The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-01-05
NUMBER Is.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.


The body of Hicks Pasha has beer, found.
| El Mahdi is now almost without follow
ers.
| The Crown Prince Of Germany viii visit
ishe Pope.
| The Nihilists are miserabIy weakened ii
men and means.
| Native soldiers in India get S3 month
and board themselves.
/ Infanticide is still common crime
among Chinese women.
| -Four thouaand rebel corpses we're counted
on the battle field at Snakim.
/ Women physicians have been refused per-
mission to practice in Austria.
An average of 1850 vegetarian dinners are
served daily in the London restaurants.
The oldest grave In the Frank fort on the
Main Jewish cemetery dates back to 1272.
The Grand Duke Alexis Is to marry the
eldest daughter of the late Comte De Paris.
The workingmen Of Derby, England,
have subscribed to memorial for Glad
stone.
| Mr. Sergeant Baliantine says pelygamy
is an institution eminentIy suited to new
country.
The Bernsse Government has forbidden
| any meeting Of The Salvation Army within
the caution.
| The Prince of Wales was reelected Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge of Free Masons
of England.
The Buddhist priests in Japan have com.
| menced an agitation against the obligation
| of celibacy.
monument is to be erected IN London
to William Tyndale, the translator of the
English Bible.
On leaving Italy the Grown Prince deco
| rated the Prime Minister with the order OF
| the Black Eagle.
Queen Victoria acknowledges all poems
commemorative of the death OF John Brown
with her autograph.
b A bomb to injure resident commissaYv
was thrown into house at Paris, doing
considerable damage.
Grand Duke Peter NichoIayaich and
George Nicholavaich have taken the oath Of
allegiance to the Czar.
Six hundred zhouses, ssthe Greek church
and four synagogues were destroyed by
recent fire in Constantinople.
The blade Of the sword of the gigantic
statue OF Germania,' - to be placed at ME-
derwaid, near the Rhine, weighs ton.
Infdels are traversing India circulating
extracts from Paine and VoItaire to DESTROY
the missionary work of Christian ministers.
The Crown Prince will visit Rome to
reciprocate the attentions paid the German
imperial family BY the royal family of Italy.
a female niser, eighty three years of age,
was found dead in London few days ago,
who owned several houses 100 acres of
land and $1,000 in cash.
A new franchise bill, which gives suffrage
to unmarried women and widows ON the
same terms as men, has been presented to
the Canadian Parliament.
DOMESTIC.
All the ponds and lakes Ia Maine are
frozen hard
Over Il, 900 Christmas trees were sold In
one New York store.
Barnum has offered George Francis Train
$4,000 for one years. g lectures.
The Chinese are absorbing the bulk oftLe
laundry business in New York.
d. Y. Wadsworth, the United States cor
sui at Saltillo, Mexico, is dead.
Clara Louise Kellogg is to give series Of
concerts to defray the Litta's debts.
The jim" river, in Dakota, is the long
est unnavigable river in the world.
The pay roll Of one of the shirt manufac-
tories at Troy, N. Y, is over $1,000 dap.
The women who do the scruhbing in tie
treasury department. get over $1s,ooo per
year.
The Boston and Albany Railroad Con-
pany uses five tons OF passengers tickets
annually.
Young Walworth, the fTatricide, has mar
ried daughter of e1- Governor Bramlette
TO Kentucky.
The rattlesnake in New York museum
escaped recently, and was caught By the
fve-legged cat.
Sergeant Mason, in a recent letter, de-
clares the Betty and Baby /" subscriptions
amounted to @o9g9.
The Presidents daughter is president of
a club to provide poor children with toys
during the holidays.
The Teras sifftiags gave grand banquet
to its employees before moving It's publica-
ton Office to New York.
There were seventy-one applications for
the job of putting in one load of coal at
New ork hotel last week.
Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., has recently in
vested $576, 900 in the purchase Of twelve
brown stone fats in New York.
The Government intends redeeming all
3-cent stamps, also stamped envelopes that
hare been printed with addresses.
a wealthy Chinese merchantof Portland,
Oregon, who sent over to China for wife,
expended $1,000 in wedding festivities.
A large force Of men are employed in
Florida. who have engaged to furnish 500,-
600 alligator skins to French tannery.
There is an old man residing at Eewburr.
N. T.. who has provided himself and lis
dogs and cats with compiete burial outfits.
Boston has law providing that no per-
son under fourteen and no woman slall be-
employed in store more than sixty honss
week.
Mrs. Astor viii give ball in New York,
January q, at which the silver supper SER
vice costinc e17s fnG viii IL, v,,..x.1 =, !.