The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-20
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

YertlSed TO De let.
THERE is new nursery in Boston I'M
der the guidance of charitable folks, where
working women may leave their babes du-
ring the day.
THE London correspondent OF the Liver
pool Daily Post announces as an l!lusIFa-
ton of modern Journalistic enterprise tnat
the London Times has secured private
TELEGRAPH wire between Paris and Lon
don. The cost is said to be about $4,000 a
year.
A CALIFORNIAN medical amateur pub
fishes the discovery that if you get your
face infiamed by the poison-ivy, the appli-
cation of good strong mustard plaster
will speedily make you forget all about the
smarting caused by the irritating vine.
CANADA seems inclined to drop its trans
continental railroad scheme. The Premier
recently announced that operations had
been suspended for the present on the
ground that the railroad would not be
needed soon. The great difficulty, ne
said, was in getting across the Cascade
range. which, at the most favorable point,
rose no less than lis feet to the mile for a
continuous stretch of fifteen miles. without
any level reaches at all.
A PRINTING-PREss has been set upat the
fooB of Mt. Ararat. The paper is called
Whsfs from ArarGt. 1t is largely devoted
10 local matters, and quotes the price OF
girls sold for matrimony at from $40 to
500. The natives believe thatangelic hosts
are stationed on the top OF the mountain to
keep guard and drive away any protane
person who may be disposed to steal and
carry off any portion OF the indestructlole
Ark.
THE steamship North arrived in Eng
q e,xx 1ar cir lorua
consisting of many hundred live South
American cattle. The voyage from the
Argentine Confederation was made in
twenty-four days. After few days rest
and food the beeves were sold to Berkshire
farmers at an average price of $50 apiece.
1t is said that these cattle can be bought,
brought over, and landed in England at
an outside cost of $50, exclusive of freight,
and that profit of 100 per cent. can be
re~lized in every case.
MIR. P. A. SHEARER, of Tennessee, has
struck short road to wealth. A Tennes-
see statute of 1866 provides that the con-
ductors of passenger trains shall call out
at each station in loud voice the name of
che station and the length of time the train
is Ia stop. For each failure to do so the
road must pay penalty of 500. Mr..
Shearer has discovered $500 omissions to
comply with this law, and claims pen
aIty of S10Q for each failure to call the
names of the station aid a similar sum for
failure to state the stopping time, making
an aggregate of half million dollars.
DENVER papers note the return to that
city of Miss Matte Gaylord, of Boston,
s'the great tourist of the Northwest and
the Pacific coast" and says: give years
ago she and her sister made this city their
initial point of departure for wonderful
Journey of $4,000 miles, which they ac-
complished with their own carriage, visit
ing every camp, settlement, village, and
city in the Territories, and on the Pacific
coast. Miss GAYLORD is now en- route to
Australia, where she will spend the next
two years in a similar xplorativejourney."
THE Portland jury that convicted Mr..
Pike of manslaughter. have an evident
liking for games of chance. Eleven of
I them favored the verdict that was finally
/ rendered, and the twelfth wanted to make
I it assault and battery. The plan hit upon
to secure unanimity was this: Twelve
ballots were put iato a hat, eleven marked
''manslaughter," and one assault and
battery" The disagreeing juror was TO
draw out one ballot, and the entire jury
promised to abide by the decision of this
lottery. He drew one of the 'smanslaugh-
ltT slips, dIu So L lac NttS COllR1CUcQ. Oub
new trial has been ordered.
In the New York College of Physicians
and surgeons, DR.. Charles p. Russell re-
Gently read paper on hydrophobia. The
number of cases in the different seasons
were given asfollows: GIL were in spring,
$50 in summer, 5S3 in autumn, and 573 in
winter. This was offered to show the alb
surdity of preventive measures in the use
of muzZles during only one part of the
year. The danger was greatest from va
grant dogs, of which there are more than
5000 in the city. That no precautions
were taken against hydrophobia he
thought remarkable, when sanitary pre-
cautions were so stringent. In the past
year four deaths have occurred in the city
from hydrophobia. There were sixty
three in the United States.
AN annual fair, at which some 10000
people assembled, in honor of the Hindu
goddess Elamma, is now held at her tenn
Pile near the town of Jat in India. Fifteen
years ago a gardener got up the idol and
stated that it had appeared there of its own
accord. Both men and women visit the
temple and worship the idol. The very
strange fact regarding this worship is that
the worshipers, before commencing the
worship, strip naked, apply powdered
odLuftLWOOu W lIlcn W1IOIC DOU1CSs put OIl
the ornaments they may have, hold small
branch of the nimb tree in their folded
hands, and leave their places of resi-
dence to visit the idol. After visiting the
idol they go round the temple to batile in
a neighboring tank. After bathing they
return to the temple, worship the idol,
and return home.
DURING the recent visit of the friendly
Warm Spring Indians who were.our allies
in the Modoe1 war, to San francisco. they
were taken to the Palace Amphitheater.
At one partof the performance Monsieur
DockriH appeared in his Indian act son
horseback, and toward the last he suddenly
leaped down and "sculpedn Joe Kenchei,
the clown, of the remarkable wig he wears.
At this the Warm Spring allies became
wildly excited, and it was with the great
est difficulty that they could be restrained
from leaping into the arena and taking a
hand in the proceedings. An immense
uproar ensued, but the red men were final
ly quieted down and resumed their seats.