The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-12-23
NEWS ITEMS.

Schooner Annie Jones foundered at
sea.
Inspector Gen. James A. Hardie is
dead.
A resumption of the fast mail trains
is promised.
Worcester, Mass, has elected a
Democratic Mayor.
Navigation of the upper Ohio river
is closed by ice.
Turkey and Russia are still rapidly
arming and massing troops.
Caleb Cushing, our Spanish minis
ter, has returned to Madrid.
Fifteen hundred Spanish troops
landed at Havana on the 18th.
Nine persons killed and wounded by
a boiler explosion at Texarkana.
The Baltimore Academy of Music
was sold at auction for $l65 ,00n.
The Servian government is putting
paper money in forced circulation.
Over S25, 900 has been subscribed
to the Brooklyn Theatre relief fund.
Battery G, Second Artillery, has
arrived at Washington from Fort Sill.
The Boston:schooner Shaltock was
abandoned at sea. All hands saved.
An inch and half of snow, followed
by rain, fell in New York ON Monday
,, W. B. Moore has been appointed
supervising special agent of the treas
ury.
Mrs. Julia Barneiras, st. Louis
portrait painter, was accidentally
killed.
| The steamer Russia sailed from
Liverpool with 100000 specie for
New York.
Servia has signified willingness to
Austrian flag.
Assurance is given that Turkey will
not attack Roumania unless first ut
tackled by her.
Four colored men, crew and captain
of the oyster schooner Polari, drowned
in Chesapeake Bay.
A prolongation until May | of the
Turkish -Servian ArmisJice is conf
IDENTITY anticipated.
A costly building, covering several
extensive wine cellars, burned at
Terre Haute, Indiana.
Servia has requested Russia to COM
mission General Ignatieff to represent
Servia at the conference.
NJ. De Briel, Legitimist, has been
elected Senator from the Department
of Tarnet Garrene, France.
A two year old daughter of Mr..
Rippelt of New Orleans fell into u
yard vault and suffocated.
Bogardus was beaten in a pigeon
shooting match by Crittenden Robin
son, San Francisco lawyer.
The preliminary conference of the
foreign plenipotentiaries at Constan-
tinople resulted satisfactorily.
Senator Conkling says there is some
foundation for the report of his inten-
tion to retire from political life.
Ten. masked a1en entered the iail
at Bardstown, KY, and liberated five
prisoners charged with murder.
The Treasury Department has ex-
changed $242, ,000, 600 of silver for frac-
tional and greenback currency.
Mr.. Herr, Vice President of the
Federal Assembly, has been elected
President of the Swiss Republic.
Last Saturdays session of the House
of Representatives was devoted to eu-
logies upon the late speaker Kerr.
The Senate refused to pass over the
Presidents veto the bin reducing the
salary of the President to $25, 900.
The steamer Homer sank in Red
river. Ten deck passengers were
drowned. Boat and cargo total loss.
1t is asserted positively that the
Porte will absolutely refuse to cede
any territory to Montenegro or Servia.
The Security Life Insurance Com
pany of New York is insolvent. Mayor
Wickham has been appointed receiver.
Rev. Simon Howard Calhoun,
Presbyterian missionary for forty
years in the Holy Land, died at Buff
fale.
Between 400 and 500 men and wo-
men were discharged from the bureau
of printing and engraving at Wash
ingtoR.
Yung Wung is Chief Chancellor
of the Chinese embassy to the United
States. A consul will be sent to San
Francisco.
An infant ten mouths old was acci-
dentally smothered to death while
sleeping in bed with it's mother, at
New Orleans.
A rush of floating ice sunk FIVE
steamboats, at st. Louis, almost totally
destroyed one other, aud badly dam
aged several more.
The Oxford rowing club declines
the challenges of the Yale and Cornell
clubs for a rowing match upon the
Thames next year.