The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-03-22
NUMBER %.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

An explosion in the Pocahontas mine,
Va, March 13, killed froa 100 to 15O
miners.
A movement is on foot to have the name
of the town of Bismark, Dakota, changed
to Lasker.
A Bowery museum has among its won
ders glass of whisky labeled srefused by
Gen. Grant in 1878.''
The naturalist engaged last year to kill
the insects in Central Park has succeeded
in finding 315 varieties.
A first cousin of President Garfield has
been appointed superintendent of Public
Buildings at Pensacola.
| A lad of 13 has been committed in New
York as a habitual drunkard, having been
on continuous spree since Christmas.
| At recent New York fair one of the con-
tests was to determine the most popular
undertaken, the prize being handsome
| shroud.
Philadelphia was visited by five disas-
trous fires on the night of February 2S,
one of which did damage to the amount of
81, 100000.
Cameron, the Readiuster Governor of
Virginia, elected by colored votes, has
offended his constituents by refusing to
give them social recognition.
Henry @. Kelsey, Secretary of State Of
New Jersey, was blown from the two-hour
train from Philadelphia to New York, the
fastest train in the country, while in mo-
ton. He alighted on snow bank and was
picked up uninjured.
It is openly stated that Mapleson's busi-
ness manager, Nathan, prearranged the
scheme Of scalping the Patti tickets at San
Francisco, with spectators brought from
the East. Over 800 people stood in line all
night to be the first at the box-office, and
SIP was paid for places in the line. When
it was announced that oil the tickets were
sold, the theatre was mobbed, the box
Office gutted and considerable damage
done. Col. Mapleson was arrested and
booked at the city prison for violating the
fire ordinance by locking the theatre, but
was released on bonds.
FOREIGN.
The French have captured Bacninh.
Women are to be granted the franchise
in Canada.
At Canton there are all the signs of a
prolonged war.
The death of Baroness Lionel de Roths-
child is announced.
The cable between Hal Phong and Saigon
has been completed.
The tribes of Merv have taken the oath
of submission to Russia.
Victoria has three yachts at her service
which cost over ST., 100000.
Queen Victoria will start for the Cont
nent the first week in April.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia in
tends@to visit England in May.
Admiral Lesseps has assumed command
of the French feet in Tonquin.
Tourguenieff's brain is to be preserved
in the museum of St. Petersburg.
About 1000 letters and kilograms reached
Mr.. Gladstone OH his last birthday.
Ten thousand copies of the first edition
of the Queens Diary we're sold the first
day.
Charles Bradlaugh, the inidel member
of Parliament, has brother who is min
ister.
Bismark is much emaciated, having
lost over forty pounds since the Lasker
affair.
Lord Walter Campbell, son of the Duke
Of Argyll, is the first lord to become Lon
ION broker.
An English woman has just died in Lon
don from the effect of swallowing coins for
safe keeping.
Agitation for the expulsion of the Or
cans Princes from France is constantly
gaining strength.
A servant at Montargis, France, drew
he chief prize in the Paris Decorative art
Museum lottery, valued at $4,000.
Mr.. Bradlaugh, while delivering lecture
1t Bridgewater, was rotten -egged by roughs
Who afterwards wrecked his house.
Emperor William has just celebrated the
seventeenth anniversary of his entrance
nto the Russian Order of st. George.
Tennyson took his seat in the House of
lords the other day in robes borrowed
rom Lord Coleridge, his own having been
tolen.
mechanic who confesses to having set
ire to the Victory dock, London, in 1881,
las been imprisoned for life at Copen-
agen.
The Pope has given orders for the re-
noval of the body of Innocent III. from
'erugia. and that of Gregory VII. from
'alerno, to Rome.
soUDANEsE WAR NOTES.
Csman Digma is preaching holy war.
Gen. Graham's forces are returning to
uakim.
Sheik Obid, on the other side of the Blue
Tile, has risen.
Telegraph communication between Cairo
nd khartoum has been restored.
Gen. Gordon strongly denounces the pro-
osed British expedition to reconquer
oudan.
Baker Pasha will shortly be reinstated in
le British army, with the rank of Major
eneral.
Osman Digma, with 700 men, is moving
'ward zariba in the hope of destroying
le British stores of water in a series of
light attacks.
When you feel q cough or bronchial affection
'eeping on the lungs. take Ayers Cherry pee
'rai, and cure 1t befoe it becomes lncurabIe.
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