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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

MIS-. McGifs Experience-How a Pious
Young Christian Came to Grief-He Goes
to States Prison-The Board Of Health
and the Russian Jews Where the Plaques
Come From-Poiitics, Stocks, etc.
New YORK, August II, 1892
EDITOR CHIEF:
Mr.. Peter McGill is manufacturer of
refrigerators, which, considering the
present state eff the weather, with the
| thermometer at 90c, ought to he Il very
comfortable business, especially if man
eonld enclose himself with big lump of
ice in one of his own safes. Mr.. Peter
McGill had a very colnely wife, bless
ing he did not seem to appreciate, for he
put up a cruel job with his brother,
Joseph McGill, to get rid of her; but 1
am happy to be able to state that the
wicked brothers came to grief, and virtue
is triumphant, in the following fashion.
I know not if Peter McGill had cast his
lascivIous eyes on some other daughter
Of Eve, but at any rate he made up his
mind that by fair means or foul he would
get rid of the original Mrs McGill; so
one day year ago he said, "My love, l
am going to Boston," She said, Wont
you take me, Peter?" but Peter thought
he could not stand the expense, so he
said, "No, my darling, you had better
stop at home." Then the loving wife
said, Peter, my duck, I'll see you off on
the boat, and brother Joe shall go with
me-" This little arrangement being per-
fected, Mrs. McGill packed her husbands
satchel, and in company with ber
brother-in-law, Joseph, attended him to
the Fall River boat. The boat showed
off, Mrs. McGill waved her hankerchief,
and Mr.. McGill hid his face in his
bandanna. Mrs. McGill turned sadly
away, for she was afraid Mr.. McGllPs
heart would burst with grief before the
boat reached Fall River.
Grief is dry, so Joseph asked his sister
in-law if she wouldn't moisten her clay
with some lager. Mrs. Gill was thirsty,
and like sensible woman she said YES.
Joseph took her to respectable looking
house, and she sat down in the parlor to
rest and partake of her refreshment
Meanwhile gentleman popped his head
in the door and then suddenly disap-
peared, and just precisely six days after
this occurrence she was served with the
notice of all application for divorce,
the principal allegation being that she
had been seen in house of infamous
repute with the plaintiffs brother, Joseph |
McGill, and Joseph McGill admitted his
portion of the gnilt. With these horrid !
proofs confronting her the wretched
woman was almost paralyzed. Alone,
deserted, betrayed, she meditated suicide, |
and then she made up her mind she
would not die till she had yindicated her |
innocence. She went to work with a |
will and unearthed the whole plot; she /
made her husband SO ashamed of his |
share of the infamous plotthat he begged |
for reconciliation, and she forgave him.
Then having secured her husband all ,
safe, she went for brother Joseph. She
armed herself with stout cowhide, and,
by a couple of male friends,
'he met brother Joseph on the eorner of /
canal street and Broadway, and she
made it quite lively for brother Joseph
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.
NUMBER 81.


Colorado has mining exposition.
Galveston has an eighteen year old
girl bootblack.
Six girl pedestrians are tramping
through Carolina mountains.
The druggist Of Elkhart, Ind, killed
the rector's child by pntting up NOR
phine for quinine. fssssse.s,.
Coup's circus train collided with pas
senger coach at Cairo, killing three
hands and wounding thirty performers.
The Philadelphia Land League have
telegraphed to Parnell to discountenance
any scheme to send men or money to
Arab Pasha
Six suits of $4,000 each have been
brought against the owners ofthe steamer
Scioto. that sunk in the Ohio river on
the 4th of July.
A widower at Waterloo, Iowa, was
mobbed for erecting only a pine slab
over his wife's grave after having pre-
sented handsome piano to new sweet
heart.
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Egyptian War Notes.

British gunboats have entered the
Suez Canal.
Rear Admiral Hewitt has stopped
canal traffic.
Said Pasha has resigned the Office of
Prime Minister.
Port Said and Jamailia are occupied
by British forces,
Lake Marcotis, near Millaha Junction,
is fast drying up.
1t has been decided to send small
balloon corps to Alexandria.
Arab Pasha is said to have 100 guns
in position at Kafr-el- Dewar.
Inflammatory religions preaching has
been prevalent in the mosques.
A great force Of rebels have taken up
a position threatening the canal.
combined land and sea attack on
the forts at Ahoukir is imminent.
The Porte has counternandea military
preparations for the expedition to Egypt.
Cheriff has condemned the acts of
Arab Pasha as contrary to the interests
of Islam
Lord Dufferin has refused to accept
the Turkish proposals for a military con-
vention.
The Constantinople conference has
agreed on Il colTcetiyopolice supervision
of the canal.
Said Pasha and Assim Pasha arc
strongly in favor of an understanding
with England.
The Porte and Lord Dnfferin disagree
as to the wording of the proclamation
against Arab Pasha.
Several arrests have been made iii Lon
don of persons too strongly outspoken
in support of Arab.
A telegram has been received from
Arab expressing his readiness to submit
to the authority of the Caliph.
A prominent member Of the Khedive's
ministry has been discovered to be in
constant communication with Arab.
Arabi is organizing Bedonins, and has
appointed commanders for those at
Charkies and at Garbich, i'll upper Egypt.
A deserter from Arabi's camp states
that the sick and wounded are shot by
their companions to free them from their
misery.
Arab Pasha has called a meeting of
Ulemas and Obtained from them fetwa
deposing the Snltan and naming the
Sheriff of Mecca Caliph.
A commission of naval officers of all
the States concerned will meet at Port
Said to snperintend measures necessary
for the protection Of the canal
The Snez Company have declared their
determination to uphold the claim al :
ready made in favor of the neutrality of
the canal and to oppose all the warlike
measures taken by England
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For the CHIEF.
IN MEMORIAM.

In NIEMORIAM.
ines Written on Hearing of the Death q
James Wick, the Florist.
BY aALUs.
GO, gather chaplet of flowers,
And crown with due honors the tomb,
To mingle with sorrows perfume;
For friend like a prince has departed,
His vision undimmed though in years;
With vigor and strength and true hearted,
He's left us to sorrow and tears.
The work Of an angel, his mission,
To gladden. with blossoms the field,
And link by this happy condition
This life with that life, dim-revealed!
He touched the soft mold with his finger,
And Howers sprang up at his Will,
While fragrance and beauty long Enger
To bless. where the poison vines kill.
The home and the heart were made happy,
And better and better they grew,
For yearly a Floral Guide copy
Would pledges of friendship renew;
A touch from the hand of the master
Gave life to the blosson-lit page,
And the heart In its beating went faster
For the gift of the Floralist Sage.
The flowers are telling his story,
In numbers SO tsnderly sweet,
No pencil or pen can win glory
Which ventures his life to repeat.
So, gather chaplet of flowers,
The choices let ev'ry one pick,
And scatter the blossoms like showers
To honor the name of James Wick.
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Eoraign.
Cetwayo is to be reinstated.

Cetwayo is to be reinstated.
The German Parliament employs pri-
vate detectives.
Cyprus and Malta are overrnn with
Egyptian refugees.
A disturbance is. imminent between
France and Madagascar.
Several skirmishes have occurred be-
tween Chilians and Peruvians.
Moldavia and Dabrudscha are the
chief headquarters Of Russian intrigno.
The House of Lords and the House of
Commons have adjourned till October "a.
The crew of the Ezra has been ished
up in Matotoschkin Straits, Nova Zem-
bla.
An inpostor has been travelingin the
provinces of Austria as the Crown France
Rudolph.
A statue of Daniel O'Connell was IN
yelled at Dublin in the presence Of
1O0, ,oOo people.
A fight is expected between the troops
of the Ameer Of Afghanistan and those of
the Ameer Of Maimund.
Over 200 peasants have been rendered
homeless from the burning Of the village.
of Siendenberg, West Russia.
Bismarck intends proposing to the
King of the Netherlands that the Grand
| Duchy of Luxembourg join the German
Confederation.
The workingmen of England have pre-
sented the Greenwich Conservative Club,
with bust of the late Lord Beacons-
field.
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a Gr,rsA For, ,,,dufsnr

Iu American households the prevailing
complaints are weakness Of the stomach, and
its consequences, Indigestion, Nervousness
and rheumatism, Such sufferers can Inv a
good foundation for health by using Par
ker's Ginger Tonic as ittones MP the stam,,ch
and nerves. and keeps the kidneys acfise to
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AT ROCKAwAY.
q. C. HODGE.

u 10
A maiden on summers day
Stood on the beach at Rockaway;
The sea breeze tossed her wayy hair
In golden unglets on the air.
A bathing dress in vain concealed
Her form of beauty and revealed
In rounded outlines all the wealth
OF youthful loneliness and wealth.
Two dainty feet all pink and white.
And bare to the spectators sight,
Left prints of Cinderella's size:
She seemed a princess In disguise.
A ragged hat, with artless grace,
Covered her head and, sure, face
AS fair as the sweet flush of morn
Bloomed underneath It's edges torn.
I watched the graceful maiden rare;
| prayed that she might then and there
Be changed into a mermaid bold,
too merman-not too old.
And that we two, with fancy free,
Might plunge beneath that seethlng sea,
And float together far away,
Careless what the sad waves might say.
All me to think these wild waves beat
Could quench an untold love so sweet;
Cooling the fevered flush and thrill,
Leaving bitter, hopeless chill.
For as she stepped within the sea
A breaker broke upon her Ice;
Her straw hat floated on the wave,
She waved her arms. / sprang to save,
And found the fairy of my dream
The saucy boy who sold ice cream.
- -Ne1r York SlI7l,
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AnImnassihi1itx.
BROADBRIM.

Deserving articles are always appreciated
The exceptional cleanliness of Parker,s
Hair Balsam makes it popular. Gray hairs
are impossible with its occasional use.
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No attention paid to anonymous letters.
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of correspondents.
Address: CHIEF, Donaldsonyille. La.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

DAUL LFCHE, Attorney at Law and No
Il tary Public. Donaldsonville. Office :
One block below the Court House, on t.
takapas street. Je2o
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~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
W Houmas street. dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
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UNDERTAKEN.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES,

ID RYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist
Ds Mississippi street, between st. Patrick
and st. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's s
store.
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DoNALDSONVlLl.E
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DRY GOODS. GKoCERIEs. Etc.

d LANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods.
lte Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General
Merchandise, corner r. R. Avenue and
Taylor Streets, one block from Railroad
Depot.
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NJ TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
Nl. 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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M ISRAEL & Co, dealers in Dry Goods,
NJ Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, etc, corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
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fOSEPH G0NDRAN. dealer in Clothing,
~ Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors. Boots. Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, SadalerJ, Croekery. Furniture
and all kinds Of House Furnishing Goods,
Blue Store, Mississippi street.
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TNo. soLozANo, dealer in Groceries,
81 Wines and Liquors, Croekery. Tinware,
Notions, etc. No. 81 Railroad Avenue, be-
tween Conway and St. Michael streets,
Donaldsonville.
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NJ LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
| N1e ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries,
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup
plies. at Ien,ann's old stand, Mississippi
| street. G. FEITEI1, Agent.
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INSURANCE AGENCIES.

u MAURIN, General Fire Insurance
W Agent, Mississippi street. over Fer
nandez's barber shop. Represents first-class
companies with over $50, GOO OF capital
Policies issued directly from agency with
out delay. ------------
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NO. +. PARK dealer in Staple and Fan
y 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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4 ID. VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods,
a. 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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llERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
ID Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts,
Flows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
niture, Croekery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street. corner
Crescent Place.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03
Mr.. William P. Moore, of Tennessee,


Mr.. William p Moore, of Tennessee,
is the only Republican member of Con
gress from that State, but unlike most Of
his Southern Republican brethren, he is
evidently no friend of third terms. On
Saturday last he introduced into the
House the following bill, which was re-
ferred TO the committee on civil service
reform:
WHEREAS, The Government of the
United States is a government necessarily
of parties, and
Whereas, The interests of the success
full party demand the distribution of the
public Offices among those who indOrse
the principles of said party, and
Whereas, Under the existing pecu-
liarities of our human nature, as well as
the genius of our institutions, no party
can prosper under a system which recog.
nizes the right of one set of claimants to
hold office continuously; therefore,
BE 1t enacted, That all appointees by
the President of the United States shall
be made for period of four years, pro
vided that in case of capable, efficient
and faithful service to the government
and fidelity to the party in power they
may be subject to a further reappoint-
ment of four years. but it is expressly pro-
vided that in no case shall their maxi
mum term of service ext end for a longer
period of time than eight years"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03

Senator George, of Mississippi, has a
bill pending in Congress which proposes
to encourage agriculture and manufac-
lures by repeating the duties and i'm
potts now levied on machinery for the
manufacture of cotton and wooden goods
on goods composed of hemp or jute;
also on tools of mechanics which are
used solely in manual labor; also on all
agricultural implements and or all cot
ton ties. ''This bill, " remarks the Wash
ington Star, lis one of the many that
have been introduced during the present
session looking to a reduction or re-
moval of tariff duties and over
throw of tie system of protection
as it now exists. The protectionists
find themselves attacked on every hand
by bills under all sorts of titles, but all
aimed at the same end. The bill of
Senator George is to encourage indus
try by giving to the farmer, mechanic
and manufacturer cheap implements,
tools and machinery. Farming is now
carried on in this country chiefly by the
aid of machinery, and the tariff for pro-
lection keeps the price of this machinery
so high that it is beyond the reach of the
poor man"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03
SOuthern Farmers Monthly.

We have received the February num-
Der of the above sterling agricultural
magazine, ard 1t is sufficient cOmmenda-
ton of it to say that it is fully up to the
high standard of excellence which has
always been one of its marked charac-
teristics. It is full of information valu-
able to the Southern planter; its miscel-
laneGus sketches are appropriate and
interesting; its editorials, as usual, well
timed and able, and its fashion depart
ment is still as attractive as ever to the
wives and daughters of our farmer
friends. In word, the Monthly should
be in every household, and we are con-
WINGED that no Southern farmer who
once tests its merits will be ever willing
to go without its monthly visits.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03

& correspondent writes the Nashville
American from Chattanooga that he had
recently held an interview with Captain
FINLEY, the most prominent cotton
planter in East Tennessee, who states
that greater interest is now being mani
tested in the culture Of cotton in that
section than ever before, and that the
production will be double that of the
previous year. He says also that in sew
eral counties the farmers have met and
agreed to plant five acres in cotton.
They who have experimental so far
have been quite successful. With the
use Of but little fertilizers, the produc-
ton has been, in some localities, bale
to the acre. Great interest is being
manifested over these experiments, and
that locality promises to become an i'm
portant cotton producing section.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03
Agricultural Production in the DIFF
ferent States.

From the annual report of the Com
missioner Of Agriculture for the year
1880-based on the census enumeration
for that year, and upon the reports and
estimates of the Agricultural Bureau
which has Just been issued. the st. Louis
Republican presents interesting and vslu-
able statistics regarding the products OF
the country. From this report it appears
that the year 1880 was nearly an average
one, that the seasons were about equally
favorable to all sections, and that the
aggregate value of the productions OF
each State, embracing, corn, wheat, rye,
oats, barley, buckwheat. potatoes, cot
ton. tobacco, sugar, live stock, ETC.,
based upon the prices prevailing in De
cember, 1880, were as follows:
Maine, $3S, 125, 26s; New Hampshire,
500. 6O2, $50; Vermont, $50, 44S, 222
Massachusetts,, $45, 1O6, 731; Rhode Is
land, s., 324. 7s4; Connecticut, 500, $685.
474 New York, 1892, ASP, 100; New Jer
sey, S4S, COS, PAS; Pennsylvania, 1922
S16, O47; Delaware, $9,532, 1865; Mary
land, $42, 1876 857; Virginia, So, 906. S07
North Carolina, SO O66. S21; South
Carolina, $50, Os9, $50; Georgia, $1O1,.
181, 773; Florida, $14, 486, 46S; Alabama,
$81. 800; Mississippi, $S1, 1852 514
Louisiana, $50. GAO, 1888; Texas, $19s,
DAG. SOS; Arkansas. 81, 138. 926; Tennes
see, sol, 283. 242; West Virginia, $35,
BAG, 626; Kentucky, $112. o35, 1854; Ohio,
$253. 751 500; Michigan, $12s, 531, 727
Indiana, $193, 900, O19; Illinois, $685.,
40, 692; Wisconsin, $115, OF, 474; Min
nesota, 500 659, 500; Iowa, $685., 1892, III
Missouri, $2O3, $50, 1871; Kansas, $113,-
712, 400; Nebraska, $65, 604, S63; Cali
fornia, $3.50, s85, O83; Oregon, 500, 1916.
517; Nevada. Colorado and the Terrific
ries, 500, 2e2. 1913.
The entire product of corn for the
year was 1,717, 434, SAB bushels. The
area in corn was GO, 81. S42 acres. The
value of the crop was 1919, IA, 400. The
entire product of wheat was 498, 549, S6e
bushels. The area in wheat was 81, 1885,.
III acres. The value of the crop was
S474, POI, $50. The value of the entire
grain crop was $1,442, $685. The
value of the hay crop was 1911 81 ,0S4.
The value of the cotton crop was $3.50,
266, 242. The value of the tobacco crop
was $50, Ala, els. The grand total of the
crop was So, 131, O51 $50. The average
production per acre Of corn was 27.6
bushels; the average of wheat was 10.
bushels; the average price of corn pei
bushel was 1916 cents; the average price
per bushel of wheat was 95.1 cents. The
value of each crop per acre was: Corn,
so 81; wheat, $12 As; rye. $40 so; oats,
50 %; barley. $16 80; tobacco, $50 A
hay, $14 SO; cotton, $18 II,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03

Our Macon contemporary says we
started out 'an arrogant free trader. 4"
Our contemporary is as much mistaken
in this as it is in its advocacy of pro-
tective tariff being beneficial to the
South. No matter how much we might
admire the fairness and beauties of free
trade, in theory, we realize that at pres
ent it is impracticable, and that if it ever
comes to this country at all, it can only
come at some indefinite period of the
future when the national debt shall have
been paid off, and there will be no need
Of any such tremendous revenue as is at
present required to keep the wheels of
government in motion. We have al
ways been an advocate Of a tariff for
revenue only, so that the people Of
the country can provide themselves
with machinery, farming utensils. cloth
ing and many other necessaries of life at
cheap rates, and nOt-as at present, undCr
a protective tariff-forced either to do
without such things altogether, or if they
purchase then at all, to first have to pay
tribute to protected manufacturers, and
then pay a second tribute to the govern
ment to make up the revenue necessary
for its support
We are glad to see, however, that our
contemporary is evidently experiencing
a change of heart on the tariff question,
and fatter ourselves that we have not
been altogether uninstrumental in bring
ing about its conversion. II now init
mates that it will unite with US in put
ting ''monopolists to rout, ," and as pro-
lection is the greatest possible encour-
agement to the greatest monopolies the
world ever saw, we dare indulge the
hope that ere long it will be heartily
with US in advocating revenue reform.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-02-03

The State geologist of Kentucky, in
his report, announces that a recent sur.
vey has demonstrated the fact that the
valuable deposits of coking Goals which
have added such wealth to Penn,
sylvania and West Virginia have been
traced and identified in the valleys OF
the Cumberland, the Kentucky, and the
Big Sandy, of a thickness of seven oil
eight feet. 1t is claimed that the analY
sis of the State chemist shows the coal
to be equal if not superior to that of Con
nellsville or New River, and will prove
a great impetus to the development OF
the region in which it lies.