The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-07
HOME AND FOREIGN RI GOSSIP.

a balloon transatlantic trip. ~
A MAN was fined five dollars in Provi-
dence the other day for stealing Grape from
door knob.
JOHN DOG petitioned the Massachu-
sets Legislature to change his name, and
they made it John Kerr and he was happy.
THE man whose hair turned white in
single night is surpassed by Boston
girl who lost hers completely in one
dance.
The ladies of Chicago are reported to
wear $500, 900 worth of false hairs or en-
ough to buy Bible for every heather in
Africa. sEx
JUSTICE HAINEs, of Chicago, has decided
that editors are professional men, and that
their scissors, paste pot etc., cannot be
seized for debt.
SAMUEL LEANENs, who eloped from Web
ster, Mass. with widow, tempered his
guilt. He left deed conveying all his
property to his wife.
A MEMBER of Congress suggests that as
a means of preventing useless debates,
the cost of printing the speeches be de-
Quoted from, their sails ries. That is not so
bad. --..
THE present population of New Or
leans is estimated at 230,985, an increase OF
Sc, 567 over the census of 1870. This makes
it the eighth city in the Union, or next to
Boston.
SIXTEEN hundred prominent citizens of
Maine have petitioned for the steps neces-
sary to inaugurate woman suffrage. The
press of the State is said to be almost anti
in its favor.
THE Minnesota press demands with al
most unanimous voice that tie law of that
State which permits judge to seize an edi-
tor and east him into Jail for contempt by
publication, be repealed. @
An exchange thinks that, in view of the
fact that Eng and Changes surname was
Bunker, they should be buried on Bun
ker Hill, especially as there is a monument
already provided.
If there was ever an illustration of en-
thusiasm hopelessly run mad, it is in the
case of the Tennesseean who has preserved
in alcohol. an chronological specimen
which was caught on a bed that General
9 Jackson slept in.
@ A OVERWHELMING swindler, was ar
Q rested in Baltimore recently, and atthe ex-
animation one witness stated that she had
paid the prisoner at various times sums
amounting to $500 "to have her husbands
. affections restored sssss I + F{}ts
A NEW South Carolina law exempts
from taxation Except for schools), all capt.
tai invested in the manufacture of cotton
and WOODEN goods, iron, lime, paper and
agricultural Implements. The exemption
. is for ten years.
"A WASHINGTON letter calls attention to
!; the fact that not dollar has ever been
missing from the Department of the Comp
troller of the Currency, where ladies ex-
clusively are employed as clerks.
ONE might write column obituary no
tice on an offiee-holder and then not equal
the brief announcement in an Iowa paper
Harvey jackson, County Treasurer, is
dead. He was lenient with the widow,
and his books always balanced
DR.. A. D. PIPER, of Boston, who has
been exploring the Amazon, reports that
the Indians of the region are peaceable and
cultivate little farms. Cacao grows wild
and IN great abundance. Arrangements
have been made for settlement on the
Aquiry, in Bolivia. b..
III. B. HARVEY, Worthy Master of a Ma
sonic lodge, in Troy, N. Y, says the coun-
try is overrun with bad characters who So
licit relief on the ground of being Masons.
He has had eight applications in a day
from men who, as he learned upon invest
THE following are the names of a fami-
~ of eleven children in this county, the
father being minister in good standing:
Leila Vo, female; Laco Tu, male; Fona
LIE, female; Algo Pc, male; VIOLA Ia, fe-
male; Nola Fe, male; Gura Fa, female;
Dula Ma, male; Mona Ra, female; Reno
Do, male; Romo Va, male. -Marietta (O.)
Register.
The editor of the Troy Times, man of
virtue and experience, SAYS: 60 Recently
frosted cake was offered TO a person who
should guess nearest to the correct weight,
at ten cents guess. The pastor of the
church urged a young lawyer to invest
dime. The legal man replied: I'll play
you game of euehre to see who gets
the cake, but don't understand the other
game"
THE Supreme Court of the United States
in an appeal from the Supreme Court of
Louisiana, involving the proceedings in
confiseatien against the property of the
ex-United States Senator's Slidell and Ben
jamin, both of whom, it will be remember
ed, linked their fortunes with the Confed-
crate cause, has just affirmed the opinion
OF the court below, that only life estate
passed by the contiscation, and does
not Affect the title of the children as
heirs. ls.A st.s
THE time-worn anecdote of person be-
ing so deceived by theatrical representa-
ton as to believe it a scene of actual life
was verified at one of the theaters, on Sat
urday night. In the play which portray
ed the life of drunkard, the chief actor.
when in great destitufi0n, exclaims
" Alas alas! no one in this wide world
will give me even crust of bread to eat.''
These words had hardly been pronounced
by the actor before the audience saw a full
man arise in the parquette, who, in avoice
trembling with emotion said: "Gentle-
men. am poor man, but / will give that
man dollar. IN. p. Tribune. :
CoLs D. B. GRAHAM. of Temperance,
Telfair county, Ga, is probably the most
remarkable schoolteacher in the world.
He was admitted to the bar as lawyer in
1882. Soon after he was stricken down
with acute rheumatism. He then became
paralyzed, his whole body being helpless,