The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-23
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

" sold In EIOrlda at i've ctHIe al dOI0.
TIE United States of Colombia have an
immense source of revenue in the cancho
trees which grow thickly in Darien. One
forest is worth million dollars.
A YANKEE rea1-estate agency has Deen
established in Rome, and the felloW mas
created more excitement in realessaCe
than has been known for hive hundred
years before.
No country upon the face of the habita-
BILE globe, having railroad system in ope-
ration, is so carefully guarded against the
possibility, of collision as the Republic OF
Costa Rica. 1t rejoices in a single 1000
motive.
A YOUNG French girl was before
Montreal Court the other day, charged
with petty ofense, and her case was sus-
pended. The prisoner, in her fright
heard only a portion of the word pendu,
and is almost insane under the delusion
that she is under sentence to be hanged,
no assurance to the contrary removing her
anxiety and dread. =
MUCH of the most valuable LAND in
Georgia was originally distributed byilot-
terry, and many owners of real-estate have
abstracts of title going back to lottery
tickets. The system is to be revived.
The Legislature has authorized scheme
for the sale of lands by lottery, and an
office is to be opened in Augusta. 1t is
expected that the owners of large planta-
tons will subscribe.
In the will of the late Countess of Lou
doun, just proved, her ladyship, after de-
string that her funeral may be as quiet as
possible, goes ON to say: . further wish
my right hand to be cut off and buried In
the park at Castle Donington at the bend
OF the hill to the Trent,and small cross or
stone over it, with the motto, hyde my
lyme"
BLANCHARD JERRoLD asks any gentle
man in America, who may have known
the late Emperor Napoleon when he was
in the United States forty years ago, for
any particulars of his soiourn which he
may remember. He thinks that he will be
able to show that the Emperor conducted
himself with proper dignity while in the
United States.
NEXT Inauguration Day, March /, 1877,
falls on Sunday, so that the presiding Off
Ger of the Senate pro tenn. will be Rresl-
dent of the United States from Sunday
midnight till Monday at the hour that the
President elect is sworn in. This has oc-
CURED twice before, Monroe commencing
his second term Monday, March 8, 1871,
March 5, 1S49.
A FOSSIL egg recently found in the Cher
sonese has been added to the treasures of
the st. Petersburg Musuem, at a cost of
$3.50. 1t is IL inches in length and 6
inches in the shortest diameter its capac-
ity is reekoned equal to that of forty to
forty-four hens eggs. 1t is thus larger
than the egg of the ostrich, but smaller
fhoF hat off lo xxyti oh hos d 90
pacity equal to that of 148 hens eggs.
Nothing is said of the family to which this
egg belongs.
A WASHINGTON correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says that married
couple in that city have largely supported
themselves by attending the receptions of
Government officials and living on the
viands there provided. Breakfasting on
mush and milk at their lodgings in a fash
ionable part Of the city, they saved enough
by these foraging expeditions to secure
handsome visiting outfit, cards and gloves.
But their. tricks were at last found out,
and the peripatetic pair had to flee igno-
miniously.
Mr.. PULLMAN is said to have been much
Mortified at the speed with which his pal
ace car was put through on trial trip on
the Midland England Railway recently.
Despite the fact that there was large
number of swells on board, including the
Rothsehilds, the superintendent kept up
the rate of seventy miles per hour, while
Mr.. Pullman, who knew that any accident
would be attributed in some way to his
carriages, sat in far from spalatial" state
of mind.
A BILL has been introduced in the Can
adian Parliament to prevent the adultera-
ton of food, drinks and drugs. 1t pro-
svides penalty not to exceed 500 for adj
mixing for sale food or drink with any in
gredient injurious to health, whether the
same has been done by the person accused
or under his orders by another. For the
selling of such article a penalty not ex-
ceeding 500 is imposed, together with the
costs of conviction. For second offense
the offenders name, his place of abode,
and his violation of law are to be published
at his own expense.
ZINA FAY PIERCE, the daughter ofa cler-
gyman in st. Adams, VT, leads depar-
tlre in the temperance movement She
has formed society and written for it
creed. The points of her teaching are that
the milder forms of liquor should not be
ciassed with the fiery; that beer-drinking
and beer gardens should be countenanced
by young ladies that women should drink
malt liquors instead of tea and that the
total abstinence pledge is s'a stigma upon
the community, and direct accusation
against the wisdom and morality of our
blessed Saviour himself" Zina is young,
eloquent and pretty. Consequently she
has many followers.
THE State of Minnesota is one immense
railroad cemetery. Her new State reports
show that her LOO miles operated last
year did not earn enough to meet the inter-
est on the funded debt and the running ex-
penses, into $3,S40,000. The gross earn
ings S., 535 900, the net ST, III 900, or less
than quarter of the interest on the bonds.
Several roads, operating 224 miles. do not
pay their running expenses. Every mile
of the road is covered by nearly $4,000 of
stock, and S4l, 900 of bonds. The unpaid
and overdue coupons amount to $3,740,-
600, most of them ofrecent date.
A San DIEGO editor says that at the
risk of being pronounced falsifer by |
Eastern people, he will state few facts il |
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