The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-01-12
NUMBER 10.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Philadelphia theatres took in $4,000
Christmas day.
Gen. Grant is fast recovering from his
fall on the ice.
Mr.. Levy, the cornet virtuoso, is writing
his autobiography.
One factory in Chicago turns out $1,000
pounds of oliomargerine day.
Joseph Jefferson, the actor, has entirely
recovered his voice and is in fine health.
PATHS private palace car, built by The
Mann Boudoir Gar Company, cost $4,000.
The Park Theatre at Cleveland, Ohio,
was completely destroyed by fire on the 5th.
A subscription is being raised to erect a
s25 600 statue of William Cullen Bryant In
Central Park.
The cellars under Phi1adelphia's new city
hall are the largest in America, their area
being four and half acres.
The President of the Long Island rail-
road gave his employees $500 wcrth of tur-
keys as Christmas present.
There is a law in Tennessee to the effect
that saloon shall not be operated within
four miles of schooI-house.
Mgr Capel is giving instruction TO twen-
ty-two Northern ladies who contemplate
embracing the Catholic faith.
A Philadelphia mill girl whose hair was
torn of by machinery, has had 14,263 skin
gratis imbedded in her scalp.
Jefferson Doggett, the youngest railway
conductor in the United States, was killed
recently on the Florida Central road.
A man who had been dead fifteen years
was recently nominated and elected for
pound-keeper in Connecticut village.
Frank james, the Missouri outlaw, is said
to be dying of consumption. He has been
left aiegacy.by one of Kentucky's aady mill
ionaires.
ceremony, representing the funeral Of
ODonnell, who was hanged in London,
took place in San Francisco the evening Of
the execution.
Sergeant Mason has entered upon his
engagement az star at the Dime Museum
Philadelphia. Betty aud Baby are to ao-
company him.
The defendant in the Jennie Cramer muir
der case has written tosa playwright for
play entitled "James Malley, the Light
ming Rod Peddler.''
At Belleville, ILL.,, st. Joseph's Roman
Catholic Convent burned to the ground last
Saturday. Six nuns and twenty two pupils
perished in the flames.
Az o1a ~,f
tit in the outrage suit at Taylorviile, ILL.,,
committed suicide when the verdict Of NOS
guilty was rendered. a subseribtion ts
being taken up for the young lady.
FOREIGN.
The Queen has gone to Osborne, Isis Of
Wright.
4 Tbs Vatican archives..are now OPEN bo
heretics.
Theodore Tilton is living in the Quarter
Latin, Paris.
Germany is to have an international cult
nary exhibition.
The Grown Princes visit to the Pope Was
merely social one.
Marquise Tseng has concluded secret
treaty with England.
strong shock of earthquake was felt al
Lisbon, December %.
Handsome French dolls have their pho
tographs sold with them.
Mary Anderson is to marry young Eng
lish Duke worth $30, ,0eo, 600.
The total amount of metal in the statue
of Germania is forty five tons.
Four hundred and thirty-seven portraits
were added to Berlin's Rogue's Gallery laos
year.
4 body of Mormon delegates visited Vic
tor Hugo to persuade him to embrace thear
faith.
a scheme is proposed for lighting aae
whole of the Swiss Canton Of Vaud by elee-
tricity.
The Paris Chariuari has attained its ff-
tieth birthday, and is the Oldest comic paper
in existence.
The granddaughter of Charles Dickens
has gone on the stage in London subuy-
ban theatre.
The Italian Government will vigorously
prosecute all subscribers to memorials, ETC.,
to Gverdank.
A little boy died in England, poisoned by
the actio.- of the substance used in dyeing
his stockings.
A $4,000 statue of Burns is about to lie
presented to the city of London by Glas-
gov merchant.
The most expensive drug now in ti,e
| market is ergotinin, which costs nearly
| $500 pound.
Bandits have carried of rich resident
| of Tlacolepec, Mexico, and demand SIC, ,gCa
| for his ransom. az
| The idols worshipped by the heathen Of
Africa and India are nearly all maaufac-
| tured in England.
| The sum of 5000 has been offered in
Paris to found prize for the discovery Of
a cure of diphtheria.
One Of the eco who made the famous
charge at Balaklaya twenty-nine years ago
| is il Jail at Torondo.
Baroness Rothschild intends establishing
in Versailles home for aged and destitute
authors and journalists.
| British tramps are allowed, when locked
up over Sunday, twenty -four ounces of
/ bread and one of cheese.
| The Prince of Wales while out hunting
received a charge of bird shot in one of his
| legs from brother Nimrod.
| A free performance of the pantomime of
| Sinbad has been given to more than 1900 af