The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-09-16
NEWS ITEMS.
Hartford City Bank suspended.


Yellow fever mt Savannah increases.
Geo. Smith, Assyrian explorer, is
dead.
Four Indians were hanged at Fort
Smith, I. T.
Attendance at the Centennial Satur.
day 100000.
Lyon 81 Co.'S sash factory, Cincin.
natl, burned.
The revolution in San Domingo is
on its last legs.
President Mcmahon ia making a
tour of France.
The Mexican revolution seems
about at an end.
Germania -four mills, Frederieks-
burg, Va, burned.
Three cases of yellow fever have
occurred in New York.
Gov. TiIden will spend two days at
the Centennial next week.
Moses Y. Tilden, brother of Gov.
Tilden, died last Saturday.
John Flynn severely stabbed Pat
rick Tuohp in New Orleans.
A treaty of peace between Egypt
and Abyssinia win be signed.
A convention of railroad ticket
agents WAS held in New York.
The wrecking schooner S. S. Lewis
went ashore at Cape Hatteras.
Ex-Secretary Bristow has leased
his former residence in Washington.
John Marvin aud VIM. Norris were
drowned while bathing at Cape May.
Caleb Gushing, Spanish minister, is
iii New York OH two mouths leave.
The International NJ Metlical Congress
at Philadelphia adjourned Saturday.
Andrew Pierce, Jr., bid in the Mis-
soari Pacific railroad for $4,000, 900.
Report of a mutiny on the U. S.
War steamer Franklin is officially de-
MED.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate Pardo, ex-president of
Peru.
The body of a well dressed young
woman was found in Lake Puntchar-
train.
G. l.. Gardiner, postmaster of Snf-
folk, Va, is charged with embezzie-
ment. # s
The President has issued his proc
lamation giving effect to the Hawaiian
treaty.
At Cheyenne agency all the build
ings but three were swept away by u
food.
Two Italian tramps were arrested
in New York for passing counterfeit
$40 bills.
Gen. Sherman and Secretary Came
ron have gone West on tour of ln-
speethn.
A national convention of railroad
ticket agents Was held in New York
last week.
The Belmont mills at Laconia n. H.,
have resumed work after three years
suspension.
At Marietta, Ca, a boiler of the
Kennesaw mills exploded, killing tive
colored men.
A span Of the railroad bridge over
the Tennessee river at London was
blown down.
Two vessels colIided off Holyhead
England, and both sank. A sailor
was drowned.
Secretary Chandler will allow the
military to remain in charge of Stand
ing Rock Agency.
Abdul Hamid, the new Sultan. hai
been formally invested with TIN
/" Sword of 0sman.n
/ r. S. Bartlett, colored, was hanget
at Bridgeport for outraging yount
lady school teacher.
| A number of Turkish officers impli
Gated in Bulgarian outrages have beel
placed under arrest.
A glass jar containing the dea'
body of an infant was found IN TIN
river at New Orleans.
! The National Board of Steam Nav
| igation held its fifth annual session
| last week in baltimore.
Eighmey, the man who committe'
murder at Oaks Corners, n. T., wa
hanged at Canandaigua.
VIM. Nelson, who struck a worsa
with biick and killed her, has bee
arrested near Bayou Sara.
The register and distributing clerk
If the St. Paul post office have bee
arrested for rohbing the mail.
A heavy frnst fell in the vicinity {
Milford, Pa, the night OF the 5th iast
iniuring the buckwheat crop.
+ The new Sultan is effecting COVER:
mental reforms and says slavei
. must be abolished IN earnest.
f The Italian Minister of War, for
3 seeing fresh Eastern complications,
! recalling fourlonghed officers.
!, Sioux Jim was shot dead by Ame
!, icam Horse at Red Cloua Agency f
{ refusinr To surrender his arms,