The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-03-26
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.
Mr.. Edison is the owner of :,O1 r

eruption.
The hog cholera is raging in some parts
Of Tennessee.
Tho Savannah river rose twenty -four
feet in twelve hours.
Ono million dollars has been subscribed
to the worlds fair.
Mining matters in Arizona are reported
to be very active.
Vitriol throwing is becoming n very
common crime III Ohio
The Brooklyn bridge will be ready for
foot passengers by December.
Tho State Of Massachusetts forbils
pigeon shooting within its borders.
A thousand men are ont on a strike
from the iron-works at Springfield, III.
The Pennsylvania Central proposes to
experiment with electric railroad signals.
A requiem mass for the late Emperor
of Russia was celebrated at New York.
After all their liberal expenditures, tho
inaugural committee have IL surplus of
$4,000.
Tho four Negro mnrlerers of Miss Is
mael were lynchetl at Little Rock, Ark,
March II.
A lady committed suicide ut San An
tonic, Texas, twenty four hours after
marriage.
The husband of u sery persistent talk
er at Bangor, Maine, attempted to pull
cut her tongue.
Rome, Ca, is inundated by flood in
the Etowall river. Tho damage is esti-
mnted at $4,000
Newburyport, Mass, has Just had tho
largest fire it has known for seventy
years; loss $4,000
The New York Legislature has prohib
tied the l,sc Of Central Park for fairs un
der any circumstances.
A rabid horse seized COW by the neck
with his teeth, at Evansville. Ind, and
dragged her through the streets.
A Negro prisoner in Fort Worth, Tex,
Jail, was strung mp by fellow prisoners
and nearly strangled to death.
There is great excitement throughout
Clark county, Ark, in consequence Of
several recent deaths from hydrophobia.
The cowboys near Santa Cruz, Arizona,
are much worse than the Apaches, hav-
ing run off nearly all the stock in that
section.
The praries in Kerr county. Texas, are
on fire, and from kerrvillc to- Bocrnc the
whole country is lighted up ut night ;is
bright as day.
Foreign.
The illness of the king of Sweden and
Norway is thought to he alarming.
An attempt has been made to blow up
the residence of the Lord Mayor Of Lon
don.
Milk is sold by the pound in Montreal
at present. 1t is worth two cents n
pound.
The whole Germany army will 60 into
mourning for a month, ont of respect for
VIC 1"Io SAhI.
Princess Dolgourouki, morganatic wife
of the late Gar, has left St. Petersburg
and will not return.
1t takes four days to so through all
sthe rooms and apartments of the palace
of the Kings of Spain.
The German government refuses to al
low any person to lecture OH the subject
of emigration in Germany.
Count Hmlnbert Bismarck, son of
Prince Bismarck, has eloped with Prin-
cess Elizabetl, of Caralath Beuthcrs, wife
of Prince Charles of l'enthers.
At the instance Of the Russian minis
ter, the editor of Il Socialist newspaper
has been arrested at Copenhagen, and
will he prosecuted for insulting Russia.
When the custom officers of Leitl,, Ire
land, boarded :. vessel loaded with oil
cake from New Orleans, a bex was dis
covered containing several thousand
cartridges.
The last fire in Toxic, Japan, passed
over ten streets and consumed 1868
houses and twenty-five golowns. The
population rendered homeless b. the Ca
lamity was 1882
The tenor of Il recent Nihilist confrs-
sion is that five men We're detailed to
throw bombs. If the second had missed,
three others would have been tlrown
before the Gar reached the palace.