The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-10
NUMBER ~.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOreign.


| China possesses the longest bridge in
the world.
The armament of Germany has been
completed.
The two Sons of Prince Napoleon, will
enter the italian service.
The Socialist society in Andalusia
numbers 29,910 members.
The tobacco industry is one of the most
important in Germany.
During the past season the Theatre
f'rancias, in Paris cleared $4,000.
The Marquis Of Lorne is experiment.
ing with acclimating California quails in
Scotland
The swords which the Egyptians pre-
sented Lords Wolsley and Alcester cost
$3.50 each.
Oscar Wilde presented his mother with
one half Of the proceeds of his lectures in
this country.
The False Prophet of the soudan is an
illiterate Dongolian, who can barely
read aud write.
1t took 1000 people, working night and
day to furnish tho wreaths used at Gam
betta's funeral.
A subscription has been opened In
County Wicklow to present hr. Parnell
with testimonial.
The Comte de Chambord distributes
among the poor of Paris free bread tick
cts, bearing bis coat of arms.
The Buddhist priests in Japan are to
hold convention at Koyasan to annul
the decree confning them to celibacy.
The Spanish Senate has agreed to pro-
long all existing treaties of commerce be-
tween Spain and foreign counties until
March Is.
A famine is threatened in the north
western counties of Ireland. The condi-
tion OF the people in county Donegal Is
particularly distressing.
s Countess Gisela Welser sheimb and tho
Baron George Washington, son of the
Baron Macmillan Washington of Gratis,
Austria, are to be married soon.
The managers Of the Monte Carlo gam
ing house at Baden, have provided an
exquisite cemetery for their patrons who
commit suicide by means of losses.
Forty ornamental lamp posts, their
height corresponding with the level the
water attained, are to be placed in the
streets of Bristol, England, in commem-
Grafton of last autumn's flood.
Domestic.
Maine women are allowed to vote on
school matters.
St. Louis has completely exterminated
the mashers. -
I he New York Herald's overflow fund
has reached over $21 900.
The Illinois Senate has passed the COM
pulsory education bill.
Another effort is soon to be made to OBJ
tain pardon for Sergeant Mason.
a man was recently arrested in Texas
for a murder committed before the war.
Lynchburg, Va, has appropriated $i7,-
600 for a school building for colored chill
dren.
The character of Jesus in the Passion
Play is taken by retired Baptist min
ister.
Polk, the defaulting State Treasurer of
Tennessee, has been released on 500, 600
bond.
A Boston manager recently offered
Oliver Wendell Holmes $500 for single
lecture.
Thirteen convicts attacked their guards
and escaped from the Atlanta penitenti-
ary recently.
man at Chicago having quarreled
with his wife, beat her to death with q
pair of trunk straps.
Representations Of the Passion Play
are not even allowed to be given free Of
charge at New York.
Philadelphia Irishmen are going to de-
vote their St. Patrick's Day parade money
to charitable purposes.
Senator Tabo's recent dinner was the
most expensive ever given in Washing
ton. The flowers alone cost $1,000.
A professional singer has recovered
$13, COO damages from New York rail-
road company for injuries oecasioned by
an accident. "a
Miss Louise Montague, +" the prize beau
ty," who has been suing Adam Forepaugh
in the Philadelphia court has received
favorable verdict.
Seven inmates of the Stanton, Va,
Lunatic Asylum were poisoned by one Of
the patients who placed the fatal drug in
the medicine cup.
The remains of twenty more soldiers
have been shipped from Tampa, Mexico,
to the National Cemetery at Fort Baran-
cas-, near Pensacola.
A member of Philadelphia Negro
Minstrel Co, engaged as tenor in church.
choir, and occupied the position for some
time before being discovered.
John Howard Payne's rem;.ins-are ex-
pected to arrive i'll Washington March
Is, but will not he finally inferred until.
June 9, tho anniversary Of the poets.
death.
The managers of the Garfield Memorial.
Monument Association and those of the.
Garfield Hospital Association have not
near funds enough on hand to carry ons
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