The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-07-24

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ported an insurrection has broken ou
in the neighbOrhood Of Blanc il
Burnal.
Professor Barnard of Columbia Col
lege has been appointed chairman .
the experimental steam boiler com
mission.
The archives of the State Depart.
ment are being moved into the new
State Department building at Wash.
ington.
Fred. Floyd, chief clerk of the liquor
license commission at Boston, hae
been arrested for forgery in obtaining
licenses.
Moody and Sankey have been in
vited to hold n ten days camp meet
ing at Round Lake, New York, in
september.
The Tennessee, flagship of Rear
Admiral Reynolds, reached Gibraltar
on the 18th, seventeen days from
Sandy Hook.
The schooners Willie Harris and
Narragansett collided in Vineyard
sound, Monday, and the former sunk.
Crew saved.
Rossi, the Italian tragedian, has
been engaged for fifty performances
in the United States, commencing iu
November next.
Rulnors of the intended interfer-
ence OF Germany, England and the
United State with Spanish colonial
affairs are denied.
A Havana dispatch of the 26th re-
ports that the Spanish troops routed
the insurgents at Menezes with con.
siderable loss.
1t is understood General Badeau,
formerly private secretary to the
President will be appointed minister
to Belgium.
Many brokers have been arrested
in Cuban cities for violating Valna-
seda's proclamation prohibiting spec
nlation in gold.
Exciting political debates occurred
in the French Assembly last week.
Government measures are sustained
by a close majority.
1t is believed large amounts of
forged notes on the Banks of England
and France are about to be sent to
America for circulation.
The grant to pay the expenses of
the Prince Of Wales Indian visit
passed the English House of Com
mons by vote of 338 to is.
George n. Jackson, Deputy Collec-
tor OF Revenue ut Louisville, was
said tn he e45, ,000 SHIRT is.<}sis-~ae.-
counts, and committed suicide.
DR.. Pablo Arosemena has been
elected President Of Panama. DR..
Mendez was elected in Columbia, not
Panama as we stated last week.
The rear portion of the City Hotel
at Lynchburg, Va, fell on the l4th
inst, burying q woman and two men
in the ruins. hThe former was killed.
The trial Of ex- Treasurer Parker Of
South Carolina closed Monday, and
on Tuesday the jury returned a YER
dict in favor Of the State for s75, 600.
The English Radicals are holding
public meetings to protest against
the large grant to defray expenses of
the Prince of Wales journey to India.
Sir Edward Watkins of England,
chairman of the protection commits
sion Of foreign Erie bondholders, sails
for the United States next week.
Several persons suspected of COM
plicity in the attempt to cause ris-
ing in the jurisdiction Of Guanajay
have been arrested and brought to
Havana.
The Cotton States Congress con-
vened at Raleigh, N. c., on the 18th.
D. E. Cutler of Georgia is president
Gov. Brogden delivered welcome
address.
The New Orleans wharves have
been leased to Messrs. Eager, Eller-
man g. Co., and the firm are repair
ing them according to the terms of
the lease.
The Portuguese brig Tarlo, from
New York for Halifax, was totally
July 18th on Safte Island.
The captain, steward and one man
were drowned.
The whale with which the steamship
Scythia came in collision with and
broke her propeller was towed to
last Saturday. 1t was
"a feet long.
The yacht Effort, of sixteen tons,
from Fleetwook, England, arrived ut
st. Johns, n. b., last Monday, May
Both. The crew consisted Of the cap
tain and two boys.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is about to
visit England. While he il there il
treaty will be completed for the sup
preston Of the slave trade Oh the
East coast Of Africa.
A Prussian war ship has been Sc
cretly engaged in taking sonn,lings
and mapping the coast Of Jntland.
An explanation will be demanded of
the Berlin government.
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