The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-07
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
Senator Tabor is candidate for Mayor
of Denver.
An Arkansas lady G5 years of age is living
with her fourteenth husband.
Gen. Grant has been declared to behope-
lessly i'll of cancer of the tongue.
A recently discovered tin mine in Calhoun
county, ". Va, is valued at 100000.
Theodore Thomas is negotiating with the
Exposition managers to bring his orchestra
here in May.
Mr.. Edison, the we'll known electrician, Is
the Exposition.
President Arthur is to be the guest Of Mr..
Frelinghuysen for several days following
his exit from the White House.
O'Donovan Rosa has been discharged
from the St. Vincent's Hospital as cured of
the wound inflicted by Mrs. Dudley.
The congregation of st. Louis ministes
has given him two weeks leave of absence
and 800 to visit the Worlds Exposition.
Four telegraph messenger boys we're to
walk from Baltimore to see President-elect
Cleveland inaugurated, each carrying live
rooster.
The late Francis A. Drexel Of Philadel-
phia, left fortune OF $4,000, 600, one
tenth of which goes to charitable institu-
tions of the Catholic Church.
A 800 pound pig which was lost last Au~
gust at Roscoe, Ills, has just been found
buried under straw-stack, still alive, but
reduced to twenty five pounds
A practical joker inserted an advertise
ment in New York paper calling for 800
volunteers for an expedition to the Soudan
and received answers from over 760 men
For seven years New Hampshire me-
chanic made circuit of half a mile twice a
day rather than pass a powder house, and
has just learned it has been empty all that
time.
The owner of fine herd of thirtsen short
horn cattle in Bucks county, Pa, upon being
informed that they we're suffering from
isterd by leading physician to insure q
painless death.
FOREIGN.
The siege of Khartoum lasted 800 days.
The Duke of Edinburg is suffering from
an abscess.
Princess Louise of Battenberg has been
delivered of a daughter.
Mr. Burnand, the editor of Punch, has
eleven married daughters.
Prince Lubomirsky, won $4,000 at
Monte Carlo in one night recently. fz-
Queen Victoria has ordered Baehm, the
sculptor, to make bust of Gen. Gordon.
Michael Davitt left Rome without an in
terview either with the Pope or Jacobini.
The Gar of Russia will soon assume the
additional title of Emperor of Central Asia.
The poorhouse at Wohlen, Canton of Aar-
gan, burned February "a, and six persons
persisted.
Duke Leopold of Torlonia has been mar
ried to Princess Letitia, daughter of Prince
Napoleon.
The Queen will bestow q dukedom on
the Marquis of Ripon, in recognition Of
his services while Governor General of In
dia.
Obituary notices in London now fre-
quently contain the statement that by wish
of the deceased his relatives will not wear
mourning.
The wife of Minister Lowell died in Eng
land Feb. 10. The remains were inferred at
Kensal Green Cemetery, the funeral being
strictly private.
Mrs. Mackay has given the Nuncio of
Paris large cross studded with diamonds
and sapphires in memory of the marriage
of her daughter.
The Duke of Fernan recently issued cards
of invitation to a fete and charged the
guests twenty five francs each for coming,
thus adding $1,000 to the Spanish earth
quake fund.
The Pope gave 5000 to the victims Of
the earthquake in Spain; the King Of italy
$1,000; Prince Amadeus, ex-King of Spain,
$4,000; the Emperor of Austria, $4,000;
and the Emperor of Germany $1,000. Sub
scriptions in Spain amounted to $4,000.
Five thousand reir>'.ss Oteha mr.
rived at Haiphong.
Gen Briere de Lisle is constructing rail-
way from Chu to Langson.
Admiral Courbet has biockaded Ningpo
and is now bombarding Shanghai.
A portion Of Gen. Gordon's troops will
reinforce the Mudir's troops at Berti.
The Italian Government has sent $780,
900 to Massowah for the purchase of cam
els.
The inhabitants at Berber arc forbidden
to read the Koran and ordered to read FL
Mahdi's books. ..= s--
1t is the fixed determination Of the Brit
ish to recapture Khartoum and avenge the
death of Gordon.
All the diguitaries of the Chinese Empire
have been summoned to give an opinion
as to the expediency Of continuing the war
with France.
France has declared rice TO be contra
band of war, and China has retaliated by
making the same declaration in regard to
American -four.
A dangerous cataract has developed in
the Nile, between Berber and Shendy,
which is likely to prevent navigation Of the
river until July.