The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-09-09
NEWS ITEMS.

San Francisco had $7s0,0O0 fire.
Debt decrease for August SO, $50, :
600. AS ss5lzi <
The revolution in Columbia con-
tinues. 5I3l.satz s,..
Groat's hosiery mills, Amsterdam,
N. T., burned. s.
The Irish rifle team arrived Mt New
York on the 3rd.
Coal miners in st. Clair county.
Mo-, are on a strike.
A planning mill and several frame
buildings burned atsSelna. 4
The Dayton Short Line railroad
depot at Cincinnati burned.
The naval review at Port Royal
will commence early in October.
DR.. j. S. Williams of Louisvi- lie. is
in prison on u charge of abortion. 7
At Mansfield, Pa, fifteen houses
burned, including hotel and bank.
Yellow fever at Savannah; .
deaths on the Bird inst, 10 on the 4th.
White, Langstaff &C. Co., wholesale
hardware dealers Of Memphis failed.
The Chinese commissioners leave
Chicago fer San Francisco September
lS.
Sam1 Weeks has been appointed
meiter and iefiner at the New Orleans
mint.
Lord Rebblesdale, stepsan to Earl
Russell, committed suicide in Switzer-
land.
Sixty-fve female clerks have been
dismissed from the Treasury Depart
ment.
1t is said Spain will send q, 900
more troops to Cuba before Noyeln-
ber 1. - s'% #As
Hillery Page, colored, known as
/" the fire tiend, !" was hanged at Rich
mond.
A. w. Tomgee sues the Raleigh
Neacs fol libel in calling him an ex-
The Sherwood School Furniture
factory at Morris, ILL.,, burned loss
$50, 600. Ts A.. Eas ~,
Foreign ambassadors ut CONSTANT.
nople submitted peace proposals TO
the Porte.
Geo. .McQnade, IL years old, was
run over aud killed by a street car at |
New Orleans. fo -'ss79 4s
Four miners were suffoeated by
iaal air in .. mining shaft near Gen-
trail City, Col.
AT Derby Line, Vt, f. C. Hayden |
shot his wife and brother-in-hlw, the |
former fatally.
Three men were drowned near Hal
flax by the capsizing of q yacht re-
turning from u race.
A Spaniard fell from a staging at |
The head Of st. Ann street, New Or
leans, and was killed.
AT Port .Jervis, N. Y, Frank Tay-
Ior was shot by policeman Rumsey, /
while resisting arrest.
The formal opening of the ike stock
display at the Centennial exhibition
took place Wednesday.
The President of Costa Rica has
been overthrewn anti ID provisional
government established
Gen. Sherman and Secretary Cam
,ron will make an inspecting torr ex-
ending to San Francisco.
The International Medical College
md Convention of Fire engineers met
n Philadelphia this week. i
A posse of colored men killed
white man named Porter, at Windsor,
). c., ard were ilil arrested.
There is great excitement among
Eastern coal dealers on accouiit of
he marked decline of prices.aef
Rear Admiral Frenehard relieved
Rear Admiral Leroy of the, command /,
# the North Atlantic Station.
Fifteen Chicago whisky prisoners
vhO gave evidence against their part
lers in crime We're discharged. I
A London letter sorter has been
lrrested for stealing letters with bills /
# exchange on the United States.
AT Buckley, H., George Sleeper,
he groom at u wedding was called To
he door and shot dead by a rival.
The owners Of liberated slaves in /
Porto Rico will receive indemnity
'oDds from the Spanish government.
Miss e. A. Martin shot Charles
Kicker at Lowell, and took poison.
suth will recover. Cause-iealousy.
The death sentence of Jesse Pom.
roy, the Boston hoy murderer, has
'eeu committed to life imprisonment.
Four masked men bucked and
jagged the station keeper at hudson
iver station, n. T., and robbed the
flee.
Brigham Young's properly, has
'een atfached To satisfy the jtidgment
+ $500 for alimony due Ann Eliza
soung.
A block of buildings in San Fran
isea y:,lnel ..t 25f1 la0 I,,,r,,aJ +