The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-21
N E w S ITEM s..
Ice at Washington on Monday.

Yellow fever no longer epidemic at
Savannah.
Booraein g. Co, New York wine i'm
porters, failed.
Gen. Rufus King, formerly minister
to Rome, is dead.
Edward Wiggleworth prominent
Boston merchant, is dead.
Fire at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed
S220,000 worth of property.
The Turks attacked the Servians
at Luibowza, and were repulsed.
| B. f. Nourse of Boston declines to
act as expert on the monetary commits
sion.
The President has appointed wv
| aide Burns. postmaster at Sherman.
Texas.
Mrs. Blanc, who was shot by her
husband, the blind French musician,
is dead.
The brig Bolivar, from New York,
for the West Indies, put in at Norfolk
leaking.
The steamship Necker. arrived at
New York from Liverpool with 1926
600 gold coin.
A Cattle herder, forty miles from
Fort Laramie. was killed, scalped and
his ears cut off.
Adolph Meekert, wealthy brewer
of Union Hill, New Jersey, is dead. He
leaves S209,O00.
w. w. Corcoran has donated $4,000
to enlarge the library Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia.
The steamship Abbyssinia, arrived
at New York from Liverpool with
$25O,000 in gold.
The steamer Sylvia, from PhilasIel-
phia for Havrc, was abandoned III a |
sinking condition.
A pawnbroker's shop at Montreal
was robbed of siewelry and diamonds
to the value of $4,000.
Captain James Howard, the we'll
known steamboat builder of Jefferson
vile, Ind, was drowned.
Two masked men at Knoxville.
Iowa, overpowered the county treas
nrer and obtained $4,000.
A freight train ran into a passenger
train at Iceville, on the Western and
Atlantic road, killing two men.
Qnafantine regulations have been
BY the Augusta health officers
50 far as Charleston is concerned.
The schooner Maggie Hunter, from
Dswegn to Toronto, is reported foun-
Tered and all hands OH board lost.
The Italian societies of Memphis
celebrated the anniversary Of the dis
;overy of America by a procession.
Mrs. Daniel Goldschmidt was ar
ested in New York for attempting to
500, 900 worth of diamonds.
The Bay Line steamer Florida burst j
Ter cylinder and brake the cylinder
lead and walking beam, No one hurt.
The Pacific Mail Company s steamer l
;olon, was seized at New York, for +
$4,000 taxes due the city for 1874. &
Frank Sturges & Co, metal mcr- ..
hants, known as Chicago Stamping !;
Works, suspended. Liabilities half Z
1illion.
Pat Maguire, a saloon keeper mt {
lonnt Vernon, n. Y, killed one of 7
is children, and seriously wounded j
he others. G
William M. Kerr, Clarksburg. +
'enn. tobacco merchant, was found t
cad in his bed, ut the Eutaw Hotel, t
Washington. {
A row between tramps and drunk S
n miners ut Port Richmond, Pa, =
ssnlted in the death OF two tramps !.
nd one miner. u
Peter Simple, the man whom Sam u
el Wallman so dangerously stabbed +
n the levee at N. O., died at the :,
harity Hospital. n
Frank w. Deshler, teller of the q
ational Bank, Columbus, O., com il
itted suicide by shooting himself d
trough the heart.
Djelaledlin Pash commander of a
vision of Turkish troops under
onkhtar Pasll, has died of wounds =,
ceived in action. !,
A Steamboat of the express line "
'm Fall River, collided with local Xxi
eight steamer. One person Killed al
ID several wounded.
Judge Chas. Moran, one of the old til
and wealthiest citizens of Detroit at
ich., is dead. He leaves two and l.
If millions of dollars. VI
A fire occurred on board the Eng r.
h bark Wooloomooioo, N. o., dam ne
ing the vessel and cargo to the WI
loant of about $4,000. I'D
The Atlanta, owned hy William es
tor. won the Cape May challenge an
p. beating F. j. Colgatp's I,Iler two th
urs and fifty-six minutes. M,
John L. Cleveland, for more than to
rty years a member of the editorial In
ffof the N. Y. Tribune, and brather- fal
law of Horace Gree'y, is dead. off
4 riot occurred on the grounds of 1t.