The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-09-13
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The Tallapoosa is to be raised at an ex-
pense of $50, 600.
Tacoma, W. T., has population Of 5000
and a new SEQ 900 hotel.
A clever Cincinnati thief stole revolver
from policeman's pocket.
The average cost to the people for each
bill passed by Congress is $1,000.
Lulu Hurst, the Georgia wonder, netted
$40 600 on her recent trip to New York.
A New York harness maker makes har-
ness for many of the English and French
nobility.
Big Bayou, near Pensacola, is to contrib
ute an alligator with two heads and four
eyes to the Exposition.
Mrs. Belva a. Lockwood has been nom-
mated for President by the womeH suf-
fragists and has accepted.
A number of assorted sewing machines
were sent out to the Mosquito Indians on
| the Spanish main from Baltimore.
Lotta, EJanauscheck, ,sRose Cohglan and
Oliver Doad Byron all arrived in New York
on the same steamer, September 9.
Bounty is paid for dead grasshoppers in
Mexico. Over 2OS, 500 pounds were brought
in one day recently for which $175 was
paid.
President Arthur, Attorney General
Brewster and wife and other celebrities af-
tended James Gordon BENEFITS masked
ball at his cottage in Newport.
| A party containing the noted Sioux Chief,
Sitting Bull and wife, Grey Eagle, Long
Day, Spotted Horn Bull and wife, and she
Princess Red Spear, have started on az ex-
hibition tour throughout the States.
| A tiny steamer is to run on Lake Pond
D'Oreille, Idaho, which had to be brought
across the Atlantic in big one, towel
| through the st. Lawrence river and the
lakes, and finally carried by men forty
| miles overland.
FOREIGN.
King Humbert of Italy is visiting Venice.
Mrs. Maekay gives away $4,000 in char
ity every year.
The Goldfish catch at. Labrador is short
500, ,OO0 auintals.
Admiral Courbet will receive the decora-
ton of the Legion of Honor.
Paper bottles are now made ON large
| scale in Germany and Austria.
| The Gar intends to be crowned King OF
Poland during his visit to Warsaw.
Sixty-four persons suspected of plotting
| against the Gar have been arrested.
| Over 800 families are reported starving
on the Northeast coast Of Newfoundland.
Dom Pedro, Emperor Of Brazil, intends
| travelling for two years in Japan and China.
The Emperors William and Francis Jo-
seph will be the Cars gnests during his
| visit in Poland.
| Eighty Mennonites, having leader rs
years old with wife aged 16, are ea route
from Berlin to America.
The husband of danseuse Mt Madrid
killed the ballet manager who rebuked her
for making wrong step.
The Earl of Northbrook's mission to
Egypt is to compel the Khsdive to abaieate
his throne and proclaim his son Abbas
Khedive. ~
King John of Abyssinia in his treaty
| with England binds himself to abolish
slavery and the slave trade within his doS
minlons.
The whole coast of Newfoundland and
Labrador is studded with icebergs, 253
being sighted between Wadham Island and
Cape Freens.
The crew of the yacht Mignonetti, resent
ly picked up at sea in open boats, have
been indicted in London for murder, hay-
ing sustained life for seven days by killing
and devouring the youngest:membero of the
| crew.
| sOUDANESE AND FRANCo-cHINEsE WAR NOTES.
| Osman Digma has only 1000 adherents.
The Hadindowas have defeated the Amars
near Sinkat.
| The rebsls attacked Kassala and were re-
pulsed with great loss.
| Admiral Courbet insists upon instant
declaration Of war by France against China.
| More letters have been received from Gen.
Gordon stating that he and the garrison
are we'll. $50
The Cairo expedition will be abandoned
for one from Suakim to Khartoum by the
Berber route.
The English Foreign Office orders strict
neutrality to be observed between the
French and Chinese.
The English government has ordered
250, COO pounds of Chicago compressed beet
for the Soudan expedition.
The Chinese have cut q military road
through the French cemetery at Canton,
destroying the mausoleum and riaing
tombs.
China has paid the French consul at
Hong Kong s27, ,0oo indemnity for losses
incurred by French aaliscts in the Canton
riots in 1883.
WEsLE1a's Music JoURNAL.-The CHIEF
has received from Philip Werlein, the old
and widely known music dealer of New Or
leans, copy of his Music Journal for
August. 1t is neat work nabIished month-
ly in pamphlet form and contains much in
teresting matter. The subscription price is
: only IS cents per anuum, thus placing it
! within the reach Of all. In each number is
published two or three pieces of good
J music, the one hefore us containing twos
~ IL. a IA.