The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-31
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fifteen or twenty others, some, 1t is
thought, fatally.
In the English House of Commons
on the 22nd inst, Mr.. Plimsoll made
q violent attack npon the government
for announcing the postponement Of
the shipping bill until next session.
The remarks of Mr.. Pli,nsoll were 80
violent that the Speaker requested
him to leave the House, which lie
did.
A Munich dispatch of the 2lstsays;:
The ultram0ntane Baron Loe has been
sentenced to six months imprison-
ment for o reasonable speech made
by him in October, 1873. Herr Sigel,
editor of the ultramontane journal
Taterland, was sent to prison to serve
ont q ten months sentence for trea-
sOnable utterances.
Several Thousand old soldiers and
600 Andersonville prisoners had q
grand reunion and encampment at
Hartford, Conn.,, last week. Gen.
Hawley made an address, which con-
cluded thus: We have won the
victory for the Union now we have
one more .ictory to win--tO win the
hearts of cur late antagonists"
The Erie railway has employed
Dorman B. Eaton to proceed to Lon
don to obtain $3.50, 600 remaining
from bonds negotiated there land which
are held by London banking associa-
tons and james McHenry, ON the
ground that claims may be made
against them by Europeans, which
claims the Erie company do not rec
ognize.
Advices from San Salvador to the
4th inst, state that order had been
restored at the scene of the ultramon-
tame riots. 1t was discovered that
arrangements for similar outbreaks
had been prepared all over the repub
lie in the name of religion. The Pro-
visor Rodriguez, Bishop Carrano, and
Canons Orelland and Vecchiditi have
been expelled from the country.
A terrible fight occurred in Perdido,
Escambia, county, Ala, between two
families, those Of Hallett and Byers,
in which six men, the father and two
SONS ON each side, were engaged. Five
were killed outright, while the sixth
and last has a load of buckshot in his
side which must cause his death. Both
families are said to be of Indian de-
scent. An old family feud was the
cause Of the trouble.
The council Of delegates from all
the Presbyterian churches in Christ
endom met in London, July Goth.
Many representatives Of American
and Canadian churches were present.
The object Of the council is to DEM
onstrate unity and belief among Prot
estants, arrange mission work, con-
centrate the influence of the church
upon educational and social reform,
and organize resistance to infidelity
and religious intolerance.
Rear Admiral Almy, commanding
the North Pacific station, in dis
patch to the Navy Department, dated
Honolulu, June Oath, reports the re-
turn Of the Tuscarora on the twentieth
Of that month from the Samoan Is
lands. Her cruise had been success
full, as also the mission of Colonel
Steinbcrger. The Tuscarora made
several casts of soundipgs between
Upola Island and Duke Of Clarence
Island. After slight repairs she was
to sail for San Francisco, and it was
expected she would arrive there the
latter part of July.
The Cotton Exchange Convention
assembled at Greenbrier, White Sui
pIlur Springs, Va, ON the 2lst, presi-
dent John Phelps Of New Orleans il:
the chair and representatives present
from Mobile, Charleston, Savannah,
New Orleans: Memphis, Baltimore,
Boston, Selma, Montgomery, Norfolk,
Augusta, Nashville, Wilmington,
Charlotte, Cincinnati, st. Louis, New
York, Philadelphia, Athens, Calves
ton and Louisville. IL the election
of new officers Mr.. Phelps was uDan-
imously re-chosen for president. The
convention remained in session until
Saturday last, and much business Of
importance relative to cotton interests
was transacted.
IKE MISUNDERSTANDING n.y.,
July Goth H. Il. Jasper's disti!lery,
together with 300 or 400 bbls. of
wbiskey and 200 bushels of malt; loss
$4,000, insurance s25,0OO.. Gin
cinnati, goth Block u Co.'s printing
office and w. w. Donaldsons' litho-
graph establishment; the walls were
thrown down by explosion of gas and
seven persons were injured by flying
missiles; loss s25, 600. North Col
chester, Conn, Goth: Brown Brothers
paper mill loss $4,000 old Or
chard, No., 22nd: the Old Orchard
hotel ; the guests, $50 in number, all
lost more or less clothing and jew
elry.- Iowa City, Iowa, 23rd: The
cooking tanks of Close g. Sons paper
mill exploded, killing sig men: two
were blown over houses across the
street and two into the river; loss
s25 5,OOO.- - Charleston, $. c., oath :
fifty buildings and 1900 bbls. nava,
stores; loss $3.50, 900. half covered by