The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-24
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
The Prince of Wales is visiting Paris
} Grasshoppers are doing great damage in
Mexico.
The march of Abyssinians to Kassala
has been checked.
Portugal has seized two French stations
on the Gulf of Guinea.
Violent storms have been prevailing
throughout Switzerland.
; Zone of the Paris restaurants has substi-
tuted boys for men as walters.
Mr.. Gladstone is in favor of excluding
Bishops from the House of Lords.
The Indian government has abandoned
the proposed expedition to Mandalay.
It is rumored that King Milan of Servia
is about to issue proclamation of war.
At Bombay recently house fell, killing
sixteen persons and injuring many others.
Over 1000 Christians have been massa-
Grated i'll AMMAN, including ten native
! priests.
Count Won Hatzefeldt will succeed Count
Won Munston as German ambassador to
London.
:. NJ. Roustan, formerly French Minister at
Washington, has been appointed Governor
of Tunis.
The new King, Prince Chanh- Mong, is
the sixth sovereign of AMMAN in twenty
five months.
Mr.. Langtry, husband Of the Lilly" is
about to become manager of drummer'a
hotel in London.
1t is generally believed in Rome that the
Archbishop of Baltimore will shortly be-
, made Cardinal.
Russia and Austria have agreed to take
common action for the peaceful settlements
of the Balkan question.
TIE English Field Marshal Right Hon
Hugh Henry Rose, Rsron Strathnalrn, 4.
G. BIG, G. S. S., is dead,
, The trouble between B,sznaalh and the
, government of India will probably lead to
the annexation of TIC former to India.
:, train ascending Righ Mountain from
:, Lake Lucerre, fell into a ravine, killing
one passenger aud wounding twenty-five
- others.
y The sum OF 81 800, 600 has been expended
-, in erecti, lg hunting castle for the Elm
NJ press of Austria in the Laniger Wlldpark,
al A~oA s10AAtst
e Since the beginning of the summer .aoOu
,rs Fr,nchms. have Gied from cholera In Lou
sv- qtlin and larg numbers are still daily sac
NO ;umbing to tn disease.
ma A marriage meditated between Pxsn-
st, cess Eulalia, HI ng Aifonso's youngest SIS
far ter, and Prince Carlos, the heir. apparent
go to the thrgDa of Portugal
he AT a recent wedding in London fp
VS.: bridesmaid and roomsman were childr $
a of the groom by hi sfrst and divorced viii ;
er- who was also pgssel't at the ceremony.
EN- A heavy shock of earthquake at Pale,
ON mo caused 4hree-story house.to fall, bus
lue fryfnu tae socsss
hat Eight corpsea rave been recovered frnn
er the ruins.
So DOM ESTrt-
leo Yale College has 1OOy students this 'ternT,
8st nephew of Bismarct& &1s;liviug in Hobe--
-" ken, N. j.
Mark Twain has announced that he viii
lecture no more.
The National Woman's C.ngress is ia
~ ~ session at Des Moines.
-, Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, the novelist and
historian, is IN New York.
"Mother Hubbardville " is the name CT
= q Georgia railway station.
10 70 The choir at Cardinal McCloskey's fune-
-. raj numbered over 1000 voices.
- Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood is lecturing
81 about her transcontinental trip. =
Frencll's Hotel, at New York CITY, bas
~ been sold at public auction for 100000.
NJ A woman has been tried for witchcraft
in the Swedish Church, at St. Peter, Mimi.
- One day last week the President ap-
, pointed thirty-one Presidential Postmas-
= ters.
~ A Philadelphia photographer has sue
e ceeded in photographing streak of light
- ming.
The broom-handle factory at Gadsden.
C Miss, shipped two carloads of base ball
bats recently.
Mrs. Black Bear, Piegan squaw, died
;, recently at the Black feet reservation, Mon
tana, aged 1874 years.
. -Four men were killed and twelve fatally
: injured by an explosion Of gas in coal
mine at Plymouth, Pa, October 81.
Over 100 persons are sick at Kittanning
Pa, with diphtheria and typhoid fever
6 which raging with great severity.
Some children fishing in little pond at
Dyersyiile, Nebraska, dragged up a box con-
tanning the remains of nine unborn babes.
Minister John 7. Kapena, the only native
member of the Hawaiian Cabinet, is among
the foreign visitors to the Louisville Expo
sition.
Charles Crocker, has sent SJCOO as a gift
. to the families of the firemen who were
killed in the fire at the Crocker building,
San Francisco.
At tho explosion of Flood Rock, a num-
Der of leading photographers, engaged by
the New York Sun, took several instanta-
neous views of the scene at the moment the
mine sprung.
Miss Annie Longfellow, youngest daugk-
ter of the late poet, and Mr.. James Gilbert
Sharpe of Eau Claire, Wis, were married
at Cambridge, Mass, October IA. Miss
Annieis the original g little girl with the
, little curl,'' etc.
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