The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-02-18
NUMBER %.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.

Foreign. -
The Earl of Lonsdale is dead.
The Russian Prince Suworff is dead.
England is collecting Jew ish relief
fund.
Wales is to have Royal Academy of
Fine Arts.
The Papal Nuncio has been replaced
at Madrid.
The strike of the Madrid printers
continues.
There is a yellow fever epidemic at
Port -au-P Prince.
The last coffee crop of Brazil was an
almost total loss.
Berthold Aucrback, the German writer
and poet, is dead.
The Canadian Parliament opened at
Ottawa ON the 9th inst.
Egypt celebrated the return of the
Sacred Carpet February 12.
The Queen, by advice of her physicians,
will go to Mentone in March.
The Indian cotton crop this year will
be the largest ever recorded.
The Mexican President has entirely
recovered from his recent illness.
The difficulty between France and
Guatemala has been compromised.
The English press accuse Gladstone of
melting the Irish Home Rulers to
agitate. ..s
The insurgents in Yemen, Arabia, have
proclaimed descendant Of the nophes
as Caliph. .ana-5 a.t=.
The Pope is about to present Boston
church q fac smile Of the famous statue
Of St. Peter. 4F.
An explosion occurred in the Rhountka
Valley mine, England, in which six
people were killed.
The Pope has decided to prohibit the
prop, sed Spanish pilgrimage to Rome il
it has any political tendencies.
The golden wedding of the King and
Queen of Sweden will be celebrated at
Stockholm on the 5th of June.
An Italian vessel laden with a largo
quantity of arms for the Austrian in
surgents, was captured February 13.
England and France have sent q
collective note to the powers explaining
their attitude on the Egyptian question.
Mezzofanti, the Italian priest, became
. lingaist because in his youth he found
| it impossible to confess foreign sailor
who was dying. He now understands
64 languages and talks AZ.
Domestic
President Arthur still wears mourn-
John Kelly is to visit Florida for his
health.
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crevasse.
Petroleum oil has been discovered in
Colorado.
Relief is solicitedl for the Midlothian
mine sufferers,
Guiteal addresses an appeal for aid to
the American women.
The German carp planted in Tennessee
ponds do rot pcopogate- weH
Two Illinois girls are making a tour
through the West on bicycles.
Jennie Cramer's body is TO be re-
exhn1ned to search for more traces Of
arsenic. 5...
A rich copper mine has been redis-
covered in tho vicinity of Tucson p,
Arizona. a.
A fire in New York piano case
mannfactery destroyed Sl50, 900 worth of.
property.
Noble Batter, the we'll known compiler
Of school-boehs, died at Louisville
February 13.
Spa rks from locomotive set fire to o.
tank at Olean, n. T., containing los, ,o0o.
barrels of oil.
A murderer sentepecd ts be hanged in
March committed sUFeage III his-csM at,
Benton Scott, No.
Ten prisoners, FIVE Of whom were in
fer murder, broke jail at Little Rock ,,
Ark, February 13.
William Miller, "tbe oldest Mason II,
the United States," died IN Caldwell, ,.
Ohio, February 8, aged SO years.
The matron Of a Montreal Infants
asylum has been arrested for using
mustard plasters as means of ponisll~
ment.
A New York policeman WHO received
$500 for the capture of a murderer, gave
the entire amount to the widow of the
murdered man.
A lady at Wrightsville, Ga, was
poisoned by her sou through ths mistake
of druggist, who gave him morphine
instead Of auinine.
Ten barrels of apples we're handed ont
in the streets of Cleveland the other day. !.
On each apple was stencilled the adver-
| tisement Of a show.
| 1t took the colored Guiteau juror,
Wormsley, twelve days to learn how to
play poker, but he now holds the I. O.
US of his eleven companions.
The brother of Philadelphia thief
disposed of the complainant and person
ated him before the jury, giving such
an account as to clear the prisoner.
A c"nvict at Folsom, Cal, after nine
months Of hard night work, dug hole
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