The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-02-27
News Items.

West Virginia. ,.,...,,.-s a.5i ., g,,.,.. al
Syracuse, N. Y, has elected Re-
publican Mayor.
A fire in Port-au- Prince burned 500
houses. Loss, 81, GOO, 600. -
The British government has rec
ognized Alfonso as King Of Spain. ~
Three children were burned to
death at McConnellsburg, Pa, on the
10Th.
The gasworks at DesMoines, Iowa,
exploded on the 18th inst. One man
killed. Fai - lf5't7 %3"I - Fl IL
Strawhouse, Vyse g. Co. of New
York have failed. Liabilities, e1,-
OOO, 900. t> z,s -.
Three Spanish ironclads and $500
troops will leave Spain for Cuba at
an early day . /" S''1,s5D "
A German newspaper has been con-
.fscated for publishing the Pope's en-,
cyclical letter. Gss.' ....z,,.,.,
The Alabama and Georgia Legis-
latures have indorsed, the Texas Pa
cific Railroad bill. 1883 f~''s
r. The Connecticut Democratic State
Convention unanimously renomina-
ted the old officers. l,l..a istu ts;gg:.
Several fishing smacks have been
sunk by the ice in Cape Cod Bay and
the crews drowned.
The National Grange, which was
in session at Charleston, s. c., adj
journed on the 10th. !, 8y 3ss. l..s
It is said that Hon. G.S. Orth. of
Indiana is to succeed Mr.. John Jay
rs Minister to Austria.
There is bitter competition between
the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsyl-
yania Central railroads. a'rs9s sIgt f,33l
President Grant has issued a proc
lamation fconvening the Senate in ex-
ira session on March 5th. -. ..t,..
Ike Hooper, colored, was hanged at
Augusta, Ga, on the 10Th, for the
murder If Salter White in 1873. 80 =
The Paris WorkiBgmenss Associa-
ton is discussing the proposition to
send delegates to the Centennial.
The Mississippi Legislature has
recommended the passage of the,
Texas Pacific Railroad bill by Con-
gress. ~ -li'.> ''i t-' -
A slater named w. H. Hendricks
fell from the roof of a house in New
Orleans on the 10Th inst, and was
killed.
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The negro who assaulted Judge
Lowell's little daughter in Boston
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for life. .,s,g .a-.... .-. ,5......r.. .,-..,-.'.
Wall Brothers glue works, Chicago,
burned on the 22nd. Loss $4W, 900.
THE works covered eight acres Of
ground. sal a'i'F a.69nt.J ni& aa1
A party of Black Hills miners, num-
herring thirty, have been heard FROM,
They are safe and in comfortable
quarters.
Mnrillo's St. Anthony of Padna,
the valuable painting stolen from the
cathedral Of Seville, Spain, has been
recovered. m l,s,sa !aesa el@
Hon. Jno. b. Drayton of the Jersey
FIRE commissioners committed suicide
by shooting himself, at New York, on
the 18th inst. 'i
Two men were thrown a long dis
tance and fatally injured by the ex-
plosion Of a street gas pipe, in Boston,
last Saturday. dan
A five-year- child fell from the
gallery Of two-story house in New
Orleans, on the 18th, and was nearly
mashed to death. ae 3ra -
Investigation has demonstrated
that the steamship Japan, recently
lost at sea, was fred from sponta-
neous cOmbustiOn.
The French Prince Imperial was
seventh in his class at the Woolwlch
University examination and first in
fencing aud riding. .,e. r. .as..
+ A man named Jahns was run over
and killed by train OH the n. o. and
Mobile railroad, near Oyska, Miss,
last Sunday evening.
General Wolsey ia to he sent to the
British colony of Natal to reorganize
the defensive system and regulate af-
fairs with the natives. -
A desperate fight between 365
Spanish troops and 400 Cubans oc-
cnrred near Manacas recently and the
Spaniards were routed. -....-.-...,s =
There is a freshet in the Calcasieu
river which has caused much damage
by overAowing lands and floating of
several thousand saw logs. u
Allen T. Caperton, an ex-Confed-
crate Senator and unreconstrncted
rebel, has been elected to the .. s.
Senate from West Virginia.
Colonel A.. K, Mcclure will have
charge of a new two-cent daily to be
issued in Philsdelphia in March. The
paper will be called the Times.
Five hundred loayes Of bread were
distributed to poor people from Ger.
man newspaper office in Baltimore
during snow storm, last week. ID
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