The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-08-02
NUMBER 48.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.
California ostrich eggs are worth Si2o9
per dozen.
Striking giassworkers gouged out the .
eyes of non-union workman at Bradford,
Pa.
Georges creek, Maryland, has overaowed
its banks, causing 100000 damages.
A report Of yellow fever at ri Paso is de-
MED. The Texas border was nsver health
Ter than now.
The Westinghouse Air Brake Co., at Pitts :
burg, has discharged 200 hands, owing to
dull business.
Two cotton mills at Lewiston, Me-, en-
ploying 800 hands, have shnt down until
the 1st of September.
Louisville, Ky., is to have Southern
Exposition composed almost entirely of
relics of the late war.
One of the Mass, millionaires has in his
greenhouse $40 goo worth of orchids. For
rare one he paid $4,000.
At LaSalle Seminary two gold miniature
loaves were awarded to the girls who had
taken the highest rank in bread making.
Cleveland has taught in blind asylum
in New York, and Blaine and his wife were
teachers in deaf mute college in Phiiadel-
phia.
Philadelphia furnishes free sacred music
to her population in Paramount Park every
Sunday, and gives them gratis all the ice
water needed.
Some of the 4watering-p place hotels en-
ploy women of talent, who play on tie pia-
no. sing, and in every way make the time
pass pleasantly to the guests.
A lady IN New York has just finished q
silk quilt composed of 14,o00 pieces, each
the size of a ten cent piece, which took
seven years to complete and is valued at
!, $500.
FOREIGN
China has rejected the French u1timatun.
The Shanghai forts are to be bombarded
| by the French.
Three suspected dynamiters are on trial
at Warwick, England.
Two villages near st. Petersburg have
been destroyed by fire.
The ENJOYS of King John of Abyssinia
| have started for London.
China will soon build its first railway
connecting Pekin with Tientsin.
A young English lady will attempt to
swim the English Channel in August.
| A mild form of cholera has appeared at
st. Petersburg and other Russian towns.
| The Pope suspends for year the obli-
gation to bishops to denounce secret So
cieties.
! The advertising expenses of famous soap
| firm in London are from e30,0 900 to e40,00e
a year.
| Count Karl Lewenharpt, Swedish Minis
ter to America, will replace Baron Zebber
as Minister at Paris.
The Emperor Of Germany has conferred
upon well known st. Louis lawyer the,
order of Knighthood.
! At "a recent sale in London white but
terhy from the Hebrides brought $50, and
others from SIS to $40 each.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars have been
subscribed to monument for Mozart at
Vienna, foreigners to compete.
/! The Prince of Monaco's yacht was
wrecked and the crew was drowned, but
Prince Albert was rescued.
A French comedy troupe travelling
through Algiers was massacred By Arabs
near the Moroccan frontier.
Prince Minister Ferry has apologized to
the German Government for the recent
insult to the Prussian flag in Paris.
| The cholera epidemic is gradually sub.
siding at Marseilles, Toulon and Aries, but
the disease is spreading in the rural dis
tricts.
One of the cholera infected towns has
been surrounded by Gordon of soldiers
who prevent anybody from leaving the
place.
4 The English experimented twenty -four
hours with maple sugar found in tourists
trunk, to see if it was an explosive COM
pound.
The heating" of ths packing cooked
two hundred and twenty-five dozen eggs
shipped from Cape Breton to Boston re-
Gently.
The Chinese Government is providing
for the safety of Chinese merchant vessels
in the event Of 8 war between China and
France.
KLondon soap firm sent ont last year
through The mails fifteen tons of handbills,
and cake of it's soap to each one of the
babies whose birth is announced in the
Times.
At the famous ball given by Minister
Morton, some weeks since, Mrs. Maekay
outshone all French and American mill
. . ionaires, one set of jewels alone being
valued at $3O0, 200.
DIR. Cornelius Herr, an American, was
made Commander of the Legion of Hon.
/: or for service in the cause of electrical sci
t ence. He is the first foreign scientist in
vested with this distinction.
! It is reported that Gen. Gordon has re-
: captured Berber; that serious uprising
: has occurred at Yernen and 10000 troops
: have been sent from Jeddah to suppress it;
: and that two attacks by the rebels on Wady
: Halfa were repulsed.
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