The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-01-13
NUMBER 10.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
Domestic.

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indianapolis taxes telegraph companies
two dollars pole.
The pastor of a Presbyterian church in
Philadelphia is Turk.
The Princess Louise will spend the
winter in Charleston, S. G.
Eighteen convicts were drowned while E
crossing Taekazegee river, North Caro-
lima.
The East river bridge will be opened
for foot passengers by the middle of
January.
The Bishop of St. Paul, Mimi, has pro-
hibited Roman Catholics from acting IS
saloon keepers.
Sergeant Ballantine, the famous En-
glish barrister, has proven dismal fail
ure as IL lecturer.
All the New York theatres are to give
benefit performance in aid of the Bur-
thoidi statue fund.
Six hundred thousand dollars worth of
dolls were brought to New York city
during the holidays.
Imposing funeral obsequies were held
in Tarnmany Hall, New York, by the
French admirers of Gambetta.
Six Of the grandsons of her old master
were the pail bearers of an aged coiored
woman who died at Baltimore recently.
A Cincinnati burglar broke into .
residence Christmas evs, aud stole all the
presents placed upon the Christmas tree.
A young runaway couple from Oneida
county, N. z, blew out the gas at D
Rochester hotel aud were snffoeated to
death.
Two OF tl,ree colored laborers at Lex
ington, KY, who put a wet dynamite
cartridge in the stove to dry were blown
to atoms.
One Thousand boys and girls have now
been placed in permanent homes through
the kindness of Mrs. John Jacob Astor OF
Now York.
Mr., and Mrs. Tom Thumb have opened
museum in Chicago, and advertise as
attractions a pair of midgets one-third
their own size.
Frank Frayne is making a professional
tour in New England in new play
which introduces q savage dog, bear,
and a den Of lions.
During the Presidents New Year levee
Mr, Allen, the Hawaiian Minister, was
seized with an attack of vertigo and died
before he could be removed from the
White House.
Foreign.
Cholera is still raging i'll Medina and
Mecca.
Arabi and his fellow exiles have left
for Ceylon.
The floods in the German rivers arc on
the increase.
The women of Cyprus have ceased
wearing wells.
Cardinal Donneti, Archbishop of Bor-
deaux, is dead.
The works of the harbor of Genon are
going OH speedily.
The Pope will reappoint Catholic
bishops in Poland.
The Philadelphia grave robbers have
been tried and convicted.
Bishop Benson has been, appointed
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Spain will sh"rtly permit all exiied
Cubans to return to Cuba.
Montenegro has accepted the terrific
rial settlement offered by Turkey.
A crown has been made i'll London for
Kalakua after model of the Cars.
Signor Van NuttelIi has been ap-
pointed Papal iuter-nuncio to Brazil.
The Bishop of Metz has declined to
accept the decoration Of the iron crown.
Owing to the Seine rising Paris is
suffering acutely from an invasion of
rats.
The Pope has assigned $4,000 francs to
the purchase Of beds for the poor of
Rome.
Forty-fye of the Austrian Socialists
have been sentenced to prison for short
terms.
The peace negotiations pending be-
tween Bolivia and Chill have proved u
failure.
Serious diplomatic trouble appears
likely to occur between Colombia aud
Ecuador.
The st. Petersburg railway companies
have ordered the discharge of their Jew
ish employees.
The marriage of the Duke of Genoa
and the Princess Isabella of Bavaria is
fixed for April.
The English Nautical Gazette computes
that one vessel was lost ut sea every four
hours during 1881.
The rock ON which the AntarcsiqHs
was wrecked has been discovered by
French man Of war.
A London dentist uses Il small inean-
descent carbon lalup to illuminate tile
mouth during operatiou.s
The foundation stone of the new Par.
Lament House on the Kanigsplatz will
be laid on the German Emperors nex6
birthday.
An immense chimney collapsed ut !.
Bradford, England, manufaeinry, Deeena-
ber 2s. Thrty-six persons were killed
and fiftv iuitrstl