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THE REVIVAL.

And when, one night. the parson come,
His piety-friends to greet,
He found a crowd sls, the hummer gang
All sot on the hopeful seat.
He seemed for to take their meanin' in,
But never q mite he stirred
An the prayer he raised to the Lord that nigh
Was the powerf' lest over heard.
He prayed for all mankind that's vile
A-living on earth below.
And he axed Il special prayer for them
AS sot on that thar front row.
The gH1lg they stood it as best they could
Till it got too drefful hot,
And then the eggs begun for to fly
From where them bummers sot.
The parson allowed quick amen,
An stepped squar up to the crowd
" Show me the feler as flung them eggs -
He inquiry made aloud.
"Waal, what do you propose for to do?"
One on em axed in reply,
But afore he knowed it he calmly drapt,
With Il balcony onto his eye.
Them fellers fell and chawed the floor,
But the parsOn never stopt
Till he'd cleaned the crowd completely out,
And the last burned cuss he'd dropt.
Then, lOOkin' around on the women folks,
In a calm and peaceful way,
He seq: Now ,sence this episode
Has concluded let us pray
From that thar moment the grace o the Lord
Porvaded our little town,
And them folks got it the worst who'd swore
They'd get thet thar preacher down.
That's why bev said and still maintain,
Revivals is doubtless right
But whar would ha' been the grace o. God
If that preacher'd been licked that night2
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w. H. Y

Prof James A. SeweIl, A. NJ, M. D., Of
MEDICAL FACULTY LAVAL UNIVERSITY, Quebec,
sta' d: II have found Coiden's Lfebig's Liq-
uid Extract of Beef and Tonic Invigorator
particularly useful in advanced stages of Con-
sumption, ,oeak1aess, dyspepsia, and all nervous
saffections. In pregnant soomem it has been re-
tanned while every other article of food was re-
jected Palatable and easy Of digestion" TAKE
no other
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Threats have been made that if the
prosecution Of the Black Hand Society" !"
is continued at Keres, Spain, the drink
ing water of that village will be poi
sOncd.
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NUMBER 2s.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Houston is to have a magnificent cot
fton exchange.
| A New York man offers to eat sixty
quails in three days.
The membership fee in Boston's new
stock exchange is $4,000.
Ben Hill, Jr., has been seriously Ill
from paralysis of the throat.
A lady in Nashville, Tenn, has just
received q letter mailed in 1868.
The Government has paid $4,000 as
counsel fees in the Guiteau case. II,
! The water at st. Francis, Ark, is with
in two feet of extreme high water mark.
Simmons Gap, Ca, boasts of man,
not Mormon, who has fifty three chill
dren.
| Between 500 and 600 men employed i'm
Springfield, ILL.,, rolling mills are on IL
| strike.
Hank Monk, Horace Greeley's famous
/ stage driver, died few days ago in CAL
ifornia.
| The loss to those dependent on tho
! fisheries by the Virgins storm scare will
reach Sl25,oO0.
| United States Treasurer Gilfllan has
resigned to accept a position as cashier
of a New York bank.
| Mrs. Langtry has purchased house
| OIL Fifth Avenue and intends residing
permanently in New York.
| A drunken man in Hall county, Ga,
poured q shovel of hot Goals on his infant
child and burned it to death.
| The case of Selmi Morse, in connection
with the Passion Play" will be taken to
the Court of Appeals for final decision.
| A bill has been introduced in the New
York Assembly establishing whipping
post for the punishment of wife beaters.
A man at Alexandria, Va, has been
sentenced to the chain gang, for sixty
days, for cutting off the tails of 200 cats.
| A marriage was celebrated in Brook
lyn museum recently, the bride being
three feet high, and the groom three feet
six inches.
Two sisters, aged 16 ana ID, have loca-
ted q mining claim in the Como district
of Nevada and are sinking shaft by
! their own labor.
| The Connecticut woman snffragists
want property holding women exempted
from paying taxes in any town until ac-
corded full rights as voters.
Over $4,000 visitors were in the city
and fully $4,000 people were on tho
| streets of Atlanta OH the occasion of the
funeral of the late Gov. Stephens.
Nearly 1000 ten-cent subscriptions to-
the Longfellow memorial fund were
made in one -day~by- -flfe pabIie sUh0ol
children of the District of Columbia.
| Senator Tabor gave his wife diamond
necklace valued at $1,000 and Senator
David Davis will settle on his wife $780,
900 worth of real and personal property.
The catholic priest who officiated at
the Tabor wedding on learning that both
of the parties had gone through the di-
vorce courts, promptly returned his fee,
of 5000.
| A Judge at Paterson, N. j., directed the
jury to bring in a verdict Of aequittal in
the case of four notorious desperadoes
who had forciby entered q canal boat,
ruling that canal boat was not Il house.
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A stowaway who was arrested by the
officers of the steamer Republic, on sns-
picion of being implicated in the Phenix
Park murders, has begun suit in New
York for $4,000 damages.
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Prince Bismarck has written all auto
graph letter thanking the American peo
pie for their contributions to the suffer,
ers from the overflow of the Rhine.
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The Russian Emperor has signed
most stringent decree, regulating the
liquor traffic and allowing only one
liquor shop in village.
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MILLINERY.

NHRS. NJ. BLUM. Millincr, Mississippi
lVE street, between Less;,rd and st. Pat
rick. Latest styles of Bonnets. Hats. French
Flowers, etc; also, all kinds of Ladies I'm
dcrwear.
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Transient advertisements. 81 per square first
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per square.
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Editorial notices. first insertion, Is cents per
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Cards of six lines or less in Business Direct
ory. S. per annuIn.
Brief communications upon subjects of public
interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous letters.
The editor il not responsible for the views OF
correspondents.
Address: The CHIEF, Donaldsonville. La.
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Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar will
arrest every ailment of the lungs, throat, or
chest.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.
For the skin-G1enn's Sulphur Soap.
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

ID RYBISkI, Apothecary and Druggist,
De Mississippis street, between st. Patrick
and st. Vinccn, streets, adjoining Gondran' s
store.
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ATTORNEYS At LAW.
UNDERTAKEk.

SICHONBERG'S Undertakcr's Establish
~ mcnt. Railroad Avenue, between Ibcr-
vile and Attakapas streets All kinds OF
burial cases, from the pine coffin to tho me-
talIie or rosewood easkct
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~ KLINE, curnm Crescent Place and
We Houmas street, dealersin Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Greceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran ~
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DoN NAuD soNvILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DRY GooDs. GKocERIEs. Etc.

ID LANbMAN, dealer in Dry Goods,
HE Groceries, Plantation Supplies, Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, and General
Merchandise, corner Il. r. Avenue and
Taylor Streets, one block from Railroad
Depot.
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NN TOBIAS, de.lcr in Groceries, Dry
lVAs Goods Clothing, Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, Furniture, Hardware, Crock
cry, Trunks, etc, corner Mississippi and st.
Patrick streets and No. 81 Railroad Avenue.
Everything ut lowest figures.
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ME LEVY, dealer in DrF.Goohs Cloth
lNe ing, Boots Shoes, IIHts, Groceries,
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup.
plies, ut Lenann'a old stand, Mlss'ss'rpi
street. G. FEITEL Agent.
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M ISRAEL g. Co, dealers i'll Dry Goods,
lVle Clothing, Bonts, Shoes, Saddlnry.
Buggies. etc, corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
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Emo. sOLOzANd, dealer in Groceries,
- Wines and Liquors, Croekcry, Tinwnre,
Notions, etc. No. 2f Railrond Avenue, be-
tween Conway aud st. Michael streets,
Donallsonvlle.
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soDA WATER MANUFACToRY.
MATTRESS MAKER.

DETER WAGNER, Spring and Moss
H. Mattress Manufactory, Mississippi st.
| Repairing and cleaning furniture a special
ty. All orders promptly attended to.
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TNO. +. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fan
- cy Groceries, Provisions. Plantation and
Steamboat Supplies. Canned Goods, Wines,
Liquors. Bottled lieer. Ale, etc, Dry Goods
and Notions corner of Mississippi and Chet-
imachcs STREETS, OPP. River Ferry.
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Hos. GONDRAN& SONS, dealersin Dry
J Goods, Clothing, Notions. Hats. Gro
ceries, Wines Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hard
waro, Paints, Oils, saddlory Crockery, Fur
niturc and all kinds Of House Furnishing
Goods. Blue Store, Mississippi street
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INSURANCE. AGENCIES.

W MAURIN, General Fire Insurance
W Agent, Mississippi street, over Fer
nantlez's barber slops Represents tirst-class
companies with over $50, 900 900 Of capital.
Policies issued directly from agercy with
uut ilelaY. u
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TINSMITTI.

II OUIS J. RACkE, Tinsmitl,, Mississippi
II 4 street, at Lemann's + old stand. Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
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HOTELS AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

EDORT. f. LEE HdrEE, Crescent Place,
HI near the Malket4Iousc. Jos. Lafnr4ue,
proprietor. Bor analalliard room attached.
First-cl entertainncnt and accommodate
tions. -.
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A ID. VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods,
~ Notion, Clothing, Baots and Shoes,
Hats, Grocer es, Liquors, Furniture, Hard
ware, Tobacco, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber,
Bricks, Carts and Wagons; Loeb's corner,
Rnilroad Ayalue and Mississippi street.
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TlTY HOTEL, Z. LeIevro. Proprietor,
" Railroad Avcnne, cor 1berville street.
Bar supplied with best Liquors.
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DERNARI LEMANN & BROTHER.
ID dealers II Western Produce, fancy and
staple Groceies, Liquors, Hardware, Iron,
Paints, Oils, CARTS, Pows, Saddleiy, Stoves
and Tinwars Furniture, Crockery, wall
Paper and louie Furnishing Goods, Mis-
sissippi street, corner Crescent Place.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

sion Piay-The "Lsght Fantastic Toe =" In
Gods House--An Impending Crash in
Stocks-The Almighty VS.. Gould, ct ais.
New YORK. March 10, 1883.
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So 4NaS II @
that comes ren'atnre!s g races thai g
should only ~ Few ,neisilllent and pc III
! evidence Of liofh NJ more serious than
! careless studsAaand tioEgItless play.
| The Christn1asis civilization. and civill-
| cation means the tenderest of judgment
and the lasgest Of humanity, And OF
all the humanity that ever blessed man
kind, the kind that put its arm around
the child and stroye to lead him to
think we'll of the world, including its
law and its gospel, has done most for
the manhood and womanhood that
grew up from that experience.
What more might be. expected of the
Christmas season than this2 What
more might the Savior, whose birth we
celebrate, ask? What better can we do
for ourselves and our happinessp For
the little children who are to grow up
and be men and women along with our.
children, fighting for life with them in
the ordinary existence of every day,
are going to give them hard rubs if they
are not treated as the Father and the
Son want them to be treated now
1t is the Christmas season, and Christ
mas is civilization. Let us see how
civilized we are. Let the snow
drift or the rain fall on no I'M.
protected child. Let there be no little
one yearning in vain for good fellow
ship. What farce would Christmas
be il there were such q friendless, home
less, suffering wait in all this world
N. 7. Graphic
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Christmas Is Coming.

Hope it won't be a green Christmas.
Boston Pot.
Bet you that you get Il pair of slip
pers on Christmas Day.-Gecclana
PlGi'aacaler.
The turkey that escaped Thanks
giving begins to tremble for Christmas.
-Cleueland Plaindeazer.
Married people are generally good
mind rea9ers. just now wives and
husbands are artfully trying to deceive
each other as to what they want for a
Christmas present. Boston Globe.
pay that ten dollars to-day? Why,
my dear sir, do you expect man to
take Christmas money to pay debts2
No, sir! no, sir! 1 still have a warm
heart in my bosom, sir" -Louisville
Courie7-Jou77aol.
1t seems like taking advantage of
an innocent turkey to fatten him for
Christmas on the remains of the dress
ing left over from, perhaps, her fathers
or mothers skeleton, but such things
are done. -Rocz,ester Post Express.
just at this season of the year the
"chAsA 10 uifiAtCA iIILO GNO CldSSSS-flLs.
Those who find difficulty in selecting
appropriate Christmas gifts and those
who lind difficulty in purchasing them
after they have been selected. The latter
class is the more numerous.
Rost-Egpress.
:" Are you going to present your
husband with a Christmas dressing
gown asks the Detroit Free Press OF
the ladies. Perhaps it is not competent,
but there are great many wives who
will present their husbands with Christ
mas dressingdown if they don't get
what they want.-Bosto7s Globe.
% maiden fair. the Christmas comes,
And Christmas snow is tiockng.
Thou hast my heart, sweet one, or else
I'd put it in thy stocking.
Close by the chimney it should hang,
And warmer grow, and warmer,
Till in the morn its captor came,
The darling little stormer
o maiden fart the Christmas comes,
And Christmas snow is Hooking
Behold a lover at thy feet,
Ii not at thy dear stocking!
Louisville Coarier-Journaz.
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Christmas Presents

Children Of the present genersf1on
arr. not aware. probably. how lnltcii bet s.
ter they fare ct Christmas and on their
birthdays than their fathers did. And
]. ii is d conclusive proof of the growth OF
our people on tine sentimental side %
their natures, that it is 50.
Forty years ago, in this country, It -
not likely that one boy out Of score
expected to receive even one present at
Christmas. The practice has grown
almost universal within the last genera
ton.
Now it might be easy TO say that TINS
.chanoe arises out Of tie greater alum
dance Of money in the country That
has helped it, no doubt. But there have
always been ways TO give presents with
out spending much money for them.
And those presents which we receive at
Christ1nas-tide, which are the hlndl-
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work Of loving friends, are those which
are most priced.
| The last fact shows that present Civ
| ing at stated seasons is matter Of
sentiment, and it also shows that the
more it is that, and the less it is mat.
| ter of gain, the more pleasing it is to
u.s. Accordingly it is not that part of
present-giying which is due tothe great
er National and individual wealth, bus
/ that which comes from the sentimental
willingness to work for others. and to
make an outward expression OF the
goodwill which is not doubted, that IS
worth noting and praisfng.
This laudable tendencyof Americans
at the present day shows itself also in
the fashion of card-sending. Many y
miss still at school can remember the
time when the practice of sending holt
day cards was almost unknown.
Nowadays everybody sends cards,
and holidays are almost invented for
the purpose of afforcting an excuse for
the cards. The artists and the publish
ers vie with each other IN producing
pretty and elegant designs. Christmas,
New Year. Day and Easter cards are
published and sold by the million. The
mails are loaded with them.
All this is very pleasant, indeed. Let
the gruf and old-fashIoned sneer at the
folly and the hoilowness, as they deem
it.. of making presents which are ex-
pected, and of wishing Merry Christ
mas by sending q chrome.
Most of what is pleasant and agreea-
bic in our association with others comes
from the observance of certain formali-
ties. When You bid your neighbor
. good morning.. what do you mean
BY it? Certainly not to give him any in-
formation. You say it as matter Of
formal courtesy. It means that, and
nothing more.
But who would abolish the morning
greeting, the geDdeman's hand-shake.
the baby's kiss, that raising of the hat
to all lady acquaintance and to all
men acquaintance who are accom-
panied by ladies, and the other formal
courtesies of lie?
An excess of sentiment and an over
doing of the outward expression of feel
ing are possible. But americans have
a long road to travel before they are
in danger of failing ON that side. It
will be for our great grandchildren to
preach from the textiles sentiment
and more heart YOUTHS Con1gaassoaz.
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MistIetoe at Christmas Tide.

The hanging of the mistletoe is the
cause of much frolic and .laughterin the
house. 1t is the rule that whoever is
passing under the mistletoe- Dough must
submit to being kissed then and there
by Whosoever chooses to take that lib
erty. As a bough usually hangs from
the center of the ceiling, spreading over
large space, it follows that there must
be much lodging or much kissing; l
am inclined to think there are both.
The origin of this use of the mistletoe
is not known; but we do know that
more than eighteen hundred years ago,
When the glad stars sang together over
the manger in Bethlehem, and when
wise men brought gifts of gold, frank
incense and myrrh to young Child in
the peasant mothers arms, England
was chill, mist-covered island, inIlab-
iteI only by savages, who wore gar
ments OF skins and lived in huts of mud
and stones. Among these savage Brit
ons there We're pagan priests called
Druids. These priests were n1ysteri-
Gus folk, who lived in dense woods far
away from other men. and who, in the
gloomy so1ifudes Of the forest, performed
strange secret ceremonies. The sacred
groves as they were called. were of
oak; for the oak was a divine tree, ac-
cording to the Dru deal religion With
in these sacred groves the priests, it is
recorded in history, offered their sacri-
fees, and in some manner now not
known they employed the mistletoe.
But all mistletoe was not sacred to the
Druids. They would have none but
that which clung to the trunk and was
nourished by the sap Of the divine oak.
To them the apple-tree mistletoe, which
modern England uses so freely in her
holiday festivities, would be a worthless
and common thing.
When in later centuries England was
taught the Christian religion by priests
who went thither from Rome, the peo-
pie. though protesting a belief in Christ,
retained many of their heather rites and
customs changed from their original
meaning and purpose. At any rate,
from the Druids has come the modern
usage of the mistletoe- Dough. strangely
preserved in festivities which commem-
crate the birth of Him whose pure wor-
ship destroys all heather superstitions
st. Nicholas.
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What jolly fat fellow! so little and spry,
With round dimpied checks and fine fash
Christmas.

The stockings are numerous. and
they become more numerous year BY
year; but there is wealth enough to fiji
| them all. The Lord takes care of these
i things, and no little child will appeal
to the Christmas heart in vain. There
are problems in political and social
economy which can never be satisfac-
torily solved; but there is a benefcence
in the general plan of living and dying
which will permit no gross injustice.
We go to the Father and to His Son
when we die, trusting to their generosi-
ty and knowing well our feebleness;
and no little child in New York, and
let us believe in all the land-for a
single exception at this time would be
injustice to the whole plan-will appeal
to the Father or the Son, or to any of
their representatives-and who is not
their representative in the Christmas
time?-in vain.
There should be no children's tears
to-day or for days to come. As we
hope for charity for ourselves, let us be
generous to the helplessness which is q
type of our own helplessness in the
eyes of the Power to which we pray.
The little children are bad and good,
and ragged and we'll clothed, and prom
ising and unpromising, and bright and
dull, and jubilant and sullen, and Iowa
BILE and ENJOYABLE; but there is in every
pair of eyes the same pleading look and
the same kind of tear. either of graft
tude or disappointment, and for ths
most part they have the same kind of
heart and the same ability to under
stand disappointment and injustice.
Light up these little eyes on Christ
mas morning, and use the means to it
at once. Brighten these little faces,
though the shining of them shine
through dirt that better article of
general government ought to have
washed away. Smooth out the care