The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-11-15
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.


shirt with removable bosom which can be
changed daily.
People are already engaging aceommo-
dations at the hotels in Washington for
Inauguration week.
Patti and Nieolini, Mrs. Lawrence Barrett,
Mapleson and his Italian opera company all
arrived in New York the same day.
The chief of police of Chicago has issued
an order to all females in aecertain district
of that city, not to wear Mother Hubbard
dresses on the street.
Last week there was sent to the Dead
Letter Office from Philadelphia 1900 boxes
of wedding cake, which had been accumg-
lated during the past three months.
The plucky little wife of Engineer Myers
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
railroad recently horsewhipped two young
women for flirting with her husband.
A little Mississippi boy has gotten up a
collection of eggs for the Exposition, repre-
senting every bird and reptile known In the
State. He has also large assortment of
nests.
Twenty-one couples from the northern
counties of Missouri have agreed to get
married at the same time and place, give
dal tour together.
There is church being built in Michigan
in which the pews will be opera chairs
with tilting backs, each provided with
hat, shawl, cloak, book, umbrella and cans
rack, and foot-rest.
A grave was opened at the Bethlehem
Cemetery, Albany, II, z, recently, and the
corpse, which had been buried twenty-nine
years, was found in a perfect state of pre-
servation, even to the hair and eyes.
Richard Hoodun, q poor man living In
Westmoreland county, Pa, has Just com
menced to use the $4,000 which he found
in package nearly three years ago, having
been all this time trying to find the owner.
FOREIGN.
A status to Rousseau is to be erected
in Paris.
The Egyptian government recently sold
privately to German firm 100 Krupp can
non.
Twenty-seven people were burned to
death in recent factory fire at Hurta,
Spain.
The French Cabinet Council have decided
to forego demanding an indemnity from
China.
The loss of Stewart Bros. & Spencer by
the burning of. their Oil works at Strood
is !e25o, ,o00.
One county in Australia has this year
paid the bounty on 2, $40 dozens Of captured
sparrows' eggs.
There is an agency in London which col
lects and supplies anybody with newspaper
cuttings of any and every kind.
The inhabitants of Karabogh have re-
yolted, killed the Governor and piliaged an
Armenian village.
Fully 1900 persons were In attendancs at
the funeral of the late Postmaster General
Fawcett at Cambridge.
The divorce OF Nine. Patti from her hus-
band, Marquis DeCaux, has been made ab-
solute in the Paris courts.
Fire damp caused an explosion in col
liery at Wasmes, in Belgium, by which
twenty persons were killed.
Conversation was held by telephone be-
tween St. Petersburg and Bologae, dis
tance of 24e5 miles. recently.
China has paid England's indemnity for
damages incurred by thee British subjects
during the riots st Canton in 1888.
In an explosion in the Tredegar Coal and
Iron Company coliiery at Hockin, near the
town of Tredegar, fifteen lives were lost.
The municipality of Paris will furnish
1000 francs towards the statue Of Rousseau
and France will supply the bronze and
marble.
An eccentric Partisan has just beaueathed
a sum of money to be devoted to an annuaI
prize Of 1000 francs, to fall to the painter
taking the lowest position in the eompeti
ton for the prix de Roma.
There is a clock in Belgian railway
station which hes never been wound since.
1881 and It has kept perfect time, being
warranted to run for I've years without
either winding or regulation,
In the recent Lord Mayors procession
at London were several Nile boats fully
manned. herd of cameIs with soudanese
attendants, a drove of elephant, and dozens
of splendid cars bearing historical tableauz
| OF most elaborate description.
wAE NOTES.
The blockade of the east coast of China
still continues.
The Chinese have bought nearly the whole
stock of English coal in Shanghai
The boats built in England for the Nile
expedition have proven utterly useless.
Four transports are being prepared to
take 500 men from Algeria to Tonquin.
FL Mahdi is engaged in a continuous
Eight with JubeI Dairs for q lot Of Hicks
| Pasha's army.
Active negotiations With view to the
settlement of the difficulties between China
and France are in progress IN London.
Osman Digna cannot Join tie Mahdi il,
| his assault on Khartoum, as he is expecting
| an attack upon his forces at Tamarieb.
| Inere ha3 beeE DfedE-aoWn II snes stEsaIls-
port service on the Nile which threatens to
retard the advance of the expedition from
Wady Halfa until January next. -.
Chinese rioters have been raiding places
of Christian worship, eleven churches
having been destroyed and one hundred
and twenty houses Of resident Christians
looted, priests beaten and women outraged
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