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tie Dogaldso~vi11e Chief. Published Every Saturday. Officia1Jo irnal, Town of lonaldsonville Ent~ered:at tte Post-Office at Donaldson. ville, 7.am, as Second Class Matter. LINDEN E. BENTLEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. L- Job Printing of all kinds, from a full sheet poster to a bread ticket, executed en shortest notice, at city prices and in best style at the CHIEF office. 3 The Camrv is received by all subscribers POSTAGE FREE. Saturday, May 12, 1883. OUR NEW CLOTIES. The CHIEF greets its readers this week clad in an outfit of new type, and we leave it to them to say whether the appearance of the paper has been improved by the change. We are now using the Minion and Nonpariel No. 17 manufactured by Messrs. Marder, Luse & Co., of Chicago, and according to our judgment the faces are attractive and desirable. We have ample reason to con gratulate ourselves upon the present condi tion and future prospects of our paper and we propose that it shall take no backward 'step, but rather advance and improve con tinually. A deaf and dumb colored man was run over and killed by a train on the Morgan railroad near Cade Station, La. The Iberia Journal has begun its seventh volume. The paper has improved consid erably of late and we wish it further prog ress in the same direction. Mr. Edwin E. Marks, formerly of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, has pur chased the Concordia Eagle and transferred ,it into a Democratic paper. Gov. McEnery has commuted the death s4entences of Bazis Dugay and John Austin, St. Mary murderers, to imprisonment for j`ife. The men were to have been hanged `yesterday. One of the heaviest and most destructive hailstorms ever known in that section visi led Colfax and vicinity on the 27th of April causing great damage to crops and render ing it necessary to replant. L. N. Streeter, formerly a United State agent, who deserted to the Indians, is re ported to have been killed during a recen engagement with a band of Apaches of which he was acting as chief. The subjoined opinion relative to oue Ascension church controversy is expressed by the Gretna Courier: The Roman Catholics of Donaldsonville have got themselves into a snarlwith the Archbishop, The people. in our way of thinking, are bound to win, as they have rights as well as the church, Green B. Raum of Illinois, who has for a anmber of years occupied the position of .Commissioner of Internal Revenue, retired from that office on the 30th of April, having resigned on account of the inadequate salary. Congressman Phil. H. Tompson, Jr., of the : Eighth Kentucky District, shot and .,killed Walter H. Davis, a prominent mer chant, at Harrodsburg, on the 27th of April. The cause of the shooting was the alleged intimacy of Davis with Thompson's wife. 1 destructive cyclone swept through a portion of Ouachita parish during the last week in April demolishing a number of bu ldings, killing some stock and wounding several people. It is stated that one tract of forty acres of heavily wooded land not a tree was left standing. Our accomplished friend Mr. Thos. H. Ryan, recently connected with the New Orleans States, is editor of the EreeinU Chironiile, the new afternoon paper recently .established in that city. Mr. Ryan is a member of the Board of Aldernian, and we ,ish him much success both as a legislator and a journalist. Thiodule Roberson, a colored youth, de liberately shot and killed his stepbrother, aged La years, on the Keystone plantation near St.. Martinsville, La. The murderer ,iad attended a collation on a neighboring iplantation and came home drunk, commit ting the horrible crime while in this condi -tion. He was arrested and placed in the New Iberia jail. ruhs steamer Edward J. Gay has been placed under seizure, ostensibly at the in .stance of a firm of New Orleans coal dealers, though the real cause of the movement is said to be the differences that have prevailed between Capts. T. P. Leathers and Jno. J. Brown for some time past. Capt. Brown has brought the Saint John out in place of the Gay, and the latter has been towed across to Algiers and laid up. The proceedings of two special meetings of the Town Council held on the 3rd inst., appear in our paper to-day, not having been received in season last week to enable us to make room for their insertion then. The second of these sessions, like one of those held April 28, was convened in comnpli ance with the writ of peremptory mandamus emanating from the District Court, and the Council seems to have been particularly careful to proclaim this fact and to avoid the transaction of any business at these meetings save what was absolutely necesary to protect them from punishment for con tempt of court and which pertained exclu sively to the writ referred to. The disposi tion to comply only with the letter of the writ and to evade its spirit and obstruct the course of the election as far as possible, is demonstrated by the failure to provide, as is customary, for lists of voters, ballot boxes, Clerks and Constables of Election and thme blanks neceeisary to make the re turns in proper shape. There were ballot boxes in the office of the Clerk and Recor der, and the town has a full supply of prin ted election blanks, but as the writ of man damnus did not specifically order the Coun cil to furnish these articles. they failed to do so. Comnmssioneis of Election were appointed, it is true, but it is the general impression that care was taken to select only such citizens as were least likely to ae cent the alpoiatument and pierformi t+i duttie'- of tle hlositionl. 'Ibis iimplr.-.oin m strengiitheed by the fs't th:mt none ut t he (ominn..ioters rained by the Council up jnmmtd at the johis. With u usnmnitv non hy ii heal and a better iause. lb \mayor anti Aldermen unitid to mimplatethl course of the lpas t hey himd obli'''ted themt u-lye- to emihorce maid to deprive itt 'cop th theimr 'ue'.ed righ~t to elhit IoVwi a.kes THE NEW TOWN OFFIJERS. The Mayor and, Aldermesr elected last Saturday will meet to-day to qualify and organize in accordance with the town char ter, and we-presume the other officers cho sen at the same election will file their oaths of office and bonds preparatory to entering upon the duties of their respective positions. It is to be anticipated that the old officers, excepting the Colleotor- and Constable, who have been reflected, will decline to abdicate without a contest, and a suit under the in trusion in office act is most likely to be ad ded to the complications which heve already arisen from the unjustifiable and reprehen sible attempt of the town administration to perpetuate itself in power by disobeying the requirements of law and trampling the rights of the people under foot. We hold to the opinion that the decision of the Supreme Court in the pending man damus suit will not affect the validity of the town election of Saturday last. Sup pose the ruling of that tribunal should be in support of the position assumed by defend ants, that Judge Cheevers was without jurisdiction to issue the mandamus ordering the Mayor and Aldermen to perform the duties the charter requires of them? The facts still remain that an election has been held as nearly as possible in conformity with prescribed legal forms, upon the day fixed by the charter of the town; and, the law iterates and reiterates that no failure of any officer to do his duty in relation to the conduct of an election shall deprive the people of the right to hold such election or vitiate its result when held. This may be characterized a cardinal principle of our election laws, and we shall not believe, until such a decision is rendered, that our Supreme Court will attempt its overthrow, or seek to establish the right of town offi cers to disregard the plain provisions of law whenever it may suit their purpose or inclinations to do so. OUR MANDAMUS SUITS. The town election suit, entitled State o: Louisiana ex rel. Edgar A. Ramirez et at - vs. The Mayor and Common Council o I Donaldsonville, was calledup in the Supremo Court last Monday on the rule commandini District Judge Cheevers to show cause why his court is not without jurisdiction in the case and why he should not allow defend ants a suspensive appeal from the peremp tory mandate by him granted and decreed. The Supreme Court gave five days delay within which to file briefs, three days tc p plaintiffs in writ and two days additional to respondents. The delay expires to-day an, - the matter will be taken under advisement by the :Supreme Court, to be decided, mosi probably, during week after next. In the church mandamus case-President - and Board of Church Wardens of the Ro m man Catholic Congregation of Ascension vs. Bishop Perch et als-the rule against the Judge ad l co was called up on Thursday, pursuant to assgurment. and a delay of five days granted for the filing of briefs, just as was done in the town case. CROP ITEMS. We arc indebted for the following items to a thoughtful friend who is familiar with the condition and prospects of the. crops and cognizant of the improvements going on upon the plantations situated betwefn Port Barrow and the upper line of our par ish on the right bank of the river. Dr. W. H. Ballard's Chatham place has a fine cane crop and extensive improvements are in progress. The Doctor has received a magnificent flue boiler and a lot of iron pipes, through which syrup will be carried from Chathan sfgar-iiouse to the large re finery on the adjoining Germania planta tion of Mr. John Reuss, where it will be converted into sugar. Mr. Reuss also has fine looking crops, and is completing and improving his mag nificent sugar-house on a grand scale. The cane crop on Mr. R. H. Yale's Home place is simply splendid, and his corn, which is also beautiful, is ready to lay by, much of it being waist high. A large pur gery and storing room has been added to the sugar-house and new machinery is being put up. Mr. Yale is preparing to make his own molasses barrels, and has a boat loaded with hoop-poles now at his landing. The rice crop on the Woodstock place is fair and promising, but there are consider able weeds and false rice, this being the fourth year's crop. These will disappear, however, as soon as the rice is high enough to stand flooding with water. At the Adlard Landry and Mrs. Dodds places crops are very fine, as also on the Pelico place of Messrs. Bujol & St. Martin. The latter gentlemen are putting in some new machinery. The crops of the McCall Bros. and Souve nir places, as seen from the road, were clean, well worked and in fine condition. Planters have been taking advantage of the dry weather and all along the line the crops are as clean as a floor. The public roads are in splendid order and up to Tuesday the river had fallen thirty-six inches from the highest point attained this season. Surely, this is a bright prospect! According to the statement furnished us by Messrs. Delery & Purves, weighers and gaugers at No. 33 North Front street, New Orleans, there were 150,653 hogsheads and 165.582 barrels of sugar, 321,109 barrels and 1418 half barrels of molasses received at that port from Sept. 1, 1882, to April 30, 1883, while for the corresponding period of the season of 1851-82 the receipts were 79, 211 hogshiads and 68,729 barrels of sugar, 189,781 barrels and 573 half barrels of mo lasses. To our mind, the Farmerville Appeal has never before been so interesting or so well gotten up as during the past few weeks: and so far from the editor pro tem. owvng any apology for his management of the paper during the absence of Col. Dawkins, we think the latter gentleman will be doing his readers an injustice to allow the services of his editorial substitute to be dis'penseo with. The Appeal furnishes anint nc-fme where the old joke of the typtogratfhical devil could be rung in: "The imnpiovrd ip I pearaince of the paper this week is duie to the absenice of the editor." What with the wholesale election frauds and risig misrule ina New Orlean, the erie of heavy defaleations by the Sheriff5 ot f tha city. the grabbing of State lands and h itmllcverishiment of the levee fund unider tie 112Enccr, land contract, and Sthe raid of the State ircasery cutler Act No. It of 18501 the Iffotle will nerd microscope- s o r powver to distinguish between the much de noufnced "*period of Radical usuilation and 5tfflifition"~ which followed reconstrucsti'i iii Louisiana, and the present epoch of I imnuratic fatra' and a irrfu '110n. FIREMEN'S DAY. To-morrow the two leading fire com panies of Donaldsonville-Phoenix Steam Fire Co. No. 1 and Ascension Hook and Ladder No. 1-will have their fifth joint annual celebration, and as we have repeat edly said heretofore, there is every prospect that it will be the most imposing and suc cessful affair of its kind that has ever taken place in our town. Arrangements for the afternoon parade, the evening dinner and the ball at night are complete in all necessary particulars. The new steamer is as bright as burnished metal can be made, the hook and ladder truck looks as pretty as a picture in a coat of paint just administered by an artisan of highest skill in this line of work, and both apparatuses are being handsomely deco rated by the deft and fertile fingers of the kind lady friends of our fire laddies. A telegram just received from the Presi dents of Jefferson 22 and Irad Ferry 12 of New Orleans, announces that about forty of the members of those companies will leave the city at 5i o'clock this evening, on the steamer H. Hanna Blanks, in response to the invitation extended those companies to participate in to-morrow's celebration. Delegations of Plaquemine and Napoleon ville companies have also signified their in tention of being with us, and it is probable that the number of visiting firemen will be from sixty to seventy-five. The Donaldson ville boys will have an excellent opportunity for displaying their capacity for entertain ing guests, and we doubt not they will ac quit themselves as creditably as they have done on similar occasions heretofore. At this writing there is a promise of fine weather for the celebration and this is all that will be needed to put the finishing touch on the affair and realize the expecta tions of the most enthusiastic in connection therewith. NOTICE TO VACATE. Communication from the Church Wardens to Father Ceuppens. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., May 11, 1888. Ma. EDITOR: I wish to lay before the Catholic Congre gation a specimen of the religious princi ples of the so called Church Wardens. This fuetum was kindly handed to me by Con stable Jim MeCray. It reads as follows. Yours truly, F. X. CEUPPENS. DONALDSONVILLE, La., May 5, 1853. REv. F. X. ('EUrrsss, Dinaldsenville. Reverend Sir-I have been instructed by a resolution adopted by the Board of Church Wardens, of the Congregation of the Roman Cathodic Church of Ascension to say that the congregation have viewed with surprise your cintinued failure to perform the religious ser vices in the Catholic Church at Donaldeonville, as it was incumbent on yop to do as the Curate of said church, That the presbytery, adjacent to the church, was erected and established solely for the par pose of biing occupied as a residence by the ('urate who, under the appointment of the Bishop, should d'voto himself to the perfor mance of religious services in the church and to the spiritual welfare of the members of said congregation; that inusmuch as you utterly fail and neglect and refuse to attend to any re ligions exercises whatever in said church. and ignore entirely the spiritual welfare of said congregation, the Board of Church Wardens consider that you are not entitled to occupy said presbytery building as a residence. They have therefore uistruotted me further to say th(t they desire you will vacate the prem ises without delay, to the end that the buildings may not be longer diverted from the religious purposes for which they were intended. I have thini honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, THEO. WElHREi, President of the Board of Church Wardens. A PROMISING POET. Ills Rhymes on the Chiutrh Case-A Mat rianonial Dialogue. EDITOR CHIEF: Our unfortunate church difficulty is ap parently destined to bring out of obscurity our heretofore unknown poets. In proof of this, I enclose the following lines found on Lessard street, near Attakapas, in an envclope containing, also, a certified copy of the new charter of the Catholic Congre gation. 'Tite charter is endorsed "Presby tdre." I particularize that this may serve as an advertisement, so that the owner may recognize his property and know where to find it. The author of the lines will, there fore, pardon my liberty of sending them to you. I am convinced, besides, that he will feel proud to see them in print. They will. I tiithi, compare favorably with the verses of "La Charitt." or those of " Hunkadori " lately published in your paper. They speak for themselves. I copy: "Dialogue entre ma femme et moi un soir que j'allais a une assemblte des Char fistes; elle ne voulait pas me donn6 mes pan talons neufs; elle avait sigud la fameuse liste des 'plus de mtlle' feettues et enfants a t inmaelle." Mot. Oui chez les Sweurs, Sacr6e bigote, On bien ailleurs. Ou mia culutte? Pour ees chers censr 'Pant que j'la porte, be dit hI messe, Oh prends la porte! Mt pais confesse, Mtalgr6 Percea, Pourquoi. Slaitresse? Mal inform6; C'est ten d6cid6, Pere ('opince La propriett, Qui se croit prince; Sere pus donnae; Ott bien Hinder Et le vieux Biro Qui vent singer. kera pas kino. tLle. tlle. Plus de sepulture, Ciher,1 'glise en fermie! Pour celle qut est pure; Moi. Non plus de bapt6mne Donne moi mon hit, Pouri'enfantiue j'aianePius vito sois couch6e. Ni de manage (due rien lie to tracasse, Pour ceux qui son trout ia ti'est que farce. d'age. Elle-ria at. Et puis la fabrique, Ta montes mat P6gase. N'a pas viatiqute, Moi-sutalt. Pour le schismatique, Et bien, je in'en fri Oc le trts pratique, casse; Que casse cca lite! Si je no sais rimer. Mto. J'ai toujours su signer C'est pour sa clique! La charte. If true connoisseurs will bear in mind that, poetically speaking, our parish is yet in its infancy, they will be indulgent in their criticism. They may, however, with propriety advise our young poets to exercise their growing genius upon some other sub ject. For me, I hope they will continue in their Ascension and shortly reach the sum mit of Parnassus. DOODENBERI. P. S. It would perhaps be better for me not to sign this commntunication, because some excitable lady, attributing the above verses to me, may, imitating Borlean's Aprts l'Agdcilns Helas, Mais aprts l'Attila, Hole! Say, it (truoe itigo, 11on Hunlendori, 'a li! Maiu Doodenberi, 0ous hi! Wl, to tileas e every body, I will ntiin The Gretna CJoarirr recently pun ishted ithi eompnlimeutery reference to wdll knowun citizen of Ascension pnrirh: Chief ('uctim House Weigher W. WV. Buford. sit.. whosi tlciuilintanre we have long eaj lyed we- licer here on Wedni-sily In-t, at the Mer chants' Waretoue'les. liscertlmtnln the avoirdiu pois of a lot of suear in transit f or St. Louis t rugal Euftiru is an excellent istijer, and just such men should be keiut in iitfice. All who know the sterling worth of friend Bufoard will heartily endorse the flitrier's THE TOWN ELECTION. Exercise of the Electoral light Under Dif ficulties-Success of the Martinez Ticket. In spite of the obstacles interposed by the present town administration to prevent the holding of the annual charter election last Saturday-in spite of the illegal and obstinate failure to provide ballot boxes, registration lists, Constables, Clerks, and the necessary blanks for making the re turns, an election was held under the essen tial forms of law, and 262 citizens went to the polls and deposited their ballots. Meet ings were held at the various polling places and Commissioners of Election chosen and duly sworn; the Commissioners appointed a Deputy Sheriff for each poll, obtained regulation ballot boxes and proceeded to receive the votes of the people and to make the count and returns at night in the man ner required both by the town charter and the State election law. The vote was as follows: Wards... .1 2 3 Total Mayor-Frank Martinez,..77 52 128 257 Secretary-Clem. C. Ross,.79 51 128 258 Collector-E. A. Ramirez, .80 51 128 259 Treasurer-Louis Wild,. ..79 51 128 258 Assessor-Baptiste Walker, 80 51 128 259 Constable-Wim. Becket,.. .81 51 127 259 ALDERMEN: First Ward-Jonas Carroll,79 79 Ant. Montecino,.79 79 Second Ward-F. Leroy,... 51 51 Arnold Ramirez,. . 51 51 Third Ward-David Ross,. 128 128 Aaron Pierce,... 128 128 There was one ticket in the secqnd ward box which was placed under the head of scattering. Returns were made in tripli cate, the District Judge, Parish Returning Officer and Clerk of Court being each pro vided with a copy. The Judge compiled the vote and notified the respective candi dates of their election, as contemplated by the town charter, while the Returning Of ficer made a similar compilation under the provisions of the general election law and transmitted a certified return to the Secre tary of State, and delivered two others to the Clerk of Court, who also transmitted a copy to the same State officer. The vote for Mayor in 1882 was 437, of which Israel received 255 and Wilkinson 182; and in 1tM1, when the largest vote ever cast in the town was thrown, Maher received 293 and Jacobs 210, a total of 503. It will be seen, therefore, that the vote cast for the Martinez ticket last Saturday would consti tute a majority of the largest vote ever polled at our town election, and that every one of the Martinez candidates received a larger vote than Mr. Israel, who was elected Mayor last year by 73 majority in a very warm conte:-t. Of course we do not think these candida'.; would have received such a large vote had there been another ticket in the field, and many who voted merely to demon:Irate their attitude in favor of an election being held according to law con tend that the successful ticket could easily have been defeated had legitimate and reg ular methods been adopted to secure that end, but the arbitrary and unlawful course of those who seek to take avasy from the people the power of choosing their officers and throw it into the hands of the Gover nor was the means of disc(uragicgi, opposi tion and strengthening the candidates who were placed in the position of representa tives of the popular rights. Our readers who feel an interest in the subject of life insurance-and every pru dent man should do so-are recommended to note the advertisement of the New York Life Insurance Company, one of the oldest, soundest and best known corporations of its kind in existence: 'his company con dacts its business upon the most approved system, offering the greatest possible secu rity to policy holders at the least possible cost for insurance. and; no better evidence of the correctness of it4 principles and the success of their application is needed than is furnished by the simlde facts that the or ganization was instituted in 1t45, has beon doing business in Louisiana for a third of a century. and is apparently stronger and more prosperous to-day than at any past period in its ions carerc. Mr. J. S. Copes, a gentleman of wide expenence in the busi ness, is the general Louisiana agent for the company, and he will be pleased to mail circulars and furnished information con cerning life nourance to all who express a desire to have him do so. Write to Mr. Copes at 4ii Carondelets'treet, New Orleans. for the thirty-eighth annual statement of the New York Company and estimates on tolictes of all kinds now in vogue. ADVERTIgEMENTFA. Base Ball Challenge. TO THE RAPIDES PICKED NINE OF ALEXANDRIA. DONALDSONVILLE, LA., May 5, 1883. TiIE Nolan Base Ball Club of this town here by challanges the Rapides Picked Nine of Alexandria to play a return match game upon the Nolan grounds, in Donaldsonville, within four weeks after the resumption of through trains on the Texas and Pacific railway, for a prize of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS offered by merchants and citizens of this town and vicinity. Game to be played according to the rules of either the American Association or the National League, together with such " ground ruL-e " as may be agreed upon by the Captains of the respective clubs. Lists of players to be exchanged when challenge is accepted, subject to such alterations as cirgumstanees may render unavoidable, to be accepted and approved by the club Captains and Managers. W1 G. WILKINSON, President Nolan B. B. C. J. RUnMsEV DUrKE, Secretary. RED RIVER AND COAST LINE REGULAR NEW ORLEANS AND PLAQUEMINE SEMaI-WEEKLY PACKET 4? JESSE K. BELL P. Sinnott, Master; F. Bergeron, Clerk. Leaves NEW ORLEANS every TUESDAY a r. 3r. and SATURDAY at 12 at. Returning leaves PLAQ LEMINE every WED NESDAY and SUNDAY EVENINGS and DON ALDSONVILLE every THURSDAY and MON DAY MORNINGS. REELULAR NEW ORLEANS, BAYOU LA FOURCHE AND LAUREL VALLEY STEAMER ASSUIJPPION, P. A. Charlet, Master; M. H. Landry, Clerk. Leaves New Orleans every Wednesday at 10 e. Mr., and Saturday at 5 P. at. For freight or passage apply on board or to B. RIVET. Agent, Lever, head of Customhouse street, or company's office, 4I Camp street, up stairs. Clerk on laudin iat all times to receive freight REGULAR NEW ORLEANS AND BAYOU SARA PASSENGER PACKET. THE FINE PASSENGER STEAMER fuJno. WX. Cannon, J. C. Libano, MIaster; J. H. 0Mossop, Clerk. Lcaves New orleans every Wednesday and Saturany, at C P. . ., for Rayou Sara and (oast Landlings. Returnimng dhiwn passes Donaldson, vile Mondays and Fridays, between I and 10 o'clock P. 3t. DONAiLDSUN ViLLE AND NEW ORLEANS TREI-WEEKLY COAST PACKET, Eell of the Coast, J. F. Aucoin, Master; Edw. Nicolle, Clerk. Leaves New Orleans every TUESDAY at 11 A. ai.. THURSDAY aod SATURDAY at 12 at.. returning down the ('oast every WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY and SUNDAY. in daylight. For freight or passage apply on board or to B. RIVET. Agent. Levee, head of Customhouse Street. or I'ompany's *tlire, lIt tamp street, New ( retes A CREVAS SE!! M. IS RAEL & C O., PIONEER MERCHANTS cs OF DONALDSONVILLE,e WILL, PRIOR TO REMOVING INTO THEIR NEY( AND PAbA*TIAL BUILDIN, Cause such a Crevasse in the prices of Goods F'O CA.SH! r AS TO SURPRISE THE MOST SKEPTICAL. Our buyers in New York, expecting us to have occupied our new building by this time, have purchased very largely and are making heavy shipments daily, and not having suf ficient room to place these goods, we will give our patrons the benefit of low prices. Our New Stock is FR ESII, VARIED and COMPLETE, comprising all the latest novelties of the Season, and we would specially invite all buy ers to examine our Stock before making tieir purchases. In moving we wish to handle as few goods as possible and also wish to close out all surplus stock on hand, and will, therefore, offer our goods at the most astonishing low figures, regardless of cost. That every purchaser of goods to the amount of TEN DOLLARS and upwards, will receive a chance FiREE OF CIiARGE in the drawing of OUR GRAND TOMBOLA -OF One ýýundred. T'izes º ! Which have been enumerated in previous issues of this paper. Samples of goods and prices sent throughout the country on application V. MiAUIRIN'S NEW UN1JER lAKII ESTABlSH1EJENT, -AT Always on hand, An elegant COFFINS HEARSE, -oF- -wr- EVERY STYLE, RICH AND EVERY SIZE, HANDSOME EVERY PRICE,\ . EQUIPMENTS, And com petition defied. Has just been received. -THE R. E. LEE STABLE, MISSISSIPPI STREET, Donaldsonville, La. Plain Pine ani Cypress Coffins, elegant Rosewood Caskets, imitation or genuine Metallic Cases, and a full line of Ornaments and trimmings to suit any taste and any purm. Funerals con ducted in best style and at prices that must prove saftisfactory to all my customers. Quick sales, small profits. Fair play is a jewel. RAILROAD AVENUE. Look out for my sign It hangs on the corner Is the name. The place is Opposite Texas Pacific R. R. Depot, And don't you Forget it. GROCER, Is my business, and I sell Groceries, Provisions, Wine, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Etc., as good in quality and as low in price as any one in DONALDSONVILLE. Come and try me If you doubt it. Kursheedt -& Bienvenu, MON]tMENTS, TOMBS and HEADSTONES. -ALL KINDS OF MlARBLE WORE -AND CEMETERY RAILINGS, Nos. 114, 120, 122, Camp St., NEW ORLEANS. REGULAR TRI-WEEKLY DONALDSON VILLE PACKET. . A. Belle, J. A. Comstock; Master. Low Pugh, Clerk. Leaves New Orleans every Monday, Wednes day and Friday, at 12 u., coming down the coast on alternaie days. T. H. DONLON, Railroad Avenue, I)O ALI) io'VILLE, LA. 1L)ANTING in all its branches and in tie most perfectst yle. Sign Painting, graininn and ornamental work a specinlity. Addree through Donaldsonville post-office. BOARDERS WANTED -AT AN ELEGANT PRIVATE RESIDENCE -IN DONALDSONVILLE. H^AVLNG occupied the beautiful residence L.situated on Chetimachee street and known as the Claverie property, I anm prepared- to re ceive and entertain 4-Jimited niumber of- board ers. -Neat roomy ard first-cases entertainment guaranteed. Appis to or addresg MI& R. PONDS, Ionaldsonville, La, THE FICAYO NE SAW-MILL, HALF-MILE BELOW VONALDsONVrzL, LA. LU B2J1, OF ALL.KINDS On Hand and Sawed to Order. Orders executed on shortest notics AND AT LOWEST PRICES. Flucouroge home enterprise . Try the work and prices of the Picayune Mill before going elsewhere. Addrese ail communications to ALFRED ESNEAULT, P. O. Box 54. Donaldsonville. La. C 0 YOUNGBLOOD & HOLMES PATENT "Boiler Scale Collectors." J. O. LEBLANC, Agent, THE object of this little invention is to pro vide a cheap. simple device for "preventing the Burning of Boilers." It is the cheapest and most effective thing known for the purpose; and will save the owners of SteamBoilereprob ably a hundred times their cost, and relieve Planters. Captains and Engineers of an im mense amount of responsibihtU and aBmoy ce. Chief Engineer Str. Jno. W. Cannon. Emiii air Jim o SAW-MILLS, DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SAWED AND SPLIT LUMBER, Shfgiles, Sataes, etc. Orders promptly filled and best of satisfactifn guaranteed to patrons. PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. Orders and letters should be addressed to A. WILBEIRT, P. O. Box 88, Plaquemine,Louisiana, LEBLANC SAW MILL, ])ONALDSONVILLE LA., Is in full operation prepared to promptly fill all orders fOr ALL KINDS OF Sawed Lumber, on short notice and at more advantageous terms than can be offered elsewhere. With improved machinery and ample faciji ties, this mill will challenge comnpetiton in quantity, quality and cheappess of its work. Those who patronize it once will not fail to recognize the superiority of its advantages YELIX LEBLAN1' Proprietor. FRED. ROOGE, ERNEST LANOBECEER. ROGGE & LANGBECKER, CITY BARIIER SHOP, Missi sippi Street, (Next to Peep-o'-Day Hotel.) DONALDSONVILLE, LA. HsAVIN, shampoonhng, hair-cutting, dye iug of hair or whiskers, etc., in the best style, at popular prices. Respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. noBINSoN & co., J. r. RoBINsoN, Manager Established in 1845. The oldest Established and only House of the Kind in the South. b ROBINSON'S N. 0. Lightning Rod Co. Office of New Orleans Lightning Rod and Weather Vane Works, Manufacturers n.n ventors, Importers and dealers inallknds of Lig'htning BRocl -AND Lightning Rod Materials, ROBINSON'S "Electro Magnetic Silver Cables," a Specialty, -(Th~e safn,'t protection against lightning ever invented.) of English manufacture, (expressly for this House) Direct Importation, JAS. M. ROBINSON, Manager, Depot and Office, 216 Canal Street, cor. Libert, NEW ORLEANS, «. Orders filled with dispatch, assti40A"n UU2aranteed. W. H. GREEN, : : : : Agent, DONALDSONVILLE BODLEY BROTHERS, -OFFICa OF WAGON REPOSITORY, 61 Caroadelet Street; JEW ORLEANS. Factory at Wheeling, W. Va. ANUFACTURERS of Plantatio ley's Steel. Skein Wagons, the; sold. Wheelbarrows. Axis ka loe,, Cotton MeaI DistrijhuttS. Can deli ver godsa facto~ry, apd in car kuloadso ~'