The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-09-20
NUMBER 8.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUM MARY.
DOMEsrrc

Inere were seventeen prOstrations from
heat at New York, Sept. IS.
Joachim Miller, !" the Poet of the sier-
ras. z will spend this winter il New Orleans.
The Customhouse at ST. Louis is to be
illuminated throughout with electric lights.
Nearly 1900, 900 Of people have crossed
the Brooklyn bridge since it was opened to
public travel, fourteen months ago.
At least 40 900 people were present at the
funeral Of Judge Folger, including the
President and members of the cabinet.
Thirty two Negroes were afflicted with
hydrophobia at Eufau1a, Ala, from eating
the flesh of dead hogs bitten by mad dogs.
Two great concerts have been organizing
in New York for the benefit of the families
Of the victims. of cholera in France and
Italy.
Robert Hoe, of the Hoe Printing Press
Manufacturing Co., died at his residence
in Tarrytown, September 49, aged seventy
years.
Gne Saratoga dude appeared arrayed ID
a short coat Of black satin, with white
poika-dots all over over it, and collar and
cuffs of red satin.
On the banquet table at the Read we'd
ding, in Newport, was fac si1Hile Of the
house of the bride done in sponge cake and
church Of white sugar.
Alice Bransgroye, a baby FIVE years old,
was landed In New York on Saturday from
the steamer Grecian Monarch, having tray
eIad plorn f,vn,- An1n ,,,;1ar,
Belya a. Lockwood, The Woman's Rights
candidate for the Presidency, is daily in
receipt Of scores of applications for Office,
and has already selected her Attorney GEN.
eral.
A boy idiot at Conyers, Ga, in mad
freak invaded the graveyard, overturned
tombstones, shattered handsome monu-
ments, and set fire to the Methodist church
and numerous dwellings.
FOREIGN.
Severe foods prevail around Gerona,
Spain.
The Countess de Paris has been delivered
of son.
Finger bowls made of bone are among
the curlosItieS of Mexico.
A new ard pretty glove is made in Paris
from the skins of young Louisiana alliga-
tors.
Paris is to have congress to settle the
nature of the offenses which demand
duel.
A petroleum spring has been discovered
under the sea, about seven miles off the
coast of Yechigo.
magnificent cathedral is being erected
on the spot on which the late Gear of Rus
sia was assassinated.
Both sides of the Warsaw and Vienna
railway on which the Czar travelled were
guarded by Cossacks.
The elephant Emperor, two inches less in
stature than Jumbo, has been sold at auc-
ton in England for $500.
There is public subscription in Milan
to present King Humbert medal in COM
menoration of his visit to Naples.
King Humbert has given $Go,o COO. for the
relief of cholera sufferers, and VIM. w. AS
tor, American Minister to Italy, $1,000.
The Dowager Countess de la Tore is
deyoting herself to the rescue of homeless
cats, and has established a cat hospital.
The wealthiest man in the world IS the
Chinese banker Han-Qua of Canton. who
is worth about fourteen hundred million
dollars.
The largest public hall in Victoria, B. c.,
was rented for prize fight exhibition one
night and refused to Bob Ingersoll the next
for fear the public would resent.
The Duke of Hamilton recently bought
every seat in the Opera House at Nice,
in order that he and lady of whom he is
desperately enamored might enjoy the
opera alone.
i'll with cholera is a SON Of King Kalakaua
of the Sandwich Islands, has been denied
by counter report stating the King has
no children.
One of the first couples in France to take
advantage of the new divorce law were
married fifty years ago, and separated the
whole of that time. having only lived to-
gething two weeks.
Smugglers now put false bottoms in ths
vessels which bring sugar from the Wess
Indies to catch molasses draining
of the hogsheads. One ship saved surs-
worth on single trip. 2 the
Takes
WAH NOTES. egs of
Over 80, 600 camels will accompe
Nile expedition. p.von
The treasury of the Soudanese IF
tains only Sol, 600. T~
The government is sending 16, II &As
of dynamite to Egypt. i
Nankin will be the next obisan CLERK.
miral Courbet's attack. - rid,
Three war ships are going to alternats
protect German interests. irSaa ~ ais1
The War Office is preparing to
10000 men to reinforce the army in Ess.
The lieutenant Of the British man-of
war Zephyr, wounded when the Chinese
fred on that vessel BY mistake, is in q
dying condition.
4 fight which occurred near Suakim be-
tween Osman Digma' rebel forces and
friendly Arabs under Mahnaoud, resulted
in the defeat of the latter, who lest his son
and fourteen followers.
Hon. Lewis. Texada, distinguished citi-
zen of Rapides parish, died suddenly at his
home on Bayou Rapides, three weeks ago,
of heart disease. He was 67 years Of
age, had been prominent Democrat for
over thirty gears, and several times repre-
serted bis parish in the State Senate and