The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-01-28
NUMBER 81.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.

Foreign.
Servia is to be elevated into a king
dom.
A temperance movement has begun IN
France.
The Queen of Roumania is writing an
epic poem.
Londoners are trying to secure three
matinGes week.
Turin sold two million dollars worth
of vermouth last year.
Vaccination is steadily advancing in
favor with the people of India.
An English artist recently photo
graphed swallows on the wing. y
The Bey of Tunis has arrested his
brother for conspiracy against him.
The King of Italy intends suppressing
the gambling tables at Monte Carlo.
A hygienic exhibition will be opened
in Berlin during the coming spring.
Measures are being taken for the pre-
servation of the Mount Lebanon cedars.
The English law does not permit all in-
sictment for stealing growing grapes cut
from the vine.
A mania of suicides is at present pre-
va1ent among both officers and men of
the Bavarian army.
Six hundred and twenty pounds of
dynamite have been stolen from tho
magazine at Limerick.
Grumblers in England complain that
he Princess Beatrice's " Birthday Book
has too Catholic a tendency.
/ The Lord Mayor ofLondon has ordered
a meeting February II to consider the
condition of the Russian Jews.
The burning of the Ring Theatre in
Vienna had the effect of diminishing the
attendance at all German theatres.
For three months past robberies,
attended with most cruel murders, have
| been daily occurrences in Hungary.
| Aphysician of Vienna has invented an
instrument for Illuminating and inspect
ing the inside of tile living stomach.
The constant employment of vitriol as
a means of vengeance has induced the
authorities of Paris to take steps directed
to restricting its sale.
The Berlin police confscated the last
number of the London Punch, in conse-
quence Of a cartoon bearing on the re-
cent Imperial reseript.
The treaty concluded between the
Governments of Japan and the United
States for mutual succor of shipwrecked
vessels is now in operation.
Domestic.
John Kelley is dangerously i'll i'll New
York.
Losses by tho Nashville flood aggrc-
gate 100000.
Dakota is seeking admission to tho
Union as State.
The expenses of the Guiteau trial are
estimated at 900.
Small pox has been declared epidemic
| in the United States.
There hasn't been a single deatl, at
Austin, Ark, in year.
A Baltimore art dealer is suing Lotta
Tor the value Of s12 plaque.
Seven buildings were destroyed by
fire at Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 81. Loss $780,
600.
A blind man of so has married girl
of IA i'll Philadelphia, her parents con-
lsenting.
ANorwich, Conn.,, servant girl person.
ated n ghost for six months before being
detected.
Seventeen thousand dollars worth of
sponge in ORG pile was recently sold at
Key West, Fla.
A number of Mormons have renouncel
polygamy and organized a new church
in Salt LAX. City.
A white boy of 16 eloped with an'I
married Negress nine years his senior,
at Providence, r. I.
Ex-Gov. English has placed i'll his
opera house at Indianapolis a fuli-isurc
marble statue of his late wife.
A fire in the truck-house of hook
and ladder company at Chattanooga,
Tenn, destroyed all the apparatus.
Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-fv"
boys who have been crippled by jump
ing on railroad trains while in motion.
The trustees Of Tecumseh, Mich.
e - 4
boys to loiter within fifty feet of a churcl,
, door.
Within the last three years twenty
millionaires have joined the "siient
band,r leaving the aggregate amount of
$3.50, 900.
+ The Senate committee on Pensions
have voted to increase Mrs. Lincoln's
pension $4,000 per annum. She now
= receives $1,000.
The bride and bridegroom of we'd
+ ding at Latrobe, Pa, were run over and
j killed on their way from church to the
: railway station.
# A Memphis Judge has ordered the
> Sheriff to demand of all hotel clerks the
b pistols. and other weapons left in their
) custody by guests.
= During a recent performance in the
:, Marshall, Mich, Opera House, tho
;, audience sat with raised umbrellas OIL