The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-04
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An average of about onefcar-load of inn
migrants per day is arriving in California
from the East.
A MAINE tinker has lived Oh an island in
MoOsehead Lake for ten years in the sum-
Iner in a dry-9oods box, and in the winter
in h0gshead.i
The residence occupied by the Emperor
Napoleon l., on the Island of Elba, i'll 1914,
will shortly be offered for sale at the upset
pIee OF 5000 francs.
ONE young lady at Saratoga creates a
sensation by wearing diamond buckles i'll
her shoes. She is awfully careful about
holding her dress up when the walking is
wet or dirty.
THE HoN. JOHN BRIGHT, as Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster, will have the
patronage of forty-one liyings in various
parts of England, varying in value from
$3.50 to S., $50 each.
A sTATIsTICIAN has been figuring up the
cost, to France, of the war with Germany.
At the average value of a days work in
France, it would take ], 900, 900 men thirty
years to earn the amount.
A FRENCH physician has discovered that
the peculiar odor of Russian leather has
very beneficial effect luAgs, and
ne advises consumptive patients tCfrepose
upon pillows covered with that material.
THERE is a woman down East sojcleanly
that she rlbs the dirt off the fire-Wood be-
fore she puts it in the stove. Another wo-
man tries to beat this by pulling the grow
ing beets out every morning and washing
the dirt off them.
i A LADY correspondent writes that she
knows very little about the back pay qtles-
ton, but she's going TO draw her back hair
up over her head, according to the prevail
ing fashion, If it lifts her off her heels and
endangers her equilibrium. and she would
like to know whatthe newspapers are GO
ing to do about it.
An English parliamentary return re-
ports the number of deaths from starva-
lion within the London metropolitan dis
trict during the year 1872. There were in
all eighty-three dismal cases within the
circuit specified, besides thirteen in the
eastern division of Middlesex.
MAURICE H. RICHARDSON, of FIJI chburg,
& Mass, a Hartford graduate of the present
I" year, has just performed the extrad rdinary
feat of swimming all the way fisom the
stone pier at Falmouth across to Martlla's
Vineyard, distance of seven miles and a
half in two hours and tifty-five minutes.
A friend escorted him with a boat, but
gave no assistance.
| TWENTY-FIVE years ago young man
went to GAINESVILLE with no fortune but a
young wife, and pair of strong hands
which feared no labor The other day he
left, old and bowed down, and took with
him all his earthly possessions in the
patched fragments of a grain-bag. While |
he was there, though, he drank whisky
enough to buy corner block.
BROOKLYN has the novelty of breach |
of promise suit against dead man. A year |
ago Mary Frances Wade sued ex-Mayor |
kalbfeisch for $150,000, for not fulfilling |
his alleged promise to marry her; since
then he has died, but Mary, undismayed, |
has now made application to have theease
reopened, and the $780, required to heal
the wound toIher affections paid over by
the executors of the estate.
Miss NELLY CLAGUE, an English girl, |
who has been in this country some six |
wears, publicly renowned Christianity and |
embraced Judaism in Troy, N. Y, recent
~, and was married Immediately thereaf- |
ter to Mr.. Harris, a young Israelite of
North Adams, Mass. The Ceremony in
cluded a change of the 6 Christian name, |
that of Hannah being substituted for
Nelly.
One of the healthy regulations of Eng
lish railways is that no one shall attempt |
to get on or dismount from a train in mo-
tion. A man named Arthur Baynes was
recently fined ten dollars for attempting to |
get into a car after the train had started, |
twenty-five dollars for assaulting the guard |
who arrested him, fifteen dollars for tear
ing the said guards coat, and ten dollars
more for costs.
/ A coRREs1oNpEST at Munich where
there We're, at last accounts, several cases
of cholera daily, mentioned the curious
circumstance that the rocks and crows
which hitherto flew about church steeples
and thronged the trees of the public prom
enades have suddenly left the city; and it
is asserted that the same thing happened in
1886 and 1854, in which years this capital
suffered a severe visitation from the
cholera.
+! MIR. CHARLES LAMoNT,ia Liverpool glass
merchant, brought an action against the
London and Northwestern Railway Com
pany for injuries received in the accident
at kirtle Bridge in October last. He sus-
tanned a compound fracture of both legs,
and was confined to his bed for five months
In consequence. The Caledonian Railway
Company, who were the real defendants,
paid hotel, medical, and other expenses,
wv III ttiitASAPdeiOh |
OF the verdict. The case came OH at the
Liverpool A$sizes on August 81. when the
jury awarded e., 800 f$22,500 damages.
Mr.. ALsoRP, NJ. P. recently elected. is
Ofthe well known firm of brewers. and Mr..
Boord, the new Conservative colleague of
Mr.. Gladstone, from the borough of
Greenwich, is distiller. The Pail Mall
Gasette hence conceives. from these and
several previous cases, that "a share in a
brewery or distillery is now almos 1T as use
ful to a political aspirant as a pc, ket bor-
ough or dominant county Influence UNI
der the old system" AphilosolSler once
said that the 'strue way to the nEnds and
hearts of the people is through I'll bir stom-
achs."
A WOMAN living in a town in the cam
ton of Zurich. Switzerland. recently re-
sorted to a curious modeiof revenge. Her
cat, of which she was exceptionally fond.
had for some reason or other been killed
by an official. She accordingly procured
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