The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-24
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| The Swiss General Dufirie is dead
In Hayti all was quiet on the 26tl
Of June.
Lady Franklin died in London las
Monday.
Cardinal McCloGkey sails for Rome
August 9TH.
Bell e. Martin, Milwaukee grain
dealers, have failed.
The Carlists have abandoned the
siege Of Puigcerda.
The American lif1emen arrived al
London on the 18th.
The New York Park Theatre has
been sold for $42 200.
One thousand Carlist prisoners
have arrived ut Valentia.
Secretary Belknap and party left
for the West last Saturday.
A Booksellers Convention was held
at Niagara Falls last week.
DR.. w. B. Wood of Franklin, La,
died suddenly on the 18th inst.
China will send diplomatic repre-
sentatives to Spain and Cuba.
There is no truth in reports of yell
low fever prevailing at Norfolk.
It is estimated that l2O, 900 900 pos
tai cards will be used this year.
Ex-solicitor Banfeld of the treas
ury is hopelessly insane in California.
A youth and two young ladies were
drowned at Little Rock, on the 18th
inst.
A man and boy were killed by light
ming at Belleville, Canada, last Sat-
urday.
A Boston vinegar factory has been
seized for manufacturing distilled
spirits.
Two men were badly scalded by a
boiler explosion at Trenton, n. j.,
Monday.
The yellow fever is abating at Key
West. No new cases reported since
the 10th inst.
All the German mayors invited to
the international banquet at London
have declined.
The Secretary of the Treasury
makes call for $4,000 of coupon
bonds of 1862.
The citizens Of Westville, Ohio,
burned the only liquor saloon in the
place, last week.
The Secretary of War returns from
his Western tour of inspection the
middle Of August.
The orange celebration throughout
England and Ireland occurred with
out disturbances.
Count Won Arnim has arrived at
Carlsbad. His health is in q precar.
iOus condition. r.
Lambert Brothers & Scott, London
coal merchants, have failed. Liabil-
tiles 81 100000.
Advices from Porto Rico to the 28th
ultimo report that the smallpox was
abating at Ponce.
The Cuban insurgents have cap
tured two forts near Barcoa, together
with their garrisons.
Ex-Gov. Wells of Virginia will snc-
ceed Fisher, district attorney for the
District OF Columbia.
Itisrumored that ex-Gov. Dennison
of Ohio is to succeed Delano as Sec
retary of the Interior.
The emperor of Germany arrived
at 1schl, Austria, on the 18th, the
guest of Francis Joseph.
The Cornell crew were victors in
the grand college rowing regatta on
Saratoga lake, July 18th.
Hon. J. Hancock, of Texas, has
been appointed on the commission to
visit the Usage Indians.
The steamer champion went ashore
near West Point, on tho Hudson
river, July 10th. No lives lost.
At recent election in Bavaria II
Liberals and 70 Ultramontanes were
chosen to the electoral college.
The commission to investigate the
loss of the steamship Vicksburg ex-
onerates the captain from blame.
Dangerous counterfeits of the $500
and 500 water loan bonds of the city
of Erie, Penn., are in circulation.
The Catholic benevolent societies
are making arrangements to celebrate
the centennial of Daniel O'Connell.
The western frontier of Baltimore
was flooded by the overflow of two
small adjacent streams, OH the 10th.
In the third revenue district of South
Carolina fifteen illicit distilleries have
been seized within the past forty days.
St. Louis bids for the National Dem
ocratic Convention of next year, Of
fering to pay the expenses Of the af-
fair.
The Japanese commissioners to the
Centennial have arrived ut Philadcl-
phia and are preparing to erect build
ings.
A floating elevator containing 3O,-
600 bushels of coal was struck by