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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
POLICE JURIEs VS.. STATE LAW.

The Police Jury of Pointe Coupee parish
is very considerate body-aImost as much
SO as the Ascension Jury. Bids for the
parish printing were called for in Pointe
Coupe, as the law requires. The Banner
offered to do the work for 800, and the
Democrat proposed to undertake it for $50.
The contract was awarded to the Banner
on the ground that the Democrats bid was
too low-not living price; and instead Of
approaching this DISTINGUISHED kindness,
the Democrat kicks, and charges the Police
Jurors with violation of Jaw and duty.
Our Ascension legislators have skillfully
avoided such controversies as this by quiet
~ ignoring the law which commands them
to call for bids before giving out any pub
lie printing. This admirable arrangement
works like charm and prevents any bick-
er1ng between the local papers over the
question of printing pap. To be sure, cap
tious persons may be disposed to contend
that Police Jury is establishing mis-
chievous precedent when it assumes to set
aside the provisions of State law, but bless
your unsophistieated soul, such little things
as that never vex the minds of our paro-
chial "powers that be'' The authority
that can curb the exercise of their sweet
will is yet to be discovered. They are a
law unto themselves and their might is
bound to be right. Occasionally indig-
nant citizens may assume to criticize and
protest against this state of affairs, just as
the anti-Fusion members of the Democrat
ic executive committee protested against
being incontinently kicked out of that au
gust organization, but in one case as in the
other, the dissenters are met by the par
alyzing force of the celebrated inquiry
propounded by one of the most prominent
and powerful Democratic leaders of his
day" What are you going to do about
It?',
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
His Slippery Glass Eve.

The Squire, says the author of 1.-The Hoo
sler Schoolmaster,'' wore one glass eye and a
wig. The glass eye was constantly slipping out
OF focus, and the wig turning around sidewise
ON his h cad whenever he addressed the people
OF the Flat Creek District" Sad spectacle.
Parker's Hair Balsan preserves and promotes
the growth of the natural hair. It also restores
the natural color to hair which has faded or be-
come gray. Clean, elegant. beneficial. highly
perfumed,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Issued blythe Clerk and Recorder of Ascensio
parish, Since Our Last Report.

parish, Since Our Las. Report.
Jefferson Williams to Patsy Scott.
BARLEY Knot to Anna Mintus.
Joseph G. Rodriguez to Emma Leblanc.
Colin Gaudin to Eugenie Caballiero,
John Henderson to Jane Berry.
~. J. Brown to 0zelia Thompson.
Ellie Bedford to Susan Brown.
Martin Denham to Ellen Myers.
pnIfus Haines to Lucy Washington,
Anatole Buyernay to Oieniza HILBERT.
Oliver Gardner to Maria Williams.
Antoine Nicolas to Lucinda Wilson,
Durham B. Bail TO Leeniea Areeneaux,
William 5. Smiley TO Mary Maurin,
Adam Richard TO Artenafse Parker,
Lucien Carlo to Mary Ma1inda Harrison,
Evens Bel to Ests1le Williams.
Upton Barnes to Lavinia Jones,
Jonas Smith to Mary Jourt1an.
Isaac Jackson to Agnes Williams.
Stephen West to Cecilia Dixon.
Washington Stephens. Jr. to Eliza Pagan.
Louas Leblanc to Rosetta Cant.
Lewis Catlin to Alice Caster.
BENJAMIN Davis to Josephine Pagan,
81. 6. Cushinbefry to Glarissy Jones.
joseph Sharain to Angeline Sanchez,
Lrank Lanlun TO Mary Corbo.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

The National Democratic Committee met
at New York on Thursday and organized
for the campaign. Hon. W. 81. Barnum of
Connecticut was reelected president and
Mr.. F. 0. Prince secretary. Another meet
ing is to be held next Tuesday at which the
headquarters Of the committee will be
chosen. -
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

BASE BALL.-The long looked for mattel,
between the Nolans and Fortiers of this
place was played last Sunday afternoon, in
the presence of large crowd of spectators,
and fesultedin victory for thee older club
by the subjoined score:
Nolans. ...... 49,. 1 0 II 8 2 x-2l
,FG fEh,s ~ i;. W co, o 100 2-5
Seorers-R. McCulloa for Nolans. T. e. Blum
for Fortiers,
The Picards and White Oaks played at
,Dutehtown last Sunday and the latter club
was defeated by, "a to q.
Tomorrow the yiguets of Plaqusmine
will be here to play the Nolan Shreveport
team, and a close, exciting contests looked
for. The Nolan nine gill probably consist
a Aessers. Burke, Fortier, Bentley, Ian
dry, Cook, Heating, Melancon, Lumiet
and Rodeillat. -. ''#,''...
Next Sunday the Percys and Fortiers
areto cross bats at Donaldsonyille and the
.Nolans and Picards at Dutchtown. On the
10th Of August the Berries of Assumption
will play the Nolans at Donaldsonville.
The expected departure Of the Nolans
for Shreveport has been postponed from
the 3sd to the 18th Of August, IS the Caddos
leave for Texas four to-morrew and will
be away until the last mentioned date.
The new uniforms of the Fortiers and
Nolans are nearly finished.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

The CHIEF is in receipt of a pamphlet
copy of the lucid and able argument made
before the Senate Finance Committee June
2G, 1854, by DR.. Jos. Holt, President of the
State Board of Health, on the subject of an
improved quarantine system and the obi
CATION of the State. to maintain it. The
Assembly granted an appropriation of
$50, OO0-the full amount asked-for quar-
.antine purposes, but the session was too
near its close to permit the passage of a
bill proposed by the State Board amending
existing laws in accordance with the views
presented by DIR. Holt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26


CRIMINAL. CULL1Nas.-'There were eight
prisoners incarcerated in the parish jail
week before last. oil but one Of whom were
charged with minor ofenses. The single
exception is Geo. Henderson, alias Hen
'derson Glover, who killed his brother-in-
Jaw, Perry Henderson, as reported in last
issue of the CHIEr. One of the prisoners
was committed for violation Of town or
dinance, and six of the eight were released
during the week.
Eugene Landry, charged by Augustine
Mitchell with assaalt and battery, was
brought before Justice Martinez, who in
quired into the matter and released the &C.
cused.
Prosper Melancon has been sent before
District Court by Justice Martinez, charged
with obtaining under false pretenses pis-
toll belonging to Ernest Dominique, and has
furnished boad Of $50 for his appearance.
Albert Dorsey and David Mason had a
gambling quarrel on the Nev Hope PLAN
tation, July 4, and Dorsey struck Mason on
the head with brick. An affidavit was
made before Justice Bush of the second
ward, who sent the accused before the Dis
trict Court under bond of $50.
Randolph Smith, colored, is charged by
Alice Field of the first ward with entering
her room during the night of the LIST inst,
with unlawful purpose. Justice Bush was
called upon to take cognizance of the case
and committed the accused for trial be-
fore the District Court, fixing his bond at
500, which was furnished.
Judge Duffel has been feeling somewhat
under the weather and viii not reassign
the Cephas Carroll murder case for ex-
animation until his health has Improved.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

Ben. Butler will stick as the Labor and
Anti Monopoly candidate for President,
but Gen. West of Mississippi declines the
nomination for Vice President. s5.'!'
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
Terms of Mail Subscribers.

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mail. postpaid, as follows,
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Sunday edition, 81.
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Address i.W. ENGLAND, Publisher,
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

The death of Capt. S. NJ. Morrison, Clerk
of the Supreme Court at Shreveport and
editor of the Shreveport Democrat, which
occurred in that city ON the 10th ult., has
caused general regret throughout the State
and particularly among the editorial fra
ternity. Capt. Morrison has been fifty de-
scribed us a genial, affatle, and whole
souled gentleman, whose warm heart and
generous impulses endeared him to all who
knew him. The press Of Louisiana loses
by his demise an able, vigorous and cour-
seo1s writer. >, -
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26

Many Of our readers will learn with re-
greet that Mr.. Sylvan Levy, proprietor Of
the City Hotel at Plaquemine, died the
evening Of July 9. He was 4s years of
age and leaves wife and three children.
The funeral was very large one, having
been attended by lodges Of Masons, B'nai
Birth and Knights Of Honor, Of which the
deceased was member. Mr.. Levy was a
genial, obliging and popular landlord and
public spirited citizen whose death is
loss to the entire community in which he
lived.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
Cheap rony,s Magnificent ponati on.

Cheap Tony's Magnificent Donati on.
Go to Cheap Tong before buying eise,s1here
for bargains ifa Ills line Of business. You ,ciu
not only make from. % to 10 per cent. by pur-
chasing goar goods from him, but all ,rho buy
FIVE DoLLaRs' iiuorth trat haze a free number
IN Ais MAasIMoENr DONATION OF ONE SEWING
MACHINE Remember, The dratcing asilt posi-
tieeig take place as soon as the chances are all
t1ke1a,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
Saturday, July 90, 1884.

Victor Eloi and Kendrick Holland,
colored wife 1nurderers, were hanged in
New Orleans Yesterday
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-26
TRANSFERS Of PROPERTY

Recordea n the Clerk snd Recordef's office,
Ascension Rasist. Since OR Last Heport.
J. Omer Landry to Amelia Landry, tract
containing SIXTY arpents more or less. on left
bank mississippi river about six mics above
Donaldsonville. donation. So
Wi:llaIp SimHaons. Ann Scott and Mac Scott
to Robert y. Sims, tract of land on right bank
Of Mississippi river. about three 1ailes below
Denaldsouvllle, forty feet front by thirty ar
pents In depth, Sheriff's sale, 1892.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
THE BLASTS OF BOREAS.
Eject They Had on Land and
Wafer,


Water.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Nov 26-The storm
which commenced with rain on Sunday
changed to snow Monday night and several
inches have fell after midnight. The storm
on the lakes has been particularly severe.
While the schooner Ida Keith was
beating her way back to Buffalo Mon
day morning her foreboom snapped
and struck the second mate, James
Mcclure, injuring him so severely that he
died before making port. The Keith broke
her wheel. and the sailors had to use a spar
for steering home. McGuire was resident
of Chicago.
Nothing new has been heard from the pro
peller Morley ashore at Grand Marais, or the
schooner Butler which sprang a leak outside
of Presque Isle Monday.
All the railroads are from ten to fifteen
minutes late The Grand Trunk Icing al
hour and a half late Tuesday morning.
CHICAGO, Nov. 2 Tho cold snap of Sun
| day and Monday was one of the most sud
| den and severe specimens of November
weather the city has experienced for many
wears. The fall in the thermometer during
| twenty-four hours from about > O'Clock Sun
| day morning urtil the same time Monday
| morning, was is degrees, and the tCnlpefa
| ture Monday averaged 35 degrees lower than
the same date last year.
The Thermometer hugged the zero point &
| all points west and northwest and in a few
instances went below from to degrees.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

on the 18th of March. Her mother testlfes
to this, and adds that she earnestly wishes
that her daughter would eat something
Katie herself talks little and in scarcely
audible voice She says she has no appetite
for anything, even were she in condition TO
eat. She is firm in the belief that she VIII
eventually be restored to health. DR. Zoller,
the family physician, says that she takes no
medicine now, and has not for some time.
at is very strange case" said the doctor
to a reporter Il do not know what to think
of it. 70 exist, without nourishment for
this length of time is contrary to all medical
science and yet during all my attendance on
her / have never seen her eat anything, nor
have discovered any indication that she has
done so. ! have frequently advised her to
eat anything her stomach could stand, and
have taken delicate gruels to her. but she al
ways absolutely refused to partake of them.
How much longer she can live in this condi-
ton can say nothing about"
There is no question in the community as
to the veracity of the Smulzy family, which
is highly respected. They were very reluet
ant in allowing the case to reach pubht
notice, and are extremely difident now OF
being approached with inquiries concerning
the girls condition. Miss Smulzy was q
wears old on the oath of last month.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
Industrial Notes.


TAUNTON. Mass, Nov. 2G-Four hunirei
and fifty weavels Of the Whittenden mills
quilted work Monday mornins owing t. d
cut down of 10 per cent, Work will begin
again Immediately for the rest Of the week
the managers having promised restoration
OF wages.
Wo0HsockET, r /, NOV. 4G,-The Harri
Woolien company's privilege mill coma
menced running on three-quarters Tim,
Tuesday. The North Bellingham and Cary
Vile Mass Woollen mills viii 60 on three
quarters time on Monday, Dec. /,
The report that the owners of the Whit
tenton mills, Taunton, had acceded to tn
demands of striking woavers is untrue. Th
latter return to work at the 10 per cent re
ductiOn
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
CASH IN DEMAND.
ESTIMATES OF THE AMOUNTS CON-
GRESS WANTS.
A Few Bills in Which the Requirements
Run Away Up Into the BILL
ions-The Lump sum
5000, ,GO0, 900.

CHICAGO, Nov 26.-The special Washing |
ton City correspondent of The Chicago |
Tribune telegraphs as follows:
There is more work upon the calendars OF
than can be done between
now and March 4, if no more
bills are introduced. Among those
which, if passed. will take the most
money from the treasury are the following:
The Blair educational bill was passed in the
senate. As passed by the senate it appro-
PIRATES S77, ,000,000. The pension bills, besides
increasing the rate of overy invalids and
widows pension on the rolls to day, is pro
posed to donate a farm and monthly allow
ance to each man who bore arms
for the Union cause, whether he needs as
sstanee or not. Every prisoner in Libby,
Andersonviile, and the other rebel prisons
is TO receive compensation for his physical
suffering. Provision is made for all who
ever carried musket or fought an Indian.
A rough estimate shows that the
amount required to carry out the pro-
visions Of the pension bills is $3.50, ,00O,09O
Twenty-Five millions more will be needed
to fulfill the provisions Of Senator Wade
Hampton's bill to pay the officers OF the
colonial armies half-pay for life, which was
authorized br various acts Of congess. Many
of these officers received a commutation Of
full pay for five years in lieu of the halt-pay.
But this bill proposes to pay them the dli-
ference, and to their heir-n deceased-the
amount to which they would have been
| entitled. One hundred bill arc pending
| which provide for public buildings. Owing
to the discovery of a log rolling scheme tc
get these bills through i'll a lump last winter,
not one Of them passed the house. Most OF
them will undoubtedly get through befors
March l. The total amount appropriated by
| them is about $50, 100000 The Ben Holiday
| McGarrahan, and the troop of private
claims which appear annually and cos
the government thousands OF dollars fol
printing and paper call for $50, ,000,0 900, whIlt
$25, 900 600 will be needed to reimburse th'
states for claims against the Federal govern
ment for moneys expended during the revo
lutionary and Indian wars and the war o
the rebellion. An estimate of the amour
required to.ssequaiize bounties is 500,
OO0, 900 4 million will be neede'
to establish the new soldiers
homes in Kansas Michigan and othe
states The French spoliatons, Venezuela
and other depreciation claims foot up $40,
0O00Oo The Wemple bill, asking $4,000
600 for permanent Improvement on th
Erie canal, together with the Maryland
Delaware ship-canai bill, the Hennepi
canal proposition, the bill for ne'
cruisers, payment Of volunteer nurse
and other miscellaneous claims, t.
gethor with the river and haFbo
bill, would swell the amount to nearly $500
O0O, 900, which congress is asked to eppropr
ate aside from the regular appropriate
bills. Some of these measures dave receive
favorable reports from the various comml
tees, and it is quite likely that in the hurI
of the short session many Jobs Will
rushed through.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

LONDON, Nov. 26.-The World, Edmund
Yates paper, severely attacks Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge in connection with the re-
cent litigation 1t says: THE only, mother
less daughter of an upright and elo-
ouent Judge to whose lips the
holiest sentiments sprung from a guileless
and chivalrous heart, was on board-wages at
her fathers house on the same footing as a
scullery wench." The World tells distress
ing tale of parsimony, meanness and cruelty
in the judges household.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. 26-Sixteen of the
forty horses captured from horse-thieves,
near, Glendive, have been seized by special
inspectors Of the United States treasury de-
partment on a charge that they were
smuggled across the Canadian line. 1t IS the
first seizure Of the kind, and is chiefly note
worthy because hOrse-thieves have frequently
avoided judicial proceedings by claiming
that stock found in their possession came
from Canada.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

NE1soNvuLE, Ohio, Nov. CA commit
tee of conference, consisting Of citizens,
miners. and operators was called to meet
Monday afternoon to see if the strike in the
Hooking valley could not be compromised
Citizens and miners were on hand, but the
operators refused to appear. The miners
would make 10 concessions when the opera
tors had ignored them. Tho consequence i;
that the conditions remain so that there il
no apparent promise of the strike ending be
fore spring. Great want and suffering vii
surely prevail and tend to violent demonstra
tiCpe
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Nov, 26,-John Coon
thar brought an action in the Kings county
supreme court against George F. Harris, to
recover $4,000 damages for injuries which
be sustained while working on the
West Shore railroad The defendant was
Il railroad contractor, and employed the
plaintiff to work on the section between
Cornwall and Kingston. He went up just
above Newburgh with gravel train, and
while helping TO load the cars the bank
caved in and crushed his foot so badly that
it had to be amputated. The jury gave the
pinintif verdict for s. 200,
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
Hollands Directory.

We are requested by Mr. John Holland
to say that he will in due time call upon
our business men. personally in the inter
ests of Hollands fifth edition of the Rock
Island & Moline Directory and Business
Review. And we may further say with
propriety Everybody knows Mr.. Holland
and his companys works which have been
published in these cities for the past str~
teen wears
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
Origin Of Ammonia

Ammonia is obtained in large quanti-
ties by the putrefaction of the urine OF
animals Encyclopedia Britannica.
Every housekeeper can test baking
powder containing this disgusting drug
by placing can of the Royal or"An-
drews" Pearl" top down on hot stove
until heated, then remove the cover and
smell
Prove it by the above test jn26dwtf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

MONMOUTH, HIS, Nov 26.-Tuesday
morning, at 1l:52 as A. T. o. Hubbard,
the defaulting cashier of the First National
bank, was leaving the court house and had
proceeded but few rods II. r, Thompson,
man from Texas, who has sustained
heavy losses by the failure of the bank step
ped from the corner of the building and fired
five shots in succession at Hubbard from a
3S-caliber revolver, but fortunately, each
bali missed him. Hubbard threw up his
hands but finally became self-possessed
enough to draw his revolver Thompson was
Immediately arrested and lodged in jail.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
The Tom CamnheIl Case.

CINCINNATI, Nov 26,-Interest in the
Campbell disbarment trial is growing
rapidly The great body OF spectators are
Inwyers, and every one seems deeply inter
estad in the issue. y good deal of personal
feeling is manifested. Much speculation Is
INDUCED in as to the final outcome. The
testimony thus far is rather untayorabie te
T'ap,nbnIt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

The Voltaic Belt Co., of Marshall.
Mich, offer to send DR. Dyes Celebrated
Voltaic Belt and Electric Appliances on
trial, for thirty days, to men, old and
Young, afflicted with nervous debility,
lost vitality, and many other diseases.
See advertisement in this paper.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
t.is,,,nrck Dimes Stanley.

BERLIN, Nov 26-The west African con-
ference has agreed that the mouth of the
Congo shall be understood to comprise the
coast between the mouth of the Sette river,
on the north of the Congo, and the Loge
river ON the south.
The principle of free trade was guaranteed
in tie western part of the Congo basin.
Prince Bismarck gave dinner in honor of
Mr. STANLEY
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
The SInaIi-PoE.

KINGSTON. Ont, Nov. 2G-Reports from
Stoco, county Of Hastings, state that twelve
deaths from smallpox have occurred there,
ana there are large number of people down
with the disease Thursday the Sisters of
Mercy opened hospital at Tweed, and now
have SIX patients, with indications of many
more The disease is rapidly spreading
throughout the country, and the people are
greatly excited.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26
THE pRtrrI, ST LADY IN EocK INLAND.

Remarked to a friend the other day
that she knew Kemp's Balm for the
Throat and Lungs was superior remedy
as it stopped her cough instantly when
others had no effect whatever. So to
prove this O. Grotian will guarn
tee it to all. Price 80 cents and II
TylnE size free
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

RALEIGH, N. c., Nov. 26.-Abe Gorrell,
negro who had criminally assaulted several
negro women, passed by a colored woman's
house near Reidsville Monday and declared
be was going to the residence of W. l. Hop
kins to kill him. The woman gave lnforma-
ton and a party of whites overlook Gorreh
and on A refusal to surrender shot him dead.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-11-26

PARIS, Nov. 26.-Tit< anarchist papers are
making violent attacks on the government
1t is considered significant that committee
of the Anarchist party held a meeting Mon
Gav at a dram shop in the rue Coquilliers-
lie Matin says Ibrahirn, the former secre-
tary of Ishmail Pasha, has been expelled
from France for as8ociating himself with
Anarchist intrigues.