The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
Foreign.

England bugs American beef for the
navy.
Rome has erected memorial tablet 10
Sir Walter Scott.
Charles Darwin, the noted scientist
aud author, is dead.
The number Of arrests under the coer.
! cion act up to last week was 9l8.
| Fifteen persons have been killed BIZ
colliery explosion at West Stanley.
The Artic exploring ship Rodgers was
wrecked off the coast Of Siberia.
The second execution in three years
has just taken place in Versailles.
A law enforcing surnames on Mussul-
men has just been enforced in Algiers.
Cardinal McCabe is seeking support
from the Pope on the Irish land question.
EacLean, the Queens assailant, has
been acquitted on the ground of insanity.
A loaded pistol was unpacketi from
some American cotton atsRayton, Eng
! land.
The King Of Italy has presented Gen.
di Cesnola with superb gold medal Of
honor.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
approved the Franco-Spanish CONNER.
cial treaty.
The Emperor of Russia has suthoriM&
the building of private Russian theatre
| at Moscow.
/ France has made overtnres with view
to the appointment of Halem Pasha as
Khedive of Egypt.
The centenary celebration of the death
CT the poet Metastasio at Rome, has been
put off for q year.
Lord Crawford has appealed to the
Spiritualists to assist in the discovery of
the late Earfs body.
One of the wealthiest landlords in Con-
| naught, being boycotted, is now driving
London omnibus.
Each compartment Of the trains be-
tween Paris and Gretz, France, is lighted
by all electric light.
/ The sardines have deserted the shores.
of Brittany and the fishermen are in dan.
ger Of absolute want.
/ A Hun garian giant and Prussian
1 giantess are soon to be married at Berlin.
Each is over eight feet i,igh.
4 The wedding Of Princess Msria ol
scl,oa to the Crown Prince of Abyssinia
! took place a few weeks ago in Aukobar
!, The new great bell of St. Paups is too
7 heavy to go by rail to London, and a car
, riage is being constructed to carry it By
road.
u An association has been formed at Dns-
seIIoff, sHsIsssss.s- .aasuls1a1s-
the number of school hours and introduce
English outdoor games.
Russian troops are accused of aiding
in plundering the Jews. A thousand
houses have been destroyed, the damages
amounting to 4, 4,5OO, 900 roubles.
| When the Madrid composi.ors struck
lately, the President and Secretary of the
trade union were thrown into Jail, and
all soldiers, sailors, and civil servants
who could set type put at the service Of
the newspapers.
| Domestic.
Jesse James is buried in his mothers
front yard.
Continent small pox has broken out in
Bermuda, Virginia.
! A couple aged 54 and 90 years eloped
| at Coyington, KY, recently.
Madison, Ohio, boasts Of a tivemonths-
old Iaby who walks and talks.
The Rhode Island Legislature is being
pressed to pass a prohibitory liquor law.
The boiler of the paper mill at sedalia,
Mo-, exploded, causing the loss Of $500,
coo.
Georgia doctors are going to petition
the Legislature to establish an inebriate
asylum.
Augusta, Atlanta, Cairo and Crystal
Springs were visited by tornadoes, last
Sunday.
A Vermont genius has invented a clock
which works out the assassination OF
Garfield.
Mrs. Pierce Of Galveston, Texas, stran-
gled her three children and then com
mitted suicide.
> Eleven deaths occurred at Brownsville,
Mo-, from injuries received during the
, i tornado Of April 90.
:, Tie son of the woman who mado the
first United States flag is an inmate ol
tie San Francisco poorhouse.
Il.inuis is abont to donate the Henepil
: canal to the United States, to be main
tanned rs public highway.
- The Ford boys, who killed Jesse James
- were tried, convicted, sentenced ant
= pardoned at st. Joseph. No., April II.
= A fsisky colt SHE'D so violently, at Har
rison, Mich, as to break til. neck Of th'
young man who was holding the halter
:, An office for the purpose Of impartin:
information to travellers has been opene'
!, in the Pennsylvania railroad station il
- Philadelphia.
. The prize beauty of F"repangh's ciren
PROFESSIONS has compromised with th
,s railway company which she was suin,
to for damages, for $1,000.
OF The son of wealthy st. Louis ban
q president, during spree in Cincinnati
e. spent money 40 freely that the police
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