The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-13
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

able females IN EaStOn, "a, I'VE silo .iu
protest against the advice given to young
men to go West.
ISABEL MIX, of Polkville, Conn.,,
sprightly youth of so, was married me
other day to Bella Landon, aged IA. VINO
saws that & grabbed age and youth cannot
live together?"
FRow soundings made by Mr.. John Nc
Kinney. an experienced navigator and ola
resident in the vicinity OF Lake Tahoe, Cal
ifornia, it appears that the greatest depth
of that remarkable body OF water is l,o46
feet.
Mrs. MARGARET MARTIN, of Dublin, Ire
land, has obtained patent for improve
ments, in the construction OF balloons
and other aerial bodies, and in the means
of navigating them, so as 20 control Ihe
direction in which they shall travel.
CART. BRYANT, who has long been sta
toned on the fur-seal islands OF Alaska,
believes that the natives are OF Japanese
oripia. and possess noticeable characterize
les of that race, They are quick towlearn,
tractable. and superior to the people OF the
mainland. The latter are probably OF Tar
tar descent.
Mr.. Posi- isa Wisconsin Christian. On
a recent Sunday he went to church and
caring to have his devotions disturbed by
the worldly thoughts her proximity might
suggest, he grasped her firmly by the ear
and thus escorted this poacher on gospel
privileges into the aisle.
INthe course of experiments with manu-
iactured ice in Philadelphia, the other day,
acurious and beautiful result was obtained
1y enclosing bouquet of fresh flowers In
the center Of block of the translucent
material. Every leaf and blossom was
perfectly visible, while the brilliancy OF the
colors was enhanced by the refraction
through the ice.
AN Idaho correspondent speaks OF new
and undescribed species of fish that was
last summer discovered to inhabit small
lake in the mountains, on a tributary OF
Peyette River, weighing from five to ten
pounds, in shape much like shad, and
having skin and scales of deep blood
red color. The meat is of bright yellow
color and delicious in taste.
A MINISTER named Hardy, while preach
ing in Bullitt county, KY, few Sundays
ago, was worried by youth who made
noisy interpretations at frequent intervals.
So he came down from his pulpit and gave
the young man first-class fogging, for
which little diversion Mr.. Hardy paid a
Justice of the peace fifteen dollars the next
day.
A NUMBER of Indian skeletons have been
exhumed from an ancient graveyard near
GAINESVILLE, Tenn. The foreheads are re-
ceding, and the jaws and nose very promi-
nent, unlike the features of any tribe
known to the earliest settlers. Flint
weapons and pottery were found, and the
graves were closed above and below with
Slabs of slate stone. Strangely enough a
feaden bullet was found fastened in the
shoulder bones of one of the skeletons.
A LETTER to the Galveston Nes0s, writ
ten from Richmond, Texas, invites suffer-
ers from the overflow in Louisiana to i'm
migrate to Fort Bend, BraZoria, Wharton
and Matagorda counties, where the soil
and climate are similar to what they have
been used to in Louisiana. The writers
say any amount of land can be leased or
bought at lower prices than in any other
counties in the State, suitable for cane or
cotton, and that it would add largely to
the interest of Galveston for her merchants
to give these people assistance in the
. move.
Q A CORRESPONDENT writes as follows of
a celebrated place in Colorado Canon,
called Echo Park: "When gun is dis
charged, total silence follows the report
for moment; then, with startling sud-
denness, the echo is heard, seeming at a
great dishonesty five miles to the south
whence it comes back IN separate and
distinct reverberations, as if leaping from
glen to glen. Louder and quicker grows
the sound, until apparently directly oppo-
site, when full volume of sound is re-
turned; then once more the echo is heard,
like the swapping of cap, far to the east
ward.o
THERE is a gentleman living on the
Southwestern Railroad near Columbus,
Ca. who has thirteen daughters. He
buys clothing for them by the wholesale.
Thus when last in Columbus he bought
$40 yards of calico, 100 of lawn, Is corsets,
26 pairs of shoes, and other goods in pro-
portion. Unlike many fathers who have
only one daughter, he paid cash for all
his purchases. Though an old man, he
has never bought bushel of corn or a
pound of meat, but raises them himself.
He has never sworn an oath, and does not
owe dollar. Last week he sold the rem
nant of his cotton crop, forty bales, and
in addition 81, $50 in gold.
THE court column of the London Times
recently contained notice in formal and
loyal phraseology, that the true and real
cause of absence of the Duchess of Edin-
burg from the last drawing-room was that
her Royal Highness had hopes of an event
which would add to her happiness and
that OF the Duke of Edinburg, an an
nouncement of which would cause great
Joy in the kingdom. This statement, says
London letter, caused great buzz but
the next morning there was still greater
buzZing when it was announced. by re-
quest, that the eourtly paragraph of the
day before had been printed without the
knowledge or authority of the Duke OF
Edhlburg.
TEE new constitution adopted by the
Swiss, by a vote of 321 $40 to 1T 800, will
introduce several Important changes
Among these it gives, for the first time
the Federal Government the control of the
army and of military stores and fortified.
lions makes every man liable to military
service; makes education secular and com.
pulsory; provides for the passage of 9
uniform bankruptcy law; subjects the
ecclesiastical to the civil power; makes
civil marriaoo ohfiUatorv- nrohihite the