The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-06-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

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forged checks.
ANorth Carolina man swallows a hand
fnl of gravel after every meal
Congressman s. S. Cox has gone to
Europe on pleasure trip.
The Whitaker court-martial will cost
the government 100000. -....
An epidemic of hy.lrophobia is prevail
ing at Mineral Springs, Ark.
A new church, with no creed, has been
formed at Willimantic, Conn.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is very i'll at
her sisters home in Springfield, Ill.
A nephew Of Ben Butler is to be hanged
at Colorado Springs June II, for murder.
John r. Raymoud's mother-in-law,
Rose Eytinge, is six months his junior,
A woman of North Troy, VT, is asking
a divorce after fifty years of married life.
A girl at Itasca, Mimi, sat on the lap
of discarded lover and cut his throat
Will, razor.
An incentliary fire at Sau Marcial, New
Mexico, destroyed every business heuss
in the town.
The Congregational Church at Hol-
brook, Mass, has been seeking q paster
for nine years.
Professor Proctor says the fifteen
puzzle" blocks are susceptible of q, ,92,-
789, 1888 different positions.
An actor descended from the stage at
indianapolis and whipped a man who
was ridiculing his performance.
Robert Lindsay, the perjurer III the
Chinese letter case, has been sentenced
to the State prison for eight years.
A pastor at Danville, VT, denounced
the taking Of summer boarders, as city
sins were propagated by the guests.
The army in Richard Ill" at CHI
eaco theatre, refused to fight the battle OF
Bosworth field until stheir wages were
paid.
On and after June 1st no printing or
writing, except addresses, will be per-
mitted upon the address side OF postal
cards.
country woman from West Cornwall,
N. Y, attempted to enter the cars
through the window, never having seen
train before.
During a recent Galveston circus show,
the giant welded the fat woman and the
Evino skeleton became the husband Of
the Circassian girl.
A poor fisherman of Tallahassee, Fla,
while digging worms tor beat tho "'h"r
,, day, struck a brass kettle that was found
. to contain s14O0 i'll coin.
All day and night the police and fire
brigades watched Tuna Creek, Bradford,
Pa. which was covered with the contents
of 30 900 barrels Of oil from bursted
, tank.
/, At the unvailing of the statue OF Adj
, miral Farragut, i'll Washington, the
midshipman were kept standing ono
hour in the broiling sun, at the order OF
"attention" instead of "parade rest
several tainted.
! Foreign.
5 Beaconsiield is to have monument.
e Japanese dinnor parties have hvo
t courses of soups.
: Prince Milan will probably be crowned
!, King of Seryia in August.
q There were no relatives present al
J. Lord Beaconsfeld's death.
$ A woman was arrested in Germany re-
8 Gently for practicins witchcraft.
J., Tie Empress of the West, the principal
h of the two dowagers regent OF China, ~
! dead.
a .Joseph X. Emmct has been put III =
t lunatic asylnm at Liverpool OH account
y of alcoholism.
|, Sara Bernhardt is to marry William
i Angelo, who has been travelling with
Il her iii America.
s De Lesseps is to cut canal through
n the Isthmus of Corinth, which will be
It completed i'll 1857.
v In the museum of antiquities I'M
% eartled at Pompcii is a bowie knife Of
70 the American pattern.
o A Belgian peasant contributed his do
O mestic troubles to witchcraft, and burned
h !. woman to proptiate the spirits.
t. Tie Empress of Russia las been suffer
d ing from severe hysteric attacks cvcf
IS since the assassination Of the Gar
s. The Princess Dolgorouki, beside in
e Vulnerable Jewels and other souvenirs,
d has received from the late Car a legacy
X of about S10,0O0,0OO.
Z. The blue ribbon Of the Garter left va
cant by Lord Beacontieid's death is like
ly TO be given either to the Duke Of Ar
;, ryll or to Lord Rosebcry.
- Switzerland prohibits the sale Of to
of bacco to minors under fifteen years OF
= age and makes it an oifcnse against
the law for them to smoke.
II At the Cars residence at Gatfhino =
n subterranean passage leads from his bed
q room to the stables, where Il number OF
: horses are kept sa.l.lled day and night.
. In Russia matrimony is under the
;, rigid surveillance of the police and eael
,narraseable man mnst marry the eldcs!
!, eligible orphan in the district of his class
HolscIla-Allmet, who was sentenced IL
imprisonment for life for hasin. trans
lated the Bible into Turkish, and Il"
having circulated! it in the States ut ih'
Sultan, escaped from the prison at Cha
.,, after the earthquake.
The Russian cZallna is said to be il