The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-27

DUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.
Salvini is to retire from the stage.

LaTpeT puDIcatiOnS.
| an Ohio man has taken out patent for
| making paper barrels.
Philadelphia has Society for the sup-
preston of Mendicancy
Inc dfouth has created a new island, COW
ering three acres, in Lake Winnipiseogee.
! The fastest train in America is on the
Canada Atlantic railway and makes so niles
an hour.
The $4,000 necessary to con1pfete the
Bartholdi statue pedestal has been SUBJ
scribed.
| Henry Ward Beecher' s managers are short
on their engagements with him for his lee
turing tour
The Philadelphia County Medical Society
has refused to admit female physicians IN
membership.
The Young Mems Christian Association
OF New York sent 10, ,715 poor people to the
country last season.
The young civil engineer who committed
suicide IN New York recently On the eve of
marriage, left the young lady $4,000.
Brooklyn bridge has settled so much that
vessels that could pass under when it was
hrst opened to travel can not do SO now.
The New York Bar Association havinein-
yited Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to visit
America, are paying all the expenses of his
trip.
Ihe cost OF Improvements at which arti-
sans have been three years at work on Mr..
Iilden's house at Gramercy Park, will be
$4,000.
Levy's gold cornet and $4,000 in money
were taken uninjured from safe in the
charred ruins Of the Pittsburg exhibition
buildings.
An old woman at Gatesville, Texas, eriev-
ing over the loss of grarpdchitd, saturated
her clothing with coal Oil and ignited il,
burning herself to crisp.
Ticket spectators sat four days and
nights in front of the Star theatre, New
York, in order to be first at the sale of seats
for jrying's performances.
One hundred and twenty-four medals,
tWenty-four diplomas and seven special
prizes were awarded the United States ex-
hibltofs in the London fisheries exhibition.
Ierre Haute, Ind, girl took arsenic
after quarreling giths hor mother, and the
latter then attempted suicide by licking the
froth and yomit az it poured from her diving
daughter's mouth.
man who had concealed himself aboard
the Maid Of the Mist during her recent trip
through the Niagara whirlpool, was dis
covered and ordered off just before the boat
reached the rapids,
FOREIGN.
Count Ven Moltke is seriously ill.
cable is to be laid from Japan to Corea.
Alexander Dumas, the author, is serious
Iy i'll.
O'Donnell's defense fund is increasing
rapidly.
Aati-Jewish outrages are to be suppressed
in Russia by force of arms.
ODonnell, the slayer of Carey, doesn't
know how to read or write.
teteWayo has surrendered TO British resi-
dents and will be conveyed to Natal.
slxty-three Nihilists of the Red Cross So
clety have been sentenced to Siberia.
During the Alfonso iInbroglio President
Gr6vy contemplated resigning the Presi-
dency.
Nlhlhs5 proclamations have been issued
5oleinniy sentencing tho Gear Of Russia to
death.
Ite British Consul at Chios reports 1000
persons killed and wounded by the earth
quake.
The subscriptions TO the Gambetta mon
ument fund have reached the sum of 278,OOo
francs.
monument is to be erected over the
grave OF Robert Rruce at Dunfermline,
Scotland.
The recruits from Upper Egypt for Sou
dan were brought there chained together nv
their necks.
The anniversary of the discovery of Amer
lea was celebrated at Madrid with goIen.
did banquet.
The Papal Nuncio to France is to observe
strict neutrality in his relations with the
political parties of that country.
Queen Victoria is investigating the report
that IN one of her palaces gambling is reg
1lariy going On to an incredible extent.
-Four hundred Chinese sailors will be die
patched to Germany to man the ironcIads
being built for the Chinese Government.
Lord Iorne will be invested with the
Order of the Garter directly after he arrives
IN England and will succeed Lord Harrow
BY.
The Gar and Czarina haye laid the cor -
OF church to be erected on tho
'pot where the Emperor Alexander II was
killed.
During the eruption at the Strait of Sun
Ia the sun for two days resembled a full
noon and dust FROM the volcano was carried
700 miles,
England and America are the only two
whose representatives ut the coro-
nation were not drain on the Russian
Government.
The Spanish Government, with the assent
If France, has transmitted q circular to its
representatives. abroad announcing the Al
onso matter settled.
Cholera has broken out in an Egyptian
'iliage from the infiltration into the canal
through it of water from cen.c-
cries IN which cholera victims we're in
erred.
Many wonder Why the brute creation excel
mankind as q rule when it coTnea to d question
IL health. Investigation quickly ascertair.s the,
'auae, IL IS secati5e the brute naturally ot,eya
very law OF health, while mankind is constant
J degeEeFating owing to ezeessos of our arces-
.ors and our own inetIx1dna lnIur1L .t..ce Eel