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THE DONALDSONVILLE CHIEF. AN INDEPENDENT, WIDE-AWAKHE I OME NEWSPAPER.-SUBSCRIPTION PRIOC, TWTO DOLL.ARS A YEAR. VOLUME XV. DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1886. NUMBER 19. i ~ nnnuu nn • u nnm mmuunn m m m uum u mumun u m! ! m m n n in ln u m ... .... . nmmnn m .n ___ . mnunmmnl Ul n unm ml.m nlm UU u mnnnuuu m m uumnmn n m m"n-n m u u u nnu , nto . m. Tle Doraldsopville Chief. Amicns Humani Generis. A Wide-Awake ilome Newspapel Published Every Saturday Morning at Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La., -BY L. E. BENTLEY, Editor and Proprietor TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: (ine copy, one year ....................... $2 U One cony, six months............. ........ 1 2 Six ropies, one year ... .......... ..... 10 0 Twelve copies, one year..... ...........18 U Payable in advance. ADVERTISING RATES: SPACE. 1 me. 2mos lmos.6 mose. 1 yea - - - I- - I 'One inch.....$ 300 $5 00$ 8 50$ 0110 $150 Two inches.... 560 800 950 15 50 200 Three inches.. 7 0) 11 00 12 50 19 00 250 Four inches... 850 1400 1500 23 00 800 Five inches.... 10 00 16 00 17 00 27 00 85 0 Bix inches..... 11 50 18 00 19 00 3000 400 Beven inches... 13 50 20 00 21 00 33 00 44 0 "Eight inches .. 15 00 22 00 2400 36 00 48 0 5% column......: 20 00 30 00 5 00 45 00 60 0( 0 column... . 30 400 00 4500 55 00' 75 0 leolumn..n... .. 40 00 50 00 55 001 65 L 100 0I Transient advertisements, $1 per square tre insertion; each subsequent insertion, 75 cent ,,ter square. Othcial or legal advertisements, $1 per squarw first insertion; each subsequent insertion, 54 cotlts per square. Editoirial notices, first insertion, 15 cents pel line; subsequently, 10 cents per line. Cards of six lines or less in IBusiness Direct. -ery. $5 per annum. Brief communications upon subjects of public *i nterest solicited. No attention paid to anonymous letters. The editor is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Addressi Tax CaHIE, Donailesonville. La. NEW ORLEANS CARDS. iDr. P. J. Friedlich'h, Successor to Dr. W. 8. Ohandler, 15 ......... ...Carondelet street.............153 New Orleans. Sam. Bandera's ROYAL' Oyster Saloon And Restaurant, Corner £4oyal and Toulouse Streets. New Orleans, La. B2OARD BY THE DAY, WEEK OR MONTH 1 at lowest rates, and the best products of the market guaranteed. Special accommoda tion for Ladies and Families. WHOLESALE DEALEIZ IN i'ISt, OYSTE.Rs, Ete., For Town and (ountry Trade. (iian Day and Night. I'elephone 491 in office. Hrou McMANU.. tInCHor.AS Io . JR. Hugh McManus & Co., COOPERAGE. Manufaeturers of and dealers in Sugar Barrels, Hogsh ads, Molasses Barrels, Halves and Kegs, (,'ie anOd I6arehoase: 12 Front and 2, 4 andt ('ustomhousta Sts.. near Sngar Landing: Furt;'ry: 37 and al South Pricur St.; NEW (,llEANS, IA. -" Particular attenltion paid to trimmings on the nugar Landing. Also prepared to con tract for furnishing SEI(OND-HAND HOUS lIE l1)8. good ,s new. P. O. foIx 1931. E. J. HIIAIT & CO., Wholesale Dealers, Importers and Commission .Merchants, GROCERIES and DRUGS, S 7i. . 77 and 79 Tchenupitoulas Street, NEW ORLEANS. Kursheedt & Bienvenu. M ONUMENTS, TOMBS and HEADSTONES. --ALL KINDS OF JlA It BL E WO It IK -AN D CEMETERY RAILINGS Nos. 114,120, 122, Camp St., NEW ORLEANS. The Babcock & Wilcox Co.. -MAKI-E OF Water Tube Steam Boileis. flITRESE BOILERS were awarded the first L premium at the World's Industrial and tCotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans. Southern olfioe: 57 Oarondelet Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA. FIREDERIC '(_O)K, tGen'l Agent and Manager. 1832. ESTABLISHED 1832. Furniture House, 33 and 35 Royal St. CHOICE, MEDIUM AND CHEAP LINES OF GOODS. POLITE ATTENTION. Knocked Down Goods for Country Merchants. JAMES McCRACKEN, 33 and 35 Royal Street, New Orleans. 1UIEISED ROOM1 FOR RENT. With or Without Board. Location Convenient, Accommoda tions Good, Prices Moderate. .51 Conti Street, between Exchange Alley and Royal Street, Apply on the priemises or address as above. MRS. C. C. PONDS. Formerl, of Ascension and Iberville parihes. ' i "" 2 : ' i i ý -..- Q L ! Z DONALDSONVILLE BUSINESS DIRECTORY. DRIY GOODS. GIRO)CERIES. Et. ISRAEL & CO., dealers in Dry Goods, M. Clothing. Boots, Shoes, Saddlery. Ilug gies; etc., corner Mississippi and Lessard streets. C KLINE, corner Crescent Place and Hon n masatreet, dealer in Dry Goods. Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Provisions. ('Corn, Oats and Bran. B ERNARD LEMANN & BROTHFIt, dealers in Western Produce, fancy andl staple(Gro ceries, Liquors, Hardware, Iron. Paints. Oils. Carts. Plows addery, addlery, Stoves and Tinware. Furniture, Crockery. Wall Pape.r and House Furnishine Goode. Missi sippi street, corner ('reecent Place. C HEAP JOHN'S BAR,;AIN l[OTU f. Dry -(oods, Boots and Shoies. Hats and ('aps. Hardware. Paints, Oils. Glassware. T'nware, Groceries and General Merchandise. Rlailroad Avenue, near the depot. OSB. GONDRAN & SONS. dealers in QDry 5 Goods, Clothing. Notions Hats. (.Jr t',ru.s Wine. Liquors. Boots, Sh Is, hardware, I'aints. Oilsr Saddlery, Crockery. Furnitnre and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods. hlue Store. Mississippi street. W l). PARK, dealer in Staple and Fancy SGroceries. Provisions. Plantatiuon and Steamboat Snpplies, Canned Goods. Wines, i Liquors, Bottled Beor, Ale. etc., Day Goods ad Notions, corner of Mississippi and CLeti macihes streets, opposite River terry. IfOTELS AND 1HOARDtNfl-i1iRU E . ROBERT E. LEE HOTEL. Crescent Pla-ce. LR opposite the steamhoat landing. the most oenvenient location in town. First-class ac einmaodations at reasonable rates Elegant mbar. billiard and pool :irmn.attached. . J. aI fargue, Proprietor. PEEP-O'-DAY HOTEL AND B1AR(HOOM IMississippi street. First-rate accommo elation and reasonable prices. Finest Wines Liquors and ('icars. A. J. Rethancourt. Pro prietor: Sam Ayraud. Manager. CITY HOTEL, P. Lufevre, Proprietor, Rtail Sroad Avenue. cornor Iherville street. Ba supplied with beat Liquors. LIQUOIIt AND IILI.IAIRD SAILOONS. TI[HE PLACE. (Gus. Israel, manager. Corle J Lessnrd and Mississippi streets. Billiards Lager Beer. Blest Wines and Liquors. Finr ('igars, etc. NEWSDI)EA:LEt AND STATIONER. S 8. INGMAN. successor to W. G. Wilkinson SK corner Mississippi and Lessard streets, di. agonally opposite the post-otffice. News and ili lustrated papers. Books. Stationery, Pens, Ink Base Ball Supplies. Toys. Smoking Material and Fancy Articles in great variety. TINSMITH. PAUL WUTKE, Tinsmith, Port Barrow. La I tloofilg, guttering, stovepiping, repairing and all work pertainin± to the tinner's trade Address P. O. Box 14. -,nauldsonville. Iu. BAEtit It 10.l'SM. OGi E & LANG .E('KER, City Barber Shop Mississippi street, adjoining Peep-o,'-Da) Hoitel. Shaving, Shampooning, Hair-cutting Dyeing of Hair or Whiskers, etc., in the heal style, at popular prices. Respectfully solicil the patronage of the public. ATTO()RNEYS AT LAW. -IItEDERIICK DUFFEL, Attorney at law and Notary Public, office on ('hetimaches streel opposite the ('ourt-Honse. PAUL LECHE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public, Donaldsonville. Office: on block below the Court-House. on Attakapas street. HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. ING5RY. THE PAINTER. shop at Cheap 1" Tony's Store, corner Mississippi street and Railroad Avenue. House, Sign and Ornamental Painting in all their branches. Best work at lowest prices. IJUNI)IETA KtER. .CHONBEIRG'S Undertaker's Establishment, S Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At takapas streets. All kinds of burial cases, from the pine coffin to the metalie or rosewood can ket. DRIUGS AND MEDICINES. B YHISKI. A.nthseary and Druggist, Mins Ssissippi street. between St. Patrick and St. Vincent streets. adjoining Gondran's store. 'II LLIN EY. BMR. M. BLUM. Milliner. Mississippi street. between Lessard and St. Patrick. Latest styles of Bonnets, Hats, French Flowers, etc.; also. all kinds of Ladies Underware. BLACKSMITHS & WHEELWRIGUTS. ' P. SCHULER, Blacksmith, Wheelwright. = s Horse-Shoer, Carriage. Wagon and ('art maker and repairer, Railroad Avenue, between Mississippi and Iberville streets. CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. TK W. DARTON. Civil Engineer and Sur 1. veyor-D-arish Surveyor of Ascension. Will attend promptly to work in all branches of his profession, such as surveying, mapping. leveling for canals, bridges, rice flunes, estima, ting cost and supervising construction of same., --CltuK AND JOB PRINTINNG OFFICE. TIIHE CHIEF Ottice, Crescent Place, opposite I the Market-House. is supplied with a fine essortment of type and turns out all kinds of plain and fancy job work in beet style a* New Drleans prices. No better and cheaper work is done anywhere in the State. P IE -- --------- goods which will help you to Smake more money right away than anything else in the world. All. of either ?ex, succeed from first hour. The broad road to fortune opens before the workers, absolutely mure. At onse address, Tara & Co., Portland.Me. TENANTI WANTEDI TO IMA.~E CROPS ON SHARES, WITH PRIVILEGE OF Butying the Land. Industrious persons of limited means will find this a splendid opportunity to secure a Comfortable Living AND A GOOD HOME ON EASY TERMS. Inducementsoffered that cannot heexcelled elsewhere. Apply to the underaigncd at LeBlanc plantation, (opposite Donaldsonvi llie) half-mile above Darrowville, or address through Darrow post-otfice, Ascension parish, La. E. VOM HOFE. FRANK HERRON, Barroom Travelers' Rest, 129 Poydras Street, NTEW ORLEATNS W INES AND LIQUORS from the best viit ages of Europe. the Levant and IAmerica; also. choice Mexican and Spanish importations. Tobacco and Cigars of best quality. Prompt attention at all hours. IW OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. . MME. J. FEVRIER, -AND FANCY GOODS, No. G164 ROYAL STREET, NEV O RLEANS, LA. FURNISlIED ROOMS, WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD. Excellant accommodations at reasonable rates. Buly the LEWIS 1tiat Fire xEtinisishier. OVEI ONE MILLION now in use and not one i failure on record. Have proofs of actual saRings to property owners of more than one million dollars' worth of property from destrue. tion by fire during six months ending Aug. II, 181+5. We offer the LEWIS strictly on its mer. its and ask you to try it. for yourself. THi UNION PACIFIC RAmPooAD Co.. after duno trial, ordered for the use of the Company 2000 Dloz en of the Extinguishers. Beware of worthless imitation. Buy only the LEWIS. The IEt."T is always tile CITE %PEST. PRICE. 815 per doz. For sale by H. Dun. I.Y ('OLEMAN. 9 Perdido; MORRTn MctGRiw, Tehoupitoulas and Natchez; JNo. J. VOELKEL, 857 Magazine street; RICE. BORN & Co.. 81 Camp st reet; L. R. SASSINOT, 170 Orleans street. FRED. P. ALLEN. Sole Agent for Louisiana, L2 (Camp street, NEW ORLLEANS. F. MAIME, Jr., DEALEI IN FANCY AND Family Groceries, Wines and Liquors. OYSTER SALOON. No. 206 Royal street. corner of Dumaine. New Orleans, La. COUNTRY PROLDU('E bought and sold. Con signments from the parishes solicited. CHINESE MUST GO! DO AS I DO(, AND MAKE MECHANICS OF YOUR CHILDREN. ESTABLIrHED....... ......MAC, 18. AIRANZIN' 4 Watch Repairing ESTABLISHMENT, 21 Exchange Alley, near ('.qtomnhouse SIteet, NEW ORLEANS. See how Little it Costs to hluve your Watch Repaired : WATCH GLASSES,................10 Ct. WATCH HANDS..................10 " WATCH CLEANING ..............50 " WATCH MAINSPRING, ...........75 " Other work in proportion, Country orders es pecially solicited. I Watchmakers: PAUL JRANZIN. KATIE GRANZIN. ROGER GRANZIN. E R ARK They are as Transparent and Colorless as Light itself, and for softness and endurance to the eye can not be excelled. enabling the wearer to read for hou a without fatigue. In fact they are PERFECT SIGHT FRESERVERS. Testimonials from the leading physicians in the United States, Governors. .enators. Legis lators. Stockmen. men of note in all profes sions and in different branches of trades, bank ers. mechanics. etc.. can be given who have had their sight improved by their use. ALL EYES FITTFT" BY S. S. ING.:Az . , pONALDSONVILLE. JA, Every pair warranted. These glasses will not be supplied to peddlers at any price. !Rf KS. I. PALMER. DRESSMAKER, Railroad Avenue, near Claiborne street, Donaldsonville. Plain and fancy sewing of all kinds done in oest style and on reasonable terms. A trial solicitjed nd satisfaction guaranteei. HOMELESS. Sad and weary, lonely, old4 Toiling on through winter's cold, Homeless 'mid the snow and sleet, Ragged limbs and naked feet. Helpless. feeble, bent and gray, There he sweepeth all the day, None to pity, none to give Aught that makes it life to live. Iove-the word that makes a home Far or near. where'er we roam; Love- that guides us on our way Through the dusk of sorrow's day; Love-ah! what a power is this, Fillingdarkest hour with bliss; But he stands, the sweeper Ild, Loveless, homeloss. pale and cold, 'Mid the city vast and dim, Not one soul to care for him. Darkness sinks upon the street, Snow is falling swift and deep, Yet he creepeth slowly on. Faltering sorely, weak and wan. Now before his dim old eyes, Distant dreams of beauty rise. Dreams of moments long. long dead, Days and hot ver fled; ('ottage home iewy lane; Bummer-time i: ea again: Children pattering to and fro; Silvery voices come and go: Iove is there, and Joy, and Home Whence no more his feet shall roam. For a beam of glorinus day Chasesall his rranmsaway; Angel voices swell the song; Harps are pealing loud and long; (Gates of Heaven. dazzline, bright; Glory bursts upon his sight. Rest at last, no more to roam God in love has brought him Home. -Chambers' Journal. A CHRISTIAN 3AIRTYR. All ills known to physic' from toothache to phthisic, He suffered with torture intense, A cancerous hummock invaded his stomach, His rheumatic pains were immense; He was sick with miasma and choked. with the asthma, An abhess had eaten his lung, And there was a rumor a gigantic tumor Had grown at the roots of his tongue; The keen meningitis,. the choking bronchitis. Both tortured him nearly insa.-. And a cross looking bunion, as large as an onion. Made him bowl for whole hours in pain. He had "healers," physicians, and loud quack magicians, And nostrums and pills by the ton, And medicine mixers, with all their elixirs, Be-doctored the fellow like fun. They would drug him anud swill him, yet noth could kill him, Their efforts combined hs defied. Till a famous soprano, with a rattling piano. Moved into his house-then he died. - Phitladelpha Item. ..... -"9 =----q..4= --. STATE NEWS. I Gleanlngs from the Newspapers of Lou. Islana. Lake Charles has a high school. Thibodaux is to have a new town hall. Monroe has a Knights of Labor organiza tion. The Ruston (anlilraph has built a brick office. The Plaquemine firemen's entertainment netted $x441 10. The Mill bayou culvert in Avoyelles has been completed. Leon Tresclair was accidentally drowned at Timbalier Island. The Baptists of Ruston are preparing to build a brick church. Black Byou bridge. O)unachita, is to ive rebuilt by the parish. Mr. Rees Bryant takes editorial charge of the Claiborne Guaridin. The Davis crevasse levee is continually sliding and settling down. The residence of Mr. G. C. Gordin, More house parish, has been destroyed by fire. The East Carroll 1,,aner has been eleoted corporation printer of Lake Providence. Nine prisoners cut a hole in the corpora tion lockup at Providence, and escaped. At n succession sale in Vermilion parish prairie land sold for from $ 29 to $70 per acre. The .'iuday law, in St. Landry parish, is to be rigidly enforced after the1st of Jan nary. Ben Dnrean was shot and fatal!-- round ed by Anderson Lewis, at Rust .: Both colored. At Mount Airy Station, St. James, a car load of 45 bales of cotton caught fire and burned. In a railroad smash-up near Mermentan, John Kelley of Lake Charles was badly crushed. Sufficient rails to lay three miles of track on the Houma branch road have been for warded. The Police Jury of St. John have appro pri:ted $5%10 for repairs to be made on the Davis Jriveg. Shreveport has a new Silsby steam fire engine which has been named after Capt. Winm. Robson. The State Board of Engineers have com pleted Harlem and Bohemia levees. Plaque mines parish. Mr. Jules Litex has been seriously in jured at a gin near Hermitage, Pointe COuupe parish. The Turnerville levee, above Planqemine, is to be built on the last line laid out by Engineer Brown. The ferry at Monroe, Ouachita parish, brought over three hundred wagons into town in one day. Building and stock of Dr. C. M. Sitman & Co.'s store at Greenaburg were entirely consumed by fire. Mr. Van P. Winder of Terrebonne has been appointed District Attorney vice Win chester, resigned. The.body of an unknown man was found floating in the river, in the neighborhood of the Davis crevasse. A coldred Nimrod of St. James was shot by the accidental discharge of his gun and died from the wounds. The warehouse of Messrs. Coyle & Wil mot, Baton Rouge coal merchants, has been destroyed by fire. J. Wesley Harvey, on trial in St. Landry parish. for the murder of James .iceKey in 1873, has been acquitted. A drunken Negro fell off his horse into a creek between Arcadia and Calvin. Lincoln parish, and was drowned. Cattle are dying in Bossier from drinking refuse water from the sugar-houses, filled with scum and bisulphate. Mr. Charles McD. Puckette, editor of the Shreveport Times, has recovered from a se rious and prolonged illness. The funeral of Judge Goode in Houma, is said to have been the largest ever wit nessed in Terrebonne parish. Mr. Ed. Wells is to put up a turpentine still in Springfield, Livingston parish, and open a turpentine orchard. A Morgan railroad train ran into a car: on the Garden City plantation, St. Mary, killed three munl. rore the cart to piece :;u:'. toe,-d tha driv-r i;igh in the air. Camille Picon, who killed Mr. Thibodaux of Lafourche, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for eighteen years. Paul Bay was shot and fatally wounded by one Guillaumas, dorino a scrimmage at Ville Platte, St. Landr parish. A justice's court at Graoi Csillou broke up in a fight receutly, the justice and his constable joining heartily in the melee. W. H. Roots, one of the Shreveport bill raisers, has been arrested at Logansport, Texas, and brought back to Shreveport. The large dwelling and kitchen on the Woodlawn plantation, sixteen miles belov Shreveport, have burned to the ground. A drunken Negro went to sleep on the T. and P. railroad track in St. Charles, an. was run over and killed by a passing train. A residence occupied by A. B. Weaver, Shreveport, was destroyed by fire, caused by the explosion of a lamp. Lose about $5000. Frank Brown, one of the inmates of the Vidalia jail, died from the effects of wounds received at the hands of an officer who ar rested him. Elder Wm. George, confined in jail in East Carroll under sentence to be hung on Jan. 15, was detected in making an effort to fire his cell. George Bowman of Shreveport is in hoc for attempting to murder his wife with a hatchet. The woman is reported in a crit ical condition. Tom Clements, who killed Joe Boyd, at Alexandria, last spring, and was captured in Atlanta, has been returned to Alexandria and is now in jail. Two brothers namad Hath, residents on Bayou Black, had a desperate fight which resulted in the stabbing and dangerous wounding of one of them. A freight ear and construction train col lided between Jennings and Mermentau, seriously injuring John Kelly, a section hand on the Morgan railroad. Hon. Jas. L. Lobdell of Baton Rouge while out hunting with a party of friends received painful injuries in his face from the accidental discharge of a gun. The contract for repairing Lake Concor dia levee, comprising 50,000 cubic yards. was awarded to Mr. McDonald for sixteen and seven-eighth cents per cubic yard. Dave Williams, a drunken Negro, was run over and killed on Thursday night last by the east bound T. & P. train, between Lecomte and Lamourie, Rapides parish. Charles F. Alba, ex-clerk of the Alice Le Blanc, has libeled that steamer for $10,000 damages, said to have been sustained by in juries received while on duty on said boat. Gov. McEnery has appointed Benj. F. Winchester of St. Mary Judge of the Nine teenth Judicial District, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge F. S. Goode. While driving along the road at Avoy elles the tire of one of the wheels of Mr. Gremillon's buggy broke and struck him on the side of the head, inflicting a painful wound. A flat car loaded with 59 bales of cott',,, belonging to H. R. Johnson & Co., of Shreveport, caught fire from the engine I:t the depot in Ruston and was completely de stroyed. A raid was made upon Mrs. Hearsey's toy store, Baton Rouge, and goods, mostly fire 'w :ks, to the amount of $200 stolen. Four cuu -ed boys and a colored woman have been arrested. Masked highwaymen armed with double barreled shot-guns robbed a colored boy in Bossiisr parish of twenty dollars, then dis robed him of all his clothing, leaving him perfectly nude. The Lake Charles new Silaby fire engine has been christened Kate Meyer, in com pliment to the daughter of Major William Meyer, who was prominent in procuring the purchase of the engine. A north-bound train on the Mississippi Valley railroad, ran over a drunken Negress named Rosalie Wilson, near the Draining Machine road, two miles above New Or leans, breaking both of her legs. Mr. Isidore Newman, Sr., President of the New Orleans Stock Exchange, made a Christmas present of a lot of fruits and confectioneries to the pupils of both the State Institutions for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind. The gin houses of Messrs. Winm. Pearson, near Farmerville, J. P. Glass, Marthaville, Dejean, St. Landry, Mayor A. Simon, St. Landry, Mrs. John Price, Bienville, and Mr. Alex. S. Gilbert's sugar-house, East Baton Rouge, have been destroyed by fire. A difficulty in Madison parish between James Gilpin, white, and Manuel Roes, colored, ended in Mr. Gilpin being shot in the leg and Ross through the bowels, dying the next day. Mr. Gilpin has been iucar cerated in the Rayville jail. An aged colored couple of Mansura, Avoyells parish, are to celebrate their gold en wedding on the Gth proximo, and Mr. I. H. Wise of New Ioeria and Editor Addison of the Abbeville AMeridunal have just com memorated their silver anuniversares. Although the yield of the present season's cotton crop to the acreage planted can be classed as tair, the price obtained has been far below the average of the last ten years, and the seed bringing almost no:hing, the result has not been satisfactcry to plan ters. William B. Walton, a salesmau for a large drug house of Philadc!phj;a, wX.*ge gu;nli:ug for alligators on a small bayou nuear New Orleans, was seized from behind by an im nmense saurian and dragged into the water. The animal was shot by a compat:-on nam:uid Geourge Lefevre, ho rescued iW;:. ton from the water in a fainting condition. Hie right leg was found to be terribly lme erated, and will probably have to be am putated. Most Excelltent. J. J. Atkins, Chief of Police, Knoxville Tea.., writes: " My family and I are belaeficiaL rins of your most excellent medicine, Dr. King's New Discovery fur consumption; having found it to be all that you claim for it, lesire to testi fy to its virtue. My friends to whom j Lave recommonda.l it. praise it at every opportn. nity." Dr. ,. N-w i).-co.s).y for Con I roc.ltis. Att:'-.ija. t:)a, and eve::-) d.fec:aun t ol L :;atur . !-: r. Uir".' GEN. FtANZ SIGEL. Newly Appointed Pension Agent, New York City. The appointment of Franz Sigel of New York as Pension Agent at New York city is singularly gratifying to his comrade in the war of the Union. He was an able General in that great struggle, and saw much hard service. Honor done to General Sigel is, moreover, honor done to the vast body of American citizens of German birth, parent age and descent. The veteran is a native of Baden, Germa ny, born in 1825. In 1841 he graduated at the Military Academy of Carlsruhe. In 1847 he resigned hip commission and in the two following years engaged in the struggle for popular rights which made those years an epoch in the history of the great German people. The popular cause was unsuccessful for the time, and Sigel became an exile from the Fatherland. He lived in Switzerland, Italy, France and England, and then in the year 1852, sailed for this land of liberty. His fist prominent occupation in the country of his adoption was in 1857, when he assumed the position of Professor of Mathematics, American History and French, in the German American Institute, St. Louis, Missouri. Three years after his fellow citizens elected him Director of the Public Schools. At the outbreak of the war Sigel resigned his scholastic work, and organizcd troop;s for service in the Union cause. Le com manded the expedition to southwest Mis souri, and fought the battle of Carthage against heavy odds. His subsequent ser vices included commands at the battles of Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge, service at Harper's Ferry, commands at the battle of Cedar Mountain, on the Rappahannock, at he second battle of Bull Run, and at the battle of Newmarket. He defended Har per's Ferry and Maryland Heights, in 1864, when General Early made his raid against Washington. General Sigel was the .Rep.Mlican candi date for Secretary of State in New York in 1869. In 1870 he was one of the commission sent by President Grant to San Domingo. He next served as Collector of Internal Rev enue, and was electea Register of the City and County of New York in 1871. In 1876 he became a Democrat, supporting Tilden and Hendricks in the campaign .-' .hat ye::r and has been in the Democratic camp ever since. From :. .rch, 1881, to March, 18815, he lectured :,id edited a German newspa per. In July, 1885, he was appointed Equi ty Clerk in the County Clerk's office, New York. Meanest SnePk In Town. Malarial gases sneaked up through the poor ly constructed drains and made baby very sick with malarial fever. Baby would have died but for timely use of Brown's Iron Bitters. There is nothing manner in its way of coming. nor worse in its effects, than this malaria from the underground regions. Mrs. McDonald. of New Haven. Conn., says, "For six years I suf fered from the effects of malaria, but Brown's Iron Bitters cured me entirely." Try it when malaria steals in and undermines your consti tution. It will give relief. The Negro families inhabi ting the Welsh Mountain, fifty miles from Philadelphia, have relapsed into semi-barbarism, and live in the ground like prairie dogs, entire ly destitute of provisions and clotning. There is a whole sermon in this little item. No Boon that Science has Conferred Has been fraught with greater blessings than that which has accrued to the inhabitants of malarial ridden portions of the United States and theTro,ies from the use of liostetter's Stomach Bitters. The experience of many years has but too clearly demonstrated the o(?L ciency of quinine and other drugs to effectually combat the progress of intermittent, congee tiveand bilious remittent fevers, while on the other hand, it has been no less clearly shown that the use of the Bitters, a medicine conge nial to the frailest constitution, and derived from purest botanic sources, affords a reliable safeguard against malarial disease, and arrests t when developed. For disorders of the stom ach. liver and bowels, for general debility and renal inactivity, it is also a most efficient rem edy. Appetir andsleep are improved by it, i expels rheumatic humors from the blood, and enriches a circulation impoverished by mal-as similation. Quana Parker, the chief of the Comanche Indians, who came down from the Indian Nation to lay in a stock of Christmas toys for the squaws and papooses, blow out the gas in his room at the hotel in Fort Worth, and was found dead the next morning. Take care of your Liu-er. A great number of the diseases to which mankind are liable arise from a disordered condition of this organ. Keep it in a sound and healthy canditon and you can defy disease. PRICKLY ASH WhITTERS are tspee ialiy adapted fir this purpose, being composed of drugs which act on the Liver, giving it tone and strength to withstand malaria. -- - . .-4 -- - .... . An enterprising Pittsburg woman is about to start an escort bureau in Washing ton, Boston, New York and Philadelphia, whiere young ladies without beanx can se cure escorts for the theatre by paying .25. I am convi:ccd, after testing its v:rtne in ex cee tngly st:ere and u',stinrte cases, that ToI - ,-a!i. i sse.-.s decid.d and i. rked rcun, :r . u pruoprties : :.n rmatic cn .,tla, arni ir r .: y in ¢t.n-" o[ :ousc'ih- ,.e.'.,atisn. OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. DOMESTIC. Boston bicyclers are about to build ,a $100,000 club house. Pennsylvania enters the new year with four living ex-Governors. President Cleveland has contributed $1i C to the Grant monument fund. A Hendricks monumental association I as been organized in Indianapolis. Eight men were killed by the explosion of the boiler of the City Oil Mills, Mobi:e. Four hundred and forty-eight persona called upon the President New Year's Eve. The Barataria Canning Factory at Biloxi, Miss., has been destroyed by fire. Loss $30,000. Five hundred yards of the sea wall at San Francisco recently sank almost to the wa ter's level. A colored man was burned at the stake for the murder and outrage of a white girl at Garristown, Ala. James A. Harris, the orange king at Citra, Fla., has sold his crop of oranges on the trees for $80,000. A tree at Tampa, Fla., y.ielded 11,643 oranges, the largest number ever knewa to be taken from one tree. A Crestline, O., servant ,g.rl gave birth to an illegitimate child unattended and threw it it into a red hot stove. Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, gave cash presents, aggregating $10,000, to employes in St. Louis and New York. An Orlando, Cal., a man made a wager to smoke ninety cigars in two hours and lost only on the ninetieth one, which sickened him. St. Louis has established a hydropho bia farm where animals will be inoculated and patients treated after M. Pasteur's plan. Three colored children who were locked up in a cabin at Nashville. Tenn., while their parents went to church, were roasted to cinders. The physicians of Sanford, Fla., have signed an agreement not to visit any pa tient who will not pay his bill on the first of each month. A baby camel, weighing forty-five pounds was added to Wallace's circus on board of the steamer Charles Morgan en route to winter quarters at Peru, Ind. A farmer of Saville, Pa., acting on the advice of a Gypsy, buried $700 at the foot of a tree, and discovered both money and Gypsy missing the next day. The Sheriff of Monroe, Ga., last:week at tached the animals in a circus for a debt and is now puzzled what to do with the wild beasts which were quietly handed over to him. Tuthill King, a Chicago millionaire, eighty years of age, whose wife, with whom he had lived fifty years, died three months ago, has married a 'handsome widow of forty. One of the prisoners in the jail at Gurleys ville, Tenn., was robbed and murdered, his body being burned to a crisp along with the building, which was see afire to cover the crime. Parliament will meet on the 21st instant. An alliance has been completed between Russia and Bulgaria. M. Pasteur has seventy-three cases of hydrophobia in hand. Mme. Patti is to be paid $18,000 for six appearances in Madrid. The cost of King Milan's dagger and bul let-proof case was $250. Queen Christina of Spain has taken the oath of office as regent. A conspiracy to establish a Republic in Spain has been discovered. Jules M. Gr6vy has been reb'ected Presi dent of the I rench Republic. " Lyndon Tutlh sent toys to 11,000 poor children from its Christmas fund. Typhus fever and small-pox are raging among the Servian troops Ancamped at Niscte. V The Czar is about to reinstate Prince Alexander to his former rank in the Rus sian army. The schere to correct ?Mareeilles with the Rhone by canal, which was abandoned in 1t81, I as been revivrw. Pasteur has under:tken at his own cost to core eleven persons bitten by a mad wolf in a village in Western Rnn-ia. The marriage of the infanta Eu.tria hai been postponed until Feb. 27, on account of mourning for King Alfonso. Ten persons were drowned at Rouen in consequence of a collision between a steam er and a ferryboat in the harbor. At a charity fair in Berlin the Crown Princess of Germany sold sausages at $35 a piece and sponge cake, $1 a slice. The Roman correspondent of the Catho lic Mirror cables that no new cardinals will be created in the December Consistory. The troops at Pirot are suffering severely from the intense cold, and thirty soldiers on an average are reported frozen daily. The Queen of Ronmania, who has been married seventeen years, ia exrpecting the birth of her first child to occnr next month. The remains of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, father of the King of Portu gal, have been interred at Lisbon with im posing ceremonies. Hon. William E. Gladstone, Premier of England, received 400 congratulatory let ters on the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday, December 29. Dudley Francis North, the Earl of Guil ford, was thrown from his horse while hunting, and has died from the injuries received by his fall. A protocol binding the Servians to evrc rate Pirot, and extending the armistice to March 1, has been signed by the Bulga rian and Servian delegates. Emperor Francis Joseph is negotiating with a view to buying the Hot Springs and Badeschloss Hotel, the annual residence of Emperor William of Germany. Burmah has been formally annexed to the British Empire. becoming w part. of '.' dom;inr on of the Queen eof Great Brit e:,d Jrelandt and En pre.se of la.dia l'he fort children from New.wrk. N. N heh, .cre- ,littt .' I, o l am .d d(i. ne', . tl :t 'o