The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-04-25
NUMBER 81.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
FOREIGN.


FOREIGN.
Cardinal Pietra Lasagni died at Rome
on Tuesday.
Panama has had four Presidents within
the past three months.
Eighteen cases of small pox have ap-
peared at the Hotel Dieu, Montreal.
NJ. Tricoupis has resigned the prest-
deney of the Grecian Council of Ministers.
The Prince and Princess of Wales con-
tinue to receive cordial greetings in Ire
land.
Walter Won Goethe, the last descendant
of the great German poet, has just died
at Leipsic.
Mr.. Taft, American Minister to Russia,
who has been i'll for some time, is now con-
valescent. 9e :t
The distinguished French general, Louis
Pojal, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, ~
dead, aged G6.
CONSTANT Rossetti. tho Roumanian poet
and statesman, is dead. He was in his
seventy first year. .sz .,s.te.
The seamen charged with numbering
Capt. Armstrong on the British bark Well
lington were acquitted.
The United States Commission to South
| America was formally received Tuesday by
| President Iglesias of Chilli. They leave fog
Valparaiso to-day. -=--=-
| The wife of Parisuan manufacturer was
murdered, her head being severed from hog
j A +vnfr hoa 1ion spss2,
is suspected of the crime. a
Zebehr Pasha denies that he was In c0l.
lusion with Ell Mahdi and says there 10
nothing reasonable in his correspondents
and documents seized by the English.
Cunningham and Burton have been In.
dicted for high treason and felony for caus-
ing the explosion in the Tower Of London,
and the case is set for trial May II. -s=ssa
terrible volcanic eruption has occurred
at Passavean, q province in the east end Of
the Island of Java, devastating NUM-
Der of plantations and killing 100 persons.
It is reported that the natives Of the Her
! NIT Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, have
eaten the crews of two German merchant
V06bClSs Lilo SuAOsN1V AAJnOAA Ass0 DOSsAe
sent to punish the canibals.
Ii is stated that French feet has beep
got In readiness for the purpose Of making
la naval demonstration on Alexandria 10
enforce compliance with the French de-
mand for rehabilitation Of the suppressed
paper at Cairo, the Bo.pho,e Egyptien.
| =; DOMESTIC. s...si tess
The Oklahoma boomers have 1disbandea,
Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen 10 supposed
to be on his death-bed at Newark, M. g.
Gus. Finlay was hanged at Prestonbufs,
Ky., for the murder Of James Hunt inl166a.
The New York World collected $4,000
for the Bartholdi statue fund in one month.
Lieut.. Chas. Fl. Judd of the United 6tates
Navy has been confined in an insane asy-
lum.
Chas. B. Shultz was killed by electricity
while repairing an electric street lamp At
Chicago. s-.sss=.
A gang of twelve burglars have been CAP
tured in the Welch mountains, near Read
ing, Tenn.
Rev. Richard Phelan has been appointed
by the Pope coadjutor to the Bishop OF
Pittsburg.
Mike Young, q noted horse thief, Was
shot dead while resisting arrest at Brook
vile, Kansas.
Gen. Arson Stager's estate, valued at
$8,OOO,OOO. is bequeathed equally to his
three daughters.
The Pullman Palace Car Company shops
at Philadelphia burned on Wednesday.
Loss 10000, fully insured.
Mr.. Blaine works four hours day on
Ills book. He contemplates tour to Eu-
rope when it is completed.
O.Y. Lafingwell of Shreveport has been
awarded the contract for the erection Of the
&eublic building at that place.
), The execution Of VIM. Phillips for the
murder of his father-in law, Vim. Hill, tool
place at Fort Smith, Ark, last week.
Four persons we're burned to death In
house near Philadelphia that was acciden-
tally set on fire by half -witted tramp.
!, DR.. j. Reynolds of Corsicana, Texas, fell
from the gallery of a boarding house II
New Orleans, and died from his injuriea.
I'll Mr. Edwards Pierrepont, secretary OF tbt
/ American Legation at Rome, who was lef'
D | as charge d'affaires by Mr.. Astor, is dead.
Il Lieut.. julius Fl. Pardee, United State'
/ Army, has disappeared. He is said to have
: sold his pay to two parties, and fed to Can
t ada.
Al Gov. Porter, the new First Assistant SEQ
retary of State, has declined challenge
I sent him by Representative Whitthorne o.
! Tennessee.
ft Forest fires in Camden county, New Jer
. sey. occurred this week. The new settle
= ment of Chriselhurst was almost entlFei!
4 destroyed.
Moses Keaton and Peter johnson. boil
q colored, were hanged at Camilla, Ga, fo
Ia tripIe murder committed there thre'
months ago.
A young man named Otto Frunk was dis
covered in the attempt to blow up the OBJ
servatory tower of the Chicago University
with dynamite.
II A statue of the late President Garfield il
20 bronze has been cast successfully at tn
I,enzo foundry in Nuremberg. 1t will b
! sent to San Francisco.
al The colored people Of Washington Gel
hrotad tho tuentv-third anniversary OF tn