The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-15

News Items.

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Ewaid, the German philologist, i
dead. ETs
Hon. Chas. r. Mallory of Hampton
Va, is dead. '4a.
/ The striking Pennsylvania miners
are weakening. - 49,
Gen. Sberidan's father died ut Gin.
cinnati last week.
South Carolina editors have formed
Press Association. t5t ...s
The Mayor aud city Council ol
Memphis are ut outs.
Gov. lngersoll of Connecticut wa,
re-inaugarated on the 5th.
Bombay advicee state that cholera
prevails in the city Of Baroda.
A fire at Memphis on Monday de
stroyed $4,000 worth Of property.
Count d'Harcourt las been desig-
mated Austrian minister to England.
The Pekin, Ills, Republicans print
ing Office was destroyed by fire on the
9th.
A bill for the suppression of re-
ligious orders is before the Prussian
Diet.
A new Democratic newspaper, the
Herald, has appeared at Columbus,
Ohio.
A number of vessels are blockaded
in the ice on lakes Superior and
Huron.
A coDgratulatory letter from Glad
stone was read at the Lexington Gen.
tennial.
On April gath Mexican General
Mejia fell from his horse and broke
an ankle. s.,.a
Six Chicago distilleries have been
seized by The government for Illicit
.distilling.
No deaths from yellow fever ut Key
West since April 10. Contrary re-
ports are false. -.--t
Five hundred Boston plasters have
struck for SO 50 per day. The pres
ent price is 90.
Spain has paid to U. S. minister
Gushing the entire amount of the
Virginius award.
An attempt was made by inccn-
diaries to destroy the town of Sum
init, Miss, last Sunday.
The bark Rose B,;.e, from Calves
ton to Liverpool, struck All iceberg
and sunk. Crew saved.
The Tennessee Knights Templar
had q grand reunion, ut Cl.xtt,,nooga
on the 9th and 9TH iusts. a
Judge E. NJ. Pitts Of Norfolk died
on the 9TH inst, while en-
gagged in pleading II case.
Two unknown gentlemen were
drowned at New York, last Monday,
by the capsizing Of u skitt.
The rate for transmitting cable dis
patches from Europe to America. have
been reduced fifty per cent.
The U. S. steamship Canandaisua
reached Colon, Central America, on
the 9th. All we'll on board.
The trial Of Gerdemann, the de-
faulting and backsliding lHiest, is
Ut ttphilaxlelphia.
Minister Dufaure has drawn up reg.
ulations for the election of the French
Senate soon to be organized.
The Kentucky Democrats have
McCreery for Governor,
md will, of course, elect him. I
The correspondence between Ger
many and Belgium continues, but it's
nature is courteous and pacific.
Ben Hill las been elected to Con-
sress from the ninth Georgia district,
IN place of Mcmillan, deceased.
The sailing vessel Cora Lynn, from
Darian to Troon, was lost at sea with
he captain and five men on board.
A coal wharf burned at Brooklyn
,n tho 9TH lust, and 1O0, ,OO0 tons If
:oL was destroyed. Loss $500, ,O0Q
The British government intends to
,end the fiigate Valorous to survey
Bafin's bay and the North Atlantic.
The proprietor Of Chadwick's mu~
'eum, Wihningtoa, Del, has been ar
'ested, charged with killing his wife.
, The centennial Of tue German Fu-
Ieliers Of Cllafleston ). c., was cel-
.brated with great eclat ON the 4th
ust.
Six thousand German families are
to emigrate from Russia GU
account Of the oppressive conscrip-
ion.
Fifty-seven captured Indians tried
It Fort Sill were con victed and sen-
enced to imprisonment at Dry Tur-
ugas.
A motion made in the British Par
lament to recognize the belligerent
lights of the Carlists has been with
lraMn.
Three convicts made an Intellectual
lttempt to escape from the Indiana
at Jetfersonville, on the
'th inst.
The Democrats carried Terre Haute,
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