The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-08-19
NUMBER SO.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Egyptian War Notes.

bgypnan War Notes.
French Communists indorse Arab.
Five complete railway trains have
been purchased for use in Egypt.
The Frencl, desire to make Hamil
Pasha khedive in place of Tewfik.
Sheik Islam has prohibited the Ulemas
from preaching in favor of Arab Pasha.
The laying of cable between Alex
andria and Port Said has been compile
ted.
The Sultan has agreed to the creation
OF an international police to protect the
Suez Canal.
Two hundred refugees were saved in
the Catholic Chapel during the bonn
bardment of Alexandria.
The Alexandria correspondent of the
London Times is said to be better in
formed about Egypt than any English
man living.
The Khedive has declared it incum-
bent upon his government to indemnify
the sufferers from the disorders at Alex
andria, without distinction of nations
ality.
The assent Of England for temporary
international protection Of the Suez
Canal, is coupled with reservation
making an exception in cases of force
majeure.
Arab Pasha has again destroyed the
railway at Mahalla, which was recently
repaired, and is having constructed,
within 5000 yards Of Ramleh, redoubt
and embankment 80 feet high.
Foreign.
London is to have School of Dramatic
Art.
Gen. Justo Artenga of the Chilian army
is dead.
Resuscitation of the pillory is pro-
posed in England.
Baron Magnus, late German Minister
at Copenhagen, is dead.
President Greyy has declined the
Order of the Golden Fleece.
The Gar has dispensed with an escort
Whlle driving and walking.
The Italian Antarctic expedition has
been wrecked off Cape Horn.
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
will arrive at Balmoral to-day.
Don Prospero Fernansiex has been
almost unanimously elected President of
Nicaragua.
The French Government has purchased
the library of Marictte Bey, the great
Egyptologist.
Naples, Palermo, and Milan have voted
hundred Thousand francs for the Carl
baldi monument.
Scientific men in Japan are discussing
the possibility Of utilizing the Internal
heat Of the EARTH
A monument is being erected to Prince
Louis Napoleon opposite the Royal Mill
tary Academy in Woolwich.
A bill authorizing the practice Of
cremation is about to be presented to the
French Chamber of Deputies.
German officers have been sent to
Constantinople for the purpose of re-
organizing the Turkish forces.
Six large British collieries have lapsed
to the Crown i'll consequence Of nom
fulfilment of statutory conditions.
A man proclaiming himself the assassin
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke, i'll Dublin, is in custody at Jamai-
ca.
A son of the late e. A. Sothern is
playing his fathers parts in English
towns, with view to mastering them
for an American tour.
Domestic.
Alligator fat is used for cooking pur-
poses in some parts Of Florida.
A hot fight is going OH in Milwaukee
over the question of Sunday observance.
A Pittsburg firm is turning out glass
slabs for use on furniture in lieu of
marble.
The professor Of music in the Frederick
Md Female Seminary, has married a
mnlatto girl.
Two children were found starving at
Patrick, Va, having been deserted By
their parents.
The damage to property from the late
Milwaukee storm is estimated from $50
600 to 100000.
There are about 1000 yellow fever
patients IN Matamoros, with a death rate
of IL to Is per day.
A Vicksbnrg COW stuck her tongue
through a lattice work and u vicious
mule bit off four inches Of it.
Noah Orr, the famous giant, is. pros
trated by paralysis at Marysyille, Ohio,
and is not expected to recover.
The Attorney General of Tennessee
has decided that the matrimonial asso-
Citations iii that State are illegal
The Governor of Iowa has distributed
$23,2A contributed for tue relief Of the
sufferers by the cyclone in that State.
A female lawyer of Milwaukes bein.
threatened with imprisonment for eo,l-
tempt OF. .eonrt, left the room in tears
A court martial at Caronlelet. Ma,
sentenced q soldier who had kicked u
horse to death to prison for six years.
Franklin Simmons, the sculptor, is ut
work in Rome, Italy, on q colossal statne
of the late Oliver p. Morton Of Indiana.
A Chicago drunkarsl who was i,n-
prisoned for heating his wife with his
wooden leg, killed his ceilnlate with tile
same weapon.
An ont~of-loor representation Of f.Un-
Gle TOMS Cabin" is given in Provi-
.dence garden, part of which has been
.Exrns .knA.