The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-15


to trustees in trust for their creditors. /
Their assets far exceed d'their liabilities.
The flry-goed house of H.sB. iClatiin
s. Cos New York. City, have been conn
PEELED to ask a short extension from some
Of their creditors, which was promptly
granted. ss* 80 'l'sa e-'5a
The failure of@fhe Chesapeake 81 Ohio
Railroad Company is annomeed.i a
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
s MikeAA1eC Coolephas been heldao bailsin
the SUM of $40 900 for the killing of Pat
sey Manly in st. Louis, on Oct. %.
A reported disturbance and riot at Cen
treville. Ind, recently, on account Of the
removal of the. county seat, is witfoutanys
foundation In fact s a.
Nine prisoners tllnneled out Of jail one
night recently at Terre Haute, Ind. Two
of them were charged with murder.
One Of the stokes jurors has been ar
rested, charged with violation of his oath.
Stokes was taken to Sing Sing Nov. !. ).
A New Orleans dispatch of Noy. gives.
particulars of horrible outrage .commit-
ted on a respectable widow lady and
daughter in Colfax, Grant Parish, which
is charged upon the Metropolitan Police
sent there by Lieut.. Governor Antoine.
!, The Illinois Supreme Court has granted
a new trial to Chris. Rafferty,, who muir
tlered the policeman who had warrant for
his arrest at Chicago about a year and a
half ago, and who has twice been convict
ed and sentenced to be hanged for the
crime.
MISCELLANEOUS. 4
y The following card appeared in y the
Memphis papers of Oct. 81
The undersigned desire to announce to the gem
erous people throughout the country. who have
| come 70 our assistance with more than princely
lbefalityS thatswhile. asdeclared this day by our
| Board of Health, yellow fever no longer exists
in ansepidemic FORM there is, nevertheless, great
need of funds for the twelve hundred persons
/ now sick and eenvalescing, and for the rellef ef
| hundreds of families who have been left desti-
j tute, and that necessity will ne doubt eentIn&e
to exist for many weeks to come; Any further
Contribution of money or supplies viii be thank
fully received and properly apslledm m S,igneu ,i.sL
/ of the Citizens Relief Committee; a. d. Lang
staff, President of the Howard Association; a.
/ E. Frankland, Secretary of Relief Association.
Following is "a summary of reports from
various localities injected by yellow fever
on Oct 81. In Memphis the disease had
almost entirely disappeared incoming
trains were filled with returning citizens
and the streets were again crowded witt
vehicles and pedestrians. At Bainbridge
Ca, there were number of new cases
but the situation was Considered NOR,
hopeful. AT Shreveport, La, four deaths
At Marshall, Texas, no new eases report
ed, and Little Rock, Ark, entirely fre!
from the disease.
Orders have been issued for the remova
of the Modocs, who are nowat Fort Nc
.EPhersan. to a permanent location with tn
Guapaws on the Ne0sho River, in the ex
treme northeastern corner of the Indian
Territory.
Rowing bands of Sioux having recent,
4 cruelty raided ON the Pawnees and othe
friendly tribes, the matter has been mad
the subject OF consultation between tn
Interior and War Departments, and order
have been given by the latter that all Siou7
4 found off their reservation with hostile IN
tent be pullished. ss&l ~ So
A Boston candy prize-package man ha
been indicted and found guilty in the Supe
rior Criminal Court of running a lottery.
Il FOREIGN.
Il A Madrid dispatch of Oct. 81 says tina
the government troops besieging Carriage
= Ina had been reinforced by 5,0e0men. 80
The court Of St.zJanes has gone int
mourning for three weeks on account
the death of the King of Saxony. at
The trial of the Tichborne claimant ha
been adjourneduntil November II, whe
J it is expected that important witnesses WI
have arrived from America.
A special dispatch from. Sicily to til
London Daily Neaos reports that the 70
! canoof 1Etna is in state Of violent eruT
ton. The outbreak Is accompanied b
earthquakes. Portions,ef the crater hav
!, fallen in, and the miness OF sulphur, Whic
have been worked for q year, valued {
! 100000, have been DESTROYED.
Private advices from Havana state ths
4 in the recent storm three Spanish gunboat
were lost at Guantanamo, twoat Batabant
and one at Sagnala Grand.
The total defeat of the Carlistss at II
stany was reported Nov. l.
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Fhe Houses Built by ChiMless MeI
: One of the shows of Buffalois the pal;
tial . residence of William G.. Fargo, Il
5 express man With the exception, pc
9 haps, of Stewards big marble house in Ne
FORK, it is the most costly and pretentiol
6 private residence IN America. 1t is IN od
4 freak in human nature that men childles
! oralmost without family, should have SUI
: a mania for erecting these huge struetur
5 for home. A. I. Stewart, without chic
9 or child, builds great, cold, gloomy ed
z z flee of marble, that looks more like pu
lie building than private house, and Fa
Il go, with no living children, puts up tn
. immense structure, that towers above Bu
2 falo almost as the capitol does above Was