The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-10-16
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
Foreign.

Foreign.
Diphtheria is raging in Canada.
Fifty barges were destroyed by fire on
the Neyak. Loss f50,0OO.
Complaints Of incendiarism are now
quite common throughout Ireland.
The international exhibition of Mel
bourne, Australia, opened October 1.
Three foreign vessels, Spanish, Swedish
and Norwegian, were wrecked Sept. 10.
The government of chihuahua Mexico,
has offered $500 for the scalp Of Victoria.
The idea Of making Roumania king
dom is again prominently discussed there.
1t is rumored in court circles that
Queen Victoria will hereafter reside in
| Seville
| A recent royal order from Madrid for
| bids the landing of Negroes on the island
OF Cuba, be they free or slave.
The government of Madrid has resolved
to proceed against all priests who intro
duce politics into their sermons.
proclamation has been issued in Ire
land offering $1,000 reward for the appre-
hension of the murderers of Lord Mount
morris.
An explosion Of fire damp occurred in
a mine near Herine, in the Essen district
Berlin; twenty-five workmen were killed
and wounded.
Eighty-nine miniature bastiles, one for
each department. Of France, were made
from stones taken from the famous Paris
bastile when it was demolished.
A frightful hurricane ragged on the 18th
and 18th Sept, in Matanoras, Mexico,
devastating sthe city and its environs,
leaving more than one thousand families
shelterless.
The thirty-ninth and last representa-
tion of the passion play, ut Ober Ammer-
gau, was held on the twenty-sixth of
September. Thirty-fve hundred persons
were present.
The Tuileries was nearly destroyed by
fire on the night of October :5rd. The
fire broke out in the pavilion De Flore;
The archives were in the destroyed build
ing but were saved.
Murders in Mexico are becoming more
and more frequent. Not a single day
passes but some horrible crime is re-
ported to the chief of police. Daily,
corpses are found in the streets, and the
murderers are never detected or arrested.
Domestic.
Frost i'll Virginia and North Carolina
recently.
Eggs are sixty cents a dozen in
Charleston.
Two keepers killed recently by en-
ragged elephants.
Ten per cent. of the Philadelphia
horses have the epizootic.
The fine for concealed weapons in
Vicksburg, is $50 and costs.
A couple were married by telegraph in
Portland, Iud., OH the 3rd inst.
Six hundred and nineteen German emf
grants landed at Galveston, Sept. 80.
A band of men lynched a Negro at Fort
Mason, Fla, for numbering his employer.
The United States produced $3.50 ,955,
worth Of petroleum during the month of
July.
The United States have exported $685.
100000 worth of cattle during the last
six years.
The cotton fields near Waco, Texas,
were completely stripped of foliage in
three days.
Farmers living 200 miles from Sher-
man, Texas, haul their cotton in wagons
to that place.
Newspapers are printed in ten different
foreign languages, including Chinese, in
San Francisco.
One hundred head of cattle were re-
Gently killed by drinking alkaline water
at Oakland, Cal.
The Belmont vineyards near Port
Rova1, Va, will produce 10000 gallons
of wine this season.
Two men at the Burnett house, Oak
land, Pa, blew out the gas on retiring
and were suffocated.
W1ssis Isaas, all Indian murderer, was
sen ntenced to twenty wears in the Deniten-
tiary, IN Mer'dian' bliss.
A Negro somn*hbn1lst walked out OF
hospital window IN Vicksburg, ana