The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-04-28
NUMBER "a.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Foreign.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
! Foreign.
| 1quiuue, Peru, has had 81 000, 600 fire.
Louise Michel will conduct her own de-
fense.
The dock laborers strike at Marseilles is
ended.
The Roman Campagna is to be drained
end cultivated.
| The coronation of the Czar is to be post
poned un til June 10.
| An experiment is to be tried raising cot
ton in Central Asia.
Vienna is to have an explosion law SINH
lar to that in England.
| recent fire at kataw, Iwanoskoi, Russia,
destroyed 5l2 buildings.
The Shah has donated u site for an Eps-
| copal church at Toahan.
| The Havana post-offiee has been robbed
of nearly $3.50, 900 in gold.
Tho Grand Duke of ofMecklenberg Schwerip
died at that place April Is.
The Partisan government is going TO iutro-
duce telephones in that city
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess Lou
| Use have returned to Canada.
The United States government will be
represented at the coronation.
Spain desires to conclude treaty Of COM
merce with the United States.
Cholera, which wa, devastating China,
Japan and India, has disappeared
Great atdistress prevails among the Western
Islands and Highlands of Scotland.
The Parliament building at Quebec, Cam
ada, was destroyed by fire April 10.
Public buildings in Canada are being kept
under surveillance by private detectives.
Tho Government franchise bill in Can
worth of property.
A Philadelphia journalist was fined $40 at
Hamilton, Ont, for using vile language in
speaking of tho Queen.
One of the attaches of the Imperial house.
hold has ordered for herself ~, 600 francs
worth of artificial jewelry.
Threats have been uttered that an at
tempt would be made soon to destroy the
Parliament building at Vienna.
England has Married woman's prop
erty act" which enables wife to sue and
be witness against her husband.
The English government intends to ncgc-
tiate with Number One for the purpose
Of learning the real heads of the Invincibles.
Herr Won Majlath, the Lord Chief Justice
of Hungary and President Of the Upper
Hungarian House, was found murdered in
his room.
Four thousand, one hundred and twenty
electric lights will be used on the cross and
belfry of the cathedral at St. Petersburg
!Iupng the coronation.
Three RATS in the great tank at secund
Erabad, Bombay, were upset while crowded
with natives engaged in a religious cere-
mony. Sixty-two persons were drowned.
Abbe Marteau, who offered his life in ex-
changefor the release4.efe etwoacentlemnes
murderers, and was about to be shot in
their stead when a communication arrived,
has just died at Vaux Tilaine France.
Domestic.
Denver is to have u mining exhibition.
Salvini made $50 600 on his last American
trip.
The East River bridge at New York is the
strongest in the world.
1t costs S. fine in Tallahassee, Florida, to
refuse to be vaccinated.
Now York is to have Catholic church for
colored people exclusively.
Gen. Diaz took 100 sents in the. recent
Nillson concert ut New York.
Over half the arrests made in Chicago
last year were for drunkenness.
Jay Gould will retire from business npoE
tue completion Of his steam yacht.
The Statue of Lord Beaconsted was un-
yelled i'll London ON the 10Th nItino.
ScllelIer, the barkeepcr of the Newhall
House. Milwaukee, has been acquitted.
The Pennsylvania Legislature only passed
twelve bills during session of 100 days.
Several of the Salvation Army were arres-
ted in Syracuse for obstructing the streets.
The grave of Thomas Jefferson ut Char
lotteville, Va, is to have Il new monument.
A family were poisoned recently at Sap
Antonio, Texas, from using manufactured
ice.
Tho Baltimore Medical College has de-
cided not to receive any more female stu
dents.
The Chaplain of the New York Assembly
recently offered a special prayer for re-
porters
Francis S. Street, one of the proprietors
Of the New York Weekly, died Monday,
April l6.
A deaf and dumb lawyer has been admit
tel to practice before the Supreme Court at
Cincinnati.
Two thousand six hundred immigrants
from Germany wele landed at Locust Point,
Md, April 1S.
Nearly half ton of election cireula re-
We're recently carted away from the Phil
a.eIphia post-ofiice.
Wong Ching Foo, editor of the Chinesc-
Amsrican has written to the New York Sen
in defense of the Passion Play.
There is enough coal in the mines recently
opened i'll Pocabontas county, w. ", to
supply tho country for two centuries.
There was u strike i'll the New York Chi
se-American office recently, and u scribe
had to be procured from IL Chinese laundry
Eli Perkins, the humorous lecturer, re
cieved thrashin. from an iratc landlord ut
Towanda, N. Y, for dispAtiDg his board
bill.
Six little Negro children were poisoned ut