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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Our accomplished friend Mr.. Thos. II.
Ryan, recently connected with the New
Orleans States, is editor of the Ereniaq
Chronicle, the new afternoon paper recently
established i'll that city. Mr. Ryan is a
member of the Board of Alderman, and we
wish him much success both as a legislator
and journalist
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Green B. Raum of Illinois, who has for a
anmber of years occupied the position Of
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, retired
from that office on the Both of April, having
resigned on account of the inadequate
salary
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

l.. N. Streeter, formerly a United States
agent, who deserted to the Indians, is re-
ported to have been killed during recent
engagement with a band of Apaches of
which he was acting as chief
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Theodule Robertson, a colored youth, de-
lberately shot and killed his stepbrother,
aged l. years, on the Keystone plantation
snear st. Martinsville, La. The murderer
had attended collation. on a neighboring
;plantation and came home drunk, commit
ting the horrible crime while in this condi-
ton. He was arrested and placed in the
New Iberia jail.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

The proceedings of two special meetings
OF the Town Council held on the 3rd inst,
appear IN our paper to-day, not having
been received in season last week to enable
us to make room for their insertion then
The second of these sessions, like one of
those held April y, was convened in compli-
hnce with the writ of peremptory mandamus
emanat1ng from the District Court, and
the Council seems to have been particularly
careful to proclaim this fact and to avoid
the transaction of any business ut these
meetings save what was absolutely necessary
to protect them from punishment for con-
tempt of court and which pertained exclu-
slVely to the writ referred to. The DISPOSE
lion to comply only with the letter of the
writ and to evade its spirit and obstruct the
course of the election as far as possible, is
demonstrated by the failure to provide, as
IS customary, for lists of voters, ballot
boxes, Clerks and Constables of Election,
ana ne blaliks necessary to make the re-
turns IN proper shape. There were ballot
boxes in the office of the Clerk and Recor-
der, anu the town has Il full supply of prin
ted election blanks, but as the writ of man
damus did not specifically order the Coun-
cii to furnish these articles. they failed to
do SO. Commissioners of Election we're
appointed, it is true. but it is the general
impression that care was taken to select
only such citizens as We're least likely to ac
cept the appointment and perform the
duties of the position This impression is
strengthened by the fact that none of The
Commissioners ramed by the Council aD-
peared at the polls. With Q .unani,nity
worthy legal and a better cause. the
Mayor and Aldermen united to impede the
course OF the laws they had obligated them
selves 10 enforce and to deprive he people
.. their vested right to elect town officers.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Congressman Phil. H. Tompson, Jr, of
the Eighth Kentucky District, shot and
KILLED Walter H. Davis, prominent mer-
chant, at Harrodsburg, on the 9th of
April. The cause Of the shooting was the
alleged intimacy of Davis with Thompson's
wife
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

One of the heaviest and most destructive
hailstorms ever known in that section yisi
ted Colfax and vicinity On the 9th of April,
causing great damage to crops and render
ing it necessary to replant.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12
THE TOWN ELECTION.
Exercise of the Electoral Right Under Di
f;k.n1fi4C-Cnnnarc ,f

Exercise of the Electoral Right Under Diff
heulties-Success of the Martinez Ticket.
In spite of the obstacles interposed by
the present town administration to prevent
the holding of the annual charter election
last Saturday-in spite of the illegal and
obstinate failure to provide ballot boxes,
registration lists, Constables, Clerks, and
the necessary blanks for making the re-
turns, an election was held under the essen
tlal forms of law, and 262 citizens went to
the polls and deposited their ballots. Meet
ings were held at the various polling places
and Commissioners of Election chosen and
duly sworn: the Commissioners appointed
Deputy Sheriff for each poll, obtained
regulation ballot boxes and proceeded to
receive the votes Of the people and to make
the count and returns at night in the man
ner required both by the town charter and
the State election law. The vote was as
follows:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

destructive cyclone swept through
portion OF Ouachita parish during the last
week in April demolishing number of
buildings, killing some stock and woundine
several people. 1t is stated that one tract
OF forty acres Of heavily wooded land not a
tree was left standing.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Gov. McEnery has commuted the death
sentences OF Bazis Dugay and John Austin,
st. Mary murderers, TO Imprisonment for
life. The men were to have been hanged
yesterday.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

The steamer Edward J. Gay has been
placed under seizure, ostensibly at the in
stance of a firm of New Orleans coal dealers,
though the real cause of the movement is
said to be the differences that have prevailed
between Capts. L. 2. feathers and Jno. J.
Brown for some time past. Capt. Brown
has brought the Saint John out in place of
the Gay, and the latter has been towed
across to Algiers and laid up.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Tie Gretna Courier recently published
tins complimentary reference to a well
known citizen of Ascension parish:
Chief Custom House Weighar W. W. Buford
Esq, whose acquaintance we have long enjoyed,
was over here On Wednesday last, at the Mer-
chants Warehouses, ascartainins the avoirlu-
Friend Buford is an excellent officer, and lust
slch men should be kept in office.
Ali who know the sterling worth of friend
Buford will heartily endorse the cou,ie,'s
opinion
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Mr.. Edwin E. Marks, formerly of the
New Orleans Times Democrat, has pur-
chased the Concordia Eagle and transferred
1T into Democratic paper
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

The Iberia Journal has begun its seventh
volume. The paper has improved consid-
erably of late and we wish it further prog
ress in the same direction.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

A deaf and dumb colored man was run
over and killed by a train on the Morgan
railroad near Cade Station, La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

10 our mind, the Farmerville appeal has
never before been so interesting or SO well
gotten up as during the past few weeks:
and so far from the editor pro tenn. owing
any apology for his management of the
paper during the absence of Col. Dawhins,
we think the latter gentleman will be doing
his readers an injustice to allow the services
of his editorial substitute to be dispensed
with. The Appeal furnishes an instance
where the old joke of the typographical
devil could be rung in: The improved APP
pearance of the paper this week is due to
the absence of the editor.''
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12
A PROMISING POET.
His Rhymes on the Church Case-A Mat
rilnoniai Dialogue.

His rhymes on the Church Case-A Mat
ri,noniai Dialogue.
EDITOR CHIEF:
Our unfortunate church difficulty is ap-
pareatly destined to bring out of obscurity
our heretofore unknown poets. In proof
of this, enclose the following lines found
on Lessard street, near Attakapas, in an
envelope containing, also, a certified copy
Of the new charter of the Catholic Congre-
cation. The charter is endorsed "Presby-
tere." | particularize that this may serve
as an advertisement, so that the owner may
recognize his property and know where to
find it. The author of the lines will, there
fore, pardon my liberty OF sending them to
you. am convinced, besides, that he will
feel proud to see them in print. They will,
[ think, compare fayorably with the verses
Of s. La Charlie. OF those of " Hunkadori -
lately published in your paper. They speak
for themselves. | copy:
Dialogue entire ma femme ct moi I'M
soir que j'allais une assemble DIES Char
tistes; ellie ne voulait pas me donne mes pan
talons neufs; ellie await sign6 la fameuse
liste des plus de mile temaaes ct entants
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

The subjoined opinion relative to our
Ascension church controversy is expressed
by the Gretna Courier:
. The Roman Catholics of Donaldsonville have
got themselves into snarl with the Archbishop.
The people. IN way of thinking are bound
: to win rs they have rights as well as the church.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

According to the statement furnished US
by Messrs. Delery & Purves, weighers and
gaugors at No. 80 North Front street. New
Orleans, there were 150,G53 hogsheads and
1862 barrels of sugar, 321, 100 barrels and
AIS half barrels of moiasses received at
that port from Sept. 1, 1882, TO April co.
1885, while for the corresponding period of
the season of 1SS1-S2 the receipts were TO-
2l1 hogsheads and G3,72o barrels of sugar,
1s9,7St barrels and 573 half barrels of mo-
lasses.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

What with the wholesale election frauds
and ring misrule in New Orleans, the series
OF heavy defalcations by the Sheriffs of that
city, the grabbing of State lands and the
impoyerishment OF the leyee fund under
the N2EneGy land contract, and the raid of
the State treasury under Act No. So Of 1880.
the people viii need microscopes of great
power to distinguish between the much de-
nounced period of Radical usurpation and
sroiintion'' which followed reconstruction
III Louisiana, and the present epoch of
Democratic outrage and corruption.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Our readers who feel an interest in the
subject OF life inatlrance-and every pru-
dent man should do so-are recommended
to note the advertisement of the New York
Life Insurance Company, one of the Oldest
soundest and best known corporations of
its kind in existence. This company con-
duets its business upon the most approved
system, Offering the greatest possible sccu-
rity to policy holders at the least possible
cost for insurance, and. no better evidence
Of the correctness of ifs principles and the
success Of their application is needed than
is furnished by the simple facts that the Or
ganization was Instituted in 1916 has been
doing business i'll Louisiana for third of
a century. and is apparently stronger and
more prosperous to-day than at any past
period in its long career. Mr.. J. S. Copes,
a gentleman of wide experience in the bust
ness, Is the general Louisiana agent for the
company, and he Will be pleased to mail
circulars and furnished information con-
corning life n Surance to all who express a
desire to have him do so. Write to Mr..
Copes at 46 Carondelct street, New Orleans.
for the thirty-eighth annual statement of
the New York Company and estimates on
policies of all kinds now in vogue.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12


u la ndmelle."
Moi. Oui chez les Soeurs,
Sacree blSOte, Gu bien allleurs,
Gu ma culutte! Pour eos chers cccurs
Iant que fla porte, Sc dit la messa,
On prendS la porte. Et pulS cOnfeSSe,
Maigr6 Perche, Pourquoi. Maltresse?-
Mai lnforIne; CeSt nIen decide,
Perc Coplnce La proprlete,
Qul Sc croft prince; Sera pas donnee;
Gu bIen Binder 1t lie vleux I}ero
tlul vent singer. Fera pas klno.
Etle. hUe.
Plus dc sepulturc Cher, leglise en- ferm6e!
Pour Celle qul est pure; Moi.
Non plus de baptere Dome moi mon the,
Pour ienfant que j'aunePius vlte sols couchee.
NJ de marriage Que r1en ne tie tracasse,
Four ceux qul sontIout Ca Test que farce.
d'age. Et!e-ria3t
Et puls 10 fabrique, Tu monies NAL Pegase.
Ma pas vlatlQue, MOi-sutallt
Pour lie schlslnatlQue, Et blen, je men fri
Ou le tres pratlque, cassei
tlul casse sd pipe. 81 je ne sais rimer.
MOI. JaI toujours su slgner
y est pour Sa Clique. La Ghartc.
1t true connoisseurs will bear in mind
that, POLITICALLY speaking, our parish is yet
IN Its infancy, they will be indulgent in
their criticism. They may, however, with
propriety advise our young poets to exercise
their growing genius upon some other sub
Ject. For me, hope they will continue in
their Ascension and shortly reach the sum
NIT Of Parnassus.
DOODENBERI.
T. S. It would perhaps be better for me
not to sign this communication. because
some e1citable lady: attributing the above
verses TO me, may, initiating Borleau's
Apres lAgesilas
Heias,
Mais apres pAttila,
HoIa!
Say, in Creole lingo,
Pou HullkaGori,
30 Ii
Mais Doodenberi,
Eous Ii.
Wei, to please every body, will sign,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12
CROP ITEMS.

We arc indebted for the following items
to thoughtful friend who is familiar with
the condition and prospects Of tho crops
| and cognizant Of the improvements going
on upon the plantations situated between
Port Barrow and the upper line of our par
ish on the right bank of the river.
DR.. W. Fl. Billiards. Chatham place has &
fine cane crop and extensive improvements
are in progress. The Doctor has received
magnificent fue boiler and a lot of iron
pipes, through which syrup will be carried
from Chatham sugar-house to the large re-
tinery on the adjoining Germania plant;e-
ton of Mr.. John Reuss, where it will be
converted into sugar.
Mr.. Reuss also has fine looking crops,
and is completing and improving his mag
nlticent sugar-house on a grand scale.
The cane crop on Mr.. R. Il. Yale's Homo
place is simply splendid, and his corn,
which is also beautiful, is ready to lay by,
much OF it being waist high. A large pur-
gerry and storing room has been added to
the sugar-house and new machinery is
being put up. Mr.. Yale is preparing to
make his own molasses barrels, and has a
boat loaded with hoop-poles now at his
landing.
The rice crop on the Woodstock place is
fair and promising, but there are consider
able weeds and false rice, this being the
fourth years crop. These will disappear,
how ever, as soon as the rice is high enough
to stand flooding with water.
At the Adlard Landry and Mrs. Dodds
places crops are very fine, as also on the
Pelico place of Messrs. Bujol & st. Martin.
The latter gentlemen are putting in some
new machinery.
The crops of the Mccall Bros. and Souvc
mir places, as seen from the road, were clean
we'll worked and in fine condition.
Planters have been taking advantage of
the dry weather and all along the line the
crops are as clean as floor. The public
roads are in splendid order and up to
Tuesday the river had fallen thirty-six
inches from the highest point attained this
season. Surely, this is a bright prospect!
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Aiiolo was oi1o l1chet III Inc SecQnu Ward
box which was placed under the head of
scattering. Returns We're made in tripli-
| cate, the District Judge, Parish Returning
Officer and Clerk of Court being each pro-
vlded with copy. The Judge compiled
the vote and notified the respective candi-
| dates of their election, as contemplated by
the town charter, while the Returning Of
ticer made similar compilation under the
provisions OF the general election law and
transmitted certified return to the Secre-
tary of State, and delivered two others to
the Clerk of Court, who also transmitted a
copy to the same State officer.
The vote for Mayor in 1882 was 437, of
which Israel received 255 and Wilkinson
1872: and IN 1881, when the largest vote ever
cast in the town was thrown, Maher received
1913 and Jacobs 2l0, a total of SOB It will
be seen, therefore, that the vote cast for the
Martinez ticket last Saturday would consti-
tute a majority OF the largest vote ever
polled at our town election, and that eyerv
one OF the Martinez candidates received
larger vote IMAM Mf. Israel, who was elected
Mayor last year by 70 majority i'll a very
warm CONTEXT. OF course we do not think
these candidates would have received such
large vote had there been another ticket
in the field, and many who voted merely to
demonstrate their attitude in favor of an
election being held according to law con-
tend that the successful ticket could easily
have been defeated had legitimate and reg
ular methods been adopted to secure that
end, but the arbitrary and unlawful course
Of those who seek to take away from the
people the power of choosing their officers
and throw it into the hands of the Cover
nor Was the means of discouragin.3 opposi-
ton and strengthening the candidates who
were placed in the position OF representa-
tives Of the popular rights.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

Wei, to please every body, / will sign.
MANDAMUS
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-05-12

ay, in Creole lingo,
Pou Hunkadori,
30 Ii
MATS Doodenberi,
E071c III
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
"Who Killed Cock Robin ="

John Kelly, the Tammany leader,
made a speech at a banquet at Spring
field, Mass, Thursday night, in which
he severely criticised Mr.. Tilden for
not calling upon the people to sustain
him in assuming the presidency in
1876. This is the veriest "bosh,n as
none knows better than John Kelly and
"our friend Tilden. Laying aside the
question of whether Mr.. Tilden was
entitled to the office, any action on his
part looking toward his assumption of
the presidential functions could not
but have resulted disastrously to him
and to any of his political fricAds who
might be foOlhardy enough to place
themselves in an attitude of antago-
nism to the general government. Any
such attempt would have been a signal
failure. Vice President Wheeler would
have opened the votes as returned
by the republican electors, they would
have been duly counted, the army
would have been called upon to check
any insurrection flor it would have
been nothing else), and another stupid
blunder would have been added to the
long list committed by the democrats
Fortunately, the sentiment. which ami
mated Henry WattersOn to declare that
he was ready to place himself at the
head of 100000 men and march to
Washington for the purpose of seating
Mr.. Tilden found little countenance
with Mr.. Tilden or his sepsible sup
pOrters. ..
Mr.. Kelly then went on to ex6nerate
himself from the charge of opposing
and defeating General Hancock in
1850, and very pertinently asks ~hat
rammany's object could be in defeat
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
A Statue TO Supporter of the
"LOSI Cause

A statue of Gen. Robert Z. Lee was
unveiled at Lexington, Va, Thursday.
The statue is by Valentine, Virginia
sculptor, and represents the recumbent
figure of soldier with his sheathed
sword beside him, and the strength
and nobility of Lees face are described
as excellently rendered. The Grafton
was by Major John W. Daniel, who
lost a'leg in the confederate service,
and who was the democratic nominee
for governor at the last state election
in Virginia, and was defeated by Ma
homes readjHster candidate. The Oc-
casion was unmarked by any bitterness
of feeling, as far as indicated by the
reports. In showing the reluctance
with which he went against the Union,
under the stress of what he regarded
as the first claim of Virginia upon his
service, he quoted the answer. Lee
made to the tender made him by Gen
Scott, through F. p. Blair, of the com
mand of the Union armies: ~ look
upon secession rs anarchy. If owned
the four millions of slaves in the south
II would sacrifice them all to the Union
but how can draw my sword against
Virginia 2"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
The Campaigning at Beebe
Plain.

The crowd that attended the camp
meeting at Becbe Plain on Sunday was
no exception to that of previous years.
The usual bOisterOus and drunken be
havior was everywhere apparent-On
the train and on the ground and it
should be matter for serious consid-
Grafton of those who plan these gath
erings if the tendency is not to give
opportunity for the manifestation OF
evil and vicious habits rather than to
promote the interests of the Master in
whose name they act.
In some states, the managers of
camp-meeting associations hold these
gatherings so as not to include Sunday,
and in this manner the people who at
tend for unworthy motives are cut off,
the spiritual nature of the meetings
promoted, and good, effective religious
work is done.
As long as there are people who
wish to attend these meetings on Sun
day, so long will trains be run to ac-
commodate them. The Newport Ex-
press says that the sheriff and states
attorney of that county kept close
watch on the American side of the line,
but they did not discover liquor sales
this side of the line. They found that
it was freely sold on the other side,
but when informed of it, the Canadian
officials said they were powerless to
prevent it. The Express pertinently
inquiries as it love of souls and a
strong burning desire to save men that
prompts the holding of these meetings
on the Sabbath with the yearly repeti-
ton of such occurrences ?"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-06
The University Building at Bur-
IingtOn.

The new fOur-story building is stu
ated at the top of the hillside on which
Burlington is built, and has one of the
most prominent locations in the vicin-
ity. Its central tower commands the
lake region from where the low hills
become visible i'll the historic neigh
bOrhOOd of Nalcour island at the north,
along the line of the Adirondack
ranges, till the giant Marcy towers in
the hazy sunlight, and the circling
mountain tops are followed far to the
south till shut out by the intervening
headlands of Shelburne and Charlotte
In the rear gentle undulatiOns, forest
and field, rich farming lands, the val
ley of the Winooski, and finally low
foot ills lead on to the great wall of
Mansfield, Cancels Hump and their fell
lows, the backbone of Vermont. The
building is of brick with cut stone trim
mings of Isle la Motto graystone, the
brick laid in red mortar and penciled
W it'll black. 1t is $50 feet long, II feet
wide at the ends and 90 at the center,
having three large projections with
gables in front. The gilded final of
the central belfry and spire'is $50 feet
from the ground, the tip of the center
gable being % feet. Between the large
projections and gables are two smaller
ones, in which are the two front en-
frances. The roof and spire are slated.
The chapel in the middle of the
second story is a large and pleasantly
cOlored room % by 3} feet and % high,
with 200 revolving opera-chairs, with
hat-racks under each. The chapel was
frescoed and furnished with $1,000 fur
nished by the alumni. The military
drill and instruction rooms are under
the chapel, and over it are the drawing
and civil-engineering rooms. Opening
from the main halls on each side of the
central chapel projection are the pres
ident's Office, waiting-rOOm and read
ing-room. On each side of these, to
the north and south, are six recitation
rooms, each :}3 by - feet. At the north
end is the chemical laboratory, and
over that the rest of this end and the
south end are devoted to dormitories.
The building cost $4,000, the gift of