The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-27
NUMBER II.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

| DOMESTIC.
Five lives were lost in the recent fire as
Newport, Ark.
An 5000 election bet has just been paid
! at New Brunswick, N. j.
+ A New York broker has given $34, GOO for
a clock made in that city.
John Mccullough, the actor, is to be
placed in an asylum near Philadelphia.
The fair in Philadelphia for the benefit
of the First Pennsylvania regiment real
lied $4,000.
Aresolution is to be offered in the House
to forbid the nse of government vessels in
junketing expeditions.
The wife Of woodchopper in Santa
Glare county, Nevada, has presented her
husband with quartet of infants at one
birth.
| The subscription Of the Courier Des
Etots Unis in New York for the victims Of
cholera in France has closed with total of
$12,927.
| -Four masked burglars got into an Office
in Cleveland, and after pinioning the
watchman and blowing open the safe found
only sixteen cents.
Senator voorhees, and his son will be the
| second instance only in the history of the
| same time in Congress.
! The American News Company offer to
pay s50,000 for the privilege of erecting
| kiosks in the streets for the sale of news
papers and periodicals.
The New York Times paid $6416 for the
text of the new treaty with Spain published
in its columns, $1,000 for the copy, and
$4616 for cabling it from Madrid.
Moody and Sankey have received in roy
alties from the publishers of their collec-
ton of hymns 100000 Every dollar has
been given to the cause of religion.
John r. Mclean sent the night messen-
ger boys of Cincinnati d present of $1,000
in response to visit OF cengratulation
made by the little fellows just afterhis mar
riage.
The third elopement within a week from
within small radius in Suffolk county,
Long Island, took place recently, the con-
tracing parties being the wife of wealthy
farmer and Negro.
bill has been introduced in the House
providing for the payment ef pensions to
the relatives of those who lost their lives
on the Tallapoosa and compensaiing the
survivors for personal property destroyed.
1t is proposed to make Cleveland's inau-
guration the most magnificent ON record.
There will be grand military and trades
display, and the best features of the Carni-
nal and Mardi Gras professions of New
Orleans and Mobile will be imported for
the occasion.
The West Washington Club will add an
attractive feature to the Inauguration pro-
cession in the form of a regiment of 219
mounted men, representing tha 2I9 votes
in the Electoral College, which will be di-
vided into detachments IMPLYING the votes
of each State separately.
Fashionable balls in London are over by
II p. m.
War is threatened between Brazil and
the Argentine Republic.
Miss Fortesaue, after tour of the prov
inces, will come to America.
Louise Michel, the Anarchist agitator,
now in prison, will be pardoned January I.
Nine. Columbier is undergoing fort
nights imprisonment in Paris for the au-
thorship of zsSarah Barnum."
The English government offers e5000 re-
ward for the discovery of the authors of
the London bridge explosion.
Portugal is making arrangements to cede
to Germany the Portuguese possessions ON
Delagoa Bay, in Southeast Africa.
Port Said, situated at the northern termi-
nus of the Suez Canal, has the reputation
of being the wickedest place in the world.
ALI printers in st. Petersburg are searched
nightly by the police on leaving their offices
to prevent the secret printing of seditious
literature.
A fund is to be raised in Berlin to pay
the salary of an assistant for Prince Bis
marck, as an expression of the confdence
of the nation.
The sentence of Capt. Dudley and Mate
Stephens, the Mignonette cannibals, has
been commuted from hanging to six
months Imprisonment without labor.
The Imperial Supreme Court has rejected
the appeal of Madame Kolemine against
the decree of divorce granted by the court
at Darmstadt to Grand Duke Lewis of
Hesse.
The $4,000 awarded to the plaintiff in
suit is probably the largest amount OF
damages in such an action ever recorded in
England.
A pearl weighing ninety three carats and
valued at $4,000 was shipped to London
from Guaymas, Mexico, recently. 1t is the
largest in existence and was originally pur-
chased for $50 from California Indian.
WAR NOTES.
Osman Digma is at Dsbbeh awaiting the
British advance.
Osman Digma has been sent reinforce
men.s of 1900 men.
Gen. Wolsley will begin his march
through the desert upon Shendy on Jann-
ary Z.
Out of garrison at Suakim of 126o ma
rines and sailors there are only 100 effective
men. Fresh troops will be sent there.
In the recent engagement with the Chi
nese. near Chunniehu, the French lost
twenty killed and ninety-tlree wounded.
The French Minister has been ordered to
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