The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-06-05

| WOfCL, Lawrence anu CI1lVe6GOn THIl
road for the recovery Of $4OO, 600 j
bonds 5fraudulently issued to tina
road.
| The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany has obtained a Judgment agains
the government in the Court Of Claim
for $512 900, withheld to pay inter
est on the subsiday bends when the,
mature.
The Irish court to which the appea
in the Tipperary election case wa
carried, has decided the late Johl
Mitchell te have been disqualified AM
Mr., More entitled to the seat in Par
lament.
Masked men gagged and handcuffe,
the cashier of the National Bank Il
Great harrington, Mass, last Satnr
day, but being unsuccessful at tn,
Bank, robbed the cashiers house ant
decamped.
A great fire at St. Johns, N. B., ol
Saturday last, destroyed sixty build
ings and a ship at the docks. On.
hundred and forty families are rem
dered homeless by tho catastrophe
Loss $25O,OOU.
w. II. Magruder and j. H. Gregory,
printers employed in the New Orleans
Times Office, quarreled last Monda,,
and Gregory shot Magruder in tit
neck with derringer. The wounl
was not mortal.
A series of terrible earthquakes OF
cured early in May in the proyina,
of Borassia, Asia Minor. Accouns
SO far received show that 600 houses
were destroyed, 16l lives lost and 1a
persons injured. i
Mayor Vansant of Baltimore has
vetoed the ordinance passed by tile
Council appropriating $1,000 for tie
partial payment of the expenses of tie
Fifth Maryland Regiment to the Bun
ker Hill centennial.
A large rotary boiler in paper mil
at Franklin, Ohio, burst during tie
afternoon OF the 25th ult., severely
injnring two men and bruising SIX
AAoAV, OVSiuCo NduIASIDH LuC Utll1ullH
to the extent of $1,000.
Adjutant General Steele and Sen
ator Dwye1 of Texas, under instrrc-
tions from Gov. Coke, have gone to
the Rio Gande to investigate tle
charges the military authorities make
against the civil officers.
Six men were precipitated seventy
feet to the street by the giving way
of scaffolding upon which they were
repairing the roof of the
Central Ohio Insane Asylum, at CO.
lnmbns, on the Goth ultimo.
The delegation of Sioux Indians
visited the President on Wednesday
of last week, and listened to an ad-
dress from his excellency urging upon
them the advantages of ceding the
Black Hills to the government.
Henry Robinson was arrested in
New Orleans last Monday for stealing
tobacco, and he tried to shoot the Of
ficer who apprehended him. He and
his partner in iniqlity. an ex-conyict
known as Red Bill, were locked up.
A battle between the Carlists and
loyal troops is reported to have oc-
CURED ut Alosha, last Saturday, in
which the Carlists suffered the loss of
20 killed and 200 wounded. Gen.
Dorregary was wounded in the thigh.
The experiment of transfusing blood
has been applied to Gen. Frank Blair,
who has long been Frustrated with
paralysis, at his home in St. Louis.
Six ounces of blood were injected into
his veins, and the result is said to be
favorable.
The papers in the Duchesne ease
have been turned over to the German
by the Belgian govern
nent. The investigation was ex-
laustive, but nothing was discovered
70 bring DuchesIe within the scope
,f any penal code. ...
Harry Carter, colored, was killed
Dy 4. 3. Harris, an overseer, near At
ANITA, May 31st. Carter was skinning
! stolen hog, and reached for his gun
when Harris approached, but ere he
could pick it up Harris fired and
him fatally.
Master Thos. j. Lewis of New Or
cans has been appointed cadet to
Vest Point by Hon. Randall Gibson,
elect. The young man
3 graduate of the city public llisl,
chool, and carried off first honors IN
. competitive examination.
On the 18th inst, detachment Of
he Washington Light. Infantry of
Charleston will start for Bunker He'll
% attend the centennial celebration
here. They will carry Col. VIM.
yashington's flag, which waved at
sutaw Springs and Cowpens.
The following were chosen directors
If the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
,any at the annual election held last
week: Sidney Dillon, Geo. S. Scott,
lay Gould, James d. Smith, Chas. J.
j. Forrest, Rufus Hatch,
Oliver Ames and John Riley.
Quartermaster General Meigs has
,een detached on special duty TO re-
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