The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-12-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic,
New Jersey has a water famine.

Domestic
New Jersey has water famine.
Brick Pomeroy is o bankrupt at Den.
yer.
There are numerous cases of typhus
fever at Atlanta, Ga.
Mast, the caricaturist, has lost 10000
speculating in gold mines.
A clergyman in Canada was fined 81
and costs for kissing another mans wife.
Two young women, are conducting !
revival at the Waugh Methodist Church,
Washington.
Three we'll known and respected young
men of Dover, Ark, have been arrested
for burglary.
The editor of the Boonville, NO., Ness,
Grecnback paper, was shot and killed in
an alteration.
A new and fatal cattle disease has
made its appearance in the vicinity of
Dubuque, Iowa. @
Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey Lily, will
make her debut in . New York theatre
early in January.
Robert shelton Mackenzie, D. G. L..
writer and journalist, died at Philadel-
phia, November %.
The death is announced of Chipeo. the
noted Seminole chief, who was said to
be $50 years of age.
The greater portion Of the business
part Of Kosciusko, Miss, was destroyed
by fire November %.
! Gmteau's sister, Mrs. Scovillc. has
mortgagcd all her property to obtain
money for his defense.
All the cotton crop remaining un-
picked in South Carolina was completely
killed by the late frosts.
Chief Justice Gray Of Massachusetts
has recently decided that young women
are not eligible as lawyers.
Cyrus w. Field has bought the New
York Ezpress from John Kelly, aud will
consolidate it with the Evening Mail.
An attempt was made at Madison,
Ohio, to represent the assassination Of
President Garfield in the form of o ira
gedy.
A fire occurred in Baltimore harbor
November %, which consumed Russia,,
vessel aud four yachts and barges. Loss,
$4,000.
A train on the Colorado Central rail-
road was blown from the track Noveu-.
ber II, seriously ijaring several Of the
passengers.
William Jones' tl,e crank who attsmp-
tod to shoot Guitsan, has been indicts.l
by the Grand Jury for assault with
intent to kill.
"A traveller on the Ghieaeos sssl Altoas
railroad who contracted q cold on the
journey sued the roal sud has recovered
5000 damages. .
Foreign.
Tho Tunis expedition cost France
$l1 100000.
The President of Mexico has been
i'll.
The German Court has recently been
engaged in hunting.
An attempt has been made to assassi-
nate the Italian Premier.
The ability to swim is a condition Of
entry into the English navy.
London is to have q home for working
girls to he called Garfield House.
The Gear has been suffering from ex-
IRENE nervous excitement of late.
A monument to Victor Hugo is to DO
erected in his island home of Guernsey.
The treaty of commerce between
France and the Netherlands has boeu
,igned. =-s--ss
Spain and England are on friendly
;erms and oppose French invasion OF
Morocco.
Tho new carriage in which Mrs. John
". Mackey takes her airings in Paris
;ost $4,000.
The Bey of Tunis has appointed Col.
Allegro Governor of Gabes and the dis
riot bodering OH Tripoli.
Tho light house on Calf Rock, near
3antry Bay, has been washed away and
tx inmates have persisted.
Oscar Wilde, tho English aesthetic,
Vill visit America in December and
leiiver lectures on art subjects.
The Russian Nihilists recently attemp-
ed to set the Gatchinas palace on fire
y means of an explosive balloon.
The English government propose to
lispatch an expedition to the Arctic
cean for relief of Mr. Leigh Smith.
The Maltese are protesting against
aving the English Language forced
lpon them and will appeal to the Queen.
President Blanco of Venezuela mobi-
ized 10000 men and heavily guarded
is dwelling, anticipating revolntion.
Maltreatment of supposed witches by
he illiterats country people are still
bings Of frequent occurrence in Ger
aany.
It will take six months to remove the
imber blown down by the late hurricane
u the estates Of the Duke of Northum-
erland.
King John Of. Abyssinia has bees
presented with twenty-three cameIs,
aden chiefly with Bibles in the Amharic
anguage.