The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-11-14
News Items.

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Il Montreal is having a small -pox ep
idemic.
The new Arkansas legislature is il
session.
NJ. Frenchand, Archbishop Q
Tours, is dead.
A cotton exchange has been estab
lished at Boston.
! The Paris correctional tribunal i
Furnishing gamblers.
Republican majority in Minnesota
5000; Kansas, $1,000.
New discoveries of gold and silver
are reported in Mexico.
Roman Catholic Bishop Bacon, o
the diocese of Portland, is dead.
The Beecher TiltoD libel suit open
ed in the city court of Brooklyn las
Monday.
A national cheap transportation
convention will meet at Richmond
Va, Dec. 1st.
Philadelphia brokers have been
swindled by operators in counterfeit
city warrants.
Austria will conclude a commercial
treaty with Rouman'a despite the
objections of Turkey.
Three horse thieves were shot at
BrieDklay, Arkansas, Tuesday night,
while in the act of stealing.
Havana brokers have established
an exchange room, an institution
hitherto unknown in that city.
The steamer Leopold of Newcastle
foundered on the English coast.
Twenty persons were drowned.
The proposed reciprocity treaty
between Canada and the United
States is denounced in England.
Captain General Concha is inspect
ing Cuba, or such portions of it as are
not in possession of the patriots.
Don Carlos of Spain has iptrusted
his brother, Don Alphonso, with an
important mission to foreign courts.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
dpppfHtSu - ldlo" Inspector vi
tobacco, snuff and cigars at New Or
leans.
The official count in the second H.
linois district gave the Democratic
candidate for Congress majority of
seven.
Charlotte Cushman the actress, is
playing farewell performances at
Booths Theatre, New York, to large
audiences.
A New York policeman, pursuing
an escaped prisoner, fell under the
wheels of a street car, Monday, and
was killed.
The steamship st. Louis, from New
Orleans to Liverpool, put in at Sa-
vannah on the 5th, with her cargo of
cotton on fire.
Prisoners arrested in st. Martin for
violations of the enforcement act
were taken to New Orleans and there
released on bail.
An internaticnal billiard tonrna-
ment is in progress at New York.
JOS. bloil iS III VIC Icu'l 81 IdI Will
Vignanx second.
The notorious Washington safe
burglary case is undergoing trial be-
fore the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The sisters Of Arthur Orton, the
Tichborne claimant, have petitioned
to the Queen of England for his re-
lease from prison.
1t is estimated that fully 10000
people in Arkansas and Nebraska are
now or soon will be in want of the
of life.
A mutiny occurred on board the
ship Neptune, at sea, Oct. Goth. The
entire crew were arrested in New
York Wednesday.
Three men were arrested in Selby
county, Kentucky, last Tuesday, |
charged with completely in the shoot
ing of a negro girl.
The grave of Thomas Paine, near
Rochelle, N. Y, has been obliterated
BY the owner of the property upon
" IlCl IL lS blGudtcu.
The marriage of the young Prince
Napoleon aud the daughter of Grand
Duchess Marie of Russia is spoken Of
rs a probable event.
The following failures in New York
ire reported: Geo. H, Reay, station
II, liabilities S20O,OOO Ross & Smith,
lealers in bagging, $3.50
The New York Grand Division of
he Sons of Temperance met l., the
last Wednesday. The
order is in prosperous condition.
Congressman Poland and Ward of
he Arkansas Investigating Com
nittee have arrived at Little Rock
Ind commenced taking testimony.
A bridegroom of a day, Ainsworth
). Zachas by name, committed sui
;ide in New York, Tuesday, by shoot
ng himself. No cause is assigned for
he act.