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sands and thousands Of dollars. Turner's
slave ship is an example of this; think
$4,000 was paid for it by the late Mr.. Len
nox; and if ! were in tho habit Of oetting, !
would be willing to wager $1,000 that il
it were put up atpublic auction, and the ar
lists name was not mentioned, it would
not bring $25. The lesson Of this week
should not be lost on amateur buyers. The
depreciation Of over 100000 represents a
very handsome fortune in itself. Fifty
years ago the sum which Mr.. Seney sunk in
his gallery vas the reward of long and
successful mercantile life; now We look to
make it in a week or a month by game of
poker or turn in stocks. >+
a miserable ragged wretch last week
was committed from one of our police
courts as q vagrent, and yet seven years
ago this man was supposed to be worth
100000. When Governor Moses. who
has now sunk to the level of q common
thief, was running riot in South Carolina,
this poor drunkard was his financial agent
in New York; money rolled in SO fast that
he hardly new how he made it. Wine,
women aud gaming ruined him at last,
till the man who drove the aandsomest
squipages up the Fifth Avenue, who ate
Delmonioo's finest suppers and drank his
rarest wines, became homeless, ragged
vagabond, to whom the shelter Of the PEN
ON vUoa nlb n%
low covered novel-the imagination of
man could scarce conceive greater change
than that.
The anxiety over the expected death of
General Grant has, if possible, been greater
than that experienced at the deaths of Lin
coin and Garfield. All old enmities ap-
pear to have died out as the shadows
deepened about the couch of the dying
soldier, and among all classes Of our peo-
pie, high and low, rich and poor, there is a
feeling of deep and universal grief at the
sorrowfnl closing OF his life. Every news
paper in the city has reporters on watch
night and day to give the public the earliest
information of his decease. All of our
city papers have had his obituary notice
written and set up for weeks, so that the
instant he passes away they caq 60 to
press and give the public the news, It ia
now too late to hope for change, but when
death does claim all that is mortal of him,
one OF the greatest Americans of the nine
teenth century will have ceased to bs.
Spring has come at last, but raw and
gusty, not genial and warm; but We are
thankful for the change.
Yours truly, BROADBRIA.
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

u RYBlSkI. Apothecary and Druggist. Mis-
11e sissippi street, between 1t. Patrick and St.
Vincent streets. adjoining Gondran's store.
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HOTELS AND BOARDINa-HOUsEs.

POBERT E. LEE HOTEL, Crescent Place,
1C opposite the steamboat landing, the most
convenient location in town. First-class &C.
commodations at reasonable rates. Elegant
bar. billiard and pool room attached. ]. J. La
fargue, Proprietor
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE.

L the Market-House, Is supplied with Z fine
assortment of typo and turns out all kinda Of
plain and fancy Job work in best style ct New
Orleans prices. No bettsr and cheaper work is
done anywhere in the State.
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UNDERTAKES.

SCHONBERG's Uudertaker's Establishment,
- Railroad Avenue between Iberville and At
takapas streets. All kinds Of burial cases. from
the pine coffin to the metallic or rosewood cas-
lot
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pEEP-O'-DAY HOTEL AND BARROOM,
-. Mississippi street. First-rate accommo-
dation and reasonable prices. Finest Wines
Liquors and Cigars. A. J. Bethancourt, Pro-
prietor; Sam Ayraud, Manager.
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BARBER SHOPS.

ROGGE l. LANGBECKER, City Barber Shop,
H.tel. Shaving, shampooning, Hair-cutting,
Dyelng OF Hair or Whiskers, etc, in the best
style. at popular prices. Respectfully solicit
the patronage Of the public.
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!TTY HOTEL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail-
- road Avenue. corner Iberville street. Bar
upplied with best Liquors.
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DoNALDsoNvlLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,

1 - - S0AAvAAAJN0 ADAAVAA ~ - ~ ~ Il 4
DRY a00Ds. aRoCERIEs, Fee.
NJ ISRAEL ! CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
XAAs Clothing. Boots, Shoes, eaddlery, Bug
eiess etc., corner Assissippi and Lesssrd streets
~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hon.
~ mas street. dealer in Dry Goods, Notions
3 cots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Com,
Oats and Bran.
A D. VEGA, dealer in Dry Goods. Motions,
a. Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Grocer.
les, Liquors. Hardware, Tobacco, Oils and
Corner Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street.
RERNARD LEMANN L BROTHER. dealers
- in Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
Carts: Plows seddlery, Stoves and Tinware.
Furniture, Crockery. Wall Paper and House
Earnishin& Goods. Mississippi street, corner
IOs: GONDRAN 4 SONS. dealers in Dry
r. q. Goods, Clothing. Notions, Hats. Groceries,
Q lis eaadlery, Crockery, Furniture and al
kinds Of House Furnishing Goods, Blue Store.
Mississippi street.
w D. PARK. dealer in Staple and Fancy
w.. Groceries. Provisions, Plantation and and
Liquors, Bottled Beer, .Ales:. ETC., Dry Goods
u
maches streets, opposite River Ferry.
HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOusEs.
ROBERT E. LEE HOTEL, Crescent Place,
IL opposite the steamboat landing, the most
convenient location in town. First-class &C.
commodations at reasonable rates. Elegant
bar. billiard and pool room attached. ~. La
fargue. Proprietor.
DEEP.O-DAY HOTrL AND RARR1l0M
-. Mississippi street. First-rate accommo-
datlon and reasonable prices. Finest Wines,
Liquors and Cigars: A. J. Bethancourt Pro-
prietor; Sam Ayraud. Manager.
CTTY HOTEL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail-
~ road Avenue. corner Iberyille street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS.
lTlHE PLACE. Gus. Israel, manager. Corner
Il Lessard and Mississippi streets. Billiards
Lager beer. Best Wines and Liquors. Fine
Cigars. etc.
TINSMITH.
pAUL WUTKE, Tinsmitb, Port Barrow. III.
I h0oflng, guttering, stovepiping repairing
and all work pertaining to the timers trade,
Address P. o. Box II. Donaldsonville. In.
BARBER SHOPS.
ROGGE l. LANGBECKER, City Barber Shop.
~ mississippi street, adjoining Peep-o'-Day
n.,tei. Shaving, 6hampooning. Hair-cutting,
Uyelng OF Hair or Whiskers, etc, in the best
style. at popular prices; Respectfully solicit |
The patronage Of the public.
L. FERNANDEZ, Barber Shop. Missieeippi
A1e street. near corner Lessard. Shaving. hair !
'utting. shampooing. etc., in most artistic style.
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w D. PARK. dealer In Staple and Fancy
We Groceries. Provisions, Plantation and
Steamboat Supplies, Canned Goods, Wines
Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ales ETC., Dry Goods
and Notions, corner of Mississippi and Cheti-
maches streets, opposite River Ferry.
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LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS.
VIE PLACE. Gus. Israel, manager, Corner
Il Leesard and Mississippi streets. Billiards,
Lager Beer. Best Wines and Liquors. Fine
Cigars. etc.
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IOS. GONDRAN Il SONS, dealers in Dry
e. Goods Clothing, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wine. Liquors. Boots. Shoes, Hardware, Paints,
y liz. saddlery, Crockery, Furniture and all
kinds OF House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store,
Mississippi street.
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DRY GOODS. a1s0CERIEs, Eec.
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Transient advertlsementa, u per square hret
insertion; each subsequent insertion, IS cents
Der square. q
first insertion; each subsequent insertion, 80
cents per SQUARE.
Editorial notices, hrst insertion, Is cents per
Cards Of six lines or less in Business Direct
oy. 3$ per apnnm. 49,. : S. :
INSTRUMENTATION upon rubjects Of public
interest solicited.
No sttention paid to anonymous letters.
Tho editor is not responsible for the views of
correspondents. -
Address: TEE CnH1, Donaldsonviue. La.
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calls very unsuggestive of Sunday night
As soon as the audience sized the speaker
they began to leave, and when the orator
mentioned something about a collection
for the purpose of paying expenses there
was rush for the door, as il the people an
ticipated an earthquake or fire. It was
lamentable failure as vindication of the
church, and not a success in the annihila-
tion of 1ngersoll.
If one of O'Donovan Rossa's dynamite
bombs had been dropped in the vicinity Of
the New York post-omce, it could not have
caused greater political excitement than
the nomination and confirmation of Post
master Pearson for the Postmastership of
New York for the next four years. We were
just as sure that his head would roll in the
sawdust as that Cleveland is the President
of the United States. We had settled on
his successor, and in short had the thing all
fixed, when hey, presto fly, all of our calcu-
culations were knocked into several cooked
hats, and Republican has carried OF the
prize. We now begin to realize that civil
service reform is excellent as theory be-
fore election, but it's nearly lightning as
when you put it into practice afterward.
It is generally understood that the appoint
ment is eminently satisfactory to Mr..
Pearson.
The sale of the seney collection of pic
lures was most Disappointing; the ninety
eight pictures sold ON the first night that
cost Mr.. Seney 100000, only brought a
little over $4,000. One picture that cost
1900, sold for $500, and the great body
of them only brought half price. The only
picture in the entire collection that brought
more than it cost was one by Constant
Meyer, The Lords Day" which cost $1,000
and brought $1100; and there were two
landscapes. one by Hacquette and one by
Bristol, that brought the price he paid for
them. It is the opinion Of the best judges |
that the pictures brought all they were
worth. Mr.. Seney when he bought pic
lures was very much like the man who went |
to Jericho. He knew little about art him,
self, and he had to trust the judgment of
others, and it eratified his vanity to have
> picture in his collection for which he had |
paid big price. Carl Becker's picture of !
Romeo and Juliet cost him $4,000. Nothing
Is more certain than that Carl Becker would |
nave considered himself we'll rewarded If
10 got $l50O for his picture. but the dealers
got bold of Mr.. Seney, and they turned his
'ead by tickling his vanity and so light
med him of $4,000 for picture which
,nder most desperate competition of peo-
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RERNARD LEMANN l. BROTHER, dealers
~ in Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
ceries. Liquors, Hardware, Iron. Paints, Oils.
Carts Flows: Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware.
furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
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VOLUME j, XIV. |
TRe Doqaldsoqvile Cbi&

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published Eveey saturday Morning at
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Illinois Items.

j. S. Duncan, a merchant from Bluff City,
was run over by a locomotive at Beardstown.
His neck was broken and one arm nearly severed
from his body.
The Democratic central committee of Greene
county has nominated Ellis Briggs, of Rood
house, to fill the vacancy in the State Senate
caused by the death Of Senator Bridges.
John Gross, living eight miles north of High
land committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head Financial difficulties and i'll
health are supposed to have been the causes.
Bricker Elliot, the seven year-old son of George
Elliot, residing near Carbondale, was leaning
out of a window at his fathers residence when
the sash fell, striking him on the back of tka
neck and breaking it.
At Litchfield, in free fight which took place
between crowd OF tramps one of the gang a
man named Roach, was nearly killed by knife
wound in the neck Thirteen of the roughs
were arrested by the police.
Mrs. John J. Ballentine, of Decatur, widow
with four children, made two desperate but un-
successful attempts to commit suicide by taking
poison and by shooting herself, because her son
was put in Jail for drunkenness
Abram Sidwell. an old and very wealthy farm
er, living near Brownstown was discovered by
his son, late Saturday evening, hanging to beam
in his barn. Life not yet being extinct he was
Immediately cut down. but died in few min
utes afterward The old gentleman had been
in poor health for some time and became de-
spondent, believing he could not get well. He
leaves young wife and large family of grown
uu children
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How to Grow Grapes.

Mr. Kramer recently read paper before the
La Crosse Horticultural Society on grape grow
ing Of the different ways of preparing the
ground he said the best way is to make a trench
twenty inches deep and lay the soil on the down
hill side (supposing it to be On a slope.) Then
put wood mold, leaves and small twigs on the
bottom of the ditch Begin another similar
trench ON the other side, throwing the earth into
the first trench, continuing in this manner until
the ground is all spaded over alike.
Mark your ground for grape vines in rows
eight feet apart each way. Dig the holes for the
roets in the fall before ground freezes as the
soil thrown out will be much better for the new
roots after it has been frozen and thawed. Make
the holes from fourteen 20 sixteen inches deep
and eighteen inches across In setting the roots
the following spring, see that mellow, rich soil
is placed next them and packed firmly.
In setting put one bud just below the surface
and one bud above. Early planting is advisable,
as it insures better growth.
The above is for heavy soil.
For light and sandy soils make holes two feet
square, put the best top soil ON one side and the
lighter soil on the other. Procure enough heavy
muck to fill the hole one foot deep. Leave the
hole open until spring, then set the roots as
above, taking care to put the best soil next the
plants.
The first and second years cut down to two
buds and keep the soil clean. The third year, if
you have two canes, cut one down to two buds
and the other to four: five or six, according to
the strength of the vine. Also the third year
will be the time to set posts or build trellis to
sustain the vines.
The best time to prune is in November and
December. Then select the shoots according to
the fruit buds.
The third year is also the time to trim the
roots Open the soil about the vines and, with
sharp knife, cut all the roots within four
inches, from the top down, then put the soil
back in it's place.
In cultivating use four-tined fork instead Of
spade. The spade cuts too many roots while
the fork goes between the roots and loosens the
soil; and cultivate at least once every year and
keep down the weeds with hoe.
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more dangerous torch to the enemy of man
than the torch of the incendiary A complete
organization and unfcation of the workers and
their friends, and an abandonment of the mean,
petty spites and jealousies which continually
rise up between men and their duty to each
other, will prove far more powerful weapon
than the dagger of the assassin. With men
and women organized and taught by ex-
perience, discussion and ASSOCIATION what
their rights are, their united voices, when
they speak out in defense of principle, will
make more noise in the world than the explod-
ing bomb of the dynamiter. | have
no use for that which kills; l have no desire to
witness the destruction of property and when
ever | learn of an assembly committing itself to
such doctrines, shall demand the recall of its
charter"
Then you don't take any stock in the thun-
derbo!ts of Herr Most Justus Schwab or that
class of philanthropsts~
Not at ak they are merely handful Of
cranks and towards"
''Are.they members of the Knights of Labor
mo; the sensible workingmen of the country
have no use for such wild wind bags. Their
ideas are all foreign to us. Having been brought
up under the rule of blood and 1ron they don't
understand our institutions, and cannot appre-
ciate the fact that here the workirgmen have
the means of effecting peaceful revolution,
such as can be brought about In Europe only by
force. The Anarchists and Communists don't
speak for the people; they speak their own
views. and I may say that have hearty con-
tempt for them and their ideas"
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Indiana Notes.

Mrs Kerr widow of Speaker Kerr of New
Albany, rendered the position of trustee of the
Soldiers Orphans Home, by the Governor. has
declined the place.
Gates Schooler, an engineer of the j., NJ G. l.
railway. was run over and killed at Jefferson
vile on Friday night The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of the
Knights of Pythias and Odd fellows
Lewis McFann, of North Manchester, Wabash
county, was instantly killed at Milford Junction,
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, by falling be-
meath the wheels. He was frightfuly manged.
and the shock consequent upon being brought
home dead so affected his mother that she is
lying at the point of death McFann was nine
teen years Old
James Hardesty who lives at the village of
Newry, near Seymour. was roughly handled by
a masked mob of citizens Of that place few
evenings ago. Hardesty, it is said, has been
living in open adultery with a woman of that
place for some time, and, although repeatedly
warned of the trouble likely to follow if he per
sisted in the practice he has, nevertheless dis
regarded all threats or warnings A few
evenings since crowd of masked men visited
Hardesty's, and, after ordering him and the
women out of the house, they set it on fire.
They then took the stock from the barn and
the chickens from the coop and set fire to these
buildings. They bound Hardesty to tree,
where he remained until released the next day,
after which they dispersed.
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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS.
A Young Man Fatally Stabbed in Saloon
Fight-Arrest of His AsSailant.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SHELBYvILLE, Ind, March 29.-Samuel Boyd.
young man aged twenty-five years. was fatally
stabbed this morning by George Lawrence, a
carpenter, in a fight at Oscar Williamss saloon
Lawrence and woman Of bad character, by the
name of AIollie Wilson, were in the saloon en-
gagged in drinking, where also were Sam
uel ard Robert Boyd, playing cards
Sam Boyd began the quarrel, and Lawrence
drew knife, when Oscar Williams grabbed
him, and tried to keep him from cutting anyone
butt being in danger, he retreated, and the
Boyds and Lawrence came together. Lawrence
was knocked down, and, it is said, both the
Boyds jumped on him, when Lawrence
fatally stabbed Sam Boyd in the
left side, just below the ribs, in
ficting terrible wound and letting a part of
the entrails protrude from the wound. Medical
aid was at once summoned and Boyd laid upon
billiard table, where he remained all night in
great pain His mother visited him at the sa-
loon, this morning. and her sorrow on seeing her
dying son lying in a saloon. ON Sabbath morn
ing, was most heartrending. Boyd was re-
moved to-day, to his home. Lawrence and
Molhe Wilson are both in jail He denies the
stabbing in positive terms. Lawrence is single
man, aged twenty-five.
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Receipts.

Scalloped Onions. the onions and slice
them very thin. Put in baking dish layer of
onion, a layer of cracker, with salt, pepper and
butter to taste. then another layer of onions,
and so until the dish is filed, having top layer
of crackers pour in enough milk to cover, and
bake one hour and half.
Potato Puffs-Peel one quart of large pota-
toes Crate them. and drain all the water from
them. Mix the drained potato we'll with six
grated onions one and half tablespoonful of
-four six eggs, and salt to taste. When thor
oughly mixed, fry in cakes of any desired size a
nice brown in hot drippings.
Salad Dressing excellent salad dressing
which. if kept cool, will keep for long time, is
made of the yolks of three eggs beaten well
with two-thirds of a goblet of best salad Oil Tor
butterl, adding not more than a teaspoonful of
oil at a time and beating it we'll. One teaspoon
full of mustard, a large pinch of salt, tiny bit
of cayenne pepper, two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
two of vinegar, the juice of one lemon, and
lastly the whites of two eggs well-beaten. Beat
the mixture for several minutes and then thin
with vinegar to suit the taste; put into 3 glass
can and keep cool and dark. It is a great con-
venience to have the dressing ready, as so many
times one might make salad if so much time
were not required for making a smooth dressing
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Bees in the Spring.
linsop, in Country Gentleman.

w. q. Hutchinson, in Country Gentleman.
Each bee-keeper should know when to ex-
pect the honey harvest in his locality, and should
so manage as to have his hives overlooking with
bees at its commencement. Before, and after
the harvest, bees are consumers, not producers:
hive full of bees in early spring is not so de-
Sirable as colony only sufficiently strong to
be able to increase it's numbers to the desired de-
gree by the opening of the honey harvest. From
the laying of the egg until its development into
a bee is twenty-one days; from the Matching of a
bee until it is old enough to labor in the fields is
about fifteen days; hence, brood rearing should
be going on very briskly five or six weeks before
the opening of the honey harvest. 1t is at this
time, six weeks before the honey harvest, that
stimulative feeding will prove profitable, if ever,
and, when commenced, it should be continued
until the harvest begins.
In early spring. bees sometimes desert their
hives by 'swarming out as it is termed. They
issue in the same manner as does a swarm, and
usually join some other colony in the yard. This
abnormal swarmlng Is caused by queenleSSneSS.
lack of stores weakness lin numbers) encroach-
ment of mice, etc., in fact anything that disturbs
renders uncomfortable the bees. IL they are
furnished with good warm hives, have plenty of
good stores, a laying queen, and are in such con-
dition that they can rear brood they are happy
and contented and seldom try to better their con-
dition by migrating
When bees commence rearing brood they need
water, and, when in the cellar the want of water
is often the cause of uneasiness After being
placed upon their summer stands, many bees are
lost in early spring by being obliged to bring
water cold, windy days. Many beekeepers
have reported excellent results from giving bees
water in the cellar when the bees were uneasy,
and from combining them IN their hives on cold,
windy days. after they had been placed on their
summer stands, and furnishing them with water.
wet sponge at the entrance of the hive, in the
cellar, will furnish the bees with water.