The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-04-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
Foreign.

: Foreign.
Partisan women are learning to feuce.
J Beaconsfield's diary is to be published.
Prince Bismarck is writing his me-
moirs.
Zola's "Nana" is not allowed to be
published in Prussia.
t Prince Bismarck is preparing q bill for
increasing the tobacco tax.
| Count Johanani, Italian Minister to
Mexico committed suicide.
| The Princess Dolgorouki, the late
Cars widow, wintered in Paris.
Count Waleijiff is to succeed Gen. Igna-
teitf as Russian Minister of the Interior.
A Clergyman at Carlton, England, has
been arrested for setting fire to his own
church.
Mile. Jeanne Bonaparte, was married
March %, to Marquis DeVilleneuve
Pargemont.
The ghost of Alexander II is SAIL to
haunt the altar Of the Cathedral OF st.
Petersburg.
Forty-elght Italian theatres have been
closed during the present season as finan-
cial failures.
The Aeronautical Society Of Berlin
| hope next year to hold an exhibition of
| aerial inventions.
The Spanish government is about to
open negotiations with France for a un-
mel through the Pyrenees.
The Queen is petitioning Parlia ent
to grant q provision for Prince Leopold
upon his approaching marriage.
Liepsie has just celebrated the four
hnndretth anniversary Of the introduc-
ton OF printing into that town.
The Leeds telegraph office transmit ted
TO the London papers on one night OF the
Gladstone ovation over half millio Of
words.
One of the soldiers who figured in the
famous charge of the Light Brigaf1e ut
Balaklava has just died in Canterbury,
England.
Parliament has just received Ital,A
new code Of commercial laws, the pre- D.
ration of which has occupied more til n
ten years.
The French government has introduc d
new bill allowing witnesses to prom 9
on their honor aud conscience to spe (
the truth.
Ex-King Amadeus was recently robb d
by one of his servants in his palace : t
Tarin of 100, 900 francs worth of iewe I
and silver.
Some British shipowners have begnl
to man their vessels with Negro seamel
exclusively, the officers alone being
white men.
Owing to lack of unity amons
American publishers, the copyright treaty
between England aud Americ;. has bee
suspended.
A luckless Bavarian private was SO
tenced to three days imprisonment fu,
I" unbecoming behavior toward an Off
GERS horse"
The Car visited his fathers tom
March Ii, and anniversary services were
held in Berlin, Paris, London and Cor
The Ni!ilists are determined to aba,-
don their policy of assassination. In,-
perial clemency will consequently lie ex
tended to prisoners.
The German Emperor has pardon
the Russian Prince Eristotf, who w
to two years imprisonment
lcirautling Il jeweler.
Indictments have been found agail
eight persons charged with having c.
tribnted by their negligence to tile cat
tropi,e at the Ring Theatre.
Emperor William, it'll his recent spet
mentioned the death of President &
field, who was the peoples choice,
showing the peril to which rulers
exposed.
An act is aboat to be introduced
The French Chambers giving the inu
pal authorities the power to deal s.
gently with parents who neglect
offspring morally and physically. e'
A burning programme was drol
Frpu the gallery Of the Volks The.
Copenhagen, and, aIishtiug on a la
read, burned off her bonnet and Mt
III her hair before the flames coul