The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-16
News Items.

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Babcock & Co., grocers, New York,
have failed.
The public debt of Massachusetts,
is SO, ,O00, 900.
The Prussian Diet ia summoned to
meet on the 10Th instant.
Vasquez, the California bandit,
was to be hanged yesterday.
Four hundred soldiers from Spain
arrived at Havana on the 9TH.
Governor Hardin of Missouri was
inaugurated at Jefferson city, Tues
day.
The ship Grey Eagle capsized at
the Baltimore wharf last week. No
lives lost.
There is to be a grand billiard tour
nament at Cleveland, opening jan
uary 25th.
Horace B. Gibbs of Cincinnati COM
mitted suicide on his wife's grave on
the 9Th inst.
Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has
been invited to take up her residence
ut Barcelona.
Gen. Colina, the last of the Vene-
zuela insurgents, has been captured
and his dispersed.
The English schooner Kathleen
May has been lost at sea with twenty
six persons on board.
| The Western Hotel at Sacramento
| was burned last Monday. Three men
perished in the flames.
The Bristed and Cuttings paper
mill at Dalton, Mass, was burned,
Tuesday. Loss 100000.
The Mobile grand jury found no
indictments against parties charged
with killing negroes on election day.
Animated discussion of the Louisi-
ana problem has continued in both
houses of Congress during the week.
The nomination of Don A. Pardee
to be U. s. District Judge for Lou
isiana is yet uncondr,ned by the Sen
ate.
A large FIRE destroyed several to-
bacco warehouses at Baltimore, on
the 9TH inst. Estimated loss, $780,
600.
The depositors in the Charleston
branch OF the Freedman's Bank have
pet;tioned Congress for indemnifica-
tion.
Nothing has oeeE heard Of the
steamer Faraday, which sailed a
mont, ago to search for the lost ocean
cable.
Proceedings in the Busteed and
Durell impeachment cases have been
tabled in the House of Representa-
tives.
Geo. H. Boxer of Pennsylvania,
present minister at COnstantinople,
has been transferred to St. Peters
burg.
Mcmahon declines to accept the
designations of the present French
ministry until he can form a new
cabinet.
The Supreme Court of Arkansas
has decided that courts have no juris-
diction over contests for the Office of
Governor.
Noses Chamberlain, New Yorker,
convicted of sending scurrilous postal
cards through tho mails, has been
fined $1,000.
Seven members of the New Orleans
police force were discharged for re-
tusing to report at the State House
ON the 5th instant.
The telegraph informs US that "the
Democratic Conservative party was
generally successful +" in the recent
Memphis election.
Gov. Garland of Arkansas pledges
the power of his government to
break up the White League, if any
exists in that State. .o-.
Committees from the Northern and
Southern Presbyterian churches have
met at Richmond, and will attempt
to harmonic differences.
The ex-Union soldiers of Arkansas
indOrse the statement made by Gen.
Sheridan of the condition of terrorism
existing in the Southern States.
Fifteen passengers were injured by
a railroad accident near Eaton sta
ton, Indiana, Wednesday, on the
Fort Wayne and Cincinnati road.
The bar of the U. s. Supreme
Court passed q resolution of respect
to the memory of the late Louis Jan
in of Louisiana, the noted land law
yer. ..-
| A full jury has been obtained in
the Tilton Beecher suit, and the tria
is now progressing. Some Of the
testimony is too obscene for publica-
ton.
The government steam tug Speed
we'll, with thirty persons on board, il
supposed to have been lost some
where between New York and New
port.
, A laborer in a New Orleans saw
mill fell upon the circular saw snt
was fearfully mangled, Wednesday
He died within an hour after the &C