The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-12-12

Favorable impression upon the people
of France.
Three men were killed at Fall Riv
er, Mass, by the Explosion Of pneu
matte tube which they were engaged
in sinking.
The Carlist leaders Velasso an6
Cucula have unsuccessfully attempted
to enter the province of Marcia witt
their troops.
Mr.. Macarthur has not yet signifie6
his acceptance of the position of Su
pervising Architect of the Treasury
Department.
Hon. F. Duncan, ex-Chief Justice
of South Carolina, and the oldest law
yer in the State, died last Saturday
at Charleston. ..".-..
M. Vermisch, formerly editor OF
Pere Dnchesne, official journal of the
Paris Commune, has been ordered to
quit Belgium.
Commander VIM. G. Cushing of the
o. S. Navy, who cut out the Alber-
marie during the war, has gone to an
insane asylum.
A locomotive exploded at Delaware,
Ohio, last week, and the engineer,
fireman and several bystanders were
severely scalded.
A clerk in the foreign department
of the banking house of Drexel & Co.,
New York, is defaulter to the
amount of $4,000
Daniel Parmalee, a highly respected
citizen of Elkham, Nebraska, shot and
killed rongh character named Tom
keeler, last Saturday.
A committee of the French Assem-
bly, has censured Garibaldi for quit
ting his command toward the close of
the war without leave.
Representative Houghton of Cali
fornia will Introduce in Congress a
bill to aid the construction of the
Southern Pacific railroad.
Forty thousand men have been
thrown ont of employment in Pitts
burg by misunderstanding with iron
founders relative to wages.
Colonel Tnrnbull, who was'a men,
ber of Gen. Sheridan's staff during
his famous ride through the .Shenan-
doah valley, died last week.
Russia desires the reassembling of
the recent Brussels International Law
conference atSt. Petersburg. England
declines to take part therein.
A colored man named Isaac Ruffin
was lynched by citizens of Marion,
Arkansas, for raping and beating two
girls (colored) near that place.
A political riot occurred at Table
quah, Indian Territory, two weeks
since. during which one man was
killed and Il number wounded.
Ex-Mayor Havemever's funeral was
a grand affair. Among the pail
bearers were Governor elect Tilden.
Peter Cooper and Thurlow Weed.
The Grand Vizier of Turkey, has
sued the editor of the Lecant Herald,
an English paper published in Con-
stantinople, for libel and defamation
of character.
King Kalakana left San Francisco
for Washington last Saturday morn
ing. He reached Omaha Wednesday
and was ostentatiously received by
the authorities.
The New York Custom House au-
thoritics seized six trunks of SNUG
gleed goods in millner's establish
ment on broadway. The value of the
goods is $4,000.
The Argentine government has
completely subdued the insurrection
by defeating the rebels and capturing
Gen. Mite, their leader, who sur
rendered Internationally.
The Bishop of Urgel, heretofore
hot partisan Of Don Carlos, has writ
ten letter renouncing the cause and
declaring that he advised Don AL
phonso to take like course.
A son of DR.. West, New Orleans
dentist, shot and killed himself while
handling a rifle which a friend had
left in the house for keeping.
Friday evening of last week.
A passenger train ran off the track
near Woodville, New Hampshire,
the morning of Dec. 2nd. A brakes
man was instantly killed and several
passengers seriously injured.
The cheap Transportation Conven-
ton which met at Richmond expressed
disapproval of the granting Of gov
ernment subsidies to railroads and
other lines Of transportation.
Exciting debates occur daily in the
German Reichstag or Congress. Prince
Bismarck is the leading figure, and
the Catholic partisans tind it uphill
work to cops with him in argument.
Incendiaries are rampant in South
Carolina, and at a recent mass meet
ing of citizens at Edgefeld, in that
State, it was resolved to lynch all
persons caught in the business here
after.
Frederick A. Dockray who was
condemned to death by the Spaniards
in Cuba, but whose sentence was sub
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