The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-14
NEW S ITEMS S.

Internal disorders in China increase.
Spain is drafting troops for service
in Cuba.
Servia will purchase $4,000 Chassa
pot guns.
Servia's last loan has been fully
subscribed.
The Supreme Court is in session at
Washington.
A man died from yellow fever in
Brooklyn last week.
Montenegrins have burned Trebinje
and other Turkish villages.
Bavarians aud Prussians are en-
listing in the Servian army.
Mr.. Cramer, u. S. minister at Co.
penhagen. has been recalled.
The postal commission visited At
lanta and Nashville last week.
Military operations we've at stand
still in Mexico at last accounts.
John Bullard, a farmer, was robbed
and murdered at Worcester, Mass.
The American Board of Missions
| held its annual session at Hartford.
Minister Bassett, from Hayti, is vis-
iting his home in the United States.
Capt. Chas. A. Hartwell of the
/ Eighth Cavalry died at San Antonio.
Sir John Young, Governor General
of Canada from 1868 to 1872, is dead.
The Spanish Cortes is expected to
reassemble about the end of October.
Michael Landry of New Orleans
beat his wife so severely that she died:
A destructive fire at Pine Bluff,
Ark, destroyed three business blocks.
A block OF handsome buildings in
the business centre of Houston burned.
Jos. Hernandez, caulker, fell into
the river at New Orleans and drowned.
Jacob Lamb, a New York butcher
committed suicide at his sisters fun
eral.
The hoisting gear of coal mine at
| Pottsville broke, and four miners were
killed.
The reported capture of Massowah
by the Abyssinias is officially contra
dicted.
r. w. Boyd beat j. H. Sadler, the
champion, in scull race on the
| Thames.
Samuel s. Tyler, secretary Of the
American Alliance, has resigned the
position.
Geo. Davis, eleven years old, fell
into the river at New Orleans and was
drowned.
All differences between Spain and
the United States have been amieably
arranged.
The statue Of Gen. Mcpherson will
be unveiled at Washington next
Wednesday.
The president of the Greek cabinet
urges continued neutrality i'll the
Turkish war.
The President has recognized An
tonic Greppi, vice consul os Italy, at
New Orleans.
The rear guard of Mouktar Pasla's
army was attacked and defeated by
! Montenegrins.
Lauber's restaurant, on the Centen-
NAL grounds, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
JOS. Waters was shot and killed by
Robt. Holland ut Laramie City. Both
men are colored.
The front of an old building in New
Orleans fell, breaking the leg OF a lady
who was passing.
| Turks and Montenegrins had a bat.
tie Saturday, resulting to the advan'
tage of the latter.
The Richmond Enquirer was sold a
auction and purchased by DR.. j. G
Beattie for $4,000.
Gen. Martinez Campos has beer
designated Captain General OF Cubs
in place of Jovel)ar.
England has made formal propose
for conference of leading powers Oh
the Turkish question.
Prince Milan has exculpated himsel
from participation in the movement
to make himself King.
The fatal receipts of Russian golt
coin at the New York Z. S. assay of
fee aggregate E230, 900.
d. A. G. Lee, a New Orleans police
man, was shot and killed III his owl
bar room by VIM. Knuckley.
Sir Henry Egerton Herbert, mem
Der Of Parliament, and Major Genera
. in tie English army. is dead.
Two young ladies and a boy die
: near Newark from eating toadstool
. which were mistaken for mushroom:
, Charles Munday, aged eleven. acci
dentally shot himself in the heat
causing instant death, at New Orleans
An attempt by Chinese merchant
; to establish line of steamships be
. tween Shanghai and Japanese port
l failed.
John Mason and John Sickles wei
t,I,nt an1 r.aun1ad l,,- :, oolaro6 ~,