The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-26
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic

| s Domestic
| Another comet has been discovered.
Patti will sing for tho Michigan relief
fund.
Nov Hampshins bas had another shsDk
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A Newton, n. J., man, has just finished
. fast of 1O7 days.
The government will Pay the expenses
of Guisan's witnesses.
A patent for steering ships by electric
! ity has been taken out. @
The old State House ut Austin, Texss,
has been destroyed by FIRE.
Beechsr has retired from the editorial
chair Of the Christias Un;o..
The Ohio Insane Asylum was destroyed
by fire November u. Loss $f5O,OOO.
A recent incsndiary FIRE destroyed two
thirds Of the town of Edge6eld, s. c.
Over $50, 600 have been subscribed to
tho Garfield Memorial Hospital fund.
Another attempt to assassinate Guitcan
was made by an unknown man, Novsm-
her 10. -
A seventeen year old girl 10 on trial se
Little Rock for stabbing young con''
panion during quarrel.
Twenty -four persons have been AZ
rested in Sayannsh, Ca, for conpliei'y
in the murder Of one man.
Gniteaa says he ought not be trie, for
murder, ns it was the doctors who killed
thealate President by malpractice.
During fracas among circus employ
ccs ut Atlanta, Ga, a bear and lIoRcsSf.
escaped; the latter is still,at large.
A colored man at Americas, Ga,
whipped his step-daughter sto death.
The flesh was beaten from her body.
A law Of the Michigan State Normal
School forbids the lodging Of male and
female students in the same building.
The yertebrae Of the late President
Was produced in court to elucidato to the
Guiteau jury the course Of the bullet.
| A convict escaped from tho Logan
county, Ark, Jail by leaving his mothse
in the cell and putting he1 clothes on.
| Asoupis had taken their places before
a clergyman to be married, at LowviiSe
N. T., when a quarrel arose about the
handling Of the ring, and tho wedding
was postponed indefinitely.
Awoman wss found in > Dallass Tsxaa,
barn dead from starvation Her hns.
band was lying sick, and three snaal'
children half-starved and nearly naked
were around the dead mother.
/ Foreign. GO
Cremation is gaining ground in Hun
gary.
The Mecca cholera epidemic IS daily
increasing.
The japanese have invested rifles
made Of silk.
Two Italian villages wero destroyed
by fire October IS. - = g
The city Of Culiaeaa, Mexico, 10 being
scourged By smsll. pox.
A plo. to proclaim Ireland Repnslis
has Just been discovered.
! famine is feared in Northern Russia,
because Of the failure Of crops.
Steamboats, are taking the place OF
gonllolas on tho Grand Canal, Venies.
Mexican pickpockets a'nuse them
selves stealing the pistols from poi'ce-
men.
LEROY, who nurdcred.Nr. 0oeain Tho
Brighton train, has beon sentenced to
death.
The notion prevails in China and
Japsn that Grant is the Emperor OF
America.
The S,affordshire employees are Co.'S
templating a strike which viii effect
5O,O 900 hsnds.
Hughenden House, the home Of Dis
rasli, has sn..leascd by an Australian
bonanza king.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever, and. small
pox arc devastating the centre and
south Of R,ssia.
English mill owpers are complaining
Of the presence of sand in bales OF
American cotton.
Over 500. lives were lost during the
hurricane which visited Mazatlan, Mex.
leo, September %.
There have been . series Of curious
earthquakes at Chios, aud the village is
sinking into the earth.
The siamese Princes, before leaving
Paris, bought $50 pianos for the hareas
of their august brother.
The London Standard has tiss best ar-
rangements for American news Of any
daily paper in England.
Cigars aud silk are being smuggfed
into Russia, coneealetl in the lining OF
the furnaces and boilers of locomotives.
The Shah of Persia recently had .
tooth extracted aud received 5000 ducats
from his faithful subjects as "congratu-
latory offerings
On October f6 the King Of Ashauteo
killed 200 ySang girls to procure blood
for mixing mortar for repair Of one Of
the State buildings.
During ehs Lord Naxer's proceaio
held in London, November Q, the Stars
aud Stripes were carried while ths bssad
n.z.na