The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-06-05
News Items.

The English Parliament adjourns
during the Derby races.
The latest threat to assassinate Bis
marck proves canard.
The new English Arctic expedition
left London last Saturday.
American minister Maynard has
arrived at Constantinople.
Barnum's fat woman, weighing $50
pounds, aged 90 Years, is dead.
One yellow fever death at Key
West. No other cases reported.
A body thought to be Charley Ross
has been found at Berryville, Va.
Adolpil Philbert has heen desig-
mated French consul at Charleston.
A man and two girls were drowned
at Halifax by the capsizing of boat.
Johann Klein, the eminent painter,
died at Munich on the goth of May.
A dozen houses and stores were
burned at Covington, KY, May 9th.
A granite block ut Worcester, Mass.
burned last Saturday. Loss, $780,
600.
Fifty employees of the pension office
at Washington were discharged Mon
day.
Darius Wells, inventor of wood
type, died at Patterson, n. j., May
2Sth.
The Georgia courts refuse to enioin
the sale of the Macon and Brunswick
railroad.
A vinegar establishment with com
-plete distillery apparatus was seized
in st. Louis.
A frame stable in New York burned.
Two men and eight horses perished
in the flames.
The Governor of Westphalia has
summoned the Bishop of Munster to
resign his see.
Mr.. Sidney Dillon has been elected
president of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company.
The President has appointed Cllas.
?. Lincoln of Mississippi consul to
Canton, China.
Wallace Ogden has been recognized
as consul Of the Argentine Republic
at New Orleans.
The Erie Railway Company of New
York is insolvent. A receiver has
been appointed.
Horses are dying Of cerebro-spinal
meningitis in ST. Louis. The disease
is not spreading.
The Republicans Of Selma, Ala,
elected their candidates for municipal
officers last week.
A Cleveland man. aged SO, killed
his motherin-law, aged so, with an
adze, last Monday.
Many official changes in the South
are said to be threatened by Attorney
Genera! Pierrepont.
A Spanish admiral was killed and
four officers wounded by a Csrlist bat
terry at Mount Rico.
The Upper House of the Prnssian
Diet has passed a bill for the sup
preston of converts.
Latest advices from Asia Minor re-
port the loss Of $500 lives by the earth
quake shocks i'll May.
The effort to reunite the Northern
md Southern divisions Of the Episco-
pal church has failed.
The sale of the Memphis water
works has been set aside and new
me ordered to be had.
The strike Of minersin South Wales
las ended. The men submitted to |
he reduction Of wages.
Rev. J. Fl. Eccletion was elected |
Episcopal bishop of Iowa by one ma
ority in the convention.
Brigadier Gen. E. 0. c. Ord, COM
the department of Texas,
las gone to Washington. |
The Riverside nail plate mill and
lail factory at Wheeling, was burned
asst week. Loss $4,000.
The Duke of Wellington has grant
d the spacious Wellington riding
chool for revival meetings.
Lieut.. Gov. Holt of Michigan was
owhided at Detroit for alleged f;.-
with a Mrs. Trott.
The Committee Of Thirty of the
'rench Assembly resigned and new
ommittee has been elected.
The whiskey seizure epidemic has
cached Memphis. Sixty-one barrels
7ere nabbed there last week.
Much suffering from the grasshop-
er plague is anticipated in Missouri,
lansas and Iowa this summer.
A shell capsized at Hartford, last
aturday, drowning Cameron, a mem
er of the Harvard rowing crew.
The board of delegates of the AM
rican Israelites held their annual as
in New York, Monday.
L. E. Dyer, appraiser of the port of
Iemphis, has signed to accept the
Of consul to Odessa.
Hon. John Vail. formerly member