The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-07
N E w S ITEM S
Cuba's tobacco crop is door.

Snow fell near Toronto, Sept. 27.
Ernest Bendel, German sculptor, is
dead.
The Vallejo, Cal, Savings Ban9,
suspended.
The Prince of Montenegro has re-
joined his army.
Sir Thomas White was elected Lord
Mayor of London.
/ Work is being resumed in Penn
! sylvania coal mines.
James Lick, the San Francisco
millionaire, is dead.
The English exploring ship Pandora
has been heard from.
The Pope and Cardinal Antonelli
are both Seriously i'll.
Decrease of national debt during
September, $3,000,000.
Spain has contracted for a Cuba
war loan Of 9l5, 100000.
Hon. .Thos. Warren, editor of the
Buffalo Courier, is dead.
The entire servian army joins in
proclaiming Milan King.
Moody and Sankey are conducting
a grand revival at Chicago.
Ground has been broken for new
custom house at Memphis.
There has been a reconciliation be-
tween Holland and Venezuela.
American Association for the Cure
OF Inebriates met at Philadelphia.
Rev. R. A. B. Fennell was shot dead
within mile of Cheyenne Agency.
The reports of the imminence of
an insurrection in Algeria are denied.
A man named E. N. Montariier
drowned himself in Lake Pontchar-
train.
Large numbers OF Russians are daily
f1ocking to Servia and joining the
army.
Smuggler beat Judge Fullerton
three heats. out of five at Mystic Park,
Boston.
Several shocks of earthquake were
felt in Southern Illinois on Monday of
last week.
The Wilmington Daily Journal,
oldest newspaper in Moth Carolina,
suspended.
GrasshoWers have invaded Moth
western Texas aud are desteaseiug
vegetation.
Gen Crook is at Fort Laramie or
gauizing another expedition against
the Indians.
Among those attacked with yellow
fever at Savannah is Mr.. j. H. Estill
Of the Ne,rS.
Jean Catcapo was shot and killed by
unknown parties in New Orleans
| dance house.
Absorption of the new United
States funded loan in Europe is stead
ily increasing.
The propeller Lady Franklin
burned at Amherstberg, Ontario. The
mate perished.
The Indians at Spotted Tail Agency
signed the treaty concluded at Red
Cloud Agency.
Mathew Moynihan, 8 years of age.
was run over by a New Orleans street
ear and killed.
A ferryboat swamped in Yongall
harbor, ireland, and fourteen persons
were drowned.
Large shipments of American gold
from England to this country were
made last week.
The American ship Ellen Dyer
buried at sea. The crew reached
land III the boats.
The jewelry store ofFranklin Hor-
ton, New York, was robbed of SIT, 900
worth ofjewelry.
Turkey is relieving destitute Bull
garians and taking measures to re-
build their villages.
The sophomore class of Williams
College, Boston, were suspended for
rushing freshman.
Thirty houses were destroyed by
| fire in the fourth district of New Or
leans, Monday night.
! At Halifax tie schooner Blooming
Bell was wrecked and the schooner
| Three Brothers burned
The Russian Gar lias written an
autograph letter on the situation to
the Emperor of Austria.
Montenegro is unwilling to con.
clude peace unless Turkey will grant
her extension of territory.
A boat containing five persons cap
sized i'll the Delaware river. Two of
the inmates We're drowned
Gen. Braxton Bragg fell dead in
the streets of Galveston, from heart
disease, Oh the 9th uItimo.
Four colored women and one man
We're drowned Ey the eap~iziilg of a
skitf at Red River Landing.
Goldsmith Maid aefpated Judge
Fullerton in three straiglit heats, at
Fleetwood Park, New York.
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