The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-11-03
NUMBER 8.
Weekly News Summary.
Foreign.

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Montenegrois threatened with FAM
inc. as.
1t is said the French ministry will
resign. e,.s..5
The strike on the Irish railway is
ended.
King Alfonso will be married. Jan
uary %.
james Durham, English SCULPTOR
is dead. ,a+ -.z..gst
Captured Cuban leaders will be
taken to Spain. ~
Gen. Grant dined with President
McMahon Thursday.
Turkey wants a loan of 95,OO0, 900
from English capitalists.
The Bank of New Caledonia failed
for over.2 ,0O0, 900 francs.
Plevna is being completely sur
rounded by the Russians.
British Parliament has been further
prorogued until Decembers19.
A mutiny occurred on the British
ship Westtield one man killed.
An attack upon Rustschuk was re-
pulsed by the Turkish garrison.
Two hundred and fifty persons per-
ished in the High BIanton colliery ex-
plosion. 81 a# 5
TheiRussians have reoccupiednsay-a
azid and are moving on 0lti, in Turk
ish Asia. .a4,3
In the Prussian Diet, vote to GEN.
sure the ministers for their policy
was defeated.
Gen. Gourko defeated the Turks
west of Plevna, capturing Pasha and
and 1000 troops. h#i 4A as'i
Fifty-two of the fifty EIGHT Ameti-
can masons taken to England have
joined the strikers.
The striking weavers at Ashton
England, have accepted employers
terms and resumed work. .s.iy
= The Bolton strike, has ended, a.
compromise having been effected be-
tween manufacturers and operators.
The Chinese authorities have Off
cially taken possession of the railway
between Woosnug@and Shanghai, and
stopped all traffic thereon. a9
Domestic. 7s '''4
Morton is dead.
Blaine is better.
Billy Pastor, comedian, is dead.
Edwin Adams, the famous actor, is
dead. sf .t& .' 8i42 -
Hancock wooden mills, Orland, Me-,
burned.
The President designates November
90 as Thanksgiving day. 's
Lincoln iron foundry, Washington,
Mass, was destroyed by fire.
Sir Edward. Thornton returns to
Washington as British minister.
Railway postal officials and route
agents. are to wear blue uniforms.
A virulent disease is killing horses
and hogs at Port Republic, N. ].
The Bay State Iron Company of
Boston hils failed; liabilities $780,
600. 2 5'-3s
Conductors Insurance Association
held its tenth annual session at New
York. ~
Geo. Heath, aged l2, was run over
by a fiat car and killed, at New Or
leans.
Woods Museum, Chicago, was par
TALLY burned. All the animals.suf-
focated.
Two hundred Southern Apache In
dians surrendered at Wingate, New
Mexico. ra IL. @4sps
VIM. Lloyd Garrison has written q
letter strongly denouncing the Presi-
dents policy. '''' "
Geo. l.. Fox, the celebrated panto-
mimist, who became insane SOME time
ago, died last week. s eab
The body of an unknown Irishman.s
| aged about so years, was found float
ing in the river at New Orleans,
A New York woman convicted of
abducting little girl has been sent
to the penitentiary for ten years.
Rev. DR.. w. E. Munsey, an eminent
| divine of the Southern Methodist
Church, died at Jonesboro, Tenn.
w. s. Taylor, produce merchant
at Albany, N. Y, has committed for
g9ries aggregating nearly $4,000.
The Episcopal Convention is still
in session at Boston. Its adjournment
was enormously announced last week.
At Baltimore, JOS. A. Ryan has
been sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary for passing counterfeit
nickles.
/ A young lady and two jockeys were
severely injured By an accident at
horse race at the jackson, Tenn,
State fair.
! A convention of Western and
Southern railroad agents at Chatta-
nooga agreed upon a cooperative
tariff of passenger rates.