The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-07
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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TN BUsTLEs, holding gallonof whisky,
can be purchased by Buffalo ladies VINO
want to smuggle Canada liquor.
AzcaMAIERCIAL traveller for New I ork
dry-goods firm, preached fwo sermons at
Clinton, Iowa, onsa recent SUNDAY, anu HIS
efforts are highly praised.
A LONDON magistrate fined an affection
ate father for refusing to allow the public
yaccinator to take vaccine matter from the
arm of his child.
ADUTTFUL son at Atlanta, set out to
wheel his grandfather's corpse to the bury
ing-ground to save expenses, but crowd
gathered and argued with him until he
consented to hire hearses
AN ENGLISH tradesman adyertises anti
breacli-of-promise ink, and says that writ
ing with this ink disappears before one
month, thus avoiding the system OF rldl-
culeto which old and young promise break
ers are now exposed.
THE Emperor of China has conferred
distinction on the memory OF Hang-Chung,
late Viceroy of the province of 1unnan.
This official hanged himself when he found
that he was unable to resist the rebels who
beleagured the capital'city, and his wife
hanged herself with him.
A Paris correspondent, who it is safe to
wager is horrid man, says it is. current
Joke there that no titled person may be
100 old or ugly or impoverished but that
he may hope to pick up an American girl
who will give heaps Of dollars to be
come Madame la Duchesse or Madame la.
Raronne.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY is to establish an
editorial chair, and givedlplomas to gradu-
ates in journalism. Everything will be
taught, from setting type to writing lead
ers. The Cincinnati Gazette thinks that
the course will be of great yaluete those
possess of natural ability, and capable OF
unlearl = theory in order to learn how to
be useful. ~
THERE was the liyeliest ofraces in coal
mine near Des Moines. A miner dropped
his lamp into train of powder that con-
nected with blast. Away went the fizzle
toward the pointof big explosion, and away
went the miner toward point of safety.
The fiZzle reached the gaol first, and the
miner had his clothes and little of his
skin blown Off a "a .a
Young JOE SMITH, son of the Prophet,
is making his arrangements to move his
type, presses, etc., to Nauvoo, where he
proposes to rebuild city of SURPRISING
grandeur The temple, he says, will be re-
built on the old site, in style of archi-
tectural excellence surprising anything of
the kind in this part of the country.
THERE are four women only who are
decorated with the French Cross of the
Legion of Honor-Rosa Bonheur; Madame
Dubar, superior of the Convent of the Sis
tiers de PEsperance, at Nancy; Lady Pigott,
for her devotion to the, wounded during
the. Franco-Prussian war; and Mile.
Bertha Rocler, of HavTe, for founding a
hospital.
A MAN was recently arrested in Polk
county and lodged in jail at Dallas, Ore
gon, on some charge or other. The first
night after his incarceration he escaped,
and went eight miles on foot to find man
to go his bail. The following morning he
returned to Dallas with his bond all signed,
and was released on bail.
A KEoKUK qowa) dandy rubbed his
hands with glycerine to make his New
\ ears gloves go on easy. When he had
concluded his calls he Was delighted to dis
cover that he had mistaken liquid glue for
the glycerine, and all that night and the
next day he sat reflecfively holding his
hands in a wash-boWl of warm water.
PRoF. LIE CoNTE, in the american, Nat
aratist, in his paper on economic entomol-
ogy, gives an instance in which all the cat
erpillars in nine-acre piece of woods were
destroyed by disease which had been
communicated to them bya sick silkworrn.
The same principle might be used in de-
stroying the cotton worm and others of
like nature.
On the firstof January, 1874, a new plan
was adopted for carrying the ocean mails.
On the 10Th of each month comparison of
the records of the connecting lines for the
previous six months will be made, and
upon the result of the comparison the
steamers to carry the mails for the sue
ceeding month will be announced. Those
lines which have the best records for speed
and safety willealry the mails.
A MAN in Orange county. Vermont. has
published the following: Whereas the Old
Woman known as nay wife, insGonse-
quence of attending the Pow-wows of the
Jumpers and the How1ers and the Cat
Burners, has become enirelv Seneeless
Crazy and Reckless and does nothing but
run up and down the road and Circulate
the. Most Infamous Lies Concerning myself
and Others. thus accomplishing my Ruin,
therefore forbid any one TO harbor or,
trust her on my account.
CoLuMBIA Glenn. J Beralo's report of |
Maurys county dance Zone Young lady,
pretty as a pink, being popular with the
boys, got engagements for every set, and
actually danced until she tainted and fell
upon the floor Blood ran out of her
mouth, and she remained unconscious un-
III next morning, when she was beYil-
dered and did not know. where she was.
Fear fell upon the gay dancers, but they
did not go home. A pious deacon of the
Church was present, and played for the
dancers nearly all night
ENTERPRIsISG housewives, says the
Springfield Mass Re2vbl ica,s, on the look
out for toothsome compounds to set. be-
fore favored guests, might take hint in
the line of preserye-m,lking from the fol-
lowing. Some time since, as noticed at the
time, a lady died very suddenly at her
home Just east of the city. The deceased
had for many years raised vegetables for
this market, and had been quite successful. |
A few days since, as we are informed some
member the bereaved family, prospect.
ing among livestock Of canned fruit for
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