The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-08-25
NUMBER SO.

A passenger Train Edu ONe@ W"
and was thrown from the track at
Louisville five persons injured.
Trains collided near Uniontown,
Pa, killing an engineer and injuring
fireman and several, passengers.
C. C. Bramall, postmaster at Mon
askep, Va, was arrested, charged with
purloining money from the mails.
Steam tug Wat White exploded her
boiler in James river; the captain,
engineer and firemen were killed.
Gen. Hancock has returned to his
headquarters in New York. They
were at Philadelphia during the strike.
Capt. Kirchofer of the Spanish
park Marietta committed suicide by
jumping overheard at Southwest Pass.
A new convention has been con-
cluded between Great Britain and
Egypt, for the suppression OF the slave
trade.
Hon. Raleigh F. Daniel, Attorney
General of Virginia, died at Richmond,
aged 72. He was a candidate for re-
election.
Capt. G.. j. O'Hara of New Orleans
has invented q combustible bullet,
with which he performs some Won
derful feats.
The strike of miners in the Wilkes
barre region continues and outrages
are frequent. Arrests of rioters are
made daily.
Two boys were burned to death at
Flushing, L. I. Their father was
lighting fire with coal oil and the
can exploded.
A freight train was thrown from
the track near Decatur, Ills. The
engineer and two bfakemen were in
stantly killed.
Two men were killed, two fatally
injured and two others seriously hurt
by the burning gas of an oil well at
Smith Ferry, Pa.
King Lastine, New Orleans negro,
committed infanticide by kicking
Mary Hammond in the stomach while
she was enciente.
Shipwrights and spar makers of
Brooklyn navy yard have struck
against A reduction of wages from
So so to 50 per day.
Louis Davis, arrested at New Or
leans, plead guilty of washing and
selling internal revenue stamps which
| had been once used.
| Col. John A. Joyce, the last of the
whiskey convicts, was released from
the penitentiary, subject to bail OF
| $1,000 to answer on appeal.
A platform fell under the weight of
an iron safe. at Savannah, killing one
man and injnring eight others, one OF
whom had both legs broken.
Joseph Metzler of the firm of Met
zler Bros, Chicago notion dealers,
absconded with $4,000 in cash, and
valuable goods belonging to the finn.
An investigation has shown that
many of the aims houses of Maryland
are in deplorab!e condition, the in
mates being but half fed and clothed.
Chauneey Rose, an Indiana pltilan-
thropist whose donations for religious
and charitable purposes aggregate
S2,O0O,000, died at Terre Haute, aged
83.
! An attempt was made to throw q
passenger train from the track near
| Littlewood, N. Fl. The President
and party were expected or the train,
and it is thought the attempt was
directed against them.
o. F. Bullard, who represents Della
ware county in the Pennsylvania Leg
islatnre, has been requested By the
Republican county committee to re-
sign, on account of alleged irregulari-
ties while secretary of the Amedia
building association.
j. A. Gesnor and Z. b. Weston, said
to belong to gang of forgers, were
arrested at Chicago aud S26, 600 taken
from them. f. p. Henderson, another
member CT the gang, was captured in
Michigan. The combination opera
ted mainly in New York, and their
f forgeries will foot up about $3.50, 900