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THE DONALDSO VILLE CHIEF.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF ASC NSION AND TOWN OF DONALDSONVILLE.
VOLUME IX. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIAN , SATURDAY, APRIL 1 r, 1880. NUMBER 32.
Amncus Humani Generis.
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Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish,La.,
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Address: CBIEr, Donaldsonville. La.
DONALDSONVILLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
DRY GOODS, GROCERTES, Etc.
A D. VEGA, Agent, dealer In Dry Goods.
A Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes,
flats, Groceries, Liquors, Furniture, Hard
ware, Tobacco, Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber,
Bricks, Carts and Wagons; Loeb's corner,
Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street.
B ERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
B Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, Hardware, Iron, Paints, Oils. Carts,
Plows, Saddlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
nltnre, Crockery, Wall Pappr and hlouse
Furnishing Goods, Mississippi street, corner
Crescent Place.
tOSEPH GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
Y Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture
and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods,
No. 14 Missississippi street.
M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
M * Goods, Clothing, Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, Furniture, Hardware, Crock
ery, Trunks, etc., corner Mississippi and St.
Patrick streets at4 No. 24 Railroad Avenue.
vyerything at lowest figures.
( rLINe , corner Crescent Place and
e l oemas street, dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
M ISRAEL & CO., deales in Dry Goods,
a Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
$nggies, etc., corner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
S MOYSI, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
e Ing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Groceries,
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup
plies, at the old Post-office stand, Mississippi
street.
Q WEINSCHENCK, dealer in Dry Goods,
" Notions, Clothing, Groceries, Hard
ware, Hats, Boots and Shoes, and general
Plantation Supplies, Railroad Avenne, be
tween Iberville and Attakapas streets.
P T. BABIN, dealer in Choice Family
* Oroceries,WIies and Liquors, Lamps,
Oils, e.t, Darrowville, near ferry landing.
and opposite Donaldsonville.
LIQUOR AND BILLIARD SALOONS.
r -IRE PLACE, Gas. Israel, manager,
. Corner Lessard and Mississippi streets..
Billiards, Lager Beer, Best Wines and
Liquors, Fine Cigars, etc.
BUTCHERS' EXCHANGE, P. Mollere,
propricetr, Crescen Place, opposite the
Market-Rouse. Best of Wines, Lqunors and
Cigars always kept at the bar.
HOTELS A1D BOARDING-ROUSES.
R ORT. E. LEE HOTEL, at Marx Israel's
old stand, corner Mississippi and Les
eard streets. Jos. Iafargue, proprietor. Bar
and billiard room attached:- First-class en
tertainment and accommodations.
QT. LOUIS HOTEL, Lucy Butler, pro
prietor, Crescent Place, near the wharf.
First-class Board and Lodging at reasonable
rates.
1i Y HOTEL. P. Lefevre, Proprietor,
1 Railroad Avenue, cor. Iberville street.
Bar supplied with best Liquors.
CONFECTIONERIES.
P tILIP GEIGER'S Confectionery and
Fruit S-ore, Mississippi street, adjoining
r emann's old stand. Cakes, Soda Water,
t.Aq. Toys and Fancy Articles.
D ONALDSONV'LI CONFECTIONERY.
by A. Grille, Mississippi street, near
St. Patrick. Branch on Railroad Avenue,
ear Opelousas street. Cakes, Fruits, Nuts,
da Water, Tce Cream. Cakes. Ice Cream
and Syrups for weddings and parties fur
nished on short notice.
CIGAR DEALER.
(l.: THOMPSON. Railroad Avenue, next
. }p t corner of Conway street, near
ibe b) , dealer in Havana and Domestic
Cigars. To~lieq, Snuff, Pipes, etc.
MILLINERY.
RS. M. BLUM. Miltijer, Mississippi
street, between Lessard and St. Pat
ijck. Latest styles qf Bonnets, IDats, French
Flowers, etc.; also, all kinds of Ltadies' Un
derwear.
MRS. J. FEVRIER, 'Milliner : all kinds of
Hats, Bonnets. Trimmmgs. Artificial
Flowers and Fancy Articles. corner Missis
sippi and Lessard streets.
BOOTr AND SHur MAK.ING.
`` GOETTE, Boot and Sloemaker. Mis
a sissippi street, opposite Maurin'a store.
All work in best style at bottom prices.
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SADDLERY---lrANESS-MAKING.
"FREDERICK BRENN, Saddler and liar
- nehss Maker, 159I Railroad Avenue. Sad
tiles and harness of all styles and prices
made to orde.r. All orders t'for repairing and
painting of tahriafges and Buggies prmptly
.e-uue4.ggi pmpl
BSMWIG MACHINE S.
Singer Sewing Machine
DEPOT,
corner Mississippi and Lessard streets.
A. Combe ........................ Manager,
Mrs. Octavia Isleqy,.............. a3eslady
LIVERY STABLESB UNDERTAb ING.
S CHONBERG'S Livery, Feed and Sale
Stable and Undertaker's Establisbment,
Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At
takapas streets. Competition defied.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES.
B RYBISKI, Apothecary and Druggist,
* Mississippi street, between St. Patrick
and St. Vincent streets, adjoining Gondran's
store.
CENTRAL DRUG STORE, corner Rail
road Avenue and Iberville street, L.
Blanehard, proprietor. Fresh Drugs and
Medicines.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
R J. GREEN, House, Sign and Ornamen
* tal Painter, Railroad Avenue, near
Claiborne street. Paper-hanging and Calci
mining in superior style.
BARBER SHOP.
L L. FERNANDEZ, Barber Shop, Mis
* sissippi Street, near corner Lessard.
Shaving, hair-cutting, shampooing, eto., in
most artistic style.
TINSMITH.
L OUIS J. RACKE, Tinsmith, Mississippi
s street, at Lemann's old stand. Orders
attended to with dispatch and satisfaction
insured.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Frederick Duffel, R. Prosper Landry.
DUFFEL A LANDRY1 Attorneys at
Law. Office on Chetimaches street,
Just back of the Counrt-Hlousc.
EDWARD N. PUGH, Attorney at Law,
Attakapas street, opposite Louisiana
Square. Visits Nanoleonville on Mondays.
SODA WATER MANUFACTORY.
SODA WATER MAINUFACTORY, H.
Hether, proprietor, No. 11 Mississippi
street. Soda, Mineral, Seltzer and all kinds
of aerated waters manufactured, and sold
at lowest prices.
Dr. P. J. Frledrichs,
of New Orleans
Is now permanently located on Railroad
Avenue between Mississippi and Iberville
streets
DR. A. C, LOVIF ,
Darrowville, La.
Left bank Mississippi river, opposite Don
aidsonville.
Office and residence at Gibson's Hotel.
DR. . B. VANDI)EORIFF
OFFICE :
Attakapas street, near the Court-House,
Donaldsomvllle, La.
_ R. W. M. McGALLIARD
Office in Crescent Place,
Donaldsoaville. La.
LAW AND NOTARIAL OFFICE.
IR. N. Sims,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Donaldsonville, La.
Practice in Ascension, Assumption and St.
James. mch22-ly
EDMUND MAURIN,
ATSTOlNT AT ZIAW,
Office: Opposite the C~ourt-HJouse,
Donaldsonville, La.
Practices in the Fourth Judicial District,
-comprising the parishes of Ascension, St.
James, St. Charles and St. John Baptist
and the parish of Assumption. aprl9
PAUL LECHR,
ATT$i3RZT AT LAW,
Donaldsonville, La.,
Office: One block below the Court
House, on Attakapas street. my24-ly
John H. Ilsley, Jr., F. B. Earhart.
ILSLEY & EARHART,
ATTOI.WTS AT IAW,
Office: Opposite the Court House,
Donaldsonville, La.
Practice in the Fourth Judicial District
(comprising St. Chareks, St. John, St. James
and Ascension parishes), and in the Supreme
and United States Courts. umy3l-79
CHAS. OBERKAMP, Jr.,
Barber and Hairdresser.
Crescent Place, adjoining St. Louis Hotel,
Donaldsonville, La.
Shaving, Hair Cutting, Dyeing, Shampoo
ing, etc., in elegant style at moderate
charges augi
H. C. GRUBE'S
Auction and Commission House,
Donaldsonville, L5a.
The undersigned is pleased to inform the
public that, having filed the bond required
byl hw and received his commission from
the Governor as an AUCTIONEER, he is
now prepared to execute with promptaeas
and satisfaction all business in the auction
line with which he may be entrusted. y pr
niture and articles of every descriptiop
stored and sold on commission. Apply to
or address,
H. C. GRUBEI
dl3 Licensed and Bonded Auctioneer.
N BEL,
DRUGGIST,
Corner Chetimaches and Mississippi Streets
Donaldsonville, La.
A complete stock of Pure Chemicals al
ways on hand. Prescriptions carefully com
piled at all hours, day or night. feb16
JOHN P. FORCHA,
Cistern Maker,
Railroad Avenue, opposite the Post-office,
Donaldsonville, La.
All work guaranteed and satisfaction
warranted. Prices lower than the lowest.
T W. BROWN,
Justice of the Peace and
Notary Public.
Office at Hercule Landry's itrairie Store,
Parish of Ascension.
All bdtsieaess transacted with precision and
dispatoh. sei20O
For the CmaRF.
DOT EX-RECORDER
BY A, J. REYNOLDS.
I apheak me now ov von ofvicial,
Who also ish a vriend ov mine,
Und dhough he bees zomevat heculiar,
He's es nice a "duck" es you vill din'.
He iah der von Regording man,
You gan dell it by his looks;
B Vor mood der dime you vind dot man
A wriding in some books.
He ethands him 'round der Courd-House,
Vrom morn undil meridian;
Und ven der clock chimes oud dot time,
Pilly ish a missing man.
Vat vor I I dought you vould dot ask,
You voolish, senseless sinner;
Vy, Pilly bicks himself all oop
Und valks avay do dinner.
Und ven et last dot meal ish done,
He vill again be 'round,
Und zit aboud der Courd-House door,
Es if in dudy bound.
He sthrictly ish a bizness man,
Und ish alvays et his boat;
Und vill " ethick on " der legal hours,
No madder vat id goat.
He vas a very gurious von,
Lives in Bert Barrow village;
Und vilst he's nod a varming man,
Hie spheaks or botato tillage.
He spheaks zomedime mit der old Shudge,
Who lives in dot town too;
Und maybe I vill some, nexd reek,
8pheak of der Shudge mit you.
Bud, I'm apheaking now or "Pilly Be,"
Dot good Regording man;
Who alvays to his bizness dends
In a vay dot's "' smack und jam."
He has a dark und biercing eye,
Zomovat like Willlam Cowdy;
Und yen you go vrom him avay,
He'll zay-"dell your kin' yolks howdy."
Und he ish von goot-hearted man,
sympathy sincere;
Unt ven a vrien'of his ishla ill,
You'll surely vind him dere.
Bud.gden in der bizness hours,
Ven l islab din und whirr,
He'll look him vrom his book straght oop
Und ask-" Vat ish der stir 1"
lied now he ish der Depudy Glerk
Or der Twenty-two times District Court,
Und you may bet at reg'lar hours
He'll certainly be " in bort."
Vor he has ofden been in Gourt,
Und has der legal ruling heard;
Und zo he'll alvays drimi his zale,
Und glide on der lee side of " Ford."
Ferd ish addorney vor der Sthate,
A good von he vas, too;
Und surely iv he vas nod dot,
He'd be no vriend or Pilly Bu.
Vor Pilly ish a barticular man,
Ven he does his vriends select;
Und I dink a man has a righd to be
In die ding, circumspect.
Und now I've sphoke or die, mine vrien',
.In tones bod calm und mild,
Vor he ihab a true and vaithiful vrien',
Und es shentle es a shild,
Yah! von may thravel der vorld 'round,
Vrom hero unto Hindoo;
Und never, never, never vind
A nopler man dan Pilly Bu.
DONALDSONVIL.Ls. April 11, 1880.
SONG OF THE BREEZE.
[As sung by the major-general in "The
Pirates of Penzanee."]
Softly sighing to the river
Comes the lowly breeze.
Setting nature all a quiver,
Rustling thro' the trees,
Thro' the trees.
And the brook in gentle neasure,
Laughs for very love.
While the poplars in their pleasure
Wave their arms above
Yes, the trees in very pleasure,
Wave their leafy arms above.
Yet the breeze is fbut a rover;
When he wings away
Brook and poplar mourn a lover,
Sighing, well a-day!
Well a-day !
Ah, the wooing and undoing
That the rogue could telli
When the breeze is out a-wooing
Who can woo so well 1
Ah, the tales the rogue could tell
Nobody could woo so well.
- 1T: . Gilbert.
... 9-- I- 4 . ..
An Unequal Tax,
St. Landry Democrat.
According to the State census of
18'5, there were in Iouisiana 188,359
persons entitled to vote. Of course
there were other males over twenty.
one years old not entitled to vote.
The law is, we believe, that all males
over twenty-one years of age shall
pay a poll tax of one dollar. Now
the State Treasurer's report for 1879
shows that during the year only $42,
548 46 for poll tax were paid into the
treasury, and this included collections
from one to ten years back. Only
those who pay a tax on property pay
a poll tax. This tax is neither uni
form nor equal, except on the tax
payers who pay their taxes. It is a
sham and a fraud, and ought to be
abolished, or collected from all. For
the year 1879, less than $2000 for poll
tax were collected iu this parish, and
yet there must be about 7000 males
in it over 21 years of age. If our law
riakers would provide a remedy to
collect this tax, there would not be
so much necessity for the increase in
the assessment of the property of
those who pay all the taxes, poll tax
included,
".Leap year gives young ladies a
gentlemau's privilege in making love,"
says an exchange. Perhaps it does.
But no respectable young man will
have any thing to do with a young
lady who takes a position on the street
corner, and only winks at the gentle
men as they pass by, but also squirts
tobocco juice on their coat tails. Nor
would it look well for a dozen or more
young ladies, when the weather will
admit of it, to loaf around in front of
the church an hour and a half Sunday
nights, sparring and knocking one
another's hats off and dancing a tra
la-la on the sidewalk in order to kill
time until the congregation is dis
missed, and then buckle up to a young
man and escort him horne.-Skrere
port 'imes.
Our BroadbrI4 Letters.
Easter Servioes in the hlhurchee-Aori
monious Debate in thIMethodist Con
ferenoe-Book BaleafOpening of the
Academy of Design Metropolitan
Art Museum-Gypsy bber, Etc.
NEw Yoax, April 10, 1880.
EDITOR CHIEF:
As if glad to be relased from the
sombre season of Lentiall the church
es, without distinction, joined in the
Easter celebration, )r. Adler, the
most heterodox of Jeos, found cause
for jubilation that CIst had come
again; and Dr. Gotteil, the cham
pion of Israelitish orlodoxy, in the
great feast of the Pasepver, when cel
ebrated under the lioit of the new
dispensation, found a4difional cause
for congratulation andrejoicing. Even
the followers of the stern Calvin shook
off the iron rule of tie conventical,
and the earliest and nbst beautiful of
the Spring flowers, mode their altars
bloom like the garde of the Lord.
The musical portion of the Easter
ceremonies was espedally attractive
and delightful, and first-class so
pranos, contraltos, tears and bassos
were in active demmd, and at ex
orbitant prices. One dFthe most mag
nificent celebrations, a might be ex
pected, took place a the Catholic
Cathdoral, which iP probably the
grandest church edifice to be found
on the American continent. The day
was not pleasant; a cald, sharp wind
swept through the streets, reminding
us uncomfortably that March had not
yet gone; few ladies had courage to
fly their Spring kites, and those who
did looked like roses twined about
the North Pole, or daisesblooming on
an ice-berg. To return to the cele
bration at the Cathedral: the crowd
was simply immense, but vast as the
building is, the mass of the people
who desired to get in would more
than have filled it twice. Expecta
tion was great. Cardinal McCloskey,
clad in the royal robes of his sacred
office, was to officiate in person, and
in addition to that, a large number of
eminent clergymen were expected to
be present; for this Feast, so sacred
in its associations, takes precedence.
of every other church festival of the
year. Of course every sensible man
knows, whether Christian or Pagan,
that churches, like profane institu
tions, must be supported, but I con
fess that it was not without a shock,
that I saw each aisle guarded by a
dozen ushers, while the money chang
era that Christ cast out of the Temple,
eat by their tables, demanding their
dollar and half dollar of every man,
woman and child who passed the sa
cred goal. When one reads those
lines of loving promise, that the
Bread of Life shall be given to them
who are hungry, and that the Watei
of Life shall be given to them who
are thirsty, "without money and
without price," it looks as if the
promised land for the poor, the needy
and forsaken, was yet far off, and
that in heaven, as on earth, all good
things were reserved for the rich. One
remarkable, and I may add, unusual
feature at the Cathedral, was the en
tire absence of anything like floral
decoration i not a rose-bud or a violet
to Ie seen. This was understood to
be the Cardinal's desire, who wished
it especially on the score of economy.
The vestments that His Eminence
wore were rich and rare, covered over
and over with magnificent and costly
lace, wonderful jewels of fabulous
value sparkled on his breast and on
his fingers, the value of a single one
of which would have covered the
temple with flowers. Plymouth
Church, even in mid-winter, is lavish
in its floral offerings, but on an occa
sion like Easter, the contributions are
not only liberal, but exquisitely beau
tiful. Over the lovely parterre of
flowers, beamed the face of the pastor,
Mr. Beecher, who looked as hale and
as rosy as if his lines had always fall
en in pleasant places, and his dwell
ing place had ever been "' a land flow
ing with milk and honey." Brother
Talmage, too, gave and elaborate cel
ebration, his Easter-tide thanksgiving
being suppliwented by the fact that
his appeal to Dives and Lazarus has
met with a liberal response, and if the
Peter's-pence come flowing in as they
have for the past three weeks, they
will no longer be under the necessity
of mortgaging their church organ.
The Independent Catholic Church
is making rapid strides; ex-priests
and monks giving daily additional
strength. New halls are being opened
in New York and Brooklyn, and it
now looks as if the schism would be
come formidable.
Our Methodist friends met in Coun
cil this week, and part of the proceed
ings were the very reverse to har
monious. It has long been evident
that itineracy would be like a lion
in the way, if not a sunken rock on
which the Church would split. Dr.
Sims, of the Eastern Conference of
New York, opened the ball by a so
ties of resolutions which were calco
lated to overthrow one of the Church's
most honored institutions. All 'those
ministers who have good fat places
naturally want to keep them, and all
the poor evangelists jn the country
naturally wint to get into the great
cities, where brown stone churches
and stained-glass windows, velvet
cushioned pews are aids to that de-o
votion and humility which are the
surest evidences of a change of heart.
The Rev. Joseph Pullman, in the
most orthodox style, took the bull by
the horns. Dr. Buckley and Dr. Booth
took a hand in the fight, and for a
time the debate was carried on with
a bitter acrimony, which seemed char
acterized by anything but the meek
ness and humility which induces us
to turn our unsmitten cheek to our
neighbor, in hopes that he will give
it an extra lick. In fact, the whole
temper of the discussion was most on
christianlike and uncharitable, and
certainly but an indifferent example
to the hosts of benighted sinners who
look to these christian shepherds for
gospel light. It would seem as if a
determined effort is to be made to
narrow the limits of itineracy In the
Methodist Church, or at least to leave
it discretional with the Bishops or
Presiding Elders, to say whether the
stay of the minister may be prolonged
beyond the term of three years.
The sale of books and pictures this
Spring has been remarkable. One
private gallery of paintings brought
over a hundred thousand dollars, and
a half dozen libraries realizing fabu
lous prices, where people who were
never supposed to know much about
books, like Vanderbilt and Astor,
have really been found among the
bidders for rare and valuable works,
some times going up among the
thousands for special volumes.
The Spring opening of the National
Academy of Design, which is one of
our pet institutions, was an im
monse success. The reception night
usually brtngs out our crease de 1a
creme, and all the good and staid old
Knickerbockers, who look upon the
legitimate drama with horror, and re
gard the opera as a wicked invention
of the devil. In these artist recc.p
tions, however, there is always a
wholesome profane ingredient, which
reminds us that the world still moves
on, and if it were not for the sinners,
that good painting and good music
would be as rare as red crows or white
blackbirds.
The Great Father from Washing
ton dropped in upon us on Tuesday,
and after breaking bread with our
esteemed fellow-citizen, John Taylor
Johnson, the President of the Metro
politan Art Museum, he formally
opened the new institution, and dedi
atdrl it tn Art frnawar
The Eastern season has not been
)ne of unmixed thankfulness and
blessing. Many scenes of murder,
robbery and violence have clouded
this joyous festival. A remarkable
ease occurred here in the arrest of a
party of Gypsies, who defrauded a
sharp fellow by the name of Jessup,
in Indiana, of the sum of 2150. The
~ypsies were in camp near Jessup's
ractory, and he, attracted by the
sparkling black eyes of one of the
remale Romnies, paid them an occa
sional visit. The mother of the girl,
1 shrewd old witch, offered to tell the
;entleman's fortune, but, in order to
summon the spirits to aid her, it was
necessary that a certain amount of
money, not less than two thousand
lollars, should be placed in her
hands, which she faithfully promised
to return. The first incantation was
had, but the spiritual vision was
clouded, and the money was retuarned
to Jessup, tied up in a red silk band
kerchief. A few days after, she tried
it again, and made Jessup promise
that he would place the money in his
safe, and not look at it for fourteen
days. Just then a noise occurred out
side, and as Jessup turned his head,
the Gypsy deftly changed the hand
kerchief, and got off with the $2150.
Jessup, who thinks he is smart as the
average I$oosier, was so ashamed of
being duped that he never mentioned
it for a couple of weeks, but at last
bis cupidity got the betted of his van
ity, and he set a detective on the
track of the robbers, who hunted
them down in Brooklyn. Fortnne
tellin g and swindling must be a good
business, for these vagabonds own
a number of houses in Brooklyn and
Jersey City.
This week the trout fishing begins,
and it is quite a lively time among
oar local anglers. Yours truly,
BROA1BlRI)..
Our Washington Letter.
An Appropriation Bill Pared-The Pres
idential Oanvams-An Avalanohe of
Bills-The New Motor, Eto,
WAsnalovo$. D. U.,.April 19, 1880.
EDITOR CHIF r:
The Consular and Diplomatic Ap
propriation bill was passed on the
30th ult., just as it came from the
Committee. The only debate of in
terest was on a proposition of Mr.
Blackburn to dispense with the ser
vices of Foreign Ministers, to compel
them to remain at their posts, &c.,
all of which were talked over in a
lively manner. Probably there will
be greater activity in Congress dur
ing the next few weeks than at any
time since the first ten days of the
session.
It will be remembered that the
House some days since agreed to a
" rider" on a deficiency appropriation
bill by which the special deputy eleo
tion Marshals should be selected from
the various political parties. This
" rider" the Republican Senators will
oppose to the bitter end. Without
expressing an opinion as to the desir
ability of dividing up these on any
other officers among the parties, I
can not help expressing a hope that
the subject will be fully discussed,
and in that case the rider will be de
feated. My reason for this is that
political affairs have no proper place
in these or any other bills. We ought
not, under any circumstances, to leg
islate for party advantage.
In purely Presidential matters
there seems in the last week to have
been a rise in the Grant stock in the
South, and of the Blaine stock in the
East and West. The Grant men are
making great endeavors to capture
Iowa and Kansas, but the Blaine
men seem to be in the majority. An
immense silent strength is claimed
for Grant, but I fear it will never
make itself felt or heard. Hancock
stook has taken a rise, especially in
the South, and his friends hope that
before the convention meets in June,
Tilden himself will be a Hancock
man.
Nearly 6000 bills have been intro
duced, printed and put on the calen
dar of the present Congress. It would
take 150 years to dispose of them at
the rate the business was done at the
extra session, or has been by the
present session, which has now been
together over four months. Thou
sands of bills are introduced with the
understanding that they are to sleep
the sleep that knows no waking. A
ward politician has some scheme. He
was very useful in securing the nomi
nation of Hon. Moreover Smith as the
distinguished member from the Dis
trict of Hardscrabble. The Hon.
Moreover introduces his bill, it is
printed by thousands of copies, and
that is the end of the bill. The
printed matter of this and the other
thousands of its kind are paid for out
of uncle Sam's strong box, and the
aggregate of all this material, tons
upon tons, finds it way at last into
the hands of the junk dealers.
At last a ray of good sense has
seemed to fall acoess the vision of the
committee of ways and means in re
lation to the duty on paper material.
For a time it looked as if the voice of
the united press was to have no in
fluence upon these men, but they
began to discover that they were call
ing upon their own heads the trum
pet-tongued denunciations of the en
tire press of the commonwealth.
There should be no cessation of this
struggle until the press are secured
against the combination of the papet
dealers, who under the present tariff
can make a corner on this article at
any time they may choose.
The budding*springtime has come,
and the note of preparation is seen
everywhere in parks and reserva
tions, and around private residences.
Men in great numbers are putting
lawns, gardens, public and private
walks in order. In a few days we
shall
" See our jeweled silver maples
And our lawns in robes of green,
Smiling under golden sunshine,
Gaily decked by nature's Queen."
The throng of visitors in the city is
unusually large. Hundreds have left
the sunny South, who yearly go thith
er to escape the rigors of northern
winters, and they are now enjoying
springtime at the Capital, and throngs
are daily visiting Arlington, Soldiers'
Home, Mt. Vernon, and other objects
of interest. The Halls of legislation
are filled daily by visitors who rarely
fail of being disgusted by a few hours
spent in the Capitol, witnessing the
farce that is there played by the sren
who are sent here at an expense of
$5000 each, with all the etceteras, to
make laws for the dear people. A
congressional macdine is very un
wieldy and uncomfirtably expensive,
and if this combination of vast erudi
tion and sublime foolishaess were to
ieet only every five years, the coaim
try would be infinitely the gainer.
$SENTNEL.
The Baton Rouge Boom.
Capitolian Squibs,
Baton .ouge is evidently looming
up at last, and will ere long become
one of the handsomest and most thriv
ing towns in the South; On ill sides
improvements are visible. Our Court
House, that a few mouths ago seemed
a crumbling ruin, is now one of the
most stslish and neatest lookiqg
buildings of the kind in the State.
The engine house of Independenee
Fire Company No. 2 is 'a freshly
painted cosy little structure, while
that of Washington Steam Fire Com
pany No. I is also in as creditable a
condition. Several neat buildings
have been erected of late, with a gen
eral disposition to go ahead all along
the line.
Real estate in our city, under the
impetus that is being given by the
restoration of the Capital, is becom
ing more valuable each day. By the
time the State Government is removed
there is no telling what the iacrea.,e
in value will be from the price for
which it might be obtained at present.
People abroad who are possessed of
means for investment had bettes coun
here and look around for themselves;
A beautiful and healthy location, a
magnificent and fertile back country,
affording every advantage to the a8g
griculturist, good schools, good so'
ciety, churches, a well regulated, or
derly community, is in brief that
which the Capital of Louisiana offers
:o the enterprising.
Sixteen dollars and thirty- five cents
foot up the expenses of attending the
sick at the City Hospital during last
month. And still the cry is thalt the
South is too unhealthy a region for
emigrants to select as their home.
Thirteen dollars and sixty cents
was the total amount of the cost of
maintaining the prisoners sent to the
jail by the city of Baton Rouge during
th9 month of March, 1880. We defy
any other city of eight thousand it.
habitants to present such an evidence
as the new Capi:al of Louisiana as a
law-abiding community.
A splendid opportunity offers itself
to capitalists to lease the valuable
and costly machinery and looms be.
longing to the State, which are lying
idle at the Penitentiary in this city.
Every facility can here be found.
The Mississippi river is near by,
through, which coal can be obtained
from the West. Else, there are dense
forests almost within stone's throw
with an inexhaustible supply of wood
for fuel. The raw material is brought
here in wagons from the back country,
by the producers who have made this
point their favorite market for its
sale. Then our city containing some
eight thousand inhabitants will fur
nish all the operatives at as cheap
rates as labor of this kind can be ob
tained elsewhere. The manufactured
goods could at last be sent away at
the smallest coston our river steamers.
Broom Corn.
Countr. Visitor.
Broom corn is spoken of as likely,
at no distant day, to take the place
of the breadatuffs now supplying the
world. It appears that a process has
been discovered by which the finest
and most nutritious flour eas be made
from the seed, equal to one-half of its
weight, while the other half is valua
ble food to produce beef and milk.
Its yield is astonishing, reaching an
average of 300 bushels to the acre on
suitable land, and in many instances
it has been known to produce 500
bushels or 30,000 pounds to an acre.
It does not eshaust the soil like In
dian corn, as it draws its nourishment
from a greater depth. It is a similar
character of plant to sweet cane, or
sorghum, that furnishes such nutri
tious food and is so generally es
teemed; and it is stated that a com
mon brush broom could sustain the
life of an infant for days, by the ex
traction of the nourishment from the
end of the broom.
Broom corn grows well in this State,
and experienced poultry-raisers claim
that poultry fed on the seed are never
attacked by cholera.
In many places in the State brooms
are made by inlividulls who raise
corn, and are sold in the neighboring
towns at prices much below those
purchaseable in this city.
Farmerville Gazette: On the 28th
nit., the gin-house of T. J. Freeman,
near Marion, in this parish, was to
tally consumed by fire, together with
the gin stand and running gear and
600 bushels of cotton seed. Some
timber near the gin-house had been
burning on the day previous and from
this it is thought the fire originated.
....Sunday night, two Negro girls,
the eldest about 18 years of age, liv
ing upon the place of E. II. Ward in
this parish, left the cabin of Solomoq
Raines, their grandfather, with a torch
to go to the house in the yard in which
they had been usually sleeping, and
but a short distance from the cabin of
tlheir grandfather. About two hours
after they had left, the grandfather
was awakened by the roar of flames,
which had thesn nearly enveloped the
cabin in whic$h bis grand daughters
were sleeping. Rushing to the door
of the burning building the old man
broke it opel and discovered the feas
stricken girls on the opposite side of
the buikding, paralyzed with terror
and unable to move. As the door
was broken open the fames were
forced through the opening and ren
dered it impossible for the grand
father to enter and save the girls from
their horrible fate. The old man and
others who were aroused by the
shrieks of the poor girls were com
pelled to remain idle spectators to
their terrible death.
.P'licon: Cattle and horses ip this
section are beginming to die. There is
nso moLs pasturage in this virinity.
owing to hligh water, nod some of ttl,
stock is dying hfom shet-r s6mt ation.