The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-05
Weekly News Summary
Domestic.

OO1u6SGlC.
Russian minister Barker is home on
a furlough.
Schooner Kitty Cardenas was aban-
doned at sea.
Bark Frank and Emily wrecked ;
four lives lost.
The South Carolina Legislature is
In extra session.
Ex- President Grant visited Presi-
dent Hayes last week.
Struggled opium worth $1,000 was
seized at San Francisco.
Bethlehem, Pa, Savings Bank sus-
pended liabilities over S250,000.
August Negier committed suicide
at New Orleans by taking aeonite.
Joseph Lane, a German aged 60,
was drowned in Lake Pontchartrain.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Nor
rill has gone home, in restored health.
Minnesota had day of thanksgiv-
ing for delivery from the grasshoppers.
At Providence, R. l., Bertha Won
Helleon walked las miles in 40 hours
and 49 minutes.
A stranger registered as P. Long
killed himself at a Memphis hotel by
taking laudanum.
Geo. w. Bigelow, a clerk in the New
York post office has been arrested for
robbing the mails.
/ The strike of the Reading railroad
locomotive engineers has been prac-
tically abandoned.
May & Co., the largest metal and
hardware house in Boston, suspended !;
liabilities 100000.
Henry Marshall, cashier of the First
National Bank of Olney, Ills, disap-
peared with $4,000.
E. N. Robinson & Co., extensive
New York brokers, suspended, but
will pay debts in full.
The government to date has dis
aursed over $34 ZOO, 900 silver. There
remains on hand $3,500,000.
The Paducah and Memphis railroad
was sold under foreclosure of first
mortgage bonds for $105,0O0.
Powder mills at Grinby, Maine, have
nearly completed contract for $780,
600 worth of powder for Russia.
Sam Freeman, colored, committed
rape on a girl IL years old, at Lam
caster, Mass, causing her death.
Public printer Clapp resigned and
is succeeded by Defries, who held the
position under President Lincoln. -,s
R. S. Gardner of West Point, Va,
has been appointed consul general to
Melbourne. He was a major with
Hayes.
Geo. Williams, colored, convicted
of killing his step-child by beating
and roasting her, was hung at Spring
field, Ga.
1t has been decided that the United
States, treating Russia and Turkey
alike, may furnish munitions of war
to either.
A Baltimore jury gave Mrs. Murtagh
$4,000 for her son, killed Oh the Balti
more and Potomac railroad. She sued
for $4,000.
Joseph Wilmor, colored, assaulted
a white boy, Hugh Fielder, at New
Orleans, and the latter stabbed him
in the throat.
Ex-Governor Noyes of Ohio has
been appointed minister to France.
He will not sail until he is confirmed
by the Senate.
A fire originating in a New York
fan factory destroyed $500,0 900 worth
of property. Fifty factory girls mar
rowly escaped.
Hon. Ayres d. Morrill,, minister resi-
dent of Brussels, has been stricken
with paralysis. but it will probably
not prove fatal.
1t is proposed to organize regi-
ment of Indians with Spotted Tail as
colonel, to be paid and uniformed like
regular soldiers.
Schooners Abbie and S. w. Town
send foundered at sea. Both crews
saved, with the exception of one of
the Abbie's sailors.
Paul T. Valentine, an ex-priest,
was convicted of indecent assault and
sentenced to ten years in the New
York penitentiary.
A Kansas man named Dubois claims
to be one of a party who followed the
Bender family when they left Kansas,
and killed them all.
The q. S. steamer Vandalia sailed
for Constantinople. The remainder
of the American fleet goes to Smyrna
and the Syrian coast.
Two of the Chicot, CAL, outlaws
have been convicted of arson. The
trials of Others are progressing. In
cendiaries are still at work.
Rev. E. T. Baird, formerly secretary
of the Presbyterian publication COM
mittee, embezzled S22,000 and has
haan danosed from tho ministry He