The Donaldsonville chief., 1875-04-24
News Items.

| Garibaldi is i'll.
Beecher is being cross. examined.
| No more yellow fever at Key West
| Central America is unusually tran
quill.
I Galveston is about to build grair
elevator.
I Seventy spinners at Lowell, Mass.
have struck.
| Baron Bruno; the Russian diplo.
mat, is dead.
The striking Pit,sburg iron worker.
will resume labor.
John Kelley has been reelected
sachem of Tammany.
| Walter j. Brown g. CO., New York
wool merchants, have failed. %
Wagner's brewery at Sparta, Wis.
burned last week. Loss, $6O, 1000.
d Leander C. Dyer of Tenn, has been
appointed U. S. Consul at Tennessee
Youngman and Anderson's pane,
mills at Columbus, Ohio, burned on
the 10th.
A Mitchell memorial meeting at
Charleston, on the 18th, was largely
attended.
The Detroit and Milwaukee rail-
road has been placed in the hands of
a receiver.
King William of Prussia has signed
the bill withdrawing grants from the
Catholic Church.
Telegraphic communication has
been established between Havana aud
Santiago de Cuba.
The Supreme Court will not render
decision in the Grant parish case at
the present term.
Troops remain in the disturbed
mining districts of Pennsylvania to
maintain the peace.
/ Fighting has occurred between the
savages and Chinese of Formosa, pro-
voked by the latter.
All the vessels of the Atlantic
squadron Of the navy nave concen-
trated at Port Royal.
The striking weavers of Philadel-
plia refuse to yield until their de-
,nands are acceded to.
The Republicans elected their can
iidate for Mayor Of Paterson, New
jersey, by $3.50 majority.
Ferdinand Blankn,eyer, German.
residing in Jersey City, has been ar
rested for killing his wife. ..z.:...-a.
John Jones, aged IL, shot and killed
Robert Ferries, aged 81, near Son,er-
vile, Tenn, on the 18th.
The carlists surprised Fort Aspe.
near Santander, and carried off 200
prisoners, and four cannon.
The Tennessee has been fitted up
as the flagship Of Admiral Reynolds
Of the Atlantic squadron. -, III
The Democrats "f Trenton, N. j..
elected their entire ticket with the
exception of the tax receiver.
A movement is on foot for the ca
tablishment Of All international bu-
reau Of weights and measures.
The remains of Judge A. A. Atocha
of New Orleans We're buried in Mount
Olive cemetery, Washington, D. c..
Prussia proposes to abolish all re-
ligious orders in that country except
those employed in nursing the sick.
The ship CORVALLIS, from San
Francisco for Liverpool, was wrecked
on Pitcairn's Island. Crew saved.
Four men were drowned by the
ovcrturning ii Il pleasure yacht in the
Charleston harbor, on the 18th inst.
Trains on the Union Pacific rail
road were detained last Saturday by
floods, in the vicinity Of Fort Laramie.
Mrs. E. L. Erwin, Il highly respected
young widow lady Of Hannibal, Mo-,
drowned herself aud child on the 10th.
Agents of the French government
have made contracts III Bohemia for
10000 horses, to be delivered in june.
The Carlists are charged with seiz-
ing number of women and threat
ening to shoot them unless ransomed.
The great California trotter, Occi-
dent, is training at Philadelphia to
take part in the coming seasons races.
Dan Bryant's funeral took place in
New York last week and was attend
ed by an immense concourse Of peO-
pie.
Rusk & Co.'S, wheat elevator at In
dianapolis, burned OH tho 18th. with
30, 200 bushels of grain. Loss, $70,-
600.
Pepills Gonzales, Cuban insurgent
general, died of lockjaw resulting
from a wound received in q recent
battle.
Two men being refused admittance
into Il hotel at Wales, Ills, attempted
to force an entrance, and both were
killed.
A mam named Hiram Porter was
arrested at Cincinnati on Saturday
last, for raising check from 300 to