The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-30
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

vertised as being "out of job"
sFoRTY thousand cattle are said to nave
nerished in Utah and Nevada during the
winter.
THE CITY of Des Moines, Iowa, has been
sued for damages amounting TO SIp,ooo
for the death of little girl who was
washed into a sewer in the winter and
drowned.
OxE hundred and nihety-four inland
~1ak4,s of Michigan have been stocked with
yghite.fish. which are doing well. The
average number in each lake is about
1900.
A DENVER (Col.) physician protests
against Eastern doctors allowing their pa
tients in the last stage of consumption 10
90 to Colorado. The air is rarer and con-
fains less oxygen, and is too trying u the
disease is far advanced.
EMILY FAITHFUL says that after sixteen
years. experience she has become con-
WINGED that there is no royal road for Wo-
men. They must learn to work well De,
fore they can expect much money, ana
they must ask for no favors on account OF
their sex.
Mrs. SEpA SPIcER, of Upton, Iowa, at
the mature age of seventy eight, is as live
lv as a grasshopper. Last week she en-
pioyed mason to repair the chimney to
her residence, and carried the bod up two
ladders, over a steep shingled roof, while
he did nothing except lay the brick.
UNITED STATES Minister Foster, Mrs.
Foster, and Secretary Bliss recently as
cended the volcano of Popocatapetl, Eos
ter and Bliss almost reaching the crater.
Mrs. Foster reached the Cross, several
hundred feet above the region of perpetual
snow, and fourteen thousand feet above
the level of the sea, the highest point ever
reached by lady.
A MAN in Maine has discovered the adj
vantage of a large family. He has twenty
two children, and recently, when he made
arrangements for moving from one school
district to another, thus transferring his
school tax, his old neighbors offered to
pay him something to remain among
them. His new. neighbors, however, Of
fared to remove him free of expense, and
so prevailed.
A VERY rich coal merchant in England
has written to several of his customers,
who purchased Goals of him for brewing
and other purposes connected with the
manufacture of beer, regretting that he is
unable to continue serving them, as "be-
ing an abstainer and Good Templar, he
cannot conscientiously supply Goals for
the manufacture of the articles Of such a
trade"
Mr.. WASHINGTON MCLEAN, of Cincin-
natl, has made the following suggestion !:
Let all the country towns at the time OF
the celebration be connected with Phila-
delphia by telegraph, so that all parts OF
the country may unite in the opening cere-
monies, and even, though far apart, join in
the same prayer and songs of praise. This
would present the spectacle of the entire
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Fourth of July, 1875.
THE girls of California seminary lately
developed a singular fancy for using three
one cent stamps, instead of the regular
kind upon their envelopes. The letters
were so very plain and matter-of-f fact, and
the attempts at evading surveillance in the
old-fashioned way grew so scarce that one
inspecting teacher Investigated this whim.
And 10! the cunning creatures had taken
to writing tender, emotional little epistles
to their lovers under the stamps.
TEACHING the dumb to speak was lately
shown to be no paradox in London. Lord
Granville took the chair at an interesting
meeting in FitZroy square, at which an eX-
animation of deaf mute pupils clearly de-
monstrated the fact that the motions of the
lips can be followed and repeated by nine
ty-nine out of one hundred of the youngest
children who, having been deaf from their
birth, are, as an ordinary consequence,
dumb.
A CRUSADE ON CoRsETs.-Mrs. Susan
Everett, NJ. D., has been featuring to
women for three weeks in Mr.. Bt echer's
and DR.. Cuyler's churches, Brooklyn. The
interest the ladies have taken in her hy-
gienic instructions has started movement
to form Ladies' Physiological Society to
consider health, health subjects, corsets,
carriers, false hair, and high-heeled shoes
Lecturers are to be employed, and library
of medical works established. Many we'll
known Ladies are interested in the society.
THE valley of the Tongue River. a tribu-
tary of the Yellowstone, in Montana, has
hitherto been the unmolested home OF
wolves and bears and snakes; but now il
is beginning to resound with human voices
and to be peopled with gold seekers. Two
months ago somebody brought eleven
buckets full of earth from that region
which yielded, when washed out, six dol
lars and sixty cents worth of gold. On the
strength of this one hundred men imme-
diately started for the new Eldorado, and
more than hundred more have since fol-
lowed them.
A GENTLEMAN at Helena. NJ. T., has a
pair of huge. mountain lions. or cougars
WHICH, HIS Idlccu HUH WIlG1pSk USS6
beasts are now about two years old, and
fully as large as good-sized panther
They do not obtain their full growth until
four years of age. They are very ferocious
and give no evidence of becoming tracta,
Bile; and an ordinary-sized dog, thrown
into the cage, did not survive long enough
to give yelp. The owner says they have
already devoured some ten or twelve dogs
and twenty or thirty cats, which have beer
given them to play with.
THE editor of the Farmville (Va.) Mer
curry, on retiring to private life, says: 'sMy
editorial experience has been extremely
pleasant l have received every encour.
agement from the people, and have been
honored by the press far more than de
served. The number of those whom ]
have slaughtered and cremationized is not
great. have never been horse-whipped
revolvered, knitted, licked, bricked, pun.
meled or cussed for anything have said
written, done or left undone as an editor