The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-10-31
9.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC

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DOMESTIC.
There are over 1000 fats in New York to
rent.
Mrs. Garfield is said to be writing BIZ
ography Of the late President.
| A bill to tax old bachelors has been intro
duced in the Georgia Legislature.
| In the college at Yankton, OAK, there is
slip of slate blackboard 26O feet long.
| The skeleton of Jumbo is to be stuffed
and carried around with Barnum's show.
An epidemic of diphtheria has broken at
New Durham, N. J., and schools there have
been closed.
A moulder in a st. Louis foundry fell
into pit containing 10000 pounds of
| molten iron.
The official boothlack of the New York
Produce Exchange pays $3.50 q year for
the privilege.
An oyster opener in New York restau-
raut took out twenty-six fine pearls from
an ordinary oyster.
A colored preacher of Madison, Fla, beat
his Is -year-ol son to death for having stole
three pounds of sugar.
New York has a new paper, the Rink aad
Roller, "a journal to uphold and promote
roller skating in America"
Old Spot, the horse Grant used at tho
siege of vicksbure, sold last year for FL
and has since joined circus.
A Clinton, Kansas, farmer has q field Of
corn with stalks sixteen feet in length, the
ears twelve feet from the roots.
Sixty Chinese cigar makers in San Fran
cisco factory struck work because the Arm
refused to discharge their white workmen.
Corporal Tanner, in his lecture on army
life, says that while he vas in hospital with
both his legs amputated, a good woman
gave him q tract on the sinfulness of dane
ing.
Pennsylvania laws compel all teachers
in the public schools to instruct the chill
dren in regard to the moral, physical and
mental injury resulting from the free use
of liquors.
A Providenc, R. l., woman gave birth to
quardruplets, who all died few hours aft
erwards. As over 500 people visited the
place thes first day, the father cleared ex-
penses by charging ten cents for q view Of
the bodies.
The Kinds county, Miss, court recently
sentenced white man to nine years impris-
onment in the penitentiary for marrying
colored woman and the preacher who per-
formed the ceremony to term OF siI
months.
Complete anarchy prevails in Burmah.
It is expected the Dacoit tribe will storm
Mandalay.
Gen. Won Molke has celebrated his eieh-
tty-ffth birthday.
The Ipapal note on the Carolines question
has been COLI piled.
King Milan has, refused an audience to
the Bulgarian envoy. ~.>-===
Herr Won Maellendorf has resigned the
premiership of Corea.
Herr Herbst, leader of the German Lib
eral party, is seriously i'll.
The commercial treaty between Italy and
Zanzibar has been ratified.
The Reichstag will open on Nov. 81 and
and the Landtag ON Dec. IL.
The Porte has effected loan from tho
Ottoman Bank of $3,375,O0O.
The Italian consul at Mandalay has been
threatened with imprisonment.
The Empress of Brazil has fallen down
q staircase and broken her arm.
France has agreed to enter the Balkan
conference. with certain reservations.
Another large river, the Kasai, six miles
wide, has just been discovered in Africa.
Siatin Bey, Lupton Bey and Cuzzi Boy
have been cast into chains at Omdurrmau.
King Alfonso has been ordered by his
physician to take complete restfor month.
The Siamese government has compile ted
a telegraph line from Bangkok to RoburQ.
A fight has taken place on the frontier Of
Montenegro between Albanian and Mon
tenegrin troops.
Thirty thousand Arabs are massed at
Aban Hammed, and are about to advance
toward Korosko.
very hostile feeling is shown in Bur-
nah toward all foreigners, and q general
ID feared.
Kartoum has become a second Mecca.
and thousands of Arabs are visiting the
Mahdist tomb there.
The garrison at Senaar we're surprised
while on foraging expedition and COM
3elled to surrender to the rebels.
An explosion occurred at Retschita, Hun
yary, in coal mine in which thirteen per-
IONS we're killed and fifteen injured.
A thimbleful of dust was found in tha
'of6n OF Richard Ceur de Lion at The
'athedral of Rouen when it was opened not
oug ago.
The authorities of the Woolwich Arse-
'al have been ordered to supply 100000
ounds OF cartridges and 1000 rifles for the
expedition to be sent against King Theebav.
The Marquis of Lorne, one of Queen
'lctoria's sons-in-law, was assaulted and
'elted with rotten eggs by mob while
making Liberal speech at Brentford, Eng.
and.
The body of lion tanner was found in
Dom at Romainville, France, lying beside
he remains of lion. which, it is supposed
lied of hunger aud grief at the loss Of ita
ieeper.