The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-17
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The King of Sweden has arrived at
Moscow.
DR.. Numes has been elected Presi-
dent of Panama.
Gen. Henry L. Benning of Colum-
bus, Ga, is dead.
A cotton factory is in course of
erection at Atlanta.
Signor Blanc succeeds Cont as Ital-
ian minister at Washington.
The Pope has appointed DR.. Herona
of Santiago de Cuba bishop.
Hon. Alex. Stephens delivered an
oration at Atlanta on the 4th.
Ex-Emperor Ferdinand of Austria
was buried at Vienna on the 9TH.
Gen. Frank P. Blair died at St.
Louis at midnight of the 9th inst.
Fourteen thousand emigrants from
Europe reached New York in June.
President Grant went to Cape MAY
last Saturday to witness the regatta.
Monsignor Charles LaRique, bish-
op of St. Hyacintbe, Canada, is dead.
The Sonora railway bill has passed
the Mexican Congress and Become a
law.
Italy will not take part in the Amer
ican centennial on account of the ex-
pense.
The Prussian government is about
to build a naval hospital in San Fran
cisco. -.-.
Heavy rains in Indiana have dam
aged railroad bridges and injured
crops.
England regards the encroachments
Of Russia upon Central Asia with
alarm.
F.C. Willitt, secretary of the Amer
lean legation at the City Of Mexico,
il dead.
George Brown. the celebrated oars
man, died at Halifax on the 8th inst,
aged &c.
Louisville has been designated as
tho national headquarters OF the
grangers.
A tremendous storm ut Portland,
Me-, last Saturday, damaged several
churches.
The father Of Don Carlos was ar
rested at Vendaye and conducted to
Bayonne.
The English steamer Scythia had
her propeller broken by collision with
Il whale.
A New Orleans rum factory has
hsep- d~by~ssvenue ell3cess
crookcdness.
Mrs. Mitchael Ready Of New Haven
was shot dead by man named Hos
mer, last week.
Jacob Miller of Baltimore fell
through a l,atchway in his brewery
and WAS killed.
Several minor battles have been
fought in Cuba during the past week,
with alternating success.
An international banquet to be at
tended by mayors of cities is to be
held at Guildhall, London.
The mntinious sailors from the
schooner Jefferson Borden arrived at
Boston on Saturday last.
The American residents of London
had a grand celebration at Crystal
Palace in honor of the 4th.
Sir Edward Watkins has accepted
the craftsmanship Of the British COM
mission Of Erie bondholders.
A man and woman committed sui
eide together by jumping in Lake
Michigan at Waukegan, Wis.
The trial of tile Bishop of Munster,
with view to his deposition by the
government, began last Saturday.
The trial Of ex-Treasurer Parker of
South Carolina for tlefraudin the State
commenced at Columbia on the 9th.
Burglars made an unsuccessful at
tempt to rob the National Bank at
Barre, VT, during the night of July
9th.
The Controller Of the Currency has
called for the condition of the national
banks at the close of business, June
Both.
Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the
American revivalists, held Il monster
farewell meeting in London Monday
night.
Reports OF loss If life from the
foods at Toulouse were greatly ex-
aggerated only 2l6 bodies have been
found.
The visit Of Emperor Wilhelm of
Prussia to Victor Emanuel Of Italy
will not be postponed later than Sep
tember.
Rev. S. D. Osgcot, D. D., district
secretary of the American Baptist
Missionary Union: died at Chicago
last week.
Four persons were killed and sew
eral injured by the explosion of a
boiler ut Hot Springs, Ark, OH the
9th inst.
Many houses were struck by light
ming ip Eastern Massachusetts during
the prevalence of !, heavy storm, Oh