The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-11-06
NUMBER 9.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Iho uuhy vi DeTHHaFaG6 WarQrOD0
amounts to $500.
Five murders were committed in Dam
| vile, Va, in one night.
Six million croquet sets sold in one
year in the United States.
Florida has received 1s, 900 immigrants
within the last two years.
Tho annual tobacco income Of the
United States is about S22, ,O0O, 900.
Seven steamers arrived at New York
last week bringing over 5000 immigrants.
/ There are 348 convicts in the North
Carolina penitentiary. OF these $40 are
colored.
/ Watermelons were sold last week in
Deadwood with the snow six inches on
the ground.
Ulysses 8. Grant, Jr., was married
November |, to Fanny, daughter of Sem
| atos Chatfee Of Colorado.
| OF 5297 masters and pilots examined
for color blindness by the Marine Hos
pita1 Service, 115 were found to be color
blind.
A herd Of 1900 head of cattle stampeded
near Fort Niobrara during the storm Of
the fifteenth, and nothing mas been heard
of them since.
For the last five years it has cost $12,-
200 annually to light Salt Lake city with
gas. An electric light company offers to
light the city with electricity for the
next five years for $500 year.
AZ motor yacht without steam now
makes her way about Boston harbor. 1t
is worked by compressed air petroleum
engine, which a common match can bring
instantly into full working power.
i The steamer Robert Mitchell, en- route
from Cairo to New Orleans, struck snag
at Fox Island, sixty miles below Mem
phis, on the 3rl instant, and sank imme-
diately. All the freight in the hold will
be lost. On tho 4th the Ouachita Belle
met with q like accident Within two
hundred yards Of the Mitchell, and sank
in ten minutes. The boat will be total
| loss.
/ Foreign.
Mount Vesuyins continues in active
eruption.
The Royal Library of Berlin has just
completed its third century.
/ Princess Olga, youngest daughter Of
4 ~--~---,rfe % rss7so, 70 s<erss1. zs
| On the srd instant Il typhoon passed
over Yokohama, Japan; great many
lives were lost.
i Dumas has written pamphlet defend
ing the women who kill and the women
who want to vote.
Three.English vessels sustained disas-
ters at sea during the recent gales, and
put into Bermuda in distress.
I The bark Tordenskjold, from Rotter-
dam for Savannah, sprung a leak at sea
and put into Brest for repairs.
The recent hurricane on the southern
and eastern coast Of England was unpre-
cedented for severity and duration.
The coasting steamer Elmore was lost
; i'll the recent gale off the mouth Of the
Tyne, with all hands, numbering fifteen
, persons.
Thirteen men were precipitated to the
bottom of colliery shaft and killed, by
the breaking of the hoisting apparatus
at Mons, France.
Bandits robbed the church of Mezqui-
tan, Jalisco, Mexico, very recently, car
ryirg off the sacred vessels, plate, etc,
to the value of some 1850 pesos.
Another terrific hurricane, accompa-
MED by q binding snow storm, has
passed over Denmark. Railways are
; blocked and scores Of wrecks are re-
ported
From 81, 900 900 to $4,000 900 worth Of
birds nests arc yearly imported into
Canton, most of them coming from Java.
They are very expensive, costing from
$50 to = 10 per pound. The nests are COM
posed Of pure gelatine, secreted by a spe-
cies of swallow and deposited against
> the wall.
Brazil and the Argentine Republic
have lately been afflicted with simulta.
neous disasters. The latter recently had
a terrific snow storm, which in one prov
!" ince destroyed, it is estimated, 1,450,000
cattle, horses and sheep; the former has
had river inundations that destroyed
houses, mills and crops by the hundreds
This fiood occurred while our rivers were
running dry.
The Spanish Minister of the interior
has addressed circular to the Governors
-, of the Provinces warning them that an
Spain to contract for Spanish emigrants
:, to go to Louisiana 20 work on pIanta.
tons at wages too low for living ex-
penses and recommending that the Gov
ernnrs persuade emigranss to go to Cuba
in preference to any other country.
Il 0pelousas Courier: The cars are bring
g ing up a largo quantity of eross-ties
e twenty-five car loads comirg up or
!. wednesday evening. The most of ths
, lumber for the depot will he brought nj
e by next Monday or Tuesday, and tia
y mechanics will Immediately commene.
g it's erection. It will be large building
! complete in all of the appointments O.
Il taste, comfort, aud storage, and will bt
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