The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-07

lie SAFE OF Lne NOfCneTn racine
Railroad has been postponed to Au
gust 18th.
The Tobacco Exchange Banking
Company Of Louisville has suspended
| business.
Mr.. Plimsoll's shipping bill has
been again postponed in the English
Parliament.
Capt. w. b. D. Hooper was killed
at Aberdeen, Miss, last week, by
Bradley Jones.
Mrs. Cecilia Burleigh, of woman
suffrage fame, died at Syracuse, n.
Y, July 9th.
w. H. Cnlpeppcr, a Texan, was
robbed of Sl135 in a New Orleans
bagnio last week.
A young girl named Florie Miller
fell into the river at New Orleans last
week and drowned.
Judge Barrett has refused the mo-
tion to locate, arrest or reduce the
bail in the Tweed case.
The postal money order system be-
tween the United States and Canada
went into effect Monday.
The ministry of the Uruguay gov
ernment has resigned and another
cabinet has been selected.
1t is rumored that Western Union
and Atlantic and Pacific telegraph
companies will consolidate.
A cave-in Of the Eureka Consoli-
dated Mine near San Francisco, Sat
urday, killed five persons.
The French Assembly has voted an
appropriation of $4,000, 900 francs for
supplementary war expenses.
A Constantinople dispatch says the
government has authorized the circu-
lation Of the Bible i'll Turkey.
/ Col. 7. f. Blecl1 has been appointed
Judge of the Georgia Supreme Court
vice Judge Mckay, resigned
The spinners, card grinders and
weavers in the mills at Fall River,
Mass, have resolved to strike.
An effort is on foot among the prin-
cipal business men of Chattanooga to
establish cotton market there.
| Schmale 4 Froweitter, extensive
lager beer brewers at Marion, New
Jersey. failed for about $4,000.
Mr.. Plimsoll apologized to the House
of Commons for his violent language
i'll the debate on the shipping bill.
The yellow fever at Barrancas is
ahating. There Wee l9 deaths out
Of 81 cases up to the Doth of July.
Barry Sullivan, the English trage-
dian, is coming to New York to play
an engagement at Booths theatre.
Commodore Ammen has been des-
ignated Acting Secretary of the Navy
during Secretary Robeson's absence.
Bishop Ames declines place on
the Sioux commission. on account of
official church and diocese business.
Rev Jas. d. McCable ofthe Protest
ant Episcopal Church died at Balti-
more on the End inst, aged 81 yea is.
Gen. Geo. E. Pickett, late of the
Confederate army, died at Charleston
on the Both nit, at the age of so years.
The steamer My Choice ran down
a skitf near Huntington, W. Va, last
week, drowning four unknown men.
Hon. Geo. II. Pcndleton has been
elected member of the board of man
ayers Of the Cincinnati public library.
A boiler explosion at Gohleville,
Mich, on the 9th ult., killed two
| persons and fatally injured the engi-
| neer.
A carriage in funeral procession
at New York, last week, was struck
by lightning. The driver was fatally
injured.
The Postoffice Department has adj
vices Of the failure Of the mail con-
tract between San Antonio and Eagle
Pass, Texas. ......
1t is semi i-officially announced that
Russia has not abandoned the Brus-
sells conference on the usages of war,
as reported.
There is growing trouble between
Secretary Bristow and Treasurer New
regarding employees in the office Of
the Treasurer.
A wash out of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Road between Brownsville
and Sedalia rendered twelve miles of
track useless.
Ex-cllicf clerk Avery of the Treas
,lry Department was arrested on a
warrant from St. Louis and released
on $1,000 bail.
The Arms and Bardwcll Manufac-
turing Company, Northampton, Mass,
have failed. with liabilities from Sl75,-
600 to S2OO,O0t.
Two river pirates were blown up
at New York on the night Of July 29th,
by the explosion Of an oil lighter
which they had fired.
The American ritlemcn amused
| themselves - seeing the sights" of
London during the last two weeks of
their stay in England.
The court of inquiry on the con-
! duet of Bishop Whittingham com