The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-07
NUMBER 5.

sioners nave gone to Yankton.
A man whose name is unknown
was drowned by the capsizing of q
schooner i'll Lake Pontchartain.
John aud Nicholas Collins were ar
rested for stealing $4,000 worth of
opium from a New York bonded ware
] house.
4 mob of striking monlders at Troy,
\. Y, entered the shop OF non union
moulder and carried away patterns
worth $1,000.
! Two spiritual mediums were arrested
in New York for conspiracy to de-
fraud. A genuine spilitualist made
the complaint.
There is great destitution and suf-
| fering among the people in Puerto
| Principe, formerly one of the richest
cities of Cuba.
1t is reported that Ratib Paslna, the
Egyptian commander-in chief, and his
staff have been taken prisoners by the
Abyssinians.
Heavy fighting between the Turks
and Servians took place Monday, and
the latter We're worsted. The battle
was the largest of the war.
Abed Smith, q member of the cham
pion crew of oarsmen, and his brother
| were drowned at Halifax. Their boat
| was run down by a steamer.
The steamer Liberty, wrecked be-
tween Havana and New York, had a
cargo of sugar and tobacco. Que of
the crew died from exposure,
Fifteen hundred armed Austrians
and Sclavonians have entered Bosnia,
and are attacking Moslems and in
citing Christians to insurreetion.
Last Saturday was Pennsylvania
day at the Centennial. The cash adj
missions numbered 251 AGA, the larg-
est attendance since the opening.
Vessels of the North Atlantic squa-
dron are assembling at Hampton
Roads preparatory to starting upon d.
winter cruise among the West Indies.
4 detachment of Capt. McNally'ss
company attacked a gang of outlaws :
near Eagle Pass, killing five. Fifty .
horses and large number of cattle
were captured.
One of the persons arrested near
San Sebastian, for participating in
the Carlist war, has been sentenced;
TO sleatl, by a military tribunal. on a.
criminal charge.
Capt. F. A. Torbitt, q. S. deputy
marshal, was shot and killed in Henry
county, Tenn, by an illicit distiller
whom he attempted to arrest. The
murderer escaped.
Dir. G. W. Woodbury., assistant sur
geon of the Mclean Insane Asylum,
Boston, was beaten over the head by
a patient with Il croquet maiiet. His
injuries may prove fatal.
Julius Blanc, New York French
nlnsic professor, shot his wife and child
and blew his own brains ont. He was
blind and became Jealous of his wife.
The woman may recover.
The dead Nortbfield bank robbers
are Charlie Pitts, Bill Chadwick and
Clem. Miller. The prisoners are Col.
f. Younger and Al. Caster. The last
is u noted Texas desparado.
The floors of three-story brick
building in Springfield, Mass, fell,
and five persons were crushed to
death. Tie ruins caught fire, aud
only two bodies were recovered.
Geo. b. Shaw, correspondent of the
Boston Herald, was attacked by an
unknown man ON the Centennial
grounds and horribly mutilated witlla g
knife. His recovery is doubtful.
Don Carlos has informed the French
government that he would not lre-
enter Spain at the cost of another
civil war, and will quit Paris for Bel
gium OF Switzerland in few weeks.
DR.. J. S. Burns was arrested at
Chattanooga upon suspicion of having
set fire to the Office of the Registrar
of Deeds. Two books belonging to
the office were foundin his possession.
Ex-Queen Isabella is becoming a
disturbing elementin Spanish politics.
Decorations and illuminations pre-
pared at Madrid III honor other arrival
we're removed for fear of disturbances.
The president of the suspended
Miners Trust Bank of Pottsville was
rearrested upon charges of embezzle-
ment, aggregating $500, 900, and was
sent to prison in default of $3.50, 900
bail.
The civilized Indians of the Indian
Territory are greatly excited over tho
| proposed removal OF the Sioux into
their country, regarding it u violation
by the government of treaty stipula-
| tions.
At Louisville last week Mr.. Frank
Harper's horse Ten Broeck ran four
miles in 7:i5&, the fastest time on
record by nearly four seconds. An
offer of S20, 900 for the horse was de-
elined.
Milburn's wagon factory, Toledo,
with 1000 finished wagons aud large
t1ti,p bor unfinished t,.ay ,IaeE,.1.@.sx1 L.