The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-09
News Items.

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leans is vacant. - ~
Kalakaua's name is pronounced
Kollow-kow-ah. ..7
Mrs. Motley, wife Of the English
historian, is dead.
The Louisiana question is under
discussion in Congress.
Two large fires occurred at Cory,
Pa, last week. Loss $2, 600.
The Mississippi river is gorged with
ice six miles below St. Louis.
A rumor of the death of Espartero,
the Spanish statesman, is pronounced
false.
VIM. H. Rinehart, the noted Amer
lean sculptor, died at Rome, Italy,
recently. ..s 80
The message of the Mayor of New
York says the debt Of the city is
Sl42, ,OOO, 900.
DR.. Cornelius Adams Of Augusta,
Ga, fell into a canal at Graniteville,
5. G., and was drowned. :
The Won Armin appeal will be
passed upon by the highest Court iu
Prussia, the Obergericlt.
Gov. Tilden of New York and Mayor
Wickham OF New York city were in
augurated ON the LIST instant.
Judge Abram Martin, the oldest
lawyer Of the Montgomery, Ala, bar,
died ON Friday night, Jan. LIST.
The steamship San Marcos, from
Galveston, went ashore eighteen miles
south Of Cape Henry, on the lst.
A boiler in the Warehouse Iron
Works, Boston, burst last Monday,
killing one man and injuring four.
l,O76, ,OGO bushels Of coal have been
shipped from Pittsburg for New Or
leans witl'ing the past two weeks.
Hiram II. Roberts has been noipi-
mated for Governor by the Democratic
State Convention of New Hampshire.
1t is thought the Tilton- Beecher
libel suit will occupy the entire Jau-
uary term Of the Brooklyn City Court.
Two men were killed and another
wounded by an explosion in Snrto
tunnel, near San Francisco, Dec. 3Oth.
The steamer Thomas Brooks was
wrecked %. the southern coast Of
Cuba lust week. Tllirty-tive lives
lost. ~ S
The special election for Sheriff in
Vicksburg, last week passed off quiet
ly. The Republicans reflaincd INN
voting.
Orangeburg, 5. G., was tie scene 81
u large cODtiagration OH Tuesday.
The property destroyed is valued ut
$780, ,OOU. . ..
Queen Victoria dispensed her usual
bounties Of beef, bre;.dstutfs and coal
TO the poor, at Windsor Castle, on
New Years Day.
The planners, .riveters and boiler
m;.ke.s of Hull, England, have struck
Oh account Of i. reduction of ten pcr
cent. in their wages.
A brilliant reception was held at
the White House OH New Years Day.
A deputatioh ot Mexican War vet
Grams were among the visitors.
The brig. Mississippi, with cotton,
from New Orleans for Havre, went
ashore Oh Cary's Fort rect, Fla, on
the 3Uth ult. Wreckers are discharg-
ing her cargo. -
The Supreme Court of Alabama
has organized with II. G.. Brickell.
Chief Justice, Il. j. Judge and E. r.
Manning, Associates. Thos. G. Jones
wi.s appointed reporter. '"
The delegation sent to Mexico by
the New Orleans Chamber Of Com
merce on a commercial mission has
arrived safely at the capital city and
met with a cordial reception.
Gen. Morgan L. Smith, who COM
manded Il division in the Fifteenth
U. $. Army Corps during the war,
died in New York city on the 3lst
alt., OF congestion Of the lungs.
Mr.. f'abuis Mckay Dunn,, prom
inent Republican and Que Of the ad-
of the Charity Hospital.
was shot and killed in New Orleans,
on New Years night, by some un-
known person.
The trustees of the estate of Stephen
Girard of Philadelphia have resolved; Z
on account Of the increased income
from the trust, to provide for $40 more
orphans. There are now $50 in Cir
ard College and l34 applicants for
admission.
The steamer Jno. B. Maude struck
a snag near O. K. landing, forty miles
above Helena, Thursday night Of last
week, and sunk in twelve feet of
water. 1t is feared the boat will prove
a total loss. Most Of the cargo will be
saved. No lives were lost.
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