The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-08-09
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

4 OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
Pittsburg has cremation company.
/ New York has an epidemic of measles.
The cornerstone Of the PEDESTAL for the
Bartholdi statue was laid Ang. s.
One of Gov. Cleveland Is sisters has been
a missionaryin Ceylon for thirty years.
A Philadelphia physician of some note
confines his practice to animals altogether.
Mr.. Tilden intends to make Southern
cruise in his yacht, the Viking, in the win
| ter.
A family in Washington county, Md,
have named their twenty third child after
Cleveland.
| A daughter of Parke Goodwin, heveteran
New York journalist, hasmarried the Turk
ish ambassador.
| Miss Phoebe Couzins, the lecturer, has
been sworn in as q deputy United States
Marshal at st. Louis.
The storm of July 23 blew down two cir
| Gus tents in New York. Twenty five per-
sons we're injured, none fatally.
| The shipment of buffalo bones from the
plains of the West to Eastern phosphate
factories has largely increased.
| The wife of ex- Mayor Palmer of Boston
has sued that city for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of fall on the sidewalk.
| New York shop girls carry bundles of
school books in order to convey the i'm
preston that they are school girls.
Among the recent arrivals at Castle Gar
den, n. Y, was German woman aged III,
with a family of seventeen children.
A large force of men are constantly at
work carting off the dead fish from the
banks of Fourth Lake, near Madison, Wis.
The back part of the United States Hotel
building, Washington, fell August 9, and
buried in the ruins number of the inmates.
A Cincinnati woman tried to open rock
ct with a hatchet and the explosion killed
her and her daughter, besides seriously
wounding two other children.
A Niagara Snowman pays Capt. Webb's
widow S25 a week to sit in little house
opposite the whirlpool rapids, where her
husband disappeared, and exhibit herself.
A Louisville tobacco firm has purchased
20, ,O00 admission tickets from the manage
ment of the Louisville Exposition, which
they propose to distribute with their to-
bacco.
A Chicago lady had just ascended to the
roof of her residence to witness an exhibi-
ton of fireworks ct Union Ball Park, when
instant death.
FOREIGN.
The Governor General of Porto Rico,
died of yellow fever August l.
Sir John Astley and the Duke of Malbo-
rough run hanson cabs for hire.
The Grand Duke sergias. gave his bride.
a parure of daisies costp pUGHfge 600:
King Thebau has murdered 475 of his
relatives since he assembled the throne.
A British expedition of 800 troops is to
reinforce the Egyptian garrison at Zeilah-
Queen Emma of Austria is to be Regent
during the minority of Princess Wilhel-
nina.
Negotiations for treaty of commerce
with the United States have opened at
Madrid.
mob attacked the Salvation Army Hall
at Brienne, and completely wrecked the
building.
Nine. Marie Rose, the prima donna, is,
suffering from low intermittent fever in
London.
DR.. Koch has received grant of $100-
600 for his labors in the cholera infested
districts.
Among the merchandise Consumed at the
recent London wharf fire were 5000 bales
of wool.
American artists in Paris are going to
present the city with bronze model OF the
Barthoidi statue.
Two English ladies have accomplished a
tricycle. journey over the Simplon. the Jura,
and Col di Tenda.
The SON of the British vice consul at Ro-
dosta has been captured by brigands, who
demand $1,000 ransom.
A swell party of seven English earis are
coming ever to hunt big game in the Rocky
mountains next autumn.
Undertakers at Toulon have been arrested
for selling clothing and bedding belong
ing to victims of the epidemic.
The visiting Maori King while in Parlia-
ment the other day, becoming warm took
off most of his clothing and went to sleep.
Minister Morton has subscribed 1000
francs towards the students fund to pre-
sent Paris with model of the Rartholdi
statue.
Owing to his morganatic marriage and
subsequent divorce Grand Duke Louis of
Hesse has been requested by the Emperor of
Germany to abdicate in favor of his son.
A volume, "The Passion of Christ" in
possession Of the Prince de Ligne, and
valued at $4,000 is thes greatest literary
curiosity in the world, being neither writ
ten or printed. Every letter of the text is
cut out of leaf and pasted on blue paper
China has agreed to pay France an indem-
nifty of 20, coo francs.
soUDANEsE WAR NOTES.
About 10000 rebels are marching ON Dom
gola.
The Kabbelish tribe has declared against
the Mahdi.