The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-01-08
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Domestic.
p. T. Barnum is seriously III.
New York is lighted by electricitys
1854 patents were granted during the
last fiscal year.
Dakota asks for admission to tho
Union rs State.
Cattle froze in the streets Of Meridian,
Miss, December 80.
A remnant of Victoria's band are doing
much damage to Mexico.
During the last year 1876 miles Of now
railroad have been built il this country.
America subscribed $3,0OO,0O to the
Panama Canal, the first day the books
were opened.
A wealthy Cincinnatian left his entire
estate, valued at 100000, to build .
home for aged Negroes.
There were 300 disasters last year on
the seaboard and the lakes, by which
only nine lives were lost.
Seventy different species Of vegetables
With over 400 varieties, are grown in tho
gardens Of the United States.
A fund Of 100000 has been raised in
Philadelphia,, and will be presented to
General Grant within short time.
Iron is rolled 80 thin at the PittsburR,
Pa, iron mills that Il, 600 sheets arc re-
qnired to make single inch in thickness.
A resolution has been introduced In
the House to place General Grant on the
retired list with the rank and pay of
General.
The American Land League proposes
to seNl several eminent lawyers to IRE
| land rs counsel for the indicted Land
Leaguers.
Messrs. Moody aud Sankey spent eigh.
teen days in Salt Lake City, holding
crowded meetings daily aud making >
strong impression upon the Mormons.
Foreign.
Africa has $4,000 Protestant converts.
The number Of Prussian Iuillionsires ID
only 1885.
Flogging is soon to be abolished in tho
British Navy.
Mr.. Moody's sermons have been t.aus-
lated into Arabic.
Mrs. Lynn Linton, tho clever novelist,
is very i'll in Florence.
England imports bacon to the value Of
CSC, ,O00, 900 per annum.
Ex-Queen Isabella has invested largely
in Panama Canal stock
| The sale of Disraeli's Endymion reached
&, 1000 copies in one fortnight.
Woolwich, England, has sent 20,0O0
rounds of buckshots to the troops in Ire
land.
Louis August Blanqui, the noted Com
munist and Socialist agitator, died re-
Gently.
At the Russian Winter Palace there 10
room full of diamonds, pearls aud
other precious stones. ma.
| Women Of England have formed . wo-
mans prayer union to pray dsily fer the
200, ,0O0,OW women of China.
A magnificent and complete statue Of
Minerva Victorious, . masterpiece Of
Phidias, has just been discovered.
Within the last twenty six years nearly
sc, 900 children have been removed from
New York city to Western homes. =,
The night population Of tho city Of
London, consisting of csretakers Of prop
erty and the humber classes, Is liz, ,367.
The English Church Missionary So
ciety labored for twenty years before it
could report one convert. Now it reports
10000.
All Prussian towns of over 5000 in.
habitants are to unite in giving Prince
William wedding present Of msgnif-
cent plate.
It is said that Lord Beacons6eld will
have another novel ready next year, and
that he has made mp his mind never to
accept Office again.
Our export trade in beef has been much
injured by English butchers, who soil
their customers damaged meat under the
name Of American beef.
For the seventh time in his career ~
a Freemason. His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales has been nominated for
the Office Of Grand Master Of the Order
throughout the United Kingdom.
FIRES:
St. Louis wire mill loss SIS 900.
Table factory, New York loss, 410O, COO
Distillery at Waco, Texas loss, 81, GOO.
Several stores at Calvert, Texas; loss,
$4,000.
Greater portion of Elkhart, Texas; los,
1000.
Millinery establishment at Toledo; loss.
$4,000.
Machine shop at Marshall, Mich; loss,
100000.
Merchants block, Mystic River, Conn.,;
loss, $4,000.
Lathe factory at East Hampton, Conn.,; !;
loss, so, 600.
Stores and residences at Brownsville,
Texas; loss, $4,000.
Forgstsulnsss Of People.
We would not, by enticing headings and
other devices lead you into reading Of the
virtues possessed by Pieree's Celebrated
Medicines were it not that We are aware Of
the forgetiuiness of people, and that must
| be our excuse dear render, for again telling
YOU that DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis