The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-09-04
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OF waco, IeXaS, fought q duel IN th,
dark, one night L,st week: weapn
six shooters, distance four pa.es
Turner was killed.
Father Jeggel of Philadelphia va
arrested for assault and battery TO
ejectiDg Vincent Hagerman from thr
Catholic Church Of. which Haier
man is II member.
The Heregovinans have establiset
4 national government with had
quarters in Montenegro. Bosnia, Ter
via and Montenegro will doubles.
join the insurrection.
The Institute Of International law
at The Hague, Holland, has approved
the three rules of the treaty of Wish.
ington as = basis for defining theau-
ties of neutral States.
A financial panic has been ca,sed
in San Francisco by the failure ofthe
Bank Of California for several milli,ns.
Mr.. Ralston, president Of the benk,
committed suicide by drowning.
Capt. Geo. Hazlett of the. stem
boat Andrew Ackley was shot and
seriously wounded by Mr.. Doualty,
at Matamoras, on the 29th Of Aumst.
Hazlett is a native of Pittsburg.
An express train went through a
brid dge four miles south of Clliago,
August 25th. The conductor, en-
gineer and fireman were instmtly
killed and several passengers slightly
injured.
A reunion of the officers of the
Army of the Cumberland will lake
place ut Utica, N. Y, September 5tl,
and 10th. Gen. Grant will attend.
and will be the guest Of Senator
Conkling.
Colonel Wheeler, a wealthy 1exas
cattle dealer was last week killdl BY
thieves, who ran off 400 to 500 attle
from his ranch in Texas. Wheeler,
who started in pursuit, was kiled in
the fight.
Sterling, Ahrens e. Co., agers of
the Calvert Sugar Refining Company
Of Baltimore, have failed. The Re-
fining Company have temporarily
in consequence. They
$50 men. .
The ship Moonlight, which arrived
at New York on Monday, rescued the
crew Of the bark Amelia, wh1 had
been in the life-boats four days. The
caught fire and was aban-
loned August 9th.
Major Clendenin, in charge ofthree
companies of the Eighth Caval,y, has
arrived at Fort Clark, ell route 10 the
lower Rio Grande. General Cid will
order the whole regiment there if
there is any occasion.
There is much i'll feeling in Rngland
against the officers Of the royal yacht
tllat ran down the schooner MIstletoe.
The jury Of inquest on the b,dies of
the drowned excursionists returned a
verdict Of accidental death.
The Navy Department. has sdvices
rom Rear Admiral Worden that the
INSULT to consul Vidal ut Tripili was
amply atoned for. The affair origi-
lated in some seamen entering the
,onsurs garden for matches.
A collision occurred between coal
rain and a freight train on til. Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
Dad last week, near Port Norris.
Both engines were smashed and the
ireman Of the coal train killed.
Suits have been brought in the U.
J. District Court of New York city
lgainst the owners Of the steamers
plymouth Rock and Wyoming for
7iolation of the act to prevent the
'vercrowding of passenger vessels.
An excursion train with 800 pessen-
,ers was thrown from the track near
Geneva, Ills, on the night Of the 23rd
it,, by striking COW. The engine,
,aggage car and two passenger cars
we're wrecked. One passenger killed
md six wounded.
Cornelius Williams, a negro was
laDged at Jackson, N, c., on Aug.
9TH, tor the murder Of an old man
'amed William Presse, bridge keeper
It Wildon, some months since. He
made full confession, duplicating
hree other negroes.
Catholics in Germany proposed a
pilgrimage to France, and the Pope
bestowed his blessing upon tho pro-
ectors of the expedition. Owing to
he opposition Of the German and
french governments, however, the
flair was abandoned.
The Khedive of Egypt has dis
patched force Of troops on three
nen-of-war to that portion Of the
Egyptian coast bordering or Abyssi-
'ia, to punish body Of blacks for
invading Egyptian territory, and 1900
infantry are held in readiness for an
at Suez.
The steamship Ohio, which sailed
rom Philadelphia for Liverpool Au-
gust Goth, has. included in her cargo
400 crates Of Delaware peaches. The
'teerage Of theship has been turned
nto a refrigerator lined with ice and
with fans for keeping IN a
current of cold air,