The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-09-29

exmblt was very large, well deyelone,
specimen OF the Victoria Regia contributed
: by Mr.. Sturtevant of Bordentoyn. who bo.
the nnest collection of lilies in the world
LIS ofoad leaves measuring at least six fee
acfoss' lie on the water like piece OF
10 poafa, ssroang enough to bear up a child, and
1he great flowers, pure white, give forth q
most delightful, delicate odor. How bean.
IIul must be the waters of the Amazon Val
icy, covered with these regal plants. The
egyptian lotus was there also in great ner-
fectlon-the flower of that is a rich, deem
rose color. >''el
! have always heard that the Southerners
were noted for having large families. but T
doubt if there ever was a case in the South
not even that of the Hood family, to equal
one that have just heard of John Heff-
| ner, German rag-picker, a resident Of
Reading, was killed lately on the Pennsvl-
Fanla railroad. His death, perhaps, would
have attracted little attention. but for a
father remarkable point in his history. He
was % years Old, had been married three
times and had had forty-two children. When
70 years old, in 1910 he took his first wife.
one lived eight years and bore him seventeen
ch!idren-the first and second year had
Twins and four times after became the
mother of triplets. The second wife lived
nine years and added to s;le seventeen chill
dren she began with, fifteen; two the first
year ana ten IN five years; twins three times
consecutlvely. Think of it! Thirty.two
chlidred in a house at one time. Pretty
good start for an orphan asylum. Death
renewed the poor man of twelve, so that.
When the third wife came he had only twenty
to offer her. Did she not have courage to |
marry man with twenty objections? In !
nine years she counted ten of her own, and ;
thus III period of twenty-eight years he /
became the father of forty-tHo children.
Only five, ranging from six to twenty-seye1,
years, survive him.
lhe faces that were So smiling two weeLs
ago over the corr crop prospects now look
ANXIOUS. The few days that were needed to
make it SIRE, big thing, came with cold
WINDS and frosts instead of warm sunshine
1nd shrlveled their prospects considerably.
Ihere Will be plenty; nobody need starve,
out what DO people, mean the graspine,
money making people-care for mere
plenty? They want regular corn boom
ma! u, they expected to have it this year.
Ishy, there was talk on Change in New {
YORK OF 2,0U0,0Oo O03 bushels for the whole ;
country and so 1880, which was the biggest
or m year on record and which summed I'D /
, 134,oOUoO bushels for the whole country.
you'd have been eclpsed. OF course the
oss III this belt of country is small com
AIRED to more northern districts. Tobacco '
90 has been very materially injured v
fhA1.d ESISs
The money market is easy and the supply g
I Ioanable funds abundant,
ihe WOOL clip Of Washington county, Pa,
us Is; year amounts to 5000 ego pounds. b
The order has gone forth that ENGLISH
ugs are no longer fashionable
There are lots of people about town look 6
e e. for good boarding houses. a
The receipts from United States internal TT
venue Yesterday were $4o8 ,2a2, and from -
lstoms $685., 946. c'
The Philadelphia police are being edu-
ted as surgeons. During the month of &c
1gust sixteen cases were attended BY NJ
EN-. N
VIM. Eckley of this city is on trial for b,
gamy. He became sentimental and could II
IT keep from marrying two women in NJ
rec days.
Monsignor Capel, the great Roman Cath
g divine now Iecturing here, says it is a
re thing to find beauty of countenance in
yolman, allied With great strength of soul of
y intellectual @pcswE. Which would the
lies prefer?
GOOSEGIrTTJ G,