The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-17
DONALDSONVILLE. La SATURDAY, April. H. 1876.

I been abandoned. A meeting will b'
held, when funeral Grafton will b.
delivered.
The United States steamer Blu,
Light will be fitted out for the use o
Professor Spencer, United States fisl
commissioner. .I.$sst
A collision Of freight trains nea1
Bergen Summit, New York, on tllt
9th, killed brakesman and smashed
the locomotives.
a collision occurred at Shanghai
OH the 18th inst, between the local
steamers Ocean and Fusing. The
latter was sunk. ~ r.3t
A young gentleman and lady were
drowned by the eapsizing Of boat
in Burches mill pond, near Augusta
Ga, week ago. -e~
Patrick O'Shea, who murdered his
wife ON the night of March 18th,
1874, was hanged at st. Louis Oh Fri
day Of last week.
| The English Parliament refused to
order second reading Of the wo-
mans rights bill, by the significant
vote Of l89 to 152.
| Officer Shelly has arrived at New
York from Sherman. Texas, with the
connterfeiter Isaac Baxter, and the
robter George Van Valsor. s#s.-=
The steamer Thomas Hulse was
sunk by cake of ice at Perth Amboy.
on the 9th. The passengers all es-
capped, but the freightwas lost.
The ship Madrid from Bremen to
New York, was abandoned at SEA.
One man was drowned, but the re-
mainder Of the crew were saved.
The New Jersey Senate defeated, a
bill permitting clergymen of all de-
nominations to give religious instruc.
tions in penitentiary institutions.
It is reported the Prussian govern
ment will prosecute German subscrib-
ers to the Carlist fund for fomenting
a rebellion with friendly power.
An engagement between the Roy
alists and Carlists, near Toleosa, on
the 18th, resulted in the Carlists be-
ing defeated with loss of 100 killed.
! The freight steamer Paragon burn
ed ut the Kountz line wharf, ST..
Louis, April 9th. The boat was val-
ucd at so, 900 and the cargo at $685.
600. .I.I
William Morgan, an old man, who
murdered his wife in St. Louis, or the
eth of July, 1874. has been sentenced
to he hanged on Friday, the 2Sth Of
| May. -.4s.
The French government has in
structed its consuls to summon sub
jects abroad who owe France military
service to register ut the several con-
suiates. 4-- :.
Jones, the Kentucky Clerk of Court
who accepted a challenge to fight a
duel fifteen years ago, has been de-
cided eligible to Office by the Court
of Appeals.
The Philadelphia cotton weavers.
| who have been on a strike several
| weeks, resolve not to resume work
until theirdemand for increased wages
is acceded to.
Emperor William of Germany has
abandoned his intended visit to Victor
Emanuel upon the advice of his ply
siciaDs. The crown prince and princess
will go instead.
The Secretary Of the Interior added
a topographer and astronomer to the
| Black Hills expeditian. A full map
of the country, with the boundary
lines, will be sketched.
Six convicts succeeded in getting
ont OF the Penitentiary on Blackwell's
Island, New York, on the 18th inst,
but five were recaptnred, the sixth
making good his escape.
At St. GATHERINGS. Ont, man
named Matthias Konkle has been SEN
fenced to be hanged for committing a
| rape on a child eight years of age, at
Beamsville, last November.
A terrible powder explosion occur
red in San Francisco on the 9Th inst.
Several bulldogs were demolished,
and a number Of men, women and
| children crushed and burned. s.
Colonel John NJ. Powell, once a
wealthy Mississippi planter, COM
mitted suicide in New York by NOR
phine. Powell's grandfather was
George Washington's cousin.
There were great demonstrations
in Italian cities in honor of the visit
of Francis Joseph Of Austria to King
Emanuel. The meeting between the
two monarchs was very cordial.
! A band of Mexicans surrounded
Brownsville. Texas, on the 5th inst,
and were about to attack the town,
but the presence Of company OF
troops deferred their movement.
Six persons were blown 70 the pave
ment in Baltimore. on Monday last,
by the explosion of a barrel of oil in
a cellar of a store which was burning,
All were burned severely, none fatally.
Paul Boynton. the American, crossed
the English channel from Dover to
Bolougne in his life saving apparatus,