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STATE NEWS.

! Gleaslines from the Newspapers Of Lou
! The town of Rayville is without physi-
| clan.
A colored man dropped dead while taking
a drink in an Opelousas saloon.
! There is a talk of erecting a telephone
line from New Orleans to Houston.
The Board of Health reports over 500
registered physicians and surgeons in the
State.
The criminal docket for the April term
Of District Court in Rapides parish is very
large. .-
A colored girl IL years old accidentally
killed colored boy of years in Tensas
parish.
A very fatal type of pneumonia prevails
! in Winn parish and has caused good
many deaths.
A fine new banking building is being
erected by the First National Bank of
Baton Rouge.
by a freight train near New Iberia, last
Sunday night.
Ex-Sheriff Minos 7. Gordy of st. Mary
has been appointed deputy Internal Rev.
enue Collector.
A colored woman in Bastrop rolled on
her four-months- babe while asleep and
crushed it to death.
A good physician is wanted at Martha
1viI Nafo ,h In of
Texas and Pacific railroad.
Our genial friend John A. Brookshier
has been elected president of Abbeville
Hook and Ladder Company.
A Negro named Ringo killed another
named Baton, on Oak Grove plantation,
Madison parish, with razor.
Gertrude Grover Telotte is the name Mr..
]. P. Tslotte of Terrebonne parish has be-
slowed upon his infant daughter.
A white man, name unknown, was run
over aud killed near Monroe while stealing
ride on v. S. Il p. freight train.
Three prisoners broke out of Jail at Winn-
field two weeks ago. Two were charged
with larceny, the third with murder.
Perry and VIM. Melton, father and son,
are to be hanged in Union parish on the
10th of April for the murder of Jno. W.
Cherry last year.
Mr.. L. lemoins. An old citizen Of West
Baton Rouge, took an overdose OF lauda-
mum to relieve pain and died from the Of
fects of the drug.
John p. Routen, Sheriff and Tax Collec-
tor of Catahoula parish, is proclaimed by
the Police Jury as defauIter for large
amount Of parish taxes.
Five eolored men were drowned in Red
river, near Ninock's Landing, Red River
parish, while crossing in skif. The boat
was overloaded and swamped.
Little Dora Gerson of Monroe was ia
tally burned at the public female academy
in that town. Her dress ignited while she
was standing before the store.
Mr.. Leslie Perley, an Alexandria carpen-
ter. was dangerously injured by piece of
timber falling on his head near Goshen
station on the T. & P railroad.
The editor of the Claiborne Guardian
has measles, the editor of the Winfield Sen
t,lel a carbuncle, and the editor of the
Gibbsland Nsu Era is suffering With boils. |
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Cured by PRAYER.

A dispatch from Chicago, March 20, says:
The Rev. Father Maurice j. Dorney of the
Catholic Church of St Gabriel, located near
the stock-yards, has created something of
sensation by announcing that not only has
he become convinced that miracles are
wrought daily by the assistance of the Vir-
gin Mary, but he even has in his own family
living illustration. His sister Johanna, he
says, has been afflicted with chronic
trouble. Yielding to her requests he took
her aboad and visited the celebrated waters
of Lourdes. He arrived there August and
began novena, or nine days. prayer. On
the ninth day the young woman visited tie
baths, and just as Father Dorney had fin
ished saying mass ahe came toward him
perfectly cured, whereas formerly she had
been unble to walk or bend over. Johanna
is now the heroine ef the parish. Every one
knew of her condition when she went away
and the whole parish is edited by What they
deem the kind Intervention of the Blessed
Virgin on behalf of the child. Without any
other incentive than the sight of the cured
girl the congregation at st. Gabriel's has
reached a pitch of religious fervor that
prompts the faithful to fill the auditorium
every night to offer thanks to God and the
Blessed Virgin, whether regular formal
services ate announced or not. Hundreds
of even more miraculous cures than that
of his sister, Father Dorney Gays, came
under his personal observation, and he now
proposes to deliver public lecture neu
week and announce his emphatic belief in
the personal aid of the Virgin Mary in
modern times and show to the audience his
sister as proof of his position.
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WHAT SIZE SAID AND WHAT SHE


Z" / never will marry" she said-she said
unless young man that just suits me find:
Taller than by at least half head
He surely must be. with q face bright and
kind;
His eyes I'd prefer Of violet blue,
His hair a light brown t-r very warm gold;
He must sing "a fine tenor-and dance nicely,
too.
And tell as good stories as ever were told.
No smoking allowed. for the weed detest,
And Of course remarks that are rude or
ill-bred;
Aud I'd like him to always be stylishly dressed,
The young man marry she said-she said.
And then the maid married-she did, sho did
A three-score old fellow much shorter than
she.
Who wore black wig that but awkardly hid
pate that no balder could possibly be.
And his voice was q creak, and he danced like a
And his nose it was red. and dull gray were his
eyes,
And he ID sit by the hour and stupidly stare,
And he never said anything witty or W3a
And he smoked clay pipe from morning till
night.
In his mouth held of strongest tobacco quid;
And he dressed-But enough. he had two mill
ions quite,
And she married him gladly-she did-she
did
-Hdrper's Bazaar.
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Caught by IN Octopus.

diver who WAS trying to find pearls off the
Alaska coast, found none but found himself,
all of sudden, in the grasp of an ugly octopus
with arms twenty-seven feet long. Such an ex-
perience is rare; but there are thousands of
people who are caught by dyspepsia, which is
quite as bad. An octopus hates to let go. SO
does dyspepsia. Browns Iron Bitters settles
dyspepsia, and makes it loose its cruel grip.
Mrs. Schmidt and her daughter, of l36 Conway
street, Baltimore. we're both cured OF dyspepsia
by the use of Browns Iron Bitters.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-28

The current notion that more earth
quakes occur in winter than in summer re-
ceives some support from the following
table, which shows the total number of
shocks recorded at the meteorological OBJ
servatory of Toxic, Japan, for the respec-
tive months of the ten years ending De-
cember 10, 1884: January, 50; February, 80;
March, 70; April, 43; May, 81; June, 40; July,
36; August, n; September, 15; October, ~;
November, 81; December, 60. The average
per month for the ten years is As; that for
the six winter months, October to March. is
sc; and for the six summer months, 35.
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Habitual constipation is not only one of the
most unpleasant, hpt at the same time one of
The most injurious conditions of the human sys-
TEN, and Is but a forerunner of disease, unless
removed. This is usually accomplished by the
use Of purgatives which for the time afford re-
Lett but after their immediate effects have
passed they leave the system in worse state
than before. To effect cure it is necessary
that the remedy used should be one that not
only by its cathartic effect relieves the Bowels.
but at the same time acts asa tonic, so as to re-
store the organs to a sound. healthy condition.
This PRICKLY ASH BITTEas will do. 1t removes
the eanse and restores health.
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Mrs. Sarah Pincus, aged 102 years and 6
months, died in Natchitoches, surrounded
by her children, grand children. and great
grandchildren. She was born in Prussia
in 1882.
The military company at Franklin has
received new uniforms of blue cloth. The
Police Jury has granted an appropriation
of $15 month for the maintenance of the
organization.
The Cameron parish Jail is used as q
corn crib. Although there is no prohibi-
ton law, liquor in not sold in the parish,
and to this fact the rarity of crime is main
ly attributed.
A dangerous hole in the Opehlia levee,
1berville parish, was found to have been
caused by the placing of an empty meat
cask in the embankment when the latter
was being built.
Major w. E Russell of Natchitoches is
the only applicant for Register of the Land
Office at that place and has the unanimous
endorsement of the Louisiana Congress
sional delegation.
|
shot in the mouth while driving hearse
containing an empty coffin, near Bayou
Sara. The shot was fred by some one in
ambush at the roadside.
J A st. Louis drummer named Wilber was
tarred and feathered by party of young
men at Shreveport because he attended
ball at that city with woman of bad char
acter whom he represented to be his wife.
A seven-year old boy wandered away
from home at Minden Junction and got
lost in the swamp. He was found two days
afterwards, sleeping beside log. Although
he had spent two nights in the woods lie
said he was not scared but hungry.
Jim Alex and his wife and Selliman Jo-
Natchitoches charged with the murder of
an infant. Dogs dragging the body of the
child in 6eld near the house of the pris-
oners first attracted attention to the mur-
der.
Abundant deposits of iron ore have been
discovered in Claiborne parish. The Guar
dian asks Might we not have Birming-
ham in Claiborne?" and the Morehouse
Clarion pithily replies, "Not so long as
you adhere to the free trade craze, neigh !!
bor!"
Ashbel Lehman, young man from
Louisville employed as travelling agent for
the house of Lehman j. Frois; New Orleans
liquor dealers, committed suicide in the
latter city by shooting himself in the head.
An inordinate passion for gambling led
to the deed. The young man was of good
family and wis engaged to an es:imable
young lady in Louisville
Mr.. JAS. Harold, postmaster at Cheniere
station, Ouachita parish, was run over by
passenger train on the V. 8. Il p. road.
and had one foot crushed and leg broken.
He had mounted a wood-pile to throw a
mail pouch on the passing train, and the
wood gave way, precipitating him under
the car wheels. The roken leg and part
of the foot were amputated.
While gentleman and his wife were on
the road between their farm and the town
Of Lake Charles, last week, the gentleman
on horseback and the lady in buggy, they
we're struck by a small cyclone. The gen.
tleman was blown from his horse and the
buggy upset, but fortunately neither party
sustained severe injuries. The same cy-
clone entirely demolished the colored Meth
odist church in that neighborhood.
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Written for the CHEF.
IN THE OLDEN DAYS.
BY RUTH RAMAY.


BY RUTH RAMAY.
...- /.
The throng which jostles and hurries.
The throng of women and men,
Seemed to move slower and better
In the old days that have been,
The young were fresher and fairer,
The old. tenderer in their ways
Under the charm Of the olden time,
In the sweet olden days.
II.
We remembered that man was our brother,
That Gods law was made for us all;
We remembered to love one another,
To deal mercy and justice to all. ~
Now mercy pleads low at our heartstrings
They are stiffened and still to her call.
Now the brain deals out law and Justice
In far newer and sterner ways,
We forget that mercy's sceptre
Reigned in the olden days.
There we're children who played about US
In JOY untram4eled then.
Our youths and knder maidens
We're not grown women and men.
They wandered not, unheeding,
In the worlds selfish maze,
Their hearts were wide open ftr otl.ers,
In the dear olden days.
Nv.
Yet now tho vast waves of fashion,
Der the crowded nation rolls.
And under its seething water
Sink thousand Of thousands souls.
They may cry in vain from its waters,
No listener in pity stays,
No hand is. outstretched and ready.
AS in the good old days.
v.
The thousands who pass each other
In the ceaseless cares of to-day.
Forget the great Tomorrow,
That they have not long to stay.
Pray God. that for them is shining
Through the veil that the wording lays
Upon her unheeding victims.
A gleam from the olden days.
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FOREIGN.

The Samoan Islands are to be annexed to
New Zealand.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at
Athens, March %.
President Barrios is advancing on San
Salvador with 1900 men.
Japanese Law requires fish 70 Be sold
alive. They are vended in tanks.
A serious uprising Of the Saskatchewan
half breeds has taken place in British Amer
ica.
The Beers have seized the British sur
veying party reoeutly sent to Bschuana-
land.
The popular subscription toward the Bis
marck memorial fund amonts 70 $4,000
marks.
A number OF sympathizers with the
Corean rebellion have been hanged in
Yokohama.
A brutal Mexican cut several pieces Of
flesh from his wife's body and forced ber
to cat them.
Bismarck will be 10 years old April 1, and
the anniversary will be observed as a ma
tional holiday.
1t is reported that Bismarck will remove
Schotz and take the Prussian financial
portfolio himself.
A lion tanner in Vienna circus was de-
voured by one Of his beasts before the eyes
of hornfed audience.
An alleged conspiracy to restore the Re-
public has been discovered in Spain and
number of arrests made.
Bismarck has advised King Leopold of
Belgium against the assumption Of the
sovereignty of the Congo State.
Another Cubsn patriot, General Bona.
chea, with five ompanions, was executed
at Santiago de Cuba on March I.
EmperorWilliam's g eighty eighth birthday
anniversary was celebrated with great tctat
throughout Germany last Sunday.
Zebehr Pasha, the traitorous Egyptian
General found to be in secret league with
ii Mahdi has been sent to Gibraltar.
The Mayor OF Cork has publicly an
nounced his intention to officially ignore
the visit of the Prince and Princess Of
Wales.
The Corporation of Dublin, by q vote OF
Al to II, rejected motion to present an ad-
dress to the Prince Of Wales on the occa>
sion of his visit ON April 8.
Reports of an impending disagreemenA
between the United States and British
America relative to the Alaskan boundary
line have proved nnfounded.
Thsre are increased iudieations Of war
hetween England aud Russia concerning
the Afghan frontier. Preparations for poa.
sible hostilitiss are being rapidly puslsad
forward in both eonntriea
WAR; NoTEa.
kassala still holds out against the rebels.
Gen. Wolseley has ordered the evacuation
of Korti.
The French are practically IN state Of
siege 2t Keluug,
The British troops ia Soudaa ave su1er-
ing from the intense heat.
Peace negotiations will probably be re-
sumed between France and China.
Osman Digna's famous chief Taggiali
xas killed in Sundays battle near Spakiaa.
Che Mudir of Dongola has taken ths
field for offensive Operations against the
rebels.
There has been some sharp fighting
between the forces of Gen. Graham and
Osman Digna near SaakiJn. both parties
claiming the advantage. 4 general battle
between the two armies is uomeGtsrily
looked for
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-28

Col. z. E. Whitfield, a distinguished
Mississippi lawyer, died suddenly on board
a steamer ON the st. Johns river, Fla. He
was reckoned the most eloquent speaker in
Mississippi, neyt to Mr.. Lamar.
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Wants the Facts Known.

Mr.. Editor:-I and my neighbors have besu
led SO many times into buying different things
for the liver, kidneys and blood that have done
VS. more harm than gnod. feel it due your
readers to advise them when an honest and
good medicine like DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic
can be had. Yours Truly. AN OLD SUBSCRIBER
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-28

Thomas j. Havin, the youag Mayor of
Adrian. Mich. recently apprehended in
New Orleans, plead guilty of forgery aud
goes to State prison for ten years.
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Vitality Of Great Men

not always innate or born with t!eIs. but
many instances are kRown where it has been
acquired by the persistent and iudicious use OF
DR.. Harter's Iron Tonic.
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COFFEE STAND.

ElAVORlTE COFFEE AND EATING STAND
! lower end of Donaldsonville Market-house
Albert Gossett. proprietor; Hot Coffee. Lunch,
cents. good meal for Ii, a regular gorge for %
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+. l.. FERNANDEZ Barber Shop, Mississippi
~. street near corner Lessard. Shaving. hair
cutting, shampOOing. ETC., in most artistic style.
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MILLINERY.

MFRS. Nj. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street.
M between Lessard and st. Patrick Latest
styles Of Donnets. Hata. French Flowers, etc.;
also. all kinds of Ladies Underware.
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A Great Discovery.

Mr.. VIM. Thomas. of Newton. Ia. says: My
wife has been seriously affected with cough
for twenty-five years. and this spring more re-
verely than eyer before. She had used many
remedies without relief and being urged to try
DR.. King S New Discovery. did 50, with most
gratifying results The first bottle relieved, iles
very much. and the second bottle has absolute
ly cured her. She has not had good health
for thirty years" Trial bottles free at b. Ry-
biski's Drug Store, Large size 81.
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T. III. DONLON
House, Sign and Ornamental
P-AINT-ER
DOSAIDSONYaI.IE "a

pAIATIAG in all it's Branches and in the
and ornamental work speciality. Orders
left at the CHIEF or sent through the Denald-
sonville pest-othce will receive prompt atten-
flen.
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SODA wATEI, MANUFAcrOry.

CODA WATER MANUFACTORY, H. Hether,
~ proprietor, No. IL Mississippi street. Soda.
Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds Of aer;ted waters
manufactured and sold at lowest prices.
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

R RYBlSKi. Apothecary and Druggist, Mis-
- s'ssppi street, between st. Patrick and st.
Vincent streets. adjoining Gondra1l's 3 store.
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CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.

~. veyor-parish Surveyor of Ascension.
VIII attend promptly to work in all branches
OF his profession, such as surveying, mapping
ievelng for canals, bridges. rice fumes, estima-
ting cost and supervising construction of same
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BARBER SHOPS.

R0GGE y LANGBECKER, City Barber Shop,
~ Mississippi street, adjoining Peep-o'-Day
Hotel. Shaving, Slam..oaning, Hair-cutting,
Dyeing of Hair Whiskers etc. in the best
style. at popular prices. Respectfully solicit
the patronage of the public.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.

lNGRY. THE PAINTER. shop at Cheap
~ Tony Store, corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue. Hs,se, Sign and Ornamental
Painting in all their branches. Best work ut
lowest prices.
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Seven or eight masked rufians Aogged
respectable colored man named Williams
on the Wade place in Caddo parish, be-
cause he was giving shelte. aud employ
ment to widowed white woman and her
two children. The woman was also rudely
treated and warned not to enter Williams
house again. She has made affidavit against
Nick'Adams and his brother, who are un-
der arrest. We rescho the hope of the
Shreveport Times that the perpetrators of
this diseraeeful outrage wiA be app.s-
heLded and punished.
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTING! OFFICE

IsHE CHIEF Office, Crescent Place, opposite
Il the Market-House, is supplied with fine
assortment of type and turns out all kinds Of
plain and fancy Job work in best style at New
Orleans prices. No better and cheaper work is
done anywhere in the State.
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TINSMITH.

DAUL WUTKE, Tinsmith, Port Barrow. La.
y Roofing, guttering, stovepiping, repairing
and all work pertaining to the timers trade
Address Z. y. Box II, DonaldsonVille. In.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

fREDERICK DUFFEL. Attorney at law and
IL Notary Public, office On Chetimacles street
opposite the COurt-Hozaee-
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UNDERTAKEN.

SCHOEBERG'S Unlertaker's Establishment,
~ lsallroad Avenue. between Iberyille and At
takaEas streets. All kinds of burial cases. from
the pine coffin to the metallic or rosewood cas-
ket
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-28

IJAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and Notary
below the Courthouse, on Attakapas street.
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HOTELS AND noARD1No-noUsEs.

DEEP-O'-DAY HOTEL AND BARROOM,
L Mississippi street First-rate accOmmo-
dation and reasonable prices. Finest Wines.
Liquors and Cigars. A. j. Bethancourt, Pro-
prietor; Sam Ayaud. Manager.
GITY HOTEL, p. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail-
~ rtasd Avenue corner Iberviile street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
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James Stephens, the e1-Fenian Head
Centre, has been expelled FROM France, and
is sick and almost destitute in Belgium.
Several other prominent Fenians were ex-
PEELED at the same time and others are to
follow.
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NUMBER 80.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
No decision in the Illinois Senatorial con.
test yet.
A skating rink was blown up by dyna.
mite at Girardville, Pa.
Prairie dogs in Southern Texas eat $40.
600, 600 worth of grass annually.
Mexican beat a man and woman to
death at Laredo, Texas, with club.
The Oklohama boomers continue their
efforts to invade the Indian Tsrritoey.
Some of the striking coal miners Of the
Pttsburg section have returned to work.
More miles of railroad we're built In Flor
ida last year than in any other Southern
State.
The recently discovered gold mines in
Murray county, Ca, are yielding abun-
dainty.
There are thirty Mormon churches In
Colorado, sixty in. Idaho and seventy in
Arizona. -
The bodies of twenty-one victims Of the
Philadelphia almshouse fire have been re-
covered.
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, Gen. Grants daugh-
ter, has arrived from Europe and is with
her father.
Almost the entire business portion OF
Henderson, n. c., burned last Monday.
Loss $4,000.
The moss crop of Florida 10 worth more
than the cotton crop, and the demand ex-
ceeds the supply.
A desperate named Powell was killed hg
the City Marshal OF .Greenvilie, Miss.,
while resisting arrest.
J. NJ. Barrett, promising young man
from Union Springs, Ala, committed Sui
eide at Leesburg, Fla.
Mr.. Conant, the missing editor Of Har-
per's Weekly, is believed to have BEEN seen
in Jacksonville, Fla, recently.
The iron propeller Michigan was crushed
by the ice and sank in Lake Michigan
The crew had a narrow escape.
Jno. G. Thompson of Ohio, ex-Sergeant
alarms of the House of Representatives,
is dangerously i'll at Washington.
DR.. Rum Romanfsm and Behsllioa -
Burchard has been placed on the retired
list by his congregation at salry Of 500
year.
A man who was moving in a wagon was
murdered and robbed On Monday night
while encamped in Montgomery county.
Ark.
The New Jersey Capitol at Trenton
caught fire last Saturday and the damage
is estimated at 100000, one-fifth the cost
of the building.