The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-20
News Items.

on the 9th.
Carlists have invaded the proyinc
, If Santander.
Immense revival meetings are be
ing held in London.
Two colored murderers were hange'
in Maryland, on March 18th.
There are 1l46 Oranges in Ohio
with a membership of 5000.
Mitchell has been reelected to Par
lament from the Tipperaly distaict.
There were disastrous fires sat Salen
and Frederickstown. o., last week.
The survey for canal across thu
1sthmus OF Panama progresses well.
| Miller's distillery at Sterling, I'll.
burned last Saturday. Loss, 100000
Rev. Jas. Richardson, a Methodist
Episcopal bishop of Toronto, is dead
Two boys attending coal screen al
Scranton, Pa, were crushed to death
All the bakers shops in Bogota
were Quilted during bread riot, last
week.
The Woman's Medical College at
Philadelphia has graduated sixteen
women.
Count Valmaseda, the new Cap
tain General, arrived at Havana on
the til.
A convention of railroad men will
be held at Helena, Montana, on the
first of April.
Ex-senator H. r. Pease of Missis-
sippi has been appointed postmaster
of Vicksburg.
Gen. Sir George Hope Grant and
Arthur Help, the English author, both
died last week.
Gen. Emory has orders to proceed
to Washington us soon us relieved
by Gen. Augur. rs.
Fonr men were drowned at Cotton
Hill, W. Va, by the upsetting Of
skiff, on the 14th.
John G. Impthron & Co., promi-
nent Liverpool merchants, have failed.
Liabilities, $4,000, 900.
The President has renewed the
nomination of Don a. Pardee as dis.
trict judge of Louisiana.
Stephen Degan was killed by JOS.
Jeffrie' Oh the levee, at New Orleans,
on Monday of last week.
julius Wilcke, Chicago saloon
keeper, was mysteriously murdered
on the night of the 9TH inst.
Godlove S. Orth has been nomina-
ted minister to Austria, and Horace
May nard to Constantinople.
= Dredging in Charleston harbor to
secure Il greater depth Of water, has
proven eminently successful.
Four counterfeiters supposed to be
from Kansas City were captured at
Coryelle, Texas, last Monday.
Eleven men escaped from the St.
Louis city Jail a few days since, and
only Que has been recapturell.
Another heavy gale on the English
and Irish coast ten days since. Much
and several lives lost.
Jas. H. Costley, convicted at Boston
of the murder of Julia A. Hawkes.,
has been sentenced to be hanged.
Senator Gordon and Congressman
Lamar were dined and wincd by the
Marslt1eld Club of Boston recently.
Oil has been struck on farm in
Warren county, Pa. This develops
an entirely new belt of oil territory.
The buildings of the Grand Trunk
railroad ut st. Charles, Canada, were
burned on the 9th lust. Loss $780,
900.
The American scientific expedition
to kc1 guelin Land met with great
in observing the transit of We
nus.
Sidney Dillon has been elected per-
president of the Pacific Mail |
aud G; S. Scott vice presi-
dent.
Forty three persons, mostly women,
were roasted to death at the burning
Df the match factory at Stockton,
Sweden.
Senator Ferry of Michigan was cho-
sen president pro tenn. Of the new
Senate. The vote stood, Ferry 80,
Thurman 25.
A general suspension of the wool
iat factories, Oh account Of large
stock and dull trade, is announced at
Reading, Pa.
Two stores, mine dwellings, and an
'otel were destroyed by fire at Still
water, n. Y, on Friday, the 18th inst.
Loss, $4,000.
Bona fidc colored men were refused
to the performance Of Cal
hagner's burnt cork initators at
Montgomery, Ala.
The Pope has permitted the Austri-
IN bishops to comply with !; law Of
hat country which, he forhids to be
loticcd in Prussia.
The National Insurance Company
# Philadelphia has suspended. 1t
'sop"ses to pay forty per cent. in set
.lement of liabilities.