The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-06-28
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMEsTTC.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
Sankey, the evangelist. has sailed for
| America.
The statue of Bolivar was unveiled at
| Central Park June II.
The sale of illustrated police newspapers,
is now prohibited in the State Of Kentucky.
Henry Irving's profits from his six
months performances here were very near
$4,000.
Fifteen Massachusetts gilrs are about to
undertake tramp OF 800 miles in the Adj
rondacks.
Mrs. Langtry has put $97 ,0CO of her earn
ingsin this country into mortgages ON New
York real estate.
The expenses Of the Barthoidi pedestal
fund fairs in Brooklyn, were 5000 more
than the receipts.
Senator Palmer Of Michigan gives che
most elaborate dinners at Washington, and
pays hisoook S250o year.
Manager Abbey has invested in 10000
medallions Of Henry Irving and Miss Ter
~, 70 sell to admiring Americans.
The chief attraction of Winchester, Va,
is the double cemetery in its suburbs, in
which 10000 Confederates and Federals are
buried.
Miss Wolfe and Mr.. Astor recently depos-
tied $4,000 with the United States Trust
Company to be used By the children's Aid
Society.
In Oakland, Cal, ,after the sounding of
the curfew bell at 8 o'clock in the evening,
all boys under Is found in the streets are
arrested.
A new steamer of the North German
Lloyd line has made the run from South
ampton to Sandy Hook in seven days, the
fastest time on record.
The Geological Gardens in Philadelphia
have been thrown open to the admission
of organized parties of school children at
nominal rates. and the teachers free.
A Chinese doctor has just been enrolled
practieing physician in New York city,
who advertises that he will receive pay only
in case of the recovery of his patient.
FOREIGN.
Persia has ceded Sarakha to Russia.
The Crown Princess of Spain is the moth
or Of a son.
Bismarck supports the candidature of the
Duke Of Nassau.
The Tichborne claimant will be released
on ticket of leave.
The Prince of Orange, Crown Prince of.
the Netherlands, is dead.
Bismarck will send his son Herbert to di-
rect the legation at the Hague.
The project Of erecting monument to
Victor Emanuel ON the Pantheon has been
abandoned.
The difficulties between Servia and Bull
garia are to be referred to the mediation
of Austria and Russia.
Frenchman has undertaken to walk
from Paris to Rome and back again in
fifteen days. on wager of $1,000.
A river in Turkestan overhowed from
water spout, and drowned forty persons,
besides destroying seventy houses.
The government of Arohangel, Russia, is
in state OF semi-anarchy owing to re-
peated acts OF incendiarisms by exiles.
Degaief, the assassin of Sudeikin, has
been arrested in Berlin and will be sur
rendered to the Russian authorities.
The Queen was present at the erection at
Balmoral Of a bronze statue of John Brown,
which was placed within view of her apart
ments.
Oscar Wilde says he has not been disap-
pointed in married life, and intends to set
an example of the pervading influence of
art in matrimony.
King William Of Holland has secretly af-
fanced his three-year-old daughter, Prin-
cess Wilhelmelma, to the heir-apparent to
the throne of Belgium.
The divorce OF the Grand Duke of Hesse
has been settled satisfactorily, the mar
riage being annulled and Mime. Kalomire
created Countess Won Romrod. She re-
ceives Eos, zoo and an annual income of
e1000 on condition not to reside in Ger
many or England.
gOUDANEsE WAR NOTES.
The Governor of Dongola asks for REIN
forcements.
Ell Mahdi is marching toward Dongola
with 5000 troups.
It is reported that Gen. Gordon is on his
way down the river.
Ell Mahdi had peen crushingly defeated
by the Takalla tribe.
The populace in Upper Egypt refuses to
pay taxes in money or kind.
Berber has fallen, and Ell Mahdi's Ameer
is advancing upon Dongola.
The government has decided to construct
q railway from Suakim to Berber.
Wolseley advises pushing the campaign
via Suakim or Massowah, instead of by way
of the Nile.
The War Office and Admiralty still con-
tinue preparations for the contemplated ex-
petition to Khartoum.
5 The attitude of the Upper Egyptians Is
SO menacing that Europeans are sending
their families to Cairo.
The whole Egyptian army. is to be ech-
eloned between Assuan and Wady Halfa by
the end of the present month.
King John of Abyssinia agrees to provide