The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-01-06

idiiiodti eApIOu6u, Killing The engl-
neer, fireman and brakeman.
The bark Susan L. Fitzgerald
wrecked near Cape Isabella /; the crew
were saved by the steamer Titsee.
An unknown vessel went ashore on
Marshed Island, Maine, and four bod
les were found among her timbers.
The decree reducing the interest on
the Turkish debt one-half during five
years, has been officially annulled.
Seven young men from Utopia,
Ohio, We're drowned by the breaking
up of an ice gorge in the Ohio river.
The remains of Lieut.. NJ. Kinney.
who was killed in Mackenzie's Indian
fight, have been buried at Memphis.
Simon st. Jeme shetland cut Fran
CHS Hoffman to death, at New Orleans.
They quarreled over a game of cards.
The Ship Circassian and brigantine
Lillian Cameron went ashore and
broke to pieces on the Atlantic coast.
Midsat Pasha has been appointed
Grand Vizier of Turkey in place of
Mollemmed Ruchdi Paslla, dismissed
Four men were killed by the ex-
plosion of three kegs of powder in
the Centennial colliery, Pottsville, Pa.
After paying all claims awarded,
$4,000, 900 of the Alabama fund re-
mains in the hands of the government.
ST, Elizabeth Convent, Montreal,
burned nine bodies were recovered
FROM the ruins and four are still miss
ing.
Indians attacked FIVE teamsters in
camp on Indian Creek and killed two.
The others escaped under cover of
night.
Seventeen miners were killed out
right aud many more injured by a
colliery explosion near Newport, South
Wales.
John Walter, an old resident of New
Orleans who recently lost his sight,
committed suicide by cutting his
throat.
Major Bell has been designated
chief commissary, military depart
ment of the South, headquarters at
Atlanta.
Indians stampeded herd of horses
at Speer Fish Run, but mounted men
pursued and recovered nearly all the
animals.
The Secretary of War, in his report
to Congress, opposes the re-estahlish-
ment OF the. national armory at Harp
er's Ferry.
Hugh Mcclellan, clerk of VIM. IF.
Webb, IL New York ship builder, has
been arres'ed fer the embezzlement
of $4,000
The boiler of the ting Port Smith
exploded at Baltimore, killing the
captains son, and seriously injuriIg
three others.
The revolution in the Central
American States continues, but with
prospect of the early success of the
Federal party.
Antoine Felancise was dangerously
wounded during an afflay with j. F..
Brown and Henry Brown in New
Orleans barber shop.
Another revolution has occurred in
San Domingo. President Gonzales
resigned and ex-President Baze has
been restored to power.
Otis d. Swan, a New York broker,
has disappeared. He is said to. have
misappropriated 100000 belonging
to his brother and sister.
The fly wheel in New Orleans corn
mill broke, and one of the pieces
struck. f. E. Wilkinson, IL workman,
breaking his leg in two places.
The officers OF Ohio national banks
are petitioning the Legislature aud
Congress for reduction of taxation
imposed upon their institutions.
Bark Minerva and Schooner Maggie
McLenan wrecked on the Nova SEQ
tian coast. Two men and three child
rem We're lost from the schooner.
John Kay, a clerk on the steamer
Frank PargotId, supposed to be insane,
attempted to commit suicide by jump
ing into the river. He was rescued.
At Boston woman named Lulu
Martin, recently acquitted for the
murder of DIR. Baker, was arraigned
on the charge of the murder of Charles
S. Kicker. ~Ss..t:
The steamer King Arthur sailed
from New Haven for Constantinople
with munitions of war for the Turkish
government. Her cargo is valued ut
81, ,444 900.
A fire in Toxic, Japan, November
%, swept sixty-fve streets, destroy
ing 5000 houses. Fifty lives were lost.
The loss of property is estimated at
$I0,000,0GW
j. A. Jackson murdered Zach
Thompsonin in Dekalb county, Georgia,
and took 500 from him. Jackson was
arrested, confessed the crime and hung
himselfin Jail.
An explosion of gas in the American
Exchange Bank. New York, damaged
the building to the extent of $4,000