The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-05-05
NUMBER 35.
The Odd Fellows of the United
States celebrated their fifty. eighth
anniversary on the 9th ultimo.
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Russians occupied Galatz..
| Italian men-of-war arrived at Sa-
lonica.
The Gar and Czarowitch return to
st. Petersburg.
| Spain will send an iron clad SQUAD
ron to the Levant.
Egypt will support Turkey with
1 troops and material.
Russian residents of Turkey have
been ordered to leave.
England is placing her army and
navy on a war footing.
Neither Turkey or Russia will yio-
late Servian territory.
Persia denies any alliance with
Russia against Turkey.
Italy intends to occupy Albania if
Austria occupies Bosnia.
A fire in Toxic, Japan, destroyed
5OO houses several lives lost.
a battle is expected at Ibraila, where
$4,000 Russians are stationed.
Senior Pasada Herrera was elected
President of the Spanish Cortes.
Russia threatens to blockade Alex
andria if the Rhedive aids Turkey.
Turkish gunboats bombarded Poeti
and Fort Nicholas, with little effect.
French newspapers are prohibited
from attacking foreign governments.
At Constantinople on Saturday 500
houses burned /; two women perished.
The Russians have advanced their
siege train and attacked the Turks at
Kars.
The Turks will not occupy Kalafat,
thus obviating collision with Rou-
| mania.
Montreal Novelty Works burned
falling walls killed nine and wounded
ten persons.
The Turks repulsed the Montene-
grlns at Duga pass and are marching
towards Nicsics.
Gen. Quesada abruptly dissolved
the Biscayan juntas for refusing to.
accept the fueros law.
Russians seized three Austrian
steamers for carrying contrabands.
Austria has demonstrated.
The German Reichstag increased
the war budget and provided for over
a hundred new captaincies.
Russians fearing English occupation
f4s.f bor
plies and exciting patriotism there.
A two-days' battle occurred at Ba-
taum, and the Russians are reported
to have been repulsed Mith 500 killed.
The Prince of Montenegro tele-
graphs the Porte that he will hang all
officers captured if the Turks murder
civilians.
The mail boat between Brest aud
the island of Ushout was wrecked.
Eight passengers and the entire crew
were lost.
Commodore Marion of the u. S.
sloop of war Alert, shot himself aboard
his vessel at Yokohama harbor. No
cause assigned.
Austria has clearly intimated at st.
Petersburg the point beyond which
extension of the war would interfere
with her interests.
Russia has money enough to prose-
cute the war throughout the present
year, and nay the interest en- her
sinking fund debt.
The French Darien expedition has
returned home. They are convinced
that the canal will be built through
Colombian territory.
Paul De Cassagnac has again been
sentenced to two months imprison-
ment and 5000 francs fine for insult
ing the public powers.
A Russian column is marching on
Abraham. The Russian army is very
strong in cavalry, and is accompanied
by heavy seige train.
A revolt has broken out in Para
quay, and President Don Ivaz Bantista
Gill and his brother were assassinated.
The conspiratOrs were routed.
The King of Spain has proclaimed
amnesty to all who participated in
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if they surrender within thirty days.
A dispatch from Calcutta reports
serious outbreak of cholera in Akjab.
twenty-five per cent. of the small
European population died in thirty
hours.
AS the Russian army advances,
proclamations will be issued to the
Christians and Musslemans, ordering
them to remain quiet. Christians who
desire to take part in the war will be
armed and uniformed. No irregular
bands will be allowed. Swift pun
ishment will follow massacres.