The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-24
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
Mrs. Tom Thumb has a suitor for her
hand.
The walls Of the Washington monument
are now 42O feet in height.
The Bartholdi committees funds now on
hand will give ont in about six weeks.
Spiritualism has revived in Boston, and
clairyoyance is becoming fashionable.
New York has house which is three
stories high and not quite six feet wide.
Wizards Hotel at Washington hos been
damaged by fire to the amount of $1,000.
There are now 100 men employed on the
foundation of the Bartholdi statue pedes-
tai.
A new steam launch, called the Barthol-
di, is to run between Bedloe's Island and
the Battery.
There are fully 10000 persons between
Natchez and Vicksburg made destitute by
the foods.
The reflection OF the suns rays from 9
milk-can set fire to house at Machias, N.
Y, recently.
The New York photographers do bigger
business photographing pet dogs than IN
any other line.
The late Chief Engineer Of the New York
Fire Department had been connected with
IL for thirfy-eipht wears
Over Al 600 people attended the opening
performance Of Buffalo Bills Wild West
Combination in Chicago.
The West Tennessee Horticultural So
ciety are to send specimens Of fruit to the
New Orleans Worlds Exposition preserved
in alcohol.
A Texas Negro woman recovered $3.50
damages from railroad company for put
ting her in smoking car when she had q
first-class ticket.
There was recently on exhibition in Viz
ginia COW with three immense horna and
three eyes, the mother of a calf, also on ex-
hibition, that had neither eyes or tail.
An enterprising Boston merchant put a
big, live monkey in his show windows, an
other turned his windows into WAX works
exhibition surprising in horror the objects
in the crypt of the Eden Mus6e, and third
covered his entire store front with inl-
meme mirrors.
FOREIGN.
Charles Adolphe Wartz, the distinguished
chemist, is dead.
The preIiminaries of the Egyptian con-
ference have been settled.
The Sultan wishes the conferences con-
cerning Egypt to sit at Berlin.
The delegates of the Swiss cantons are
discussing the propriety of suppressing the
Salvation Army. @
A meteorological observatory has been
erected by Pope Leo XIII at Carpineto-Ro
mano, his native city.
A detachment of troops Is stationed IN
side the jail in which the dynamiters Daly,
Egan and Mcdonnell are confined.
President Grevy has pardoned q major
ity of the miners imprisoned for having
participated in the labor riots at Densire.
Queen Victoria intends purchasing the
Villa Nevada, at Cannes, in which Leopold
died, TO convert it into convent and
chapel.
Show windows along the route OF the pro-
cession at the celebration of the majority
of the Czarowitch were specially orderedso
be kept closed.
The Madagascar Governments offers
81 600, 900 indemnify on condition that
France shall renounce all claus 10 terri
tory in Madagascar.
A meeting of 5000 Conservatives held at
Manchester, England, adopted resolutions
condemning the abandonment of Gen.
Gordon by The government.
The bill allowing man to marry his de-
ceased wife's sister has passed the English
House Of Commons. The Prince of Wales
has lobbied actively in favor of the meas
ure.
Prince Lichtenstein, the sovereign Of the
little principality of that name, hes ad-
dressed letter TO the Pope, offering him
free disposition Of both land and Castle
Lichtenstein.
All the gold leaf stuck on the brass image
of the Gaudama Buddha by successive gen.
erations of worshipers, and valued at $780,
600, melted of during the recent eonfagra,
ton at Calcutta.
An Easter egg was made by q Partisan
house for present to a very wealthy Span
ish lady, at cost of 5000, in which was
concealed tiny mechanical bird that sang
twelve airs from popular operas.
Queen Victoria has allowed local pho.
tographer to take group of herself, her
daughter, her granddaughter and her great
granddaughter, aged five years, a group
which includes four generations in the fe-
male line.
soUDANEsE wAE NOTES.
The wires beyond Korosko have been cut.
The rebels carried off 1000 sheep from
Suakim.
No more fugitives will be able to cross
| the desert.
| Chermiside has been appointed dover-
nor of Suakim. Ms
! The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that
| the situation is alarming.
| There are only four companies of Egyp-
tian regulars and 200 Bazouks in Dongoia.
| The rebels have captured the magazine at
Abu Hamed, and are advancing upon ko-
roako.
Two messengers with letters to Gordon
from Suakim have been captured by the