The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-01-23
News Items.

News Items. -
The Pope is seri0usly i'll.
The famine in Asia Minor increases.
War-clouds seem gathering in Eu-
rope. '..@ .}
King Alfonso has taken command
Of his army. ...-
The disaffectiou Of leading Carlists
is confirmed.
Sagasta declines to become French
minister to Spain.
The new postal treaty with Canada
has been perfected.
Cook e. Sons National Bank Of Chi
csgo has suspended.
A granite custom house is to he
built ut Atlanta, Ga.
The cable steamer Faraday has ar
rived safely to Portland.
Nellie Grant and husband return
from Europe in a few days.
There is a balance in the Georgia
State treasury Of 81 ,W3, 1913.
Atty. Gen. Field has returned to
New Orleans from Washington.
The sunken steamer John B. Maude
has been raised in good condition.
The New York Senate adopted a
resolution of confidence in Sheridan.
Five thousand ice men in New York
have struck for an increase Of wages.
The citizens of Edgefeld county,
S. c., have captured several incen-
diaries.
New Orleans, January 10Th; Miss
Mary Ann Tracy; lighting a fire with
coal oil.
The Spanish forces in Cuba are
confident OF suppressing the revolu-
ton soon.
The Ohio Episcopal Convention
elected Thos. A. Jaeger of Philadel-
phia bishop.
The Catholic Seminary at Fulda,
Germany, has been closed and the head
prisst expelled. r
Henry Gerder was pounded to death
by two unknown men in New Orleans
last Wednesday.
At Fort Fetterman, Neb., on the
l6t, inst, the mercury congealed at
IS degrees below zero.
The stranded steamship South Car
olina has been fdated in good cOndi-
ton off Barnegat, N. j.
CASTELAR, refuses a seat in the Span
ish parliament if required to swear
allegiance to the monarchy.
Ex- Union soldiers held a meeting
in New Orleans Tuesday evening and
indorsed Sheridan and Grant.
The National Republican. Congress
sional Committee has ,indorsed the
Presidents Louisiana policy.
The nomination of Charles Miller
to be postmaster at Brashear, La, has
been confirmed by the Senate.
Cincinnati is to have a Few railroad
bridge across the Ohio river, the cost
of which will be nearly a million.
The Dutch troops captured nine
Achencse forts and killed III of the
enemy in battle fought last week.
The steamship Georgia, valued at
! $1OO,OO0, was wrecked off the coast Of
Maine, ten days since. No lives lost
The New Orleans municipal gov.
ernment has provided the inmates Ot
the city Insane Asylum with blankets,
A large meeting of ex-C Confederate
soldiers was held at Atlanta, Ca, OH
Wednesday, Gen. Jos. Johnston presi-
dent. .i 80
The steamer Beaver, from Odessa
to Cardiff, is supposed to have foun-
dered at sea, with twenty persons or
| board. .-, ,
The Bonapartists carried the Haut-
Pyrenees district in France by 5000
majority. The result caused a sen
sation.
A fearful storm ragged at Salt Lake
City ON the goth. Several bridges on
the Central Pacific railway were des-
troyed.
E. b. Cooke of the Waterford, Conn.
american, the oldest editor in New
England, died at the age of82, on the
10Th inst.
The Virginius matter becomes ser.
ious. The vessels of the Gulf squad.
ron have been ordered to rendezvous
at Key West.
A Philadelphia grand jury ha'
found true bill against the priest
Gerdemann, for embezzlement of th'
funds of St. Boniface church.
The steamboat st. Francis, runnin,
from Memphis to Vicksburg, struck ;
snag near Madison and sank, with fiv,
feet of water over her guards.
The Pacific Mail Subsidy investi
CATION and the Louisiana question
are the most important matters unde
consideration before Congress-.
Whitelaw Reid, editor of the Nev
York Tribune, has been arrested fo