The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-17
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
FOREIGN.

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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
FOREIGN.
The Austrian budget shows a deficit of
$50. .ooO,00O.
IN Sweden man who is seen drunk three
tiul,e loses his right to vote.
Jigue the celebrated bandit, has bseu
shot III Santiago de Cuba.
English engineers at Herat are preparing
for the construction of railroad to Canda-
har.
President Gr6vy has officially announced
that he will enter the coming contest for the
Presidency.
If Turkey sanctions Bulgarian indepen-
dence Bulgaria will pledge herself to re-.
main neutral.
The Italian government has received ad-
vices confirming the report of the death Of
Osman Digma.
France has agreed to Germany's propo-
sal in regard to the settlement of the Bull
garian trouble.
Troops are advancing from Nisse toward
the Bulgarian, Macedonian and the old
Servian frontiers.
The Sultan conferred the. highest order
upon the Khedive on the occasion of the
Turkish new year.
Bismarck has dispatched a special com
mission to King Milan to urge upon him
the necessity of peace.
The Spanish expedition has entered the
Nahara river and declared Spanish sove-
reignty ON both banks.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has rejected
indirect overtures from Russia and re-
mains loyal to England.
The British government has consented to
hiring natives in Sierra Leone, to work as
laborers in the Congo country.
Four hundred Abyssinians who were
wounded in the recent fight with Osman's
followers are camped at Ahmar.
Among the audience at one of Nilsson's
recent concerts in Sweden was one of the
great singers peasant brothers who never
had left his native place or heard his sister
sing.
Bismarck has proposed to the powers that
Prince Alexander. remain Prince of Bull
garia and be appointed Governor of Rou-
melia, and the Turks be permitted to occu-
py the Balkans.
jackson, Miss, is to have colored State
fair.
} Prohibition has been defeated at Waco,
Texas.
J Cardinal McCloshey died at ,,yew York,
October 8.
The Grant monument fund has been all
but abandoned.
A four-year old child was XII led and eaten
by dogs at Xenia, Ohio
Cigarette smokers are not allowed toat-
D tend the public schools of Ea wsrk.
J japanese paper handkercj 'iiefs are now
used in many hospitals for rying wounds.
The citizens Of Toesbstone, a. T., have
created a fund and offer $3.50 each for
Apache scalps.
There are nearly fifty bodies awaiting
cremation at the Mt. Olivet crematorv near
! New York city.
young man died at Hazieton, Pa, from
the effects of hazing received at the hands
OF his schcolmates.
A man OF 10 was among nineteen resi-
oents OF Arlington, Ga, arrested recently
for playing ball on the streets.
A young girl at State Bridge, New York
poured the contents of a lamp over her
head and shoulders, then set fire to herself.
A woman has been convicted at Herk;-
mer, N T., of having murdered her bus-
band, cut his body up and burned it in n
stove.
Mrs. A. I. Stewart will entertain in her
marble palace IN New York the coming
winter, tor the first time since her husbands
/ death.
Belle Kinney, school girl of Marysyille,
n.y., reads with her book upside down and
writes with her left hand, making the lei
ters backward.
Prof. Ward, in,.dissecting the body Of
Jumbo to preserve the remains, found in
his stomach great quantity Of English
anil Canadian coins.
A returned Enoch Arden at New York
city visited his wife, who had married her
son-in law during her husbands absence.
and she poured vitriol on him.
The Sheriff at Chambersburg, Pa, being
confined to bed, his faughterpersonally at
tend to the Safe transportation of seven
convlcts to the Eastern Penitentiary.
Sixty convicts made break for liberty
at the terminus of the railroad near Lufkin.
In Angelina county, Texas, and all escaped
but twenty-five whom the guards shot.
A 12-year-old girl in Hot Springs gave
her infant charge dose Of paregoric 70
quiet it. and administering too much. the
child died from the effects of the drug.
barn in the suburbs of Atlanta was
destroyed by FIRE in which persisted eighty
seven head of cattle, a pair of valuable
mules, and blooded horse. Loss 30OOO,
A Colored man has just died of hydro
phobia at Nashville, which he contracted by
some virus from dead animals that had been
bitten by mad dog getting into sore on
his foot.
The small plat of Randall grass at the
so attracted a Darmstadt, Ger
many, firm, that they have given an order
to the seedsmen at Knoxville, Tenn, for
S2214 worth of the seed.
In WaIesboro, n. c., 800 people were
H., l. lo-