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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29
DONALDSONVlLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

OON ALOSO NvILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
DRY GOODS. GROCERIES, Etc.
| IA ISRAEL & CO.. dealers in Dry Goods
4'as Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery, Bug.
g'es; ETC., corner Mississippi and Lessard streets
81 KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Eor-
! - mas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions
BOOTS and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn
Oats and Bran. NA'
A ?. VEGA. Agent, dealer in Dry Goods.
"a Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes. Hats
tIrocer1es: Liquors. Furniture, Hardware. TO.
oaeco; Paints, OILS, Glass, Lumber, Bricks Carts
inq wagons; lIOeb's corner, Railroad Avenue
and Mississif1pi street.
RsERNIAARD LEMANN & BROTHER, dealers
- IN Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
ceres Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils.
furniture, Crockery. Wall Paper and House q,
Crescent Place.
Tos; GoNDRAN & SONS, dealers il Drz
W " goods, Clothing, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Olis, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture and ali
kIntis OF House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store.
Mississippi street.
III TOBIAS. dealer in Groceries, Dry Goods.
17H' Clothing, Notions, Boots and Shoes, Hats.
FURNITURE, Hardware, Crockery, Trunks, etc,
corner e. mississippi and ST. Patrick streets and
figures. ~ 10"~7'
X tANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods Groce- |
=: a' r1es Plantation Supplies, Wines, Liquors
, ,d Tobacco and General Merchandise, cor
ger hallroad Avenue and Taylor streets. one |
block from Railroad Depot. ''
TNO F. PARK da.lar :, c+o1 W
y Groceries. Provisions, Plantation and Steam Ts
,oat Supplies, Canned Goods. Wines. LIQUORS
5ottled Beer, Ale, etc. Dry Goods ami Notions
orner OF Mlsslsslppi and Chetimaches streets
opposite River Ferry. 0o''
III LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Clothing
- Boots. Shoes, Hats. Groceries. Furniture
iordWare and Plantation Supplies at Lemann,s
ID stand. hfississinn; strl.at III LilIsr nt .
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

s KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hor-
~. mas street, dealer in Dry Gooda, Notions.
Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn
Oats and Bran. NoAH'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

SAnh LECHE, Attorney at Law and Nott.r
below the nff1H4Idsonoie Office bloci
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

y. OF; GoNDRAN & SONS, dealers in Dry
Wine, Liquors. Boots, Shoes, Hardware Paints
Olis, Saddlery, Crockery. Furniture and ali
kIntis OF House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

""t o'a Hack"oods Friend Again in the
fIns-Horse Races and cou.-eo,,
enaaes as Moral Agencies co,,,,,;,,-,.
- ''t Ladies of the Dutch Town Reeio,
Fatal Accitlent-Drout7,.
DEAR rt7rL..
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29
VOLUME XIII.
1Pe DoQaldsoqviIIe Cbief'

A Wiae-AWale Home Newspaper
Published Every Saturday Morning at
Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La,
BY
L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

A 2. VEGA. Agent. dealer in Dry Goods,
q "a Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats,
Groceries: Liquors. Furniture, Hardware. 70,
bacco; Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber, Bricks. Carts
and WAGONS; Loeb's corner. Railroad Avenue
and Mississippi street.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
The Tax on Drive wells.

Dies MONIES, Iowa, May 10.-The
United States district court, now sitting in this
city, has rendered decision in the celebrated
drive. well case, holding the patent void Judge
Shiras delivered the opinion holding: l. That
the patent is invalid, because the inventor,
Col Green, of New York, allowed it togo into
public use for more than two years prior to
his application for a patent 2. That the
reissue was void, because it was not for the
same invention the original patent and
void because that the instances of prior use
were in the main mere experiments of wells at
Independence Iowa, in 1861, and the success,
full use of several wells at Milwaukee in 1913
and 1850 were substantially the same inven-
ton as Green's. Judge Love concurred aud
held further that under the act of congress of
1882 it was immaterial whether prior use of
the invention for the two years therein men
toned was with or without the consent and
allowance of the inventor, and that such prior
use in either case inyalidated the patent.
Judge Nelson dissented. The plaintiffs, if an
appeal is made, will appeal on law points.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
Shnrt- Aand Ta1hnr-

Among the common errors in the use
of ianguage are these: The mispro-
'4nancing of macccuted syilabieS, rs
| terryble, for terrible; the omission OF
| a letter or short syllable, ~ goin' for
going, and ev,ry foreyery; and the run
ming of words together without giving
to every one a separate and distinct pro-
noiInciation.
know boy who says sDon't wan
ter. !" when he means II don wantto;"
''Whaicr say?" when he means What
did you say?" and ~ here de ao?' in
stead of Where did he COP
Sometimes you hear ..licood@ instead
of '.if l could;'' ..wilfercan'' instead of
81 will if | can, and .:how jerknow?'
for show do Won know"
And have you never heard "m-m'
instead of yes and .'ni-ni' instead
of mop
Let me give You short conversation
overheard the other day between two
pupils of our High School, and see if
you never heard anything similar to it:
@'Warejergo lasnight?''
'sHadder skate.
''Jerfind th'ice hard n good?'
Yes; hard noueh.
''Jer goerlone9't
No: Bill'n Joe wenterlon@.
''Howlate j'srstay?'
.'Pastate.
''Lemmeknow wkonyergoagin, won
cher? l wantergo'L shower howter-
skate - -
HIN, fcoadn' skate bottern' you
I'd sellout' nquit .
-sWel, we'll tryeraee'n seefyercan."
Here they took different streets, and
their conversation ceased. These boys
write their composition grammatically,
and might use good language and speak
it distinctly if they would Try. But they
have got into this careless way of speak
ing and make no effort tc get out of it.
Christian at Work.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
American Hunor. "

A correspondent writes a long ex-
egesis to this periodical, analyzing
American Humor, and asks the pub
Usher (as if he knew anything about -it)
to endorse his views. Stuff There is
no such thing as distinctively ''Ameri-
can Humor." The people of the United
States are an oVer-worked, oyer-burden-
ed community, worn out with the cares
of business and ready to laugh at any
thing that does not entail a business
loss To themselves or affect their inn
mediate relations. Americans are hys-
terical by the nature of their habits, and
they will laugh at mans misfortunes.
or weep over his grief indiscriminately.
To make them cry, one has only to re-
late pathetic story of great fortitude,
under pressure of great suffering, while
to induce a laugh, the author only needs
the audacity to make dignity ridiculous.
It is theaearnest way in which foolish
men do absurd things that makes wise
men smile. and it Is by surrounding
wise men with comical inconveniences
that the untllinking man is tickied into
q roar.
There is a great deal said about
american Humor, as though one
class of people could comprise, either in
ability to write or capacity to enjoy, a
certain emotion. And there is a great
| deal said about american Humorists, y
a term as offensive to the sensitive ear
as that of Professional Beauty. -
BRAKES Iraceiler7s Magazine.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
PULITzER'S PURCHASE
Jay Gould Tires of Running a Paper
for Fun---Eome Inside Facts
About ssThe World"

Nnw YORK, May 10.-The special cor
respondent of The Chicago Tribune gives his
paper the following account OF the sale of The
World and it's causes: Gle announcement of
the sale of TheNew York w oFld TO Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer, of The St Louis st-Dispatch. and,
incidentally, of The New York Morning jour
nal, which latter paper he was instrumental in
establishing some six months ago, is not a sur
prise. 1t has been talked about more or
less, since the first of the year, aud rumor had
coupled with the overtures AIR. john Mclean,
of The Cincinnati Enquirer. as well as Mr..
Pulitzer. Mr. Mclean, no doubt, was anxious
to get hold of the property and make it a sort
of New York annex to the Cincinnati establish
ment. for the purpose, unquestionably, of
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
CreP Reports.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May 10-The
large area of winter wheat destroyed by the
Hessian fly last fail and the severe winter and
floods of this spring in this state have largely
reduced the prospects for wheat, and not more
than 40 per cent of the previous crop is as
sured The per cent of winter wheat area
that will be seeded to other crops this spring
is much larger than expected, and the present
condition, May |, gives encouragement for
only 20,374,09 bushels, against 30 434 ,2 244g
bushels as the result OF last harvest
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 10.-The In
diana Farmer, which published yesterday
it's monthly crop report showing the condi-
ton OF the growing crops of Indiana for April,
will says: North division, wheat, per cent. of
condition, 20; corn, per cent planted and to
be planted, 100; clover, per cent of condition,
~; timothy, per cent of condition, ~;
peach buds, per cent alive, 80: apple buds
per cent alive, IS Central division--wheat,
20 per cent !; corn, 100; clover, IS; timothy,
sG; peaches n apples, n. Southern division
wheat. rs; corn, 81; clover, 50; timothy, %;
peaches, 20; apples, 90.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.

fFrom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. D. c., May 9, 1888.
Several important questions connected
with railroad land grants are now pend
ing before the Secretary of The Interior,
and action of some kind in reference to
the same viii doubtless be taken before
long. One of these questions relates to
the reinstatement of the former practice
of the department of issuing a second
patent where prior. patent for the same
land, issued either through inadvertence
or under an erroneous construction of
statute, has been found to be null and
void, and to make no conveyance of title
TO the land.
In the case of Newhall VS.. Sanger, de-
cided in May, 1876 zoe U. S. Rep. 76D,
the Supreme court of the United States
held that lands in California within the
limits of a Mexican grant claim, and in
state OF reservation at the date of the
Pacific Railroad grant made in the act of
July I. 1862, We're excepted from the rail
road grant, and that patent issued for
such lands to the railroad company was
void and conveyed no title. This decision
: directly nullifiedath the title of the railroad
and Its grantee, Mr.. Sanger, to the par
tlcular tract in controversy before the
court, and virtually nullified the title of
the railroad company to every other tract
also In state of reservation within the
limits of Mexican grant claim at the
date of the railroad grant, and holding,
therefore, the same status as the tract in
controversy in that case.
At the date of the decision in May,
1875, and for nearly forty years before
that time, the practice of the department
of the interior was and had been TO issue
second patents whenever the officers OF
the department became fully satisfied tina,
prior patents for the same lands had been
enormously issued and were entirely null
and void. The propriety of issuing sec
ond patents IN such cases without previ
ousiy remanding the contest to the courts
was IN 1878 referred to Attorney General
Butler, and in 1s48 was again referred tic
Attorney General Toucey, and both Of
these officers rendered opinions in favo,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
Illinois I.egisfature.

SPRINGFIELD, H., May LON the
senate, the high license bill was postponed
until next Tuesday moning.
Mr.. Bells bill, providing that cities may in
crease the levy for water works and sewerage
purposes, from l to 3 mills per dollar without
increasing the aggregate, was passed.
In the house, Mr.. Willoughby, Democrat,
took the floor on the pending question, which
was an appeal from the speakers decision of
yesterday. He made the best speech of the
session favorable to the high-license bill. The
house sustained the speakers decision by a
vote of 80 to 81. Mr. Willoughby's motion to
take up the Harper high license bill WAS then
put to vote and carried by 7t to 6S--ten Demo
Gratis voting with the Republicans and eight
Republicans voting with the Democrats.
Mr. Willoughby offered an amendment max
ing the license fee $500 for whisky and $3.50
for beer This was pending at the adjourn
ment
The friends of high license are very hopeful
of the passage of the bill, but may have to
consent to the modification proposed by Viii
loughhy. The opponents of the measure are
full of fight however, and may succeed by
tilibustcrIng, in Shaving il of.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11

ST. PAUL, May 10.-George Fergu-
oman engineer on the Chicago, Milwaukee II
St Paul railway in charge of the train which
was scheduled to arrive at noon yesterday,
lost his life by jumping from his engine a. the
train was leaving the track i'll the river bank
route, at point lii miles FROM this city
He jumped into the Mississippi river and was
drowned before he could be rescued. The
person was injured The track runs along the
bank of-the river whore he lost his life and it
was miracle that the passengers escaped
The fireman stayed on the engine aud brought
the train to this city Ferguson's body was
not recovered.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
Sporting Matters.
Races at Louisville. Philadelphia, and
san Francisco sale Of a Noted Trot-
ter--Eass. EkaII

CHICAGO. Nav 10.-The threatening
weather of yesterday morning had evidently
made people afraid TO risk visit to the ball
grounds in the afternoon, and not more than
twelve hundred persons assembled to witness
the last of this series Of games between Chi
caeo and Detroit This was to be regretted, as
for lockers on it was by far the best.game OF
the three, there being plenty OF
free batting and good base running,
while there were some fine catches made
in the out field Up to the seventh. inning 1t
was anybody's game, but here the Detroiters
got on to Corcoran, and by some bad errors
managed to score Z. Chicago hit Weldman
pretty freely too, in the seventh and eighth
innings, making in the first and IN the next
but Detroit would not be denied, and they rat
tied up with marvellous CELEBRITY, Houck aud
Manseil making fine three base hits, Inc
Michiganders are in great spirits at defeating
the champions, and are especially proud of the
whitewash on Monday. Yesterday Capt Arson
received an immense goose-egg, sent by
friend from Michigan with the remark, Laid
by Michi- gander."
The following is the result of yesterdays
playing: Chicago 2, Detroit H.
Other games resulted as follows: Phila-
delphia z, Columbus 3; Allegheny Is, Metro
politans s; Port Huron O. Bay City 2; In
dianapoiis 9, Fort Wayne T.
LOUISVILLE RACES
LOUISVILLE, May Yesterdays
first race. 1926 class, won by Alta Best time
2:2os4 Second race. pacing, 2:ao class, won
by Richba1l Best time 2;2011. Third race
3-year -olds; Fngue won two heats yesterday
il 2.43 Concluded to-day.
LEXINGTON RACES.
LEXINGTON, Ky, May 10.-To-day's
races resulted as follows
First race, / mile, won by Sudie McNairy in
/ 371S
Second racs, / 1-16 miles; Louis and Gus
Strauss stakes: Won by hnfus l.; Long
Third race,IL mile Won by Sylvia in 2:,,s3
Lutte String, second; Bubbler, third
SUFFOLK PARK.
PHILADELPHIA, May 10.-Leyiathan
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11

Of the practice, where It was clear from
the rulings of Che supreme conrt of The
United States that the earlier patent
were mere utilities and conveyed ne
title. (See opins. Attys Genl. Vols. {
and 5, PIP. 24o-7. respectively
The practice of the department in thai
respect became thus firmly established,
and from 1887 to 1876 many such second
patents were issued without the earlier
| patents being first declard. void in the
judicial tribunals Many of them subse.
fauentlr came before the supreme court
of the United States, and in every instance
that tribunal sustained the second pat
ents and held the government title being
conveyed by them as it did in the case of
NewhaH vs.. Sanger.
Pflorto the decision in that case the
California railroad companies had obtain
ed patents in the department for many
thousand acres of land of precisely the
same status as the contest between New
hall and Sanger and the legal principles
involved were of course precisely the
same in respect to every such tract. The
only question to be determined in each
case was whether at the date of the rail-
road grant the tract was in state of re-
servation within the limits of a Mexican
grant claim, the same as the tract in con
troversy between Newhall and Sanger,
and that was question to be determined
by the officers in charge of the public
lands, and not primarily by the Judicial
tribunals.
Hundreds of settlers have been for
years occupying the lands in California
for which such void patents were issued
to 4he railroad companies. Had, the
practice of issuing second patents, which
had prevailed in the department for
more than generation prior to July 12,
1875, been continued after that date these
settlers would long since have obtained
title to their land But within the per
iod or about two months after the case of
Newhall VS.. Sanger had been decided by
the Supreme Court, showing that the
California railroad companies were hold
ing many thousand acres of land under
Illegal patents improperly issued, the de
partment changed the practice of issuing
second patents for the same lands until
.he elder patents in each particular case
had first been declared void in the judicial
tribunals
No honest claimant, DESTROYS only of
a just claim, had ever com
planned of the former practice of the de
,artmeht, nor had the Supreme Court of
he United States eyer found fault with |
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
Ne,y halfway.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 1o.-The Chi
cago, Rock Island & Kansas City railway has
been legally incorporated at the office of the
secretary of state The proposed route is from
Chicago to Rock Island and New Boston, Ill
passing through the counties of Cook. DuPage,
Kendall, LaSalle, Bureau, Henry, Mercer, Rock
island, Whiteside and Lee. The principal
tors, who also TO be the first board of di-
rectors, are John S. Thompson, of Chicago; v
NJ BlanIin, Henry p. Hull and Porter Skinner.
of Rock Island, and Benjamin +, Thompson, of
Aledo. The capital is $4,000, 900.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11

showing the eastern people how to run news
paper on the high-pressure plan; but an adj
iustrnent OF figures stood in the way of the ftl-
fillment of the bargain. and Mr.. Pulitzer, who
was bidding for the property at the same time,
has succeeded in perfecting negotiations ana
viii step into proprietorship Friday It may
be- that he has selected an nnlucky day for
beginning his career on what has been an
unlucky paper, but that time will deter
mine. The World for some years has
received it's sustenanee from the purse of Mr.
jay Gould. who fonnd it pleasant as well as
profitable to have an organ to bolster his
schemes and boom his stock enterprises. But
of late it is said that even Mr. Gould had tired
of the pastime of running newspaper, and
he had given out word that Ii must be man
aged in manner that would make it pay Its
own way, or he would shoulder it upon some
body else, providing purchaser could be
found. Instead OF paying it had run behind
constantly. The business manager preceding
the present one had been extravaganza, and,
when he got rid OF, retienchment was be-
gun. The Washington bureau was abolished.
A New York morning paper without Wash
ington bureau was certainly an anomaly. Then
labor was consolidated among those left;
reporters were dropped and prices re-
duced The business Office was curtaied, and
everything done to make both ends meet. Mr..
Gould's uitim3tusn felt most foreibly. The
question among New York newspaper men has
long been as to why The World was published
niche, and its demise certainly would not have
materially affected the features of the news
paper world. Now that Mr.. Pulitzer has taken
the concern and secured a press franchise, it
is possible that he may bring about better
ment of its fortunes, but as it is given ont that
the incubus of the old Gould regime will still
hang over the rehabilitated paper, and that
this is of the considerations of the sale, 1T
may affect the fortunes of the new candidate for
public favor. All the editors of the paper,
with the exception of Mr. Hurlbert, will re-
main, or at least have been invited 20 do so at
the present salaries
Mr. Hurlbert has been with The World nine
years, having, with syndicate of friends,
bought it from Manton Marble At the head
of the syndieate was the late Thomas A. Scott
In 1879, in the course of dicker between Mr.
Scott and Jay Gould growing out of the formers
retirement from the Texas Pacific, Mr.. Gould
acquired such part of The World rs was not
controlled by Mr.. Hurlbert at nominal price
of $3.50, O00 Mr.. Gould desired to use the
paper as a weapon for the American Union
Telegraph company to force the 2 Western
Union to buy it out That Mr.. Gould's ven
ture has not been successful ono to himself
financially is seen in the figures of his pur-
chases and sales. Last February ne bought
Mr. Hurlbert's interest for 800, 900, making
his investment S450, 900. He now turns round ]
and sells to Mr. Pulitzer for between $3.50, 900
and $400, goo. To Mr.. Hurlbert, at least 1.-THE
uses of The Wopad" have not been "weary,
stale, flat and unprofitable."
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
st. Louis -Repalb hear. The cisare1

ST, Louis s1Repstb hear. The cigarette
makers, strike at zone of the factories of
New York was very quiet affair. One
hundred and fifty girls asked for an ad-
vance in wages, and being refused all
hands quit work A few days after they
all marched back to the factory in a body
and in good order to get the little balance
coming to them. They were. promptly
paid and told that other girls were in
training to take their places. 1ney made
no objection and did not show DISPOSE
ton to interfere with the new arrange
ments of the factory. There was no
and hair pulling scene, and no
intimidation of any kind was attempted
The cigarette girls returned to their haf,
where they were addressed by Mrs. Lille
Devereux Blake, who called them daugh-
tiers and sisters and advised them to stick
together, and hold to their purpose for
the general benefit of womankind.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-11
Cash Afonenaent.

MADISON. Wis, May 10.-Col Thorn
as REYNOLDS has paid 81, 76l % to United States
District Attorney Lewis, being the amount
stolen by him from the government by means
of forged certificates, with interest and costs.
In consideration of this payment and the per
sonal appeal OF Gen. Sherman and others of
his old war comrades, criminal prosecution
against him has been formally dismissed
The colonel is now 20 years of age aud one OF
the most gallant veterans sent out from Wis
consin He has greatly aged III the last few
MONTHS and is now physical wreck He has
but little property left, and says he only
wishes to hide himself and wait for death.