The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-11-21
News Items.
Thursday slext is Thanksgiving.

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Thursday slext is Thanksgiving.
Brownsville, Texas, is afflicted Will
small l-pox.
The Alabama Legislature convened
last Monday.
Katie Pease is the champion Cali
fernia trotter.
Smallpox is alarMingly on the in
crease at Montreal.
Over three feet of snow fell at On.
tario last Saturday.
There are cabinet disagreements il
Austria and France.
Gen. Lerzundi, formerly Captain
General of Cuba, is dead.
The Baltimore. s. Ohio railroad; has
been extended to Chicago.
The trial of Won Arnim has been
postponed to December 9th.
The Beecller- Tilton libel suit will
not be tried until December.
Prince Gortschakoff, Russian prime
minister, is on I, visit to Berlin.
The Earl of Derby has been elected
lord lector of Edinburg College.
Forged Pittsburg bonds have been
thrown on the New York market.
The strike of the New York and
Brooklyn longshoremen continues.
The project of a railroad from New
Orleans to Dallas is much discussed.
Annie Beaver, Philadelphia girl,
aged seventeen, has been kidnapped.
Speaker Blaine declines to become
a candidate for the Maine Senatorship.
Turkish troops are concentrating
near the Montencgrin and Servian
frontiers.
Dissatisfaction is said to exist in
the Republican army in Spain. Cause
hot stated.
There are fears of further trouble
with the striking. miners of Nelson
Vile, Ohio.
Snow fell in the southern counties
of England last week 4: Weather un-
usually cold.
The Presbyterian Synod of Geor-
gia and Florida held a session at At
lanta, last week.
Vignaux carried off fiji st prize in the
billiard tournament, Jos. Dion win
ming the second.
"zhete see.Ae to be a male, ity of the
German Reichstag opposed to gov
measures.
The CHILEAN consul at Mendoza has
been arrested because of his sympa-
thy with the Carl s-@-~rs#* --esst5s ,-.Ss i
A thousand coal miners have struck
at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and will not
allow zothers to work.
J. D. White, Republican, has about
500 majority in the ninth Kentucky
Congressional district.
The affairs Of the Freedman's Saw
lngs Bank are in worse condition than
was at first anticipated.
Heavy rain storms prevailed in Gu
ba, last week, causing disastrous in
at several points.
The joint committees of the Re-
formed Church Conference are hold
ng sessions in Philadelphia.
Bazaine is about to take up his res
dence in Madrid where he will live a
1uiet life as a private citizen.
Rumors of a compromise between
he Argentine government and the
,ebels are pronounced untrue.
The secretary of the Oriental Insur-
ancc Company and $4,000 have dis
from New York city.
Protests are being made in France
against the suppression of Republic
.an journals by the government.
Disraeii has been reelected rector
# Glasgow University by 700 @-otes
o 500 for Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The Indians have reluctantly con-
ented to the visit OF Professor Marsh
# Yale College to the Black Hills.
The q. S. war vessel Powhatan, re-
emily stationed at New Orleans, has
arrived safely at Fortress Monroe.
England will address a friendly re-
nonstrance to the Porte in behalf of
he prosecuted Christians in Syria.
The detectives are on the track of
charley Ross again; this time in the
-icinity OF st. GATHERINGS, Canada.
The Secretary of War will issue
oldiers' clothing to the Nebraska and
Kansas sufferers during the winter.
BY an explosion at the Mt. Sterling, |
\y., yasworks, Wednesday last, two I
White men and one negro were killed.
1t is the prevailing impression in
European court circles that the sit
lation of Don Carlos is utterly hope !
ess.
Cyrille Dion and Maurice Eignaux
re to play a game of billiards for big
money and the championship in a few
weeks.
The New York police commission
rs are etfecting signal reforms in the