The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-11-21
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC,

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
w. DOMESTIC.
Ex-senator VIM. Sharon died at San
Francisco, November Is.
Two cheerful lovers stood up on tomb
stone in Ackworth, Ga, to be married.
Gen. Mcclellan was second cousin Of
Lord Clyde, better known az Sir Colin
Campbell.
A German woman living near Holgate,
O., gave birth to five boys, all Of whom are
still alive aud healthy.
John Mccullough, the noted actor who
recently lost his reason, is dead. He leaves
about $4,000 and no debts.
Beverly Kelly, Coroner Of Christian coun-
ty, KY, and the only colored man ever
elected to Office in that State, died last Sun
day.
Over 1900 plants, representing 800 vArie-
ties, we're shown at the annual chrysanthe.
mum exhibition held recently in Philadel-
phia.
An alligator and rat were placed in q
box in Apalaehicola, Fla, aud the rodent
killed the saurian by cutting its throat with
its teeth.
At a meeting to raise money for . home
for the blind in Columbus, O., blind ora
tor spoke, and music was furnished by q
blind orchestra.
A number Of New York capitalists are to
meet aud consider the proposition from.
the Emperor Of China to build . railroad
in his dominions.
A cyclone swept distance Of forty miles
in Dallas, Perry aud Bibb counties, Ala,
leveling everything before it, and killing
and wounding sixty four persons.
Major NJ. G. johnson Of Lexington, Ky.
went to Frankfort recently to argue case
that has been on the docket seventy years,
and with which he has been connected half
q century.
An attempt to punish an unruly boy in q
Hoiyoke, Mass, school brought on such q
general fight that the police had to be called
in and the teacher and two pupils marched
OF to the station house.
The three Italian trunk murderers hanged
at Chicago, November IL, were defended
during their trial by Kate Kane, the female
lawyer, and Morris Bauman, colored. Tho
former attended the execution.
Nine criminals, charged with various
crimeb, from murder down, burned their
way out of the Jail ut Arkansas City and ss-
capped out of the Jail yard over fence ff-
teen feet high, surmounted with spikes.
A tramp printer, to whom the editor Of
the Northeast, Md, Star gave quarter two
years ago, acknowledges the kindness by
an editorial on Maryland hospitality in a
prosperous Minnesota Paper of which the
tramp in now editor aud proprietor.
FOREIGN.
The Marquis of Bute's new castle will cost
l5,0oO,0 900.
Queen Victoria has presented Mime. Ma-
rie Rose diamond lockst.
A sharp shock of earthquake has been
felt at Centrevills,l France.
The collieries at Newcastle, England, are
lighted with electric lights.
! Germany objects to the Pope's decision
on the Caroline Islands question.
| The RoumaniaD government has repudi-
ated the Russo -Roumanian treaty.
The Spanish government desires to re-
open treaty negotiations with England.
All the powers excepting England have
suspended official relations with Bulgaria.
| German naval officers have been prohibi-
tedafrom writingaarticles for the newspa-
pers.
Greece itches for war. She wants an ex-
tension of territory and Unwilling to fight
for it.
The Spanish government 10 taking activs
measures against Carlist movements in Ma
varre and Basque.
Herr Stumm has been appointed Ger
man minister to Copenhagen in pIacs of
Herr Philipsborn.
The French government has resolved to
summon the Prince of Monaco to prohibit
public gaming tables in that place.
The Shah of Persia has refused to allow
an escort of the English Frontier Commis-
sion to traverse the Persian territory.
Three young Cuban ladies', graduates of
a New York pharmacy, have opened drug
store in fashionable quarter Of Havana.
An immense exhibition Of inventions is
to be held in London next year, aboard one
or two huge vessels anchored in the Thames.
Prince Bismarck is to be requested to ar
range with England for a settlement Of the
dispute between Burmah and Great Britain.
The Abyssinians are encanped at Osmu-
nah, short of provisions and ammunition,
with their sick and wounded dying by scores
daily.
Moody, the revivalist. says he would
rather his converts would worship in barn
than resort to any of the usual church fair
methods.
A force of 800 Albanians attacked the
Bulgarian village Of Jancovstz, near Mon
aster, killed several of the inhabitants and
plundered the village.
Albanians are desertinR by Wholesale
from the Turkish army, and marauding
and piliiaging Christian villages killing the
inhabitants who resist.
The members of the Salvation Army were
mobbed as they were leaving the courtroom
at the close of the proceedings in the Eliza
Armstrong abduction case.
The English government has ordered the