The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-03-27
DoNALDsoNvIILE SATURDAY MARCH o. 1875
A tornado passed over Atlapta. Ca.

4 A tornado passed over Atlanta, Ga.
last Saturday, but that city, being sit
uated in a natural basin escaped tli,
| fury of the storm. Great destruction
of property was caused at several .all
Ijacent towns and q number of live
were lost.
/ Captain r. NJ. Brown, editor Of In,
Water Valley, Mississippi Central
was found dead near Water Vale,
I Thursday morning Of last week. L
is believed that he was thrown freu
his mule while returning from hi.
plantation. 9 . z''.7 =ss =.ii5 i, u
! A letter from Mr.. Butler says ti,t
civil rights bill gives the negroes He
rights in drinking saloons ar lbarbe,
shops, and the bill only reasserts the
rights conferred by common law,
simply giving the colored man easier
means of receiving them. - ~ .,n
An Omaha dispatci, ef March l7t|,
says: There, is bnt little credence
placed in the stories Of the miners
from Black Hills. It is generally cop--
sidered as a movement of interested
towns which hope TO reap D harvest
by fitting out expeditions. ss..
The railroad bridge over the Sus4
quehanna river at PittstoD, Pa, was
swept away ten minutes after the
crossing of a passenger train, on the
18th. A bridge at Danville was also
carried away, and Port Jervis and
Wllkesbarre were inundated.
! Calcutta advices state that the In
dian government expedition to sur
vey Western China has arrived at
Rangoon. An attack was made on II
by Chinese frontier. officials. and
twenty Cinnamon were killed. Many
OF the other side were also. killed.
Ten convicts employed in making
bricks near Little Rock, Ark, over.
powered their guards and escaped on
Thursday of last week. All but two
were recaptured during the day. One
OF the guards was killed while en-
deavoring to prevent the escape. aa
= Two thousand laborers called at
w bite House in body, on the 10th
inst, to complain that all the money
given by Congress for public improve.
inents gnes to the contractors While
the laborers get nothing. The Pres-
ident declined to receive the demon
strative crowd.
Field Marshal Sir William Maynald
Comm, colonel of the Coldstre;,nn,
Guards. and constable If the Tower.
died at London on the 10th inst. aged
ninety-one years. He was q quarter
master general with wellington It
Waterloo, and cOmmander-in -cl,i6f
u f6lky N 1oJO. s.
A large fire occurred on Delorfl
street, New Orleans, Thursday morn-
ing Of last week. A new livery stable
and several adjacent bnildings were
wholly destroyed. Two fire n1e,, were
severely hurt by falling gallery, and
about forty horses and mules were
burned to death. One of the horses
was a valuable racer, worth $1,000.
The Austin powder mills, located
five miles south OF Cleveland, Ohio,
blew up. on Tuesday of last week,
with series Of terrible explosions. |
Three men were killed and several !
more bruised. Houses adjacent to
The mills were damaged by the con-
cusslon and great excitement reigned |
in Cleveland, the people there sup.
posing the detonations were caused I
by an earthquake. The cause of the
explosion is unknown. t'a['7f"
Striking miners at Straitsville, Ind,
attacked colored workmen employed
u their stead, on the 10Th inst, and
after brntally beating them drove
hem away from the mines. The
superintendent and foreman Of the
Troy Mining Company were also
iriven away from. their homes. The
of the Company were sub
fred by the incendiaries
md destroyed. Gov. Allen has made
PROVISION for suppressiDg the out
freak.
DEPLORABLE ACc1DENT.-One dav
asst week, Atherton Bynum a fine lad
i some fifteen years Of age, a son of
1aj. Tom Bynum, of Baton Rouge,
ost his life while out hunting near The b
esidence of his father on the Bayon
ara road The particulars Of his