The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-10
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
New York has 400 millionaires.
Henry =, Abbey lost $4,000 on this sea-
sons opera.
Quinine is selling in New York at hall. q
cent grain.
Smoking IS not allowed in the New York
Custom-house
The Chicago saloon licenses have already
brought $3.50, coo to the city treasury.
Nilsson is to receive $4,000 for series
of twenty three concerts, beginning in Bos-
ton.
Brooklyn bridge, fetch rental of $4,000
| year.
Seaman Jack Cole OF the Jeanette expe-
dition died at the Insane Asylum at Wash
| ington.
A native Of New York has perfected a
clock which will run six months without
winding.
There are six acres of tuberose bulbs in
cultivation for the Northern markets at
Magnolia, N. @.
Edison, the inventor, is iecturing on ap-
piled electricity in the Eastern cities to
large audiences.
The case of colored woman who was
grandmother at twenty-six is sreported from
Nacogdoches, Texas.
Mr.. John Jacob Astor of New York has
made gift of 500, 900 to the Skin and
Cancer Hospital of that city.
Pierre Lorillard has contributed $1,000
to the fund being raised in New Jersey in
aid of the pedestal for the Bartholdi statue.
An evangelist is travelling about Connec-
ticut with pot of paint and a brush, paint
ing pious exhortations on rocks and
fences.
A lot on Wall street, New York, one door
from the Stock Exchange, twenty feet
front by sixty-seven feet deep, was sold for
1926, 5,0O0.
The head clerk of the st. Nicholas Hotel
who was over 10 years of age, and the old
est of New York hotel clerks, died in that
city April 80.
A franklin, Pa, man owns the smallest
perfect locomotive ever constructed It is
six inches long, weighs two pounds, and is
complete in every particular. Three years
was spent in its construction, it being built
of gold, silver end steel.
FOREIGN.
Another band of insurgents has appeared
in Catalonia.
A rising of slaves has taken place in Va
ranas, Brazil.
Siam has a law allowing husbands to
pledge wives for gambling debts.
Fannie Ellsler, the celebrated danseuse,
is dangerously ill.
Lawrence Barrett pays $3.50 week rent
for his English establishment.
An attempt has been made to blow I'D
the statue of Germania at Niedewald.
The House Of Common rejected by ayote
OF 149 to 70 the bill licensing crematories,
The Empress Eugenie is negotiating for
the purchase of large estate at Chiselhurst.
opposite the imperial tomb.
The site of the historic Black Hole of
Calcutta, has been filled up and paved over.
A handsome tablet of white marble is to
be placed near the spot.
Owing to the discovery at Moscow of a
plot to assassinate the Gar the festivities
IN honor of the coming of age of the Care
witch will be held at st. Petersburg.
During her coronation speech. Ranaya-
Iona, the Queen of Madagascar said, "If
ever yield to France / hope that my body
may be cut into pieces and thrown to the
dogs"
On the occasion Of the recent visit to the
Sultan made by the crown Prince Of Aus
trla, 100000 were spent in festivities,
new palace built and the meals served in
dishes Of pure gold.
The damage from the recent magazine
explosion at San Jose is estimated at
$5O0,00O. The dead number twenty-oue
and the wounded seventy-nine, the latter
being scattered all ever the town.
The Bank of England has among it's
curios three notes which passed through
the Chicago fire. Though they are burnt
to crisp, black ash, the paper is scarcely
broken, and the engraving is as clear as
new.
The Slcillan police have discovered a re-
markable club near Palermo, consisting of
nifty nine members pledged to murder for
common advantage and profit and having
members whose business was to execute
private vengeance for hire. A branch club
at Sicarrazi, has within few months killed
thirty persons.
soUDANEsK WAR NOTES.
The troops at Berber fraternize with the
rebels.
Every village between Berber and Khar-
toum is reported in rebellion.
Berber is completely surrounded, and the
garrison utterly demoraIized.
Trade will be carried on with Ell Mahdi's
men in case Khartoum is taken.
The London Times continues to receive
ofers of money to relieve Gordon.
hubar Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minis
.er, is becoming hostile to British influence.
A special messenger post is to be estab-
ished at Cairo to convey dispatches to Gen.
Gordon.
Greek merchants are in correspondence
Hith Ell Mahdi with view Of the establish
nent of commerce.
The Egyptian Government offered