The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-05-01

publishing nrm OF harper brOCneF6,
New York, died on the 23rd ult., at
the age of 70 years.
The Mexican General Escobedo will
lend the assistance ct his forces in
capturing and Furnishing the raiders
on the Texas border. f.. -t.....
The graves of Confederate and Fed
eral soldiers at Augusta, Ga, were
decorated on Monday by the Augusta
Memorial Association.
All the mail contracts for Alabama
which were fraudulently obtained by
ex- Marshal Kinds and his confeder-
ates have been revoked.
A report that President Grant had
requested the resignation Of Secretary
Delano of the Interior Department,
turns out to he canard.
Ex-Treasurer Parker Of South Car
olina is under arrest on the charge Of
having embezzled $28, 600 of the State
sinking fund while in Office.
Jno. A. Heiner, clerk to the super
intendent Of tho w. U. telegraph office
at Philadelphia, has abscondcd with
$4,000 Of the company'a funds.
Capt. A. B. St. John, New York
agent of the Peoples line of Albany
steamers, committed suicide at the
age of 70 years, last Saturday.
Hon. John Jay, late minister to vi
emma, and Colonel Jerome Napoleon
Bonaparte arrived at New York, last
week, on AL European steamer.
A number of Mexican planters have
decided to ship some of their sugar to
Hamburg and the United States, to
make its quality known abroad.
John M. Carver, formerly secretary
to Col. Jim Fisk, has been arrested for
embezzliDg $95, 900 from the National
Stock Yard Company Of New York.
Eight or Ten persons were severely
injured by collision Of passenger
trains on the Baltimore and Potomac
railroad, at Baltimore, last Monday.
The treasurer of Booths Theatre.
New York, is being prosecuted under
the civil rights bill for refusing admit
tance to colored man and his wife.
Messrs. Maynard and Orth, U. 8.
ambassadors to Turkey and Austria,
respectively, sailed from New York
in the steamship Russia, on April 2lat.
Two noted Englishmen died last
Monday: Rev. VIM. L. Selwin, chap
lain to the Queen, aged SO, and Henry
William Peckersgill, portrait painter,
aged "a.
The Attorney General of Kentucky
has applied for rebearing in the cass
against Jones, the Court Of Appeals
Clerk who wanted to fight duel fif-
teen years ago.
A grand mass s-meeting in honor of
John Mitchell was held at Richmond,
Va, April 22nd. Gov. Kemper pre-
sided, and ex-Gov. Henry A. Wise
delivered the Grafton.
The examination into the alleged
Duchesne conspiracy agains Bismarck
began at Brussels, April 22nd. Du-
chesne thrice refused to divulge the
names of his accomplices.
The libel case against the Charles
ton Ne,cs and Courier was given to
the jury last Monday. No verdict was
reached, the jury standing eleven for
acquittal, one for conviction.
Two colored murderers who were
to have been hanged at Charleston,
S. c., last week, were respited by the
Lieutenant Governor, Gov. Chamber
lain being absent from the State.
A detachment of the Sixth Cavalry
under Lieut.. Austin Henley encoun-
tered and whipped a band of Chey-
enne Indians, in Western Kansas, last
week. Twenty-Five redskins killed.
The militia in the Pennsylvania coal
region have been relieved by fresh
regiments. The miners voted on the
question of resuming work, last week,
and it was negatived almost unaui-
mously.
The President has declined to par
don Slater, convicted of manslaugh-
ter for having killed Michael Hussey
at schutzen festival in Washington,
two years ago. The sentence is four
years in the penitentiary.
The q. s. Supreme Court will ad-
journ on May 3rd, until October. It
is thought the Grant parish case from
Louisiana will be decided favorably
to the defendants, on the ground Of
nnconstitutionality of the Ku-klux
laws.
Sir Edward Thornton has over 100
cases referred to him as umpire of the
Mexican commission, and will not
very soon reach the test case deciding
the responsibility for the sacking of
Bagdad, at the mouth of Rio Grande
river.
In the English House of Commons,
DR.. Kenealy, counsel for plaintiff in
the famous Tichborne case, moved to
have q commission appointed to ex-
anime into the trial and decision of
that case. The motion was rejected
nays 433, yeas l.
Oscar Burton of Somerville. Tenn.