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3onaillo oithic bier. 11111l c· il ('rea"ý ut 1'1 ! ý·~· ubscription Price, Two Ddllai a Year, New Orleansl & Texas. Ruilrokzd. lI)ME T \BE. 'Tic steaue St "4 a i' Ix i '1 iii lI ii ~u Mail trainIxie't'i We-ite . '~i~,,laiiy (Sultub x)n l~ ui) l at 1:: . '. M..t arr)t .: i ati $týt1.1V (111111 I~'~:-týatr lea's 5NW (trlciais as atii ' Vt iat A. ....... xx.. xil i lxxx "(' Vx',"txc'cx 9. p riV'. at lOt al-1 il tI'N. K tr I )a e h~ad xxx~iii at 1:30'3 . )a., irrixpa at Nc'xV 4 ' leanS at 'A.) C. *. PAYNE. Geui Agt. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., Saturday, November 17, 1877 LOCAL JOTTINGS. IL)an Rice-old, original, inimita nb!e Dan--is coming w i!ih his big show. A white shirt, with linen bosom, for fifty cents: Did you ever hear of such a thing ? Mrs. M. Israel & Co. offer such bargains. No attorneys were in attendance at the resumed probate session of the Parish Court last Monday, and thei Judge ordered adjournment to court in Course. Those whodesire to compete for the waik of cleaning streets, repairing bridges and the bayou Ilevee, must harid in their bids at the Mayor's of nee by Tuesday next. Coroner Sullivan yesterday held an quest on the body of an uiknon n .an found floating in the iiver oppio site lurniside's Clark place, about four miles below Donaldsonville. Mr. Desire Lelllanc. a leading member of thie Assumption bar and a native of that parish, died at his home in Napoleouville, yesterday afternoon, at the age of 59 years and 7 months. The coal supply at New Orleans is becoming limited; in consequence of which all the laden flats which have been stationed at Willow Grove point, a short distance above town, were this week towed to tihe city. Services will be heml in the Episco pal Church of the Ascension as fol lows: Morning player, with sermon, every Sunday at 11 A. .M.; Sunday school at 10 A. MI.; celebration of the Holy Eucharist once every month. We shall begin in next issue the publication of a series of articles from the pen of Rev. Dr. Suplhar, treating of the ever important subject of edu cation. Press of other matter pre vents us from giving thie Doctor's first chapter this week. Colored parents who wish to give their sons aid daughters educational advantages superior to those afm tnded by our local public schools, are re ferred to the Excelsior Academy, No. 13 Derbigny street, New Orleans, as a first-class institution. T'he villain who perpetrated the cowardly murder opposite the Nolan place, on Bayou lafourche, last week, is still undiscovered. If he evades the authorities the gallows will be cheated of a victim who richly de serves to have his neck stretched. Mr. J. Gabrion, recently employed by Mrs. M. Keutzel, in Donaldson ville, but now in the store of Mr. Gabriel Kling, Assumption parish. made a flying visit to town yesterday and dropped in to give us a frie:ndly shake of the hand. He is looking very well. Capt. Joe Dalferes' flew boat, the St. Mary, is the pioneer in the BaN oi Lafourche trade this season. She en tered the bayou Wednesday morning and came out yesterday noon, after a saccessful trip. TheJ Assumption is pow making her first trip, haviing started down the Lafourche last even ing. A bird with four legs and two bodies is an ornithological curiosity recently seen in Morehouse parish by the edi tor ot the Bastrop Clarion. This re minds us that among a drove of mules quarteied at the Schonberg stables, i.i this town, a few weeks since, was one animal with two pairs of eats, the extra and smaller pair protruding from the head under and at the base of the or0 hodox organs. While the out ward formation of this fungus growth was perfect, there was, however, ani absence of the inner mechanism which supplies the faiculty of hearing. One of the jowls of this same mull; is ornamented with a hairy excrescence, looking as if it might make stjll an other ear in course of time, but which Is, as yet, in a very imperfect state of dlevelopment. 5,,) (11) best heart shingles for sale by Jos. (onidran, Dunaldsouville, at pr ices to suit the times. Thli large dredgeboat wlhich has been emiployed in recovering coal 4roam the sunken flats at Willow Grove point. suspended operatious and re Iuried to New Orleans this week, af ter bringing up a little over half the cago of the flats. A smaller ma chine is now at work, manipulated by i;:ud power, and a considerable pro ip) tioii of the coal remaining sub merged will be recovered through its initirumentality. We are glad to see that Capt. Joe D)alferes. a prince of steamiboatmen and jolly good fellows, has purchlased that first-class, swift, light draught packet, the St. Mary, and will run her p.rman'ently in the Bayou Lafo.urche and New Orleans trade. The St. Mary is one of the best sternwheel boats on the river, and is most adinir albly adapted for the trade in which she has just been placed. Success to her and Captain Joe! We had the pleasure this week of making the acquaintance of Rev. Ed ward Lewis, who has located in Don aldsonville as rector of the Episcopal Church here. Mr. Lewis is a young man of evident culture, force and en ergy, and we have no doubt that un der his administration the member ship of the Episcopal congregation will increase and all its interests iprosper. The new minister and his family have occupied the ueat little parsonage recently built on the site of the old Johnson Institute. Yesterday's train met with an acci dent .just after leaving I)onaldsonville on the return trip to New Orleans. A depression in the track near the turn-table caused a passenger coach to run off, delaying the train four hours. The depression resulted from the rotteuness of several cross-ties, which have been replaced with sound ones since tile accident. A force of men under the direction of Mr. James Stewart is engaged in repairing the road, and we are assured that in a short time the entire line will be in good order. It pleased us to receive several calls from lion. Levi Spiller of Port Vincent, this week, and to add his name to the growing list of the UCIi:F'S subscribers. Mr. Spiller's vis it was connected with some moveable lproperty now located in Donaldson ville, the ownership of which is likely to lead to legal complications unless an amicable adjustment is effected by the rival claimants. Mr. Spiller reports the aspect of affairs in the Port Vincent region very gloomy, owing to the slim cotton crop and the wholesale seizure by government agents of timber cut from the Hlou was lands. The death of Mr. Valery F. Duffel, which occurred at the residence of Dr. Jnlo. E. I)uffel, Tuesday afternoon, has saddened the hearts of a very nu merous circle of relatives and friends. Thiis estimable young man, untitimely cut off in the flower of early manhood, was universally admired and beloved by those who knew him, possessing a disposition and qualities of mind which made him friends at every turn. He contracted the illness which re sulted in his death by attending the ball given for the benefit of the Jew ish congregation the stormy night of the 17th ult. A slight cold developed to typhoid pneumonia, and although the best care and treatmoent were given the patient, the insidious dis ease could not be arrested in its fatal course. The funeral took place Wed nesday afternoon, and the large at tendauce attested the general sorrow caused by the demise of the lamented deceased. After about five years of almost continuous epmploymeut in the CHIEF office, Master Win. F. Stockmeyer last week left us to assumle the posi tion of collector on the ferry boat Little Minnie, where lihe represents the interests of his stepfather, MIr. Itaphael Mousse, one of the owners of the boat and of the river ferry lease. Willie is a young man of good calacity, and will make his own way in the world by dint of intelligence, industry and steady habits. lie en tered the CiIEF office without any previous knowledge of typograltphy, and leaves it as good a printer as the scope of the trade pursued in a coun try otffice will allow-. He has been a faithful assistant to us, and dmin;g his long termr of service not a day's dis satisfaction has been felt on our side, nor, we. believe, upon his. We regret to part with Willie, but hope the change of occupation will inire to his advantage and that prosperity will attend his future. The Tax Collector has not yet turned into tile parish treasury lis collections of parish taxes and licenses dlring the month of October. Iohl ers of claims several months over due are very impatient because of the de lay. We understand that the Col lector is busily preparing his ac counts for a ,ettlemeut, which will probably be made on Monday. Families should try Gondran's Non pareil Flour. A fair trial will insure satisfaction. DELINQUENT TAXES.--The list of property holders delinquent for the taxes of this year has been prepared by the Tax Collector, and is now on file in the Recorder's office, a printed copy being exposed at, the door of the Court-Hlouse. The list contains about one thousand names, and we learn that the estimated amount of unpaid taxes, State and parish combined, aggregates about $10,000. Assuming this estimate to be nearly correct, the approximative amount of unlpaid State taxes is $6000 and of parish taxes $41000. The unnsual number of delinquents and the large proportion of taxes uncollected confirm our re peated statements of the defects of the revenue law passed without due consideration amid the hurry and bus tle of the closing days of the last ses sion of our General Assembly. The amount of current taxes unpaid at thtis time is nearly double that of any previous year since 1572, and the fact is attributable in great measure to the abolition of the practice of serving each property holder with a statement of the amount of his or her taxes, accompanied with a demand for payment within a specified delay. It may be said that the former law was oppressive to the tax payer, in asmuch as it provided for seizure of property any time after the expira tion of ten days written and twenty days printed notice; but the Tax Col lector was vested with a large discre tion, and peremptory proceedings to enforce payment were seldom insti tuted before crops were gathered and sent to market. Under the present law a Collector can not seize for taxes until November, but the simple filing and publication of his delinquent lists operates a seiznre of all the prop erty upon which the taxes enumera ted in said list are due, and on the first Monday of December the Col lector is required to begin the peremp tory sale of such property, without benefit of appraisement, and to con tinue the sale until the end of his list is reached. This is far more arbitrary and oppressive than the system here tofore pursued. We believe, however, that the rig orous provisions of the existing law relative to the seizure and sale of property for taxes may be avoided by the delinquents of this parish if they. or any number of them, choose to re sort to the process of enjoining the Collector, upon the ground that the letter and spirit of the law have not been fulfilled by that officer. Section 53 of act No. 96 of the ex tra session of 1877 says that the Tax Collector shall file his delinquent list in the Recorder's office on the first Monday of 'November, and on the fol lowing Monday shall post a copy thereof on the Court-House door. The list was not filed with the Recorder until about a week after the pre scribed date, nor was it posted at the Court-House in accordance with the law. One portion was tacked on the door for a little while and then re moved, after which the remainder was served in the same manner, but no complere list appeared there until Thursday morning. We advise no one to resist the pay ment of taxes-on the contrary, we hold it to be the duty of all property Sholders to dischargo their indebted ness to State and parish, and those who have not already done so should do it at the earliest moment. But we know that many with the disposition to pay have not the means at this time, or have been waiting for the in dividual notifications to which they have been accustomed in past years, and we regard it justifiable in these to secure delay by such lawful meth odis as aie affo,rded them. Besides, the revenue law will very prolably e nmodilied at the next session of the General Assembly and a system of in ocedure on tte part of Tax Col lectors presciib)ed which will be less irk,-ome to the prope ty holder. ADVERTISEMENTS, City Hotel, Cor. liailhroad Avenule 1and lervill Street Donaldsonville, La. P. LEFE VRE, - - - Proprietor. The bar is always supplied with the best hWin-.s ad Liu'or-. jj30-ly Dan Rice's Great Show 2 -WILL POSITIVELY EXHIBIT AT DONALI)SONVILLE, November 19, 1877, DAY AND NIGIIT. REMEMBER TIlIS IS AN ENTIRELY NEW SHOW, acknowledged lby the Press anil Pro fession to be the grandest and most complete Show in talent and merit, ever projected. I travel by my own steamboat, the beautiful Damsel and SYWanderer. 25 Male and Female Artists, The Finest Voltigeurs, Leapers and Acrobats, TO;ETrIER WITHI TIHE GREATEST COLLECTION OF t Trained Horses, Buffaloes, DOGS AND GOATS. I am now enabled to exhibit to the public THE GREATEST SHOW EVER KNOWN! It is all Merit, a ndI Challenge BARNUM or any other Showman, for $50,000, to produce any horse in their possession to perform any of the acts which my Trained Horses can do. I have now catered to the tastes of an ever appreciative public for nearly HALF A CENTURY, and can conscientiously assure my many friends that I have a better Show to-day, in point of Real Merit and Originality, than was ever seen before. It is only nec essary to attend my Grand Show to see that I have reached the OLIMAX OF ARENIO PERFECTION, AND CAN PRODUCE TIlE Most Complete Company of Celebra ted Artists and Best Collec tion of Trained Animals ever formed in this or any other country. -- Price of Admission as Usual. Children Under 10 - - - - alf Price. Performances at 1:30 and 7:30 P. LM. DAN RICE. i| m m| r l . Excelsior Academy, 13-.......Derbigny Street.......13 NEW ORLEANS, A superior school for training and scholar ship for Colored Youth. Apply to or address T. Di: S. TUCKER. Principal and Prop'r. 104 Gasquet St., or at the Academy. nov-I 0-tf. Proposals for Public Work In the Town of Donaldsonville. S EALED PROPOSALS will be received at the office of the Mayor of l)onaldsonville until Tuesday, November 20, for the follow ing works: 1. Repairing and cleaning the streets and bridges of the town. 2. Repairing of Lafourche street levee. Specifications of the above works to be seen at the Mayor's office. The board re serves to itseff the right to reject any or all bids. Dr. B. CLAVERIE, S. RICARI), Me:umbers of coummittee on public works. "The Place." Lager Beer, Billiards, Choice Wines and Liquors, FINE CIGARS, ETC. Mississippi Street, corner of Lessard 1) ONA LDSON VILLE. GUSTAVE ISRAEL, apr3-l1y Manager. For Sale. i11 lE NEAT RESIDENCE, containing three rooms, with kitchen attached, situated on Railroad Avenue, next lot but one to the cornler of Cl.aiorne street. Rooms papered and property in excellent state of repair. The ground is a: parish lot, lease eight ear:s to rn;: at C1 per year. WVllt Ie sold on rc..onuble terms on ac court of ilep.rti::re. Apply tJ or address the undersigned, at I)onaldsoUville, La. otitf R. J. GREEN. F. Romain, -W'ITIH Russell & Hall, WHOLESALE GROCERS COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Iiberal Advanoes mlade oil (Colu;ignmlllets of Cotton, Sugar, Molas.ses, Riie,., Tobacco and other Country Produce, 15 Tchoupitoulas Street. 15 NEW ORLEANS. SDonaldsonville Colle College, Established 1872. Rev, Dr. Sophar, Principal. Cor. aiilroad A. rcr ue aid ttal l/ujpos Street All tlhe branches of a finished edueation. -in both 11od1r.1. Wlill l1 ancienlt language s :ire ta;ught an -.edliu_ to the most liberal and .,lied .tlods. Thi futilities. character and ,tLnding of this institute are s itntly tilknowii, anli tli platrol.te of its .afriim( tds T'here are day and evaning sessions. For terms of tuition o01 boaIrd apply as Conti Verandah Hotel, CONTI STREET........NEW ORLEANS. Thoroughly Renovated. Re-opened on Wednesday, Sep)tember 5, 1877, for the accommodation of guests, both permanent and trausient. The undersigned hopes for a continuance of the patronage so liberally bestowed in former years, as no pains will be spared to merit the approval of patrons. TE'I'uM REASONABLE. se22-ly CHAS. GECKS, Proprietor. Regular New Orleans and Bayou Sara Passenger Packet. THE FINE SIDE-WHEEL STEAMER 0UACHITA BELLE, J. C. LIBANO, J. H. MOSSOP, Master. Clerk. Leaves New Orleans Every Wednesday and Saturday, at 5p. m. For Bayou Sara and Coast Landings. RETURNLNG DOWN i Monday's Trip Leaves Bayou Sara........ 10 A. M. SPort Iludson......... 1 P. M. " Baton Rouge...........5 " Plaq uemine............7 " D" onaldsonville......10 Thursday Evenings Leaves Bayou Sara............6 P. M. " Port Iludson.......... 9 Friday Mornings Leaves Baton Rouge ..........7 A. M. ' Platquemine ............9 " L)onaldsounille........ 12 A. B. LEVISEE, .lttorney at Law. Office. 604 F Street N. W., Washington, D. C. Will practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and in the Court of Claims. And will attend to such business as may be entrusted to him in the PATENT OF FICE, LAND OFFICE. and in the other I)epartments of the Government. Special attention given to the prosecution of claims for BOUNTY. PENSION, AIIEARSI OF PAY. nd colttan or other Property Destroyed by tihe Federal authorities during the war. W. W. BUF(ORDI). Agent, oGtf Donallsonville, la. Notice to Planters. P LANTERS requiring o 'ood can pro cure 00 Cords by applying to the undersigned at )onald soville. La. ntf R. M. FUCICII. DK. J. DELGADO, lrolpriet.or of the Great Medical Wonder, a: cure for Salt IRhuen. Ulcerated Sore Leg.s, Erysip elis lan 1)ropsy, lBiliousness. Sick liHad ache. (Colic, (Cholria Morhlis. C'ruin!ps.. Acting directly ,.n the liver and kidneys, henlice is a sure cure for ) lspepli.m, Back ache. Side-ache. Scrofula a.id Worms. A cure guiiaranted fir TA PE-WO RMS. Every diescription of Piles and all private dis;eases treated. Office on Mississippi Street, Adjoining Rosens Restaurant, ngl J I,,OLI- fO.VO VI L. . ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRACRDINARY! BEING N'.\ .'LE to tir.l n iulrchlierifor our establishl nt, the tItu of MRS. M3. ISRAEL & 0CO., Will contiulee n forcei. I nler the circum stances, and on iaccoillt of Removal to Our New Store, -now being built at the Corner of Mississippi st. & R. R. Avenue WeV offer to our friendc ant patrous, and to thet public in genlral, the G REATEST I BARGAINS FOR CASH, We will ,ell our ENTIRE REMAINING STOCK, COMIPRISINO Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, SA. D D L ER Y. WEARING APPAREL, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, ETC., ETC., RIEGARDLESS Of COST !! I In order to enable us to take possession of our new Store without the trouble of toov ing. GIVE US A CALL, COMPARE OUR PRICES, and be your own judges. We offer New iBuggies, from $50 00, $60 00 and UPWARDS. MRS. M. ISRAEL & CO. Wood ! Wood! Wood! THE undersigned have on hand for sale at lowest narket rates 500 Cords of choice drift wood, at Smoke Bend, one md ile above Donaldsonville. S- OWEN WHITE & CO. LMPROVEMENT IN Bottled Lager Beer. At a heavy expense I have just put up the necessary apparatus tfr treating LAGER BEER as is practised in St. Louis and Cin cinnati, by which means the Beer retains its Brilliancy in any climate and for any length of time. I-will continue to sell this beer at the saume price as hereto'ore, guaranteeing it to equal any Betr in the market. The usual discount to the trade. The usual stock of Philadelphia Ale and Porter, Northern CII)ER anud Winkeclhceycr's HT. LOUIS LAGERI BEER, fee Cold, for draft as well as in bottles, con stantly on hand. Also, Ginger Ale and Miu eral Waters, put up in any required quan tity. Send orders to P. O. lBox 1475, or to store Nos. 26, 28 and 30 tlenville street, XN W ORL~INS. I'T Write 'or price list. aug25-31u L. C. ARNY. OAL I COAL I CCOl' AI. I-* Just received--2OOO IlarrelM FIRST POOL COAL, for family use. Now is the time to lay in your supply for the winter, while it's cheap. Sold at New tOr'leans prices, itn lots to suit, at John F. Park's New Coal Yard, Opposite the River Ferry Landing, jy7 DONALDISO)NVILL E. JOSEPH ICARD, Carriage & Wagon Maker, MACHI NIST' AN!) BRASS FOUNTDER, RiEMOVED TO j8 RI.\ILROAI) AVENIUE, I)ON. LI)SON VILLJE. unu*21 G. HI. GRIFFIN, Attorney and Solicitor of Clainms, - OFFICE: Ponlte Coupec Parish, near P. O. lO .......Gasquet Street,.......108 S New Orleans, Ia. Chlicns againust the 1' nitecl States (Iovern - non fn - Bounty. Al0; ,ontl ojutnty, Ar . n ;r of PaI -, l'ci--,1ai. l'rit, M\n.ey, ccr for lodet.rt dle-troydV durini tice late v.'r, col I, leited with g i:t, t t plcn.Ir ciibldicptclh. S ('ot pni; 'iit eti;cinedt for >t.i-. a d Pro P dliae, tikke In-:il id tildihngs itesl or destroyed by the Fk eder;l Arnyc" during the war. te Government Land for Homesteads. lIv Acts of (ongress nodlt o' f.IAlisona. ever'y i]sr.o the it-al ,t' :t fainiVly. is enti tled t Io 16 .1Icre! of ILaud. ot which the-re- alre tilliot of :Ceres in I,'J i sian}.