The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-11-10
NUMBER 10.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
San Antonio is to have fine gas works.
Nashville has prohibited fortune telling
within the city limits.
George Gould is to marry one of John
Jacob Astor's daughters.
Joaquin Miller is about twenty years
older than his stepfather.
By popular vote eighteen counties in
Georgia have abolished fences.
A murderer in a Kansas Jail charges five
cents for people to look at him.
The naill operatives in Manchester, N. H.,
have S5,00O,OOO deposited in bank.
A Pittsburg girl killed herself after being
refused permission to go to ball.
Ex- Cadet Whitaker has started military
| school for colored youths in Charleston.
The Illinois compulsory education law
provides no penalties and is imperative.
Wallets to stand at the side of opera boxes
is the latest bit of anglomania in New York.
The Chinese exclusion law has givon ali
impulse to Japanese emigration to Cali
fornia.
The expense of keeping the Wagner Sleep
ing Car Company's bedding clean is $30,0
per year.
A woman at Woodbury., N. j., beat her
husband playing croquet and he kicked her
to death.
President Arthur was presented with
handsome jeweled reel and fishing rod in
Kentucky.
Funeral professions are not allowed to
pass through the business streets of Grand
Rapids, Mich.
A member of the Texas bar committed
suicide because his client berated him for
losing his case.
Mary Churchill was found doing laundry
work in Tn insane asylum at Indianapolis
and has been brought home.
In tornado in Mississippi a turtle weigh
ing sixty pounds was blown out of Pearl
river in distant cotton field.
Frost:laid out the cucumber crop in Wis
consin, and fire destroyed pickle factory
in Cincinnati the same night.
Hoodlums fired through the canvas OF q
circus tent at Kingsland, Ark, during
performance, killing e contortionist.
The municipal treasury at Virginia City,
New, was robbed Of 5000 by masked burg
lars, who left the treasurer looked in the
vault. ..
A colored pastor led his congregation to
base ball field in Houston, Texas, and
| knelt on the bases, effectuahy stopping the
| game.
Resurfeetionists have been caught at
tempting to steal the body of Mrs. David
Moses, the fat woman, from Mount Olive
Cemetery, Baltimore.
| Thieves stole the wedding feast from the
| dining room of house at Bryan Texas,
| formed in the parlor.
! A youth at Nashville having bet oil he
owned at game of poker, divested hIm-
sell of every piece of clothing to lay on the
pile, and before the draw was decided the
police raided the house. compelling him to
fee in nude condition.
| FOREIGN.
Marquis Tseng still enjoys the unreserved
confidence Of the Chinese Government.
King Alfonso is suffering from rheuma-
tism.
War between China and France is now
certain.
Mr.. Gladstone has been ffty-one years in
Parliament.
The Dumas statue was unveiled at Paris,
November 4.
Prince Bismarck has entirely regained
his former strength.
Admiral Courbet will attack Bacninh,
China with 5000 men and 80 guns.
NJ. Grevy has just received a present of
big panther from an African king.
swarms of locusts have appeared in the
ANU Darya region of Central Asia.
The late English hangnan's wife, Mrs.
Marwood, has died from intemperance.
An exhibition of 100000 cigar ends, val
ued at el8O0, was recently held in London.
The French Minister of War is preparing
q reserve corps of 10000 troops for Ton
quin.
Mr.. Gilbert has built $2JO,000 house at
Kensington from the proceeds of Pima
fore"
O'Donoyan Rosa says London will be in
ashes before long, unless England gives up
Ireland.
An oyster sholl weighing 800 pounds is
used for baptismal font in the Church of
st. Sulpice, Paris.
A brother of De Brazza, the French ex-
plorer, has been killed in q fight oin the
Congo country, Africa.
u According to the report of the observa-
tory at Paris, 10000 new stars have been
discovered since 1897.
The Orangemen rioted at Londonderry,
November l, in order to prevent the Lord
Mayor of Dublin from delivering lecture
} upon franchise.
The Fenians say that owing to the recent
explosion in England, it will be next to i'm
possible to get perfectly impartial jury
to try O'Donnell.
The Due de Morny, fearing Alfonso would
| be attacked by the Partisan mob, drove
down the Esplanade in order to divert at
, tenton from the king.
Queen Isabella, who is now on excellel t
t terms with her son, is furious at the treat
meut he received from the Parisians, and L,
going to leave France.
The remains of Harvey, discoverer of the
e circulation of the blood, have been placee
in a thousand-d dollar marble coffin by the
Royal College of Physicians.