The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-05-27
NUMBER, IS.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Domestic.

Domestic.
MISSISSIPPI Is cnl'ivating silk farms.
Leadv'lle, Col, has had $500, 900 fire.
Three multlerers were hanged MAY 10.
There is no lawyer in Jones county.
! Alabama.
One of Col. Ingersoli's daughters is a
convert to Presby yterianism.
A doctor was Killed at Syracuse, N. Y.
while preparing to rob a grave.
Ihe'Chinese of Chicago gave concert
to assist the Methodist church.
President Arthur will assist in New
Yorlss Decoration Day proceedings.
Ohio has coined a new word, "Shilly-
mahone," which expresses political trick
cry.
The remains of Chief Justice Chase
are to be transferred from Washington
to Cincinnati.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has collected
sum but So short of Sergeant Mason's
pay for eight years.
English steamers arriving at New York
are searched in the hope of finding the
assassins of Lord Cavendish.
Paul Boyton has just performed the
heretofore unaccomplished feat of shoot
ing the rapids of James river.
Candelaria, Nevada, is boasting of an
eight ounce baby, who can wear its
mothers little finger ring as garter.
The coffin used at a Pleasant Ridge,
Ohio, funeral was painted red, white
and blue, and draped with Union flags.
A St. Joseph, No., minister is to be
tried for letting young woman sit in
his lap while teaching her q Sunday
school lesson.
A wealthy Cincinnatian keeps his
blind father in his cellar fed on scraps
from the servants table, clothed in rags.
and couched on straw.
A young man committed suicide in q
New York church, recently, and the
congregation did not allow the occurrence
to interrupt the services.
Some thieves at Harrisburg, Pa, stole
all the provisions in house the other
night, and carried off half ton of coal
without arousing the family.
The locomotive aud one car Of q train
| on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
| passed over little child who was sitting
between the rails, recently, without
inhicting any injury.
Foreign.
Windsor Castle is to be lighted by
electricity.
England is advertising aArtifcial
Human Milk"
The German Reichstag has rejected
the tobacco bill.
A rich gold mine has been discovered
at Asientos, Mexico.
A missionary has been shipped to
Japan at cost Of $3.50.
The survivors Of the Jeannette's crew
have arrived in England.
Canadian journals are advocating
separation from Great Britain.
The new Notifications Of Strasburg
will be completed during the present
Spring.
Hand-bil1s are being circulated iu St.
Petersburg inviting the Jews to join the
Nihilists.
The Porte has now completely ac-
quiesced in the action of England and
France in Egypt.
Rome recently celebrated her two
thousand six hundred and thirty-fifth
birthday with appropriate honors.
The Egyptian Cabinet lave kissed the
Khedive's hands and garments, implored
his pardon and expressed loyalty.
Domestic servants and drivers Ofpublic
vehicles in CoDstantinOple are under the
direct supervision of the government.
A magnificent reception was given
Prince Leopold and his bride by the
boys of the Roman Catholic Elton, Beau
mont College.
About rs horribly mutilated persons
are III the Jews Hospital at Odessa the
Russians having poured petroleum into
their wounds.
A fund has been started at Cork as i
reward for the apprehension Of the
assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendisll
and Mr.. Burke.
A marriage has been arranged between
Princess Beatrice, Queen Vict"ria's
youngest daughter, and Prince Frederick
William, eldest son of the Landgrave Of
Hesse.
Hotel at Port Royal, S. C. Loss, $l5,O00.
Chronicle building, Washington, u. C.
The St. Louis packing establishments.
Loss, 10000.
Steam wagon factory at Cuiro, His.
Loss, 10000.
Knitting mills at Seneca Falls, New
York. Loss, 100000
-Four hundred houses at Rayabad, near
sinope, in Asia Minor
The village of Marcilly, France, $50
families rendered homeless.
Work shops at Lyons, France. Loss,
fl6O, 900 and three Thousand worknen
out of employment.
HARVEY AND THE BLooD.-tiaryey dis.
covered the circulation of the blood, and