The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.
Berahardts health ia falling.
Pascal, the asted French sculptor. Il
dead.
An earthquake occurred or tie east
ooast of India, on the 3lst nit
DOyley Carte's new theatre iu Lon
don, the Savoy, IL lit by the electric
light.
Esposito denies ali charges preferred
against him except the seizure Of Mr..
Rose.
Jewish refugees from Russia ore arriv-
ing in Chicago faster than they can be
cared for.
The Emperor William has decided to
proclaim the Grown Prince Frederick
William Regent.
English companies repask American
pork to outwit the German laws against
its importation.
Tie twelve hundred miners engaged
in tho strike at Grand Comb, FRANCE.
have resumed work.
China hos . species of iisL that cross
the meadows from one creek to another.
often . nile apart.
The provisions of the naturalization
treaty with America have 6ually beea
extended all over Germany. -
III Japan spiders arc so troublesome to
the telegraph lines that mon are em-
ployed to keep the lines clear.
The report that an attempt was ma4ls
January 5 to steal the bodies OF Napoleon
III. aud the Prince Imperial has beea
eoutradioted.
At the approaching coronation Of the
Car and Czarina tho ivory throne Of
Constantine, the last Emperor Of Con.
stantinople, is to be used.
A Spanish noble, Count do San Auto.
nio, married lastsye Spanish woman
who has now petitioned the Civil Tribu-
nal of the Seine to annuI the innrriags,
on tho ground that tho Count 10 = wo-
man.
Domestic.
President Arthur wears mourning for
Gen. Garfield. -
Smoking IL not allowed ct polling
places in foston.
Missonri has twin revivalists, 4 hoy
and girl aged fourteen.
Santa Rita, Arizona, has : wa,aan
minor who is over 100 years old. s4f
The Atlanta Exposition. building hsa
been purchased for cotton mill.
A miser died in absolute want in Tols,
do, O., recently, leaving $25O,0Q0.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has bridal couplA
aged 86 and IS years respectively.
Sixteen prisoners escaped from the
fernando, Miss, Jail, December q.
Havemeyors sugar refinery, New York. !,
ourned to the ground Isnasryes. Loss
81, 500 ,0Dp. .a---v-s-- -s-=-2 I 1
4 st. topis pork, r~cklng satsblish-
ment burned to tho ground Jaaasry 81
Loss ~, 900. E
The first 4ongolian wedding held IN
this country has just been cslobr>tsd st
San Francisco. &.
The Attorney General Of Indiaua h.ss
decided that city Mayors esn not legslly B
marry people.
Gen. Garfield's funeral car il to be
inclosed in . handsome case. and pre-f
served in xcemetery. b
Government has ordered postnssstors
to suspsnd mail eospectjop with smalt
pox infected localities.
The merchants Of Macon, Ga, bellows
that when an Organ-grinder enters the
town the price Of cotton falls.
Scoville has been offered 1900 for tls
dead body Of Gpiteau, the purchaser to
take the risk Of his not being hanged,
The American Negroes now perfornaag
as minstrels in London, do not encounter
any of the social prejudice which they
are accustomed to at home.
Gov. Bigelow, of Connecticut, received
q snit at the Atlanta exrositjon m.ds
from cotton whieL was picked ten hours
before the snit was presented.
The Congressional Audit COMMITTEES
have received the bill Of expenses Of .
New England Congressman, who attep,
ded the President Garfield's funeral.
Guiteau In answer to . bailif who
tried to silence him said, " You arc moth
ing but y miserable underling. while 1
speak to $1,000, 900 of people when /
talk
Three boys at Oskaloosa, Ia, used .
powder magazine as . target, causing IN
explosion which killed them, ruined sew
eral houses and occasioued damages to
the amount Of $4,000.
An English woman after living tour
years in Portland, Oregon, aud managing
to acquire . gr9at deal IF knowledge
about the people, disguised herself - .
fortune teller, doing an enormous busi-
4 veteran Swiss watcllmakse claims
to have devised q means Of keeping