The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-27
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

MolpHf Is cnecklnallnS everybody II
Vienna.
PRAIRIE fowls are a good many acres tc
the chicken this year.
THE Connecticut Peace Society had a re v
at It's annual meeting.
ONTARIO people are asked to give off
cent each toward statue of Tecumseh.y
ABUzz-sAw in New Y DIRK State saw-mil
has ripped out an old coin dated 1868.
MAINE has about twenty-four deserted
saw-nills, and every one of them has &
ghost.
A CoNNECTICUT minister uses postal
cards to invite delinquent members to
prayer meetings.
The average term of Imprisonment Al
New Workers sentenced for life is onky
seven and half years.
A WOMAN named Flagg. living in Tds-
caloosa, broke open two doors, unlocked
two more, and pried opena drawer to steal
gold watch. She then escaped the Off
GERS by stealing a horse and buggy.
s'CANNoT something be done to prevent
young ladies from being insulted on or
streets at night?" asks Cincinnati paper,
There can. Just have the girls mother
tuck her into her little bed about eight
O'Clock i'll the evening and lock the door
on her.
In some parts of Canada the Indians have
become so addicted to the pursuits of civ
ilizatlen THAT they are afraid to venture far
INTO the woods lest they might get lost.
One Old red farmer was lately lost for two
days in small piece of woods within a
few rods of his house.
A BABY show will be one of the features
OF the coming fair Of the L;moille county,
VI, Agricultural Society. Nationality,
color and dress of the cherubs are to be
entirely disregarded, the clements of COM
par1son being weight, health, and general
formation of body, and the contour of the
face and head.
The treasures of the Sultan of Turkey,
on exhibition in the Waltausstellung at
Vienna, are worth forty millions of dollars.
The principal piecetis the throne of Nadir
Shah. 1t is of gilded wood, covered ill
over with garlands and flowers and tracery
III pearls, rubies and emeralds.
THE 'shoodlums'i of San Francisco have
devised a new way of money-making.
Two OF them enter into partnership. Oise
OF the firm insults rich young lady inka
public place; the other with great split
knocks him down, and CALAMITY proteds
the young lady, and sees her home, wherh.
OF course, the grateful father gives him $50
or so.
An Imperial Cholera Commission, in
GLIDING the most Important scientific all-
thorities on the subject in Northern and
Southern Germany among its members,
has recently been opened i'll Berlin. 1t is
charged to draw up a plan for inquiril Q
into the nature of the disease. 1t is also 20
collect, digest and criticise all the scientific
evidence provided. lae
r. %
the transported Communists, who desire
to join them in New Caledonia, continue
to be forwarded thither at Government ex-
pense, and Hayre paper gives particulars
OF the departure of five hundred women
who left that port a few days ago on board
the steamer Fenelon, many of them with
families.
a SUIT to obtain civil damages to the eX-
tent Of 900 has been instituted by Mrs.
Alkaline Hodges of Galesburg. Kalamazoo
county, Mich, against d. Harris, a LIQUOR
seller OF that place, for selling liquor to |
her husband. Mr.. Hodges was once
wealthy, but his property slipped from his |
possession on account of his Incorporate |
habits. The suit, owing to the large claim |
for damages, excites much interest.
oLp KING THANKUMBAu of Fiji has
raised a large army, thrown off his |
clothes, and declared his intention to fight
IN "fglan fashion, What eHraged him |
was, that the mountain tribes. together |
with Christians who had reverted to can |
nlnallsm, invaded the Soloira district and |
Killed and ate about forty old men. women |
and children. Life in FIJI is still shaded |
with elisagreeable possibilities.
FROM the top of Kearsage mountain. in |
New Hampshire, may be seen the birth
places of Ezekiel and Daniel Webster. VIII
liam Pitt Fessenden. Gov. John A. Dix. /
Vice President Henry A. Wilson. Lewis
Cass, ex-United States Senator James w.
GRIMES OF Iowa, United States Senator
Zacfarlah Chandler of Michigan, Levi /
woodbury., Horace Greeley, Gen. Benja-
min f. Butler, ex-President Franklin
Fierce and ChiefJustice Chase ~
A FARMER in Washington county. Ken
lucky, recently challenged visitor<s0 find
III his crib single grain of corn often by
a rat or mouse. The visitor, hifFing given
1t up after a protracted search, INQUIRED the
reason, and was shown large cow snake
reposlng quietly in corner of the crib.
The snake, the farmer says, has lived in
ms CRIB for the past two years, and has de-
stroyed or frightened away all the rats and
mice that once infested the locality. Such
shakes ought to be encouraged.
!. y MAINE paper mas one intelligent in
formant," at least. 1t says: We heard of
a firm in this vicinity who possessed an in
genious machine fer assisting in filling bags
with grain, and intended to interview It,
but the wonder had been removed. We
found young man who had seen it work.
and who told us all about it. '.There is
two rods, you know, that go down and
hitch on one of these what-do-y ou-call-'em-
things on wheels; then there is something
else that goes out-sO-you-know, and a
thingabob ON top. Then there is strap
that goes somewhere, and a little fixin' at
the bottom, you know, to hold the bag. 1t
is big thing" he added, with the air of a
man who had reached that condition after
a patient investigation.
IT is proposed to call a congress of Amer
lean women some time during the present
year. The following very important sub
jects will occupy its attention: Higher
education for woman; woman's work in
literature: the relation of woman ta drnsS. |