The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-17

4 from it's new building for the. FRS
. time, last Saturday. Whitelaw4 Reid
the editor, was presented with q ser
/ vice of silvorware in cOmnemoratiOr
of the event. - slt fi5. xssifss.4
The Democrats managed TO carry
Annapolis by IS majority. a riot @: oc.
CURED at the polls, resulting in tile
deatl, Of one co1Ored man and the
wounliDg Of several whites aud eight
or ten .colored men. ~ 4, r., gz!s..
| The Gibson county Kn-Klux were
acquitted in the United States Circuit
/ Court at Louisville, last Saturday,
Judge Ballard recommending their
discharge, as the evidence failed to
establish their gnilt. f.. t.=ss,.
/ Messrs. Cameron, chandelier, An
tlony, Dennis, Patterson, McVeigh,
and others Of the e'Scnatoriaf txcursitJn
to MexicO, arrived at Jucksonvills,
Fla, on the 10th, where they, pro-
posed remaining several days.
Dispatches from Montevedio state
that the decree snspending the pay
meDt of interest Oh the pnblic debt,
aud providing for it's redemption new
paper at a forced price, applies only
to the internal debt Of. the country
/ Charles Beudix, a well known citi-
zen Of New Orleans, formerly vice
president of the Teutonia National
bank, committed suicide last week,
by taking poison. Poverty was the
cause. He leaves wife ard five chill
dren. .. ii nsslJ ssss.ss ~ .3i;T
], Cardinal Manning opened the Cath
olic College at Kensington. He said
he regarded himself as intrusted with
a commission Of warfare. He be-
lieved the church was approaching a
crisis the most fierce for three hun
dred year,. I'D
/, Hines, q. S. Marshal for Alabama
has been remove from office for com
plicity in counterfeiting the private
seal of the Postmaster General and
introducing fraudulent, bids. for mail
contracts among the archives Of the
department. 50 g i>'' - 'a
Citizens Of Chicot, Arkansas, dis
covered five burglars in q commission
house, Friday night last week, and
killed two. 4 third jumped into the
river and was drowned, while the re-
naming two escaped, but were cap
tured next day. sss 4.a5z ef,ss II
The noted iconnterfeiter Pete Me-
Cartney escaped from the custody If
special detectives Of the Treasury de-
partment Mt Bren,o,id Texas, April
9TH. McCartneya;A. indicted in four
judicial districts. This ,is his third
escape within fotlr months.
Omaha dispatch, April 9th: Tie
number of emigrants westward bound
at the present season is unprecedented.
$500 have left here since March lst.
Over 1000 were delayed here yester.
day for want Of ears, but were sent
out on special trains to-day. IS ~
The total vote for Governor in the
Connecticut election, held on the 5th
inst, was as follows: Ingersoll, Dem
ocrat, 53,7s5; Green, Republican a.
3n Smith, Prohibitionist, 25O9. The
Congressional delegation stands, three
Democrats, one Republican. @
Says a Little Rock dispatch of the
8th:. A terrific storm, visited this sec
ton this evening. Three miles below
the city the tornado uprooted trees
and unrOofed houses. A Mrs. Jones
was killed and her two daughters SER.
ionsly injured. Seven houses were
destroyed.
Edinlh1rg, ILL.,, was visited by a
heavy tornado on the 8th. A church
was blown down and about thirty
young ladies and gentlemen who had
gathered for rehearsal were buried
in the ruins. All the party were
more or less injured and several Of.
their number killed. A,@ - ". .s=s
A farmer named Mckenzie, living
five miles from Greenville, Illipsis.
was murdered in. his bed one night
last week, then dragged to stable.
and placed under the feet Of pair Of
mules. The wife and son were ar
rested on suspicion OF. having COM
mitted the murder.
Nearly all the section hands and
weavers in the POtolnski mills, New
Bedford, struck the former on ac-
count Of wages, thelatter because on.
of the committee sent to remonstrate
Will, the managers was discharged.
The matter was subsequently ar.
ranged, and the men resumed work.
The head position in the Madrid
University has been conferred upon
Senior La Fuente, formerly editor OF
the Carlists' newspaper. No liberal
professor would accept. Their is
much dissatisfaction ut the appoint
,neut Of La Fuente, and the students
are signing protest against it to be
presented to the government. 49,.
Advices from Columbia. s. c., re-
port that the funding of the State
debt in sle new consolidated bonds,
which has been temporarily checked
during tho recent effort to, remove
State Treasurer Carioza, has been
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