The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-03
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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
FOREIGN.
The Albanians repulsed the Turks nj
Djakoya.
The Pope's personal expenses are limited
to 81 day.
Marshal Serrano, Duke De Latone, is
dangerously iii.
Alderman John Staples has been elected
Lord Mayor of London. -
The Dutch ministry is preparing bin to
raise the impost duty on corn. .zsae
The Madrid municipal authorities have
extended the right Of suffrage to women.
The Emperor Of Russia travels in rail-
road cars that once belonged to Napoleon
III.
The Powers have resolved to compensate
Servia If the Porte accepts tho union be-
tween Bulgaria and Roumelia. rs
Mr.. Sims, the dramatist, has successfully
undergone sery dangerous operation for
the removal of cancer from his upper
jaw.
The Splugeon Pass, route across the
Rhaltan Alps between the Grisons and
Lombardy, in blocked on account Of heavy
snow storms.
The Porte has sent circular to the pow
ers protesting against the recent action Of
Prince Alexander in disarming the Mussul-
man inhabitants of Roumelia.
Forty Nihilista, includinga number of
professors and other we'll known persons,
have been arrested at Warsaw on charge
of conspiring to murder the Cxaf.
One of the large English war vessels, the
Resistance, is to be coated with india rub
Der to a considerable thickness, to see how
that material will repel projectiles.
Prince Jerome Napoleon, !" Plon- -Pion,"
has started on a voyage around the world.
The CHIEF cordially extends to sPlon- Plon''
the freedom of the Western hemishere.
Mime. Carlotta Patti fell down Q fight Of
stairs in Paris and dislocated her right
| thigh, in consequence Of which her tour
with Mr.. Strakosch has been abandoned.
An English Clergyman advertises in
paper his willingness to exchange cassock
partly new, for bull pup with = good ped
| igree. This is pretty rough on bull dogs.
The Pope has agreed to mediate between
Germany aud Spain with regard to the Car
dimes question. Besides Cardinal Jaco-
bini he will consult various experts In re-
gard to the matter.
The monster petition Of the Salvation
Army regarding the protection of girls, re-
Gently presented to the English Parliament,
was two miles six hundred yards and one
| foot long, and bore upward Of $4,000 sig
natures.
The Danish expedition to East Greenland,
after an absence of twenty nine months,
has returned to Copenhagen. They made
special chart Of hitherto unknown
coast. reaching the latitude ct 66 de-
grees 8 minutes north. md nannsd Il Chris
tian TX Land.
| DOMESTIC.
The Great Eastern is to be sold by auc-
ton.
Chicago has raised $4,000 for the Grant
monument. .z.4-se -sl
John Kelly, the noted Tammany chief, is
again dangerously i'll. .sst
The town of Sanborn, D. T., was nearly
totally destroyed by fire started by tramps.
Loss $4,000. . SEQ
No less than a thousand men made a reg
ular business of playing base ball profes-
sionally this summer. .......#5
Ten white men and Negro committed a
brutal outrage upon girl at Centre Union,
Pa. The Negro was capturad.
Thers ere no crippled Cinnamon in San
Francisco as all such unfortunstes are sent
back to China by their countrymen.
Two colored children at Charleston, aged
eight and nine years, have been arrested
for the murder of an infant about year
old.
| The Baltimore Grand Jury reports that
the introduction of the whippin9poat to
punish wifs-beatsrs has had . salatasy Of
feet. sssae .
Mrs. Fromme of PoplafviIls, Miss, has
given birth to child tiiree inches II length,
perfectly formed and weighing bst two
ounces.
John Jacob Astor contribsted 49o9Aoo 10
the New York cancer hospital ~ psn,
which will be ready for occupsney q no
vember.
Work has been resumed at ths Rock
Springs coal mines, and the Wyoming Ter
ritory Chinese troubles ~ sn1 q