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@. l. HOOD Z co., Apothsosries, Lowell, MAJ.
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YARNS BY THE PRESS WAGS
HUMOROUS STORIES FOUND IN OUR
EXCHANGES.
The Broker and the Parr0t-Great-
heart md the Barber-Ihe Dr""''
merry D~cfeat-JOMcS ShOPPine.
AM THE BARBER.

GREATuEART AND THE BARBER.
Mr.. Grcatheart is very unlucky. lie
came home last night with nine pieces OF
court-plaster on different portions OF ms
countcnance and several carminc remind
ers of blood on his collar.
"My gracious! Mr.. G~reatheart,' OK
claimed his wife, "havc you been stop
ping another dog fight?'
s:aOh, no, dear" said Mr.. Grcatheart,
chccrfully; ''thc barber had not yet re-
covered from his birthday celebration.
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CREMATION is becoming very common i'll
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-06
TIE LOCATION.

The location chosen for the great Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposl-
ton which is to open at New Orleans on
the 10th of the present month and continue
until the 31st of next May, is the City Park,
which lies between the left bank of the Mis-
sissippi river and st. Charles Avenue, about
four miles above the business centre OF the
city. 1t is a high, dry and beautiful stretch
of ground, having numerous groves OF
magnificent live-oak trees, and unusual ad-
vantages of easy access by water and land.
It's river frontage of over half a mile affords
ready landing for scores Of steamers ana
vessels of heaviest draught, while FIVE street
and two steam car lines reach 1t from the
heart of the city. st. Charles Avenue, the
grand boulevard of the city, bounds it on
the North. The Exposition grounds front
East toward the city proper. The use OF
the City Park for the purposes of the Expo
sition was granted to the management OF
the enterprise by the City Council, and a
more attractive, convenient or suitable site
could scarcely be desired.
THE BUILDINGS, ETC.
By comparing our bird s-eye view of the
Exposition grounds and their environs with
the illustrations of the buildings and the
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ground plan we published last week, our
readers can readily discover the location OF
the principal structures. The Main Build
ing stands nearly in the centre of the PARK
and is at once distinguished by reason OF
its immense size. To its right IS the Gov
ernment Building designed for the exhibits
of the United States and the various States.
Back of the Government Building is the
Live Stock Arena with its grand stand, and
just beyond these, on the western boundary
of the grounds, are the Live Stock Stables.
Opposite the left front of the Main Build
ing is the Art Gallery, and to the left of
that structure stands horticultural Hall,
rendered particularly conspicuous by its
central glass-roofed tower ninety feet high.
The Mexican Buildings are located to the
left of the Main Building, near its south
east corner, and adjoining its southwest
corner is the Factories and Mills Building.
To the left of the last mentioned structure
and stretching away towards the river Is a
line Of buildings intended for the display
of saw-mills and other woodworking ma
chinery. Our picture shows the artistic
and attractive arrangement OF the walks,
drives, groves, ponds, lakes, fountains, etc.,
and affords fair idea Of the imposing and
handsome appearance that will be presented
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unique display. The Central American re-
pubJcs have been aroused from their long
slumber and will be fully represented for
the first time among the great nations of
the earth. At the Exposition one may learn
more about the natural resources of those
regions than by an ordinary visit to Mexico
or Central America. followers Of music a
visit to the Exposition will be highly graft
flying, as there is music hail capable of
seating II, Goo persons. and Stage that WILL
hold $50 musicians. Grand concerts will be
given from time to time. During the car
nival season tens of thousands of visitors
flock to the Crescent city tose the gorgeous
pageants prepared annually at an expense
to the citizens of from 100000 to $2O0, 600,
This lavish expenditnrs of money is for the
qualification Of STRANGERS and home folks,
and the displays are absolutely free. Those
of the coming season will be unusually
magnificent and will form an interesting
and brilliant adjunct to the Exposition.
The citizens IF the Southern metropolis,
who do such large things in such a large
| way, propose to make their Worlds Fair
| the crowning event of the century, and we
| have no doubt they will do it.
No one can fail to reap benefit from &
visit to this mammoth Exposition.
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by the great Exposition when viewed from
the eastern boundary of the City Park.
GENERAL NOTES.
4 brief resume of the origin, character
aud scops of the Exposition would not be
inappropriate at this time. The scheme
was limited to cotton exhibition at the
outset, intended to commemorate the first
expectation of cotton froua this. country
the shipment of six bags, equal IN quantity
to about one bale, at the port of Charleston,
S. c.. in i7S4-but the project has bsea en-
larged by degrees until ii now embraces q
grand display of arts, manufactures, min
erals, agriculture and the sciences that will
make it the largest worlds fair ever held.
The buildings are larger than those erected
for the Philadelphia Centennial, and the
exhibits will outnumber those of any pre-
vious exposition. Congress has made loan
of 100000 in favor of the scheme. The
United States government will make a
special exhibit, the largest it has ever at
tempted, costing several hundred thousand
dollars, and all the States save possibly one
or two, will be represented by exhibits. A
special department for the products OF col
ored people has been provided for. The
Mexican government appropriated $20O,0A
| and has erected a special building for 1T
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latest returns?'' "D-n the returns!o
said Y. M. G. A. I was shocked, of
course, but it seemed to relieve him, and
perhaps it really Gid him good-Who knows?
Certain it's, that we have had more pro-
family from pious quarters than l have
heard in the last six presidential campaigns.
The serenade to Beecher set one-half of his
congregation wild, one party declaring tha'
it was the proudest hour of his life, when
he shook off the shackles of party, and the
other half swearing that he had eternally
disgraced himself and would never be able
to raise his head among decent men again.
Notwithstanding the beiligerent COM
plexion of the political atmosphere we
have not suffered for amusements. Mon
day night opened with regular boom
Patti at the Academy, Irving and Terry at
! the Star. Miss Davenport as Fedora at the
Fourteenth Street Theatre, new piece at
Wallack's, light opera lat the Bijou and
Casino, a slashlng piece at the Union
Square, The Wooden Spoon at Daly's, the
Hanlons at tho Fifth Avenue, The Private
| Secretary at Madison Square, and other at
| fractions too numerous to mention, all
over the city. 1t was a genuine relief after
the turmoil and bitterness of the past few
weeks. It was really amusing on Patti's
opening nigh5. Of course, all New York
and his wife was there. Politicians swarmed
in the lobbies, but not to talk about Cleve-
land and Blaine. They were all smiling
and beaming, land not a wave of trouble
it does not lock as though we were going
to have harmony, even melody, very long,
for Mapleson says that his stockholders are
treating him shabbily, and he swears by the
great boot if they don't come down with
their filthy lucre, he will take the Diva off
on a concert tour and leave our shoddy to
whistle their own operas.
One of the great centres of attraction at
the present time is the Metropolitan Art
Museum. 1t only seems like yesterday
that a modest building was rented on Four
teenth street by few spirited men ano
women for the purpose of establishing g
museum of art. There was but little money
to purchase anything, and strange as il
, may seem our wealthiest citizens have
never been its most active patrons. One o1
the central figures, whose name will be in
dissolubly linked with the establishment oi
this admirable institution, was John Tay-
Ior Johnson, one of the foremost lovers
and patrons of art in the United States
, The present magnificent institution il
, Central Park has grown from that littl,
, beginning founded in Fourteenth stree
, fourteen years ago. AS an educator for thu
4 mass of the people it is priceless. Whil
roaming through its hall the ignorant hint
who can neither read nor write, can drinl
q in wisdom which books would never give
, The object lessons which lie before him ar
g The most complete education that morts
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man ever received. Iore are sculptured
figures from the Nile wrought before 10
seph became the chief ruler for Pharoah,
or Moses was found among the rushes by
the daughter of the King. Tablets of stone
are here, carved by deft hands before the
pyramids were built, and while the fiocks
of Abraham and Lot were grazing on the
hillsides of Judea. Sarcophagi are here in
which the form of some mighty ruler crum-
bled into dust ages before the great Eeb
uchadnezzar led the children Of Israel into
captivity. Rare coins and medals fill cases
devoted to numismatic art, and here are
perpetuated in gold, silver and bronze
some of the mightiest men and women that
this world has ever seen. How peacefully
they rest together, these immortal effgies,
after lives of storm and agony and sorrow
Ranged together are the heads of Henry
the Eighth of England and three of his un
fortunate queens. What a history is there
in these mute and silent tablets, speaking
now more potently than they spoke three
hundred years since. The face of my Lord
Protector Cromwell lies near the cunning
butpowerful Mazarine. and in close commu-
MON is the Cardinal Richelieu, one of the
greatest statesmen that France ever pro-
duced. But it is among the pictures and
statuary that the mass of the people find
| their chief delight. Here you are brought
face to face with the peoples of other lands
and by means of the artists skill you see
life not only as it exists to-day, but as it ex-
! listed hundreds of years ago.
| Noblest among the marble statues is that
| of Cornelia and her jewels. The two in
fants lie asleep in their mothers lap, while
she looks down on them with that deep. IN
utterable love which only a mother can
know. Eve and the dead Abel is a beau
tiful piece of art, but in the brief space of
a single letter it is impossible to give even
a faint idea of the beauty of this admirable
| collection. The pictures in the east gallery
are substantially the same as have hung
| there for three years past, but in the west
gallery is the the new loan collection lately
received from England. This collection Is
mainly given to portraiture and embraces
the likenesses of many of the most famous
Englishmen of our time. The conception
and execution of these remarkable pictures
\ is very different from anything in portrait
ure which we have beea in the habit OF
seeing in this country before. At the frs
casual glance they appear rude and almos
commonplace, but closer inspection re
veals them as among the very best speci
mems of this art, that we have ever had OF
exhibition here. The longer you look a
them the more ife-like they appear, ane
what is more remarkable still there is no
black or dark haired man or woman il
the collection. Those who are not whit,
haired, are either red or blonde, and thi
} popularity gives them uniqne appearanc
altogether indescribahie. Many new his
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torical pictures and landscapes have been
added to the gallery. One is representing
the court of Henry the Eighth in his first
interview with Anna BoIeyn. The SEN
suous face of the dissolute and depraved
King is flaming with passion. and the cred
to his batteries, not realizing at that ecstat-
ic moment that she is taking her first step
towards the scaffold. In the distance Wool
sey looks on with eager eyes, gloating in
ruin of Catherine. week might be spent
in these beautiful halls and then only por-
ton of their wonders be seen and appre-
ciated. / shall reserve fuller description
for another time.
We have just had magnificent iliustra-
| ton of the recklessness with which CAM
paign lies are manufactured in the case of
| the celebrated Blaine dinner given here a
few weeks ago. A paper here more noted
| for its mendacity and partisanship than for
| its strict adherence to reliable news and
| truth coined the story out of whole cloth
| that million of dollars had been raised
| for Blaine at this feast of BelshazZar. 1t
now appears by an Investigation by this
same paper that not dollar was raised or
asked, and that the unfortunate Republican
candidate was dragged there under protest,
believing that the dinner would ruin his
cause, as it did.
Our neighbor over the river, in Brooklyn.
has treated US to another sensation this
week in the shape of female dude in male
attire. Her disguise must have been pretty
good, as she ran the town for week. walk
ing the streets, mashing all the pretty girls
attending the theatres, and ON Sunday
dropping in to hear Beecher in the morn.
ing and Talmage in the evening. But van
ity, the sin of her mother Eve, eventually
laid her by the heels. She went into jew
eIry store attended by young lady, ans
after pricing a number of gold chains wen
out without making purchase. The sales
woman discovered that watch was miss
ing and Immediately went in search OF tn
CAV young troubadour. He or she was dis
covered at the Brooklyn Theatre, taking il
!, the Silver King. The officer marched he
to the Police Office, and the Chief in charg
made her take off her coat and vest, an
then it was discovered that it was not b
but she and she was made to doff he
pants and put on skirts and all the rest G
the necessaries that go to make up fe
male regalia. 1t looks now as though tn
cay dude would fetch up the penitentiar,
J.! The first blasts of winter have brougt
! ont oyercoats and sealskin sacaues. Thug
are getting settled, but let it blow ever $
cold. the Democrats have fire enough with
in to keep them warm for the next fo1
| wears; while the Republicans, viewing Il
promised land from afar off. sit on Il
fence, singing in plaintive tones, Wa
$ till the clouds roll by, Jenny, wait tili II
, clouds roll by"
i Yours truly, BROADBRlM.
4
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An Avalanche of Wrath-Politics i'll Ply
mouth Church-A Feas. of Amusements
Notable Attractions of the Metropol-
itan Art Museum-A Campaign Lie se-
futed-A Female Dude, etc.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, 1884.
EDIToR CHIEF:
Looking over the occurrences of the past
two weeks I am reminded of a circum-
stance that took place many years ago,
when was gold hunting in California l
was in the city of Nevada at the time, and
hearing row in the street, rushed to the
window to ascertain the cause, and 1 dis
covered my landlady, who, by the way,
hailed from the city of Cork, jumping up
and down in the middle of the parlor floor,
clapping her hands in ecstatic delight.
"What is the matter, Mrs. McCarty?'
said I.
~'Oh, sir,'' she replied, "look out there;
isn't that beautiful? If there is anything
in this world that like, it's a jolly good
fight" A couple of miners were milling
each other in first-class style, and the lady
was enjoying it to the full. What IS the
use of noralizing about it? Fighting and
war is mans normal condition; peace and
good order are only cultivated fungi-the
evil results of too highly cultivated civil
ization.
| I thought at the close of my last week s
letter that we were approaching an era CT
peace, but had hardly got my letter IN the
mail, when 1 discovered that everybody
was swearing mad. I met an old member
Of Plymouth church, one whose orthodoxy
! fidelity and piety had never suspected.
said, "My dear Mr.. B. did you hear to-day
how much of a majority Mr.. Cleveland
| had?" Imagine my horror, when ne roareo
out, "D-n Cleyeland!" If dynamite
bomb had exploded under me could moi
have been more amazed. Wishing to turr
the conversation, / carelessly remarked
"Did you hear the serenade to Mr.. Beech
er?" With a yell worthy of a Comanche
he shrieked out, 4" D-n Beecher!'' Wish
ing to divert the mind of my friend from
the candidate and his friends, l remarked
PSs6SAo H.>sS- 0~'~>
that everything was lost. Giaring at nj
like a maniac this Plymouth lamb crushed
his hat down over his eyes and yelled out
"D-n everything and rushed out O
the room. Now this man was deacon
had been trustee and a Sunday schoo
superintendent, and his case was not al
exceptional one. Everybody seemed to b
fighting mad. Rejecting on my plymouth
friends sad moral declination walked Oh
u for block and 4 met young man whom
4 I had known as an active revivalist and
pillar of the 7. M. G. A. q Fine day." re
marked. 81 don't think SO" said he, say
agely. Blaine, hear, has got ten NOR
votes in Kingston" "D-n Blaine!
said my pious friend. 'sHave you seen th
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DAUL LEGHE, Attorney at Law and Notary
helow the Court House, on Attakapaa street.
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M ISRAEL Il CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
eies: etc. corner Mississippi and Lessard streets
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EDWARD n. PUGH, Attorney at Law, Alta
Visits Napoleonyiile on Mondays.
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Mr Blaine's Twenty Years in Congress
i already classed as one of the most sue
cessful books ever written. The sale OF the
first volume has already reached over ,otp
COPIES aud it is estimated that use author
nrofit on his work will reach half million
,n,,ars ,rhe second Volume viii be published
,h;s winter. as Mr.. Blaine viii give Ell is.a
spare time to It's preparation.
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ATTORNEYS AT Law.

EyREDERICK DUFFEL, Attorney at law and
II Notary Public, office on Chetimaches street
opposite the Courthouse.
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~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hou-
". mas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots and Shoes, Groceries. Provisions eorn'
Oats and Bran.
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T 4. FERNANDEZ, Barber Shop, Mississippi
-. street, near corner Lessara. Shaving. hair
cutting, shampooing etc., in most artistic style
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BARBER SHOPS.

Ii Mississippi street, adjoining Peep-o'-Day
Hotel. Shaving, Shampooning, Hair-cutting,
Dyeing of Hair or Whiskers, ETC., in the best
style, at popular prices. Respectfully solicit
the patronage of the public.
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BLACKsMITHs s. wHEELWRIGHfs.
GCHULER & BRINKER, Blacksmiths and
y Wheelwrights. Horse-Shoers, Wagon and
Cart makers and repairers Railroad Avenue,
between Mississippi and IberVille Streets.
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TITY HOTEL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail
~ road Avenue. corner Iberyllle street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
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w d. PARK. dealer in Staple and Fancy
w. Groceries. Provisions, Plantation end
Steamboat Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines,
Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ale, etc.. nr" Saoeus
and Notions. cor"eE o. mississippi and Gheti-
macnes streets, opposite Rive rvrry.
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DONALDsoNvsLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Etc.
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"A d. VEGA, dealer in Dry Goods Notions.
"A. Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats. Grocer,
les LIQUORS, Hardware, Tobacco, Oils and
Glass. Agent for the Domestic Sewing Machine.
Corner Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street.
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LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS

FH1HE PLACE. Gus. Israel, manager, Corner
Il Lessard and Mississippi streets. Billiards,
Lager Beer, Rest Wines and Liquors. Fine
Cigars. etc.
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- Goods, Clothing, Notions, Hats Groceries,
Wine. Liquors. Boots, Shoes, Hardware, Paints,
o lis. Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture and all
kinds OF House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store.
Mississippi street.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.

n INGRY. THE PAINTER. shop at Cheap
" Tony's Store, corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue House, Sign and Ornamental
Painting in all their branches. Best work at
lowest prices
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ID IANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods, Grocs,-
lNs ries, Plantation Supplies, Wines, Liquors,
neT Railroad Avenue and Taylor streets, one
block from Railroad Depot.
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DERNARD LEMANN & BROTHER. dealers
ID in Western Produce. fancy and staple Gro
ceries. Liquors. Hardware, Iron. Paints, Oils,
Furniture, rockery. Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place..
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UNDEHTAKER.

GCHONBERG'S Undertaker's Establishment,
y Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At
takapas streets. AL kinds Of burial cases. from
ket.
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TINsMTTH.

DAUL WUTKE, Tinsmith. Port Barrow, La.
Il Roofing, gathering, stovepiping, repairing
and all work pertaining to the timers trade.
Address p. O. Box Ia, DonaldsonvHle. In. Il
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OUR Letter FROM BROADBRlM

An Avalanche of yyratil-Politics in Ply
mouth Churcil-A Feas: of Amusements
Notable Attractions of the Metropol-
itan Art Museum-A Campaign Lie Re
futed-A Female Dude, etc.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. 1884.
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VOLUME XIV.

Anxious Humani Generis.
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r OUIS =. RACKE, Tinsmith, Mississippi
IL street, at Lemann's old stand. Orders at
tended to with dispatch and satisfaction IN
surea.