The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-07-22
NUMBER 46.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Dom este.

baltimore Claims tile best OF free eXcur-
sion societies.
The New York Herald has reporter on
the Invincible ut Alexamdria.
The first wife Of Brigham Young died
at Salt Lake City last week.
Warrants have been issued for the ar
rest of the pilots of the Sciota.
Fourteen Pennsylvanians have started
on a pedestrian tour to Niagara.
Chief Engineer Melville has been
granted permission to return home.
Mrs Lincoln, widow Of the late Presi-
dent, died in Springfield, ILL.,, July 16.
On one IF the street railroads in Chi 80
cago the cars are drawn by wire cables.
Mrs. Scoville demands her brothers
body and offers it to the highest bidder.
A son of the late President Tyler was
lately arrested iu Washington for drunk
enness.
A cyclone at Texarkana demolished a
saloon, burying seventy-five bodies in
the ruins.
Thirteen gold watches of French make
were dug up on Scituate, Mass. beacl,
recently.
Washington, D. c., is attempting to
establish contagious disease hospital
for animals.
The Mantle mills at Providence, r. l.,
have been sold at auction for $22l 900 TO
the Union Company.
Hartford, Conn.,, prohibits cabmeu
from charging more than twenty-five
cents for every two miles.
A Denver woman telegraphed to police
headquarters for an officer to help whip
her son for not washing his face.
Arsenic was detected III the bouquet
Mrs. Scoville endeavored to convey to
Guiteau the day before the execution.
Foreign.
Alexandria, Egypt, is still burning.
Count de Lesseps has left for Egypt.
Turkey will not send troops to Egypt.
The Queen has approved the repression
bill.
Jadin, the animal painter Of France,
is dead.
Siam is having grand exposition of
the arts and industries.
| The London hospitals are nearly all
suffering from lack Of funda.
Arabi Pasha has sent all the women
and children to place of safety.
A train was wrecked at Teherny, Rus
sia, July 1s, and 175 persons killed.
A statue of the autl Of the Marseillaise
is to be Unveiled near Paris, July %.
The American Consul has received or
ders to reestablish the consulate at Tunis-
The Emperor of Germany will visit the
Emperor of Austria, at Ischl, August g.
! The excavations of the Roman Forum,
| begun Feb. s, have been brought to a
close.
| It is rumored that Skobeloff committed
suicide in order to escape trial as a Nj
hilist.
The English cotton mills will close for
a short time on account Of the Egyptian
troubles.
| The Bavarian National Exhibition of
Industry, Art and Science is open in Nu-
remburg.
Hereafter the college lectures at Ok
ford will be thrown open to female
students.
In the middle of June the snow lay
thick at Balmoral, Scotland, and the cold
was intense.
The perpetual clock erected at Care din
Nurd, Brussels, last September, has not
been rewonnd since.
It is reported from Alexandria that the
Khediye and Dervisll Pasha are safe Oil
board ship i'll the harbor.
By order of Admiral Seymour, the
British Consul at Port Said has stopped
ships from entering the suez canal.
A mad woman at the Salpetriere Hos
pital, Paris, placed in a hot water bath
and forgotten, was boiled to death.
The bombardment of Alexandria was
plainly audible at Malta, through tele-
phone attached to the Alexandria cable.
St. Petersburg has society for the
purpose of supplying the horse cars of
that city with daily newspapers and
illustrated weeklies.
The Com6die Francaise has served mp
on Bernhardt an official prohibition
against playing. in Paris before paying
the forfeit she has incurred.
FIRES.