The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-07-07
NUMBER ~.
our GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN,

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i FOREIGN.
4 Small -pox is raging IL a.ukeha.
The Tonauin question is still unsettled.
Nihilistic placards have appeared in War
saw.
/ Typhoid diphtheria is raging at Tomsk.
Russia.
i The Panama rubber fields are being rap
idly destroyed.
/ The recently finished Cologne Cathedral
! cost over s., ,eO9, 600.
Prince DoIgorouki, morganatic son of
Alexander II, is in Newport
/ The Duke Of Edinburg dispensed e1ooo in
gratuities at the coronation.
4 Qnean Victoria is to allot Prince 4Lucien
Bonaparte pension Of EEeaJa.
i Marwood, the English hangrnar, wants 10
try his hand ON Carey, the informer.
Prince Krapotkine amuses himself in
structing his fellow exiles in Siberia.
Two thousand political and ordinary pris-
oners have been sent to Tonsk, Russia.
Over $4,000 is needed to+tear down the
scaffolding from the Cologne Cathedral
The American and English system has
been adopted in japanese public schools.
The revolving tribes at Bagdad have muir
dered two hundred and fifty Turkish troops.
| The Panama Indians are openly cap
tured and sold into slavery in other districts.
| 1t will take the French at least five
months to march to the capital of NADIA
gascar.
! Hovas, the Madagascar insurgent. has
over COCO disciplined troops armed with
Remington rifles.
| France, Italy and Austria have. .quaran-
tined against Egypt on account of the
cholera epidemic.
George Augustus Sala says-the cheering
at the recent Russian coronation was by.
| order of the police. a.. sssssst
practical joker substituted ink for the
communion wine at ST. Bartholmew's
| Church, Clay Gross, England.
There were forty seven people killed and
twelve wounded gat the burning of the
theatre at Duvio, Lake Como.
The bill permitting marriage with de-
ceased wife sister has again been rejected
in the English House of Lords.
The handsomest American at the corona
ton festivities was Miss Hunt, daughter of
| the American minister to Russia.
As a sample of lordly magnifcence, after
visits to the Queen made by the late En-
perors Nicholas and William, e45O0 were
distributed to the servants, besides twelve
gold snuff boxes and bushel of rings,
watches, and brooches.
DOMESTIC.
Guiteau's head has been stuffed.
A 9-year-old boy at Putnam, O., committed
suicide.
Jumbo is not allowed to cross the Brook
lyn bridge.
A young St. Louis girl has just died from
wearing tight shoes.
The late Archbishop Wood has been en-
banned at PHILADELPHIA a.. ass
e1nigrants - to Ireland.
Out of 100 men impanelled for the Polk
Jury, only two were accepted.
The use of the toy pistol was not allowed
in New York on the 4th of July.
The present warm spell has caused the
Brooklyn bridge to lower two feet.
The Philadelphia policeman will probably
be put into knee breeches next fall.
A young Connecticut farmer has been in
an unconscious state since Christmas.
Inv,
pistols last year, ninety OF which proved
fatal.
A man claiming to he a nephew of U. 3.
Grant has been jailed for theft at Dallas,
Texas.
The chandelier for one of the parlors of
the new Long Branch gambling house is to
cost 5000.
About $4,000 worth of tea has been re-
jeescd by the United States tea appraiser in
New York.
A Memphis lady was stung on the nose by
! bee and died from the effects in few
minutes.
One hundred and ten new members were
received in one day at Talmage's Tabernacle,
Twenty-three coliieries were flooded by
tho recent storm at Ashland, Pa, entailing
a loss of over $4,000.
The Emperor Of Russia has thanked the
United States Government for the notice
taken OF the coronation.
Hampton, W. Va, has an 1s-year-old
dwarf, twenty eight inches tall, who can
| not walk or talk and sucks the bottle.
| subscription list is being circulated as
Uniontown, Pa, to defray the defense OF
young james Mutt, the slayer of Dukes.
A dock with 100000 feet of lumber fell
into the lake at Muskegon, Mich, precipi-
.ating about twenty workmen into the
water.
| A lately deceased Georgia minister mar
ried and buried more persons than any ten
other men in the State, and was the father
of thirty one children.
Major Wasson's s sentence is imprisonment
ut hard labor for eighteen months, and that
| the crime, punishment, name and place OF
abode of accused be published in the news
/ papers.
The Democratic Reeie.o is the title OF
new paper established few weeks ago at
Natchitoches, La, with Mr.. Charles Y. Por-
ter as editor. The Reuieso is a twenty eight
i caIr,rnn folio urettiIy printed from new.