The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-31

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demnify the owners of slaves eman-
cipated in Porto Rio.
Thirty cotton mills closel! at Old
ham, England, Monday, operatives
having refused to accept the masters
terms in regard to wages.
The direct United States and Eli
glish cable has been injured by ice
and connection broken. The flaw is
under course eofreparation.
Baldwin & Sons, extensive Chicago
and Milwaukee commission merchants
have suspended. They claim the sus-
pension is only temporary.
The Turkish government has or
dered the Governor of the province of
Bosnia to dispatch troops against the
insurgents of Herzegovina.
The Tennessee sportsmen's State
Association will hold a three days
tournament, beginning October 25th,
at the Memphis fair grounds.
The orders for stamps, stamped en-
velopes, ETC., received at the Postal
Department in Washington since the
LIST inst, amount to 81, ,250,O 900.
A locomotive on the Delaware di-
vision of the Erie Railroad exploded
on the 23rd inst. The engineer, fire
man and tlagman were killed.
Three seamen on the U. s. man-of-
war Powhatan were drowned while
swimming ashore at New York last
Saturday, in an attempt to desert.
A passenger train was thrown from
the track near Bull Run, Va, on Fri
day of last week. The baggage mas
ter and one passenger were injured.
Mr.. Scudamore will retire from tho
British Post-office and go to Turkey
to organize postal service there, in
accordance with the Berne conven-
tioD.
The daughter of Robert Dale Owen
has written letter to the New York
Post in which she ascribes the insan
ity of her father to al oyerworked
brain.
A. J. Cochran and Thomas E. Ed
munds were committed at Greenup,
Illinois, for the murder of Engineer
Eames in the late attempted express
robbery.
Thirteen miners and four wagons
were captured forty-five miles north
of Fort Laramie en- route to the Black
Hills, and were brought into the fort
on parole.
The receiver of the Great Western
Telegraph Company at Chicago has
beea, granted permission to sell that
corporation at auction On the first Of
October next.
Eight convicts from the Blackwell
Island prison, New York, escaped
through the port hole of vessel car
rying them to work, and all but one
reached shore.
Advices received ut the medical
bureau Of the Navy Department., from
the South Atlantic fleet, report that
our vessels there are now free from
yellow fever.
The Indian chief Lone Bear, one of
the prisoners at Fort Marion, Fla,
has become insane. This is the same
Indian who attempted suicide on the
way to Florida.
The thirty seventh annual session
of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
convened in Vicksburg on the 2OtI,
inst. The Grand Encampment also
met at the same time.
A Memphis mob last week lyncbed
Il negro named Lewis Thompson, who
had just been tried and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life for outraging
a young lady last May.
The Spanish constitutional commit
tee has, by a vote Of 26 against I, re-
,jected an amendment to the new con-
stitution in opposition to the princi-
pie Of religious freedom.
The German government continues
to receive from important members
of the Catholic clergy their submission
to the law relative to the administr.-
ton of church property.
Alexander and VIM. Collie of the
London firm recently suspended have
been arrested for obtaining 81 200, ,M
from the London and Westminste,
bank under false pretenses.
Fletcher, Faulkner and Harris
members of the Indian special com
mission, have gone to the Red Cloud
agency, to commence the investiga-
! ton into the Indian frauds.
VIM. II. Coun of Philadelphia, who
accidentally shot and killed his wife
was committed for trial by the cor.
oner, although the jury decided tina,
the shooting was accidental.
The heaviest rain of the season fel
in the upper Ohio valley OH F,ida,
of last week. The river at Charles.
ton, w. Va, rose Is feet in "a hours
Much damage to crops resulted.
| Major Charles j. Sprague is ordered
to report to the commanding genera
of the Department of the Gulf fo
duty as chief paymaster of that de