The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-08-09

ST and of .ss
JOHN BLYTHE, .a
Hts BELOVED NAMEsAKE.
81 'r =. -Hdrper's Monthly.
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.
THE New Haven police are not allowed
tn talk on the street, nor to ss smile else
where.
FLORIDA man has made $500 this
wear catching young alligators for North
ern druggists.
BOY at Union, New Jersey, only ten
wears old. has been convicted Of six incen-
diary fires. . I
A SCHOOL on an island off the coast OF
Maine has forty scholars, all of whom are
the grandchildren of one man. .
AS LATE as the l4th of July snow-drifts
and ice-ledges were to be found on the
mountains Of Vermont.
A LIVING amphibious monster, twenty
feet long, is soaring the newspapers around
Lake Champlain.
OrE Of the new Congressman from Wis
consin brings experience. He has been
s,lperintendent of lunatic asylum Tor nve
years.
A YOUNG lady at Saratoga writing home
to her mother, concludes with: - (. 81
You will see by my signature that am
married. 1tH .''' .'t~ ''''.'
If Persian turn Christian his Head Is
chopped. off if they catch him. All sorts
Of wfcketihess IS cured in Persia by the
Shah's little hatchet.
The negro who was hanged at Suffolk,
, Iva. the other day, remarked as he was
Going to the aallows :s'' wish dey had
! put it off till after watermelon time"
THE Connecticut State Board Of Educa-
ton have assumed control Of the enslaved
Italian children in New Haven, and will
care for them. ~ sDrJ 44l
The Cleveland tunnel, extending one
mile and a quarter under LAKE Erie, is
nearly completed. 1t is estimated that it
; will furnish water supply Of 6O,OOO, 600
: gallons every twenty -four hours.
i THE cottage of William Penn, the great
r Qnaker, which is now in dllapldated
condition, and situated in the midst OF the
/, great warehouses Of Philadelphia, Is USED
e for beer saloon. 49,
]. A COACH built for His Majesty the Sui
S tan of Turkey, is in Bridgeport, Conn,
g being used as a model TOR similar W ve-
e hicle ordered by Senator Latham. OF san
d Francisco. .4........t--.
Z FORT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, opposite Bis
n post. will be fitted up Immediately for ten
d companies of cavalry, involving an ex-
] penditure of 500, GOO, making it the most
d imDortant post on the Missouri river
it Clusters regiment is expected to winter
" there. 5 "' ~--s
= ONE of the prisoners at the House Of
7 Correction at Fitchburg, Mass, the othel
L flav. escaped while at work blasting stone
The fuse had been set on fire, and the
y keeper told the men to run, which advice
u was followed, and one of the prisoners
- - forgot to come back again. "a
~ Troy is so particular about observing
!, the strict letter of criminal law that {
- :, thief who had stolen watch from deaf
10 mute was discharged from custody De
ar ar cause, the loser being able neither U
:. :, speak, hear, write, nor read, no lorna
- complaint could be entered.
Ia A MORTGAGE for $3.50, upon which
1e eighteen months interest had accumu
.. Tafed. was declared null and void at Ly
at ons. II. T., recently, on the ground tina
$25 paid for services in procuring Tn
IL money for which the mortgage was give
a constituted usury. ~
re A STRAsBURG, Pa, girl agreed to kls
ut young man every day for two years
y he would stop smoking. He quit, an
of has smacked regularly for six months
k, but the girl has taken to eating onions
Of and he Is unhappy. Young man net
ad tralize, by chawfng few yourself.
We NEAR Bridgeton, N. j., lately. Samut
Penn, aged IS, and David N. Woodruff
ar aged SO, had novel reaping match wit
We sickles, after the old-time ways. The
m cut a width of six feet and a distance
on six feet and nine and one-haf rods
twelve minutes. Both were awarded tt
lrs victory by large concourse OF wltnesse
1y A coLoRED man was once asked wh
ne he did not get mBrried. "Why, you sc
11 ~. sah,o said he, 81 got an old mudder, a.
rst : hab to do for her, ye see, sab, an Il
p r don't buy her shoes an stockin's, 81
ga, wouldn't get none. Now, If was to g
!.l w married, I would hab to buy dem TIM
lIn for nv wife, an dat would be takin'
sn0 shoes an stookin's right out OF my mu
- "a der's MOUTH
No. THOSE who claim that the heather Cl
,a1. nee can never become civilized, shoa
,fal have seen an irate, saffron colored Cl
at nese gentleman in Detroit the other d'
ont bounce an inebriated person out OF lau
oht dry. When the battle was over somebo'
Eo,, asked John what it was all about, wh
5a can he replied: Mclean man gettee tight
oim foolee around meme put head On him
1ht. M no go to jail-dollar dozen."
he AN Oil City exchange says: "One
our policemen is in quandary. he