The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-06-26

600, and 200 employees thrown out OF
work.
Adjutant General Townsend has
months leave of absence. Gen. Vim
cent will act in his stead in the mean-
time.
Five thousand shoemakers have
been thrown out of employment in
Montreal, owing to depression Of
trade.
In a fight between policemen and
rowdies in New York, Sunday, an Of
ficer was shot in the arm and a rOwdy
killed.
At indianapolis, June 18th, Mrs.
Monroe, recently divorced, was killed
by her ex-husband with monkey
wrench.
A meeting Of bankers was held at
Philadelphia last Tuesday, to organize
Il National Centennial Bankers AssO-
citation.
The gentlemen composing the Amer
lean rifle team have been elected hon
orary members of the principal clubs
of Dublin.
II. w. Rowland, chief engineer Of
the lighthouse steamer Free WAS
drowned while bathing at Norfolk,
June 18th.
Don Carlos has convoked session
of the Biscay Junatas or Cortes. He
has given his son the title of prince
of ASturas.
Geo. Ward and j. w. Martin, brick
makers, were arrested at Rivertcn,
KY, on the 18th, for passing counter
felt money.
The U. s. steamer Saranaca was
wrecked in Seymour Narrows, off
Vancouver Island, Sunday morning.
No lives lost.
A successful revolution led by Sc
nor Bara, is in progress at La Paz,
Mexico, and commerce with that port
is suspended.
An insane girl, Julia Anna Fiebert,
fell from kitchen roof in New Or
leans, last week, and died from the
injuries received.
A couple of lawyers engaged in a
rough and tumble fight in Il Memphis
court Monday, and were tined $50 by
the presiding judge.
1t is asserted that Russia has with
drawn from the alliance of the three
emperors. Subsequent intelligence
contralicts the rumo1.
\ crowd of 5000 people witnessed
the awarding of diplomas to the grad
uating class of the Naval Academy at
Annapolis last Monday. &c.,
The Gar, when he returns from his
visit to Warsaw, will pass through
Bohemia. The Emperor Of Austria will
greet him at the frontier.
Two men and woman robbed the
Central Bank of indianapolis last
week of a package containing $1,000,
and escaped with the booty.
Crops in the central portion of Mis-
souri, have been damaged by storms,
The appearance of millions OF toads
and grasshoppers is reported.
The Democrats of Ohio unite with
the Republicans in declaring against
division of the public school fund, or
any union Of Church and State.
The municipal elections were held
| in Rome last Monday. Garibaldi
heads the list of successful candidates.
He was supported by all parties.
Surgeon James Simmons has been
relieved from and Assistant Surgeon
Ely Mcclellan has been assigned to
duty in the Department of the South.
| 4 private cable dispatch from Lon
don says Lady Franklin is danger
ously ill in that city, and requests
the churches in America to pray fol
her.
In I. preliminary match between the
Irish and American rifle teams at
Dublin, on the 18th inst, the score
stood 745 to 739 in favor of the Irish.
men.
The prize fight that was to have
taken place between Allen and Rookie
near Pi,tsbnrg last week did not come
off, owing to the non-appearance OF
Rookie.
A Havana dispatch of June l9tl
says that a Catalan regiment t attacked
POO Cubans in karagas hills, killing
five men and capturing thirty -si,
women.
A slight earthquake was felt at An.
derson and Vincennes, Ind. and Col
umbus, Ohio, on the morning of June
18th. The same shock was felt iT
Illinois.
At Toronto, June 18th, the steam
mills of Edwards g. Co., eight dwell.
ings, and 6,G3O,0OO feet Of lumber
were destroyed by fire. Estimated
loss S25O,ODO
The yacht Octavia, lately detained
l'y the New York cmstomhouse Of
ticials, sailed last Saturday for Aspin
wall The Spaniards insist that Cub:
is her destinations.
\ grant of $4,000 to promote :
worthy representation of France a
the United States Centennial ezhibi