The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-09-26
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The opponents of Rev. Sam Jones style
of preaching blew up his stable with dyna-
mite.
Emory A.. storrs, the distinguished Hi
nois advocate, is dead of paralysis of the
heart.
A Justice of the peace in York county, 3.
G., holds that purloining watermelons, from
the vine is not larceny.
There is to, be great fair held in Madl-
son Square Garden to increase the fund
for the Grant monument.
The trial Of Minnie Wallace Walkup for
the alleged poisoning Of her husband will
begin in Emporia, Kansas, October 10,
The young lady applicants who we're
shut out when the medical department at
Cleveland, O., refused to admit women
talk of bringing suit for damages.
A IS bill found its way into the United
States snb-treasury recently on which
was written, his is the last Of fortune.
Beware Of women, whiskey and cards."
The two tiny boys with good voices and
clever mimicry who have been singing on
Western railroad trains and pretending to
sympathetic questioners that they were
working their way alone from San Francisco
to New York, have been discovered to have
a manager and treasurer in the person Of
their father. Their receipts sometimes
amounted to $40 day.
While Prof. Henry of Harvard was dis
cussing Greek with friend at dinner in a
Saratoga hotel their colored water rendered
a quotation he could not recall correctly.
The servltor was one Of the party Of How
ard University students at work during va
cation, and was Immediately presented
with $500 by the Professor for the COM
petion of his collegiate education.
The wind storm Of September "a blew
down circus tent in Martinsburg, Tenn,
and Sam Jones' revival tent at Gainesville,
Ga. Barnum's pavilion at Titusville. Pa,
also collapsed while holding 10000 specta-
tors. Only fifty people we're injured in all.
The audience were hours extricating them
selves from the folds of the canvas, having
to cut their way out with penknives in the
teeth Of the driving storm, the cries OF i'm
prisoned animals adding terror to the oo-
casion.
FOREIGN.
Lord Wolseley has been gazetted Wis
count.
The Ottoman Bank has loaned the Turk
ish government e25O, 900.
The new Turkish Ministry is said to be
in favor Of compromise.
The Prince of Wales is entitled to wear
evenly different uniforms.
A fearful cyclone has visited Fake Point,
a port on the Bay of Bengal.
Over 24OO Christians we're murdered in
the recent outbreaks in Anam.
Servia is raising loans of money with
which to complete her railways.
Gabriel PRsha, the depoaed Governor of
is a prisoner at Sofia.
Banquets given by court officials in China
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Some of the plants in the Tuileries Gar
dens are two and three hundred years old.
Brigands have captured the Archbishop
of Veria's niece and demand $1,000 ransom.
The Turks have recovered from their de-
feat at Djakova and are marching against
the Albanians.
Ahmednuggar, in Bombay, is afflicted by
a plague of rats. Two millions have al
ready been killed.
Crete, large and famous island of the
Mediterranean, a possession. Of Turkey, is
in 4 state of revolt.
London has Home for Lost Dogs which
gives shelter to 10000 homeless and starv-
ing CANNES annually.
The Roumelians have formed an en-
trenched camp ut Hermanli to defend the
route from Adrianople.
Prince Alexander notified the Russian
government before accepting the title of
Sovereign of North and South Bulgaria.
The Bulgarians in the Timok district are
asking permission to enter Servia i'll the
event of Turkish invasion Of Bulgaria.
The richest woman in the world, with a
single exception, is Queen Victoria, whose
private fortune is reckoned at $4,000, COO
The governments of Turkey, Germany,
France, Italy and Russia have consented
10 conference on the Roumelian question.
While Mary Anderson was playing Juliet
in Dublin recently. she accidentally inflicted
4 wound in her breast during the stabbing
scene.
Prince Alexander has telegraphed the
Czar that he is willing to prove the absence Of
personal ambition by abdicating his throne
IN certain conditions.
The cabmen of London drove their
empty vehicles in the funeral procession of
\ popular comrade two abreast to the ex-
tent of mile and half.
The villa on the Island of Elba which
was occupied by Napoleon after his abdica-
lion in 1914, was recently purchased by the
Jesuits, who intend to convert it into a COL
ege.
The process of cholera fumigation forced
lpon travellers by some Spanish towns is SO
severe that some have to be carried of on
and one woman died from the
effects.
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