The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-14
NUMBER 6.

Troops are on the alert TO suppress
outbreaks.
The striking employees of the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western
railway company still refuse to re-
sumo work.
At Baltimore, the supervisor of
registration and three U. S. deputy
marshals were arrested, charged with
intimidation.
Willie Lewis, aged nine, was shot
in tho head and dangerously wounded
by Henry Warner, aged sixteen, at
New Orleans.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has been dissolved, and new elections
have been ordered for the beginning
of November.
The eleventh annual session of the
Grand international Union of Loco
motive Firemen was held in Balti-
more last week.
Two battallions of Spanish troops
in Cuba are reported to have revolted
on account of not having received
arrearages of pay.
VIM. Condor, Il we'll known resi-
dent of New Orleans, best known as
a base ball player, lied in the Charity
Hospital last Saturday.
Fifty-fye Servian soldiers have
been sentenced to three years impris-
onment for mutilating their right
hands to escape service.
/ A number of persons were injured
by collision of railroad trains near
Greensburg, Ind. Conductor Allen is
not ex pected to recover.
The Servian battalion named after
Princess Natalie went into the battle
of the 28th ult., 900 strong; next day
only forty answered at roll
Darius Allen, lawyer, was ar
rested for placing obstructions oD the
track of the Rochester and State Line
railway. He confesses his guilt.
Jos. H. Hill, au Indiana whisky
| convict, and VIM. Bedenheimer, u
defaulting receiver of the Missouri
land office, have been pardoned.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate President Canales of
Hayti. Gen. Salamon, chief of the
levolutionists, has left the island.
The British steamship John Bra
mall cleared at New Haven for Con-
stantinople, with fifteen million car
| tridges for the Turkish Government.
Quebec made liberal donations for
the relief of yellow fever sufferers at
Savannah and Brunswick. The sub
1scriptions in New York reached s3e,
| 900.
The fishing season has been a fail
ure in Iceland, and great destitution
prevails among the laboring people,
$500 of whom have emigrated to Can
| ada.
The National Council of Colored
Odd Fellows held its thirty first ses-
sion in Memphis last week. Thenext
meeting will take place in New Or
leans.
An old colored woman fell from the
second story of building Oh Canal
street, New Orleans, while engaged ia
washing windows. She was severely
injured.
An aeronaut named Thomas, who
). assembled in balloon at Bridgeport,
Ct., was pitched into tree at Rock
] land, Mass. and his balloon floated
out to sea.
General Dix, on account of age, has
declined place as expert on the
monetary committee. The position
will be rendered Hon. r. II. L. Hunter
of Virginia.
Lord Derby instructs the British
ambassador at Constantinople to make
demand of the Sultan in person for
reparation and justice in case of Bull
garian atrocities.
An express train was untracked and
ditched near Paris, Ontario, killing
five employees. The accidentresulted
from the wheels of the engine catch
ing fire and breaking.
The convention of bankers which
met in Philadelphia last week adopted
resolutions declaring it the duty of
banks and the government to hasten
a return to specie payments.
The locomotive and three cars of
passenger train were thrown from
the track near tennessee, n. Y, by
striking horse. The engineer was
killed and six persons injured.
A man named Milburne, cook in
restaurant on the Centennial grounds,
was arrested on suspicion of being
guilty of the murderous assault upon
SIr. Shaw of the Boston Herald.
VIM. Henry Harrison, grandson of
the former President, assaulted Miss
Moore, in Boone county, KY, and
stabbed her nine times III the breast
because she refused to marry him.
) A band of twenty five Indians raided
the Neuces river, Texas, killing three
Americans and several Mexicans, and
stealing over 100 head of horses. Cit
J izens and soldiers started in pursait.
An alarming condition of affairs is
reported IN the Transvaal Republic,