-THE end.l
"JEst Like q WOman."
[Trom Gie DoiroH Free Press. !


At the busiest hour in the afternoon yestcr
day woman who would have balanced II,
pounds Of horse feed on the scales clbowed
three men away from the stamp window at the
post Office aad inquired:
"Is there a mail going north to-night?"
"Yesm7
ais it sure to go?"
"Oh, yes
"IIaye ! time to write a letter."
Yes, five hours time"
81 was thinking Of writing to my husband
postal cari?"
81 suppose So"
do thcy 20 just as safcly?"
"Certai3ly"
BY this time there were seven men waiting
and scowling around, but the woman clung to
the shelf and continued:
81 suppose you keep postal cards here?"
"Yes'm'
1.-TWO for a cent?"
"No; only one"
81 didn't know but they were down this
fall. l presume you can change five dollar
biIl?"
"Ycs"
"Secms too bad to break it for a cent but I
suppose l must. You may hand me card.o
card was handed out and she began to
feel for her purse. The crowd surged up and
tried to hustle her, but she couldn't be hustled.
She looked in fourteen different places for
tina; bill, but it was not 80 be found"
DO you suppose I could have lost it?" she
suddenly asked.
"Yesm."
"Where2'
"On the next corner"
"Then I'll 20 and get it. Dear me! but 1
wish / had VIZ tten a letter"
She let go and was pushed aside, and it was
about ten minutes before she reappeared and
called out:
The bin wasn't on the corner, and believe
handed it to you when first camc in"
"Oh, no."
"Well, if ! did, and you are mean enough
10 keep it. you'll never prosper. III go home
and get a cent aud come back and buy card.
but do thin k that under the circumstances
you might let NE write Oh both sides Of it,"
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know too well how he treats his prison
Like the representative of the confed a
government, King John was in the hal
numbering his prisoners, and he was j..
abhorred by the chivalry of France, Eng
and all other countries. TO this day his
ory is detested
Dec. 2d.-Ihe entire camp was reorgal
yesterday. We were all driven over to the
side by skirnsshers, and then marched back
and counted like so many cattle. While de-
tachment Of us was standing in line on the east
side, "Red Head shouted an order to us from
the opposite side of the swamp which we did
not plainly hear and which we failed to under
stand. In accordance with an established mil
itary rule, we remained stationery. He broke
into furious rage, and, jerking out navy
six-shooter, commenced swapping it at u.s. 1t
refused to 90 Off and we laughed at his frantic
eXertions, and some of our detachment ieered.
He then leaped across the brook, and snatching
a musket from guard fired at us, but hit no
body. The bullet passed through our ranks
and perforated a mud hut. / was gratified
to observe that not a man jumped out of place
or manifested unbecoming alarm. The object
oI CLe icDclo III couHIlIS us Is 10 prevent meu
from drawing rations in more than one division.
Very often prisoners play this trick by answer
ing to dead mems names. The keeping Of a
proper record outside would obviate all such
difficulties. If the same amount of genius ex-
listed in an army that exists here, colonel
would have to count his regiment every day in
order to ascertain how many rations he was
entitled to. The corn-meal we get is composed
of stock peas the hulls and chaff of stock peas
corn, corn -husks, corn-cobs and dirt all ground
up together. We make it into mush and Cruel
a prisoners commissary department. Cruel
fills fellow up the best and the thinner it is
the more there is of it. If a man was inclined
to be sentimental, the amount of human agony,
destitation, and wretchedness he could witness
by walking around this prison for half an hour
would almost drive him insane. We have to
be hard-hearted. In proportion to the number
confined here, / believe the suffering is greater
than it was at Andersonville. The heat in the
latter place was easier to bear than the cold
weather is here. Besides, most men who ar
rived at Andersonville were comparatively
strong and healthy. Most of us here are those
most unfortunate of physical wrecks" old
prisoners"
To be continued
Entered according TO act of Congress in the year
1852 by The National Tribune in the Office of the
Librarian i of CONGRESS at Washington.
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To be continued.
Tho Court Vas Sill With Him.

Entered according TO act of Congress in the yea
1852 by The National Tribune in the Office of til
librarian Of Congress at Washington.
The National tribune., 1882-09-28
| STRIKING IT RICH;
Or, From Kitchen to ParlOr and
Back Again.
by Ehet duen.l
CHAPTER I.

I was out in the kitchen iyin' around to get
supper and had just set the table, with the mince
pie and the cheese right close to Jims plate, and
the sausage was sizzln' away on the stove, and,
for wonder, the baby was slcepin' most beau
tiful, and was a-hummin' "Old Uncle joe
very soft to myself, when, all of sudden, I
heard some one come in the store. l quick
wiped my hands On my apron and hurried
along to wait on 'em, and who should it be but
one of them telegraph boys, and he held out
an envelope and said, ''Ten cents duel" as
pert as you please.
SO l got him the money, and then I walked
back to the kitchen with that innocent lookin'
little yellow thing in my hand and laid it down
careless-lko on the table, because the baby was
actin as if he was a-goin' to open his sweet,
blessed eyes; but, after had rocked him to
sleep again, L begun to wonder if that telegraph
wasn't from Joe Murphy, my husbands old
partner, who had gone out to Lcadville some two
months before, and 1 picked it up in q hurry
and tore it open as quick as wink, and these
arc the very words that | read:
"Have just sold your interest in the Stunnin'
Maria to Ruggles & Co. for 100000; will send
draft for $1,000. Balance during the year
Joe MURPHY"
Well, didn't fell down in swoon and faint
dead away, and l didn't scream once, 1 don't
- I stood ynry- of md ct;iI FnY n IN
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
Pate Of a Michigan Blasphemer.

The people OF Genesee County, Mich.
igan, are travelling miles to see man
who, acco ding to the Ovid Register is
in as bad q predicment as Lots wife
when she was turned into pillar OF
salt Disguised with the rains which
rotted his wheat, he seized large
butcher knife, and rusning into his
field, said he wished he could catch God
and cut bis throat for sending so much
rain. No sooner had he uttered the
balasphemous words, than he stood
rooted to the spot, from which he has
not since moved. Two doctors from
Flint tried 10 rescue him. but they
were frightened away by the thunder
and lightning. The people of the coun-
try are all praying for his delivery, but
as yet without avail. The Register
does not say who carries him his meals
or change of linen occasionally or
whether the thunder and lightning are
so terrific that these things have to be
omitted.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
The largest cathedral IN the worl

The largest cathedral In the world
is st. Peters in Rome. From the
lying OF its foundation in 1850 until
Its dedication, ITO years were con-
sumed in its erection; and If we in
clude the work done under Plus VI,
three and half centuries passed be-
fore it was complete, during which
time forty.three Popes relgned. The
dimensions of the church are: Length
of the interior, 6l34 feet; of transom
from wall to wall, 4469 feet; height of
nave. 1921 feet; of side aisles, At feet;
width of nave, 77-s9 feet; of side
aisles, 338 feet; circumference of pill
lars which support the dome, 253 feet.
The height of the dome from the pave.
ment to the base of the lantern is 405
feet; to the top of the cross, 44S feet.
The dome is encircled and strength.
ened by six bands of iron. A stairway
leads to the roof, broad and easy
enough to allow horse and team to
ascend. The annual cost of keeping
the church In repair is 10000 scudi.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
IMPROVED FARM,

In fact II you have any property you wish insured,
call on Daggett and save money II you have a de-
fective title to your land call on Daggett and have
your title made perfect If you do not he may steal
the title to your little homes. for
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
A Blessing I'm Disguise.

No one would suppose that the intro
duction into family of bottle of Put
mans Painless Corn Etractor would be
the means of restoring peace and pros
perity. Corns are painful, and the con-
slant consciousness OF this upon even the
best natured produces nervous depres-
sion, ill temper, recklessness leading to a
desire to spend their time away from the
bosom OF their family. In order to avoid
the evils above mentioned always keep q
bottle of Putnam's Corn Extractor on
hand. Sold everywhere.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
Dixfield, Maine, Oct. 90, 1880.

DIR. B. j. KENDALL & Co.-GeAts:--
Please find inclosed 25 cents for revised
edition of your horse book. I have tried
your Kendall's SPAWN Cure for curb, and
1t has done all you claim for it. By using
one.haIf bottle it entirely cured the lame
ness and removed the bunch. Yours
truly, FRANK STANLEY.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26

An oil producer was requested to
give a judgment note for debt he
owed; but firmly refused, saying;
"No, sir, l will never sign judgment
note. l did it once, and came very
near having to pay it."
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
Mr.. Patterson meant what he said.

Lyman Dorman, Huntingdon, Conn.,,
Aug. 90, 1866. writes: hereby
certify that my boy. ten years Of
age, was taken sick with TYPHOID fever
followed by congestion of the lungs. DR.
Dyer, an eminent physician of this place
stated that he thought the boy would
run down with quick Consumption. A
Mr.. Patterson told me that Goes Cough
Balsam was curing similar cases, and ad
vised me to purchase it. When l car
ried it home my wife laughed at me; but
knew that Mr.. Patterson ment just
what heisaid, and determined to try it.
Two bottles cffectually cured him, so that
now he is as tough and healthy as any
body.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
o. Q. Gin. gables.

No. does not stop between Napoleon and Toledo
No. stops at Defiance, Defiance junction and Ant
werp only between Napoleon and TT. Wayne. Nos
z, 4 Is and "a daily. Others daily except Sunday.
No baggage checked for freight trains.
No stops at Defiance and Defiance Junction only
between Napoleon and Ft Wayne.
J. K. WITHERS, Agent
Napoleon %.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26

Loss of hair and grayness, which often
mar the prettiest face, are prevented by
Parker's Hair Balsam. I'm
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
Literary Notices.
The Popular Science Monthly for No.
yember. 1882.

Dr.. Frank II. Hamilton opens "The Popular
Science Monthly for November with most valua-
BILE article on the important subject Of Sewer-Gas.
It is an unsettled and most perplexing problem,
physicians and architects and sanitary engineers be-
ing much at about 1t, yet II not be neglected
because Of their disagreements. DR.. Hamilton sums
up the subject clearly and judiciAlly, and what is
regard to IT, The second article, by Professor Du
Bois- Raymond, on ''The Science of the Present
PERIOD" is mastery vindication of its influence
and Its broader tendencies. DIR. Nathan Allen gives
the latest form to "The Law of Human Increase, ~
and draws from 1t certain practical conclusions of
very great importance. "Scence in Relation to the
Arts,m by Dr. Siemens is the address of the Presi-
of Science and is especially instructive In its discus
sion of electric and gas lighting DR.. Oswald's Sec
ond paper on "Physognomic Curiosites" is in his
best ven bright crisp witty, and full of curious in
formation, as new as II Is interesting. The article
on "Scientifc Farming at Rothamsted," by DR..
Manly Miles. is most timely and we'll digested ac-
count of the systematic agricultural experiments of
Lawes and Gilbert which are Of far greater value,
both theoretical and practical than is generally sup
original and striking paper of that clear and excel
lent writer Professor Grant Allen, entitled "Who
was Primitive MANI" appears without abridgment in
the November 'Monthly." ltgoes fur toward clear
lug away tenacious difficulties Of perplexing
snbject. "Some Curious Vegetable Growths," by
w. ii. Larrabee "The British Lon," by W. Boyd
Dawkins, "Life among the Battas of Sumatra" by
DR.. Schreber also very readable articles. There
are biography and portrait of the French chemist,
nation at the close, which Is always read first in
"The Popular Science Monthly"
New York: D. Appleton g. Company Fifty cents
per number, IS per year.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26
DIR. Green's Oxygeuated Bitters

is the Oldest and best remedy for Dys.
pepsia, Billiousness, Malaria, Indigestion,
all disorders of the Stomach, and all dis
ease indicating an impure condition of
the Blood, Kidneys, and Liver.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-10-26

Demorest's Monthly Magazine comes to us with
Its accustomed regularity, and examination of the
November number, we find that the articles of
nature to make them highly acceptable to the read
ers of this popular publication. Mrs. Alexander's
serial "The Admiral's Ward, gains in interest, and
the shorter tales are exceedingly well told "Wan.
derers in the Heavens" "Winter Resorts in South
egn are worthy Of note There s VARIETY
very readable articles, of which are illustrated
on Instructive topics and every department, includ
ing the "Fashion," Household" and 'sCurrent
Topics" is fully and judciouely filled. A handsome
oil picture forms the frontispece, and the art de-
partment is further supplied by several pretty en-
cravings. -