The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-14
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Prince Imperial Will atlaiu Hie hh" . 4
iority March Is. There is to be greaS
gathering at Chiselhurst on the occa-
sion.
JOHN G. PoTTs, the Oldest Odd FeiioW
in the world. died at Galena few Gays
ago. He was initiated in loage NO. L at
Philadelphia, in September, 1879.
ToRAcco-IUIcE expeetorator was re-
comfy fined 81 at New Albany, Ind, Tor
nersistino in eiecting his highly-colored
saliva upon the floor OF church III that
city.
AMER HUNTLEY. of Cuba. n. Y, aged
one hundred and seven years, sat upon ms
horse as straight as boy OF fifteen,
and was photographed few days ago.
A LoGANsPoRT Joker closed the saloons
in that village for the space OF one nter-
noon nv sending each proprietor notlee.
stoned Many ladies'" that the ladies'
would kindly call and hold prayer-meet-
ing.
TENNysoN doubtless had the temper
ance war in mind when he wrote: i
"Woman is the weaker man, and her passions
Az is cider dc unto whisky, and as water unto
wine"
A PRAIRIE DU CHEN bali, given in hon.
or of a wedding, began at lO O'Clock one
morning and lasted until the next daylight:
When it closed, the bride was drunk, and
the husband had been taken to jail for
beating one of the guests.
THE following sweet dispatch passed
over the wires to Maine girl the other
dav. "To Your life is rich bou-
Quet of happiness, yourself the sweetest
flower. If northern winds whisper south
ern wishes, how happy you must be.
Good night. Happy dreams, sweet love.
Frank
A GENTLEMAN who has penetrated the
eastern end of Wetzel county, West VAR
ginia, describes a section of about thirty
Sauare miles where a newspaper, secular
or religious, never finds its way. The
mud and log shanties contain from eight
to ten children each, and there was one
family of fifteen persons. Indian meal, he
says, is the chief article of food.
A NEwLY-MARRIED lady i'm Hadd oHheld,
n. j.. :tiust for ftln,'' hid "a toy snake in
one of her husbands. boots a few days
ago, The result of the joke was some
what peculiar. The husband, on discoy-
ering the mock reptile, first took cliti-
caI1Ook at himself in mirror, and then
going to closet, seized his demijohn and
threw it far out into a neighboring pond.
A CUBA letter says the sugar crop this
year will fall short about twenty-five per
cent. Itattributes the falling off to lack
. IF rain, which it says is very exception
al circumstance. II the real truth were
sought for, it would probably be found
that the decline in the crop was caused
by the devastating effects OF her civil
war.
THE Kentucky Lunatic Asylum has a
farm of three hundred acres and vege-
table garden of sixty acres. The entire
work of cultivating is done by. the patients.
The cooking and house-Work is done by
the female patients, who also make all
their own clothing and the underclothing
ofthe men. Dances, gynnastic exercises,
lectures, and games keep the minds OF the
inmates from melancholy
Mr.. S. KoIER, living near Waynesboro,
Va. recently ordered an old oak to be cut
down, remarking that the cutters would
find a rock in the body OF the tree, which
he had put there fifty-four years ago when
he was a little boy returning from school
one day. When the tree was cut, in the
heart of it was found imbedded the identi-
cal rock which Mr.. Koiner had put in the
fork of the little sapling more than hall
century ago.
MIR. JOHNSON GADDIE, living in the west
end of Lebanon county, Kentucky, has
raised thirteen children, all living and do
ing well, the most of them being married.
He has fffty-two grandchildren, all living
in the Reighborhood. He has never lost
either a child or grand-ehild by death. Ii
is believed all the family are Democrats
If every Democrat was to do his duty as
Mr.. Gaddie has done his, says a local pa
per, no power ON earth could keep the
Democratic party down.
They have novel way of enjoying the
honeymoon in Detroit. A man named
Schuyler Long was married Sunday even
ing to a widow named Updyke, and the
next day both were after warrants for as.
sault and battery. 1t seems that she wan
ted some money and he didn't have it tC
give, and she said he was pretty fellow
to be strapped ON the third day after mar
riage. One word brought on another, ant
they had afight which left both looking a!
if they had fallen through a Sidewalk
grating.
The s'Wasserguild'' is the name of a new
secret Temperance order, with nationa
organization, which is being started a
Washington. It purposes throughlegisla
ton by Congress to increase the tariff OF
liquors to such an extent as to discourage
retail traffic, and restrict the sale to hotel
and drug stores. Each State is to have
Grand Guild, with subordinate branches il
every county, and the Supreme Guild Wi
be at Washington.
Mrs. ANNA Goss, Of Amherst n. Fl
celebrated her one hundred and fourt
birthday on the LIST of February. She is
strict observer of the Sabbath, and som
days ago called her daughter Elizabeth an
said, Now, Elizabeth, you know that m
birthday this year comes on the Lord
day and as His days are so much bette
than any of my days, want you TO writ
to our friends not to visit us on the Sal
bath, but to come Saturday,
THE absence of the Princess Louise an
the Marquis of Lorne from the recent ma
rage ceremonies at st. Petersburg is thu
explained: The Princess would not e.
pose her husband to modification, as eft
quette forbade him seat at the Emperor
table, and therefore she remained ava,
A previous experience at Berlin, whel
the Marquis was excluded from stat
banquet because he is not of royal bloc,
was her motive tn q nnhIn and yyiffslV corr