The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-13
NUMBER 36.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
foreign.

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Tremendous snow storms have occurred
in the Alps.
Russian costumes are the order of the
day at the Cars court.
Queen Victoria is going to mako a
state visit to Epping Forest.
/ A $25, 900 piano is the Prince of Wales
wedding present to Leopold.
u America has contributed $1,000 to the
Dean Stanley memorial fund.
/ The upper house of the Prussian Diet
has passed the ecclesiastical bill.
Princess Victoria, wife of Crown
Prince Frederick William, has son
| A shock of earthquake was recently
felt in the canton of Valois, Switzerland.
Seven persons have been killed by an
explosion in the Victoria colliery, near
Leeds.
The remains of Lieut.. De Long and
ten other Arctic explorers have been
found
Young, who recently threatened the
life Of the Queen, has been committed
for trial.
Three lady Land Leaguers were ar
rested in London and sentenced to six
months imprisonment
| A bill to enable the burial of a suicide
in a churcbyard, with the usual service,
is about to be introduced into the British
Commons.
Lord Frederick Cavendish, the secreta-
ry of Ireland, and Under Secretary Burke
were assassinated by disguised men in
Ph@nix Park, near Dublin. April 6.
At st. Petersburg four functionaries of
| the Ministry Of Domains have beer,
sentenced to deprivation of the rank of
nobility and exiled for the embezzlement
Of State money
Domestic.
Cadet Whitaker is in Chicago looking
for employment.
San Francisco has a bureau for ex-
changing bric-a-brac.
Gov. Roberts Of Texas says he would
walk rather than ride on q railroad pass.
| Atlanta officers are tracking q man 100
years old who has murdered his seventh
wife.
Enemies of farmer at York, Me-,
hanged his horse to the rafters of his
stable
A bill to restore capital punishment in
Wisconsin failed to pass the last Legis-
lature.
A convicted Negro st. Louis murderer
started revival in the interval before
| his hanging.
The Pittsbnrg court house was injured
!, by fire last Sunday to the amount of
100000.
A Philadelphia brute killed his moth
er, 60 ears of age, by crushing her skull
with hatchet
A fire at Racine, Wis, last Saturday
destroyed fifteen acres of buildings.
Loss $75O,O0o.
Two Episcopal rectors in Iowa have
sued their backward congregations for
arrears of salary.
The Legislature of Maine is consider
ing a law to publish apothecaries who
make fatal mistakes.
The families of two men lynched for
cattle stealing at Pueblo, Cal, have sued
the county for $50 900.
A st. Louis dog, recently deceased,
was the owner of house and lot left
him by former master.
The Chicago Grand Jury declare that
gambling is at present protected by the
police power Of the city.
The pastor of II colored Methodist
church at Mitchell, Ind, is accused of
attempting to poison his wife.
Three Negro prisoners set fire to the
Jail at Brookhaven, Miss, hoping to
escape, and were roasted alive.
The railroad bridge over the James
river, and forty buildings were destroyed
by fire at Richmond, March 26.
A Louisville woman, fearing that her
adopted child would be taken from her,
killed it and attempted suicide.
Over forty slides occurred in Lake aud
Mill Creek, California, in three days,
burying i'll all thirty -eight persons.
The colored people of Eufalua, Ala
bama, are trying to get up all excursion
to Washington to see Guiteau hing.
A Brevard, Florida, farmer has real
lied forty-fve barrels of syrup from
patch of cane planted seven years ago.
A wonderful discovery of native cop
per aud silver, twelve miles southwest
Of Laramie City, Wyoming, has been
made.
A little child at Orange, Florida, WAS
burned to death one day last week by q
coal Of fire dropping in the cradle from
its nurses pipe.
Some long forgotten heirs are laying
claim to fifteen acres of land in the heart
of Philadelphia, valued at the neat sum
of S315, ,O00, 900.
Eight employees Of the New York Cen
trail Railroad have been convicted of
breaking open case of goods aud appro-
priating the contents.
The bride at a Bay City, Mich, we'd
ding submitted to kissing only on condi-
ton that they were paid for at 81 each.
and S132 was realized for charity.
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