The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
MIsCELLANEOUs.


A Washington dispatch of the 30th says
that Mr.. Cushing, United States Minister to
Spain, has made peremptory demand upon
the Spanish Government for full indemnity
for the Virginius prisoners slain by order of
Governor Burriel, and for consequential DAM
ages. The same authority makes Secretary
Fish say that the American Government has
made prompt demand, ,and one quite as decid-
ed and peremptory as that made by the British
Government, for the indemnity of the lives
of prisoners destroyed and the loss to their
families. This demand for indemnity for the
American prisoners executed, Mr.. Fish re-
marks, was in accordance with the protocol
concerning the settlement of the Virginius
affair, apart from the duty imposed upon the
Government to claim satisfaction for such
wrongs.
A large number of clerks were discharged
from the Treasury Department in Washing
ton on the 1st, among them being 375 female
employees il the bureau of engraving and
printing. The ladies generally felt very much
grieved at their dismissal, and fourteen are
said to have tainted dead away upon their
sad fate being announced. All the discharged
employees receive two months extra pay. by
order of Congress.
The Social Mills, at Woonsocket, r. l., were
burned on the 1st. There were $4,000 spin
dies and 1000 looms in the mills, employing
some 700 hands. The loss is from $700, 900 to
$500, 900, mostly insured.
The amended Pension act, passed at the
late session of Congress, provides that all
persons who are now entitled to pensions I'M
der existing laws, and who have lost either
an arm at or above the elbow, or leg at or
below the knee, shall be rated in the second
class, and shall receive $24 per month, pro-
vided that no artificial limbs, or commuta-
tion therefor, shall be furnished to such per-
sons as shall be entitled to pensions under
this act. General Baker, Commissioner of
Pensions, announces that persons en-
braced within the provisions of this
act can secure the benefits of the same
without formal application, and that a power
of attorney will not be recognized in an ap-
pIication for the increase ofpension provided
by this act. A letter from pensioner, ad-
dressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, en-
closing his pension certificate and his post
Office address, will be sufficient presentation
of his claim.
true bills for highway robbery against Police
Chief Badger and his confederates, for the
recent midnight seizure of the Bulletin
forms.
The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the
Mill River (Mass.) disaster inyesti-
cation is published. 1t censures the Legis-
lature for inadequate and defective legisla-
ton on the subject of reservoirs, the mill
owners for their parsimonious disregard of
life and property, the engineers for ambigu-
Gus and insufficient specifications, the con-
tractors for manifest delinquencies, and want
of thoroughness in their work, and finally
the County Commissioners for accepting
dam SO shabbily built, when they had the
power to order its entire reconstruction.
The Michigan Central Depot at Grand
Rapids, Mich, was burned on the 7th, to-
gether with all its contents. Loss about
$12, 900.
Fourth-of-July fires Of greater or less mag
nitude are reported from various places
throughout the country. At Pontiac, Liy-
ingston county, ILL.,, the Courthouse, togeth-
er with all the county records. and several
business buildings were burned; loss about
$4,000. At Circleyille, Ohio. the
Market-house and other buildings were
burned; loss about $685. 900. At Clinton, Ill,
four stores were burned; loss from $1,000 to
$4,000. At Hudson, Mass, a piano-forte
mandatory was burned; loss about $4,000
FOREIGN.
A Halifax dispatch of the Both says there