The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-04-05
NUMBER 81.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

PATHS first nights receipts in San Fran
cisco we're $4,000.
Over 200 wild ducks were trapped i'll o
warehouse near Chico, Cal.
/ The funeral of Thomas Kinsella, the edi-
tor of the Brooklyn Eagle, was mile long.
A woman at Norwalk, Ohio, pulled an
adopted child's hair until the scalp was
loose.
The baby giant of the west, died at Ana
masa, Ia. He was six years old and weighed
25O pounds.
Rugg, the Negro murderer of Long
Island, is being lionized by the people of
that section.
| Mrs. Langtry refused to give an Ash
Wednesday matinee, and is being sued by
her manager for S12,Ce0.
Barnum's s car for his white elephant is
described as eclipsing anything in the car
line ever built, and is sixty feet long.
| A woman committed suicide at Hot
Springs recently by severing her throat to
the neck bone with common hand-saw.
The Presbyterians in Philadelphia de-
clined to receive their share of $4,000
| raised by the giving of the recent charity
/ ball.
One of the Siamese sacred white ele-
phants lived in captivity 100 years, and oc-
casioned the death of more than 5000
soldiers.
The Jerusalem Club of Boston, composed
of wealthy young Germans noted for their
eccentricities, has just given dinner of
dog meat.
There is marksman in Somerset, Pa,
who can shoot through the mouth of pop
bottle thrown into the air and knock the
bottom out
A trapeze performer fell at Minnea-
polls, killing himself instantly. The an.
d:ence were SO Mortified that panic occurred
in which several were killed and wounded.
A New Milford, Conn, Sunday school
teacher, who supported wife and four chill
dren on So a week, has been sent to Jail
for stealing small quantities Of coal and
meal.
A gang of boys at Oil City, Pa, having
determined to run away, each member Was
to poison his mother so they should have
no cause to return. The plot was over
heard by servant girl and the boys ap-
pretended.
OF the two sailor survivors of the jean
rette expedition, Ninderman is employed
at the Brooklyn navy yard, and Noros is
selling Mrs. De Longs edition of her hus-
bands journal throughout the New En-.
gland States.
FOREIGN.
Patti has just celebrated her forty second
birthday.
Mgr. Capel's mother keeps boarding
house at Hastings, England.
An English Roman Catholic lady recently
left s., 100000 to the Pope.
The sentence of Prince Krapotkine has
been commuted to Punishment.
Partisan public schools are visited twice
a month by medical inspectors.
Bradlaugh has again been excluded from
the English House of Parliament.
Rebellion against the Turks in Yemen,
southwestern division of Arabia, is spread
ing.
Vicomte Dumonsel, author of scientific
works and member of the French Institute,
is dead.
The steamer Great Eastern has been
purchased by England for coal hulk at
Gibraltar.
A score of vagrants ranging in age from
so to 50 years, were recently arrested in one
week at PARIS.
The betrothal of Princess Elizabeth of
Hesse with Grand Duke Sergius of Russia
is announced.
Fifty young women have sailed from
France to New Caledonia to be married to
well ell-behaved convicts.
The manuscript of ''Nana Judith about
to be published in Paris, has been bought
at high price and burned.
One of Carloads daughters is shortly to
be married to one OF the Professors of the
International College at Turin.
The Chinese Viceroy, prior to the cap
ture Of Sontay, ordered the Black Flags to-
murder every Christian in the city.
The remains of ". II. Hunt, late United
States Minister to Russia, will be brought
to the United States for interment.
Peace has been established between
Russia and the Vatican, and Russian
minister to the latter will be appointed.
Mile. Nevada, an American prima donna,
is to embrace the Catholic religion, Gonnod,
the composer, and Mrs. Maekay acting as
sponsors.
The Grand Duke Michael presented the
Emperor of Germany with an autograph
letter from the Gar and the baton of
Russian field marshal.
Bismark says he would have accepted the
American resolutions on Herr I4asker's
death had they not contained opinions
opposed to his convictions.
When Mr.. Foote, editor of the Free
thinker, completed his years imprisonment
for b!asphemy, Mr.. Bradlaugh, with 2Gc0
sym pathizers, met him at the gate of the
prison.
charity fair is to be given in England
at which I'll nations will be represented.
Miss Mary Anderson will preside over aa
stall, and one of the American ladies is to
appear as an Indian squaw.
sOUDAEEsE WAR NOTES.
Eel Mahdi is az black as Cetewayo.
The garrison at Kassala is holding out
strongly.
The British forces have captured and de-
stroyed Taminieb.
The sheiks ask that British governor
/, f,,r rEnIyoY.