The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-11-25
NUMBER I2.

thtir camp on oakland Creek anC
went north to join Crazy Horse and
his hostiles.
A broken rail ditched an extra pas.
senger train neai Malvern, Ark,
Twenty eight passengers wounded
none killed.
The tenth annual session of the
National Grange was held in Chicago
last week, John T. Jones of Arkansas
in the chair.
The tug j. w. Bennett went ashore
in the Straits of Mackinaw. Five of
the crew were scalded to death by es-
Gaping steam.
Owing to the depression of the Goa
trade more than 1000 miners are out
OF employment in the Northumberland
collieries, England.
Six colored men are under arrest at
Columbia, S. c., charged with com
plieity in the murder of the German
II usmann and his nephew.
! The mail steamer Windsor Castle.
plying between Great Britain and the
Cape of Good Hope, has been lost.
Crew and passengers saved.
Turkey is preparing vigorously for
war. Torpedoes have been placed at
the east end of the Bosphorus and the
forts have been strengthened.
A threatened lockout of cotton
spinners in North Lancashire, Eng
land, was avoided by conference be-
tween employers and employed.
Chas. H. Hutch, New York lawyer,
has been arrested as defaalter to
the amount of $50, 900, in connection
with an estate of which he was trus-
tee.
Joe Chase, who murdered Leon
Cohoupe, French diaryman, near
Memphis, last November, has been
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment.
Max Cohen, the alleged defaulter of
the firm in Meminger, Saxony, was
arrested on debarking from the Indi-
ana at Philadelphia, and held for ex-
tradition.
Prince Milan has sent u special en-
voy to the Car. The Seryian Min
lister of War has resigned. Colonel
Gruich has been been appointed his
successor.
The strength of the Russian army
now in process of mobilization is $780,
900. The ships of the Russian Black
Sci. Navigation Company have been
impressed.
The Porte, in view of winter CAM
paign, intends to keep 10000 men in
Montenegro and Herzegovina, 10000
on the borders of Greece, and $4,000
to watch Servia.
The Berlin Post asserts that several
Americans have applied to the Russian
for letters of marque To
be used against English shipping in
the event of war.
Three hundred and twenty I've lives
were lost by the wrecking of the Eng
lisll ship City of Manchester off Aky-
lh, India. Only the captain and the
steward escaped.
n. B. Kennedy was killed at Hunts
vile, Ala, sy Alex. Bergman, con-
ductor. Bergman threw a wrench,
which struck Kennedy on the head,
his skull.
A misplaced switch, at Ballarlville,
on the Boston and Maine railroad,
caused a freight train To collide with
ears standing on the track, killing the
engineer and fireman.
Gen. Tclernayeff has been super
seded i'll the chief command of she
Servian army by Gen. Semeka, for
nerly commander of the Russian mil
tary district of Odessa.
A -four barrel, containing the dead
body of Il Young woman, was brought
rom Sorel to New York by steamer
Montreal. The man in whose pos
session it was found was arrested.
Geo. Anderson, foreman of gang of
cotton screwers, was struck by some
earrings and thrown down the hatch
way of the steamship Jamaican, at
New Orleans, killing him instantly.
The Russian police profess to have
discovered plot in Poland. A Ro-
bdn OdthOilC Dlsuop has O6en arrested
md imprisoned at Moscount, and sew
,ral Polish curates thrown into prison
1t Warsaw.
The Georgia Legislature met last
week. The Senate elected r. w.
Cobb, President, and the House
.lected n. N. Clements, Speaker.
Both have served two terms in their
respective houses.
Gen. Josellar issues a proclamation
announcing that deserters from the
Spanish army in Cnba who return be-
ore December 81 will be pardoned.
After that date all deserters will be
hot when captured.
A posse of six. men was sent out by
Trial Justice Malligan, at Lawton-
vile, s. c., to arrest u party of me-
,roes for heating cOloied man. Af-
ter the arrest was made, the posse
VAS assaulted by an armed body of
blacks, and two whites killed.