The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-30
NUMBER 43.
OUR GENERAL MEMS SUMMARY
FOREIGN.

OUR GENERAL MEMS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.
Parnell has been excommunicated.
Yellow fever is raging at Vera Cruz.
England has professional female jockeys.
| The revolt af the Albanian tribes has been
suppressed.
The villagers at st. Gauls are rioting
against the Jews.
Disastrous floods are reported in Bohe-
mia and Moravia.
The Grown Princess af Aeaaark is six
fest two dnehesAieh.
The Hawaiian aevesane1H .prohibits
chineseimmieratisn.
There have bean floods In Siberia at
tended by water spouts.
Baron Rothschild's carriage at Vienna is
lighted by electric Light.
The death list of the recent Sunderland
disaster has reached 202.
The Church of England will no longer
countenance the Salvation Army.
An early settlement of the difficulty be-
tween China and France is expected
Irish Bishops are announcing their adj
herence to the Pope's recent manifesto.
Paris is to have an insect exhibition in
cluding collection of Aeas from all parts
of the world.
Apart from the remission of taxes, the
coronation expenses are estimated at 12,-
600, 600 roubles.
1t is reported the Pope wrote personal
letter to President Grevy regarding church
| matters in France.
The Empress of Germany has written
coincidence to Queen Victoria about the
Sunderland disaster.
A society of persons are about to petition
the Brussels authorities for permission to
mummify their dead.
The magnificent Cologne Cathedral, which
has been 635 years in course of construc-
ton, is at last completed.
Louise Michel has been sentenced to six
years imprisonment. The penalty is gem
orally considered excessive.
Tametave, Madagascar, is being defended
from the French by one mud fort, mounting
forty old muzzle- loading guns.
1t is positively stated that the Queen of
Madagascar has been dead six months and
that the fact has been concealed.
The English Consul in Egypt declares hes
has historical memorandum proving the
Khedive's completely in the massacre at
Alexandria.
In the town of Horde, Prussia, no youth
under II is admitted to ball. served with
alcoholic beverages or allowed to smoke in
the public streets.
DOMESTIC.
Gen. Sherman's eldest son he's become
priest.
Jay Gould's property is all in his wife's
name.
New York is to have a convention of col
ored editors.
The Boston Opera House burned June 16,
Loss $1O0, 600. .Ssks=4ss..4z4
A child only 8 years old committed suicide
at Canton, Ga.
Chicago has 1900 Socialists armed with
Springfield rifles.
Charley Backus, the noted San Francisco
minstrel, is dead.
San Francisco banks accept cases of
opium as collateral.
An ex-pugilist is Chief of Police at White
Sulphur Springs, Va.
The head waiter at the Metropolitan
Hotel, New York, is worth $15O, 900.
Barnum is exhibiting giant who was
formerly slave in Owen county, Ky.
The Massachusetts Medical Society has
| refused to admit women to its membership,
Long Branch is to have a magnificent
| gambling house after the style of Baden
| Baden.
reservoir, containing 650, 600 cubic
feet of water, burst at Smartsyiile, Cal,
June 13.
| Hon. VIM. FL. Hunt, United States Minis
ter to Russia, is about coming home on a
furlough.
bride at Campbell Ford, Ont, was ac-
cidentally killed while returning from the
parsonage.
| Over 21 fostal skulls were found buried in
| the cellar of DR.. Hathaway, the New York
abortiouist.
l. Ole nuuNFcu al1A Lon kIl&ubCu0A AcAaS
steers charged through the streets of Chi
cago recently.
Five hundred fine Mexican sheep were
bitten by mad dog at Little Rock recently.
and died of hydrophobia.
Two hundred thousand dozen eggs have
been received in New York from Europe
during the past nine months.
Following Blaine's example, Conkling is
to write book giving his recolleetions Of
| twenty years in national politics.
A New York firm has just filled $4,000
order, mostly small arms, for the Haytien
government, and has already sent out large
invoices to China.
There is to be established at Cincinnati
Faith Rest, a house for inyalids in which no
medicine will be given, the cure being eff
fected through faith.
| One of the streets in Galveston was raided
by hoodlums recently, who, besides com-
hitting number of abuses upon property
and persons, stopped funeral procession
and outraged the remains horribly.
A terrible disaster occurred at Sunder=
land, England, last Saturday evening, SINH
lar to that on the Brooklyn bridge, but
causing much greater number of deaths,
Several thousand children we're in attend
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