The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-08-29
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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

King Alfonzo is to publish book of trav-
els. N
China has $500 miles Of telegraph line
and only seven of railroad.
A ton Of diamonds in the rough passed
through the South African post offices this
year.
Tho Gar and Czarina and the rest of the
Russian Imperial family are visiting Den
mark. =
The Char will:visit Merv in 1886, and will
20 thence to Samarand to be crowned En-
peror of Central Asia >
The sword which Butcher wore and
welded at Waterloo, was sold at auction In
Berlin the other day for less than $40.
Nine. Patti refused to appear in "1l Bar
-biere" and LA Traviata" with King Louis
of Bavaria constituting the entire audience.
A terrible thunder storm visited Pisa,
Italy, completely destroying typ handsome
churches. The leaning tower remains unin-
jured. :"
Prince Henry of Battenberg, husband Of
Princess Beatrice, hasby the Queens order
been appointed q commandment in the Brit
ish navy.
For week past frosts have occurred
nightly north of Quebec, Canada. At Stone
ham the buckwheat crop is reported to be
totally destroyed.
The Castle of Buda, home Of Hungarian
monarchy for centuries, is to be completely
rebuilt by the Emperor Francis Joseph at a
cost Of x3,25O,0O0.
The plate at Windsor Castle is worth e.
100000. 1t is Crown property, and if q
single spoon were lost it would have to be
be replaced by the Queen.
A fire in Barrow, England, destroyed the
works of the Barrow Ship Building Com
pany, causing the loss of $l,O0O,OO0 and
throwing 5000 men out of employment,
The Governor of Herat, being offended
at the British commission because they re-
fused to give him money, opened the com
missioners'" letters, fearing his behavior
would he reported.
A Japanese dancing master announces in
the Yeddo papers solemn festival in COM
memoration of the 1OOQth anniversary Of
of the family to take up the profession.
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The President has returned to Washing
ton.
Sara Bernhardt has signed contract for
an American tour.
The New Orleans French Opera. House is
advertised for rent.
There were 100 moro births than deaths
in st. Louis last week.
San Antonio, Texas, has cremation So
ciety with lOS stockholders.
One hundred million pounds of honey is
the American crop for 1885,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse r. Grant and Mrs.
Sartoris have gone to England.
Nine monuments to Gen. Grant are at
present projected in this country.
Mrs. Grant visited the Generals tomb
for the first time last week. She was &C
companied by Col. Fred. Grant.
A snow STORM in August was breasted by
some 200 tourists, who claimed to the sum-
nit Of Mount Washington on the 18th ult.
sea turtle weighing 500 pounds. eight
feet long, three feet wide and twenty inches
deep was caught off Cape Ann the other day.
A discharged Negro nuree at Pittsburg
poisoned her little charge, eighteen months
old, and three servants in the house out Of
revenge. :.
The il! Rsiaers At Cheyenne, Wyoming, are
motbsne Cinnamon employed on the rail
road 600 have been driven cut of town and
100 houses burned. =:
A woman at Buffalo threw herself and
child under Lehigh Valley locomotive.
The child was instantly killed, but the
mother will recover.
There is not church within fifty miles
OF st. Lucie, Fla, and there are young
mon and women there twenty five years old
who never heard a sermon.
The exact cost Of Gen. Grants funeral
was SAL Is. This comprises everything
furnished in New York and at Mt. McGre-
gor, including 5000 for carriages.
A colored man in Georgia who was
hunted of a railroad track wanted twenty
million dollars damages, but settled for
sixteen dollars and thirty days pass.
AT Shinnecock Bay, Long Island, six
acres Ut beach were SO completely covered
with crabs that, in their migration from
bay to ocean, they touched one another.
drunken Negro at Chattauooga shot
and killed driver who put him of his car
for misbehavior The murderer was lynched
the same night by posse of citizens.
At q meeting convened in New Haven,
by the Mayor of the city for the Grant
memorial fand. only the Mayor and the
Janitor OF the City Hall we're present.
The cemetery Of Mt Olivet, N. j., with
Its two furnaces or retorts, will be in oper-
alton BY Oct. l. Already more than forty
Bodies have been stored in vaults awaiting
Incarceration.
At recent fire in New York q long lad
der broke at the second story, precipitat
ing four fireai,,asn who we're upon it upon a
fifth below. All were seriously and tive
fatally injured.
A Presbyterian Church ct Carroll In.
has the coffihefs of its auditorium, .curts ;nec
Oh and furnishes with cradles and rocking.
chairs for the convenience of mothers who
bring their babes to church.
A Detroit mother went to take her tina,
leave of her dead babe in its casket, read,
for burial, when the child opened its eye:
and began to cry and half IN hour late,
was nursing heartily. It had been in !
state Of suspended animation for tiftee,
hours,