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MYRA,S MEANDEI1INGS.

A Trip to Davfuskie Island-A Quaint Old
Mansion-Its Beauties and its Oddities
Within-Its Magnificent Surroundings
Surf Bathing, etc.
'"a' SAVANNAH, Ca, June 10, 1882.
MY DEAR AUNT CHAT:
So swiftly have the days sped by that
it seems difficult to realize that must
now write you the chronicles of another
week. How merrily. how gaily and rap
idly the hours chase each other away
All too soon present joys become only
echoes from slumbering past and, you
know, memory presents but musty out
lines.
How shall begin to tell you about the
charming excursion we have enjoyed this
week to Dawfuskie island! It was with
high pulse and beating heart we heard
this visit proposed, for the beauties of
the spot had been SO many times expa-
tiated upon that it seemed very para
disc. Nell was not dilatory, you may
imagine, in writing an acceptance of the
kind invitation to spend few days on
Dawfuskie, in behalf of the party Mrs.
Elliott was so kind as to invite.
What bright set of young people we
were, last Monday morning, on the little
steamer which was to convey us to the
loveliest, greenest, freshest little island
in the great Atlantic. The boat left
Savannah at seven A. NJ, SO we did not
enjoy fashionably late breakfast that
morning as is, lazily enough, our wont!
Grimly unconscious of the unnatural hour
necessary for us to arise, we dismissed
our visitors at ten o'clock the previous
evening, to enjoy the "beauty sleep
the REIMBURSEMENT of which we patiently
submit to in view Of ten o'clock break
fast on ordinary occasions!
Mrs. Elliott, with that rare and unerr-
ing intuition common to very few whose
"heyday in the blood is tame" conceived
that the girls she wished to have with
her might possibly enjoy themselves just
shade more if she invited few favored
gentlemen friends; SO, with ready tact
and true kindliness of spirit Ito the gen.
tlemen, at least y, she insisted upon their
presence, which you may be sure was not
bestowed hesitatingly. It was a rare
treat, and we all intended to make the
most of it.
For several hours after we quilted the
harbor, Dawfuskie loomed up in sight,
and a picturesque view it presented to
our admiring gaze. Our party consisted
Of twelve young people, with Mrs. Cor
don as chaperone. Though here, the
chaperonage system is completely ig-
nored-owiDg, perhaps, to the advanced
state Of good morals in the community
Mrs. Gordon is SO beloved by all the
younger generation of S Savannab, as we'll
as the older and wiser, that we insisted
upon her matronizing us, when we would
highly exalt her by the dignified appel
lation of chaperone.
Generally. preconceived ideas of places
and people are too apt to snrpass the
real, but in this instance | found it was
impossible to conceive any thing half so
lovely as the soft woodland stretching
on one side Of the Island, the waves lash
ing the beautiful smooth beach, while
ahead Of it all lay the broad blue ocean,
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SECRETS OF BEAUTY,-Breathes there a
man who does not love beautiful woman
Breathes there woman who does not love
to be admired by man! No art can paint,
no sculptor can chisel the dimpled rosy
cheek, the lustre Of the eye, the bewitehing
smile nor the long luxuriant tresses-as
nature presents in a beautiful woman. All
females can retain their health and personal
charms by the use of English Female
Bitters
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Rev. NJ. P. Remington, Ithaca, N. Y,
writes: "From too close application to my
calling, my health underwent severe
strain. felt weakness in every part of
my body. My digestion especially failed
me, and my nerves became all unstrung.
Recreation did not do me proper benefit.
Finally, ON the recommendation of q brother
minister, tried Browns Iron Bitters. 1t
l ever before felt since was young man"
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Stop and Consider.

Are you troubled with weakness in any
part of the body9 Have you weak lungs
or is your hearts action enfeebled and
irregular9 Are you suffering from illhealtb,
caused by the weakness of the urinary or
digestive organs Remember, Browns
Iron Bitters will cure you and fully restore
both mind and body to their normal condi-
ton. 1t quickly strengthens the parts af-
fected.
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Ninety per cent. of the yellow sand of
the Sahara desert is found to be quartz
grains, the angles of which are remark
ably rounded-evidently by attrition
through the action Of the wind.
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Extended microscopical examinations
have convinced Prof. Reinsch that coal
is largely formed of remains of low
order of marine life, and not entirely
from land plants.
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NUMBER al
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Domestic.
A water spout flooded Garner, Miss,
April 20.
The Cincinnati iron-workers' strike il
at an end.
Gniteau has applied for q writ Of
habeas corpus.
Banjo playing is becoming f.shion-
able accomplishment in Connecticut.
A Chicago mother poisoned her four
children, laid out their remains and COM
mitted suicide.
A Philadelphia committee have offered
Mr.. Bradlaugh $4,000 in advance for n
series of lectures.
Missouri has new law forbidding tho
manufacture or sale in that State Of any
imitation of butter.
Five little brothers and sisters were
instantly killed on the New Haven rail-
road, at New Havan, N. Y, June 8.
Thieves at Cairo, Ill.,, murdered an
aged man because he would not tell
where his valuables were concealed.
A Negro woman at Lynchburg, Va.
finding her little child had small pox.
threw it into a well to escape the con-
tagion.
Rochester is to- have q convention of
nndertakers at which there will be an
exhibition of coffins, shrouds and other
burial articles.
An Ohio man who believes that a Sec
ond food will take place in 1886, has
built an ark in which he will take pas
sengers at s., 600 each.
A Springfield woman whose husband
was arrested in the act of beating her.
fought the officers and finally was taken
to prison with her spouse.
Nicodemus, Negro colony of 367 fam
lies, i'll Graham county, Kan, has no
legal tender, the trading being done by
bartering the produce of the farms.
A sufferer from rheumatism bathed
himself in turpentine at Lyons, Iowa,
and then lighted his pipe for . comfort
able smoke. He was burned to death.
A Cincinnati husband whose wife
went to a matinee against his wishes
walked down the centre aisle Of the
theatre, took her by the ear and lead hor
out.
An old Negro nurse ct Grand Rapid,
Mich, persuaded = woman to skin :
black cat and wrap her sicl; baby in the
hide. The treatment caused the child,s
death.
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HIRAM H. CARVER
ATTORNEY ATsLAW,
DOnaldsOnville, La.
Will practice in oil the Courts of the Stat,
GHAs. A. BAoUIE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HahmyfIlr. I'm.

Practices in the 22nd and 26th Judicial
Districts. comprising the parishes Of Jeffer-
SOC, st. Charles, st. John, st. James and
Ascension, and before the Federal and
Supreme Courts in New Orleans.
Special attfntion paid to the collection Of
commercial claims.
Address; Hahpyille P. O., St. Charles, La.
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Many persons are bitterly oppasea to
patent medicines and VII rsrely use
them at all. There is NO doubt that many
are worthless, yet remedy that has stood
the test for years, like DR. Sherman's Prick.
II Ash Bitters. and its sale and popularity
increasing every day, must have merit or It
would have disappeared long since.
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Foreign,

The King Of Abyssinia is severely op.
posed to missionaries.
The network of the German subterra-
mean cable is completed.
Wolves are appearing fn crsat NUM-
bers in the east of France.
A working-girls' home in London has
been christened the Garfield House.
A beggar was arrested in Milan, Ohio.
who had 900 sewed in his coat lining,
Mr.. Linton is to receive 1000 guineas
from Queen Victoria for his painting Of
Prince Leopold.
Two hundred lives were lost in the re-
cent riot between natives and Europeans,
at Alexandria, Egypt.
The snowfall in Austria has been 80
great that in many places the drifts
reach the telegraph wires.
The steamboats, on the Rhine are to
carry electric lights so that the night
passengers can see the scenery.
ALI the buildings in Milan from the
Piazza del Duomo to Raff,cle, are being
torn down in order TO widen the Corso.
Queen Victoria's servants doffed their
Grape armlets on Prince Leopold's we'd
ding day, for the first time since his
death.
In his diary of European travel the
Shah of Persia says that au Englishman
who disobeys a policeman is instantly
put to death.
In the May day procession of Newcas-
tie, England, appeared blind mining
pony aged q, which had never till then
been above ground.
About $4,000 acres of land between
Jaffa and Jerusalem have been secured
on which to form a colony for the perse-
| cuted Jews of Europe.
A bill has been introduced in the
Chamber of Deputies, at Madrid, proyi-
ding for the immediate abolition of
slavery in Cuba aud granting slaves
civil rights.
A trial, in which the Orleans Princes,
the King of the Beigians and the Comte
of Flanders, will fgure as defendants,
| will shortly come on for hearing before
| the civil tribunal in Paris.
Fonr clergymen pail bearers of de-
parted Vicar, in Somersetshire, England,
having to wait until the grave was en-
larged, became absorbed in a rubber of
whist, the coffin being used as card
| table.
Carriage factory at Wilmington, Del.
loss $s5, 600
| Largest hotel in Wilkesbarre. Pa. !:
loss 500, 600
Jewish quarter at Kovna, Russia; loss
600, 900 roubles.
Business portion of Willow Station,
CAL; loss $175, 600.
Offices of the Daily Nugget, Daily Epi-
taph and Usion Telegraph at Tombstone,
Arizonia; loss $500, 600.
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A Delightful Novelty.

Ladies prefer Floreston Cologne because
they find this lasting combination OF exqui
site perfumes delightful novelty.
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HE LOVES, BUT HE CENsUREs.

HE LOVES, BUT HE CENSUREs.
In bangs never can delight,
My gentle Phyllis dear;
Why will you hide from mortal sight
That forehead white and clear4
/ do detest that halo hat,
Whose wide, outrageous brim
Encircles like a pancake fat,
And hides your face from him
Who flin would gaze upon your face,
Where beauty sits enshrined;
do not like the easy grace
With which you free your mind
Of iargon, prattle, small talk, slang;
These things do sadly mar
But spite of these, big hat and bang,
Ill take you as you are.
Boston Transcript.
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DoNALDSoNvlLIE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
DRY GOODS. aIsOCxRIEs, Etc.

u LANDMAN, desler in Dry Goods,
HI Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General
Merchandise, corner r. r. Avenue and
Taylor Streets, oae block from Railroad
Depot.
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BARBER SHOP.

r l.. FERNANDEZ. Barber Shop, Mis-
LIE sissippi Street. near corner Lessard.
Shaving, hair-cutting, shampooing, ETC., in
most artistic style
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TNO. SOLOZANO, dealer in Groceries,
- Wines and Liquors, Crockery, Tinware,
Notions, etc. No. 81 Railroad Avenue, be-
tween Conway and st. Michael streets,
Donaldsonville.
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"rHE LOST CAUSE"

Under the head "The Lost Cause" til
Houston Post, on Saturday last, publishe,
the following, which will certainly be foun'
interesting BY all who were interested il
the recent drill:
The following is the production of a high
" pDetical, super.pathetical young man o
Houston upon hearing the result of the inter
State drill at New Orleans, and upon beinl
applied to for d contribution to aid in givinI
o reception to the Light Guard upon thei
return:
Take that dollar! I'm a-weary,
My poor heart is sad and dreary;
Take it, keep it, without fear.
Though the Light Guard tried to save it,
Time and perepiration gave it;
reckon you will have to have it;
Take it, spend it for the beer.
Take that dollar down; I'm "busted; ;"
You can bet feel disgusted,
And the thing l most mistrusted
Makes mo feel confounded queer
Oh, twas hard for me when told it,
Hard to think couldn't hold it,
Hard that /, who once controlled it,
Now must lose thing so dear.
Take that dollar! take it sadly;
Once used to feel it gladly,
And my comrades wildly, madly
SwOre l should forever treat
| swore that while l had it, never
Would in q wild endeavor
Hearts like ours entwined dissever;
Agreed to, "set 'em up" forever,
Hardly dreaming Of defeat!
Take it for the man who grasped 1t,
And the purse that lately clasped it
One is ruined, both are low.
And that dollar has gone sailing,
While about me sounds the wailing
Of it's owner in his woe.
For, though lost, still adore it,
Oh, how wildly deplore it,
Wish it had been spent, before it
Thus is lost without show.
And the Light Guard! they are CORY,
With their hard-earned slice of glory,
Aud they'll tell US many story,
How they fought and bled aud died.
And their fame on Johnson's pages,
Pcnned by Gail BIS learned sages,
Shall go sounding down through ages,
With their drilling glorified.
Poor Tom Scurry! Softly, sadly,
Treat him gently, he feels badly,
For his work seems all in vain.
Brace up, Tom, keep up your drilling,
Houston folks are always willing
To back the boys in gray again.
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INO. +. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fan
- cy Groceries, Provisions. Plantation and
BtcamboAt Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines,
Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ale, ETC., Dry Goods
and Notions, corner Of Mississippi and Chef
i.naches streets, opp. River Ferry.
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A d. 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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MATTRESS MAKER.

DETER WAGNER, Spring and Moss
il Mattress Mandatory, Mississippi St.
Repairing and cleaning furniture a special
ty. All orders promptly attended to.
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M LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
Nls ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries,
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup.
plies. at Lemann's old stand, Mississippi
street. G. FEITEL, Agent.
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INSURANCE AGENCIES.

" MAURIN, General Fire Insurance
~ Agent. Mississippi street, over Fer
companies with over 5O,OOO, 900 Of capital.
Policies issued directly from agency with.
out delay.
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TOSEPH GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
- Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture
and oil kinds Of House Furnishing Goods,
Blue Store, Mississippi street.
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MILLINERY.
SODA WATER MANUFAcroRY.

CODA WATER MANUFACToRY, H.
y Hether. proprietor, No. Ii Mississippi
street. Soda, Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds
Of aerated waters manufactured, and sold
at lowest prices.
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DAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and No
i tary Public, Donaldsonville. Office ::
One block below the Courthouse, on At
takapas street. Je25
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M ISRAEL T. CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
Ms Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, etc., corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
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BLACKSMITH,

GCHONBERG'S Livery, Feed and Sale
y Stable and Undertaker'e Establishment,
Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At
.akapas streets. Competition defied.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
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DERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
ID Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts,
Plows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
niture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place,
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ATTORNEYS AT Law,

EREDERICK DUFFEL, Attorney at law
| II and Notary Public, Office on Cheti-
maches street, opposite the Court-Honse.
EDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law,
II Attakapas street, opposite Louisiana
Square. Visits NaDOleonville on Mondays.
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~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
~ Houmas street, dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
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M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
Nle 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 ut lowest figures.
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AFRS. I. PALMER,

AIRS. I. PALMER,
DRESSMAKER,
Railroad Avenue. near Claiborne street,
Donaldsonville.
Plain and fancy sewing of all kinds done
in best style aud on reasonable terms. A
trial solicited and satisfaction guaranteed.
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r OUIS j. RACKE. Tinsmith. Mississippi
IL street, at Lemann's old stand. Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-21
Figures Of Egyptian Commerce
London Time.

Mr.. Cookson's report on the trade and
commerce Of Egypt has just been published
and shows that the total value of exports
from Egypt in 1881 was very nearly the same
as that In 1880, with the exception that the
proportion OF trade with Great Britain fell
off 213 per cent. The trade with Russia in
creased, while that with France fell off from
916 per cent. of the total exports IN 1879 to
per cent. in 1881. The value Of exports
from all the Egyptisn ports in 1881 was 913,.
267, ,634. In cotton. out OF total of f9, Ill.,
9O2, England took 95, ,513 GIG, and In Cotton
seeds, out of q total OF 9l, l,544 ,246, England
took 81, ,453 OPS. The principal item of i'm
port was cotton and linen manufacture,
of which England sent 9l, ,58l, ,S16 out OF
a total OF 81, ,645, ,17S. England sent nearly
all the coal, the next most important
item, but In clothing both France
and Austria sent more than Great Britain
did. The total value Of the imports was
81, 10, 1868, OF which 93, 707, ,83l came from
England. The import trade in Egypt has
sprung to the figure above mentioned In
1881, from 94, ,S45, 900 in the year 1873. Mr..
Cookson concludes his report, which is
dated May 20, 1882, with the following re-
marks: "Though the financial condition OF
Egypt continued to be very prosperous, and
the administrative reforms to produce their
natural results, vet the vicious habit of bor-
rowing, contracted In former times by the
fellaheen, has nearly neutrslized all these
benefits. No sooner did the peasant find
himself IN better circumstances than he
spent all his ready money in feasts and mar
riages, and borrowed more largely than ever,
because he could get the money on easier
terms; and, unfortunately for him, just at
at this moment came the military
revolution, which so frightened all
the banks and land mortgage
companies that they contracted their
credits. The peasant has thus been
thrown back on the local usurer, who has
exacted during the last few months his old
rate of interest, and from 20 per cent. to 40
per cent. has been the price of money on
good security. But If the agriculturist has
suffered from the effects Of the political
troubles he has not been completely ruined
bv them, as have been hundreds Of families
of merchants and brokers by the financial
crisis which they produced on the Stock
Exchange. This crisis disclosed such a
reckless system Of speculation in stock of
all kinds as could hardly be Cqualed in the
annals of commerce. A fall of three or four
points in the price of Egyptian stock was
sufficient to make more than half the
brokers In Alexandria bankrupt, and the in
PRODUCTION of the American system of
'cornering' on a very large scale has COM
pleted the ruin of many who had survived
the crisis for which speculation was pri-
marlIy responsible. Altogether, the close
OF the year 1881 left Egypt In a situation
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The Fate of Arabi Pasha.
Neto York Herald

What shall be done with Arabic "Shoot
him." say the English mar;inets. "Ay,"
respond the diplomatists, "but what about
his counsellors He Is uotoriously the tool
of shrewder wits" There, indeed, is the
rub. How shall the men be treated who
fostered or refused to check the national
movement? There is Mr.. Wilfrid Blunt,
who married Lord Byron's granddaughter
aud wandered through the villages of the
Nile, like a native rhapsodist, adapting
"The Isles OF Greece" and other staDz2s Of
"Childe Harold" to the needs of Egyptian
patriotism. There is Sir William Gregory,
the professional philanthropist, who frat
persuaded Arab that he was born to great
ness. There Is the KhedIve, who might
have hanged him years ago. There is the
Sultan of Turkey, who decorated him.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, we haYe no doubt,
would be perfectly competent to shoot Mr..
Blunt, Sir William Gregory, the Khedive
and the Sultan. But what would the world
saYs AS public opinion is now constituted
we fear that the conquerors OF Egypt will
have to put aside all thoughts of executing
Arab, and hand him over either to the Khe-
dive. who viii find him a healthy place of
banishment in the Soudan; or to the Sultan.
who will send him to jUin Midhat Pasha in
Arabia, or to London society, which will
lionize him like Cetewayo, show him the
tower, take him to drawing room at Buck
ingham Palsce, and eend him home SO pro-
foundly impressed with British greatness
that he will withdraw into a hermitage like
ADD ell Kadir, the great Algerian, and his