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WINNIPEG, Dec. l0.-Riel's remains
were brought here last night from Regina
by two Catholic priests in a private car.
The movement was secret aud no person
was at the station. On the arrival Of the
train the car was run across the river to
St. Boniface. There Riel's brother, Al
exander, and a number of half breeds
placed the body on a sleigh and drove it
to his mothers home at St. Vitel, where
the family were in waiting. The box was
opened, disclosing the lace somewhat
blackened and slightly disfgured. The
house was draped in black. The funeral
will take place on Saturday. The body
will be brought to St Boniface cathedral
where a requiem mass will be celebrated
and the remains be buried beside Riel's
father in St. Boniiace Catholic cemetery.
Archbishop Tache has issued d mani
festo, in which he lays the blame of the
half breed uprising on the government
officials, and argues that the Indians were
badly treated by the government officials.
The archbishop declares that The Indians
are not terrified by the recent executions,
and says there is danger ahead which the
government should avoid. 1t was practi-
cally impossible for Riel 20 resist the de-
mand of the half breeds that he should
lead the movement for a redress OF their
, 1885-12-11
"TELEGRaPAIC TOPICS.
Toilers Troubles in Pennsylva-
MA and Illinois.
Grand Army's Monument to
Gen. Grant.
Annual Report Of Attorney
General Garland.
Strikes in Pennsylvania and Illi-
nois.

otrlRes IN Pennsylyania and llll-
nois.
PrrrsPuRG, Pa, Dec. l0.-A telegram
from Lynn & Co., owners of the Coal
Valley Coal Works, requesting the sheriff
to send a posse at once, as a riot was in
progress between strikers and non union
miners. has just been rereived. A posse
will be dispatched at once.
CHICAGO, Dec. 0:-The switchman
employed in the Chicago. Burlington 4
Quincy yard have struck. the night men
quit last night, and the day men went out
this morning. The trouble is the coutin
uation of a misunderstanding of some
weeks ago. The night men who won't to
work at 7 p. m. were frequently compelled
to quit work by the engines being called
in, which stopped switching, and they
were paid only for the actual time put in.
They demanded a full night, pay, if they
worked until midnight, and half a nights
pay if they reported for duty at all. The
company acceded to the demand, but re
Gently tie operatives found that the COM
plny had failed to keep the agreement.
and after giving notice two days ago they
struck last night.
, 1885-12-11

People who are down with rheumatism
sometimes go to the Hot springs to be
cured. But there is no need to ret into
hot water, when ST. Jacobs oil will effect
q cure.
, 1885-12-11

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Dec. l0.-The
Gasette's Hope, Ark, special says: I.
W. Humphrey, agent for the Southern
Express company, to-day confessed to
superintendent AGee that he had stolen
the s., package taken from the office
safe Nov. >, and retained the money. He
was arrested. Humphrey was formerly
postmaster at Hope aud has hitherto
borne a good character.
, 1885-12-11

LEADvILLE, Col, Dec. l0.-II. A W.
Tabor has sold the Leadville Herald to
James Mccarthy Gitz Mack. The Her
aid is now consolidated with the Demo
crut, and the paper will hereafter be
known as the Democrat Herald, the pro
prietors being c. c. Davis and Mccarthy.
A few hours before the above sale was
made Marx NJ. Goldenberg sold his inter
est in the Chronicle and Democrat to Me.
Carthy.
, 1885-12-11

CmcA0o, Dee O-Catle-Roccirts,
$500 market fairly active, 10 cents lower;
shipping steers, $50 to ] 800 pounds IS. 80
@GO0; car Christmas beevcs $685. COWS.
bulls and mixed. 81. 90ldi 10; through
Texas COWS s. 40a275; stockars and
feeders 81 50aS4G0
, 1885-12-11

A New Railroad N the Southwest
SAN Francisco, Dec. l0.-The Gron-
'ie's FL Paso special says; Representa-
tives of a syndicate, of which ex Secretary
Window is a member, have arrived here
They state money has been provided for
the construction Of the first hundred and
fifty miles of the FL Paso, st. Louis &
Chicago railroad, which will open a vast
section of the southwest.
, 1885-12-11

al Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1885-12-11

Will find many beautiful things in the
warerooms OF the Il. i. Warren Mercan
tile company, among them may be men
toned a large number of new paintings
in water %colors, American and foreign
steel engrayings, Photographic views and
other works of art. No gifts are more
acceptable and appreciated than Il beauti-
fnl picture Select your holiday goods a.
Warren.s before it 5 too late.
, 1885-12-11

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever
sores, letter. chapped hands, chilblains,
corns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, Oh
money refunded. Price rs cents per box.
For sale by w. n. Hunt.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

A Boy WOUNDED by HIS BRoTHER.-Thurs
day morning, about O'Clock, two sons of
Mr.. Lawrence Montero, named John and
Lawrence and aged respectively and
years, were playing with some other chill
dren on one of Mr.. Montero's fatboats
lying in the Bayou Lafouche. IA colored
boy employed on the boat picked up an old
carbine which he thought was not loaded,
and cooking the weapon, handed it to Jon
ME Montero and told him to shoot his lit
tie brother. The boy pointed the weapon
as directed and pulled the trigger, when to
his establishment a cartridge was exploded
and the ball struck Lawrence on the right
temple passing under the skin, through;the
right ear and making its exit from under
the scalp back of the ear. The wounded
boy was promptly conveyed home and Dr..
McGalliard summoned to attend him. 1t
was thought the bullet had entered the tenn
pie and that the boy was fatally injured,
but this fortunately proved not to be the
case and we are glad to believe the little
fellow will speedily recover.
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PROCEEDINGS

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Roth houses Of Congress have adjourned
for the holidays, the period Of the recess to
extend two weeks, dating from Tuesday
last, the 22d inst
A large number of bills have been offered
both in the Senate and House, but very few
matters have been finally acted upon by
either body. The Senate has passed the
presidential succession bill introduced BY
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, and it is
considered certain that the measure will
obtain the ready concurrence of the House
of Representatives not long after the holi-
day recess is over. The bill is the same
which passed the Senate last year, and it
places the line of succession in the Cabinet.
beginning with the Secretary of State, when
vacancies occur in .the Offices Of President
and Vice President
The Senate has also passed bill remoy-
ing the.political disabilities of Gen. Alex.
R. Iawton of Georgia, and has confirmed
few of President Cleveland's appoint
ees to office.
In the House the revised rules were adop-
ted by an unexpectedly heavy vote, not
withstanding the vigorous opposition of Mr..
Randall. The most important change effec-
ted by the new code is to divest the Appro-
priations Committee of the exclusive au-
thority it has heretofore exercised over
measures proposing the disbursement of
public money, and to give each commit
tee of the House the same Jurisdiction i'll
the matter Of appropriations that it eyer-
cises with reference to other features of
measures committed to its consideration.
Speaker Carlisle is expected to complete
the formation of the House committees dur
ing the recess, and the list may be made pub
lie before Congress rsassembles. Owing to
the delay in this matter only about seventy
five members of the House have gone home
to spend the holidays.
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Saturday, December rs, 80.
uHave we statesman in Louisiana


"Have we statesman in Louisiana!
anxiously inquiries the Shreveport 1mes'
ga Lamar, Bayard, a Voorhees,, or
Thurman in the Senate? Have we Car
lis!e, a Randall, Morrison OF Holman
in the House? What measures of unlver-
sal import have sprung from the brains OF
our Senators and Representatives IN the
past ten years. The Times requests an
answer to these interrogatorles, but 1t IS
too soon after Christmas for the CHIEF to
think of tackling such conundrums. We
opine, however that Sam. McEnery, John
Fitzpatrick, Pat. Meallie, Floyd King or
the ten million dollar Representative OF
the Third District could give our Shreve-
port contemporary some valuable pointers
on the subject bpt for their well known ex-
cessye modesty.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

FUGITIVE MURDERER CAPTURED On
Tuesday last, at the Donaldsonville depot
OF the Texas and Pacific railroad, Town
Constable Edgar Fernandez arrested col
ored man named Henry jenkins, alias
Squire Riggs, who is the alleged perpetra-
tor OF murder committed in Tensas par
lsh III 1882: Jenkins was Identified by
Joseph Edwards, colored, who was a resi-
dent of Tensas at the time of the murder
and held the office of Constable of the ward
IN which the crime was committed. The
fugitive was about to board the train when
accosted by Constable Fernandez. but
turned and ran down the depot platform,
pursued by the officer, who found it neces-
sary to nse his club pretty freely on the fell
lows head before being able to stop him
Uncle John Butler, the mail mess ,cer
was instrumental in preventing the esc,,o
of Jenkins by tripping him up as he ran
and Mr.. Louis Wild and several other bv
ISLANDERS aided the Constable in secnr,no
the prisoner and landing him safely in TAI,
A revolver WAS found concealed -, ~,
person, and he would doubtless have dr,,,
the weapon had 1t not been for the effective
nse which officer Fernandez made &c H.
club. The murder for which jenkins hos
been arrested was committed on the p,,n
tation of Capt. Douglas, near s. Jo.o,"h
m; and the victim was colored man named
.4m Coil!ns. Jenkins was indicted for the
s asaan, oa' made ms escape, and came to
OF O., the time on the Stella plantation, NE
Sheriff Of Tensas has been notified bv viz
Ut the apprehension of the murderer, and re-
pines THAI deputy will be sent on at onca
TO take him in charge. ot''e'
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Get your Christmas and New Years sweet
meats and chicken fixings at Maurin's Cheap
Grocery Emporium.
R LEGISLATIVE VACANCY

OUR LEGISLATIVE VACANCY.
As the death of the late Hon. Ben Gibson
caused a vacancy in the State House of Rep
resentatives from this parish, there is con-
siderable interest developing in the matter
Of selecting his successor, and speculation
Is becoming rife as to the time that will
yet elapse ere Gov. McEnery deems fit to is
sue his proclamation ordering special
election.
Not long afo reporter of the Baton
Rouge Cupitok,n- Adrocote interviewed the
Co'ernoH upon the subject OF the vacant
seats in the Genera! Assembly, and asccr-
tanned that elections to fill the vacancies
would be ordesed:in ample time to suit the
convenience Of voters and premit the new
members to participate in the proceedings
of the rext session of the Assembly. These
elections could not be held until 1886, as the
Secretary of State has no election paper on
hand and the appropriation for its purchase
for the year 1885 has been exhausted.
TIE neyt meeting of the General Assem-
bly, will occur on the second Monday Of
May, 1886. hence there remains more than
four months prior to that event within
which an election for Mr.. Gibson's sac
cessor can beheld.
Senator Gibson has introduced into the
Sonata ), hill authorizing the transfer of
the bindings aud grounds of the United
States barracks at Baton Rouge to the
Louisiana Stale University and Agricpl-
tura, and MECHANICAL College, 70 pe Used
for educational purposes, and to ravert to
the porernpent whenever such uses shall
ceaSa
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Ing fresent Century Almanac

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The Planters Journal fer November is an
especially handsome, instructive and enter
tanning number of the foremost agricultu-
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liable to any one interested in matters per-
tanning TO the farm, garden or household.
Our readers would be struck with the great
variety Of matter, with Its elegant iIlustra-
tions, and with the general appearance of
this most excellent publication. This num-
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coming year the publishers promise to
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per annum. Address. The Planters Jour
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Wonderful Cures.

w. ID. Hoyt Co., Wholesale and Retail
Druggists of Rome, Ca, says We have been
selling DR.. Kings New Discovery, Electric Bit
tiers and Bucklen's Arnica Salve for two years
Have never handled remedies that sell as we'll
or give such universal satisfaction. There have
been some wonderful cures effected py these
medicines in this city. Several cases of pro-
longed consumption have been entirely cured
by use Of a few bottles Of Or. Kings New Dis
covery, taken In connection with:.Electric Bit
tiers. We guarantee them always. Sold by J.
II. Matthew.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

Hon. +. S. Goode, Judge Of the Nine
teenth Judicial District, committed suicide
last Monday morning at half past s o'clock,
at his residence on Ridgeway plantation,
seven Julie, below Houma. by shooting
himself through the head with shotgun.
The incentive to the deed is not definitely
known, but a special to the Picny,tne ex-
plains that the Judge was of very nervous
temperament and had been much depressed
for several weeks. He was born in Alaba
ma in 1929, and settled in Lafourche par
lsh in 1910; studied law and began practice
III Ihlbodaux, removing to Houma in 1850,
where he was the first resident attorney;
was ELECTED State Senator in 1857 and At
tafpey General in 1861, under Gov. Moore:
was again elected Senator in 1874, and in
1879 was elected District Judge, to which
position he was reelected in 1884. Judge
Goode was looked upon as one of the
purest, and ablest members of the State
Judiciary and was respected and warmly
esteemed wherever known. He leaves three
orphan daughters, his wife having died sew
eral years ago.
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~, Al Who are suffering from the errors and
;n,;,srations Of youth. nervous weakness. early
haans, loss Of manhood etc., viii send a recipe
Vii cure you FREE OF CHARGE. Tins great
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Christmas goodies till you can't rest, al
Maurin's Cheap Grocery Emporium.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY JONES.
In the number Of the CHIEF issued under
date of September 19, we noted the appoint
ment of Mr.. Montfort S. Jones, then a resi-
dent of Coushatta, rs United States District
Attorney for the Western District OF Lou
isiana, remarking incidentally that we had
heard him spoken of as +" an ordinary cross
roads country lawyer" While it was liter
ally true that this uncomplimentary estl-
mate of Mr.. Jones's legal ability was ex-
pressed in our presence by resident Of his
district who had no apparent cause OF per-
sonal or political enlnity against him, yet
it was somewhat ill natured and discourte-
GUS on our part to quote the opinion II our
columns, and we regret having done so.
This feeling of regre: has been increased
by the discovery that the new District At
torney is an ex -member of the journalistic
fraternity, having been connected Tor three
years with the editorial staff of the New Or
leans Times Democrat, and that his wife,
lady of refinement and culture. has also
been and still remains contributor to the
press.
Mr.. Jones has lived in Red River only five
years. He abandoned a lucrative spractice
at. the bar in Shreveport, where he was born
and bred, to accept a position on the Times
Democrat, but three years of editorial life
increased his love for the legal profession,
and he went to Coushatta because he was
informed there was gu opening there for Il
first class lawyer. Recently returning to
Shreveport, he has resumed practice there
in connection with the performance Of his
ofioia! duties,
He is graduate Of Georgetown College,
District of Columbia, and had received an
appointment to West Point, and passed his
examination, when the breaking out of the
civil war summoned him South. For the
position of United States District Attorney
lie had the cordial Endorsement of all the
Judges of the Supreme Court and of many
OF the most prominent men of the State,
and the honored position held BY his father,
~N6O AhOAoAu oOucS VI 1dOOO, OOlu DIS
Judge and Congressman. brought him
warm support from old friends. Senator
Randall Gibson, to whom Mrs. Jones is re-
lated, assisted Congressman Blanchard in
the effort to secure the Office for the latter's
district, and Hon. Milton G. Elstner, the
retiring District Attorney, who is an init
mate friend of his successor, resigned early
SO that the appointment of MIR. Jones might
be obtained before the President left on his
summer tour.
All these considerations so to prove that
District Attorney Jones is gentleman in
every way qualified for and worthy of the
important official station in which he was
recently installed, and we reiterate our re-
greet that the CHIEF should have been made
ne vehicle OF an opinion or inuendo "a the
contrary.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

A correspondent of the Alexandria DEM
ocrat relates a tale concerning the yield of
sugar from a plantation i'll Rapides parish
that removes the diIapidated linen from off
the garden shrubbery. HIS says that Mr..
Joel Matthews, whose place is near Lecomte,
made forty-nine hogsheads from seven
acres and then nearly half the juice was
burned with the bagasse because the mill
was not screwed down tightly enough. "In
boring we'll the other day. says this YER
acious correspondent, 'a solid stratum of
white sugar was struck at depth of 49,
feet, similar to the stream of salt on Ave
rvs Island. Mr.. Matthews will go to work
at once blasting sugar.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

Particular attention is called to my ele-
CANT line of picture frames purchased at a
bargain and now bs:ag disposed Of at as
toundingly low prices. Get one before they
are gone. They canpot be had for double
the money after this lot is sold.
S. S. INGMAN.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

Ro, Cordova, Javaiand Mexican coffee
at figures not met with elseWhere-at Mau-
rims Cheap Grocery Emporium.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-12-26

Try Manhatta cigars and you will
smoke no ether. At MgmaE's
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Situation Wante,i-

By Blacksmith and WheeIwr;obt
"A A ner;,.a MahhiEb MAN with years of ex-
Ino can furnish the very best references as to-
tn sonrety industry and ski desires
co1p;o, ,.e employment on plantation for the
'afe OF =. U: Box LOT, Donalasonyilie ia Nv
inquire at the CHIEF osiice A'.''' y
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THE SIlGAR TARIEE-

Why" inquiries the Donaldsonyille CHIEF.
should not the immense sugar interests of
Louisiana keep the people of this State on the
side of the party that favors protection" Sim
ply because those immense sugar interests
can more securely rest for protection. on the
hrm basis OF system OF tariff for revenue
only, where sugar would stand almost without
a rival In its capacity to produce revenue to
the Government, than on a system OF yrotec-
ton. where sugar would have to compete with
an lnexhaustlble catalogue of protected lndus-
tries. A protective policy. means a reduced
sugar tariff; a revenue policy means a high
tariff on sugar. The sooner our sugar planters
learn this truth the better.-Luke Charles Com
mercidl.
Our question, 1t viii be remembered,
was suggested by the remark of the New
Orleans States, a strong and able adherent of
the policy of tariff for revenue only, that the
immense iron interests of Pennsylvania
would always keep the people Of that State
on the side Of the party that favors protec-
| tion-t e., the Republican party. In fact,
we did no more than paraphrase the prop
osltion of the STATES, merely substituting
sugar for iron.
The fallacious argument with which our
esteemed Lake Charles contemporary meets
the issue is as familiar as it is absurd One
of the first principles of a tariff levied only
for the purpose of producing revenue is
that IL shall be laid upon articles of luxury
and removed froHt the necessities of life,
IN order that the latter may be supplied to
the people at the cheapest possible rates.
Sugar, it is scarcely necessary to say, is
an article OF prime necessity in every house
hold IN the land, and under logical ap-
pllcatlon of the tariff for revenue policy
the impost.upon imported sugars would be
removed entirely or at least reduced to the
lowest possible figure compatible with the
requirements Of the administration of the
government.
In truth, there is no domestic industry
more dependent upon the maintenance Of
the protective tariff system than our sugar
producing interest, and no amount of So
phistry and fine-spun theory to the CON
trary will obscure the recognition which
this vitality important fact receives from
the great body Of or citizens engaged in
sugar culture or concerned in its welfare.
It's undeniable, of course, that sugar
is the main revenue-producing article upon
which an import tax is levied under existing
laws, but once let the principle for which the
so called tariff reformers contend become
recognized and established, decrease Or
abolition Of the tariff ON sugar and cor
responding increase of the duty laid upon
articles of luxury will speedily follow. Un-
til the day comes when we can produce
sugar in profitable competition with that
imported from the West. Indies Or other
foreign parts, without the aid of an import
tax, the only safety for cur sugar interest
i.es in the recognition and maintenance of
the protective principle which underlies cur
present tariff system.
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