The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-07
A national shooting match is to


The ship Stuart, from Bombay to
London, was wrecked. Five of the
crew arrived at st. Helena the re-
mainder, thirty eight were, drowned.
An alarming state of things pre-
walls at Oldham, England. Only six
out of sixty-two mills belonging to
the Employers Association are work
ing.
A freight train on the Louisville,
New Albany and Chicago railroad
went through trestle forty feet high,
killing the engineer, conductor and
brakeman.
A man was drowned in a p,ivy
vaultatS st. Louis last Saturday. Three
others, in attempting to recover the
body were overcome, and died before
being rescued.
The jury in the Waddy Thompson
case at Memphis failed to agree and
were discharged. Thompson has not
yet succeeded in furnishing bail and
is still in prison.
The Boston committee of design on
the proposed memorial statue Of
Sumner, have exposed to public in
spcction twentysix models sent them
by various artists.
A number of American tourists in
Europe, holding letters of credit
from Duncan, Sherman & Co., have
!>ceu seriously embarrassed by the
failure of that firm.
An express train bound east on tie
Marietta and Cincinnati road, went
into cnlvert near Zolislli, Ohio,
July eth. The fireman was killed,
but 30 passengers hnrt.
Two hundred and fifty feet of track
on the White Water Valley railroad
was washed out and a bridge carried
away during the storm, near Cam
bridge City, Ind, last week.
Tm~ughout Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Missouri, the heavy rains are
causing great injury to crops and i'm
peding railway travel. Rivers are
higher than for years before.
The trial Of Alexander and William
Collie, of the late firm OF Alexander
Collie q, Co., on charge of obtaining
money under false II, lenses, began
at Guildhall, London, last week.
Professor Janney tclcgraphs the
Secretary of the interior he has found
gold in paying quantities in the
Black Hills. He reports miners pour
ing into the hills from all directions.
The crew of the bark Clara r. Butil,
which vessel was wrecked, was brought
to San Francisco, Saturday, having
been four days i'll an open boat, where
they were four days without food or
water.
The Alfonsist General Marines
Campos has taken the town of Leo
de Urgel by assault. The citadel still
holds out, but must yield to the
heavy bombardment of the Alfonsist
troops.
David G. Slaughter, prominent
citizen of Upton conEty, Tennessee,
while returning home from Covington
last week, was shot and dangerously
wounded by some persons concealed
on the road side.
The constitutional'c committee have
approved the whole draft of the Span
ish constitution. 1t has been decided
that the colonies shall be governed
by special laws and have representa-
ton in the Cortes.
| Col. John w. Forney, who has
been in Berlin short time, goes to
St. Petersburg by way of Austria and
Hungary. The object of his journey
is to induce Russia to participate in
the Philadelphia exhibition.
The Commercial Warehouse Com
pany of New York failed last week
Tor 81, 5000 caused by heavy adj
vances on Cuban crops which were
destroyed by early rains. John Baird
has been appointed receiver.
A mixed train of twenty-five cars
on the Northern Pacific road went
through the bridge over the Missis-
sippi at Brainerd, Mimi, July 9th.
Five persons were killed outright
The bridge is eighty feet high.
Col. Valentine Baker of the 10th
British Hussars was indicted for as
sanlting young lady on railway
train. On trial, he was found guilty
and sentenced to twelve months i'm
prisonment and a iiue of f5OO.
A cyclone passed through Hoveys-
burg, Fountain county, Indiana, Sun
day night of last week, tearing houses
to pieces, uprooting trees. and sweep
ing things generally before it. Five
women and a child were killed.
The grand banquet given Ivy the
Lord Mayor of London to the Mayors
of all cities of all countries. occurred
at Guildhall July Goth, 615 persons
being present. A grand ball was
given at night, attended by $500 per-
sons.
The English and Irish home rulers
are greatly dissatisfied at the secta-
rian character which the O'Connell
centenary celebration at Dublin has