The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-01-22
NUMBER 20.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.


Philadelphia has fourteen-year-old
murderer
Pehsaco'a's burnt district is being rap
idly rebuilt.
The Oldest house in the United States
was built in 1929.
Reinhart, the wife murderer. was
hanged January 13.
Twelve men were injured by a powder
explosion at Detroit.
In November, 1918 emigrants came to
the United States.
Ohio has $85 1903, ,7o5 worth of property
exempt from taxation.
Shepherd cowley's term having ex-
pred ne was released recently.
The Mobile Cowbellions celebrated
their fiftieth anniversary January
The Federal loss during the war was
s27 600; the Confederate nearly 1000.
New York Central railroad has snh-
scribed s250,000, to the projected Worlds
Fair.
One of tho workmen was torn tn
pieces In the Pittsfield paper mill. re-
Gently.
The Dundee canal at Passaic, N, J..
gave way January Z, causing 100000
damages.
A woman at Abingdon, Va, poisoned
her brother for marrying against her
wishes
The elevated railroads in New York
are thoroughly demoralized by the cold
weather.
The ice mountains in front of Niagara
falls have reached height of upward Of
100 feet.
Painting tho corpse is new improve
ment introduced in some cities by fash
ionable undertakers
A cotton mill in Atlanta is compelled
to run day and night in order to meet
the demands of its customers.
Names nine-year-old murderer is con-
victed of manslaughter and sentenced to
a reform school for twelve years.
Great damage has been done to tho
South Carolina cotton and rice crops
from the protractcd wet weather.
1t is stated that during last year there
were twenty seven murders in San Fran
cisco, and not a murderer convicted.
There are localities in the West and
Northwest where scarcity of fuel has
forced people to burn corn this season.
One Thousand feet Of railway wharf
has been carried away by the batterinrg
of outfiowing ice, at Sandy Hook, N. ].
The colored men of virginia are to
hold convention in Petersburg, March
Ia, to consider their political condition
and how they may improve it.
A Negro woman in Atlanta, Ga, went
to fair, leaving her two little children
locked in room, and upon her return
found them frozen to death.
Foreign.
England supports x, 600 hounds.
The cradle Of the infant Princess of
Spain cost $14OO.
Fifty thousand Lancashire miners have
struck for better wages.
There are ninety-six deaf-mute schools
i'll the German Empire
The Parisians arc soon to hear "Pina-
fore u for the fret tiu,o zzs 20
The marriage of the Crown Prince of
Austria has been postponed.
1nfanticide is still common in India.
though only girls are murdered.
In speaking to the Prince of Wales
the mobiles of England say "Sir.D
Over 240O German students have signed
an anti-Jewish petition to Prince Bis
marck.
The funeral Of Blanqni, the noted
Communist, was attended by 10000
people.
| Methodist mission for training na-
tive preachers is in successful operation
in Japan.
Russia has hundred first-class tor
pedo boats, France fifty and England
nineteen.
Upwards of million peasants arc in
absolute want in the province of Sam
ara, Russia. ri
i AJapanese coasting steamer fouudered
in the Inland sea and sixty -four lives
were lost.
The Fenians have made an attempt to
blow up the armory of the infantry bar
racks at Sanford, England.
! Ten thousand copies of Lord Beacons-
, fields Endynaioa were sold in London on
the day Of publication.
, Queen Victoria has placed Osborne
Cottage at the disposal Of the Empress
Eugenie fer few weeks.
/ Gen. Gonzales is tho first Mexican Pres
D i,ient under the constitution of 1857 vino
has peacefully succeeded to the chair.
+ Tho Earl of Dunmore's concerts arc a
: feature Of the musical season in London.
The Earl conducts the orchestra in person.
Ten tons Of cake and 6O,0tO oranges
:, have been ordered for tho celebration oi
tho thirteenth birthday Of Rothcl,ild's
;, heir. -
b Prince Leopold of Hohenzol!ern ha,
!! renouncea his right of succession to th.
: throne of RoulEani. III favor of his eldest
,s son.
Q FIRES:
. Twenty-Five stores at Dnrl.am, N. C..