The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-12-19
News Items,
Boston had q $500, 900 fire Tue,

phia.
| Vice President Wilson is AGAR
failing in health.
| The English Parliament reassem
bles February 5th.
The Carlists deny the detection O.
the Bishop Of Urgul.
| Cincinnati is to have a Centennial
exhibition Of her own.
The New York daily Republic la,
suspended publication.
The New Orleans Charity Hospital
is running short of funds.
The New York Longshoremep's
Union has been dissolved.
Rudolphe has beaten GARNER at bill
liards. Score 600 the 387.
German gupboats have been with
drawn from Spanish waters.
Macarthur declines to succeed Msl-
lett as Supervising Architect.
| Another heavy gale occurred on the
eastern English coast last week.
The thermometer was6 degrees be
low zero at Boston, on the 18th.
The revolution iD VeDezula contin-
ues, both sides claiming successes.
Geo. Bancroft has been appointed
agent of the Smithsonian Institute.
Andy johnson js confident of being
elected U. s. Senator from Tennessee.
1t is thought the right Charley Ross
has been discovered at Chester Illinois.
Havana advices report insurgcnt
defeats in two engagements last week.
New York was startled by slight
earthquake Ou the lltll inst. No dam
age.
The Paris police have suppressed q
Bonapartist almanac published in that
city.
Philadelphia Knights Templar are
to have grand fete on the 9th of
January.
The work Of deepening Charleston
bar by dredging is progressing salts
factorily.
The banking house of Stoddard
Brothers g. Co., Little Rock, Ark,
has suspended.
Jas. w. Marshall Of Maryland has
been reappointed first assistant Post
master General.
The Rockland, Maine, shoe CON-
pany is bankrupt. Liabilities exceed
resources $4,000.
Two Frenchmen have been arrested
in Cincinnati for making and passing
counterfeit Dickels.
1t seems that Rev. w. Prettyman,
post master Mt Atlanta, Ga, is not
detaulter after all.
The nomination of Marshall Jewell
as Postmaster General has been con.
firmed by the Senate.
Sunday evening performances in
the New York Grand Opera House
have been suppressed.
Two unsuccessful attempts to burn
the Auburn State prison were made
BY convicts on the l2th.
The Sonth Georgia Methodist con-
ference adopted u temperance resolu-
ton by vote of 81 to 40.
A Washington dispatch says the
President will make no change in the
federal officials in Louisiana.
A subcommittee Of the House Jn-
dietary Committee has been appointed
to draft new civil rights bill.
A large body Of miners are at work
in the Black Hills district and have
found gold in paying quantities.
Won Arnim says he resigned his
embassy on account Of the treatment
he received from Partisan society.
w. w. Screws Of the Montgomery
4duertiscr has been elected State
printer by the Alabama Legislature.
John w. Garrett has been re elect
ed president of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad for the sixteenth time.
Thomas Pratt, chief engineer of the
St. Louis gas works, was killed by the
explosion of a gas tank last Monday.
The steam tug L. NJ. White explod-
ed her boiler off Randall's Island, New
York harbor, and sunk. No lives lost.
Two c0unterfeiters were arrested in
St. Louis last week, and over 5000 of
counterfeit money captured in their
den.
Memphis Knights of Pyttrias had a
grand procession Tuesday. ending
with grand concert at Exposition
Hall. ....
The financial agent of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company is behind
hand in his accounts to the tune of
$43, 900.
The first Russian trading caravan
that ever penetrated Khoranson, Cen
trail Asia, has arrived safely at it's des-
tinatiOn.
The Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad was bought at judicial sale
by the first mortgage bondholders for
81 ,0O0, 600.
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