The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-26
News Items.
Big potats~crop in Europe.

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Smallpox is raging on the Islan'
Of jamaica.
The government OF Brazil is in
prosperous condition.
| Mcmahon has completed his tour o
France and returned to Paris.
| The he1Massachusetts Labor Reform
ers will nominate State ticket.
| Arkansas highwaymen are doing :
lively business robbing mail stages.
The annual convention of Odd Eel
lows was held at Atlanta this week.
The striking mill operatives at Boil
ton, England, have resumed work.
Hon. WIN. NJ. Evarts is to be senior
counsel for Beecher in the Tiltor
suit.
Bismarck is said to be endeayosine
to secure the annexation of Delm;.ri
to Germany. 'l.E ~
1t is estimated that one third Of the
active force of the army will .he sta
toned in Louisiana. .....
| The Empress Of Russia is. going to
| England to see her daughter, the
duchess of Edinburg.
Weston the pedestrian tried to walk
500 miles in six days at Barnum's
Hippodrome, but failed.
Cotton manufacturers anticipate a
dull year, and have decided to reduce
the production Of their mills.
The italian residents of Philadel
phia will erect u monument of Chris
tophcr Columbus III that city.
Three of the parties charged with
completely in the Gibson county out
RACES in Tennessee proved an ;.libi.
The touring Texas editors were ut
Norfolk, last week, and went from
thence to Baltimore by steamer.
Colonel w. H. Belts has been NOM
mated for Congress in the third Ala
bama district, by the Republicans.
In the Oregon Legislature the In
dependents, Democrats and Republi-
cans are about equally divided.
Carlos de Varona, wealth Cuban
residing in Paris, his contributed
100000 in aid of the. Cuban cause.
The annual convention OF the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Union Of Amer
ica is to meet in Chicago, October Z.
Berlin advices report that the Pope
has refused to join the European pow
ers in the recognition. sf Spain.
The troops on the frontier are pun
ishing the Indians severely and the
Red League is becoming less formi.!;l-
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The cnstom-honse and light house
at Brazos de Santiago, Texas, were,
swept away by the heavy storm of
4th and 5th insts.
The United States Lcvee Commits
sioncrs have gone to Europe tO in
spect the improvements in navigation
on the Danube river. B. Fl
The Carlists continue to lose ground
in Spain. Their forces suffered defeat
in several recent engagements with
the government troops.
The English authorities seized
vessel off TIC coast of Essex county.
having on board 4SOO rifles and 500
cases of cartridges for the Carlists.
Rev. Wesley Prettyman, of the NJ.
E. Church, postmaster at Marietta,
Georgia, ,~has been arrested for embez-
clement of post-otfice funds.
A passenger and freight train COLI
ded on the Belvidere, Delaware, rail
road, last Tuesday. One man killed,
nine injured. \ lady was also hurt.
A riot occurred at Panama on Sept.
18th, between government troops and |
italian sailors. An Italian and a ne
gro were wounded, the former NOR
ally.
The French consul and vice consul
1t New York have been appointed
of France to the Cen
,ennial Exhibition to be held at Phila-
lelphia.
A gang OF armed white men shot all
I'D colored man and his wife, in Co
umbia county, Georgia, because two
'ther negroes had stolen bale of
cotton.
A d1spatcl, from Constantinople
ays the government of Angora re-
'orts that $4,000 people there are Mt
erly destitute there. and will require
during the winter.
The Haytien government has made
lemand on the United States for con-
damages for the loss of Ma
'assa by American occupation, and
flso for the restitution of the island.
The government Of Denmark has
tilected its representative at Berlin
o ask explanations from the German
authorities relative to the expulsion
# Danish subjects from Schleswic.
Rcgnier, who was an important
but fed from Paris at the
of the Bazaine onrt-mar-
ial, has been condemned to death in
ontumacv for his traitorous cons!lct
II the negotiations at Metz.
The prizes to be awarded in the
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