The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-07-19
NUMBER 16.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC

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| DOMESTIC.
Congress adjourned on the Stil inst.
| Allen Pinkerten, the head OF the famous
Pinkerton Detective Agency, is dead.
Live cattle for food are being shipped in
large quantities from Philadelphia to Scot
land.
Two discoveries of large bodies Of an
thracite coal have beep made in Northern
Mexico.
The sunrise gun at Fort afajaFe, CAL,
can be beard at Ell Dorado Casaon, ninety
six miles beyond.
A marble drinking fountain representing
the Mississippi is to be presented to New
York by Elliott F. Shepard.
Six clergymen in CharIoatoUn, Mass,
preached from the text, u Am I my brothers
keeper2" on the same Sunday.
Gen. Logan is the first man the Repui-
Hcans have nominated for Vice President
with wife to share his honors.
Margins Bibbero, the English natator
will make the attempt to swim the Niagara
Rapids where Webb met his fate.
The heirs of Richard Wagner have re-
fused an offer of $4,000 from an American
for the exclusive right to pfay :. Parsifal.''
Lieut.. Scfwatka, who explored the Arc
tic regions without accident, fell over a
rocking chair recently, ana broke his right
arm.
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A train Of cars crossing the bridge at
California Needles is heard on euiet day
at Cottonwood Island, eighty-four miles
away.
The vagabond ex-Gov. Franklin j. Moses
OF South Corolina is under arrest in Chi
eago for obtaining money by false pre-
tences.
Tho doorkeeper of the Senate has still in
his possession the bloed-stained towel and
soap with which he washed the wounds of
Charles Sumner.
A twelve -year-old wife at Contra Casta,
CAL, has become the mother of q boy who
measured five and half inches and weighed
only one and quarter pounds.
A couple of Terrehance (Va.) children,
aged i've and seven years, pounded out the
brains of younger brother who would not
divide his piece of cake with them.
The Fitz John Porter bill was vetoed by
President Arthur on constitutional grounds.
Tho House passed the measure over tho
veto, but it failed in the Senate by a tie
vote.
chest OF money, containing $1,000 in
Mexican silver aud public documents of
great value which had been buried thirty
years, was nnesrthed near Iiearas Negras,
Tex, recently.
FUIsEIaN.
The King aud Queen of the Netherlands
are at Kissingen.
The successor to the Prince of Orasge 10
only four years old.
The ambassadorship between Pelsin and
France has been cancelled
The Tichborne claimant has been re.
leased On a ticket-of- leave
in aa election riot at MiedspiiI, Hungary,
five men were killed and two wounded.
A fire on steamer at Point a-Pitre, de-
stroyed 10000 bags of coffee. Loss 100000
francs.
Adyices from Touloa state that five eases
Of cholera we're cured By inha.ing pure
oxygen.
meeting will soor. take place at Dant-
zc between the Emperor of Germany and
the Czar.
Six million dollara' worth of diamonds
are on exhibition at the Partisan Industrial
Exposition.
Russian engineers are building a fort at
houchid Khan Kaa, the present capital of
The merry oasis.
A Canal from The stIantie to the Mediter-
'anean, to convert the I5erian Peninsula
nto an island, is projected.
The illness of the Prince of Orange was
sfieGy induced by the Eitiatea atmosphere
of his bedroom in which sixty parrots were
zept.
Every year on the anniversary of Mer-
;edes' death, Queen Christina of Spain
places q wreath of flowers upon her prede-
,cssor's tomb.
Eight thousand persons left Toulon the
lay after the cholera outbreak. 1t is es-
inated that the exodus from MarseiIles
aas reached 10000.
A Mormon missionary ct Vienna bap-
lied man and q woman in the Danube
canal in such cold weather that iaa man
oGk to fight and the woman tainted.
No newsboys arc employed in Paris un-
ess by special official permission of tho
Prefecture of Police, who first makes an
Investigation of the aspirant's character.
Owing to the depredations of American
elic hunters, new heads have bad to be
,laced six different times upon the statues
# George Washington ard Major John
indra in the beautiful frasco in Westrnin-
ter Abbey.
souDAaEsE WAR NOTES.
The reported capture of Debbech by the
ebels is officially denied.
Another battalion of Egyptian troops
AVE been ordered to Suakiu.
The government has decided against the,
Employment of Turkish troops in Soudan.
FL MaIidi, who had started for Khartoum,
sas obliged to retrace his steps ON account
# the movements of rival Mahdis.
The English Government are inrestiga-
ing the schemes fer providing q water sup
ly for the army wisi!e operating in the
esert.
The Italian Ministes has opened nego-