The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-15
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

vantages.
A CANADA Justice has sentenced a man
to two years Imprisonment for Young on
dead mans name.
HENRg THOMAS, of Utah, has brought
suit against the Union Pacific Railroad Tor
$4,000 FOR the loss of his son, killed by al
collision.
Mrs. LYDIA SHERMAN, the Birmingham
Boroia. is the sole occupant OF the female
wards iis the Connecticut State FrIson at
Wetherstield.
SIAM is an ungallant country. There thei
first,wife may be divorced, and after that
every wife may be sold or traded for yell
low dog.
DIR. do LEWIS is authority for the state;
ment that diet of beans is better for thet
complexion than all the powders ana!
creams ever manufactured.
Mrs. PERU, of Delta, Iowa, postponed
her daughters wedding four times IN ORDER
to get sunshiny day When she gotsuchl
dav the bridegroom had concluded not
to marry.
DENstARK's monarch is now travelling INF
Southern Europe under title OF CounE
Falster. He is attended by a suite OF
twelve persons, and is permitted to amusa
and instruct himself precisely as other
travellers are.
HARE times in Alabama, according TO a
paper III that State, which says ssSome CON-
summate 1scoundrel, on Friday night, ex55
huned the cornerstone of the new coloreG
church at Opelika and extracted therefrom
a one-dollar BILL q
TIE family of one Mrs. Sanbern, OF Til
ton, NH, have furnished material for tho
vital statistieian's reflection, by eating seven
hundred and twenty-five homemade pies
since January last-one hundred and fortyf
five apiece-and surviving.
A REMARKABLE coineident occurred reT
Gently in 1.-The families of two brothers
named Sawyers, residing on Flint Prairiet
Mo. Both were presented with twin boys
By their respective wives, on the same day.
and all parties were doing well at last acf
counts.
The Washington Star states that Gen.
Spinnef's report will show that the receipts
of conscience money for the past fscas
year amounted to 81, 997 ~, against $685.
SOL .2l in 1872. This leads an exchange to
the conclusion that there is stringency LII
the conscience market.
REV.. Mr.. BUSH, retiring chaplain of the
Binghamton Asylum for Inebriates, asserts
that practically the Institution is a failures
Cases of reform, he says, are few. Only
three of the eightY-two patients under
the first administration have continued
in state of total abstinence, and ali
these belonged to the higher classes OF
society, and are intelligent, well educated
men. stt
A MAN of average talkatiyeness speaks
three hours day, and at the rate of one
hundred words a minute; that is to say,
enougis words to FL about twenty-ninh
octave pages in moderate print every hour,
six hundred pages in week, aud in one
year, ffty-two pretty large volumes. The
man who got up these statistics says that
if you; multiply these numbers by ten,
you arrive at about the average talk of a
woman.
A PARIS letter tells Napoleonic anec-
dote which is good, if not original. The
late Napoleon I'LL never had a lively adj
miration for his relative Prince Napoleo1i.
The Prince Imperial, then not more than
six years old, asked his father, 8 What Is
the difference between an accident and "a
misfortuner' elf" replied the Emperor,
"your cousin fell into the Seine, that would
be an accident; if any one pulled him out,
that would be a mistortune.o
THE oldest settled places in Illinois are
Fort Creve Ceur, opposite Peoria, founded
by LaSalle in 1850, the inhabitants Of
which. one hundred years later, moved
across the lake to the present site of Peoria.
Kaskaskia and Gaflokia were founded by
the French in 1882. Fort St. Louis w;s
built by Tout, LaSalle's lieutenant, in 1850,
on the site of g Starved Rocl1,n near Pera,
and occupied by the French for many
years, but finally abandoned.
THE great fortune of 100000 left
twenty three years ago to the cities of NeW
Orleans and Baltimore by JOHN McDoA-
ough, who died in the former CITY, has
been so wasted in a lawsuit brought Ey
McDoaough's heirs, on account of flaw
in thewill, TO recover the amount, that not
more than $4,000 of the whole is said 10
remaiA. The rest has gone to the lawyers.
Mr.. McDonough's purpose in making the
bequest was that the money should be de
voted to the maintenance of free white and
black schools in the cities named.
PROFESSOR ROGERS states that the SPLEEN
did researches in the deep sea are rapidly
progressing, and are intensely practical,
and may ultimately give us a topographic
chart Of the sea-bottom, its valleys, banks,
and plate;llls, so fully that a sailing-masthr
ought to be able to very nearly tell his pos
ition by the lead. The American COST
generally shelves gradually into the At
lantic-sso much SO that our best sailing
directions assure the cautious mariner he
may with the lead and chart find the marks
underfoot so plain that he cannot, if he Will
try them, get unknowingly into the DAN
gers Of the shore.
Ware informed by Welsh paper that
the ddoruddl drrWpdr, an Eistedd-
todd, to be held at OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
next year, under the designation of Els
teddfodd Cadcorywhyrioddr Dyffwryhry-
wrndolwynn Maewllydlor, has. been pro
claimed with all the ancient ceremonies a
Welsh rabbit having been slaughtered by,
ClwyMhywyddwdW dfwyardd, the prinii-
pal bard, who was assisted by Iololululo
TrewhyfddeWilwhR and others, who
helped to drink all the whisky. The did
practice of outlandish names for these Ger
emonies has been entirely discarded.
THERE is Justice of the Peace in Gufll-
RE county, Iowa, before whom citizen
had prosecuted his daughters lover for
ejecting him from his own parlor the SUN