The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-05-03

! chestra seats, and five boxes have been
bought at $500 apiece for Henry E. Abbey's
forthcoming benefit in New York. All the
stockholders are to take seats at $1,000
apiece.
| FOREIGN.
In Brussels soldiers are not allowed to
vote.
| Maria Taglioni, the famous dancer, ia
dead.
The Queen of Tahiti has gone to Havre,
on her way home.
John Bright has been suffering from con-
| gestion of the lungs.
| The capture of Hung Hoa terminates the
campaign in Tonquin.
Reports from Shanghai speak of serious
political crisis at Pekin.
Countess Chambord will enter the Car
melite Convent at Gratz.
A general levy for men for the Chinese
army has been ordered.
Affairs at Pekin are represented to be in
very critical condition.
The Ficeroy of Canton has been publicly
| degraded for refusing to obey orders.
| The Governor of Yunnan has been sum-
| moned to Pekin to receive punishment
Officers answerable for the loss of Bac-
| mini have been condemned to be beheaded.
| The British Museum has over 100 miles
of shelves and twenty more miles to be
| filled.
The Khedive is constantly receiving let
ters threatening assassination unless he ad-.
dicates.
The scaffold on which John Brown was
hanged was recently sold to syndicate of
| relic hunters for $500.
One hundred and fifteen people were
killed and wounded by the collapsing of
circus tent at Bucharest.
At the wedding of the Rao of Clutch in
India, 107, 900 people were entertained and
fed at the groom's expense.
Kaiser William, King George Of Greece
and King Christian of Denmark will meet
! this summer in Wiesbaden.
The body of the; Duke of Albany was
borne to Windsor Castle from the railway
station upon gun carriage drawn by eight
horses. %
child has been born in Turkish Kurdes-
tan with beard and moustache, perfect
set of thirty-two teeth, and forty distinctly
formed fingers.
The car in which the murderers of Cayen-
dish and Burke were driven to Phoenix
park is now the star attraction at Nine,
Tussauds exhibition.
The Empress of China has publicly de-
graded Prince Kung and four members of
the privy council for the dilatory manner in
which they dealt with Tonquin affairs.
A book on Diseases of the Mind'' cou-
tanning 202 pages. which was written by
the superintendent of lunatic asylum at
Stockholm, has been set up, printed and
bound by the patients.
De Brazza, French explorer in the Congo
country, has signed treaty with the most
powerful sovereign in Western Africa, plac-
ing all his States in the Congo country un.
der the protection of France.
There has been discovered in Greece an
Ptolemaic period. Five catacombs have so
far been opened which yielded 12O mum
| mics. The sites of 100 similar catacombs
are still intact containing 60o0 mummies.
soUDANEsE wAB NOTES.
! 1t is reported that the rebels have can
| tured Berber.
King John has agreed to Admiral Hewitt's
proposals to invade SoHdan.
| Nubar Pasha has refused to retain his
Office unless help is sent to Berber.
The English Cabinet have decided against
formally establishing a protectorate over
Egypt.
The Porte has decided not to protest
| against the treaties which Egypt recently
. concluded with England and Greece.
| 1t is ru1norsd that Rebehr Pasha is in
| triguing in soudau, and is responsible for
the recent uprising north of Khartoum.
Several sums Of money forwarded to the
| London Times to form a fund for rescue of
| Gen. Gordon have been returned to the
| donors.
| movement is on foot to enlist 200 VOL
unteers from high social circles to rescus
Gordon. The volunteers are expected to
contribute their quota of expenses.
Nubar Pasha and Sir Evelyn Wood have
decided to advise the British Government
to send a mixed expedition of British and
Egyptian forces to relieve Berber.
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ehet is devoted principally to Instructions for
knitting and eroche. work, but these two
branches will not be treated OF the exclusion of