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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
HOW TT STANDS.

According to the New Orleans Picayune
the net result 81 the elections for delegates
to the Democratic State convention held up
to this date is, McEnery sc, anti-adminis-
traton IS, and in the parishes to be heard
from. exclusive of New Orleans, the Pic
counts upon securing 104 anti-administra-
ton votes, against II for MeEnery. This
would make the total vote 113 for the ad-
ministration and 189 against it, Lafayette
and VIM being omitted from the calcula-
ton "for good reasons. This, with a
claimed majority of the Orleans delegation,
the anti administrationists will have clear
majority and control tbs convention easily
The Times Democrat, Oh the other hand,
figures the situation thus: McEnery votes
conceded by the opposition. 113: claimed
by I'd, 81: estimated from New Orleans,
GO: total for MeEnery 270.
1t may be supposed that the It'd. has the
magnanimity to concede the remaining
1919 votes to the Observation-Disclosures, but
not so: it assumes to think that some
twenty five or thirty of the little balance
may still be gathered in by the greedy
McEneryites.
Thus it stands. If the readers of the
CHIEF do not comprehend the situation
clearly it is not our fault.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

The Boss CANE.-Under this title the
Iberville South notes the receipt of stalk
Of cane measuring 8 feet 8 inches in length
and containing 20 joints, which the editor
thinks is the boss cane of 1888" and in
quires who can beat it?" If Assumption
is admitted to the competition, we desire
to say that we have stalk of white cane in
our Office, received last week from the Half
Way plantation of Mr.. J. E. Vicknair
which is 8 feet, inches long and has %
joints. The query of the South is re-echoed,
Who can beat it?
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
FRENCH CLAIMS DECISIONS.

FRENCH CLAIMS DECISIONS.
On the 23rd of November the French and
American Claims Commission made the
following awards against the United States
as reimbursement to French citizens for
property taken or destroyed by the Federal
forces during the lats war:
Chas. A. Gauthier, st. Martinsvile, La,
$161O; Eugene Duchamp, st. Martinsville,
S2735 Arthur Robelet, Mobile, 1898; Wild
ow Vial. st. Charles, $1,000; Mrs. Y. Lee
Bourhes, New Orleans, $500; T. A. and E.
Briers, New Orleans, $500; Charles Roche,
st. James, $500; George E. LeDuc, New
Orleans, 5000.
The claims of the following parties were
disallowed:
2. A. Gramerchi, Yazoo City: N. J. Mar
cheal, Cassandra; Irma Dupont, st. James;
Joseph Ferry, Marksyille; Bernard Laplane,
New Iberia; P. g. Gilbert, New Orleans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

err i'll the land. The freight handlers are
on strike. They object to railroads EN-
ploying Workmen not members of New
Orleans unions, though paid a like price.
They say railroads should not import labor,
use 1t in the business season, and then re-
turn to their homes at the close, when q
sufficient number of laborers can be OBJ
tanned in New Orleans. It strikes me that
while there is wisdom in combining laborers
to secure living wages, it is overstepping
the bounds to demand that railroads con-
fine themselves to particular locality or
particular persons in selecting their en-
ployes. In this United States Of America
citizens of any State or city are guaranteed
the right to remove from one place to an
other. for any peaceable purpose whatso-
ever. This right should be respected az
well as the right of employers to choose
their employees. Men of the North. it seems.
till the fields and gather the harvest there.
and i'll winter are idle, and must seek en-
ployment, and some of them are willing to
able they have been drawn here by the ad-
vertisements of the Worlds Exposition to
be held in growing city. But if people
don't come here, how is the city to grow?
If new corners are to be met by hostile dem
onstrations of unwelcome, why will they
want to stay here? The freight handlers
on strike have appealed to the Chamber
of Commerce to side with them as against
the freight handlers who are at work, and
they may be able to induce the railroad men
to partially concede the demands of the
strikers, but the result can only be tempo
rary, and brought about to facilitate com
MERGE. just such demands will be power
full incentives to the Port Eads movement
and the avoidance of the labor combine
ton depositing the freight elsewhere. 1t
can not be denied that these well-meanine
strikers and deserving laborers, have
large share of the sympathy of the commu-
nifty; yet cause to be impregnable should
have little more of right at it's founda-
ton. 1t is blessing to the majority of the
poopAo W Htise idAEOduS; OI course Inc men
who build them are capitalists, as every
one OF the strikers will be if the chances
are favorable: and every man of them has
a right to put such domestics in his kitchen
as he thinks proper, and would think it
impertinence if all the other do
mestics objected because not enrolled in
their benevolent society.
John McEnery has sounded the war whoop
for his brother Sam, and says John Fitz-
patrick must go to the wall. More anon.
GENERAL OBSERVER.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

Mr.. Ed. N. Bertheaud, the former first
baseman of the old Burnside Base Ball
Club of this place, who has been in Texas
for some months past earning new laurels
on the,damond field, unexpectedly dropped
in on us this morning, having just returned
to st. James from his trip to the Lone Star
State. Ed. is looking finely and speaks in
high terms of Houston and Texas generally.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

We were misinformed, it seems, concern
ing the nature of the indisposition from
which Mr. Henry G. Wilson, manager of
the Palo Alto plantation, is suffering. We
had understood that he was Frustrated by
the effects of severe cold, but we have
more recently learned that he slipped and
fell in the sugar-house, wrenching his
thigh SO seriously that he has been confined
to the house and can only walk with the
aid of clutches. He ventured out last Mon
day sooner than he should have done, and
the indiscretion has somewhat retarded his
recovery.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

Miss Clara Heating has returned from
her visit to Baton Rouge after a most en-.
joyable sojourn in that pleasant little city,
and is warmly welcomed home by her rel
atives and friends. From the Weekly
Truth we copy the following compliment
airy "personal:
Miss Clara Heating a lovely and accomplished
young lady, Ct Donaldsonyilie, who has been
the last three weeks. returned to her home on
last Sunday. The young lady was much ap-
pleciated by large number of newly made
ly her departure. and were only consoled by the
promise of another visit from her shortly.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

The family of Capt. G. P. Truslow of the
Red River and Coast Line made round
trip on the Jesse X. Bell recently, just be-
fore that steamer was transferred from the
New Orleans and Plaquemine trade back to
tain's wife, Mrs. g. p. Trnslow, his daugh-
ters, Misses Cora and Annabel Truslow, his
stepdaughter, MISS Edna Perrin, and two
lady friends of the family, Mrs. Tarrant and
Miss Aimee Tarrant. The ladies appeared
to derive much enjoyment from their ex-
cursion,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
Cheap Tony's Magnificent Donation.

Go to Cheap Tony before buying elsewhere
for bargains in his line of business. You auiU
not only make from 25 to 10 per cent. by pur-
chasing your goods from him, but all ,rto bun
FIVE DOLLARS 1cOrfh ,Uitl hnue q free number
MACHINE. Remember. the drnwinq ,ciW posi-
tiuety take place as all the numbers are
taken. Secure q chance at once before theU
are all gone.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

A kitchen building belonging to Auguste
Dugas, at College Point, Yves destroyed by
fire Monday night of last week. The Creole
Fireside reports that the fire was caused
by lighted cigarette imprudently thrown
into trash box.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
Saturday, December 8, 'e3.

Old Probabilities says there is a frigid
wave coming and that the present rains
will be succeeded by clear, cold weather.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
Estray Notice.

'a ~ NJ Up in the village of Port p.,ro..
TWO OLD MULES,
v ig Tnif p ahd the other bay, with no
trace tb mfFs sso Of The rubbing Of
e,s are hereby notified to come fos,v. he !, own
IN defaya na pay costs within the sa prove
Of accordin no winch the animals viii be d.sp es
'fisi OF ascension. November n 1000
ANTOINE RODRTGrE
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

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easily avert. Ayers Hair Vigor will remove
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
Boy Wanted.

A "'ustrious boy about fifteen years of age
- who .'sires to learn the trade of a Copper
! III -. sheet Iron worker can obtain a situa
n by Applying to or addressing the under
:"eh. hENRl SGUAFF.
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

Mr. E.. J. Thomas Spain and Vaudeville
Bitters relieved my dyspepsia when ali else
failed.n 49,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

AS an invigorant, Hostetter's Stomach
Bltters has received the most positive en-
dorsement from eminent physicians, and
standard proprietary remedies. Its prop.
critics as an Alternative of disordered condi-
lions of the stomach, liver and bowels, and
2 preventive of malarial diseases are no
less renowned, and have been accorded
For sale by Druggists and Dealers, to whom
apply tor Hostetter's Almanac For 1884.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

The Terpsichorean Social Club will begin
preparations next week for the grand, fancy
dress ball to be given by that organization
on the 9Th of January. The affair promises
to be one of exceptional brilliance, as we
hear there will be q display of fine costumes
by some of the young men as well as the
ladies, number of the former proposing
to rig themselves up in...the sstyle of our
grandfather's days and personate great
men of We olden time. Every ticket will
have numbered coupon attached emitting
the holder to chance in the rattle of val
liable gift that will take place during the
ball. The arrangements will be all that can
be desired for such an affair.
CoNanEss.-The Forty-eighth Congress
assembled at Washington las. Monday in
regular session. Mr.. Carlisle, the nominee
OF the Democratic caucus, was elected
Speaker, the Republican members casting
their votes for ex-Speaker Keifer. The re-
organization of the Senate has not yet ia
ken place and no date therefor has been
L
received and read and number of bills
have been introduced, being mostly meas
ures of a private character. The message
contains little worthy of special note, the
affording material for any thing startling
or novel i'm the executive communication.
Several matters will be made the subjects
of special messages, among them the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river
LODGE NoTEs.--At next Tuesdays meet |
ing OF Lee Lodge, A. O. U. W., officers for
the ensuing term will be nominated and the |
merits of new goat tested. The presence
of every member is desired. The officers
nominated next Tuesday wild DO formally
elected at the last meeting in December and |
installed at the first meeting in January.
AS the fourth Tuesday of this month will
be Christmas day, the lodge has applied for
December meeting.
The knights of Honor and Knights of |
Pythias also elect officers this mouth, the
former on the third Tuesday and the latter
on the last Thursday.
Two candidates were initiated in the rank
of Page at the meeting Of Kenneth Lodge.
X. of p, this week.
Ascension Council No. $50, American
Legion of Honor, meets tonight.
Eddie Butler aud Frank Thomas, two
young colored men, had quarrel at Blue
Bucket Exchange, the evening of Nov.
30, with a man of their own color, q re-
cent conner here, ana meeting him at the
Market House later in the evening they set
upon him and beat him viciously with
sticks, bruising him about the head and
face quite severely. Thomas succeeded in
escaping arrest and got cut of town, but
Eddie was not SO lucky, and now lies in the
parish jail unable to furnish bond of $500
for the assault and battery and 800 tor the
additional offense of carrying concealed
weapons. He tried to get away and very
nearly succeeded, boarding bayou boat at
the wharf and going as far as the railroad
bridge, where an officer went aboard and
captured him. Eddie has been involved in
several squabbles and has shown rather
90 great readiness to use his club. No
ioubt bis present trouble will have ten
ispcs to make him more discreet IN that ,
ssptet se"eaiter. t
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08
LIST OF PRIZES:

WE DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that we supervise
the arrangements for all the monthly and semi
annual Drawings of the LOUISIANA STATE LoT-
Terry COMPANY and In person manage and con-
troll the Drawings themselves, and that the
in good faith toward all parties. We authorize
the Company to use this certificate with fac
SMILES of our signatures attached, in its adj
vertlsements.
e. T. BEA UREGARD,
ia. EARLY.
Commissioners.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

100000 Tickets at $40 Each.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-08

The Treasury Imbroglio-Cover Mel
ponene Canal-The Projected Port Eads
Railway - Freight Handlers Strike
Brother John Sounds the Yewgag for
Brother Sam.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-01
FLORIDA LEGISLATURE.
New Measures-The Pendleton-AIIen
COntest-COnstitutiOn Convention
Public Printing.

New Measures-The Pendleton-AIIen
COntest-COnstitution Convention
Public Printing.
TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 31.-BilIs were in
trOduced in the Senate as follows:
BY Mr.. MallOry-AuthOrizing writs of at
tachment to be issued on affidavits made
before Commissioners of Deeds and Clerks
of courts of record.
By Mr.. Lesley-To repeal section Il,
chapter 3219 of the Laws of Florida.
By Mr.. Cottrell-To provide for laying
of and dividing counties into districts,
and for other purposes.
By Mr.. Landrum-TO exempt certain
property from taxation.
BY Mr.. Chandler-TO repeal section II,
chapter 81 of the Laws of Florida.
BY Mr., Speer-To incorporate the Tav-
ares, Orlando and Atlantic Railroad.
BY Mr.. POpe-TO amend section 1, chap
ter 312S of the Laws of Florida.
Bills were introduced as follows in the
Assembly:
BY Mr.. Milton-In relation to estab-
fishing Justices districts and defining
Justices jurisdiction.
BY Mr.. McClellan-TO amend the act
providing punishment for crimes and pro-
ceedings in criminal cases,
BY Mr.. Gaskins-TO prohibit the issue
Of city bonds.
The parties in the contested election
case OF PendletOn VS.. Allen, from the
Twenty-fOurth Senatorial district, will be
permitted to speak in the Senate on Fri
day,
The bill relieving counties on the line of
the road from Tallahassee to Jacksonville
from taxation on construction bonds of
the railroad was passed in the Assembly
this morning by large majority.
The joint resolution calling a cOnven-
tion by constitutional method passed the
Senate this morning. Also the bill award
ing the public printing to the lowest bid
dor
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-01
FRANCE.
Prince NapOleOn's Papers Restored-The
Inquiry into his Case Concluded-At-
titude of the Orleans Princes.

Prince NapOIeOn's Papers Restored-The
Inquiry into his Case COncluded-At-
titude of the Orleans Princes.
PARIS, Jan. 31.-Prince NapoleOn's cor
respondence found in two trunks discOy-
cred by the police at Ternes contained
nothing of political Importance and has
been returned to him.
NJ. Fallieres will require several days'
rest bofore he can resume his public
duties. NJ. Deves will conduct the debate
In the Chamber tomorrow on NJ Fabre's
proposal prescribing pretenders, which
was adjourned from Tuesday. The Paris
asserts that General Campenon has de-
clined the Ministry of War. The prelimi-
nary investigation in Prince Jerome's
case has been concluded. The court of
indictments will probably decide by the
end OF the week whether or not the
case should be proceeded with, and in
what manner. The printer of Prince
Jerome's manifesto has been fined four
hundred francs.
NJ. Thibaudin has been appointed Min
lister of War.
Gen. Joseph Edward De La Motter-
ouge is dead.
LONDON, Jan. 31.-A Paris dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph Company says:
"A report is current that the Orleans
Princes have drawn up a manifesto in
in Which they protest against the
charges made against them and de-
clare their readiness to sacrifice their
personal interests for France. 1t is stated
that should the necessity arise, they will
publish a manifesto and at the same mo-
ment quit the country.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Ansonia, large Italian steamer,
has been wrecked on. the coast of TripOli.
Twenty of the crew perished. The rest of
the crew and the passengers were saved.
The VeStUib, of Odessa, says a famine
prevails in the government of Kherson.
and several peasants have committed
suicide to escape witnessing the misery
of their starving families.
1t appears that the vessel sunk off Num-
bless Head on the 10Th was not the steamer
Blackwatch, as was supposed, but another
steamer of similar tonnage carrying a
crew of about the same number, 26.
CetewayO has been reinstated as King
of Zululand. About 5000 Zulus were
present at the ceremony. Many of the
chiefs expressed great dissatisfaction at
the conditions on which he was restored
A Prussian decree ordering youths born
as Danish subjects now residing in Schles-
wig either to enter the Prussian army or
to leave for home, causes intense indigna-
tiOD throughout Denmark, and that cOun-
try protests against this breach of treaty
obligations.
A Lake Providence, La, special saws
can incendiary fire Tuesday night de-
strOyed the residence on the Bellefont
plantation, occupied by Benz. Clarke.
Clarke's eldest daughter was burned to
death. The rest of the family escaped in
their night Clothes"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-02-01
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
QUININE RESTORED TO THE
FREE LIST.

Those Sugar Duty PetitiOns-The Cot
ton Exposition Bill-Nicaragua Canal
-SapelO Quarantine StatfOn-The Jam
nary Public Debts Reductiou-AD-
other Call for Bonds.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-In the Senate.
the Committee on Foreign Relations re-
ported favorably the bill to incorporate
the Maritime Canal Company with an
amendment. This is the Nicaragua canal
bill.
Mr.. Garland called up the bill to pro-
vide for holding centennial cotton and
industrial exposition in 1894, which was
amended so as to provide that invitations
to foreign nations to participate in the ex-
position shall be given by the board of
managers instead of the President of the
United States and passed.
The President laid before the Senate
memorials of the Boards of Health and
Trade, and the municipal authorities in
Georgia, Florida and South Carolina.
praying for the permanent establishment
and full equipment of a national quaran-
tine at Blackbeard's Island, in Sapelo
Sound.
The Senate then teok up the tariff bill.
and resumed consideration OF the sugar
schedule.
Mr.. Kellogg said he had taken the trou-
bic to examine the petitions presented so
freely within the past ten days for a re-
ductiOn of the duty on sugar, and had
found that, though purpOrting to come
fEQm several different States, they were
all in the same language and the leading
signers were sugar dealers.
Several amendments were rejected. The
discussion of the sugar traffic continued
until O'Clock. Without affirmative ae-
tion at that time, legislative business was
suspended and the remainder of the DAVIS
session was devoted to eulogies upon the
late Congressman Orth, of Indiana.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, on motion of Mr.. Caswell,
of Wisconsin, the Senate amendments
were cOncurred in to the House joint reso-'
luton making an appropriation for con-
tinuing the work of the tenth census.
The House, at 11:15, went into commit
tee of the whole, Mr.. Burrows, of Michi-
igan, in the chair, on the tariff bill.
The item placing a duty of 10 per cent
on sulphates and salts of quinia and Gin
chOnidia was struck from the bill. The
vote stood 1OS to 81, and the result was
received with applause on the Democratic
side.
Having completed the consideration of
52 of 160 items of the chemical schedule,
inc COlliulJUSe IOS6 anu JUe house devoted
some time to eulOgies of thedate GOdlove
S. Ortiz
At the conclusion of the speeches the
customary resolutions were adopted and
the House adjourned.
THE GEORGIA OFFICES.
A letter received here to-day from Gen.
Longstreet says that a meeting of the
Buck-Bryant-Farrow faction was held in
Atlanta on the 9th, when it was decided
to send delegation on here to try to work
for the retention of Farrow at Brunswick
and the appointment of White to succeed
Peasants.
THE DEBT REDUCTION.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
probably issue bond call for $500 900
of extended SIS tomorrow. 1t is estimated
that decrease in the public debt for the
present month is about $13, 100000.