The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-11-14
NUMBER IL,
OUR GENERAL NEWS sumMAeY
DOMESTIC,

DOMESTIC.
Baron Nordenficht has been appointed
German consul at Chicago.
Mrs. Grants share of the profits Of Gen.
Grants book will be $3.50, 900.
A Montana bachelor, worth $75, 600, Rives
public notice that he will soon come. East
to choose wife.
There are over ono hundred prisoners ID
the Fort Smith. Ark, Jail, thirty -oue under
indictment for murder.
The pendulum Of the clock in DR.. Tyns's
church in New York has not stopped since
it was first started seventy-six years ago.
The guard which has been On duty %
Garheld's tomb ever since his in1armsns
four years ago, IL to be removed en Jan. /.
The Andre monument at Tappan, n. +,
has been blown up BY the explosion Of .
dynamite cartridge and completely demoi-
ished.
A we'll known and respected young man
Of Runnels county, Tezass has besn AZ
rested for criminal assault on q 8-Sear.
old girl.
The circus boat Mountain Girl collided
with another steamer two miles from Au-
rora, Ind. Seven men and thirty-fave horses
were drowned.
A New York hoodlnm murdered his wife
and slept in the same bed on which the re-
mains laid for three nights before the deed
was discovered.
Postmaster Codd of Detroit has invented
chute down which he slides all special
delivery letters to messengers waiting In
lower apartment.
OF thirteen lynchings conducted By one
band of vigihnts in Montana during the
last three months, the right man was hanged
in twelve instances.
Senator Don Cameron Of Pennsylvania
travelled from San Francisco home simply 10
vote for quay, the Republican candidate
for State Treasurer.
A bridge at East Saginaw, Mich, contain
ing about sixty people, gave way, and pre-
cipitated them into the river. Very few es-
capped with their lives.
Two Cinnamon are suing daily paper
at Omaha, Neb., for $1,000 damages, caused
by the publication of rumor that leprosy
existed in their laundry.
The subscribers to the Grant fund In
New York have determined to turn over
the amount collected to Mrs. Grant instead
of building the monument.
The officials at Sing Sing ssy Ferd. Ward
is a most modest and unnssuming prisoner
who has evidently made up his mind to
be "good conduct" convict.
Rev. Thomas Fennant aged LIS years.
the oldest man in the State and tho oldest
preacher in the world, died recently %
Evansville, Ark, after having been Meth
odist minister ninety years.
FOREIGN.
The 1ervians are invading Bulgaria, sd-
vancing by way of Klissura.
The eldest daughter of the Comte de Pa
ris is betrothed to brother OF the Car.
Prince Albrecht of Prussia has been ga
zetted regent of the Duchy of Brunswiok.
Bloody fighting is reported at Baker,. on
the Caspian sea, between Moslems and
Russians.
A single chandelier in the mountain oas-
tie of that spendrift, the King Of Bavaria
cost e48OO.
The Porte has decided not to send troops
mandate. ...=.
A furious water spout burst in the vicin-
ity of Carrara, Italy, and was followed by
heavy floods.
The Lord Mayor Of London has collected
$100, 800 for national memorial to tho
martyr of Khartoum.
It is reported from Paris that Pasteur
has succeeded in curing boy in the sd
vnnced stage of hydropbobia.
Kaiser William is not only the oldest Of
fcer in the German army in age, but in ser
vice, also having Joined in 1907.
The Burmese ministers have decided to
stop the British envoy with the Indian gov
ernment's ultimatum at tho frontier.
deputation has arrived at Mev to
complain of Afghan oppression and ask
the Russians to intervene in their behalf.
Denmark is ON the verge of revolution,
The disturbing cause is King Christians
obstinate support of an unpopular ministry.
Emperor William has issued o rescript,
Archbishop Krementh, the
Pope's appointee to the archdiocese Of Co.
logne.
The Sultan has appointed Said Pasha.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Turkish
to the Roumeliau con-
ference.
Baron Oscar Dickson, at an elk hunt held
by the King of Sweden during the visit Of
the Prince of Wales, killed seven elks with
seven successive shots.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolf, the British
special envoy, has concluded secret treaties
with the Porte on other questions than
those relating to Egypt.
Among the Wedding presents of Prineeas
Marie d Orleans is pearl necklace which
was looted in the Chinese war by Gen. Pa
likio, valued at $4,000.
At parish church in Surrey, England, q
widover of 81, attended by a grandson,
was united to widow Of 81, who was kest
in counte9ance by a couple Of great grand
daughters.
Tho cupolas on St. Peters Cathedral, re-
Gently completed at Moscow, are covered
with 500 pounds of pure gold. The doora
of the temple cost S3l0, ,0o0 and the marble
floors q, ,50o, Geo..
In An English town an infant fell from
an upper story and landed upon the hustle
of q lai14,a dress hountled off aud Yaa