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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22

SPECIAL MAIL SERvIGE.-The Davis cre-
vase in st. Charles parish and the submer-
sion of the track in the swamps near the
Atchafalaya river caused total suspension
of travel on the Texas and Pacific railroad
between New Orleans and Cheneyville, and
from Monday last until this morning DON
aldsonville received no Eastern or Western
mails. Postmaster Merchant of New Or
leans was appealed to by number of our
business men to secure special service, and
Postmaster Lefort Of Donaldsonville wired
Division Superintendent Vickery at Atlanta
to the same effect. Yesterday afternoon O
dispatch was received from Mr.. Mer-
chant conveying the pleasing information
that mails would leave the city last evening
on the steamer Clinton, under temporary
contract for Monday and Friday service, and
this morning the Clinton arrived and put
off fourteen bags of mail matter at our
wharf. 1t will be serious Inconvenience to
be compelled to put up with semi-weekly
mails from the metropolis when we have
been accustomed to receive two per day, but
the prospect is that We will have to grin and
bear the privation for several weeks, until
the river falls sufficiently to permit the
closure of the Davis crevasse.
DISTRICT CouRr ADJouRNED.-As we
stated last week, Judge Cheevers granted
an order adjourning the special jury term
of the District Court which had been called
for the third and fourth weeks of March,
beginning last Monday, basing his action
on a petition signed by the President of the
Police Jury, the municipal and parochial
health officers and several members of the
bar. Twenty-seven of the fifty jurors drawn
to serve during the first week of the term
reported at the courthouse for duty, and
most of them were much pleased to ascer-
tain that their services would not be brought
into requisition. In obedience to the order
Of the Judge, the Sheriff adjourned the
court until the first Monday of April, on
which day the next regular civil term will
be opened. There will be no jury term un-
til September, unless the Judge should con-
earlier time. The petition in response to
which the proposed criminal term has been
dissolved represents that no great pub
lie necessity exists for a session of the
court; that there are only few prisoners
in the parish jail; that the assembly to-
gether of persons from all parts of the
parish might tend to revive and increase
the prevalence of small pox, and that the
high stage of water rendered the people
DESTROYS of remaining at home to watch the
levees.
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A dark bay pony strayed into Mr.. Henry
Hether's yard last Saturday, and he adver-
tises for the owner.
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Fresh groceries, the best and cheapest in
town: at Mack's Favorite Exchange, oppo.
site the courthouse.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22

M. Israel & Co. are solo agents for Putt
Pomade for shining aRetals Of all kinds.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22

A. Riggs & Bro, cistern makers, N7 Delor'
street, N. O. Send for price list.
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trict Court.
Mr.. Paul L. Oberkamp, an industrious
young man we'll known in this community
and now a resident of the village of Port
Barrow, "hangs out his sign" in this issue
of the CHIEF as O carpenter and builder,
and announces his readiness to undertake
any work in that line that may be offered
him. He guarantees good jobs and salts
factory rates in ali instances. His resi-
dence is on Pine street, directly opposite
the Port Barrow end of the iron bridge,
and all orders left there or addressed to
him through the Donaldsonville post Office
will meet with his prompt attention. Mr..
Oberkamp has-d done great deal Of work in
this parish and can furnish ample evidence
of his skill.
Prof. Brewer gave second entertain
ment at Phoenix Hall last Saturday even
ing, but we regret to say that his audience
on this occasion was even smaller than
that which greeted his former appearance
here. His recitations comprised selections
of prose and poetry which offered ample
scope for an effective display of the Pro-
fessor's conspicuous powers as an elocu-
ZIONIST and actor, and he exerted himself
as earnestly to interest and amuse his
hearers as if the hall had been crowded to
its utmost capacity. Professor Brewer has
not abandoned his intention of forming
class in elocution here, and those who may
desire to become members are requested to
hand in their names at the establishment
of Mrs. M. Israel & Co.
LODGE NorEs.-Tuesday evenings meet
ing of the Knights of Honor was very
brief one, there being no special business
for consideration. Assessment No. 1856 will
be delinquent on the 18th inst, and MEM
bers should be careful to pay on or before
that date.
Mr.. Gabriel King of Assumption was
conducted through the ceremonies of the
three ranks of page, esquire and knight at
the convention of Kenneth Lodge, knights
of Pythias, Thursday night, and the occa.
sion proved a verltabie picnic to the men,
bers in attendance. There will be another
candidate for initiation at the next meet
ing.
For the greater convenience of its men,
bers Ascension Council No. 1856, American
Legion of Honor, has changed its meeting
nights to the second and fourth Wednes-
day of each month.
The Workmen meet next Tuesday even
ing and three J. VS. will be advanced to
the degree of Master Xorkman
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Estray Notice.
PARISH OF ASCENSION, March 20, 1884.
T,AKEN UP BY THE UNDERSIGNED ON
l. the public road in the third ward Of this
parish eleven days ago, one
DARK BAY HORSE,
with mark on right shoulder resembling a
v, and white spot on forehead. No other
brands or marks visible.
The owner is notified to come forward, prove
property and pay costs within the legal delay,
otherwise the animal will be disposed of ac-
cording TO law. -
JAMES HOLMES,
Constable third ward.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22
LOCAL JUTTINGS.

Miss;ssippi Street. Donaldsonville.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02

The report of the British Museum
shows that during 1888 the number of
persons admitted to view the general
collections exclusive of readers) was
$50, 557.a The number of visits to the
reading room and other departments
for the purpose of study or research was
859,836. Dealing with the general pro-
gress of the Museum, the report says
1.-The removal Of the natural history
collections to the new museumi in Crom-
well road having been completed, the
rooms i'll Bloomsbury in which the zoo
logical collections have been exhibited
have been applied to the accommoda-
ton of the departments remaining
there. This has enabled the keeper OF
the department of Oriental antiquities
to make a more extensive exhibition of
Egyptian objects of various characters
in a system of instructive classification;
the ancient vases and terra cottas, the
bronzes and the ancient paintings have
been rearrauged and more fullydisplayed
by the keeper of Greek and Roman an
tiqnities ; British and medieval col
lectlons have been placed on exhibition;
the glass and porcelain collections have
been brought together in one room an
extensive ethnographical collection, in
Guiding the contents of the Christy
Museum, transferred from Victoria
street, is in progress of geographical
arrangement in the long gallery for
merly occupied by the collection of
birds. In the gallery lately occupied
by the British geological collection,
coins and medals of all countries, to-
gether with photographs of drawings
of the old masters, and of early engrav-
ings Of the Italian and Flemish schools,
have been exhibited
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
Goodness and Badness.

The Rev. DIR. Newman breaches on
Couey Island beach every Sunday. He
is physically big and faclally beaming.
When he strolled along the shore, after
his sermon on a recent Sunday he could
could not possibly have looked like any
thing else than a Doctor of Divinity,
except for a pair of colored eyeglasses
which he wore to protect his eyes from
the glare of light reflected from the
water. The fact needs to be explain
ed for a complete understanding of the
circumstance, that professional swim
dlers, of the three-card monte and bum
co kind commonly cover their eyes with
dark spectacles as a disguise, than
which none is more effective. Well,
DR.. Newman fell into conversation with
a young stranger, whose verdancy rec
commended him to religious considera-
ton as a fellow who ought to be saved
from the besetments of Sabbath break
ing on the Island. An invitation to an
afternoon prayer meeting was what
the clergyman was about to utter.
my friend" he said. ''if you will
come to room SO in the Beach Hotel in
an hour
At that point he was briskly inter-
rupted by the alert ruralist, who based
his estimate Of Newman's character on
the blue glasses, and scornfully remark
ed to him "You can't steer me into
no bunko game. ''I'm posted, 1 am.n
The doctor told the story once, to
find out what the young nan meant
and he keeps on telling It because he
thinks it very funny.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02

unguided into the West End, and pre-
sented himself at MI. Smart's studio.
lie had come prepared to give him
from FIVE to seven hundred pounds for
the picture Of "Maidens Bathing"
But Mr.. Smart was quite equal to the
situation; when he bowed his first
buyer out, the picture had changed
hands, and so had a thousand pounds.
A few days later this picture was
hung in the big dining-room Of Mr..
Jones's big house at Brixton. And
from that time MI. Jones became a
most hospitable man. 1t was his pride
AID delight to ask half a dozen city
men of his own sort to dinner, and
talk to them of his West End friends;
of how he had bought this picture out
Of a West End studio; and above all
Of how, to his own knowledge, the
likenesses were excellent. He was a
proud man in the possession of a work
of art, and, considering all the glory 1t
brought him, he thought it "dirt cheap
at a thousand pounds.
Could he but have guessed how
much was done by that thousand
poundsl 1t had a magic effect on the
dealers, such as could have been pro
duced by no merit of genius. They
came out one after another to Mr..
Smart's studio door, and he knew that
lie was a made man, and that the ouly
thing remaining for him to do was to
ask enough for his pictures.
The half-dozen portraits of Lady Ro-
sina have been painted. She has fig
ured in every exhibition for some time,
and is recognized as one Of the eminent
beauties.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
WILLOWS.

The value of the willow cropo of Wyo-
ming County, New York, is estimated
at S12O, 900. The heaviest crops are
found in the towns of Perry, Gaines
vile and Warsaw, and the willows are
shipped to Syracuse, Buffalo, and New
York, to German basket makers,
where they command from S4 to S24
per ton. Before 1879 the willows had
to be stripped of their bark where they
were raised, which was accomplished
by standing the punches in a stream of
water. Since 1879 the buyers take
them bark and all, and strip the stalk
by steam power, which makes 1t more
profitable for the producers.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
Cattle Raising In south America

The life Of the cattle is wholly free.
The stock-raiser or estancier, is the
owner of a very extensive tract of pas
ture land, and he leaves the animals to
live upon it, to feed themselves, and
multiply at their Will. The stock, even
in the widest and least-populous re-
gions, form small herds of from 100 to
$50 head, which are made up Of steers,
cows, calves and bulls, but are always
composed Of the same individuals, and
always lnhabit the same very limited
region of the campo, and the animals
pass their lives within this region with
out being confined by any Enclosure.
I'll e distinctive character Of the groups
is especially curious in the more popu-
lous regions, as the southern part of
Rio Grande, or Montevideo, where
herds may be seen almost IN contact
without mixing, coming together and
making themselves up generally with
out trouble, and they live thus side by
side for years without becoming ac-
quainted with each other. Each herd
is so coherent that, when one of its
members takes fright and runs away,
all will fellow it. In consequence of
this habit, 1t ID very difficult, when the
cattle are sold, to separate them from
the herds and to get them along for
the first few leagues. If they are not
watched, they will escape, pass by thou
sands of other animals without MOTTO
ing them, and join their companions.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
conversation.

Conversational powers are by no
means the usual accompaniment Of
genius, as a few examples fifty Illus
trdte. Tasso's conversation was neither
gay nor brilliant. Dante was either
taciturn Or satirlcal. Butler was either
sullen or biting. Gay seldom talked or
smiled. Hogarth and Swift were very
absent-minded when in company. Nil.
ton was very unsociable, and even irri-
table when pressed into conversation.
Kirwan, whose public addresses were
full of eloquence, was meagre and dull
in colloquial discourse. Virgil was
heavy in conversation. La Fontaine
appeared heavy, coarse and stupid he
could not speak and describe what he
had just seen but then he was the
model of poetry. Chaacer's silence
was more agreeable than his CONVERSE
ton. Dryden's conversation was slow
and dull, his humcr saturnine and re-
served. Corneille in conversation was
so insipid that he was utterly weari-
some. Ben Jonson had a talent for
silence. Southey wa stiff, sedate and
aesthetic. Addison only unbent to his
Intimate friends. Instances to prove
exactly the contrary might dou btless
be given. AS Grotius was loquacious
so was DR.. Bentley. Goldsmith talked
necessarily. Burke was a most enter
tanning conversationalist. Curran was
convivial and Leigh Hunt kept up an
~unceasing stream of delightful CONVEX
sation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
Outdoor Games

Prisoners Base, which is popular IN
Europe, is originally an imitation of
warfare. The two armies stand facing
each other, and have their bases each
on a line parallel with their adversary.
But in the United States the game has
been changed, so that the two parties
stand on the same line, and the bases
are placed ~diagonaily opposite at a dis
tmce of some thirty yards, so that each
base is nearer to the enemy's forces
than to those of the side to which it
belongs. The game is opened by a
challenge given by II leader to the
other each player car tag any II of
the opponents who has quilted his line
before he has left his own. Any player
tagged must go to his base. Any player
who can reach his base in safety may
release a prisoner. AS it often happens
that a half dozen runners may be pur-
suing a single fugitive, who is cut off
from his friends, the chase may be pro-
longed far from the point of departure,
through streets of the town or fields Of
the country.
Roll Bd!L.-A row of holes large
enough to contain the ball is made, II
for each boy. The player to whom is
allotted the last hole takes the ball,
stands off, and rolls 1t in such a way IS
to stop in n of the holes. The boy
into whose place the ball has rolled
seizes it while the rest scatter, and
throws it at some one of the group. If
he succeeds in hitting him, a stone is
placed in the hole of that boy if not,
the thrower must put a stone In his
own The rolling of the ball is then
repeated. When five stones (called
babies are lodged in any hole, that boy
Is out Of the game. This New England
game is exactly %paralleled in Switzer-
land and Austria.
Witch IN the Jar.-0ne of the chill
dren is selected for a witch, and each
of the others chooses some tree or post
for a goal. The witch then marks out
on the ground with a stick as many
circles as there are players, which she
calls Jars" The children run out
from their homes, and are pursued by
the witch. Whenever she catches one,
she puts him in one of her Jars, from
which he cannet escape unless some one
else chooses to free him by touching.
Once freed, he cannot berecaught until
he has reached his home, and ventures
out once more. The freer, however,
can be caught, and as the witch keeps
guard over her prisoners, it is a danger
Gus task for a player to attempt to set
his companions free. When all are
caught a new witch is chosen.
Den. This is an out-oi-doors game.
Each boy represents a wild beast, and
has a separate tree, which represents
his den" Any player who leaves his
den is liable to be tagged by any one
who has started out at a later moment.
The best runne usually ventures first,
a second pursues him, and so on until
all may be out at once. If a player can
tag any one whom he has a right to
capture, he takes him home to his own
den, and the latter must help him to
take the rest. The pursuer cannot be
tagged while bringing home his prison.
er.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
SONG

Mg love dwelt in a northern land
A gray tower Ia a forest green
Was his, and far on either hand
The long wash of the waves was seen,
And leagues and leagues of yellow sand
The woven forest houghs betweenl
And through the clear, faint northern night
The sunset slowly died away,
And herds of strange deer, silver white,
Stole forth among the branches gray;
About the coming of the light
They fled like ghosts before the dayi
I know not if the forest green
Still girdles round that castle gray;
I know not if the boughs between
The white deer vanish ere the day;
Above my love the grass is green;
My heart is colder than the clay.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
A solitary GuIch.

In one of the gulches of the gold
mining district of the Divide, perhaps
twenty-five miles from Denver. stand
the remains of a cabin, if a few black
ened and charred tlmbers and a pile of
stones, evidently at one time a chimney,
can be called remains. To the miners
and prospectors who pass over the rough
trail to-day the place has a lonely and
mouTnful look and many speculatioHs
are INDUCED in as to the history and
fate of its former occupants.
From 1858 until 1894 this wild and
almost unlnhabited country was filed
with a busy population who had left
comfortable homes and loving friends
in the East In the wild pursuit of gold
in these rich diggings. In the latter, year
however. the number dwindled from
several thousand to perhaps less than a
score of white men, W. excitements
having carried the restless tide in other
directions. Among the few who re-
manned were two brothers who had left
their home in a pleasant town in Illi-
nols to make their fortunes in these
m~arvelously rich placers. These were
Thomas and William Coleman, who,
though 80 closely related, were as ut
terly different in disposition and man.
ner as could well be imagined. Thorn
as who was of a dark and swarthy
complexion, vas always morose and
disagreeable, and generally disliked by
his neighbors. William, however, with
his bright, blue eyes and sunny hair,
was ever a favorite with all. But little
was known of their previous history
a v that the elder was unmarried, but
that William had left a young wife and
n child in the East. 1t was known
also, to a few, that this marriage was
a continual source of contention be-
tween the two, and it was generally
understood that the brothers had been
formerly rivals for the hand of the girl
whom William afterward married.
One day, III the summer of 1864, the
stage, which was still running in that
section, brought as a passenger a beau
tiful woman to the cabin who proved to
be the wife Of William Coleman. The
meeting of the couple was joyous to a
degree, she explaining that parents and
child having both died, she had resolved
to join her husband and individually
share his fortunes and hardships. Upon
her arrival Thomas went out of the
house and wandered a long distance
over ridges and through gulches nor re-
turned until long after dark. Just ex-
actly what happened after he reached
the cabin was never known, but it is
surmised that a fierce quarrel and double
murder ensued, as late that night a
man passing neal there on horseback
thought he heard loud and angry words
followed by two reports from a pistol,
and looking back after getting on top
of the ridge he saw the bright light of
a conflagration. Upon reaching the
nearest settlement he reported what he
had seen. A party Of men started the
next day to investigate the matter and
found the charred remains of the cabin
and beneath the still smoking ruins the
burned bodies of William Coleman and
his wife. Thomas Coleman was never
afterwards heard of. The place to-day
has a mournful loneliness and silence,
Inbroken save by the twitter of birds
by day and the bowling of the coyote at
night.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02
The Great Constable

The orange tree at Versailles, known
as the Great Constable, is nearly 500
years old. 1t was planted in 1922 by
Eleanor of Carlisle, wife of Charles
Ill, King of Navarro.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02

Naples is the dirtiest, most ragged
and squalid city in Europe. 1t has a
population of 100000, Of whom about
10000 are priests.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-08-02

Most men CRY, Long live the oen,
q~uerorl"
, 1884-10-29

iHaYnies Foreign Letter.
This is IA place r%esplendent with natural
beauty; evidently n spot on which a part of
Eden fell when the angels were carrying ii
back to heaven. 1t takes about fourteen
hours to reach here from Paris, and once ar
rived you feel like remaining the rest OF your
idle days. 1t is Il lazy life we lead here
that is, lazy as regards work, but active
enough in sightseeing, an entertainment
much more fatiguing, by the way, than real
labor. AT : o'clock in the morning a fine
orchestra commences to play in front of the
ConveIsationshnus. from which early mo
ment sleep is impossible to those who live in
hotels overlooking the actual watering-place
part of the beautiful town. When people ART
up they go to the Trinkhalle to take the hot
waters or to the Cowshed to drink whey OF
goats milk
The waters are ahot'r'n bla1es" and the
lacteai diet is not to my liking. After this, a
long promenade in the avenue, from the
Badische-hof. where Cupuchin monks lived
in 1881, out to the old convent Of Lichten-
thai, "a distance Of, shy, five miles, through
as pretty n roadway as you over saw. Then
comes the first breakfast Of coffee and rolls,
with butter and honey, and l love TO spread
1t on thick, too; which aght meal ended,
you read the Paris papers Of the day before
and then start off ON an excursion The
chief points Of attraction for visitors are the
Old castle, the ruins OF Ebersteinburg, the
avenue aud old Lichtenthal church and con
vent. the fish breeding establishment, the
castle Of Eberstein, the Geroldsau waterfall.
the Cross of FTemersburg. the Castle Lauf,
the DEVILS mill, the new castle, the Russian
chapel and the Frederic baths.
II takes weeks 10 do all these places thor
oughly, and I can only remain a Few days,
more's the pity but l shall go away with the
conviction that Baden BADEN fully deserves
its reputation for being n first class summer
resort, a place where Americans and other
foreigners have just as good treatment astht
beer-drinking natives of the town. 1t was d
great gambling place along back yonder In
1870 and afterwards, but there hes been
nothing lone at trente ct quarante or the
roulette table since 1872, when the German
emperor, backed up by Herr Lasker, drove
the money-changers from out the temple
The entire grand duchy has been the gainel
by the abolishment Of gambling. At least
that is what town residents, people who hay'
lived here all their lives, tell me.