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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
NUMBER 80.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN

| FOREIGN.
The Governor of Paris is dead.
E Vanderbilt is visiting Edinburgh, Scot
land.
Makalolo has declared war against Port
ugal.
true bill has beon found against Louise
Michel.
Rothschi1d has picture gallery worth S10,-
600, 600.
Queen Victoria celebrated her Gath birth
day, May "a.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has been ap-
pointed Governor General of Canada.
q Two Philadelphia men have been convic-
ted Of carrying arms to the insurgents in
Hayti.
The present white elephant at Mandaiay
has an establishment of thirty men to wait
on him.
Longfellow's bust is to be placed i'll West
minister Abbey between the tombs of Chan-
Ger and Dryden.
Pope Leo XIII has an annual income of
81, 100000, while his expenses for food are
but 50 cents day.
A marriage was recently celebrated in the
Isle of Wight in which the bride of 50 years
was given away by her grandson.
The Russian Government gave the press
representatives e2o each to pay carriage
fare during the festivities of the coronation.
The New York Sons of Liberty inten-
ded burning the Queen in efdgy on her
birthday, May "a, but were prevented by
the police.
Aportion of the parapet behind the Church
of ST. BASIL fell while the Gear was being
blessed at tho Kremlin, and wounded sew
eral people.
The introduction of religion in schools is
SO strictly forbidden by the French laws
that the name of the Deity is sexpunged from
the new textbooks.
During the procession to celebrate the
Czar's entrance into Moscow, the head mas
ter of ceremonies was thrown from horse
and had his skull fractured.
Over G000 school children sang Life for
the Gar" while he and the Czarina were
receiving the salt at the kremlin door, 9
few days before the coronation.
The Suez Canal Company have applied to
the English Government for their support
in obtaining land from the Khedive to cut
another canal across the Isthmus.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
YE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER.

Oscillations of Our Assumption Iteu,
Snatcher-An Educational Af-fair-A
Streak of her-Superabundance of
Aqua Pura-srnall Pox snpplanted by
Another Contagious Malady, etc.
NApoLEoNyILLE. May q, 1883.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

Attempts have been made by various deli
cate experiments to measure the time
which elapses between the moment when a
persons sense of touch, sight Or hearing is
excited and the moment when he indicates
by signal that he has become conscious of
the sensation. Mons. Beaunis Of Nancy,
has of late been trying to determine the
leagth of the interval-or :. reaction time'
so caIIsd-in the case of smell. With ten
substances he has obtained determinations
ranging from 81 hundredtEs of second
for ammonia, and 4G for acetic acid, to 63
for mint, and 81 for carbolie acid. With
musk he has been unable to fix precisely
the moment of the sFnesI-sensation, al
though he has repeatedly attempted to do
So Dr. Buccoia of Turin, has also been
experimenting on smell, using different
apparatus. and his results agree III the
main with those Of Mons. Beaunis. From
a comparison of these observations With
these which have been made on O. 5es
senses, 1t appears that we are slower to PER
eeive smell than either tocca, sight o.
hearing,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
DOMESTIC.

Arbuckie, the cornetist, is dead.
San Fransisco has n hotel seven stories
high, having 755 rooms.
The town of Seattle, in Washington Ter
ritory, has sixty lawyers.
New York has cremation society with
membership of two hundred.
A New York store keeps an omnibus IN
which its customers ride free.
rs A forastsfif near Molltpeier, Nt., de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of timber.
Small pox OF virulent type has broken
out in Lancaster county, Pa, prison.
Over 10000 children took part in the re-
cent Brooklyn Sunday school parade.
The postmaster at Pipersville, Pa, has
been convicted of using washed stamps.
A paper steamboat is being made in Lam
singburg, N. Y, for Pittsburg company
About $50 former graduates attended the
recent commencement exercises at Harvard.
lyman, 's Number One" gave reception
to members of the press in his rooms Ill
Brooklyn.
Mrs. Scoville is to file petition in the
courts for permission to assume her moth
er's maiden name.
A man has been arrested in Corsicanas
Texas, for a murder committed IN brazos
county fifteen years ago.
Millions of dollars worth of gold dust is
supposed to form the channel of the Ches-
tatee river in Lumpkin county, Ga.
Madison Square Theatre, n. Y, has never
closed since the first night III February 1880,
but only three plays have been rendered.
The Galveston District Court adjourned
for tho term after the third days session,
Jurors being unwilling to serve for fear of
small pox.
A company with a capital OF 37,ooo,ooo
has been formed in New York to construct
an elevated railwayin Brooklyn connecting
with, the East River bridge.
Fred. Gebiiard5 and fGath ''-George
Alfred Townsend--boths had their faces
slapped on the streets Of New York recently,
without resenting the insult.
Col. Roebling, the architect of the great
Brooklyn bridge, contracted scaisson dis
ease" on it eleven years ago and has been
a confirmed invalid ever since.
A New York photographer is being sued
for selling photographs in which some of
the magnificent dresses worn at the Wander
bilt ball are depicted on the bodies of ballet
girls.
Memorial day was signalized at Galveston
by the performance OF the burial service
over remains of Confederate soldiers, killed
in the battle of Seven Pines, and brought to
that city a few days ago.
The female lawyer OF Milwaukee, who
threw water in the Judges face, has served
out her term of thirty days for contempt of
court and been released. Her friends pre-
s ,nted her with purse of money.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

mi LEVY, dealer sin Dry Goods, Clothing,
lXl. Boots, Shoes, Hats. Groceries. Furniture,
old stand, Mississippi street. G.. FEITEL.
Agent.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
DONALDSONvILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DRY GOODS. GROCERIES,. Etc.

MT ISRAEL Il CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
Nk. Clothing. Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Bug.
gies; etc. corner Mississippi street and Railroad
AEenna
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
INSURANCE AGENCIES.

" MAURIN, General Fire Insurance Agent,
W Mississippi street, over Fernandez's bar
Der shop. Represents first class companies with
over S500O0,000 of capital. Policies issued di-
rectly from agency without delay.
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! Transient advertisements. 81 per square first
insertion; each subsequent insertion, IS cents
per square.
Official or legal advertisements, 81 per square
first insertion; each subsequent insertion, so
cents per square
Editorial notices. first insertion, Is cents per
"a Cards Of six lines OF less lass IN Business Direct
orys SIS per annuIn.
Brief Communications upon subjects of public
interest solicited.
20 attention paid to anonymous Letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views of
correspondents.
Address: THE CHEF, Donaldsonville. La.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02
NH w. DARTOS,
Civil En- gineer & Surveyor,

Parish Surveyor of Ascension.)
viii attend promptly to work IN all branches
of his profession, such as surveying mapping,
ieyeling for canals, bridges rlce TUNES, etc..
same. Orders left at the CHEF office will meet
sYitil Immediate attention.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hou-
W mas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

TNO. F. PARK dealer in Staple and Fancy
u Groceries. Provisions, Plantation and Steam
boat Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines, Liquors,
Bottled Beer, Ale, etc, Dry Goods and Notions
corner of Mississippi and Chehmaches streets,
opposite River Ferry.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-02

A Lively Contest at the Stock Exchange
A Fraudulent Observation-Disclosures of
Jay Gould-Fear of a Panic-Our Bridge,
Opera-House, siugging Match, cite.
New YORK MAY II, 1883.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02
Butter and Oieomargarine.

Mrs. Caroline Ii. Dali tells the Bus-
ton Transcript how to distinguish be-
tween butter and oleomargaline, as
follows: Now, no person with keen
sense of taste can be deceived about
oleomargarine. Butter is pure oil.
put little of it in warm place aud
see how quickly it liquifies. If the
temperature comes close to boiling the
butter is oiled and unfit for food. Try
the same experiment with oleomarga-
rlne. 1t will not harm it, and you will
find it difficult to melt it if you drop it
in boiling water. 1t will dissolve like
talIpw, not like butter. 1t also cuts
like tailow, with a sort Of metallic
CLINT. Oleonargarine, if favored
with true butter and made into prints,
always keeps the original clear lines
You can handle it without crushing it.
1t seems as if it had just come off ice.'
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02
Fence Posts That VIII Last.

A writer in an exchange says: !
discovered many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer than iron
in the ground, but thought the process
so simple that it was not well to make
a stir about it, | would as soon have
poplar, Eastwood or ash as any kind
Of timber for fence posts. | have ia
ken out Eastwood posts after having
been set seven years, that were as
sound when taken out as when first
put Ia the ground Fine and weather
seem to have no effect on them. The
posts can be prepared for less than
two cents apiece. This is the recipe:
Take boiled linseed oil and stir in pul,
verized coal to the consistency of
paint. Put a C at Of this on er the tim.
Der and there is not q man that will
live to see it rot
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02
dimensions of Heaven

The following calculation, based on
a text of Revelation, is from the Char
louisville Jeffcrsonian:
Revelation xxi, l6: And he meas
ured the city with a reed, twelve thou
sand furlongs. The length and the
breadth and the highth are equal"
Twelve thousand furlongs-7 ,920,-
900 feet. which being cubic is 943, O88.-
600, 900, OO0, O0O, 900, 900, 900 cubic feet,
and half of which we will reserve tor
the Throne of God and the Court OF
Heaven, half of the balance for streets,
and the remainder, divided By 4,O95,
the number Of cubic feet in the room
sixteen feet high--will be 80, SAB, 75O,-
OOU, 900 rooms. We will nov suppose
the world always did and always will
contain 900 100000 inhabitants, and
that generation will last thirty and
one.third years-27O0, 600, 600 900 per
sons. Then suppose there were IL
$50 such worlds, equal to this in NUN
Der of inhabitants and duration OF
years, then there would be room six
teen feet square and sixteen feet high
for each pc. son, aud yet there would
be room.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

A remarkable warrior recently pre-
sented himself at Constantinople to
pay his respects to the Sultan. He is
known as "Hod Bey," the Circassian
leader, and claims to be 100 years of
age, and that he has seen los years of
military service. He asserts that he
was born 1862 and entered the Turk
ish military service under the Sultan
Abdul Hamid in l777. Since then he
has served in the Ottoman armv to
which he still belongs, under eight
successive Sultans. He is said to have
participated in sixty-fve battles and
unnnmbered smaller atfravs and to
have received twenty-three wounds.
lie is still erect and vigorous and pos.
sesses a remarkable appetite. The
present Sultan is said to have treated
him with much kindness and attention
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

Investigation of abuses i'll the New
York State prison has demonstrated
that brutal punishment is inflicted on
prisoners fur trivial of1enses. Con-
victs in some instances have been driv-
en- insane by cruel treatment, aid 9th
ers have been rendered physically help
less for life. The investigation will
no doubt lead to radical reforms in the
methods of prison punishment. Gov
ernor Cleveland says there is no law
for the use of the paddle, and has or
dered that padding be stopped. Con-
inement in a dark cell" as "a means
of discipline is barbarous-frequ ently
resulting in insanity-and ought to be
abolished. 1t is intolerablo that pris,
on officials should practice cruelties
which are in reality greater crimes
than the average convicts were even
guilty of.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02
A remarkable thief has been caught

A remarkable thief has been caught
10 Chicago. He is young, handsome,
well educated, very gentlemanly, aud
wonderfully audacious. He lived sew.
eral months at the larger hotels, dress
ed in such an extreme of the fashion
a to attract attention. and paid his
bills promptly; and all the money was
obtained by sneak thieying in the
rooms of fellow-guests. In one in.
stance he took a bag containing nego-
table bonds worth $4,000. When
caught at last by Waterman, he
drew pistol and attempted to escape
by murder.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

Il now comes to light that Queen
Victoria, not content with an income
of several millions, lis investing in New
York real estate and is running lot
of second class tenement houses in
Gotham, on which her agent has re-
Gently raised the rent. The chances
are that she sent Tug Wilson out here
to work on commt'sion.-f Carson APP
peal
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

The dispatches received at London
eport great excitement at Tangiers,
the diplomatic capital of Morocco. 1t
appears that the Governor of Casa
Blanca, a town of Morocco, had sen.
fenced eight Jewesses to be publicly
bastinadoed in the presence of the in
tcrpreters connected with the British
Consulate. British residents in Mo-
rocco have sent strongly worded pro-
tests against the fearful outrage to the
foreign Minister'S at Tangiers. The
shocking order was not carried out
but it is believed that unless the Min
listers interfere the sentence against
these women will be enforced.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

"Oh. yes" said the contented man
u am just as well satisfied that NV
horse isn't as fast as some. When T
owned trotter that conll get away
with anything on the road I was in
front all the time and didn't half ell.
JOY myself. Now am behind most
OF the time and can see all the fun -
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02
a Defence Of sabbath Breaking.

The Rev. Robert Collyer's evening
sermon in the Church of the Messiah
on Sunday was entitled by him "a De-
fence Of Sabbath Breaking "a small
body Of the community said he,
"have sought to call up the ghost of
the old Puritan Sabbath and force peo'
pie. under penalty Of bonds and i'm
prisonment, to pay the ghost proper
regard. They have brought dolefnl
sound from the tomb that has been
heard with dismay BY the poor, who
have been only barely able to make
both ends Of scanty living meet by
the little trade they do on Sunday. |
say that it is part of the narrow big
otry of Calvin;sm. and a cruelty and
Injustice to the poor. that such law
should be on the statute books or be
enforced. | thank. from my pulpit,
those magistrates who have ignored
the letter Of this law. and have shown
in their interpretation of it some spirit
of that Master who Himself broke the
Sabbath which the rigid religionsts OF
| His time were went to enforce.
IL say that it has smitten the poor
est with an unjust cruelty, and has
left the rich go unscathed. Is it not
the large and free law that should be-
long to New York in the nineteenth
century? | say once for all that
shall fight it with all the power car
summon as a law that gives birth tt
hypocrisy and doublc-dealing, and thai
comes of the old spirit of bondage. Il
must be repealed, and replaced by
new law that freemen. broad minded
deep-thinking men, can endorse ant
respect, and observe cheerfuly.- Elk
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

a proposition to submit the cues.
tlon Of woman suffrage to the women
OF Nebraska was defeated by tie Leg,
isturc.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-03-02

tlI1c ulSdSttI tVoSbSo
The tariff bill passed the Senate on
the 2lst and was sent to the House.
The Maine Senate passed a bill al
lowing women to vote on school qnes
tons.
The American schooner Pilot Bride
is a total wreck at Desolation Island.
Only four of the crew saved
There is no hope Of carrying pro-
hbition movement in Ohio. The peo-
pie there have enough water to satisfy.
The greatest accomplishment Herr
Most seems to have is the ability to
unbutton his collar with his teeth.
Considerable damage has resulted
to bridges on the Mississippi river
from ice.
A dispatch from Hongkong says the
United States steamer Ashelnt has
DcCn l0Su. All ttlG WViH 0"ScN'
Eleven of the crew were drowned
Over $25, 900 has been expended up,
on permanent burial place for the
late A Il. Stewart, but his body has
not been recovered.
The Ohio maidens ought to be pro-
tec.ed by more stringent statutes:
Que of them aged 3S is now suing a
boy Is years Of age for seduction and
breach of promise.
Henry Ward Beecher says, every
few of my congregation come TO church
in the evening. They get SO full in
the morning that they can't digest any
more of my preaching in one day.
The British Museum catalogue, now
in course of printing, will consist Of
five hundred volumes, and at the pres
ent rate Of production will not be com
plete for forty years.
A paper watch has been exhibited
by Dresden matchmaker. The pape
is prepared in such manner that tn,
watch is said to be as serviccable al
those in ordinary use.
Manuel Lenhart, charged with mur
der was found dead in the jail at New
aygo, Michigan There was dane
near the Jail, and it is supposed h
mistook the roise for preparations t.
lynch him, and died of fright.
Mrs. Frank Schondea, of Spring
field, Missouri, in tho absence of he
husband, shot her 3-months. chill
with 44-calibre pistol, and then fire
another ball into her own head. N
cause known for the act
A strong effort is being made t
have the tax on whisky and tobace
removed. If this is effected, poor pc,
pie can worry along with the preset
price of beef, boots and bread. TIL
accessories of life must be made cheaI
or
A dispatch from Hong Kong. says
Che United States steamer Ashmel,
has been lost. All the officers WEI
saved, and IL of the crew browne
Tho Ashmslet was an iron-padd
vessel, carried six guns, and was It
tons burden
Ia an Indiana town the other da
convert was baptized through Il
ice with the atmosphere at fifteen d
grees below zero And it was nigh
lucky, too, for his future happines
that he was baptized SO prompt
That same night he was taken wi
inflammation of the lungs and died II
next day.
Fifteen corporations are engaged
the manufacture of cotton goods
Maine, with capital of $l0,840, 90
and fourteen in the manufacture
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-04-22

Affairs were rather mixed around the
new depot yesterday afternoon. First,
word was received that the engine of the
Wilmington train had become dead"
near Compton, that is, disabled, and
another locomotive was sent to haul it
in. 1t arrived two hours and half
late, but the ludicrous part of it was that
the train only consisted of one freight
car besides the passenger cars, and yet
was hauled by two ten-wheelers. Then
the emigrant train came in an hour late,
with fourteen loaded cars and three cars
of emigrants. The Santa Ana train
came in twenty minutes late and left forty
minutes behind. The yard was now
tolerably full, but in came the through
Arizona freight, drawn by two engines
and hauling thirty.four loaded cars
The yard was so jammed the trains
could not get off on time, the Santa
Monica leaving twenty minutes behind
its schedule, and the Wilmington an
hour and half behind. As contrast,
the southern overland, which was bulle,
tined a half hour late, came in on
time to the minute with seven cars,
which were increased to nine when
it pulled out for the north with
four sleepers attached, one Southern
Pacific Of Arizona, one Sunset Route,
one Central Pacific, and one Houston
and Texas Central. All were fine cars,
but the Sunset Route sleeper was the
most elegant. They made the train
very heavy. These facts indicate to our
readers the immense business transacted
at the Los Angeles depot,
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-04-22

From gentleman who has gone crit
ically over the San Fernando valley, We
learn that the prospect there for wheai
crop Is far better than IL was at thi'
time last year. The best informed peo
pie yacillate in their judgment between
half and throe-quarters Of crop for the
whole valley. Even half crop, from
the enormous area sowp, will yield q
great deal OF wheat and will pay the
farmers something; whilo three.quarters
Of crop will make them happy. There
are some portions Of the valley where
tho wheat prospect is the best ever
known. 1t is the old story Of the early
bird catching the worm. The San Fer
nando farmer who thoroughly ploughed
his land and put his seed In early win
rejoice in splendid yield, while his
more inert neighbor will be left to curse
his own hardness.
Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1883-04-22

EASTERN journals are busy just now
pointing out the fact that, although
both the pulpit and press of Chicago
antagoniaed Carter II. Harrison, the
Democratic candidate for Mayor of that
city, he and the whole Democratic
municipal ticket were elected by ma
iority of ten thousand. This result can
be passed, in great degree, to the
credit of the Germans, who are about
through with the Republican party all
over the country. -Four or five years
ago Chicago was staunch Republican
city. The part the pulpit and press
took in the late election is instructive.
Neither clergyman nor newspaper is
influential when either goes ont of a
legitimate groove, 1t appears that no
less than eleven of the most popular
clergymen of Chicago opposed Hsrri.
sons election from their pulpits, while
the great majority of the newspapers
were against him, with the result stated.
1t is an impressive hint to keep politics
out of the pulpit. As to the news.
papers, they are used to such an expert
ence, can stand it with grace and
eplomb, and have the cats faculty OF
landing on their feet at all times, but
the thing must have been very diseon.
cerhng to the gentlemen who, instead OF
preaching the gospel, converted them
selves into sacerdotal STRIKERS" for
their pet candidates. The old adage,
'let the shoemaker stick to his last, '
applies to clergymen who forget the pro
prieties of their positions.