The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-10-03
News Items.
Mount Etna is agitated.

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The Philadelphia Germans are
having grand Volksfest.
Russia is striving to stem the tide
of emigration from the borders.
South Carolina political riots are
becoming few and far between.
The Democrats have carried the
municipal election at Nashville.
President Serrano will take COM
mand of the central Spanish army.
The Prince of Wales has accepted
the Grand Mastership of Free Masons.
The people of Bayonne refuse to
sell coal to the German men-Of-war.
Alderman Daniel Henry Stone has
been elected Lord Mayor for London.
Three men were suffocated by foul
air in cistern at Vicksburg last
week.
The Liberal Republicans of New
York have indorsed the Democratic
State ticket.
DR.. Hayes thinks he can find an
open Polar Sea ifa steam vessel is
furnished him.
Gen. Sherman has written men,
Dir Of the late war, for publication
after his death.
Detectives captured box of coun-
terfeiters' tools at Adams Express of
fee, Louisville.
The wife of Don Carlos has been
requested to leave tho French from
tier Immediately.
The Irish riflemen have challenged
the American team for a match in
Dublin next year.
Vice President Wilson hopes to be
we'll enough to resume the Senate
chair next session.
The next annual session of the
Grand Lodge of l. o. O. f. will be
held at Indianapolis.
The Democrats of the third Arkan-
sas district have nominated w. W.
Wiltshire for Congress.
A colored murderer named Bob
Baskin was hung near Bolivar, Tenn,
Saturday, the Goth inst.
The outlook for the Centennial
celebration at Philadelphia is bright
ening, and its success seems assured.
Donaldson made a splendid balloon
ascension at Baltimore, on tile 2;:3rd.
Five press reporters accompanied
him.
The Republicans defeated the Car
lists in the province of Biscay. De-
sertcrs from the Carlist cause are nu-
merous.
Gov. Moses of South Carolina ap-
Piled to the President for toops to
= enforce his orders," but they not
sent him.
A son of Brigham Young and a col
ored boy from Mississippi were admit
ted to the Annapolis Naval Academy
last week.
Two hundred Italians ar rived in
Pittsburg, last week, to take the place
OF striking miners along the Pan
Handle railroad.
The Twenty third regular e. S.
Infantry, recently arrived ut Omaha
from Arizona, is under orders to go
to New Orleans.
A Sheriff's posse are in hot pursuit
of the Arkansas mail robbers, who are
said to be noted horse thieves living
in the Indian Territory.
Miss Edna D. Proctor has obtained
a criminal Indictment against Moul-
ton for ibels uttered in his statement
to the Beecher affair.
The sympathy of the Emperor of
Russia with Don Carlos of Spain is
made apparent by cordia correspond
ence be tween these personages.
The rival candidates for Governor
of Tennessee opened the campaign by
large assemblage OF cit
liens at Jonesboro, last Tuesday.
The women of Germany are to
have convention at Berlin in Octo-
Der. The Empress and other noble
ladies' will participate in the move
ment.
A terrific typhoon passed over
Hong Kong, China, destroying many
houses, sinking number OF vessels
in the harbor aud killing hundreds of
people.
The Nevada Republican platform
opposes third Presidential term, and
favors revision of the treaty with
China to restrict the immigration Of
Chinese.
A federal lieutenant reports to the
War Department that he has assisted
a United States Marshal in arrest
ing thirty nine Tennesseean White
Leaguers.
The Carlists carried the village of
Bicarum by storm, defeating ten bat
tallions of government troops under
General Mariones with heavy loss to
the latter.
The American riflemen defeated
the Irish team in the international
shooting match at Creedmoor, Long
IslopI o,, tho lSth Tho scorea atnn6