The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-28
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Il Turks repulsed the Servians a
Saitschar.
Two glove factories in Albany, n
Y, burned.
! Rev. DIR. Fuller of Baltimore i,
dead, aged 70.
The cable between Bahia and Rio
Janeirio is broken.
! Only two yellow fever deaths al
Savannah on Monday.
The Pope received IL visit from l0,-
600 Spanish pilgrims.
| Schooner Carrie Alice burned off the
North Carolina coast.
The Alabama Claims Commission
has resumed its sessions.
The business portion of Jordan, n.
Y, burned. Loss $61 900.
A new Hebrew orphan asylum at
Boston has been dedicated.
Yokohama, Japan, has exported
1000 bales of cotton since.July 10.
Witherell's planning mill and ad-
joining property, Chicago, burned.
Gen. Terry has left Fort Abraham
Lincoln in pursuit of hostile Indians.
The steamer Daniel Ball burned
near Bay City, Mich. No lives lost.
The statue of Gen. Mcpherson was
unveiled at Washington OH the 18th.
English Parliament is further pro-
rogued from October 30 to December
10.
+ The Alabama State Grange is hold
ing it's second annual fair at Montgonl-
cry.
Deaths in New Orleans last week,
l2l. The health of the city is excel
lent.
Russia has twenty-one ironclads
carrying from two to twenty-six guns
each.
The American Electrical society
held its third annual session at Chi
cage.
The Witherspoon monument at the
Centennial grounds was unveiled last
week.
The Secretary of War is signing the
awards of the Southern Claims Com
mission.
Gen. Tchernayeff has transferred
his headquarters from belgrade to
Kavnik.
The Liberian s;,vages have become
citizens of the republic aud the war
is over.
tt is said that an onthreak of the
plague at Agangelovatz killed 3I5
Seryians.
An incendiary fire at New Haven
destroyed two house and several out
buildings.
The steamships Switzerland and
Grebe collided off Flushing, sinking
the latter.
A destructive fire occurred in Louis
vile on the 18th. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
NJ. NJ. Cooke, one of the editors of
the Montgomery Aduertiser, died of
consumption.
The Board of Bishops of the A. NJ.
E. Church convened in annual session
at Baltimore.
Benjamin Wadsworth was shot and
killed by man named Westerlagan
in New Orleans.
The brig Carmela of New Orleans,
for Naples, was abandoned. The
crew were saved.
A two days reunion of the Army
of the Tennessee was held at wash
iDgton last week.
A quantity of molten steel exploded
at the Vulcan steel works, St. Louis,
injuring two men.
1t is reliably reported that Egypt
lost 2700 men during the recent Abys-
sinian campaigns.
Sylvanus Caldwell, ex-Mayor of
Augusta, Maine, and assistant State
Treasurer, is dead.
A large number of fcounteTeit TWEEN
ty-five cent silver pieces are in circu
lation in Baltimore.
Mrs. House of Trenton, N. j., who
killed her husband, the divorce law
yer, was acquitted.
Francis p. Blair, Sr., journalist and
statesman, died at Washington ou the
10Th, aged 81 years.
The ship iRyndalhall wrecked thir-
ty miles below San Francisco. Nine
of the crew were lost.
The Scharff- Morris boat race at
Pittsburg was witnessed by 10000
people. SchaIff won.
The steamer Rosa Miller sank in
Arkansas river with 500 bales of cot
ton. She will be raised.
A general Christian Missionary con-
vention of the Disciples of the United
States met at Richmond.
Cllas. H. Moulton, q Washington
real estate agent, has abfconded,
leaving debts of 100000.
A Spanish newspaper, La Tribune,