The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-14

StdCeSLldn OI IldL name, ulcu III NOW
York, August 3rd, at the age Of 80.
A negro who attempted to rob a
lady in McNinn county, Tenn, was
taken from Jail by mob and killed.
Landers beat Plaisted in the single
scull boat race at Boston for cham
pionship of New England and $4,000
A thousand cigar makers at Havana
who have been on strike since July
lst, resumed work at reduced prices
The striking laborers at Oldham,
England, number 10000. There is
much bitter feeling against employers
By an explosion at the Philadel'
phia city arsenal last Saturday morn
ing, twenty boys were hurt and one
killed.
The liabilities of Baxter g. Co. OF
New York are $500, 900. Dwight, Ha-
ven g. Co. have been appointed their
assignees.
A bridge and bath-house at Long
Branch were swept away aud railroads
in the vicinity flooded by heavy rains
last week.
A four year-old boy was run over
and killed by the wheels of a furni-
ture wagon, in New Orleans, Tuesday
of last week.
Negotiations between Japan aud
Corea have assumed a less friendly
character. Rumors of impending war
are prevalent.
The New South Wales Parliament
has approved the tender for carrying
mails made by the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company.
The General Transatlantic Steam
ship Company will reduce freight tar
if to French exhibitors at the Ameri-
can centennial.
Parker, the convicted ex-Treasurer
of South Carolina, escaped from pris-
| on last week, but was recaptured and
placed in IRONS.
Many arrests have been made at
Glasgow in consequence OF renewal
of disturbances between Home Rulers
and Orangemen.
Fred. Kramer of Baltimore and MIR.
Choesseze of Vicksburg won silver
cups at the international shooting
match at Stuttgart.
The Galveston artillery company,
the oldest military company in Texas,
has decided to visit the centennial
exhibition next year.
An attache of the German legation
at Pekin, China, was recently beaten
by natives while on scientific expe-
dition to the interior.
Secret Treasury agents have cap
tured 400 barrels crooked whiskey
at Chicago which has been secreted
since the raid in July.
Private advices from Damascus re-
port the cholera raging there, the
Christian quarters deserted, and the
mission schools closed.
Judge Trigg of the U. s. Circuit
Court at Knoxville, has granted a
writ OF haheas corpus to Waddy
Thompson of Memphis.
The Indian commissioners left for
Fort Laramie two weeks since. They
find difficulty in getting evidence rel
ative to the Indian service.
Dispatches from Calcutta report
that floods in the northwestern PROV
inces have caused great destruction
of property and loss of life.
The treasury books for the fiscal
year about to be closed will show the
national income larger than any esti-
mates that have been made.
C.B. Wilkinson, Int. Rev. Collector
of the Sixth Missouri District, is un-
| der arrest charged with embezzlement
and signing false certificates.
The Indian agent at Fort Sill tel
egraphs that the kiowa and Coma n
che women are unwilling to 60 to
Florida. He wants Instructions.
Gen. Weller has routed the Carlists
under Saballa and other leaders in
Catalonia. Gen. Dorregary is at Bor-
ga, in the province of Barcelona.
In spite of the efforts of the Prince
| of Montenegro to prevent it, several
bodies of his subjects have crossed in
Herzegovina to join the insurgents.
Grasslloppers in great numbers
have appeared at several points in
| Nebraska. immense clouds of the in
sects were observed flying southwark
A severe gale prevailed on Lakes
Erie and Michigan, Monday, wreck
ing several vessels. The tug Vulcan
lost raft containing 1900, 900 feet OF
lumber.
Thomas Masdexexarts, citizen OF
New Orleans, was stabbed while in
bed one night last week, by an un-
known assassin, and died Saturday
morning.
A water spout burst over the town
of Kernin, in Rhinish Prussia, last
week. A bridge and several houses
were swept away and l3 persons
drowned.
The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the New York canal frauds re.
port that on one contract S4OO, ,OW
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