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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23
From The Times"

Editor of the Times:-I have been watching
the correspondence In your paper the past few
weeks with much interest. Having been in the
practice OF medicine for many years, I have
learned to have no confidence in the many pre-
prietary medicines which are the market
and it was through the excellent recommanda-
ton given by DR.. Bates, and the knowledge [
had of his yeracity and ability as physsiei an
that ever led me to lay aside my long existing g
prejudice. to try the only wonderful remedy
named Kendal's SPAWN Cure, which find SO
many of your readers have found to be so valu-
able. Rhenmatism has afflicted me for years,
in treating others found myself unable to do
anything to cure myself entirely. After suffer
ing for years the difficulty became located in
my hip and nothing that could do seemed to
effect it until began to use KendalIs Spawn
Cure, which has cured me completely. In all
my experience as physician have never been
SO thoroughly and works admirably In re-
moving old standing ailments, and at the same
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It has done such wonders with me that have
the utmost confidence In its efficacy, and car
recommend it with the confidence that the
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Respectfully, j. r.. PORTER, NJ ID.
Scranton, Pa, Sept. q. 1881.
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Unfavorable View of Florida.

A correspondent of the New Orleans Pic
ay,sne, writing from ZelIwood, Orange
county, Florida, under date of May IS, gives
any thing but a favorable account of the
portions of that much lauded State which
he has visited. He says, for instance
I went across the State from Cedar Keys to
the Atlantic, and | have been around here in a
radius OF twenty miles, and don't think ever
struck such poor country. The natural pro-
ductions of the land are pine trees. wire-grass
and gophers. You are scarcely ever out of sight
of lake; they are of all sizes, from one acre to
thousand. In the vicinity of these lakes you
will find the settlers. living in small log and
board houses. Each one has an orange grove,
or the nucleus of one. and nothing else. No
milk, no vegetables-not even whiskey. They
get little bacon and flour from store in the
settlement, and with this they make out to live.
Some few have chickens, but they are too weak
to crow. If they were to scratch their legs off
in this sand, they would never find a bug. In
Near here is an old native, who cultivates a
hammock-what they call their rich lands-on
which he hasa corn crop now about q foot high.
l asked him how much he made out of it.
well" he said, sometimes twelve and some
times fifteen bushels per acre." He only asks
So an acre for that land. All these people are
orange crazy, and believe that all the rich peo-
pie of the North and West will come here to
spend the winters and have orange groves, and
they have hopes of selling out ut fabulous prices.
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CONGRESSMAN Sunset Cox of New York,

Congressman Sunset Cox of New York,
who is a candidate for Speaker, has taken
occasion to deny that he was opposed to an
appropriation for the improvement of the
Mississippi. He thinks the measure should
have been presented Independently of the
river and harbor bill, in which shape it
would have received forty votes more than
it did. This expression of friendliness to
the interests of the Mississippi Valley may
Mr.. Cox's supporters from that portion of
the country.
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DOMESTIC.

Major Wasson has settled his deficit.
All mines in the vicinity of Joplin, Mo-,
are flooded.
Baltimore is about to establish q Confed-
crate Soldiers Home.
Baltimore claims the original edition of
"Home, Sweet Home"
West Virginia has shipped two tons of
coal to Newcastle, England.
There is feet of thirty schooners ice
locked in the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
Government troops have been ordered to
the new gold diggings in California.
The prosecution of the star route case has
cost the Government almost 81 100000
Ohio will carry off the first honor of tho
graduating class at West Point this year.
Engineer Melville complains that the
press of the country has dealt unfairly by
him.
Billy McGlorg has donated the use of his
New York dance-house for Sunday night
| revivals.
The only sea lion ever born in captivity
has made its appearance in Barnum's Chi
cago circus.
man who once owned the entire site OF
Milwaukee, died in that city the other day
| in a poor-house.
| A warrant has been issued against Sui
| livan, the cham pion slugger, for q serious
assault on his wife.
The United States has twenty war vessels,
| which if not soon disposed of will be broken
up and sold as junk.
A bequest of money to be used for pro-
curing masses TO be said for the soul OF the
| testator will stand in law.
The Baltimore Oriole costumes were made
by the chief costumer of the Paris Grand
| Opera House and cost $4,000.
| Several thousand suuggled cigars were
| found in the fresh water condenser of o
recently arrived New York steamer.
Ex-Treasurer Polk of Tennessee expeets
| to get $50, 600 per annuln from the Mexican
| mines in which he invested the States
| money.
! At the approaching Orio1e parade, each
| soldier will carry an electric light on his
| mnskst end, the battery being concealed il,
his knapSack,
| A pillow which required six cars to trans
port it, and cost $1,000, arrived in America
J from Stockton, England. The duty will
reach 5000.
| The pending Investigations hare shown
that postmasters not only throw newspapers
in their waste-roous, but appropriate them
! to their own use.
| The British Consul, Spanish coast guard
and party of armed sailors, boarded a
vessel having the Fenian flag, and removed
| the obnoxious ensign.
| A piece of carpet labeled "This is the rug
President Arthur stood on at the reception
in the Academy Of Music after the bridge
opening," sold for 500 in Brooklyn store.
The customs authorities refused to allow
Prof. Shin Chin Sun, secretary of the Rev,
Father Abeishine, a missionary to China, TO
land at San Francisco, nistaking him for q
Chinese laborer.
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NUMBER AZ.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN,

FOREIGN.
Hayt wants to buy secondhand war veg
sells.
A famine in the Kurdish districts of Asia
Minor is reported.
The old Notifications of Calais, in France,
are being demolished.
A treaty of commerce between England
and Italy has been signed.
The Gar has been presented with an an
tograph letter from the Pope.
All pending difficulties between the Yati-
can and Russian are arranged.
The King of Anam desires peaceful
solution of the present difficulty.
Work is soon to begin ON two new cables
between this country and Europe.
The Anamite King has protested against
the action of the French at Hanoi.
The British diplomatic agent has severed
relations with the Bulgarian Government
A Partisan artisan found 5eo0 franes
under the lining of a hat bought at a second
hand store.
On the eve of her wedding, Beatrix Roths-
child received over HOO letters from desti-
tute young ladies asking aims.
A powder magazine at Seutari was ex-
ploded by lightning, June ID, killing 16o
persons and wounding 53.
A 17-year-old Chinese girl who was no
weaned until she was IA, has just been sold
to wealthy Pekin merchant for wife.
The school of the mobiles in Toxic, Japar.
has, in the court behind the school building,
long.
Baron Rothschild 8 wedding present to his
daughter Beatrix was $500, 600 to buy fur
niture with, and 5000 month to keep
house.
During recent attempt to take the CEN
sus at Kurdistan 500 Kurdish women as
sembled, attacked the soldiers and put
them to fight.
Ex-Empress Eugenie is to build $780,
600 church at Marlborough, England, in
which will be placed the cofins Of Napoleon
III and the Prince Imperial.
A railroad which reduces communication
from five days to fifteen hours has been
constructed between Tifiis and Rakon, one
of the ports ON the Caspian Sea.
The principal st. Petersburg firms have
been requested to furnish written promises
not to give their workmen holiday on the
occasion of the Cars state entry.
One of the subject of consultation be-
tween the Pope and American Bishops will
be the attitude of the Irish National League
of America toward Great Britain.
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A machine for decorticating jute has been
invented by Mr.. Frank Luft of New Or
leans which is claimed to be great success.
representative of one of the city papers
has examined samples of the jute treated
by Mr.. Luft's process and pronounces the
fibre superior in texture, color, strength
and glossiness to that produced in India.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

Gov. Ben. Butler lost his temper on a
Providence and Boston railway train re-
Gently because the conductor required him
to pay fare for the trip. The Governor
claimed to have pass, but diligent search
of his person failed to bring the document
to light. The incident created considerable
amusement among the passengers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23
MAUD MULLER.

MAUD MULLER.
Maud Muller worked at raking hay,
And cleared her forty cents day.
Her clothes were coarse but her health was fine,
And SO she worked in the sweet sunshine.
Singing as glad as bird in May,
Barbara Allen " the hvelong day.
And the sweet song died of strange disease
Leaving phantom taste of cheese.
And an appetite and nameless ache
For soda-water and ginger-cake.
The Judge rode slowly into view,
Stopped his horse i'll the shade and drew
His fne-cut, while the b1ushing Maud
Marvelled much at tho kind he " "chawed."
He was dry as fish - he said with wink,
And kind o thought that good, square drink
Would brace him up; SO the cup was filed
With the crystal wine that the old spring spilled
And she gave it to him with asun-browned hand;
" Thanks, said the judge IN accents bland,
"a thousand thanks for sweeter tlraught
From fairer hand and then he laughed.
And the sweet girl stood in the sun that day,
And raked the judge instead of hay.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

Irving Duer, a grandson of Washington
Irving, has been expelled from the New
York Cricket and Base Ball Club for steal
ing from his brother members. Young
Duer endeavored to conceal his own guilt
by thro wing suspicion upon young man
named Inman, son of the senior partner in
the great Inman Steamship Company.
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A colored man named George Molux was
shot and instantly killed by .. Hunter Col
Inns in st. FraneisviiIe, June 6. Collins
was assistant road oyerseer and Molux one
Of the hands working the street. quarrel
arose about aIolnx idIing his time away,
which led to Collins being knocked down.
The latter went to Bayou Sara. hut returned
in an hour and opened fire on MoInx, kill.
ing him at the third sllss. Collins IS out a.l
9 bond Of 500
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Instead of feeling tired and worn out instead
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GOOsEQUILL


Avoid by all means the use of calomel for bill
ious complaints. Ayers Cathartic Pills, com
pounded entirely of vegetable ingredients, have
been tested FOR forty years, and are ackn owl
edged to be the best remedy ever devised fol
torpidity of the liver, costiveness, and all de-
rangements of the digestive apparatus.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

At the late private view of the Royal
Academy in London, the worst dressed
woman was one who had written book on
the art of dressing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

Ayers Sarsaparilla operates radically upon
and through the blood. and is is safe, reliable,
and absolute cure for the various diseases. COM
plants. and disorders due to debility, or to any
constitutional taint or infection.
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A national monument to Garibaldi is to
be erected OH Janicalum hill, the site of his
defense of Rome against the French in 1o43.
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Address: THE CHIEF, Donaldsonville, La.
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From Eminent DIR. III. r. Hopson, Mem
pIiS Tenn.

II have made use of Colden's Liebig's Ii
quid Extract of Beef and Tonic Invigora-
| tor in several cases of consumption and general
debility. and have found it to act admirably In
such cases as a nutritiye food. tonic. and stim-
ulant.' (TaEe no other.1 OF druggists.
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OBSERVATIONS OF THE REV. GABE
THICKER

oAS1AIk& hAAo4eS oE AAKAI VA 1AA
TUCKER.
You may notch it on the palms as a mighty
resky plan
To make your Judgment by de clothes that XIV
ers up man;
For hardly needs to tell you how you often
come ercrosS
ffty-dollar saddle on twenty-dollar hoss;
An wukin' in de low groun's, you diskiver, as
you go,
Dat de fines shuck may hide de meanes' nub-
bin in q row.
t'ink q man has got mighty slender chance
for Heben
Dat holds onto his piety but one day out OBJ
seben;
Dat talks about de sinner with heap o. solemn
chat,
An nebber drops nickel in de missionary hat;
OATS foremost in the meetin' house for raisin'
all the chunes,
But lays aside his 'igion wild his Sunday PAN
falcons.
nebber judge o. people dat I meets along do
way
By de, places whar day comes from and de houses
whar day stay;
For the bantam chickens awful fond q roostin'
pretty high.
An de turkey -buzzard sails above de eagle in de
sky;
Day ketches little minners in de middle OBJ de
sea,
An you finds de smalles' possum up de bigges'
kind O. tree. The Century.
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nj w. DARTON,
Civil En- ngineer & Surveyor,

Parish Surveyor of Ascension.)
viii attend promptly to work in all branches
of his profession. such as surveying. mapping.
5eveling for canals, bridges rice fumes, etc,
estimating cost and supervising construction of
same. Orders left at the CHIEF Office will meet
with Immediate attention
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Rev. j. W. Waldrop, Owenton,. KY, says:
Browns Iron Bitters. greatly relieved me of
general debility and Indigestion
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Mr.. E. j. Hornet, New Orleans, La. says: II
have been greatly, relieved from the effects OF
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An OLD VIRGINIA CHURCH.

The following beautiful lines were written by
that noted Irishman, Tyrone Power, on the wall
of Blanchford Church, near Petersburg. Va.
Around its sacred walls, twenty years ago,
surged the cruel tides Of civil war.
Thou art crumbling to the dust. old pile,
Thou art Fastening to thy fall,
And round thee, IN thy loneliness
Clings the ivy to the wall;
The worshipers are scattered now
Who knelt before thy shrine,
And silence reigns where anthems rose,
ID In days of aula lang syne.
And sadly sighs the wandering wind,
Where oft, IN years gone by,
Prayers rose from many hearts within,
The highest of the high;
The tramp OF many busy foot
That sought thy aisles is DER,
And many weary heart around
still forevermore
How doth ambitions hope take wings!
llow droops the spirit now =
We hear the distant city's din
The dead lie mute below;
The sun that shone upon thy pathsS
Now gilds their lonely graves,
The zephyrs which once famed their brosys,
The grass above them waves.
oh, could we call the many back
Who've gathered here in vain,
Who've careless roamed where we do now,
Who'll never meet again;
How would our very hearts be stirred,
To meet the earnest gaze
OF the lovely and the beautiful,
The light of ether days!
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scalp cleansed, and the hair made to grow thick
by the use of Halls Vegetable SiciIian Hair
RenaYar. - -
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L. A. Draughon was acquitted of the
murder of Archie Butler, at Amite City.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-23

PIMPLEs, blotches. or sores disappear under
the influence of GIenn's Sulphur SOAP.
Pixies Toothaehe Drops cure III oTle minute
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DONALDSONVILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DRY GOODS. GROCERIES. Etc.

Co. CO. dealers ssaa aad6sy,v j. dRy d9Sas s
gies; ETC.. corner Mississippi street and Railroad
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ID LANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods, Groce-
IL. ries, Plantation Supplies, Wines, Liquors,
Cigars. Tobacco. and General Merchandise, cor
ner Railroad Avenue and Taylor streets, one
block from Railroad Depot.
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INSURANCE AGENCIES.
HOTELS AND BoARDING-HoUsEs.

DEEP-O'-DAY HOTEL AND BARROOM,
Is Mississippi street. First-rate accommo-
dation and reasonable prices. Western Union
telegraph office in the hotel.
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Os mas street. dealer in Dry Goods, Notions.
Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn,
Oats and Bran.
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sTOS. GONDRAN q SONS, dealers in Dry
Wine, Liquors. Boots, Shoes, Hardware. Paints,
Oils, Saddlery, Croekery, Furniture and all
kinds of House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store,
Mississippi street.
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MI TOBIAS. dealer in Groceries, Dry Goods,
Furniture, Hardware, Crockery, Trunks, ETC.,
corner Mississippi and st. Patrick streets and
No. "a Railroad Avenue. Everything at lowest
fioures
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DOBT. L. LEE HOTEL. Crescent Place, near
III the Market-House, Jos. Lafargue, propri-
etor. Bar and billiard room attached. First
class entertainment and accommodation.
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rITY HOTEL, p. Lefevre Proprietor, Rail-
~ road Avenue corner Iberv1lle street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
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M LEVY, dealer lin Dry Goods, Clothing,
WI. Boots. Shoes Hats. Groceries, Furniture,
Hordware and Plantation Supplies, at Lemanns
old stand, Mississippi street. G.. FEITEL,
Agent.
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THO. r. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fancy
boat Supplies. Canned Goods, Wines, Liquors,
Bottled Beer, Ale, ETC., Dry Goods and Notions,
corner of Mississippi and Chetimaches streets,
OnDosite River Ferry. =
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DERNARD LEMANN & BROTHER, dealers
ID in Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
ceries. Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints Oils,
Carts, Plows, Saddlery. Stoves and Tinware,
Furniture, Grockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
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Copying a Bad System.

Foreign capitalists have recently
bought Of the Northern Pacific Rsilway
three million acres Of land, which com
prises about all the lands the company
owns, both in Minnesota and Dakota.
1t is intimated that tenant sysem like
that in vogue in England is to be inau-
gurated by the syndicate which mas
gained control of this vast domain.
Here is a retrograde movement entire
ly foreign to the spirit and meaning of
our land laws, and to the settled policy
of this government since the disposal of
its public lands became a question Of
Importance. That policy has been to
sell the lands in comparatively small
quantities to actual settlers and thus
build up independent, self improving
tax paying communities, such as con-
stitute the best state and republic.
But to allow an old country system of
land tenancy, grinding and oppres-
sive yoke hung upon the neck of
agricultural industry, to gain foothold
in this country, is to retard the growth
and development of our great resources,
and to let in motion train of attendant
evils the number and disastrous con-
sequence of which no man can pro-
phesy. One Of these-and one OF the
first which would make itself felt
would be that syndicate controlling
such wlde and productive area of the
best territory in the Northwest, farmed
by tenants on the old country plan,
would soon be a monopoly in produc-
ton, forming damaging competition
to all small farmers. The United States
wants no tenant system within its bord-