The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-21
NEW S ITEM S.

Take the CHIEF. .....
All quiet on the Rio Grande.
The Oldham strike continues.
The New York shoemakers are on
strike.
Ex-Governor Graham Of North Car
olina is dead.
Spain intends to send 10000 more
men to Cuba.
Alfonso has issued a call for 100, 900
recurits for LIS army.
j. Russell Jones, minister to Bel
gium, is in Washington.
The liabilities of Denegre & Sons
of London are f25O, 900.
The grasshQppers are damaging
crops in North Alabama.
Collector Casey Of New Orleans is
resusticatiag in Pennsylvania.
The Stockton Rail Mill Company
Of London failed for $500, 900.
Adam Badeau has been commits
stoned as minister to Belgium.
The State Street Savings Bank of
Chicago has failed for 10000,
The English Parliament has been
prorogued to the 29th Of October.
jeff. Davis has been invited to de-
liver an address at the Illinois State
fair.
Quiet has been restored at San Mi
guel, the scene of the late fanatical
! riot.
Paymaster Gruby of the navy died
at Hartford, on the 10Th, of consump-
ton.
John Webb, murderer, was hung
at Knoxville, Tenn, on Friday Of last
| week.
The steamer Faraday will make
another attempt to repair the direct
cable.
The steamer w. G.. Hughes, from
Blasllear City, reached New York
Aug. 9th.
The Old Catholics are holding a
| conference at Bonn, DR.. Dolliuger
presiding.
A lady with party of excursionists
was drowned near Philadelphia, last
Saturday.
A freight locomotive exploded at
Charlcstown, Mass. Several persons
we're hurt.
An Indian outbreak is threatened
at Corinne, Utah. Troops have been
sent there.
The New York Republican State
Convention meets at Saratoga, Sep
tember 9Th. .............
The bishop of Posen has been ex-
PEELED from his diocese by the German
government.
The man-of-war Victoria is bonn
harding the town of Lequito, on the
Biscayan coast.
The Alfonsists bombarding the cit
adel of SEQ de Urgel have received
heavy ordnance.
A proposition is on foot to build a
| summer church for Beecher on the
| White mountains.
Alfred Caps has been arrested in
New Orleans, charged with the Mas
a1eXexarts murder.
Barry Sullivan, the English actor,
will be rendered reception by prom
inent New Workers.
| Heinrich Adolf Won Seastrow, Gen
| eral Of the Prussian army, died Aug.
18th, aged "a years.
Thomas Withers, q negro boy who
killed a girl, was hanged at Lynch
burg, Va, on the 18th.
President Jewctt of the Erie rail
| way was thrown from his carriage last
week, breaking his leg.
The damage to crops in Indiana
| and Ohio by the recent rains is much
less than first reported.
Sir Charles Adderly's shipping bill,
| substitute for Mr.. Plimsolls, passed
| the English Parliament.
Mrs. Margaret Childs was terribly
burned at Baltimore by coal oil ex-
piosion on the 18th inst.
The Black Hills Indians demand
compensation for damage done to
their country by miners.
The result Of the Territory election
| is still in doubt. Both Ross and
Thompson claim success.
Duncan, Sherman g. Co.'S. debts
foot up s4,9lO,235 their resources
are nominally S2,s35,6 ,653.
The corner stone of tho Wesley
Monumental Church at Sagannah
Ga, was laid August 10th.
l.. Durand, a New Orleans grocery
keeper, committed saicide last week.
He was confirmed invalid.
General Quesada aftera sharp fight
captured the Carlist's positition al
Lunco, on the Villa railroad.
The ex-priest Gerdermapn lecturet
at the Masonic Temple, Baltimore
last week, to a large audience.
TAe,e is creyasse at the Burk s
Butler county plantation in the lower
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