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And after midnight cometh morn.
DUKE DE moRNY's WILD DAUGHTER.
Spoiled and Petted Beyond Measure.
SteeDlechase After Pleasure

Spoiled and Petted Beyond Measure-A
Steeplechase After Pleasure.
Sophie Mathide Adele, Marquis de Bel
beuf, Is not quite twenty-three years of age.
Those who expect to find in this grand
daughter Of queen and daughter of q
princess any OF the naughty grace, the Sc
we're retieence, the strict attention to the
rules OF hign-breeding and etiquette that
one naturally associates with ones ideas of
royal or imperial blood, have only to look
at her portrait, as published by Dentu, to
find themselves undeceived. A small head,
covered with short chestnut curls like those
Of boy, irregular and saucy features, an
arm planted akimbo on one hip, soft felt
hat in the other hand, a goose-head UNI
breila leaning against chair as accessory
to the picture, all go to make up type
very different from the imagined reality.
The bar-sinister On her escutchson, traced
there by her paternal grandmother, seems
to have exercised baleful influence over
her life
She has been spoiled and petted beyond
measure by her mother, whose darling she
has always Eeen. She Was mere infant
when her father died, and her pet name of
"Bebe" seems to have chung to her, half ex-
cusing the eccsntrieities of her existence
She is said by her intimate friends to have
the best heart and the widest head in the
world. Her life is a steeplecbase in pursuit
Of pleasure. She cares little or nothing for
the more formal amusements Of society,
finding local balls and operas and evening
receptions anything but amusing. Her
dogs, her horses, her drives in the Bois are
varied by her artistic labors, for she is de-
voted to painting
She is an accomplished billiard player
and "crack shot" with the pistol, grace
ful fencer and an excellent musician, her
favorite instrument being the violin, though
the piano, harp and guitar are not neglected
by her. But OF all her occupations she likes
best to drive herself in the Bois with her
little low English wagon filed with her
favorite poodles, of which she possesses
great number. Her latest freak was to
import from Spain noted dog g-shearer to
keep the coats of her canine darlings in good
order-Paris Letter.
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IOuld1tC0 VI II =
Entailed Hat" The Ph@bus family had lived
in Maryland over century, yet Harrison
had curiously foreign face. The name it,
told me that the family was of Greek origin.
Nearly three years ago I was despairing
health seeker at the Hygeia hotel, on the
Phebus, the picture Of robust health, did all
my friends comfortable and agreeable. 1t
seems strange now that he should be dead,
and should be writing about it.
He took more pride in that huge HYgeia
hotel by the blue water than Secretary Chase
probably did in the United States greenback.
It was his life work For it he refused nomi-
nations to congress and many other official
places D His family was poor and lowly,
and Harrison Phoebus had only his two
hands, his brains and his marvellous energy.
He enlisted as private in the northern
army, and served during the war. At its
close he started out to make his Life. He
was very successful, owing to his indonit-
able pluck and will He was lumberman
and express agent, and finally hotel keeper
He had no money in 1874, when he bought
the Hygeia, but his employer in the express
agency, Samuel Shoemaker, ESQ, of Balti-
more, backed him in the enterprise The
earnings of the business soon repaid the loan,
but Phnbus never forgot the kindness. He
was accustomed to speak Of Mr.. Shoemaker
as sthe whitest man the Lord ever made"
Mr.. Phoebus was unlettered in the lore of
books, but he had some unusual tastes for an
uneducated man One Of these was love Of
poetry and verse. He committed anything
that pleased his fancy readily to memory,
and could repeat rhymes, as wen Us prose, for
an hour together. He was particularly fond
of the effusions of "Uncle Remus'
Down here about Fortress Monroe, where
the sea air blows soft and the fig trees and
crinkly crepe myrtles live out doors tic year
around, Harrison Phebus, peace to his .oul,
will be missed more than any other man
JANET ELMER
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higher S tanding
than himself. He
was a striking look
ing man, over six
feet in height, and
large and strong in
proportion. n g
ought to have lived
eighty years. He
was the foundation
for one Of the char
acte1s in George
Alfred Townsend's
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II you would like to know what she did to
make her worth 9,0o0, here it is in horse
talk:
Dew Drop ran in all ten races last year,
leading OF by winning fve-furlong sweep
stakes, at Sheepshead Bay, in June. She was
in turn unpfaced for the Surf and Seabright
stakes, second to Charity Tor the Flatbush,
won the Great Eastern handicap, at three
quarters Of mile, from 8 field Of twenty
one runners, carrying 110 pounds, in 1:1Ss44 !;
was unplaced, with III pounds, to Walter
H. for the Adieu stakes, at the same distance,
after which she in turn won the Nursery and
Champagne stakes. both at e-quarters Of
a mile, at Jerome Park, the former with 1l2
pounds, in 1854, und the latter with 122
pounds in the same time. At Baltimore,
Dew Drop in turn took the Central and
Ecliptic stakes, axes both e mile running the
Is that satisfactory Dew Drop is, as you
see, of no earthly real use to anybody.
THE MORGAN ART COLLECTION
Charles Morgan was as grouty and stingy
an old curmudgeon, it is said, as ever pinched
nickel His head was bowlder ard his
heart was a flint. He toiled carly and late
schemed and planned to overreach others,
and scrimped and lived in shabby, low
down sort Of way, till be got capital enough
to embark in large enterprises He embarked,
but still lived in the shabby, scrimpy way.
Then his wealth mounted into the millions
He made the largest part of it in the steam
ship business between New York and tho
Isthmus Of Panama during tie gold fever
days. So far as appears he had not soft
spot or kindly spot In him unless It was for
his second wife, Mary Jane, who made the
famous art collaa1ion.
The old miser's first wife died. His daugh-
ter was put to school at Flushing. n Y. One
of her lady teachers went home with her on
visit The father set eyes ON the good
natured spinster and asked her to marry him.
She did So It seems as II Mary Jane was
allowed during Morgans lifetime to spend
more Of his money than anybody else ever
had DONE He died worth SIS, ,O0G, 900 to s20,-
oo0,00O He left Mary Jane 81, ,O00, coo Of this
to do what she best pleased with. That was
seven years ago. The widow, who had never
in her girlhood had second bonnet to her
head, set about making the most gorgeous art
collection in America. She spent, as nearly
as I can get from the figures at my command,
s., 500, 600 for this purpose. And for this
great, laundering heap Of wealth there re-
mains to show chiefly the peachblow vase
(You should call it @vaz," to rhyme with
"was;" but some call it 4vaws,' to rhyme
with acaws'D
Mrs Morgan paid her money for It and
called it what she liked It is of a dull gray
ish pink color, is eight inches high and three
inches across. It is smooth, brightly glazed
piece Of pottery enough, rather pretty looking:
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never wrote any
thing worth read
ing. That is q fact.
/ have tried to do
both, to be faithful,
and I know I am
Industrious and per
severing, and love
animals and nature
and humanity; but,
now, is one going to
dissect one's self and
lay all this before
the worldw How
ever, Mrs. Car
oline A. Soule, q
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In His Free and Easy wav.

Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is getting a
reputation for bon mots; such as this: A
western visitor remarking in his free-and-
easy way, You hail from Buffalo, believe!"
she replied, Yes, we hail t; ON Buffalo, but
we reign Washington Letter.
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Tho Late Harrison Phmbus.

FORTRESS MONROE, March 16.-Harrison
Phebus was, next to the Lelands, the best
known hotel proprietor in America. A big
hearted, big-bodied, bustling man Of business,
he had yet side which attached to him
warmly persons Of far more culture and
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Town Property for Sale.

Lot and improvements in Donaldson
vile.
i street. lately occupied by DR.. J. 3. Van
degriff. The improvements consist of resid-
ence, an apartment suitable for store OF Office.
carriage house, stable, outhouses. etc. Win be
sold at bargain.
For further particulars apply to or address.
DIR. j. B. Vandegrlf, corner st. Charles and
Carrollton Avenues. New Orleans. La. or
FREDERICK DUFFEL.
Qonaldsonville. La
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Certain Streams in Northern Texas.

Attention has been called to the fact that
the streams In certain cultivated portions Of
northern Texas now run during the part Of
the year whom they were formerly dry.
This is no. attributed to any change in the
rainfall, but to more evea absorption Of
water over the. cultivated areas Exchange
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the NEW PRESIDENT OF soRos,s.
A Cultivated Woman aud . wealthy and
SucNaasful Farmer.

Successful Farmer.
Especial Correspondsncel
PHILADELPHIA, March 16-At the annual
election day in March, sorosis, the famous
ladies' club Of New York, departed from its
usual custom and changed it's president.
Jenny june Croly had been the graceful and
efficient presiding officer for ten years pre-
vious. sorosis clings to good officers when It
finds thefh.
The lady who takes Mrs Croly's place il
Mrs. n. Louise Thomas She is one whom It
is richly worth while to know about.
She is fine, dignifed-looking woman, with
dark hair and eyes. She looks about so year
Of age
When asked for sketch Of her life, Mrs.
Thomas replied:
q never did ANYTHING worth telling, and
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A AOUey NoAAAlS
but Mrs. Mary
Jane Morgan paid
$4,000 for it, cold
money. What do
you think of that4
When her collec-
ton was auctioned
off a few days'ago
Mr.. W. T. Walters,
of B a1tim ore,
bought the thing
and paid sis,m.
What do yeel thin's-
Of that still more.
It is probable now
thatpeachblow pot
terry will become
the fashion. Mrs.
Morgan's SIS, 600
vase belongs to
whst is called the
Kaag-Ee period of
Chinese pottery. It
is sbeut 200 years
old, more or less.
Other vases the
rotrl
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Key West has 13l cigar factories, each
employing from 10 to 800 hands.
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TINSMITH.
BARBER SHOPS.
ATTORNEYS AT Law.

FREDERICK DUFFEL, Attorney at law and
IL Notary Public, office on Chetimaches street
opposite the Courthouse.
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How to Mako Personal Refsrelce..

1Tosauenb rIanKlm d. 0oWa0, OF the
Reading railroad, has clerk read all thu
newspapers that come to his Office and mark
evsry reference to him, the pleasant ones
with red pencil and disasrseable ones with
blue.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-05-01

pAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and Notary
below the Courthouse on Attakapas street.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-05-01

Ch1Ora1 an Uncertain Treacherous Drug.
At recent meeting Of the Cincinnati
Academy Of Medicine the uses Of achloral"
as remedy were pretty thoroughly dis
cussed. The experience of the profession
seemed to be that "chloral was an uncertain
and treacherous remedy" Some persons are
more effected by dose of four grains than
others are by dose of twenty grains
Cases were reported where 200 grains per
day had been given, and one case reported
by DIR. Beck, of the Baden army, where 43o
grains were given in three and a half hours,
the patient sleeping for thirty hours and
recovering.
The profession also agreed that choral
can not successfully be administered hypo-
dermically. There were cases reported also
where death was caused by the administra-
tion of ten or twenty grain doses, and where
dangerous symptoms resulted from single
fve-grain Dose Such remedy can not be
regarded less than dangerous in any except
the most skdllful hands.-Inter Ocean
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MILLINERY.
BLACKsMITHs& wHEELwRIGHTs.

BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE.
NVHE CHIEF Office, Crescent Place, opposite
Il the Market-House. is supplied with a fne
assortment of type and turns out all kinds of
Orleans prices. No better and cheaper work is
done anywhere in the State.
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poNALDsONv,LLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DRY GOODS. GROCERIES. Etc.

~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hou-
~. mas street, dealer in Dry Goods. Not1ons'
Boots and Shoes, Groceries. Provisions. Corn
Oats and Bran.
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LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS.
NEwsDEALER AND srATIoNER.

g 8. INGMAN successor to w. G. Wilkinson.
0s corner Mississippi and Lessard streets, di-
agonally opposite the post-otfice. News and il
lustrated papers. Books, Stationery, Pens, Ink
Base Ball Supplies, Toys, Smoking Material
and Fancy Articles in great variety.
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An Unpieturesque Highway Robber.

An UnPicturesque Highway Robber.
As for dakoits, they are exactly like the
Shans, for, while the former are miscella-
neous set Of Claude Duvals at large, the repre-
sentative of the latter claims nationality
and certain method in his fighting, or rather
his reasons for fighting. The dakoit is
highway robber wherever discovered, and
nothing more He may be thug in
Rajpootanee, o wildly aggressive thakore
u Palitana, or totally unconventional
thief Of Camateepoora, but he is dakoit all
the same In Burmah the dakoi5 does as
his brother in India does He sallies out,
generally with companion or two, and
waylays the mails or the palkee carriage on
the jungle roads
He has no picturesqueness about his pro-
fession- He says: Stand and deliver"
and if he gets the worst of the order he
takes it like man, turns up in his py janis
to the moonlight, and bids farewell to ex-
istence full OF more profanity than grace
Of virtue The writer was once stopped by
a band Of dakoits near Aurangabad, in the
Nizam of Hyderabad's country. "Toomara
paisa hum ke do, elk duml" cried the
leader. "Hamara paisa, hum ke da do"
replied, and shot the gentleman, who, with
the most polite Hindostanes possible, fell on
his back, and said: "The sahib is right; let
him pass The dakoit had not only realized
the argument Of force, but Of the inevita-
BILE, for there were three officers following
in the tonga Immediately after mins.-For-
eign Letter.
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w D. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fancy
Steamboat Supplies, Canned Goods. Wines,
Liquors. Bottled Beer, Ale. etc, Dry Goods
and Notions, corner of Mississippi and Cheti-
maches streets, opposite River Ferry.
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Transient advertisements, 81 per square nrst
insertion; each subsequent insertion, 70 cents
OfRcial or legal advertisements, 81 per square
strst insertion; each subsequent insertion. 30
Ed Editorial i notices, hrst insertion, Is cents per
line; subsequently. 10 cents per line.
Cards Of six lines or less in Business Direct
0ry. IS per annum.
Brief communications upon subjects Of public
interest solicited.
No attention paid to anonymous Letters.
The editor is not responsible tor the views OF
correspondents.
Address: Tn CHIEF, Donaldsonville. La.
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DERNARD LEMANN & BROTHER, dealers
ID in Western Produce, fancy and staple Gro
ceriss. Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, OILS
Furniture, Crockery. Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Missi sippi street. corner
Crescent Place.
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WATTERSON'S WORK.
THE BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER As
A NEWSPAPER MAN.

A Penniless Ex-ConSsdera4s Soldier In
Cincinnati-His First Position ON .
Nswspaper-Col. starbuck's Rsply-A
Beeinninx 1t o12 Week.
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rHEAP JOHNS BARGAIN HOU Sc. Dry
~ Goods, Boots and Shoes. Hats and Caps.
Hardware, Paints, Oils, Glassware, Tinware,
Groceries and General Merchandise. Railroad
Avenue, near the depot.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-29
They Want a Walk.

There is no little dissatisfaction ex-
pressed by those who have occasion
to visit the cemetery at the fact that
no sidewalk has been constructed to
and from the city to this pleasant
resting place of the dead. That they
should do so. is not to be wondered at
when it is remembered that the GEN.
etery is within the city limits and un-
der the city control, and that it is the
source of a considerable revenue to
the city. Further there is no part of
the city property upon which it has
lavished greater care and displayed a
desire to have made beautiful, and
its efforts have always been heartily
seconded ty the people. Under all
these circumstances it does not seem
at all unjust that the city should be
expected to lay walk along North
Engineer street from the railroad to
the cemetery.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-29
THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
Meeting of the Democratic Judi.
cial Committee Yester-
day Morning.
A Convention Called at Sweet
Springs to Meet Monday,
July 10Th.

The democratic judicial delegates
to the judicial convention of the sixth
Judicial district and johnson county
met at the court house at IL A. M. !,
Yesterday, those present being T. J.
Whitsett of johnson county, w. B.
Steele of Lafayette county, E. T.
ORear of Saline county, and John w.
Conner of Pet is county.
The meeting organized by electing
/. j. Whitsett chairman and John
w. Conner secretary.
After some discussion as to the best
mode of procedure in choosing a
candidate for criminal Judge for the
district, Mr.. O'Rear moved that the
committee order primary election to
take place July IL. The motion was
lost, Mr.. Steele alone voting in the af-
firmative.
Mr.. Wbitsett moved that conven-
tiOn be called to meet August 18th,
which motion also failed to prevail.
Mr.. Steele moved that convention
be called for July 10Th, and it was so
ordered.
A pretty warm discussion ensued as
to where the convention should meet.
Mr.. Steele moved that Higginsville
be designated as the point alter some
talk the motion was put and lost,
Messrs. Steele and O'Rear voting for
it and Messrs. Conner and Wbitsett
in the negative.
Mr.. Conner moved that the con-
vention meet in Sedalia. This was also
voted down, Messrs. Conner and Whit
sett voting in the affirmative and
Messrs. Steele and ORear in the
negative
Mr.. ORear moved to hold the con-
ventiOn at Brownsville, which motion
prevailed.
The committee then embodied its
work into the following resolution,
which was, ON motion, adopted
unanimously and the convention adj
journed.
" Resolved, that a democratic
convention be and is hereby called to
convene at Sweet Springs on the
day of July, 1886, at 2
o'clock P. NJ, for the purpose of select
ing candidate for the office of Judge
of the criminal court for the sixth
judicial circuit and johnson county
state of Missouri.
''The basis of representation shall
be one delegate for each $50 votes
cast in each county at the last general
for the democratic nominee
for president of the United States.
1T. j. WHITsETT, Ch'rman.
1" JOHN w. CONNER, Secretary"
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WEATHER REPORT.
MERE MENTION.

The Sweet Springs train, due to leave
here at $50 this morning, will not run to-
day.
No marriage licenses were issued yes
terdsy, nor has there been one for the last
two days.
The finest stock of groceries in the
city, cheap for cash, at Sturteyant &
Hicks.
--Boutell's..report of ball games throughout
the country is Just what the boys have been
wanting, and Mr.. B. deserves credit for his
iberality and enterprise.
A colored belle in crossing Ohio
street in front of the BAzoo Office during
the height of last nights food, had the
misfortune to fall full length in the water.
"A ten year old coon fell of the Moni-
teau street sidewalk into about ten feet of
watr In the vacant lot south of the rail-
scramble out without further damage than
a big scare and thorough wetting.
Several strangers are in the city
quietly manipulating for the purchase Of
real estate from those anxious to sell.
Their purpose seems to be to purchase
while property is low for speculative pur-
poses.
Miss Josie Sullivan, the lady operator
at the hospital, left yesterday for Pleasant
Hill, where she will spend Sunday with
her parents. Her sister, Miss Maggie, will
fill her position during her absence.
The trade in mich cows seems to be
on the boom. The BAZoo yesterday learned
of eight transfers of this class of stock, in
FIVE of which the calf accompanied the
dam. The average price paid was about
$S5 per head, including the calf.
The citizens of Sedalia will give a
grand Fourth of July picnic at Wool
bridges Grove, two miles north of the city,
on the Georgetown road, Monday, July
9th. Judge VIM. s. Shirk will deliver an
Grafton, and Capt. L. L. Bridges will read
the Declaration of Independence.
Capt. C. A. Pratt, the well known
and successful hotel and railroad-eating
house man, is negotiating for the lease of
the best hotel in the thriving city of Fort
Worth, Tex. The hotel is stone building
all the modern Improvements, and with
one or two exceptions, is said to be the best
in Texas.-Je6erson City Tribune.
Division Superintendent Lyons, of the
NJ, K. G. T., was in Warsaw Wednesday,
and J. ]. Frey, j. Ell. Fitzpatrick, yester-
day, and it is reported that their business
was in reference to the splendid and abuH-
dant gravel deposits in the Usage, around
Warsaw. 1t would not be surprise to rs
to learn that the narrow gauge would be
made a standard gauge before many
months Warsaw Enterprise.