The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-03-14
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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Moody has been holding revival in
Louisville. WI
President Cleveland will retain Mr.. Ar
thurs French cook.
Mrs. Langtry has sl25,ooo invested In
New York real estate.
The fare for crossing the New York and
Bridge hes been reduced to three
cents.
Louisville is to have May musical fes-
tival, with Theodore Thomas for the i'm
pressario.
Mr.. Connor, Jay Gould's partner, dis
claims the rumored engagement between
himself and Miss Nellie Gould.
There was such a crush at the White
House during Mrs. McElroy's last recep-
ton that several women tainted.
The actors memorial stone in Washing
ton Monument is now the monument of
more than 25O of the original 365 subscribe
ers.
One of the pages in the House Of Repre-
sentatives is the great-great grandson Of
President Madison, and another grand
son of President Tyler.
The Bible on which President Cleveland
took his oath of Office was one his mother
gave him when he left home as young
man. It was used at his special request.
As an lion, Tenn, groom was making
his bridal toilet a revolver in his pocket ex-
ploded, inficting bad wound in his thigh.
The wedding, however, was not postponed.
A solid silver balustrade, which has stood
in one of the Mexican churches since the
time of Cortez, has been taken to the mint
and coined, producing 10000 silver dollars.
At a performance Of the 81 Pirates of PEN
zance in the New York Academy, the po-
licemen's chorus was sung by forty real
city Metropolitans in their own uniforms.
Miss Carrie Lloyd of Indiana, who took
the gold medal prize at the commence
ment of the Ohio College of Dental Sur
gerry, was the only woman in the class Of
twenty-slx graduates.
As ecclesiastical discountenanse has put
a stop to participation in museum we'd
dings by the Methodist clergy OF New York,
Mrs" Tom Thumb and Count Midget will
be married in Philadelphia.
FOREIGN.
The cholera scare kept 76, 900 visitors out
Of Paris last year.
The profits of the Ice Carnival at Mon
treal were this year only $204.
The English House of Common voted
ESQ 600 extra for naval expenses for Egypt.
The German Emperor is about to bestow
upon Count Bismarck the high order Of
knighthood.
4 A subscription is being taken Throughout
Ireland to meet the expenses of the Prince
of Wales visit. 80 .5s4
Insurgent native chiefs of India have
raised the fiery cross and proclaimed in
favor Of Russia. s...s
The Swiss Government has subscribed
&c, COO to expedite the piercing Of Sim
plon Mountain. IT.
The tunnel under the Mersey at Liver
pool, commenced in 1879, was opened on
+ the 18th of February. 4
On Lord Duferin's arrival in India he
will be received by the Ameer Of Afghanis-
tan escorted by 2OOO troops.
An exhibition Of birds has just been held
at the Crystal Palace, London, in which
one canary was valued at 5000.
The repairs of the damages to the House
of Commons and Westminster Hall by the
!; dynamite explosions cost e3,0o0.
ALI the German sovereigns will 90 to Ber
lin to attend the festivities of the eighty.
eighth birthday Of Emperor William.
The Usworth oolliery, at Sunderland, Il
which an explosion from fire damp &C
Cured imprisonihg $50 men, is on fire.
, The Empress Eug6nie. is seriously II
/ from a nervous shock caused by beinl
: thrown from carriage at Farnborough.
Count Herbert Bismarck has arrived il
t London to facilitate the restoration o
: good relations between Germany and Eng
: land.
. A number of subscribers to the Gordol
memorial fund threaten to withdraw thei
. subscriptions unless Gladstone retires from
!, the committee. '.--,..l. IS
g In the approaching rifle contest i
q take place in India the Viceroy and hi
4 staff are to shoot against the commander
in chief and his staff. q. ssrs ,ss.
{ The Archbishop of Canterbury will hol
q religious services in memory of Gen. Cor
, don in Canterbury Cathedral, st. Paul
\ and Westminster Abbey. ...sa
q One hundred and twenty-three of n,
. 147 men in the colliery at Karwin, Aul
o trian Silesia, at the time of the recent 81
g plosion have been found dead. s2
It Oliver Pain is in Egypt for the purpoa
o of ransoming the French prisoners in pos
t session of the prophet for which Frsnc
residents in Cairo have subscribed $1OO, COZ
! Cole, the policeman who picked mp th
j, bomb at the Westminster Palace dynamit
! explosion, has been granted the Aibe,
). medal for distinguished services and $1lA
q The Egyptian Government is negotia
Z ting to blow up the rocks in the Nile, a
= Silsileh, and construct two basins to regu
s late the overflow of the river, at cost q
$25O,O0O.
j. WAR NOTES.
The Mudir of Dongola has started to