The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-31
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

enough TO make SoIaf Dear wear Ai0IiN
ogershoes.
THAT ..water will find its level - was re-
Gently shown at Marion, ONO, where, on
Christmas day, Mr.. John c. Water was
1narried to Miss Caroline Level.
wrLL-pREssEp man, apparently me-
chanic, recently created a sensation in Bos-
ton by walking about with placard on
his hat on which was inscribed L want
work" :,
BROOKLYN has a sensation, where girl
of fourteen years sues a youth not SIX
teen for breach of promise, broken vows,
wounded spirits, and other misdemeanors.
THERE is lady in Newburyport, Mass,
lightweight years old, who has ten chill
dren living-all she ever had--1lve sons
and five daughters. The mother and her
children weigh about ton. The sons VIII
average more than;200 each, the heaviest
go. and the daughters l60. There is only
one, the 'sbaby,'' weighing less than hun
bred and a half.
THERE is valley in Montana 5,O0O feet
above sea level, and north of the forty-sixth
parallel of latitude, where snow never falls.
Indians, trappers and old settlers say snow
was never yet seen on the ground in "Val-
ley Eden.' While snow falls to the depth
of seven inches on the surrounding noun
tains and valleys, Aever an inch falls on
this favored spot.
CATHARDE HARRIS, an insane woman,
was started from Chicago for San Francis
co by her relatives. On her shawl they
pinned her through ticket, and card re-
ouesting conductors to keep her on the
right trains. Her transit was successful
as far as Omaha. but there she became so
wild that it was necessary to send her to
Jail.
In some parts of California they have
ssgopher crop" the animal in question be-
3 ing so destructive to other crops-and es-
pecial1y to the alfalfa or lucerne, on the
roots of which it feeds with avidity-that
a bounty of ten cents on each gopher scalp.
is paid by the local authorities. One farm
er living near Yelo lately brought in 1893
scalps, for which he received Sl69.30.
The new State House at Hartford will
be one of the showiest public buildings in
New England. 1t is to be of marble, in
the modern Gothic style of architecture.
It's 300 feet long, $50 feet in height, and
: 200 feet wide. 1t is to be adorned with
figures and ether ornaments, and when
completed will have cost not far from two
millions of dollars. Connecticut will cele-
brate the centennial by the meeting of the
General Assembly in May, 1876. The build
ing was designed by Mr.. Upiohn.
WHILE rowing on the river near Savan-
Udlis st., TWO EltU SAW IIiS UOO9 VI ii
negro at the bottom. They drew it up,
put it in their boat, and started for the
shore. They had gone but short distance
when they found another body, and still
others, until the boat was loaded. They
took the CHASTITY cargo to the shore and re-
turned for another load. Altogether thir-.
teen corpses were recovered. It was after
Z ward learned that a boat full of negroes
had overturned further up the river and all
the occupants drowned.
4 Nor long since workman in johnson
e & Co.'s organ factory in Westfield, Mass,
had an attack of somnambulism which he
turned to good account. One evening he
was directed to carry some wood into the
shop on the next morning, and when the
time came was agreeably surprised to find
that it had been carried in and carefully
piled up. The Waterman says that the
man did it himself in the night, and that.
he failed to answer when spoken to, and
was evidently asleep. As soon as his work
was finished he went home and to bed,
and the next morning complained of being
rather tired.
A FEW days ago colored man applied
at one of the Boston Savings Banks where
he had deposit and whence he wished to
draw one dollar. The polite clerk inform
ed him that the iron rule of the Institution
forbid the withdrawal of less sum than
three dollars. Our colored brother was in
deep study for a few moments and then
said: " Sar, III take de free dollars" The
three dollars were paid to him, when he at
once added: s. low, sar, if you please, sar,
: I'll poset two dollars in de institution
The amount was duly received and cred
tied to his account, when with his loose
{ dollar in his pocket, he gave the clerk a
sly wink and walked away whistling
g Catch aweasel asleep"
AMONG the dodgers at the Elm street
Station in Cincinnati, a few nights ago,
was George Brown, aged 81 years. He is
remembered as, at one time not far back in
E the past, one of Cineinnati's most charita-
BILE citizens. About 184S, at his sugges-
ton, the foundation of the present valuable
Swedenborgianj Library was laid, Mr..
Brown contributing his own large and ex-
$ .spensive. collection as a nucleus. He re-
moved to Chicago few years ago and was
oyertaken by misfortune which left him
+. penniless. Returning to Cincinnati he
found all his old friends dead, and falling
TO find work that he could do he was forced
to accept charity.
An effort is to be made to introduce
hippophagy, or the practice of eating
horse flesh, in Boston. In Paris last year
s over 700 horses, mules, and asses were
consumed as food, furnishing 100000
pounds of edible meat. There are in Paris
forty slaughter houses for horses, which
are regularly inspected by Government
veterinary surgeons. The price of the
meat is about Ralf that of corresponding
prices of beef. Horses fit for food, which
were formerly worth from thirty to fifty
& francs, are now sold from $50 to loo francs.
The horses formerly bought by the
knockers, who were not interested in Civ
ing them any care, are now sold to butchers.
who find it to their advantage to give them
comfortable shelter and food in order that
they may have;nourishing meat
THE San Francisco Chronicle has dis
covered in a firm iaborer near that city
8 the son and legal heir to Napoleon t.
the true Napoleon L." This royal person
age says that he was born in Paris in
1910, his mother being Maria Louisa, an