The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERsoNAL AND POLrTICAI

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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Ralph Keeler, a well known writer, cores
pondent of the New York Tribune in Cuba,
| is believed to have fallen overheard from a
steamer in Cuban waters and drowned.
Hon. Shakespeare Caldwell, formerly OF
Louisville, made that city ar appropriate
Christmas gift of fine building for hospital
purposes. 1t cost $50, 900, will accommodate
several hundred patients, and is to be open
for the reception of patients of every denona-
ination. It will be conducted by the Sisters
of Charity of Nazareth community.
A special from Madrid to the New York
Herald says that the resignation of Minister
sickles has been officially accepted by the
President.
The President has appointed Caleb Cush-
ing Minister to Madrid, having accepted the
resignation of General Sickles. The nonl-
ination viii be sent to the Senate Immediately
upon the reassernbling of Congress. It is
understood that Gushing has accepted the
position.
Harry Genet,who escaped from the clutches
of a New York deputy-sheriff, has been heard
from in Canada
Ex-City Treasurer Gage Of Chicago has
transferred to the City his entire real and per-
sonal property, amounting in the aggregate to
$52S, 800, and including 147, 800 in certificates
of the suspended banks, in which he had city
funds deposited.
Governor Dix has ordered special elee-
ton in New York for Member of Assem-
bly, in the place of Harry Genet, convicted Of
felony.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Gold closed in New York on Dec. 29th at
110 Is.
The locomotive engineers employedupo the
Panhandle; Erie & Pittsburgh; Cleveland &
Pittsburgh; Great Eastern; indianapolis q
Vincennes; and Jeffersonyille, Madison g
Indianapolis Railroads united in q grand
strike on Dec. 26, on account of reduction of
10 per cent. in wages, which went into effect
on the 1st. On some of the roads the fremen
also combined in the strike. No violent de-
monstrations were made by the strikers, but
the companies were compelled to abandon
many of their trains temporarily.
A New York dispatch Of Dec. 26 says: The
Bank of British North America, Bank of
Montreal, and Canadian Bank of Commerce
having declined to pay State tax, Judge Bar
rett to-day rendered a decision that they, hay-
ing all the protection of laws of the State, are
liable to taxation and directs the Tax Com
missioners to collect.
Most of the Philadelphia cotton and wooden
factories are now in full operation at reduced
wages. The carpet manufactures, with a
very few exceptions, are closed, owing pffn-
eipally to the difference between weayers and
manufacturers, caused by a reduction in
weaving of two cents per yard.
The engineers of the Cleveland and Pitts
burgh Railroad, who struck on Dec. 26, re-
sumed work ON the following day. The
strike on the other roads continued. The
Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of
Engineers issued card declaring the strike
on the Pennsylvania Company's leased lines
to be in violation of the rules of the order,
and advising the members of the brotherhood
to resume work.
A Washington special says that the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in view of the demand
for economy, has determined to recommend
the suspension of aH work on public build
In2S, WHICH VIII lHEOW Oub VI CI1pIOyIitEfb
several thousands of men. This will create a
reduction of the expenses of the Government,
and is regarded, in part, as a practical re-
sponse by him to the Congressional demand
for the reduction of his estimates.
The Senate Transportation Committee ar
rived at New o rleans Dec. 81, and ON the
following day commenced to gather statistics
concerning trade, transportation, etc.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange was for
mally opened ON Dec. 80.
A review of the produce trade of Chicago
for the past year, recently published, shows
that the receipts of grain during the year
amount to 96,731 ,5Os bushels; shipments
81 ,035, ,703 bushels; receipts of hogs 1890, 900
head; cattle 9e5 900 head ;,sheep 100000 head; !;
lumber 1854 900, 900 feet. The total value of
all the produce received during the year is, in
round numbers, $240,000,000.
The coopers of Kansas City struck on Dec.
20, on account of a reduction of wages.
The engineers strike continued on Dec. 20
without material change. At Indianapolis a
party of men entered the j., III. & I. Railroad
round-house and broke the gauges of all the
locomotives in the house. Bush, who shot
an engineey named Vance while running a
train, was committed and his bail fixed at
$4,000, which was subsequently reduced to
$4,000. The authority of the Grand Chief
Engineer of the Brotherhood is disayowed by
the strikers, and his published order has ap-
parently no effect.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The City Attorney of Chicago has brought
suit against the bondsmen of David A. Gage,
defaulting City Treasurer, and the State At
torney will bring Gage before the Grand Jury
for Indictment on criminal action.
At Kingston, Fresno county, Cal, on the
night of Dec. 26, a party of twenty Mexican:
and several white men, all armed, entered
the place, seized twenty citizens, bound then
hand and foot and then robbed the two stores il
town, getting about $4,000 and large quan
tity of jewelry. The robbers made their es
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