The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-12-15
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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.
The dry docEat Havana burned Decem-
Der 5.
Prince Bismarck has great antipathy to
appear in public.
Portable paper houses are coming into
vogue in England.
The military guard of the Bank of France
has been resstablished.
Only an intimate friend knows where Mr..
Parnell lives in London.
King Alfonso's sister was lately married
to Prince Louis of Bavaria.
William Black introduces Shakespeare as
character in his last novel.
England will restore the Zulu chief, Get
ewayo, to power over his tribe.
Immense reservoirs of naphta have been
struck at Balachana and Sabuntscha, Rus
sia. =..-
The Italian residents in Tunis have been
forbidden by the Bey to publish news
paper.
The Canton of Valais has decided to re-
store the death penalty as a punishment
for murder. - 1s4 s...=
At London public dinners it has ceased
| to be in order to rise to any toast except
that of the Queen. E
The Gear and the German Ambassador to
Russia were present at the festival at st.
Georges winter palace.
One of the survivors of the famous Bala-
kava charge died of exposure and hungerin
England few years ago
An internal machine has been sent to De-
Lesseps who merely remarked, "They
treat me like sovereign"
The Crown Prince of Germany during
his visit to Spain, ,zgave 2500 pesetas to the
servants of the palace and $1,000 to mill
tary asylums.
The commercial value of the brass and
cast-iron gods shipped to heather lands far
exceeds that of the Bibles, which reach the
same destination.
The King of Bavaria has ordered that in
future the Royal Opera at Munich is to be
wholly devoted to the representation of
Wagner's operas.
An attempt is to be made to induce
O'Donnell's jury to sign a memorial to the
Home Secretary asking a Communication of
| the death sentence.
Poor London seamstresses make ulsters
at the rate of fifty cents dozen, find their
own sewing machine and cotton and carry
their work to and fro.
fish of solid gold, of the bullion value
of $500, incised with NEUROLOGICAL figures
has been dug up in Ober Lausitz, the bor,.-
er land between Saxony and SiIesia.
Queen Victoria has ordered large brasa,
bearing euIogistic inscription in memory
of John Brown, to be placed on the walls of
the Prince Gonsort's AIausoleum III Frog
| of her appointment as cnamDer ana CoufU
singer to the Emperor of Germany, Minnie
| tograph and signature.
DOMESTIC.
The boy preacher is to be married to one
| of his converts.
| A woman at Chattanooga, Tenn, fell into
a vat of boiling brick clay.
The famous San Francisco Minstrels, of
| New York, have disbanded.
| Over 10000 Indian children are being
educated by the Government.
| Philadelphia gentleman has paid q
London florist $3.50 for rose plant.
| The girls Of Princeton, Indiana, have Or
ganized an anti-chewing- gum society.
| Thn CuIr L
watches inscribed every hour for Jesus"
| Mrs. Langtry gave five dollars to q hun
CRY woman i'll a Rochester railroad station.
couple wereimarried at Wilton, Conn.,,
over the open coffin of the brides brother.
The three most valuable pearl necklaces
in America are owned by New York ladies'.
Three boarders cheated New York land
lord out of his bill by climbing down the
fire escape.
In the Erie, Pa, Almshouse there is a
young woman OF sixteen who has never
been weaned.
A Cincinnati man shot himself four
times attempting suicide, but is likely to
recover from the wounds.
shaft is to be built in the Milwaukee
cemetery in memory of the victims of the
Newhall Hotel holocaust.
Chinese society Of Lafayette, Ind, has
expelled one of its members on account of
his bstrothal to white girl .,--f-
A party of men, including stone maser,s
have left Boston bound for the city of Jeru-
salem to help rebuild the temple.
| A woman at Dear Lake, Md, became
crazed by religious excitement and killed
herself by eating two handfuls of blue Wit
| rioi.
The two highest salaried Governors of
| the States are those of New York and
Pennsylvania, who receive $4,000 a yels
each.
Fourteen prisoners escaped from the ,w
$40, 600 jail at Chattanooga by saving their
way through with steel shanks taken from
their shoes.
The Mayor of Doylestoron, Ohio, went
into low saloon to auell disturbance.
and had his watch seized and used as 10
slungshot.
In Gowanda, N. Y, six brothers and six
sisters have six children each all of WHOM,
are six feet tall, and the lightest one weigh,
200 pounds.
4 Roman Catholic priest has returned Il
stolen watch to its owner ut Vieennes, Ind.
which came into his hands from a thief il.
the confessional.
Thirteen dozen pairs of eight-button kid
gloves were abstracted from the trunks of
Lady Mandeyille while being conveye
from Newport to New York, recently.
) couple of Baptist deacons mt FloresyiIn
Texas, disputed over a Biblical question uli-
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