The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-20
NUMBER 7.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

| DOMESTIC.
| Mr.. Tilden is to visit the West Indies
Mrs. Langtry has arrived at New York.
Nebraska has town named Base Ball.
The new capitol at Atlanta is to cost
100000.
There are two colored female LAWYERS in
the United States
Surgeon General Chas. II. Crane, of the
Uuited States army, is dead.
The buildings of the Pittsburg Expoa-
| ton have been destroyed by fire.
The new postal notes have been inge-
n1ously forged in Indianapolis, Ind.
A pet owl, 81 years old, was buried with
distinguished honors at Norfolk, Va.
The Government intends to redeem at,
tho Old three-cent stamps and stamped en-
velopes.
The prisoners in the jail at Gonzales.
Texas, have their own code of laws and set
of officers
The Maid of the Mist has made her Sec
ond trip through the Niagara whirlpools
successfully.
Over 10000 dozen eggs were stored in a
farm house at Benton, Me-, recentlv de
stroyed by fire.
Mrs. Edison, the wife of the inventor,
has invented the means of using the cleo
trio light in chandeliers.
A New York doctor has discovered tbat
hypoderrnic injections of rattlesnake ven-
ON is sure cure for lockjaw.
huge octopus, in the harbor of Port
Royal, S. c., seized pier pillar in one of
its long arms and wrenched it from the
wharf.
Two convicts chained together spranp
from trains making twenty-five miles an
hour, near Waelder, Texas, recently. and
escaped.
DIR. John G. Tibbits, who died in Warsaw,
N. Y, on Monday last, was the oldest phy-
sician in the United States. He was born
so years ago.
A lady ut Worcester. Mass, gave street
gamin a 81 so gold piece-mistaking it for
a pcnny-and he advertised for her to re-
cover her change.
A farmer at Carrollton, Mo-, treated a
host of spectators to biscuits made in
minutes and 80 seconds from the time he
threshed the wheat.
During low water at Port Jervis, one can
stand on rock in the river with one foot
III New York, the other in Pennsylvania.
and touch New jersey.
a man AZ Ransom, Ill, cripple from
birth, donned soldiers uniform at the
close OF the war and began to travel as q
beggar, accumulating $4,000.
FOREIGN.
The Queen of Servia owes 100000 rou-
bles.
Groups OF foreign pilgrims arrive daily
ut Knock, ireland.
The Queen intends to create Lord Lorne
n Knight of the Garter.
A Bank of England note twisted can sus-
tain 800 pounds avoirdnpois.
The Canadian Government offers bonus
TO settlers in British Columbia.
The japanese Government has concluded
" ,AS+oJ VI CG S1ou oOItd.
Moody and Sankey are to conduct six
months mission at Islington, Eng.
Father Hyacinthe will soon start from
London on an American lecturing tour.
Seven new hotels are being built in Lon
Ion, four of which have each 1000 rooms.
Irishmen of Illinois and Wisconsin have
ent S25OO to the O'DonneIl defenes fund.
Many private documents, referring to the
Papacy, have disappeared from the Vati
IAN.
The Governor of Cochin China has com
oleted an agreement with the King of Cam
oodia.
Five thousand miners in Lancashire,
Scotland have struck for an advance of
wages.
Gustaye Dore's statue of Alexander Du
mas will be unveiled i'll Paris, at the end of
October.
The widow of Carey has been allowed Il
pension Of $25 week by the British Coy
Numerous applications for relics of Mar
fcONt tllC LI3LISl uGugl1iuU, nave Deem
eceivcd.
Copies of John Browns statue, more
han life-size, are to be placed at Windsor
,astle and Osborne.
Over 60,o00 Catholics in Italy are ready
0 strike for the restoration of the temporal
ower OF the Pope.
The termination of Il long standing chan
cry suit in England left workhouse pau
er entitled to ali estate OF 81, 100000.
The expenses Of the foreign correspon-
ents who attended the coronation festivi-
les at Moscow, amounted to 115,OOC rou-
les.
An English woman, eighty four years old,
Tho has boen convicted of drunkenness
yer 200 times, has joineo the Salvation
.-my.
The Queen has issued q private memo
andEm cnjolning the occupants of certain
0yal palaces to Il correction and reforma-
on OF manners.
4 Franciscan monk of the Convent of St
sidoco. in Rome, has been decorated by
.ueeH Fictotid lof HIS DSnaViof uufiH5 tiS
holera peshIence in Egypt.
The general inclination of the new Span
ii Cabinet is to maintain good relations
18th France, and the Alfonso incident
lerefore. considered ut III end.
The fact that good health. strong muscles
nj sound nerves are attainabie, should on
outrage every invalid to an earnest ellsicavor III
le right direction. HCInember all disease owes
: origin or less to II lack of iron III the
lood. Iron i'll the blood means health. strength
I'd vigor. Anaiyz9 the bipesi.pf an invaiid and
title iron viii be found. Healthy mems