The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-31
GENERALNEws SUMMARY.
Foreign.

Foreign.
Esposito's trial has begun at Palermo.
The Mount st. Gothard tunnel !. oor,.
pleted..
Berlin is laying wooden pavements In
its streets.
The ex-Empress Eugenie is In serious-
y broken health.
Mexican vigilantes have Iynched three
noted Texas bandits.
Admiral Juarez, French ambassador ae
Madrid, has resigned.
The plagne has been spread by tho
caravans from Mecca.
The Khedive opened tho Assembly Of
Mobiles on Monday last.
Three large Tunisian tribes still hold
out agsinst the French.
The London AtAeaneam has had Che
same publisher since 1881.
The Destsche zsitssg of Vienna offers .
prize for good national song.
Women Land Leaguers who violate tho
laws in Ireland will he imprisoned.
Gen. Trevino has resigned tho port
folio Of the Mexican War Department.
Viscount Helms.ey, Conservative men,
ber of Parliament for Yorkshire, is dead.
Gnatemala wants the United States to
guarantee her against invasion by Mex-
leo.
Over 400 persons were drowned By the
bursting of the dam at Perrexaux, Al
giers.
Only IA of the victims of the Ring
Theatre holocaust have been identified
by friends.
The flood at Oran, Algiers, having sub
sided, 2O1 bodies have been recovered in
the plain of Habra.
Queen Victoria attended play given
at her sons Scotch home, and was his
partner in the dance.
The Emperor Francis Joseph will erect
memorial chapel on the site of the
burned Ring Theatre.
Efforts are being made in Bohemia to
have tho distribution Of blood and thun-
der romances prohibited by law.
he Russian authorities arc consider
ing the project Of organising 5 military
settlenent on tho Chinese frontier q 81
beria.
An explosion has occurred ata eolliery
IN Bolton, England, aud $50 lives were
lost. A few hours later an explosion In
the orrell pit took place, killing thirty
three hands.
Domestic.
Iowa's new Capitol cost 81 ,sOO, 900.
Galveston is to have Catholic Bishop.
Boston is shipping qnail to Liverpool.
Malignant scarlet fever prevails in
New York.
One-fourth Of the population of Idaho
are Mormons.
Jay Gould has bonght the New York
Grand Opera House.
Atlanta has appropriated $1,000 for
purposes.
Tho losses by the recent fire in New
York arc estimated at 81, ,0OO, 600.
The railroad bridge ut Cythiana, Ky,
has been washed away by the foods.
0uitean arose in court and wished tho
American people happy Christmas.
Senator Butler of South Carolina, il
directly related to noble English faini-
y.
A portion of Marlin, Texas, was do
'troyed by fire, Christmas day. Loss,
560, 600.
San Antonio, Texas, counts up twenty
one accidents from toy pistols Christmas
The United States will pay all expen-
ses incurred by the saved crew of the
Jeanette.
The wife Of ofex-Justice Swayne Of tho
United States Supreme Court died De-
cember g.
A prominent physician of Pine Bluff,
Ark, was murdered by an Injured
Chinese husband.
There are two Congressmen and
Senator now serving who commenced
life as pages in the national House.
A gentleman in Rochester, N. r.,
seizes and destroys any obscene litera-
ture he finds upon the rews stands.
The Congressional auditing committee
report that the expenses Of Gen. Gar
fields illness will be about 41O0, 600.
A discrepancy has been discovered in
the accounts Of the late 0 Treasurer
now Governor Of Ark ansas.
The hotel at Columbus, and high
,chool at Atlanta, Ca, were destroyed
BY fire December %. Total loss, s67 600.
Los Angeles, Cal, ministers have
signed an agreement not to perform the
ceremony for divorced persons.
A 7-year-old boy, in Harrisburg, Pa,
died from brain fever caused by stand
ing too long on his head while playing
circus.
The railroad laborers at Cornwall, N.
T., engaged in q serious riot, December
26, in which several men were fatally
The comic singer of q variety show
read the service for the dead in Cincin-
natl at the funeral Of member of the
A Coroner's jury at Brackett, Texas,