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BROTHER BARTHOLOMEW.


Brother Bartholomew, working time,
Would fall into musing and drop his tools;
Brother Bartholomew cared for rhyme
+ More than for theses Of the schools;
For gain or losing, for veal or woe,
God made him poet long ago.
At mathis he sat, the book. on his knees,
And his thoughts were wandering far. I wis;
The brotherhood chanted the itanies,
While he had no praying to do but this:
Watching through arched windows high
The birds that sailed Ger the morning sky.
At complin hour, in the chapel dim,
He went to his stall and knelt with the rest;
And oft, On the4wings Of the evening hymn,
Would his soul float out to the nights fair
And ever to him tho starry host
Flamed bright as tho tongue at Pentecost.
"A foolish rhyrnester and nothing moro;
The idle fellow a cell can hold;''
30 judged the worthy Isi'iOr,
Prior of ancient Nithiswold;
Yet somehow, with dispraise content,
Signed not the culprit's banishnent.
meanwhile Bartholomew went his way.
And patiently wrote in his sunny cell;
His pen fast travelled from day to day,
His books were covered, the walls as we'll.
He were better a pious monk instead
OF a istless dawtiler," the Prior said
Bartholomew died ,as mortals must;
His spirit went free from the cowfed throng;
And after, they took from the dark and dust
OF shelves and corners many q song,
That cried from Britain to far Cathay
How bard had risen-and passed away.
Wonderful verses! fair and fine,
Full Of the old Greek loveliness;
The seer-like vision, half divine;
Pathos and merriment in excess;
And every careful stanza told
Of love and of labor manifold.
The King came ont and stood beside
Barthoiomews taper-lighted bier.
And turning to his lords, he sighed;
How worn and weary doth he appear
Our noble pOet-now he is dead!"
20 tireiess worker!" the Prior said.
Boston Courier.
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THE SIGNS OF BAD WEATHER.


The hollow winds begin to blow;
| The cloads look black, the glass is low;
! The SCOT falls down, the spaniels sleep,
And spiders from their cObwebs pee.,;
Last night the sun went pale to bed;
The moon in halos hid her head.
| The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
For; see. a rainbow spans the sky.
The walls are damp, the bitches smell;
Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel.
Hark! how tho chairs and tables crack;
Old Betty's joints are on the rack
Her cOrns with shooting pains torment her,
And to her bed untimely sent her.
Loud 1nack the ducks; the sea- fowls csyi
Yhe distant hills are booking nigh.
How restless are the snorting swine!
The busy flies disturb the kline.
Low Ger the grass the swallow wings;
The cricket. too, how sharp he sings!
Puss ON the hearth, with velvet paws,
Sits wlping o'er her whiskered jaws.
nhe smoke from chinneys right aseends,
Then, spreading back to earth it bends.
The wind unsteady, veers around.
Or settling Ill the south is found.
Through the clear stream the fishes rise,
And nimbly catch the incautious flies.
The glow worms numerous. clear and bright,
!llumind the dewy hill last night.
At dusk the sQualid toad was seen.
Like quadruped stalk DER tho green.
The whirllng wind the dust obeys,
And in the rapid eddy plays.
The frog has changed his yellow vest,
And in a russell coat is dressed.
:Ehe sky is green, the air is still.
The mellow blackbild's voice is shrill
The dog, SO altered in his taste,
Quits mutton bones on grass to feast.
Behold the rooks-how odd their flight
They initiate the gliding kite,
And seem precipitate to fall,
As it they felt the piercing ball.
The tender colts on back do lie.
Nor heed the traveller passing by.
In fiery red the sun doth rise,
Then wades through clouds to mount the skies
Twill surely rain, we sect with sorrow-
No working in the fields tomorrow:
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

"Santa Fe de Bogota," that wonderful
city nine thousand feet high ia the air, SO
that it forms ga temperate zone on the
very verge of the EQUATOR" is the subject
of an interesting paper, with panorama
of illustrations. III the June Harper's The
city is in tine bed of an old mountain lake.
called the Sabona of Bogota, sixty by thirty
miles, and around it tower what still seem
mountains even from the altitude of the
city. Humboldt said of this South Ameri-
can city that it stands upon its own grave, his
thoughts looking to the probabilities of its
ultimate destruction by an ingulfing earth
quake. Among the products of this strange
place is the alligator pear" fruit pro-
nounced 'the masterpiece of nature,'' fit
for demi- gods.'' The description of the
place aud its people will be a surprise to
Angio-Sazon Americans.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

lt would astonish many Londoner to be
told that he can go Through London by
Canal" Nevertheless such is the fact; and that
canal Is the scene of the little travels" of a
writer in the May Harper's. who describes in
detail how he journeyed from beyond Padding
ton, the northwest of London, through the most
populous parts of the great city, to the East End
and the lower Thames. un one of the MANY
frleght-boats that ply on this raging canal,
1t Is almost needless to say that the writer, DR..
b. E. Martin. is an American, for it is our
own countrymen who have been the most
curious explorers of the English metropolis
and most OF the books about Dickens places
have been written by them. An English artist,
Mr.. W. L. Wyllie, accompanied him, and his
sketches are of novel interest. The article is
timely. because the canal is likely, in the
course OF a year or so. to be transformed into
the roadway of a circuit railway which is to
take its place.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

A tadpole, the larys of a frog, has tail
precisely like that of fish, a horny beak
fer eating vegetable food, and spiral in
testine to digest it. With the approach os
maturity the lnud legs appear. then the
ffos1t pair: t.,e beitk Calls off; the tail aud
si,is waste away; the lungs are created: the
digestive apparatus is changed to suit the
animal die.: ti.a heart becomes reptilian il
type Jy tie addition. t,s another aGcicie; III
.aal, ss-.u, muscles, nerves and blood YES
sci, v&llIs.i, aelli. absorbed atom by atom,
l5!s.t i s.s-.s -vt Is ~GJst.ta.sd
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THE RABB1,s PRESENT:

rabbi once. by all admired,
:, Received, OF high esteem the sign.
From those his goodness thus inspired,
present of cask of wine,
but lot when soon he came to draw,
A miracle; in mode as rapid
But quite unlike what Cana esw.
,,r Had turned his wine to water vapid
The rabbi never knew the cause,
,,r For miracles are things of mystery,
Though some like this, have had their laws
Explained from facts Of private history.
His friends. whom love did aptly teach,
Wished all to share the gracious task,
So planned to bring bottle each.
And pour their wine in one great cask.
Now one by chance thonght. "None will know,
And with the wine of all my brothers
One pint ct water we'll may go.''
And SO by chance thought all the others.
-COrnhill Mdqttzine,
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"What's the Matter With Yon9,,


Well, not much in particular. But I'm a
little ailing all over. don't sleep we'll, and
my kidneys are out of order, and can't enjoy
my meals, and I've a touch of rheumatism. and
once in a while a twinge of neuralgia" Now,
neighbor, you seem to want a general fixing up.
and the thing to do it is Browns Iron Bitters.
MIR. A. j. Pickrell. of Ennis, Texas. says, Il
was sickly man. Browns Iron Bitters made
me healthy and strong"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

The forecasts of the weather bureau of
France were verified last year in ninety
cases out of every hundred, the percentage
having steadily risen from eighty-one i'll
1851 to eighty three in 1882 and to eighty
seven III 1883. Out of IS9 alarm signals
sent to the ports, 12o were fully verified,
twenty -four were fairly correct, thirty-sev-
en- were incorrect, and s,iy two gales were
not fose zen. "a
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A vegetable leather. said to la fu,lv coma,

A vegetable leather, said to he fully equal
to the animal product, is made in Paris
from gutta percha, sulphur, raw cotton,
zinc white, kolkothar, and oxide Of anti
mony. The first two ingredients are nee
essary, while the other parts may be .e-
placed by chemicals OF similar character
The proportions are varied with tie ,Gg-
poses.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

Priekly Ash Bittsrs Is not an intoxicating
beverage. iss5 pleasant, 1l!<, Iazas lve .lc e.-
cssat Tome, acting alseetly on the Liver, k,.}
I-ays. Sto.naeii ;i.it l;,w=:5.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
Concerning Printed Poison.

Concerning Printed Poison.
BY josiah w. Leeds. Philadelphia 52s Wal
nut street. Published for the author, 1885,
Square 16mo., rp. 81 Price {mailed). cents;
per dozer. 80 cents; fifty copies. 1926,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
MILLINERY.

MRS. NJ. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street,
N1 between Lessard and st. Patrick. Latest
styles Of Bonn6ts Hats French Flowers, etc;
also. all kinds of Ladies Underware.
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DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

II RYBlSKI, Apothecary and Druggist, Mis-
- elssippi street. between st: Patrick and St.
Vincent streets. adjoining Goartfran' IS store.
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EOEEEE STAND.

EAVORlTE COFFEE AND EATING STAND,
i lower end Of Donsldsonville Market-house,
Albert Gossett. proprietor; Hot Coffee Lunch
cents. good meal for Is, a regular gorge for Is.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
UNI)ERTAKEls.

SCH0NBERG'S Undertaker's Establishment,
~ hailroad Avenue, between lberville and At
takalsm streets. All kinds of b,arial cases. from
the Pine coffin to the metallic or rosewood cas-
ket.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

[NREDERICK DUFFEL, Attorney at law and
Il Notary Public, office on Chetimaches street
Opposite tho Coure-House.
DAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and Notary
L Public, Donaldsonville.- Office: on block
below the Court House, on Attakapas street.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
SODA 1yArEI, MANUFACTORy.

CODA WATER MANUFACToRY, H. Hether
~ proprietor, No. IL Mississippi street. Soda
Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds Of aer.tetl waters
manufactured and sold at lowest prices.
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NEwsDEALER AND srAr1oNER.

g s. 1NGMAN, successor to w. 6. Wilkinson,
NJ corner Mississippi and Lessard streets, di-
agonally opposite the post-office. News and IL
lustrated papers. Books, Stationery. Pens, Ink.
Base Ball Supplies, Toys, Smoking Material
and Fancy Articles in great variety.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
BARBER SHOPS,

RoGGE l. LANGBECKEK, City Barber Shop,
Hotel. Shaving, Shampooning. Hair-cutting,
Dyeing Of Hair or Whiskers, etc., in the best
style, at popular prices. Respectfully solicit
the patronage of the public.
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HOTELS AND noAnD1Na-HoUsEs.

POBERT E. LEE HOTEL, Crescent Place.
IL opposite the steamboat landing. the most
convenient location in town. First-cIass ac-
commodations at reasonable rates. Elegant
bar. billiard and pool room attached. J.J. La
fargue, Proprietor,
DEEP-OLDA7 HOTEL AND BhRROOM,
4 Mississippi street. First-rnte accorimo-
dation and reasonable prices. Finest Wines
Liquors and Cigars. A. j. Bethancourt, Pro-
prietor; Sam Ayraud, Manager.
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IITY HOTEL, P. Lefevre, Proprietor, Rail-
~ road Avenue. corner Iberville street. Bar
supplied with best Liquors.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
BOOK AND JOI, PRINTING; OFFICE.

VNHE CHIEF Office Crescent Place, opposite
Il the Alarket-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.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
L10UOfi AND BILLIARD SALOONS.

yIlHE PLACE. Gus Israel, manager, Corner
Il Lessard and Mississippi streets. Billiards.
Lager Beer. Best Wines and Liquors. Fine
Cigars. etc.
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Newspaper Row-Interesting Retrospect
-New Revelations Of Rascality-Gen.
Grant Contradfcfs a Sensational Ru,nor
-TerribIe Acknowledgements Of Dick
Short-Other Criminal Items-Rapid
Transit and a Church Squabble In Brook
lyn.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23
BLACKsMITus 4 wHEELwnIGHrs

II p. SCHUYLER. Blacksmith, Wheelwr;ght
Horse-Shoer, Carriage Wagon and Cart
maker and repairet,; Railroad Avenue, between
Mississippi and Iberville streets.
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It. III. DONLON.
House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTER,
spONALDSONyllIE.I IA.

DAINTlNG in all its branches and in the
Il most perfect style. Sign painting. grainins
and ornamental work 9 speciality. Orders
stongiiie poscoffce will receive prompt atten-
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CIVIL ENGiNEKIs AND SURVEYORS.

M w. DARTON. Civil Engineer and Sur
~ veyor-parish Surveyor of Ascension
Will attend promptly to work in all branches
of his profession, such as surveying, mapping,
leveling for canals bridges rice fumes, estima-
ting cost and supervising construction Of same
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TINSMITH.

pAUL wUTKE, Tinsmith, Port Barrow, La.
Roofing. guttefing, stovepiping, repairing
and all work pertaining to the timers trade.
Address I. o. Box IL, DtnafdAonville In.
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HOUSE AND SIGN pA1NrfSa.-.

INGRY. THE PAINTER shop at Cheap
~ Tony.s Store, corner Mississippi street and
Painting in all their branches. Bcst work at
lowest prrces.
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w. Groceries. % Provisions, % Plantation @ lan"1 and
Steamboat Supplies, Canned Goods. Wines,
Liquors, Bottled Beer, Ale, etc., Dry Goods
and Notions, corner Of Mississippi and Cheti-
machee streets, opposite River Ferry.
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Il mo. 2mos 10 mos. g mos 1 year
SPACE.

Transient advertlsements 81 per squire hrst
insertion; each subsequent insertion, IS cents
per square.
Official or legal advertisements, 81 per sqsare
first insertion; each subsequent insertion, ~
cents per square.
Editorial notices, first insertion, IS cents per
line: subsequently,, 10 cents per lime:
Cards Of six lines or less in Business Direct
ory 50 per annum.
Brief COMMUNICATIONS upon subjects of public
interest solicited.
No attention paid to synonymous letters.
The editor is not responsible for the views of
correspondents.
Address: THE CHIEF. Donaldsonville. La.
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TOH. GONDRAN & SONS dealers in Dry
Wine Liquors. Boots, Shoes Hardware, Paints,
. lis eaddlery, Crockery, Furniture and all
kinds Of House Furnishing Goods. Blue Store,
Mississippi street.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-05-23

RERNARD LEMANN d BROTHER dealers
- in Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
ceries. Liquors. Hardware, From. Paints, Oils,
Carts. Plows. Saddlery. Stoves and Tin~are
Furniture. Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods. Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place.
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pONALDs0NvjLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
DIZZY GOODS. GROCERIES, Etc.

M ISRAEL & Co, dealers in Dry Goods,
1;aa cothns RoGts Shoes .na fde5 B1s
~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hou-
" mas street, dealer in Dry Goods, Notions,
3 cots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions, Corn,
Oats and Bran.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-24
RIEL'S REBELLION.
The Situation Growing More Serious Troops
En- Route to the Scene Of Trouble.

WINNIpEG, March 2a-Artillery, mounted
police and volunteers are being hurried forward
to Prince Albert and Carlton, to suppress the
Saskatchewan lf-breeds and Indian uprising.
The situation there is still critical, and serious
trouble is imminent News from the scene of
the disturbance is meagre to-day.
The telegraph wire near the scene OF the re-
beilion is still cut and no dispatches can
be received from any point in that
vicinity. Colonel Irvine, with force Of
mounted police from Regina, should reach the
crossing Of the South Saskatchewan tonight.
The rebels are understood to be at that point to
prevent Irvines force from crossing the river and
joining the force stationed at Fort Carleton.
The half breeds number 500, and are armed with
Remington and Winchester rifles. They are
trying to stir up q general rising among the
Indians all over the Saskatchewan district.
The Ninetieth Battalion of the Winnipeg Rifles
has been ordered to be ready to start
for the scene of trouble, and will probably
leave on Wednesday morning 1t is admitted
that the location for Riel could not
be better to accomplish his object.
Big Bear Is near the spot, and the
French half breeds are also in close
proximity, and the place, in every way if Riel
could get hold of it, would be an advantageous
oneto him. The mounted police department is
in close communication with the officials at
Prince Albert, and full details are expected to-
morrow The rumor that Fort Carleton had
been captured by Riel is denied.
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FAMINE AND PESTILENCE.
distressed Condition of the People in the
West Virginia Mountain Region.

CHARLESTON w. Va. March 23.-Reports of
great suffering in several of the back counties
among the people and stock, for want of food,
continue to reach here. but not until to-day
were the reports confirmed man who has
travelled through Braxton, Gilmer and Calhoun
counties says few days travel in the counties
named has proven the destitution and suffering
indescribable In many localities the people
are on the verge of death from starvation. Stock
is no better off, People and animals are dying
Tor want OF food. The suffering is great in Roane
and Jackson counties In some sections of the
stricken district people are subsisting on
beans and Cruel made from wheat ground
in coffee mills. Great suffering exists in parts
isoh Nd from the railroads, where supplies cannot
be gs.sen Supply stores are few in number
and those that are kept have scarcely erough on
land for the use of the proprietors' families
The low state of the wells and springs during
the drought last summer and fall sowed the seeds
of disease. Many people who are sick have
difficulty in getting medicine, and all through
that section the suffering is beyond the compre
hension of those who have not travelled through
the mountainous regions The wheat crop is
short, and the farmers in the stricken section
are unable to procure seed corn.
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An Extraordinary Surgical Operation.

NEWPORT, March pa most extraordinary
and skillful surgical operation performed upon
a three-year-old son of Captain Dodge, of the
Block island light house, has terminated sue
cessfully. Twenty five days ago the child.
thinking it had a piece Of candy, attempted to
swallow wan, an iron !ackstone with six prongs, five
imperfect casting.
The doctors of Block island could do nothing,
and the child was taken to Providence and OPP
Grated upon by Drs. Gardner Mitchell, E. F.
Walker and c. FL. Gardner, of that city
For three weeks and more the blackstone was
in the childs throat. The doctors decided to
force it into the chlds stomach but were fear
full that in doing this the windpipe might become
closed. They therefore resorted to tracheotomy.
The incision was made and tube introduced to
the windpipe through which the child breathed,
and then the blackstone was pushed into the
stomach, and after two more days of suffering it
passed away to-day. This is considered one of
the most extraordinary operations ever success
fully performed. The indications are that the
child will live.
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THE RUsso-AreHAN BOUNDARY.

Fears Of War Revived by the British War
Preparations in India.
LONDON, March 23-Alarm over the prospect
Of war with Russia has been renewed on the
Stock Exchange, owing to the reported prepara-
tions in India to send troops to Herat Russian
stocks dropped II, but at Berlin there are still
buyers. Some English houses also buy, believ-
ing the display in India is only bluster designed
to concliate the war section of the Liberal party
The Under Foreign Secretary in the Commons
tonight said the Anglo-Russian agreement in
regard to the Russo-Afghan frontier was not re-
corded in the formal document
: Mr.. Wolf asked: ''Does the question Of peace
war depend upon the verbal assurance of Rus
sia?"
To this the Under Foreign Secretary did not
reply, whereupon the Conservatives cheered
ironically.
Granville, in the Lords, said it was desirable
that the government, while firmly adhering to
the policy which England's obligations required,
should not omit any chance of arriving at a
friendly agreement with Russia.
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Coats of Mail Worn by Arabs.

Coats OF Mail Worn by Arabs.
London Athen@um.
Coats of mail are still in use among some OF
the Soudanese Arab tribes. Whether original
or copy, says Colonel Colbourne, in speaking
of one of these coats of armor, it was undoubt-
edly the dress of the Crusaders The hauberk
of mail was fastened round the body by the
baltan, and formed a complete covering from
head to foot The long twohanded doubled
edged sword was borne between the leg and the
saddle The wearer of this medieval garb was
Sheik Mohammed Sebekh of the Halawin tribe
of Bagarra Arabs. His armor had been in his
family 80 years. The horses head was en-
cased in steel, and its body covered with quilt
thick enough to turn spear. 1t was shaped
like the armor one reads of in Froissart
1t has been asserted, in connection with this
curious subject that the practice survives in the
Soudan alone It may, therefore, be we'll to
state that it is also found among the Khevsur
people of the central Caucasus, who still habit
ually wear chain armor, shields and helmets,
like medieval knights. In fact, it was formerly
general among all the Caucasian tribes, and the
Chechenzes of Daghestan still wore coats OF
mail down to the beginning of the present cen
tury.
The. armor does not appear to have been
forged by these people themselves, but was
handed down. as among the Soudanese Arabs
AS an heirloom from generation to generation in
the families of the chiefs. Hence the inference
that this armor dates everywhere from the
times of the Crusades, of which it may be re-
garded as remarkable reminisceLce.