The Donaldsonville chief., 1875-06-12
4aast sao AN


* large fire near Baston, lat wesk,
bstrned over several hundred anses q
gronnd, causing damage to the amount
Of $4,000.
| A fire st Union Island, near Dariep,
8. C., destroyed Hilton 4 Foserf
ssw mill aud 10O, 600 feet of luisber.
Loss olOO, 600. faZ fsssis
Tsadwell e. CO., San Francisco
agricultural implement dealers, have
suspended payments with liabilities
/ over @5OO, COO. ~ 9 ss'i s1'
ThS American rifle team left New
York last Saturday for Dublin, where
they are to shoot \ return match wifll
the Irisl, team. s..,.4 ,.
The laborers in the employ of tho
city government Of New York struck
last week on account Of 4 reduction
IN their wages. if eas@s@ie I,
aHslmsn Leatherwood, a deputy in-
ternal revenue collector, was shot and
killed at Huntsville, Ala, June End,
by an illicit distiller. '''e
"A national temperance convention
I:1ct ii Chicago on the lat inst. VioS
President Wilson was present and
delivered an address.
Tho debt Of South Carolina is being
rapidly funded under the new law.
Over half the amount, $6, COZ, 600, has
already been funded. 56s 4t
The national debt was decreased
81 ,l60, 456 during tho month Of May.
The total decrease since juno 30,
1874, II 81, ,96s.2 .265. *s2a :
Postmaster Jewell is after default
ing mail contractors with . sharp
stick, and has measures upon foot tO
head off straw bidders also,
An enrolment has been made of all
males liable to military duty between
g Guatlaloupe and Rio Grande in the
Southern counties In Texas. feftl tssssf
A party Of Texans overlook Eve
Indiana near the Rio Grande on the
22nd nltimo, killed one Indian aud
recovered ~ stolen horses. - 7'
An unknown brig was discovered
off the Virginia coast, bottom up, and
tOwed ashore by wrecken. The fate
Of the crew is not known. i.s,..f,,sl
A magnificent new Mxsonic Temple
in New York city was dedicated on
the end inst, during the session of
the Grand Lodge Of tho State.
crdsby, the vicksl,urg sheriff; was
shot in the head by his deputy during
y qnsrrri last Monday. The wound
is serious aud may prove fatal. ~ ~
Henry He,,tz has been elected pres
itlent If the New York Cotton. Ex-.
change; Jas. +. Wewau, vice psesi-
dent; WaltsrsT. Aillsr, tssasssss.
A smugglesl lace dress Of, the En-
press E"gcnir, bought at one Of her
Aalss, was seized at Washington on
tho I'll. inst. Its value is Sl0O00. &
The negotiations f,r the purchase
Of the Bl2ck HillA from the Sioux del
egation have failed, and tho Indians
have left Washington to retiirn home.
A package containing $4,000 was
stoIei, from the U. 8. Treaanrer'a IL.
flee on the LIST inst. No tsaee of the
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