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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-07
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Philadelphia is to have Rotten Row just
like London.
Nay 81 was the anniversary of the OPEN
ing of the Brooklyn bridge.
Two hundred thousand herring we're
landed at one hanl on the Northeast river,
Virginia.
The death is announced at Ardmone, Pa,
of the wife of r. j.. Burdette, the we'll known
humorisss
A letter has just been delivered at Mont
gomery, Ala, which was written and post
marked in the year 1850.
Firearms taken from persons by the DO
lice in Baltimore are sold, the proceeds
going to the police fund.
During the year nearly 13,0O0 600 of peo-
pie patronized the Brooklyn bridge and the
receipts amounted to $4O0, 900.
Gen. Grant is so broken and affected by
the recent crisis in Wall street that he ia
not allowed to read the newspapers.
A waterspout washed away the traek of the
Union Pacific railroad near Leavenworth,
Kan, and seven cars loaded with cattle
went into river.
The Princess Like-Like of the Hawaiian
Islands, who has been visiting San Francis
co, and was received in it's best society, is
as black as Erebus.
The gavel used by the chairman of the
Republican national convention was mads
of pieces of wood from every State ana
Territory in the country, including Alaska
Patti has pieced "crazy quilt " six feet
square, composed entirely of bits of plush
and velvet. She is going to line it with
swans down and rattle it of ut a sweA
charity fair.
The German Turner's of st. Louis have
orgazined corps of athletes, who will nm
dertake to form living pyramid" be-
fore burning building and hdnd down
the children and women safely.
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BLACKsMITHs s. &yyHEELwRIGHrs.
SCHULER g. BRINKER, Blacksmiths and
y WheelYrights. Horse-Shoers. Wagon and
Cart makers. and fepairers, Railroad Avenue,
between Mississippi and Iberville streets.
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NJ TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries. Dry Goods.
M. Clothing. Notions. Bootsand Shoes. Hats,
Furniture. Hardware. Crockery. Trunks, etc.;
corner Mississippi and st. Patrick streets and
No. a Railroad Avenue. Everything at lowest
figures.
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Backaehe, stitches in the sids, Inflammation
and soEe Eeness of the bowels. are symtons Of
lative organs. which can be promptly and
througilIy corrected by tue use of Ayers Cath
artie Pills. AZ dinner pills. and M aids -
digestion. they tave 10 squat They cure ea'a-s
stipatIon. a.
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- LANDMAN, dealer in Dry Goods, Groce-
HI ries. Plantation Supplies, Wines, Liquors
ner Railroad Avenue and Taylor streets, one
block from Railroad Depot.
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II. III. DoNLoN.

Meals at All Hours.
Rooms and Board by the Day. Wesk OF Month
at Moderate Prices.
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A Disastrous N0nth-Old Methods VS..
New-Coney Island Holds its Own
Wholesome Effect Of tho ePanic-Discred-
liable Journalism Notes of the Week.
NEw York. Nays 1884.
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NE LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Clothing,
MI Boots. Shoes, Hats. Groceries, Furniture.
old stand. Mississippi street. q. FEITEL,.
Agent.
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A D. VEGA. Agent, dealer in Dry Goods.
a roceries, Liquors. Furniture, Hardware, To-
bacco, Paints, Oils, Glass. Lumber, Bricks. Carts
and Wagons; Loeb's corner, Railroad Avenue
and Mississippi street.
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TNO. F. PARK. dealer in Staple and Fancy
J Groceries Provisions, Plantation and Steam
boat Supplies, Canned Goods. Wines, LIQUORS,
Bottled Beer. Ale, etc. Dry Goods and Notions.
corner of Mississippi and Chetimaches streets,
opposite River Ferry.
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n KLINE. corner Crescent Place and Hou-
VI mas street, dealer in Dry Goods. Notions,
B oots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn'
Oats and Bran.
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81 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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HOTELS AND noARDING-HoUsEs.

DEEP-O-DAY HOTEL AND BARROOM,
i Mississippi street. Eirst-rate accomm0-
dation and reasonable prices. Western Union
telegraph office in the hotel.
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ard of value issue no coin cf the denomination
corresponding to the national unit of account
In Germany gold is the standard, and the mark
is the unit of account; but the twenty, ten ard
five-mark pieces are the only gold coins au-
thorized to be issued by the mints of the coun-
try
A recommendation has been made by the
House committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures for the disc ontnuance of the coinage of the
three-cent copper nickel coin, because it is pro
nounced inconvenient on account of size as well
as denomination. The committee believes that
two silver dollars corresponding so nearly in
size and shape, although different in devices
weights and values, should not be coined, and
directs that the coinage of the trade dollar be
prohibited.
The committee believes that the precious met
ais should be coined into denominations that
will be not only most convenient for use, but
will secure the general diffusion and circulation
of metallic money among the people, and es-
pecially of gold, which must be used rather than
silver in settling the balances in international
trade. In case of a heavy drain upon the banks
and Treasury reserve, resulting from an adverse
balance of trade, the consequent disturbances in
monetary values will be comparatively slight
and unimportant if the reserves can be readily
replenished from the coin in the hands of the
people. This view seems to have influenced
other governments in establishing the value of
the coins authorized to be issued, and in
regulating the actual coinage of the various de-
nominations. In England nearly all of the gold
coinage has consisted of soveregns, and, although
the double sovereign (less than $40 in value) is
authorized, yet in over seventy years but one
hundredth of l per cent. of the total coinage
has been of that denomination. In France and
Italy comparatively few coins of value exceed
ing So have been issued.
In the United States the gold coinage from
1904 to 1888 consisted wholly of half and quarter
eagles and prior to 1853 the eagle the largest
gold coin. The coinage of the double eagle was
begun in that year. and amounted in the follow
ing thirty years to nearly 5000, 600 000 being "a
per cent of the total coinage. For the last ten
years prior to 1879 scarcely 3 per cent. of the
coinage was in denominations of less than $50
We have too many of them, proportionately, in
circulation and in the treasury and mints, and it
is likely this Congress will materially check their
coinage and direct the coinage of more So and $40
pieces
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COINS AND COINAGE.
The History of Our Metal MOney-Recom-
mendatiOns of the Committee.
Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

The History of Our Metal Money--Recom-
mendations of the Committee.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 24--The proposition to
limit the coinage of double eagles and discon-
tinue the coinage of all the small gold pieces has
brought out good deal of information from the
records of the Treasury Department and the
minis Statesmen who take interest in the sub
ject have been looking up the history of our
metal money. 1t is found that there have been
many inexpedient experiments made in money
matters, and there have been more hobbies en-
tertained and moro theories advanced on the
subject of money than all other topics of ma
tional Importance
The coinage of all small gold pieces has
proven impracticable. The three-dolar gold
piece was authorized in 1853, and in thirty years
it's total coinage amounted to only 52l, 1854 pieces
of the value of 81 465, 500, and nearly one-third
of which were coined during the first year of
their issue. The demand was but slight at any
time and now they are never called for
The one-dollar gold coin was authorized
March 3. 1S49, and over thirteen millions were
issued from the minis during the first six years;
but the coin soon became unpopular. 1t was
found too small for convenient use, and large
number accumulated in the Treasury of which
in the years 1928, about 100000 We're sent
from the Treasury to the mint melted up and
coined into other denominations The gold dol
lar is now practically out of circulation. The
only calls upon the mints for it have been for
many years from numismatists for cabinet
specimens and from jewellers for conversion into
personal ornaments. The silver coin has taken
its place as circulating medium.
Several countries OF which gold is the stand
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Notes and Personalities.

Special to the indianapolis journal.
WASHINGTON, March 24-Citzens of Warsaw
have petitioned Congressman Calkins to secure
two condemned cannon and four cannon balls
to ornament plot of ground in lakewood GENE
terry, at Warsaw, set aside for the burial of de
ceased soldiers
Petitions from Rosetown and Lincoln posts, G
A R., Indiana, have been presented in the
House by Messrs Wood and Calkins asking for
an equalization of bounty, the issuance of land
warrants and payment of back pay. Mr.
Kleiner introduced similar petition from
seventy five soldiers at Whiteland, johnson
county.
John W. Bookwater. of Ohio, and George
Alfred Townsend ("Gath"l are here.
A claim has been presented to the House com
mittee on military affairs by Mr.. Steele to pay
Captain Alexander McCreery, of Upton, for
services rendered in the late war.
Mr.. Peelle introduced bills in the House to-
day to pension Henry Heiston and Joseph
Moore.
Mr.. W. f. English says there is no truth in
the rumor printed in a Washington paper, yes
Concluded ON Second Page.l
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Opinions Delivered by the Court at Its SEES
sion Yesterday.

sion Yesterday.
WAsHINGToN March 24-In the Supreme
Court to day, a decision was rendered in the
municipal bond case of the County of Dixon,
Nebraska, plaintiff in error, against Marshall
Field. This was a suit upon past-due coupons
of certain bonds issued by the county of Dixon
to the Covington, Columbus e. Black Hills
Railroad Company The court holds that the
county is not estopped by the recitals in the
bonds from denying their validity, and that,
having been issued in contravention of the Con
stitution, they are without warrant of law and
void Judgment of the Circuit Court re
versed, and the cause remanded, with direc-
tons to enter judgment in favor of Dixon
county.
A decision was also rendered by the court in
the patent case of Louis McMurray ct al. ap
peilants, VS.. Dwight d. Mallory ct al, appeal
from the United Stares Circuit Court for the
district of Maryland. This was Il suit brought in
the court below by the appellants upon two re
issued patents upon improvements in soldering
machines and soldering irons used in canning
factories. The first of these reissues was known
originally as the Carker patent and the second
the Bostwick patent The court holds. first
that the first three claims of the ressued Carker
patent are void because broader than the claim
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A MASSACRE OF MAMELUzEs.
How Mehemet Ali Destroyed an Organization
that Threatened Him.


Yet one more scene from Mameluke
history, the last and most terrible of all Thirty
years have elapsed since the fatal battle of the
Pyramids, and the Mamelukes are once more
swarIning all over the land But they have now
to deal with foe sterner than even Bonaparte.
In the citadel of Cairo sits Mehemit Ali Pasha,
whose keen eye has long since perceived that if
he means las he does mean) to become sole mas
ter of Egypt these high spirited warriors must
be got out Of the way by some means or other
Accordingly he invites all the Mameluke chiefs
to a feast in the great court of the fortress that
overhangs the city. In all the pride and pomp
of their barbaric splendor, with plunes waving
and helmets glittering in the slanting sunlight,
the brave march proudly into the fatal pal
ace, whence they are never to return. Very
quietly and courteously does he receive them,
that smooth, inscrutable man, who has already
in his secret heart doomed them all to die
Seated at their ease in the pillared courtyard be-
meath the light of the colored lamps, with the
cool evening sky overhead, they reVel
gayly, little dreaming that the hand of
death is already appraised to strike them all.
Suddenly a shIili trumpet blast pierces the air.
Down fall the screens that mask the encirclir.
colonnades, revealing long ranks Of armed sol
diers from whose leVeled muskets q deadly vol
ley comes crashing among the Joyous, unthlnk-
ing guests. With a cry of fury they spring to
their feet, but it is too late Again and again
the death volley rings out, licking up scores of
brave young lives with every blast of its fiery
breath. Through the rolling smoke the dead are
seen lying in long swathes, their blood running
red over the marble pavement, and now the
banded murderers come bowling in to finish
their work with musket-butt and bayonet. And
all this while the stars look down IMPLYING into
that court of demons, from which shrieks, and
glOIltS. and lpOuS
to the calm, moonlit-sky, as if appealing to God
against the cruelty of man. One solitary war
ror fights his way to his horse, vaults onits
back and dashing through his swarmng enemies
to the edge of the parapet overhanging the town,
plunges, with last shout of defiance, into the
black gulf below, to survive that fearful leap as
if by miracle, and to live forever in history as
the last Of the once formidable Mamelukes.
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AN OLD DOCUMENT.
The Congressional Directory for the Second
Session of the Fifteenth Congress.

The Congressional Directory for the Second
Session of the Fifteenth Congress.
Washington Special.
A little paper bound book, three inches long
and nearly two inches wide, containing in all
only thirty nine pages, has fallen into the hands
of your correspondent through Mr. VanGruder
of the Pension Office. 1t is copy of the Con
gressional Directory for the second session of
the Fifteenth Congress. The little book is well
preserved, although the leaves are yellow with
age, and was printed here by Daniel Rapine, in
the year 1878 1t contains list of the senators
and representatives, together with their post
Office and county; list of the standing and Sc
lect committees of the Senate and House; a list
of the heads of departments and their places of
abode; of foreign ministers commissioned to the
United States, and of home ministers commits
stoned to foreign countries and to conclude
with, list of the boarding houses in Washing
ton and the names Of their congressional guests
By the way of comparison it may be mentioned
that the Congressional Directory for the first
session of the present (the Forty eighth Con
gress is a large volume, elegantly prepared and
illustrated, and contains 200 pages of the most
complete information Among other items il
contains the names of l0l newspaper correspond
ents residing here, together with the names of
the papers they represent. In the old Directory
there isn't even suggestion of the existence Of
such an animal
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The Berner Murder Trial.

CINCINNATI, March 24-William Berner, on
trial for the murder of William H. Kirk, was
this merning found guilty of manslaughter.
The verdict was declared privately, by the judge
who tried the case, to be an outrage, and the
jury, after leaving the courtroom, were hooted
should be hanged. Kirk was killed in his stable
by the blow of hammer, robbed of about 800
in money, put into a wagon and hauled off to-
wards Cumminsville and dumped into Mill
creek, where his body was found two days later.
Joe Palmer and William Berner confessed that
they did the murder and robbery On trial
Berner testified that Palmer did the actual muir
der, while he only looked on and got a share of
the money. The verdict is universally con-
demned
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GLADSTONE's HEALTH.
The Premier Seriously Ill and Unable to At
tend the House.

tend the House.
LONDON. March 24.-There can be no doubt
that Mr.. Gladstone is seriously ill., and it is GER
tain that no one is more exasperated at this
most inopportune prostration than the Premier
himself. 1t is difficult to obtain details of the
progress of his complaint, as his physician, Sir
Andrew Clarke, has resolutely refused to make
any statement as to his condition, beyond say
ing that he is suffering from laryngeal catarrh.
This to be sure, is not usually very serious
affection, but it is not likely to deal any more
tenderly with the Premier in view of his
lately put upon his voice in the recent stormy
scenes in the House of Commons He IS now
preserving the most absolute seclusion in the
little sunny village Of Coombe Warren, which,
although within few miles of London, is off
the main routes of travel, and is favorite re-
treat for invalids from the metropolis.
Considerable interest was manifested to-
day in the question whether he would
venture out to church, as the
weather was particularly fine, and it
is well known that Mr.. Gladstone is a most
regular church gOer, both ut Hawarden and in
London He did not, however. leave the house
during the day on evening 1t is now absolutely
certain that he win not be able to attend in the
House when the debate is to be reopened on that
most vital measure on the present government,
the bin for the extension of the franchise, which
is to be moved to its second reading bv the Mar
and the leader next to Gladstone in favor With
the Liberals
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A Riot in the Oil Regions.

PETRoLIA, Pa. March 24-The Bowser and
Bernhard factions, contrasting for AN oil lease, had
City, in which Bowser and another party named
Andre were probably fatally hurt. Three of the
Barnhards assaulted Bowser-one of them
using razor-and kicked and slashed
n 2oupg ng %ed Adrd the easa5 h Sa
way home. He was mistaken for a friend
of Bowser, and stabbed three times in the back,
near the spinal column and kidneys His condi-
ton this morning is very critical Bad blood
and whisky was the cause of the affray. No
arrests
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WHEN
CLOTHING STORE.
JESSE HOYTS WILL.
Proceedings to Open to Probate the Will of
the Late Millionaire.

NEW YORK, March 24.-The proceedings to
open to probate the will of the late Jesse Hoyt,
in behalf of his daughter, Mary Irene Hoyt, be-
gan to-day Mr. Hoyt left an estate valued at
1000, 900 to $lO,OOO,0OO Miss Hoyt objected
to the instrument, charging undue influence
and mental incapacity of her father to make
the will The first witness called was Cornelius
Van Saint Voored, one of the witnesses to the
will The witness testified to having drawn up
and witnessed the will on June 26, 1882 Mr.
Hoyt told the witness that he had made two
wills, one in 1872 and one in 1873 but that they
were not at all what he wanted therefore they
would be Of no use. The witness looked over
these wills; saw that no disposition was made by
them of the house and furniture. The witness
spoke to Mr. Hoyt about this He replied that
he had no house. as it belonged to his wife He
further said it was his purpose to place 81, $50
900 in the hands of his executors for his widow
in trust the income to be paid to her during her
life, and upon her death 800, 900 was to be be-
queathed by her as she saw fit Mr. Hoyt de
sired to leave 81, $50 600 at interest to be given
Mary the daughter) for her use. What prov
sion to make for her the decedent said had been
a very painful subject. On Friday of the same
week the witness read the different articles of
the will to Mr.. Hoyt, who said they were all
right
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CHICAGO. March 24-The Farmers Review, of
this city, has the following summary on the win
ter wheat prospect based on replies from over
a thousand of its correspondents: Winter wheat
has commenced to grow in the southern dis
tricts, but reports of damage by freezing still
continue. 1t is impossible at present to estimate
the extent of the injury The development of
growth has as yet been small, but the advent of
warm weather would help the general condition
of the crop greatly. 1t now looks as if farmers
from Dakota to Illinois will be able to begin
no encouragement for an increase in acreage of
spring wheat but from the amount of new
breaking in the Northwest last fall itdoes not seem
probable the acreage will be materially dimin-
iShnd
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RETALIATORY LEGISLATION.
Senator Vance's Views Concerning the Ex-
cIusion of American Pork by Germany.

Senator Vauce's Views Concerning the Ex-
clusion of American Pork by Germany.
WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator Vance, in
the minority report from the committee on for
eign affairs, submitted to-day, expresses the
opinion that Germany has the right to exclude
American hog products on the ground that they
are unwholesome, if she deems it proper, and
this government is not justified in impeaching
her motives. "If it be true" continues the re-
port, that our pork is to any extent unwhole-
some, we should endeavor, by rigid system of
inspection, to remove the cause of complaint. If
it be that fear of richiniass is only the pretext
and that the reason for excluding our hog prod
ucts is a desire to protect their own products,
then we are the last people on earth who ought
TO complain. After surrounding ourselves for
more than twenty years with protective tariff
wall so high as TO exclude virtually all
the products in Germany which compete
with ours it is rather late for US to advocate re-
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PLEAsANTON AND sLoCUM.


Why the Latter Voted Against the Formers
Restoration to the Army.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 24.-General Slocums
vote in the House, in opposition to the bill for
the relief of General Pleasanton has occasioned
considerable talk here. General Slocum was
the champion of the Fitz John Porter bill and
everyone believed that as he came to the front
for Porter's relief he ud at least cast his vote
for poor old Pleasanton. That he did not do
this is explained in this way: Pleasanton and
Slocum were both in the Army of the Potomac,
The former, as is we'll known, not only acquitted
himself well as a great cavalryman, but he was
universally popular with his men. Slocum,
while good general was not very well liked by
the rank and file. Early in the war he took a
decided antipathy to Pleasanton, and has fol
lowed him to this day