The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-08-16
NUMBER SO.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

The cholera scare has perceptibly affected
the price of disiufectants in Philadelphia.
| A Philadelphia costumer'ss furnishes
ready-made funeral outfits at "a moments
notice.
A farm house at Maryville, Kan, was
struck by lightning August 1. and four chill
dren instantly killed.
The main aqueduct in the City of Mexico
has broken, cutting of the city from the
| principal water supply.
John Kelly is SAID to have done mason
work on quite number of solid structures
that stand in New York.
A young woman belonging to the de1ni-
monde of the City of Mexico recently won
the capital prize in the national lottery.
Gen. Rosecrans has introduced more bills
in Congress than any other member of the
House, and Vance Of North Caroline, comes
/ next.
t Mrs. Laagtry has sued for divorce from
her husband, with the intention of retiring
from the stage and becoming Mrs. Geb-
hardt.
L apO1 ftAI0 1dSo SuppooeU tO pb COli6CtGQ
in the cholera infected districts of Egypt,
Turkey and South France are being i'm
ported into the United States through Ca
madam ports.
San Francisco has a Nihilist who after
having been condemned to lifelong servi-
tude in Siberia escaped to California. He
has now surrendered himself to the Rus
sian consul, wishing to fill out his sentence
VIM. Daniel, a candidate for Vice Presi-
dent on the Prohibition ticket, is of such
diminutive stature that during recent
visit to Maryland one of the boys of the
family asked him out to play ball "while
the grown folks were eating dinner
At Wheeling, w. Va, several young men
were having photographs taken in tragic
ATTITUDES, one of them being in position as
if shooting the other with a cooked revol-
yer. Something startled him and he pressed
the trigger, the ball piercing his friend
| through the heart. An instantaneous pho
tograph was secured of the dying man.
FOREIGN.
| incognito.
The Siberian plague has appeared at Vi
borg, in Finland.
The cotton worm is ravaging the cotton
crop of lower Egypt.
The loss from a greatfre at Crane wharf,
Mapping, will reach $2,5O0, 900.
A fire at Duklay, Galicia, which started
in naptha factory, burned half the town.
The Nile is now much lower than at any
time since 1873, when 4o. o.0o0 people persisted
from famine.
India has q, 900, ,o00 widows, and not one
of them, according to Hindoo custom, may
marry again.
By a recent railway accident in England
twenty-five persons were killed and forty
seriously injured.
The Egyptian Conference, after brief
session, adjourned sine die without arriving
at any agreement
Over 1000 persons of both sexes, suspect
ed of hostility to the Gear, have been ex-
PEELED from Germany.
The Prince of Wales has presented Capt.
Jas. B. Eads with the Albert medal of the
Society of Arts TO 1884.
I There have been 100 arrests at Warsaw in
connection with the plot to blow up the
palace during the Cars visit.
The Lord Mayor of London declines 60
ing to church ON Sunday, not wishing his
coachman and horses to work.
Il d.
sha were the guests of Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett at recent dinner in Paris.
The Car has abandoned his contempIa-
ted visit to Copenhagen in consequence of
the warnings of the st. Petersburg police.
The University of Heidelberg has Just de-
clined an offer Of 100000 marks, coupled
with the condition to admit women as stu
dents.
The Pope has directed visiting Italian
Cardinals and Bishops to return to their
dioceses to prepare for the visitation of
cholera.
At a hospital in Lugano, Italy, attend
ants entered the wine cellar and becoming
drunk, assaulted the Sisters of Charity and
inmates of the institution.
soUDANEsE wAR NOTES.
It is reported that J000 persons were mas
sacred at Agig.
Orders have been issued at Chatham Dock
to send all available steam pinnaces to
Egypt.
Osman Digma, leader of the rebels near
Suakim, has been asked to send reinforce
ments to Berber.
4. Gen. Gordon's gun-boat between Khar-
toum and Berber has spread great terror
among the rebels.
Preparations for an expidition to Khar-
toum by way of Snakim and Berber are
going ON to completion.
A number of desertions have occurred in
the Egyptian army, and the rebels are mass
ing fifteen miles from Assonan.
The Mudir of Dongo1a has defeated a
rebel sheikh Ahmet Ell Hoda, who was en-
trenched in the Ambukol district.
Bisbareen sheikhs have assembled near
Esnet to determine whether they will ad-
here to the Khedive or go to Ell Mahdi.
Osman Digma not only returned adefant
answer to letter of peace sent to Admiral
Hewitt but cut off the messengers hands
tied them round their necks and sent them
back to the Admiral.
An Irish-American newspaper published
at Buffalo says: It requires the ignorance as
well as the iInpudence of newly imported
John Bull to attempt to prejudice Gen. Lo,