The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-09-19
News Items.

| Spain is about to send more troop,
to Cuba.
| Theirs is going to Italy for two
months visit.
The Republican majority in Maine
was about 1900.
+. Carl Schurz indorses the Peoples
Party in Missouri.
The fires in the New Jersey forests
have been subdued.
The Cincinnati Industrial Exhibi
ton is grand success.
A successful inter- State exposition
is under way at Chicago.
Gen. Custar confirms the discovery
Of gold in the Black Hills.
Trouble between blacks and whites
is reported at Demopolis, Alabama.
Charles Vandervent, Grand Master
Of Odd Fellows, died in New York, on
Tuesday.
4 Philadelphia man named Tozier
killed his wife last Tuesday, and then
committed suicide.
Senator Brownlow OF Tennessee is
about to re-establish his old paper,
the Knoxville Wing.
Renewed victories over the Carlists
are reported in Spain. The revolt
ton seems nearly at an end.
A New York forger named Mendel-
sohn committed suicide last Saturday, !,
!, while in Jail awaiting sentence.
The International Law Association,
which has been in session at Geneva,
closed it's proceedings on the 11th.
President Mcmahon is making Il
tour Of France, and is everywhere en-
Enthusiastically received by the people.
Armstrong; Hotel, at Uxlridge,
Canada, was destroyed by fire on the
18th. Three persons were killed and
five seriously injured.
New York and Jersey masous and
bricklayers are working ten hours a
day in consequence of the dull times.
Employers are delighted.
Ben Butler is candidate for re-
election to Congress. He opened the
campaign with rousing speech at
Gloucester, last Saturday.
A great strike of operatives in cot
ton mills at Bolton. England, has ta-
ken place. $4,000 laborers have par
ticipated in the movement.
The Cuban chief, Calito Garcia, has
| been captured by the Spaniards. He
was seriously wounded in the head
by shot from one Of his captors.
The child stealing fever has spread
to Canada. Two Italians we're ar
rested at Quebec, last week, charged
with attempted abduction OF boy.
President Grant or the King of TIA
~ will probably be called upon to
arbitrate between China and Japan
in relation to the Formosa difficulty.
A Boston burglar named Hurley
has been sentenced to fourteen years
in the penitentiary, and has thirteen
years of an old sentence to serve ont
also.
The well known Cuban General Ry-
an, killed among the Virginius cap
tives by the Spaniards, left to kins-
men in Arkansas an estate valued at
$15O,OOO.
The United States court at Salt
Lake City being locked out Of the
courtroom, its sessions are being
held at tavern. Polygamists are
debarred from serving az jurors.
On the 18th, President Grant issued
proclamation commanding the in
surgents against the Louisiana State
Government to disperse and retire
peacefully to their homes within five
days.
Marshal Bazaine has written let
ter to the New York Herald defend
ing his military reputation and thank
ing the Englisl, and American press
for its impartiality in the treatment
of his case.
A terrible railroad accident oc-
CURED on the Great Eastern Railway,
near Norwich, England, on the llth.
Two passenger trains collided, killing
twenty persons outright and wound
ing fifty more.
In Nebraska, the Democrats have
nominated A. Tuxbury for Governor
and j. W. Savage for Congress. The
Convention was held at Omaha on the
iOtl, inst, and was the largest ever
held III the State.
It is in consideration at Washington
whether Louisiana shall be added to
Cen. Sheridan's department or Gen.
Terry be sent to take command at
New Orleans. Gen. Terry ranks Gen.
Emory.
Hon. John S. Kerr, a member of
the Tennessee Legislature and prom
inent before the Democratic State
Convention As candidate for Cover
nor, fell dead of heart disease at his
home in Memphis, Tuesday.
The Postmaster General offers re-
ward of 5000 for the arrest of parties
concerned In the mail robbery at
Gad,S Hill Mn..-on the 3ist of .Iauu-