The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-14
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

total area OF the c0uIAty.
SOMEBODY, who has taken the trouble te
compile the statistics of violent deaths il
1873. finds that more.people died by drown,
ing than any other means.
A SMALL stream near Yellowstone Lake
Is split in two by small peninsula, one
branch following the Yellowstone and
Missouri to the Gul's the other making its
way into the Snake River and thence to
the Pacific.
SAYS a Milwaukee journal: milwaukee
leads Chicago by ab0uE TOUR million bush
els in its wheat transactions for 1873, but
when the old sinner down the lake begins
to brag on the number of arrests made by
its police force The Cream City yields up
the broom.o
THE Augusta Co,aStitutionaList proposes
the organization of sin association in each
Southern State for tie purpose of pension
ing Confederate soldiers who have no Gov
eminent to recognize their claims and look
after their wants. The plan for raising
the money is by lottery.
AT an inquest recently held at Sheffield,
England, on the bodies of the ten persons
who were killed by the falling of a Chin
ney during the gale; the jury returned a
verdict off, Accidental death,'' with rec
ommendation that the building of square
chimneys should be prohibited.
FRANK Epson, a I'D engaged in one of
the paper mills at Ypsilanti, Mich, lately
received an imposing official documentfro
Holland, inclosing an order for his imme-
date presence, and money enough to carry
him out, to establish his claim to an inn
mense estate-S40 ,0C0, 900 is the rumor-
for which the Holland courts can find no
nearer heir. He has started.
ACCORDING to 4apptetons' Journal, a
school history of England has lately been
published, in which, calendar . is spelled
with ''k,'' after the Greek, although
there were no Greek calendars. A critic,
noting this innovation, wants to know if
we must now write I the kataracts of the
Nile" or ga sad catastrophe" If not
why not !? inquiries the Jou7maE Why rem
der unto c, sir, the things that never be-
longed to G, sir.n
THE following ladies will be attached to
the household of the|Grand Duchess Marie,
now that she is married to the Duke of
Edinburgh: Lady Frances Baillie, daugh-
ter of the seventh, Earl of Elgin; Lady
Emma Godolphin Osborne, sister of the
Duke of Leeds, and Lady Mary Butler. sis
ter of the Marquis of?0rmonde: The selee-
ton, says the Pail, Mall Gazette, would
seem to be intended as representation of
the three kingdoms
THE Journal de Paris confirms a rumor
prevalent some time ago, and states that
NJ. Rouher has Just signed with the
French Government a convention, in yir-
tie of which the Empress Eugene will
receive SUM of 5000, 900 francs, payable
in annuities. The State will also restore
to her majesty thd Chinese museum at
Fontainebleau, and the collection of
arms at Pierrefondss as well as the works
of art purchased by The late Emperor.
One of the speeiallresuits of the United
States geographical survey of the terrftor-
les in charge of Professor f. Y. Hayden,
during the past SUMMER, has been the dis
covery that Colorado Territory is the cen
ter of the greatest elevation of the Rocky
Mountain chain. So far as known. there
are III the district explored during the past
season by the survey seventy-two peaks.
ranging from 14,G00 to 1920 feet in
height
THE Dominion Government has estab-
lished series of stations for meteorologi-
cal and storm sigr9al purposes in New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which are to
be put into telegIaphic communication
with the Signal-SefEice department i'll
Washington, although the advantages ac-
cruing to the provinces will be much
greater to the United States The pro-
posed stations are, for New Brunswick. at
st. John, st. Andrews, Shediac, and
's5aspe; in Nova Scotia, at Halifax, Pictou.
Yarmouth, Sydney, Cow Bay. and Little
Glace Bay.
Ten thousand dollars is the quotable |
price for broken hearts at present. The |
last claimant for this balm to wounded af-
lection is Miss Jeanbette III. Hammond, a |
beautiful eighteen-year-old of Peekskill. |
who has been desperately disappointed BY |
her treatment at the hands of William nj, |
Dean, wealthy hardware dealer of New
ork City. To make the thing doubly
eXasperating, Miss Hammond had eXpend- |
cd $500 for wedding q fixins'' before her |
reereant intended showed weakening in |
his purpose OF speedy marriage.
THE Augsburg Gasette states that the
Grand Duke Alexis, the third son of the
Emperor of Russia, having lately returned |
from voyage round the world, which |
lasted two or three years, has received the |
Cars orders to undertake another Jour
ney. 1t appears that the Prince is in dis
grace with the CZars on account of mar
rage secretly CONTACTED by the Prince
some years ago with lady of the court. |
the niece of the Russian Minister of FL
nance, Monsieur de5Reutern. After hay-
ing tried several means to break off the |
mesalliance, the Gar ordered his son to
travel abroad, hoping that the separa-
ton would estrange the Princes attach |
ment to his wife, but the event has proved
the Car to be mistaken, as the Prince ON
his return has joined his young wife at
Nice, and refuses 10 be separated from |
her.
| REMEMBER, says correspondent of |
the Medical and SURGICAL Journal. that
when was very yoeng, they used to raise
blisters with boiled hammers. Old DIR.
Twitehell, of Keene-peaee to his ashes
once wanted to blister some one in a farm
house, far from home. He had nothing
with him to do it with. He asked his wife
to find him hammer. The article was
brought out, put in Il teakettle over the
tire, and, after the water steamed and bub-
bled well, he lifted it out and gently
touched it to his patient in a halfedozen
spots, over the seat qfpain, with very pos
tive effect. Boiled hammers were. for
MANY wears uSed in that naiohhorbood |