The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-12-12
News Items.

| Bank at Berlin.
Railroa,l companies owe the govern
ment 81 100000
The Carlists claim a victory ovel
General Despullottes.
One of the Wellsboro, Pa, bank rob
bers has been convicted.
DR.. Livingston's journals have beer
safely recovered from Africa.
The Havana police drive gold
brokers off the streets in that city.
Sir Arthur Gordon has been ap-
pointed Governor of the Fejee Islands
There is rumor that Don Carlos
is negotiating with ex-Queen Isabel.
It is iDtimated that McMahon will
form new ministry after January
1st.
Professor Holzendorf will defend
Count Won Armin at the approaching
trial.
The Cheap Transportation Conven-
ton adjourned sine die, Friday eve
ming.
The village of Harms City, Pa, was
almost wholly destroyed by fire on
the 2nd.
The Arkansas Senate memorializes
Congress for a removal of the tax on
tobacco.
The Secretary of War, in his report,
discouragcs the present reduction OF
the army.
Francis Alexandra has been elected
president of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company.
The Alabama Grand Lodge of F.
& A. M. assembled Monday last, at
Montgomery.
Gen. Robert O. Tyler, y. S. Army
Quartermaster of the district of the
Atlantic, is dead.
Jno. F. Seymour, wholesale New
York crockery merchant, has failed.
Liabilities, 5000, 1000.
DR. Rush of Concordia, Mo-, was
hanged by mob last Sunday night,
for arson and robbery.
The impression prevails in Wash
ington that Congress will let Louisi-
ana and Arkansas alone.
Mr.. Cate, Democrat, is elected to
Congress from the Eighth Wisconsin
district by two majority.
Congressman Phelps was defeated
for reelection in the fifth New Jer
sey district by two votes.
A Boston dispatch announces that
the HoOSic railway tunnel will be
completed in a few weeks,
Mr.. Phelps of New Jersey will in
troduce bill in Congress to repeal
the newspaper gag law"
London is alarmed over the dis
covery of eight eases of smallpox IN
a vessel lying at that port.
The longshoremen's strike in New
York has ended by a compromise and
the men are resuming work.
The Court House at Franklin, Ind,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
1t was fired by incenaiaries.
Booths Theatre, New York, was
sold at auction last week, and bought
by Oliver Ames for S;385,OOO.
Arkansas Congressional elections
are to be held hereafter on the same
day as those for State officers.
The board of audit report the debt
of the District of Columbia at Sl4,-
900, 600 inclusive of resources.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
paid off sixty striking en-
ployees and discharged them.
Thirty thousand operatives in the
iute mills of Dundee have struck
against a REDUCTION of their wages.
The Paris banking honse of the
Rothschilds has advanced 3O,OOO,OOO
reals to the government of Spain.
Two boys and a girl, venturing out
too far on thin ice, at Rochester, n.
Y, fell through and were drowned.
Patrick Cusick killed his brother
in-law, John rafferty,, with an axe,
near Reading, Ohio, during fight.
ne Now HdLH i'Slilic IIOHlDItlOn1SIS
have nominated a State ticket, head
ed by Nathaniel White for Governor.
Hon. Charles McIlrath, ex-State
Auditor Of Minnesota, will be prose
cuted for alleged defalcation of S94,-
600.
The Pennsylvania Historical Society
celebrated its semi centennial with a
banquet, at Philadelphia, on the 2nd
inst.
Theodore Tilton can not fulfil his
lecture engagements, owing to legal
proceedings that occupy all his atten-
ton.
In districts where second ballots
were ordered for Deputies, in France,
the Republicans have made large
gains. ....
Rev. Jno. S Glendenning Of Jersey
City has been tried by the Presbytery
of that city and acquitted of all
charges.
The Carlist leader Lorgano was
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