The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-04


sued, and Sauchez was killed by the Indians.
The woman's temperance movement was
formally inaugurated in Chicago, on the 18th,
by grand mass meeting of ladies from the
various city churches, held at the Clark street
Methodist Church. A petition to the City
Council, opposing the repeal Of the ordinance
requiring the closing of saloons on Sunday,
was drawn up and largely signed. Further
plans for conducting the campaign were left
for future decision. The ladies of Springfield,
ILL.,, have decided to present written pledg-
es to drinkers and sellers of liquors in
that city for their signatures. They also
ask the City Council to enforce the law
for closing dram-shops on Sunday. In Day
ton, o., The ladies have continued their pray
ing dsinging at the saloons, and while they
have received courteous treatment at most
places visited, up to the 18th inst. they had
not made any perceptible progress in stop
ping the sale. ofs;liquor. In Cleveland the la
dies go3ins couples and solicit signatures to
the general pledge against buying, selling or
using liquors. In Cincinnati the saloon-keep-
ers have begun counter movement, and re-
solved to withdraw their patronage from all
business men fayoring the temperance. cru;
sade. A@sA :
The Iowa Senate, by majority of two
votes, has rejected the House bill prohibiting
the sale of wine and beer. tug ~: E.4.t
; Friday, March 18th, was largely observed
as a day of fasting and prayer throughout
Brooklyn, NJ Y, by those engaged in the
temperance movement : Dio Lewis took
charge of meeting held on that day and for
mally opened the campaign.
Advices by mail from Buenos Ayres to the
9th altimo rare received. The Presidential
election in the Argentine Republic was at
tended with much turbulence and disorder.
There were riots in the capital, in which four
persons were killed and twelve wounded.
Disturbances in the provinces. were still
worse The result of the election is not
known. The cholera and fever had disap-
peared.
The ship Aiisa; with cargo Of 5000 bales
of cotton, was partially burned and then sunk
at New Orleans on the l4th. Loss on cargo
about 100000.
The Grand Jury Of Pon1efoyt, Chic, at its
zecsntssessioni found two. hundred indict-
ments against liquor sellers. a*..f.ss.-.,
The Union Passenger Depot at Denison,
'Texas, together with the office of the Ad;ims
and Texas Express Companies adjoining,
Iand three cars Of freighton the, track, were
burned ON the morning of the 18th. Entire
loss estimated at $4,000.
Al Washing ton dispatch Of the Ath says that
the Secretary of the Interior has asked that
troops be sent to the Ute reservation in Colo
RADIO, with instructions to notify all unauthor-
tfadf fr.
80 upon the reservation, and t1iat those who
are,now trespassiBg must abandon it imme-
diately or be foreiblY lYFemoved. ssq ..,l,
A committee of one hundred Chicago ladies,
bearing petition against the proposed repeal
s of the Sunday Hqior law in that city signed
hv 16,OOe ejwomen, visited the City Hall on the
evening of the 10th for; the purpose, of pre-
.senting their memorial to the City Council,
then in session. The ladies' were courteously
received, and the chairman of the delegation
was, on motion, allowed to present the PEE
tition, which she did in few well-chosen
words. The petition was. then. read by the
City Clerk, and placed on file. The Council
then proceeded to the consideration ofthe or
idinanee permitting saieonstoibe kept open on
Sunday. Avery warm debate ensued, in
which an alderman claimed that they were
bound to vote for the ordinance, as it was one
of the issues upon which they werei elected
A vote was had, and the, ordinance adopted
bv a vote of % to IA. The defeated ladies
were then escorted from the l1alfto the outer
door by the police, Who with the utmost diff.
Guilty kept baclotlle large crowd Of foHshs and
loafers who had followed the ladies to the
City Hall and still remained outside.
{ AT BeHefontaiale, Ohio, on the 18th, two sa
loon-keepers surrendered to the. ladies and
emptied their liquors in the street amid the
ringing of bells and playing of the band.
90 4 San Francisco dispatch Of the 18th says
that the Central Pacific Railroad was agai1
blockaded near Emigrant Gap, the snow a
| the summit being fully twenty-five feet deel
4 on level. Telegraph poles and wires wer'
buried oat of sight half the distance from En-
igrant Gap to Truckee.. a&
,aE ss
FOREIGN.
K The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh mad
their formal entry into the City of London Of
the 10Th. a binding snow storm prevaile'
during the entire time of the procession, not
4 withstanding which the royal couple rode j
4 an opeHearriage over the entire route, an
d the streets were crowded with sight-seers
The houses on both sides were handsomel
4 decorated, and the roadway was lined wit
soldiers and marines from the station to tn
palace. The enthusiasm as the Duke and hi
bride passed by was intense, cheer followin
cheer from one end of the route to the othel
On their arrival at Buckingham Palace, j
2 front Of which immense masses of spectator
. had gathered theroyal party appeared aneo1