The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-10-17
News Items.

President Grant has gone on a
visit to Texas.
There was frost in Atlanta on the
18th inst.
Yellow fever is abating in Pensa-
cola for want of subjects.
In New York steamer is loading
with locomotives for Russia.
The troubles between China and
Japan are still unsettled.
Gen. B. F. Butler has been renom-
mated for Congress.
Judge Busteed's resignation has
been accepted by President Grant.
The Georgia State Fair will begin
on Monday, the 10Th inst. ."
The first snow fell in Lindsay, Ont,
OIL Monday night last.
Christian X. Ross, father of the alb
Quoted Charley Ross, is said to be
dying.
A National Catholic Convention
has been III session the past week in
Chicago.
Bismarck will testify against the
person who attempted to shoot him.
Francis Mcfarland, Catholic Bishop
of Hartford is dead. ...-s F.
Fifteen hundred bales of cotton
were burned at Little Rock Arkansas,
on the l1th, inst. .7
In Salt Lake, the Grand Jury has
indicted Thos. E. Kicks, for 4 murder
committed fourteen years ago. s.
IL The second session OF the sVornauis4
Congress convened in Chicago on the
18th inst. 'i5 +
The Earl Of Dnffcrin, Governor
General Of Canada, and Lady Dufferin
are visiting i'll New York. 3 q,
Sir Edward Thornton, British Min
lister, and Lord Carthruess Of Booth,
have arrived in New York.
Peter H., of Brazil, is said to be the
richest monarch in the world, and
there are many who would like to be
Peter two. ,........- ...#
The funeral services over the re-
mains of Mark Smith, the actor, were
held in the Little Church Round
the Corner" New York, on Sunday
the 1lth, inst. f ..'-
The drouth in Montgomery, Ala,
still continues; it has cut off the
cotton crop about one third and
ruined the pea, sweet potato and
turnip crops.
Gov. Hartranft of Pennsylvania has
issued warrants for the execution of
w. +. Tdtlerzook, Danial O'Mara and
Patrick Irwin on Thursday, Novem-
Der 18th.
In the libel case of Christian Ross.
father of the abducted boy, against
the Reading (Pa.) Eagle, the jury
brought in Il verdict of guilty.
Burglars entered the residence of
Commodore William Voorhis, at Ny
ack, New York, and among other
things carried off the famous Ash
bury Cup.
Joseph Vaccani, an Italian, in
dicted in New York for the murder
Of fel)sw-countryman, by stabbing
him duNng a quarrel about two cents
has been sentenced to the State prison
for life.
The four -oared boat race between
the Annapolis Boat Club of Wash
lngton and the Nassau Boat club of
New York. took place last Thursday
On the Harlem river. The Wash |
ngton crew came off victorious.
Three persons were burned to
death i'll St Paul on the 18th inst,
by the upsetting Of a Kerosene lamp.
Twenty-one foreign governments
have already accepted invitations to
participate in the Centennial Exli-
bition.
The Grand Jury of Oyer and Ter
miner Court, Brooklyn, has brought
an indictment against Demas Barnes
for libel, for publishing in his paper
an article intimating that improper
relations had existed between the
at e Mrs. Henry C. Bowen and H.
" Beecher.
In the elections this week. in the
Stairs Of Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska
and Iowa /; the Democrats claim Ohio
by an increased majority. In Indiana
the returns show about equal Repub-
lican and Democratic gains. The Re
pubIicans claim majority in both
branches of the Legislature. Ia
Nebraska the whole Republican
ticket is undoubtedly elected by Il
large majority, Iowa has gone Repub-
lican by its usual large majority, In
New Jersey the Democrats carried
the city election.