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Two Dollars a Year. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Fourth Judicial District. Comprising the parishes of Ascension, St. James, St. ohn the Baptist and St. Charles. Distriot Judge,........Henry L. Duffel, District Attorney,........F. . arhart, Post-ofice address, Dovaldsonville, La. Regular terms of Court in Ascension open en the third Mondays of May and October. Eighth Senatorial District. Comprising the parishes of Ascension and St. James. State Senator,.........Richard Simmes, Convent P. 0., St. James parish, La. Parish of Ascension. Representative, .......... Pierre Landry, Parish Judge, .. ........John A. Cheevers, Parish Attorney,.........John H. Ilsley, Jr Clerk of Court,....... L. E. Bentley, lRecorder, ...............Wm. W. Butord, Secretary and Treasurer,. Francis Vicknair. Assessor ..................Felix Brand, 'x officio Supervisor of Registration. Tax Collector .......... . P. Landry, Sheriff.................Peter A. Jones, Chief Deputy Sheriff ..... David Israel, Jailor .................... Louis Lefort, Coroner, . ........... J. J. Sullivan, Jr., Jail Physician,.......... Dr. MeGialliard, )$'cial Journal...........D)on'ville CIiEF. POLICE JURY: R. T. Hanson. President; Francis Vicknair, Secretary ; First ward, ............Allen Thomas, Second ward ............. Raphael Lewis, Thirdl ward .............JosephJI Ferrier, Fourth ward,............ R. T. Hanson, Fifth ward.............. Israel Mitchell, Sixth ward ...............Augustus Knight, Seventh ward,............ Henry i. l)oyal, Eighth ward .............. Sainville Parent. Regular meetings, at the Court-louse, on first Mondays of January, April, July and October, at ll o'clock A. M. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE: First ward, ................... Cornelius Brnd. Second ward............ Welan J.Neams, Third ward..............Octave Harris, Fourth ward,..............Benj. F. Evans, Fifth ward,................John Russell, Sixth ward, ............. T. Grg sby, Seventh ward,.............Randall Cole, Eighth ward,..............Moses Fortune, Ninth wardl,............John M. Lusk, Tenth ward ............T. W. Brown, Sr. CONSTABLES : First ward,..............Joseph White, Second ward ............ Owen White. Third ward,.............James HIolmes, Fourth ward .............. James McCray, Fifth ward .............. N. Washington, Sixth ward ..............AnthonX Pack, Seventh ward............Stephen Johnson, Eighth ward,.............John Briscoe, Ninth ward,............Alcide Gantrean, Tenth ward...............Aurelius White. BOARD OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS: Louis Lefort, acting President; E. N. Pugh, Secretary; Francis Vicknair, Treasurer; Henry D. Minor, Augustus Knight, C. D. Blonin. Jacob G. Warner. Dr.-B. Claverie, J. A. Gonzales. Joar COMMISSIONERs-Allen Thomas, N. Bel, Austin Duncan, Henry C. Brand, L. E. Jlentley, Clerk of Court. ex officio Secretary of the Commission. Town of Donaldsonville. Mayor, ..................David Israel, Secretary................George Jacobs, Tresurer, ...............Victor Maurin, Collector, ................J. J. Sullivan, Jr., Constable, ..............Joseph A. Duffel, Wharf Lessee,...........Felix LeBlanc, Market Lessee,..........Raphael Mousse, River Ferry Lessee...... " " Oficial Journal...........Don'ville CHIEF. BOARD OF ALDERMEN: First Ward,....L. E. Bentley, Nathan Ross. Second " ....J. Solozano. Anderson Ross. Third " ....F. Vicknair, J. Thompson. Regular meetings, at the Mayor's office, in the Court-flouse. first Tuesday of each month, at 7 o'clock P. M. Scientific Miscellany. -In a recent lecture in London, Prof. Graham advised all who must smoke to do so on the German plan-that is, with out expectoration. This becomes easy when the tobacco used is thoroughly dried, as then only a comparatively small quantity of creosote and the tarry pro ducts of combustion collect in the mouth. Saliva performs an important part in di gestive processes, and its supply should be husbanded. -Herr Fischer thinks the extensive planting of forests in the countries of North Africa would prove much more ef fectual in restoring those desert regions to their ancient fertility than the pro posed inland sea in Algeria. -" It is singular," says Mr. Proctor, " how strong some errors retain their hold on men's minds. When Madlor an nounced his belief that Alcyone, the chief star of the Pleiades, is the central star of the universe, men's minds were attracted by the thought that the stellar system, like the solar system, revolves around a centre. Yet astronomers know perfectly well that the evidence on which Madler based his theory was exceedingly feeble. * * * I believe that no as trononmer of repute would now venture to maintain the theory that Alcyone is the central sun of the stellar system ; while scarce any, if any, would maintain that there is any central sun at all. Yet 1 find that not only is the belief still widely spread among the general public that Alcyone is the central sun, but that thus theory excites far miore interest than ;nost of the real discoveries, interesting though they are, which have been made during the last half century." -It has been found that a larger amount. of ammonia exists in the atmlos phere when an epidmeic of yellow fever is at its height than at other times, de creasing as the disease lessens. -The researches of Dr. Bulliuger show that the milk of cows sufering from tu bercular disease may communicate the affection to humllan beings. As Live per cent of cows advanced in life sufler from this disease, the doctor believes the dan ger to be considerable. Boiling the milk is not a safeguard. -Dr. C. W. Siemens finds by experi ment that the electric light a;ud sun light produce practically- the samen effect upon plant-growth. He shouns, further more, that a remarkable increase of growth may be effected hy exposing plants gruwing in daylight to the addi tional actinic energy of tl~o electric light at night--his investigations semlling to indicate that plauts require no period of rest during the twenty-four hours of the day. The heat radiatedl fromg powerful electric arcs can be turned to account as protection uagain mst enight frosts. Elec tricity can be lproduced at moderate ex pense where waterfalls are available as motive power. antd it ituy prove a val-u atble ally to future horticulturists. Summary of State News. Gleanings from the Press. NATCHITOCHES. Vindicator: Ben Cole accused of I larceny, and Taylor Weeks, charged with horse stealing, escaped from the parish jail Wednesday night. Tlhis leaves only one inmate in the parish jail. IBERVILLE. Plaquemine South: Our friend J. S. Tuttle, Esq., of the " Laurel Ridge" plantation was in town this week. He informed us that three young bears were captured in the rear of his place last week. GRANT. Colfax Chronicle: A fire broke out on the Cornie Brandon, while loaded with cotton, at or near Coushatta, and about five hundred bales had to be I thrown in the river. Eleven bales were picked up and left at this place. I TERREBONNE. Houma Chronicle: On Monday morniug, the house of Kiah Pember ton, colored, took fire in the absence of the family, and was entirely con sumred... .Louisa LeBlanc, who was sent to the Insane Asylum last December, has recovered her mind. UNION. Farmerville Gazette: The residence of Alfred Futch below town, on the lower ferry road, was burned on Sun day. The family had gone to church, and their being no person on the place, the house, furniture, and cloth ing contained in it were totally con sumted. WEST BATON ROUGE. Sugar Planter: Our vigilant Sher iff last Saturday night succeed in cap turing the woman, Anny Butler, and her child Henry, who killed Sam Washington on the Allendale planta tion some two or three weeks ago. They were discovered on the Slaugh ter place, just in the rear of Port Hudson, ready for flight to Kansas next day. Both are in jail awaiting trial before the District Court. TANGI PAIIOA. Pontchatoula Gazette: While the bark Reporter was on her way up the river Amite, March 20, a Norwegian sailor, named Wilson, was struck on the head a terrible blow by the jibing of the fore boom. He was insensible when picked up, and rallied some what on Sunday and Monday; he be came worse on Tuesday, was taken to Clio to b'e put aboard the steamer for New Orleans to have medical attendance. He died. we learn, on the steamer at Clio, at 10 P. M. ST. LANDRY. Opelousas Courier : Robert Robert son, who was to have been hung in Opelousas, on Friday, the 2nd inst., for the murder of Eugene Bell, on Dr. Boagni's plantation on Waxia, Febru ary 21, 1879, has been repri, ved by Guov. Wiltz, until further orders. This suspension of execution, was induced by a probable doubt as to the guilt of the accused; lie protesting his inno cence to the last, and his conviction resting solely upon circumstantial evidence. Both parties were colored men. CADDO. Shreveport Standard: The little coast packet Trout was destroyed by fire at John Caldwell's landing about twenty-four miles below here on Red river, at one o'clock Sunday evening, the 28th of March. Shie was on her return firom a tiip to Minden, heavily loaded with cotton and cotton seed, consigned ihere, and while under way at the point above named a tire broke out in her cotton forward, and spread with such rapidity as to seriously ptut in peril the lives of all on board. She was imnuediately headed for the shore and a line made fast and the passen gers, of whom there were about tell escaped to the bank. Boat and cargo were a total loss ....Captain R. W. Ford, one of our best known, lmost popular, highly respected and estinm able fellow-citizenis and business menu, died at his residence in this city on thle 27th of March. He was a tnemnber of the well-known firm of Gxegg & Ford. EAST FELZCIANA. Clinton Watchman: William P. Burns, who accidtentally shot himself by the careless handling of a shot gun on the 22nd ult., was operated upon by Dr. Agrippa Gayden, assisted by Drs. L. G. Perkins, O. P. Lang worthy, J. W. Saunders and D. B. Picace. When the patient was folly under the inifieuce of chloroform, Dr. Gayden made an incisioin from the left shoulder and carried it down to the elbow joint. The head of the bone, which was found fractured and black with powder, was carefully and skilfully removed, and also the brok eni parts of tihe shaft below it. The splintered iportion of the shaft was sawed olt, necessitating a still lllnger inicision. Tlhe lenlgth of bone removied ilaslled six and a half inches. The wound was then dressed. It was very doubtful for some time whether lie would rally from the shock, but Iris natural powers ot life, `aided plen til'ully by stimulants, fortunately suc ceeded in starting the circulation of his blood into activity, and he is do ing as well as could be expected. IBElItA. New Iberia .u.gar-Borwl: Jeanner ette, was last Satuiday the scene of another niurder. A ditficulty occurred between Isidore Laporte, the Town Constable, and David T'aylor, a car peirtter, when the latter was shot and killhd by Laporte. The evidence taken at the Corloner' inquest shows thlat Laporte drew a pistol onl Taylor, who was standing unarmed and hold ing sonie carpenter's tools in his handols. lie then dropped all but a hatchet, but befre he could defend himself Laporte fired at hlim, aid then Taylor struck his assailant, when Laplorte tired a second shot, which provied fatal to Taylor. Laporte was ai rested and is now in jail in New hIberia. Thoe Coroner's jury pro nounce the prisoner "' guilty of wiltul murder."....Mr. Louis Decoux, a clerk in Mr. Pierre LeBroun's store, suddenly fell dead from heart disease, while attending to his store duties. iHe had just been coaiversing with an acquiaiii-tace, andl appearedil lto e en joy ing pei.ect health .... Elijah Horns by, lwho, was sentenced to the peui .tentiary for life for killing a swamper named Castro, and escapled troml Sheriff Viator, of Ilwaia parish, last September, by jumping overboard while hleavily ironed, was recognized and re a;rrested in New Orleans, last week. lie is now in the Orleans par isli iprison., and will appeal to the Supreme Court for a new trial. Mother Shipton's Prophecies. The New York Journal of Oommerce gives the following true account of the humbug known as "Mother Ship ton :" Mother Shipton was a verita ble character who lived more than three hundred years ago, and uttered a nunmber of so-called prophecies. They were, Tor the most part, a vague, unmeaning jumble of seeming pre dictions applicable to no special event, and without point or general interest. In 1641 a pamphlet containing a med ley of this sort, chiefly in halting verses was printed in London, .anti her "Life and Curious Prophecies" were given to the public in 1677. In 1862 Mr. Charles Hindley of Brighton, England, issued what pur ported to be an exact reprint of "A Chap. book version " of Mother Ship ton's prophecies, from " the edition of 1443." In this, for the first time, there were point and pith, and special application. All modern discoveries were plainly described, and one prophecy, which began: Carriages without horses shall go, and set forth the railroads, telegraphs, steamers, and other modern inven tions, wound up with The world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and eighty-one. This, of course, quite startled the public. If all other important events of the nineteenth century had been so aptly described, why should not the last prediction be fulfilled I We cop ied the prophecy, and without know ing any thing of its source denounced it as a forgery. An English paper re plied that it was an exact reprint of the old edition for nearly two hun dred and. fifty years on file in the British Museum. We sent our cor respondent to the museum and learned that there was a chap-book of that title bearing date 1642, containing what purported to be Mother Ship ton's portrait; other curious i.rophe cies dated 1648, 1662, 1667; and " Mother Shiptou's Life and Curious Prophecies" complete in an octavo edition of 1797. We then purchased the reprint and sent to have them compared. This poved that a fraud had been committed. The old proph ecies were a vague jumble of local predictions that might have been ful filled at any and every decade since their date. All the pointed and in teresting predictions in the new issue were not in the old book, and were either interlineations, interpolations, or entirely new tragments, evidently written after the events they were supposed to predict. We pressed the point, and the se cret then came out. In the spring of 1873 Mr. Hindley wrote a letter con fessing that he had fabricated the prophecy above quoted and ten others, in order to render his little book sal able. He had started in good faith to reprint the old chap-book, but finding nothing in it applicable to modern times, ihe had set his own wits at work to supply the omission. At the residence of Mr. A. M. Levy, on Railroad Avenue, there has lately been demonstrated one of the diffi culties of raising an alligator and a pup on the premises at the same time. Seemingly the alligator was unable to resist a temptation so great, for he aboarbed the puppy and digested it., thereby spoiling it as a dog. The al ligator is doing well, however. It is just as well to separate the alligator from the other domestic pets-that is, it it is considered desirable to keep up any thing like a variety.-Morgan City Reriew,. ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr.TUTT'S Expectorant I IN 25CTS. AND SI BOTTLES. Its properties are Demulcent, Nutri tive aleamic, Sogkhin and ealing. Combining all theso qualities, it is the most effective LUNG BALSAM ever ffiered to sufferers from pulmonary diseases. DR. J. F. HAYWOOD, A New York, voluntarily indorses it. -READ WHAT HE SAYS: Dr. TUIT : New Yo k. Sept., 19. 18i.. Dea bhir-Daring this year I v. i ed n no hundred m~aes of lung a .ase iLn the I war w rds of the city thec. sea I, of a vac olvero ij"er. It was thre my . tten ion a ealiel tnThttEa Exp.torant, and I contelo ay ear, rzse at itm wuoaonlaul power. D)nring a practice of twenty years. I harve never known a mednito to act as promptlty and with such hepy efects IL intOattytbubdootde t emon violent fits of rou hng. and invariably cured sho d.iwanse n a few days. lonee .riny udtrm it as sue best lonm medicine I ever uAed. J. ['RA H FI iYWOOD. 3L. D. A NEWSPAPER Pus. WRITES. Utaiti Evrcrre s. ,,at., (o.G Dr. TUTL'T: D,..r 'ir-t ,. «.. 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TUTJS H AIR DYE *r o WisnalslU.t changed to a tLtoss tsx biy a stlngle application of this Di.. It im rte a Natural Ciortr, acts Ietantoustly, and is a Harmle as spring water. Sold by Druggists or s et by expres on receipt of $1. Mffice, 35 Murray St., New York. GILT EDGE IS A THOIOUR REMEILDY IN EVERY CASE OF FEVER AND AGUE, while for disordersof the stomach, torpidity of the liver, indigestlon and disturbance of the animal forces, which dehilitate It has no equivsa leat and can have lso substitute It should not be ronfouuded wl h the tritursted compounds of spirits and essential oils often sold uider the name of Bitters. For sale by DRUGGISTS GROCERS AND GENERAL EALEB. averywhere. Wholesale D)epot, BERJW.IRD LE.71I WAI, Donaldsonville, Ia. Charter Perpetual. Louisiana Eqltable LIFE INSURANCE CO., 39......Carondelet street2......9 New Orleans, La. E. IB. BRIGGS,.............President, JO2HN HENDERSON,...... Vice President, A. PATTON,................Secretary. The Policies of the Louisiana Equitable Life Insurance Company are registered, and the Reserve thereon deposited to the credit of the Policy with the Auditor and Treasurer of State, in compliance with an Act, approv ed April 2, 1877, entitled : "An Act to better secure holders of Life Insurance Policies in this State; to provide a reserve fund there; and for other purposes." A CERTIFICATE Of the Jluditor of State Is Annexed to Each Policy. This Company complied with the pro visions of the above Act and made its second deposit of the required reserve January 23, 1,79. ALLEN JUMEL, Auditor. ACTIVE AGENT8 WANTED. Apply to GOUR RI'R & McNAIa, General Agents, Plaquemine, La. A. H. IIUGUET,..... Agent, Baton Rouge, JNO. T. THIBODAUX, Agent, Thibodaux, G. )DAMARE ...............Agent,Convent, W. C. RAGAN..............Special Agent, L. A. Co!omrb, Agent, I)onaldsonville, La. Save Money ! BY PURCHASING G roceries. Crockery, Glassware, etc., -AT JOHN F. PARK'S Opposite old River Ferry Landing! CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES KRUG CHAMPAGNE, GERMAN LAGER BEER! BASS'S EAST INDIA PALE ALE, STRAWBERRI ES, RASPBERRIES ENGLISH GOOSEBERRIES, PINEAPPLE, RAISINS, FIGS, CITRON, CURRANTS, JELLIES--in Glasses or Boxes, WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE, ENGLISH & FRENCH MUSTARD, ENGLISH CHOW-CHOW, SALMON, SARDINES, LOBSTERS, SHADINIES, EAGLE MILK, FRENCH CANDLES, CHOICE GOSHEN BUTTER. Also in Store, CHOICE SUGAR-CURED HAMS, FRESH SHOULDERS, FRESH MACKEREL. CODFISH, HERRINGS, CHOICE BRANDS OF FLOUR; Basket, Willow and Tin-Ware. All Goods at New Orleans Prices. Call and Nee Me Before Par chasing Elsewhere. Regular New Orlears and Bayou Sara Passenger Packet. THE FINE SIDE-WHEEL STEAMER JNO. W. CANNON, J. C. LIBANO. J. H. MOSSOP, Master. Clerk. Leaves New Orleans Every Wednesday and Saturday, at 5p. m For Bayou Sara and Coast Landings. RETURNING DOWN: Monday's Trip Leaves Bayou Sara...........10 A. M. Donaldsonville........10 Thursday Evenings Leaves Bayou Sara............6 P. M. Friday Mornings Leaves Baton Rouge..........7 A. M. ' Donaldsonville........12 " BIG AGENTS BIG PY I.WTANTED. We want a limited number of active, ener getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good men will find this a rare chance TO Z.A.E MONYT. Such will please answer this advertise menta by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what business they have been en gaged in. None but those who mean busi nIess need apply. Address FINLEY. HARVEY & CO.. Atlanta, Ga. JOBEPnH ICA D, Carriage & Wagon Maker, MACHINIST AND BRASS FOtNDER REMOVED TO 68 RAILROAD AVENUE DONALDSON VILLE. mar2 5000 LADIES AID BENTS to go home, arm themselves with their Pocket Books, and March to S 0OYSE, Mississippi Street, DO NALDSONYILLE, LA., Whose ENTIRE STOCK, Consisting of Dry Goods, Clothing, GfROCER IES, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Notions, Furniture, Hardware, Crockery, Liquors, ET.C., 'ITC., ".E3CT., will be sold out witbin the next SIXTY DAYS, On account of Removal, and REGARDLESS OF COST!! Come One . Come 11! O/ AND COME RIGHT AWTY. American & Foreign Patents. GILMORE, SMITH & CO. Successors to Chipman, Hoamer & Co. Patents procured in all countries. No fees in advance. No charge for services un til patent is granted. Preliminary examina tions free. Our valuable pamphlet sent free upon receipt of stOmp. Address, GILMORE. SMITH & Co., Washington, D. C. Arrears of Pay, Bounty &c. Federal Officers, Soldiers, and Sailors or the late war. or their heirs, are in many cases entitled to money f.om the Govern ment which has been found to be due since final payment. Write full history of service, and state amount of pay and bounty re ceived. Certificates of Adjutant General U. S. A., showing service and honorable discharge therefrom, in place of discharges lost, pro cured for a small fee. Enclose stamp to Gilmore & Co., and full reply, with blanks, will be sent ffee Pensions! Pensions! All Federal Officers, Soldiers, and Sailors wounded, ruptured, or injured in the line or duty in the late war, and disabled thereby, can obtain a pension. Widows and minor children of Officers, Soldiers and Sailors, who have died since discharge, of disease contracted, or wounds and injuries received in the service and in the line of duty, can procure pensions by addressing Gilmore & Co. Increased rates for Pensioners obtained. Bounty Land Warrants procured for ser vice in wars prior to March 3, 1855. There are no warrants granted for service in the late rebellion. Send stamp to GII· IORE & Co., Washington, D. C., for full instruc tons. Manhood: How Lost, How Restored! Just published, a new edition I of Da. CULVERWheLL'5 CELE ,RATED ESSAY on tie radical c[tre (withoutmiedicine) of Sper matorrhmta or Seminal Weakness. Involun tary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Mar riage, etc.; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years' successful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the application of the knife; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, private ly, and radically. •i This Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under senl, in a plain envelope, to any address, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, THE OULVERWELL MEDIOAL 00., 41 Annm t., New York. Post-Office Box, 45Is . jalO PATENTS obtained for new inventions, or for improve ments in old ones. Caveats. Trade Marks and all patent business promptly attended to. Inventions that lare been rejected may still, in most cases, be patented by us. Being opposite the U. S. Patent Office, and engaged in Patent Business Exclusively, we can secure patents in less time than those who are remote from Washington and who must depend upon the mails in all transac tions with the Patent Office. When Inventors send model or sketch we make search ih the Patent Office and advise as to its patentability free of charge. Cor respondence confidential, prices low,. and no Charge maless Patent is obtained. We refer to Heon. Postmaster General D. M. KEY, Rev. F. D. POWER, to officials in the U. S. Patent Office. and especially to oul clients in every State of the Union and in Canada. For special references, terms, advice, &c., address C. A. SNOW & CO., Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. C, Instruments Repaired, Tuned and Exchanged. E. VON 1-JOFE, 1192.... Magazine Street,....1192 ABOVE NAPOLEON, NEW ORLEANS. -DEALER IN Pinos & Ielolelons. Begs leave to inform his friends and the public of Donaldsonville and vicinity that he bas established himself permanently at the above location and is prepared to do all work in his line in the best manner and on most reasonable terms. Parties desiring to purchase or exchange instruments will find it to their interest to deal with me. I make a specialty of dealing in and exchanging in struments. Will continue to visit this and other sections for the purpose of repairing and tuning instruments. Solicits orders and guarantees prompt attention, fair dealing and good work. mar13 $25 evr'd;. rHE above reward will be paid for the L recovery of a portion of a plan or map of the town of Donaldsonville which has disappeared from the Recorder's office of this parish within the past fortnight. Donaldsonville, March 20, 1880. W. W. BUFORD, Recorder of the parish of Ascension. 4 IBSON'S Hotel and Livery Stable, Darrowville, La. Left bank Mississippi river, opposite Don aldsonville. Good entertainment for man and beast at reasonable rates. Horses and buggies for hire. mv3-ly 500 CORDS of FOpE S.A..M. Apply to C. KLINE, Donaldsonville, La., Or to A. J. SHARP, on Bayou Lafourche, one and a half miles below Donahlsonville. DR. J. DELGARDO, Specialist and Dealer in PATENT MEDIXIWNs, Has removed to Port Barrow, across Bayou Lafourche from Donaldsonville, where he will be pleased to meet old and new cus tomers. d13 Estray Notice. DICKED UP by the nndersigned, in Port .L Barrow, on the 16th day of March, 1880, one BROWN HORSE MULE, about 15} hands high, no brand visible, The owner is notified to come forward, prove property and pay costs, in default of which the animal will be disposed of accord ing to law. OWEN WHITE, Constable Second Ward. T. H. HALL, LICENSED ENGINEER, Machinist, Blacksmith and Boiler Maker, Ascension parish, La., Offers his servises to the public to overhaul and repair boilers, engines, sugar-mills sad machinery of all kinds. Very best of refer ences given. Addr>s, care of CHIEt office. SuL D's Lovmn Izvioaos stn rd Family Bemedy ar of theLiver, Stnmek BowL:--ItisPmelz Vegetabl.--It neowr 8END ,OR PRULA.. oni.. t wIo "r - I :io "JP:*. ,r in my praetico ey e, bya the publi unprecedented relt. W SEND FOR CIRCULAR. ST. W. osANFR , Mre ., i w a* AtN DRUbGiST WILL ThLL port ITS uhereAtfel. Pat oen ss rgatIve anask mua chlosen d. ane will co hanie thmeblood oin t - tteach aihtfid stond wre nsyheeisead to nand heth, if such a notie fie Bent tareS lettertainp . S OR A mIll 1 5111 ai L AT. An English Veter nary man d ie h man e.n t pe . ant catiPwdsronli scars antsh labs aWsthat Sheridan's Condition P o 's araon iarke hens latike there ida oern rsas Done teaironleIu ,to aeC o th * "o.di rDontral dsovill E atesna e. MCC. JIKEhralgia, Diphtheria, Croup.Ab-s mp ,BronchitiasInfIuenzSoreLnd iBleeing. or the Lungsi, Chronicoe arsetnes, Haing Coreg, eponth betee n rAcademoy, Iard and hma elt arhas, Ch enr ilic Dysentery, Choleria orbsn, Kidne Troubles, Diseases of tho Spine and J OSEPH PERRIER, At he olmited nmere he puils r mead to eoA wiate rev c a orsmithrt d WHEELWRIGHT & COAChIIAKER, IeoaaldesWagille, La. Mr. Josephin Ferrier informs hifriends, and the pubic, that the partnership heretofore existing between Mr. Jos. Iard and himself h as been dissolved by mutual consent. at the old stand, where he is ready to exe cute at shortest notice all work entruated to him, pertaining to the trades of Gunsmitib Locksmith, Blaeksnklth, Wheei. repaired in a workmanlike inaiiner,, at price work and prices with those of other makers Dh e aldsoae ldnie, La. . Mae. M. KEATING returns thanks to the people of Donasdeonville and vicinity for the liberal patroiage heretofore bestowe upon the Academy, and begs leave to say that no efort will be spared to merit a con A limited number of pupils frpm aorosd will be received ham furnishnil ftlth board and lodging. For terms of tion e ply to or ad dres s d * f MRS. C. KE ATING, mar24 Donaldsonarille La, PLAQUEMINE & JEFFERSON SAW MILLS DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SAWED AND SPLIT Lumber, Shingles, s~aves, etc. All orders promptly attended to and satis. faction guaranteed. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. All letters and orders to be addressed tg A. WILBE;T, P. O. Box 88, PL.(QIJE.?P I7ITE, febl5-ly Iberville parish, La, W. W. WP , DEALER IN CORD - WOOD, SAWED AND SPLIT LU & B :J M , SHINGLES, STAVES, FLOORING, CEILING, &e. Bills sawed to order on short notice and delivered at any point on' the river coast or Bayou Lafourihe. Apply at the Yard, on Bayou Lafourche, Right bank, near Railroad Bridge, Or address, P.O. Box sO, mch2. y Donaldsonville, Ls. Swine For Sale. CHOICE Shotes and Barrows from 2 to 9 months old. Address G. B. REUSS, Germania, Hohen Solms P. O La. $10 to $20 per Day. AN AG 4NT wanted in every pariah in Louisiana to sell Mark Twain's New Book, "'Tramp Abroad." For terms and territory, apply to Southern Publishing Co,, Box 116, New Orleans, La.