The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-01-24
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A bill has passed the Arkansas Legisa-
ture app-opriating s7ooo to the Worlds Ex-
position.
Fred. s. Grant, is q candidate for cap
taincy in the Quartermaster's Department
at Washington.
frankie Roberts, the midget, OH whom
the Caasarian operation was performed at
Syracuse N. Y, died a few days later,
Out of $1,000 dwellings erected last year
in Rev York, Boston and Chicago, only
fifty-f five were provided with lightning rods.
The South Infrmary of the Illinois East
ern Hospital for Insane, burned at Kan
katee, ILL.,, Jan. Is, destroying seventeen
inmates.
Mr.. George NJ. Pullman, of palace car
fans, has contributed $1,000 aud j. & P.
Coats, the thread manufacturers $1,000 to
the New Orleans Exposition.
The carpe. used on the floor in the COIN
ing room of the San Francisco mint for
five years has been out to pieces aud burned,
yielding $500 worth of gold dust.
The remains of Mrs. Edgar Allen Poe,
who died and was buried at Fordham, n.
Y, in 1S47. have been carried to Baltimore
and deposited beside those of her husband.
The first of series of five balloon ascen-
sions, in the interest of the Signal Service
of the United States Army, has been made
from Philadelphia, and landed in New
Jersey.
P. I. Barnun, the veteran Snowman, has
written letter to Gen. Grant offering to
give 100000 cash, as we'll as portion of
the profits, for the privilege Of exhibiting
the Generals relics.
President Clevelandts Inauguration will
be attended by Capt. Daniel Annistead, a
venerable citizen of Washington, SO years
old, who has witnessed twenty preceding
ceremonies of the same kind.
Miss Hill placed some of Sharon's un-
dergarments in a newly-made grave for the
purpose of acting as a love charm on the
millionaire, and now the Masonic Cemetery
Association of San Francisco has brought
a suit against him for desecrating grave.
Two little boys stood on the track four
hours to save the Mann boudoir car, or
which Pierre Lorillard and wife are tray
cling at a rental of 500 per day, from =
going through q culvert. A collection was =,
taken up for the little chaps to which the
millionaire contributed the munifcent sum
of So. - ~ IL
The Old Liberty Bell of Philadelphia will.
be shipped to the New Orleans ExpositionH
on Jan. "a, on special train preceded by
u pilot engine to guard against collision.
Three officers have been appointed by the
Mayor as custodians who will not leave it
day or night until the relic is returned TO-,
the city at the close of the Exposition.
FOREIGN.
Another fatal avalanche occurred at Spa.
rono, on the Dora Boltea river.
There is town in Siberia called Him,
where not single person can read or write.
King Alfonso gave $o5 to each child,
married person and widow injured in the,
Granada earthquake.
Albania was visited agaIii" by severe
earthquake just as King Alfonso and his
cdAtO "S1O AShsiAS, WAC CITY.
The largest emerald ever discovered las
just been dug from the celebrated Muzo
mines, a: Boyaca, Panama.
Unless the Cambodia revolt is speedily
suppressed 5000 additional troops will be
required to quell the disturbance.
The Berlin Geographical Society is pre-
pairing to send ont an expedition to explore
the left bank of the river Congo.
1t is rumored that France and Germany
have come to an understanding on the
Egyptian, Chinese and Congo questions.
An encampment of earthquake refugees
in the outskirts of Mira, Spain, has been
burned, and the unfortunate people again
made shelterless.
Man milliner Worth of Paris is about to
produce melodrama on the London stage,
in which Mrs, Langtry will appear in prin-
cipal costume, costing $3.50.
A wealthy French chef left a provision
in his will that various tried recipes should
be put upon his tombstone, but the GENE
terry association refused to permit it.
The town of Chaumont, in France, capi-
tai of the Department of Haute- Maine, at
the foot of the Vosges Mountains, has been
| partly overwhelmed with snow, and many
people were killed. p
| terrible coiliery explosion occurred in
| the great coal mine at LEVIN, in Pasle Ca
| lais, France. which caused 800 metres of
galleries to fall, killing twenty eight men.
Tho will in tho bi~klorIc of p1a5
mont and Savoy have been visited by ava
lanches.
| An entire japanese village under glass
and artifcially heated, is being erected in
London by native carpenters, in which
every art and industry of Japan will be rep
resented by skilled artists and workmen.
and which will contain a japanese garden,
school and theatre with japanese actors.
| WAR soTEs. -
/ Admiral Courbet has captured the mines
at Kelung.
| Each war vessel sent from France costs
the country 5000 daily
| Two French transports have sailed for
Tonquin with reinforcements.
Ell Mahdi intends to allow Gen 1Toiseiey
| to enter Khartoum and then cut off his re-
| treat.
! Twelve Chinese vessels have gone to Foo
! Chow, to take Chinese troops on board for
/ Formosa.
| Gen. Evelyn Wood will be IN command
of the base of operations at korti when
| Lord Worseiey passes to the front.
! Admiral Peyrou has ordered the charter