The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-10
NUMBER 6.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
| DOMESTIC.
Gen. Longstreet is keeping hotel e
Gainesville, Georgia. =
! Sullivan's earnings in the prize finc
amount to over $157 $50.
Texas has cremation society with eup-
ital OF fifty thousand dollars. s-h1
Small pox has been brought frosa Oana-
da to New York city and is spreading. y p:
A woman in Downingtou, Pa, died ~
Gently from blood poisoning pfodaeed By i
new shoe rubbing one Of hsr fest. a75
rMr. Cleveland 10 now ths Asavisst I Fsesi-
dent that has ever occapied the White
House, weighing almost 800 pounds.
The yacht Puritan was bought for Chss.
]. Paine of Nahant, owner Of the yacht HAL
cyon. The purchase price wss ga, zoo
One drawing room in the residence Of
Mrs. James P. Scott Of Philadelphia cose
100000 for furnishings and decorations.
Some one Of the crowd Of visitors to the
undertaker's shop stole ons Of the gold
screws out of the inscription plate a
Grants coffin.
At Omaha, Neb., the city marshal gets
81 for burying dog, while the county I'M
dertaker is only allowed ninety-6ve ssats
| for burying man. -.-s.
Mrs. George Coleman Of Harrisburg, Pa,
has portrait painted on cobweb, which
cost 5000. There is but one other cobwsb
painting in existence. 5.,sz=z4,
Moses Marenellah, Christiani9ed Jew,
106 years old, died at the county poor house
in Poughkeepsie, N. T., September Is. He
had travelled all over the world.
An Omaha woman has three husbands
living, and was photographed rscently With
the two first on each side and the lateat in
cumbent just back Of her chair.
Jesse w. Jones, the sevvnteen-y -year-old
youth, who sineie-handed hsld up and
robbed the Cisco and Brovnwood and the
San Angelo and Tom Green stages, has bssn
captured near FL Paso.
A twelve-year-ol girl was convicted in
Barnesville, 8. c., recently of murder COM
mitted on six-week' sold infant which shs
soaked in pot of concentrated lye, to g.
cape the duty Of nursing. .-.
An unmarried female ofscs seeker bor.
rowed six small children and mansavred
her way into the White House with most
pathetic appeal for an appointment to ena-
bic her to support her fatherless brood.
FOREIGN. 5 Izi5=
The King of Sian has 263 children. 81
iVeyosel Pasha has been murdered by the
Albanians.
King Alfonso has been severely i'll with
intermittent fever.
The followers of 81 Mahdi have suffered
| great defeat near Amidsb.
Gabriel Pasha has been liberated and has
left Sofia for Constantinople.
An imperial trade mobilixing the ensirs
Turkish army has been issued.
| Tewfk Pasha, Turkish minister, has been
appointed ambassador to Germany.
The Porte has requested to be allowed
representation in the Roumelian Confer
ence. -.-9
| Germany has dispatched a note 10 the
Court of Spain, rejecting Spain's claims to
the Carolines.
| ALTA Pasha, Governor of Mitylere, has
been appointed Turkish minister at Athens,
and Hail goes to Teheran.
! After severe battle the Abyssinians de-
feated a large force of dervishes under
Osman Digma, killing 5000.
A fatal collision occurred ON the Korintf
and Kiata railroad at Athens, in which the
killed and injured number fifty.
Officers throughout the provinces Of Rus
sia have been ordered to use Russian Ian
guage exclusively in their official duties.
The Porte is negotiating for loan from
the Ottoman Bank, which demands q secu-
rity concession for railroad in Asia HI
nor.
The French and Hovas had an indeci6iNo
| fight at Passardowa bay in which The Ifenoh
lost 81 killed and wounded and the Hosas
200.
band OF Musselmans and Christian
brigands, near Smyrna, have captafod .
young Englishman and demand e5oOO ran-
som.
The people of st. Thomas, Canada, are
to erect a monument to Jumbo neaf tho
spot where he was killed, to cost 19k0oo
or $4,000.
Lord Duaerin has been presented 81 an
Indian rajah with young slsphant, tsainsd
to cut books with his tusks, which ass lisd
thin for the purpose. fs ss.sss.,.ssssI
Queen Victoria breakfasts ragulas3g, q
8 o'clock every morning, and thoes nAm-
bers of the family not pssssnt . - msal
with her 60 without it. s. ssx,.s
The Empress Eugsnie iatsnals . Iassess
the remains OF the late Emperos Naooieea
and of the young Prince Imperial frsm
Chiselhurst to Aldershot.
The body of the first Napoleon il enclosed
in five cofins and placed in . aarcophagus
of Finland granite, . present from Russia
which cost 6, 10000 francs.
II Mrs. 8artoris can get possessioa Ct her
children, she will probably, after the
mourning in the Grant family s.as, bring
suit for divorce from her husband.
A snail brought from Egypt to Raglandas
genealogical specimen and immsdiassly
CANNED to bit of cardboard 80 foand to
be alive after lying in the British Museum
for four years.
One of the resolutions offered in The re-
cent Church Congress in London, vaa to
erect figure Of Christ upon the cross OF