The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-06-19
La, SATURDAY, JUNE l9, 1875
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pate in the centennial celebration
there.
A railroad accident occurred nea1
Bath, England, June Ilth, by whicl
several persons were killed and in
i,srea.
Marotean, the Communist editor
who urged tire slnr,ting of the Arch
bishop Of Paris, has died in New Cnl.
clsni;..
The office of the jackson, Tenn.
Vhy and Tribune was destroyed by
fire on the 9Th inst. The fire was in
cendiary.
Two packages of letters from the
wrecked steamship Schiller have
reached the dead letter office at
Washington.
Rumors Of crisis in the COVER
mental affairs of Greece and the pro-
plosed abdicatiou of the King are
contradictcd.
The Spanisl, revenue officers in Gu
ba are exerting themselves greatly to
detect and prevent frauds and eva
sions OF duties.
Turner Brothers, New York bank-
ers, who suspended business in 1873
and subsequently resumed, have
again suspended.
! Mr.. Beach Of counsel for plaintiff
in the Tilton- Bcachcr suit, began the
closing address to the jury on We'd
nesday of last week.
\ splendid banquet was given in
honor of Carl Schurz by leading ma
! tive and American residents Of Bcr-
lin, OH the 9th lust.
Recorder Hackctt, New York city,
has sent Il man naued Frank Williams
to the pcnitentiary for fifteen years
for highway robbery.
j. F. Bolen, a New Orleans cripple,
committed suicide by jumping into
the river last week. disappointment
in love led to the act.
\ cavalry stable and 400 tons of
hay belonging to the commissary de-
|,artment were burned at Fort Russell,
Wyoming, last Monday.
The workmcn'1 societies Of Paris
opened a national subscription to pro-
vide for sending Il delegation tn the
Philadelphia exhibition.
Hy Il recent decision If the Supreme
Court OF Ohio. the funds OF bencvo-
lent societies IN that State have been
declared subject t" taxation.
A contlag'atiou at Minatiblan,
Mexico. destroyed thirty buildings.
Loss !slOO. 600. Slight shocks of earth
quake have been felt ut Jalisco.
The upper house Of the Prussian
Diet has adjourned. after tiually pass
ing t'4' hill withdrawing State grants
from tAc Romau Catholic clergy.
Judge Martin Rycrson, late Il MEM
Der of the Geneva commission on the
Alabama claims, died at Newton, y.
j., June lith, aged sixty years.
\ man named Dunn attempted to
ga,1otc a New Osleaus letter carrier
last week. He WAS arrested and
turned over to the U. S. Marshal.
Violent discussie4,s have occurred
in the Italian Parliament over the bill
for the suppression OF brigandage,
and !, ministerial crisis is imminent.
Morsi,auck, ia Russia, was de-
stroyed 10y fire last week. 1t had
2O.OO0 Inhabitants, three churches
and several manufactures and saw
mills.
Aaron Slntt.. a citizen of Brooklyn,
was shot and killed L, :, burglar whom
he discovered in his house aud at
tempted to capture. The murderer
escaped.
4 New Orleans car driver was Sc
ve,eiy stabbed last week, by pas
senger whom ne reprimanded for put
ting his feet Oh the seat. The stab
Der escaped.
The German government has pro-
hibitcd the circulation of copies of
the Catholic Press Of Baltimore for
two years within the boundaries Of
the empire.
The boiler of Smiths paper mill at
Lee, Mass, exploded June 9Th, kill
ing two men. wauading fourteen and
damaging the building to the extent
of S:3.5, 900.
None of the political prisoners from
the Argentine Republic we're allowed
to land in Havana, and several Amer
lean steamers refused to take them as
passengers.
\ violent storm passed over Paris
on the 9th, blowing down many chm
neys and causing numerous accidents.
The damage is estimated ut ll,M0,-
600 francs.
The man Wcsinger. who attempted
to exhort money by duplicating par
ties in plot to assassinate Bismarck,
has been committed for trial on
charge of fraud.
Grasshoppers have appeared in i'm
mense swarms at Plattsmouth, Ne
braska, and are destroying every
thing before Them They are NOV
ing northward.
The steamer Virgo from Halifax to
St. Johns, went ashore on st. Pierre
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