The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-09-23
NEW s ITEMS.

Don Carlos has returned to Europe.
The trotting stallion Ethan Allen is
dead. :s.etHIs slaf
An earthquake shock was felt at
Messina.
Spain will send $500 troops to Cuba
this month.
The New York State fair was q
financial failure. 8 ~
Chamberlain's paper mill, Land
vile, Mass, burned, as
Paid admissions to the Centennial
last Saturday, 81, ,S91. M
TchernayefFs army has proclaimed
Milan King of Servia.
Prof. Ebenezer L. Smell of Amherst
College died suddenly.
The notorious safe burglary trial
is progressing at Washington.
Goldsmith Maid has redeemed her
laurels by beating Smuggler.
Two cases of yellow fever occurred
on a vessel in New York harbor.
Justice Quain, of the Court of the
Queens Bench, England, is dead.
Gen. Sheridan has gone to Fort La
ramie to consult with Gen. Crook.
Architectural Iron Works, New
York, suspended, ousting 700 men.
A renewal of the war between
Egypt and Abyssinia is anticipated.
John Walter, proprietor of the Lon
don Times, is travelling in this country.
Bishop Edmunds James of the NJ.
E. church died at New FORK, Monday.
The steamer Alert has been ordered
to Shanghai. The Franklin is coming
home. Ia
The Venezuelan government has
forbidden the importation of American
silver.
Philadelphia printers have agreed
to q reduction of ter. per cent. in their
wages.
Reports of the appearance of yellow
fever at Baltimore are officially con-
A hundred Pawnee Indians have
enlisted as scouts in Gen. Crooks
: A st. Louis grand jury has indicted
several parties for completely in war
claim frauds. f.
The Pope desires Father Beckx,
general of the ,Jesuits. elected to q
Cardinalate.
A col0red laborer on the jackson
railroad was run over and fatally in
iured at Kennerville.
An. immense meeting to protest
against Turkish atrocities was held
at London on Monday.
Gen. Terry's command has broken
up and the troops will go into winter
quarters at various points.
The steamship Canadian grounded
near Lorne, England. The passen-
gers were landed in safety.
The boiler of saw-mill at Muir
exploded, killing two men,
one white and one colOred.
Strong hurricanes occurred last week
in the West Indies. In Jamaica tel
egraph wires were prostrated.
Large sales of coal at auction are
made periodically in New York and
attract great crowds of buyers.
Amos Cutter, prominent real es-
tate broker at. Waterton, Mass, is
charged with embezzling $50, 900.
Geo. Lane, a convict who has been
in the New York penitentiary twenty
nine years, was accidentally killed.
Merritt, Jones g. Co.'S. oil works,
Canton, Md, were destroyed by fire.
Two employees were burned to death.
Negotiations for new extradition
treaty between England and the
United States are said to be pending.
Chas. Creighton shot and rmortally
wounded Kleinma, pigeon shooter.
at Chicago. They had a political
quarrel. ast
The Rhode Island Bleecliing and
DYE Works, at Providence, burned,
and $4,000 pieces of goods were de-
Two masked men gagged the ex-
press messenger on a train near
Salt Lake City and robbed the safe of
$l5,0 900.
Officers of the ship Macaulay, arrived
at New York from Glasgow, report
passing at sea 500 ton vessel bottom
upwards.
Mr.. Hilson, of the Charleston firm
of Hilsan, Bond & Co., has been ar
rested for obtaining $4,000 on bogus
A decree Of absolute divorce has
been granted III the case of Victoria
Woodhull gainst her husband, Col.
J. H. Blood.
Clusters black horse and Remington
rife have been captured from a young
Indian killed by a party of Black
Hills miners. 5fs5
The American Pharmaceutical AS
snciation met at Philadelphia last
week. The next ANIMAL session will
be held at Toronto.