The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-28

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Ex-President Thiers declines to be
a candidate for the French Senate,
preferring to remain in the lower
House. ........ .
The official returns of the Texas
election foot up as follows: For con-
,stitutional convention, &, ,253; against
25,655. u. ss-. .,..
1t is officially denied that the cir
),cnlation of Gladstone's pamhlets on
Vaticanism has been interdicted in
France. -' .'-''t
A portion of the manufacturing hall
at the Albany Fair Grounds was
blown down, and two children killed
thereby.
At Weehawken, N. j., Policeman
Lundy fatally clubbed Philip Buck
fofinterfering when Lundy was shoot
ing a dog. r &
The sovereign council of the SoRs
of Jonadab in North America held an
annual session in Providence, r. L.,
last week. i'> -s'
Three brothers named Moran quar-
relied at Cincinnati last week and one
was beaten and kicked to death by
the others.
A woman was badly crushed and
two men drowned while on an excur-
sion from New York to Iona island
last Saturday.
! Robt. Gibson of Newburgh, N. Y,
shot ut and wounded Alfred Post,
president of the Newburgh National
Bank, on the 18th.
| Gems. Sherman, Slocum and Sheri-
dan, the latter accompanied by his
wife, left Omaha on a western bound
train, August 18th.
| 1t is announced that the late ex-
Emperor Ferdinand of Austria left by
his will to the Pope S6, ,OOO, 900, which
has already been paid. 70. ha
Oliver Cannady shot and nearly
killed John Louis at Gretna, on Tues
day of last week. 1t is claimed the
shooting was accidental. a*
! Hon. Samuel Henry White was
killed at Wilmer, Pa, by falling be-
tween two cars while passing from
one platform to another.
Austria and other powers will rec
ommend Turkey to grant Herzego-
vina semi-indcpendent government
similar to that of Servia. ,...
Ex-Treasurer Parker Of South Car
olina was last week released from
prison on writ of habeas corpus, and
= at once fled from the State..sss=s. < <
The largest sale of tobacco ever
made in North Carolina was from a
Durham mandatory, August 18th
$500 casks valued at $6O, 600.
The British ship Bremen from Liv-
errool was towed into San Francisco,
her crew being helpless from scurvy.
Thirteen died on the passage.
A warehouse nine stories high, con-
tanning many thousand bushels o1
grain, was destroyed by fire at Glou-
cester, England, Saturday last.
! A Rochester woman admits that
, three out of four babies brought to
her for board have died within five
weeks. She has been arrested.
The radicals have been successful
in the Servian elections, and it is
thought they will vote to send al
army to join the Herzegovinans.
w. B. Greenlaw, president Of the
Little Rock Railroad and Peoples In
surance Company Of Memphis, died
in that city last Monday, aged 60.
Subscriptions throughout Germany
to indemnify Prussian priests for the
withdra val ofState grants have reached
, $3.50 900, half the sum withdrawn.
A colored woman has sued the Pull
man Car Company for $1,000 for re-
fusing to allow her to ride in palace
car from Cincinnati to Washington.
Mrs. c. w. Oglesby of Mel Leansboro
Ills., was found at her residence will
her throat cut, last week. Her hus-
? band has been arrested on suspicion
l The body of Grimwood, the Chi
cago Euening Journal reporter wht
: went up in Donaldson's balloon, ha
J been recovered from Lake Michigan
Rev. Cyrus Mutt, d. D. and L. L
/, D.. for fifteen years president of the
/ Indiana State University, at Bloom
ington, Indiana, died at indianapolis
l. Monday.
' John Gordon, the first miner to EN-
ter the Black Hills country, has en-
tered an action for false imprisonment
against Gen. Ruggles. The case vii
be tried at Omaha. fA.-
Duncan, Sherman g. Co. propos
+, to pay their creditaos 33a per cent
for quit claims, and lis much more a
their property will realize from judi
: eious management.
A passenger on d Canada mail stag
drew 4; revolver and compelled tn
e driver to cut the mail bags and jun
G off, after which the passenger drov
!. away will. the stage.
5 Pour Indians captured the Merit
& rancho on the Rio Grande and mul
:. dered two men and Il woman, carry
ing off another woman, two chlldre