The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-09-19
NUMBER 3.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
FOREIGN.


FOREIGN.
The Porterhas refused Ismael Pasha, ex-
Kheafye Of Egypt, permission to visit Con-
stantinople. -,
Thousands of Christians have fed from
AMMAN owing to fecent n,assacres, and ta-
ken refuge at Saigon.
The Russian government has made
grant Of fi0O00 for new house at Askaboo
for General KornaroT.
German soldiers are made to write home
once month, their letters passing to and
fro In the mails free from postal duty.
China will protest against the action Of
France III detllroning the King of Aunard
as violation of the Tien Tsin Treaty.
When the news of Jumbo's death reached
London the morning papers contained COL
uInns of obituaries lamenting the event.
Channong, the adopted son Of Tuda, ex-
einporer OF AMMAN, has been proclaimed
King of AMMAN at the general request OF
the people. tlakt J ia
Marie, daughter of tho Due dc .Chartres,
and Prince Waldemar, the young son of
King Christian of Denmark, viii be married
in France, October %.
The Italian consul having failed in his
mediation between the Ho7as and the
French, the French are resuming hostiities,
and have bombarded Marranjura.
Nine. Catherine .Gambetta, aunt of the
great Frenchman, has just died at Rome at
the age OF 105. She was very poor, and got
her living by picking up refuse On the roads.
The expenses Of the defense in the Eliza
Armstrong abduction case are growing to
enormous figures. The Salvation Army
has employed as leading counsel Charles
Russell, M. P, who receives $1,000 for ev-
cry appearance he makes in court.
Louise Michel, the Anarchist, refuses ia
be released from prison, although Pres;-
dent Gr6yy has twice offered to pardon her.
Being prevailed upon by her physician to
spend month ut watering pince. she
promptly returned to prison at the exp.ra-
ton of that time. ~. -
DOMESTIC.
which turn out 20, 200 pies daily.
Thirteen hundred new buildings were
erected in Washington last year.
Over 81, SOC, Cos in drafts and cash was
sent to the Dead Letter Office last year.
Concord, n H., Second Adventists pre-
dict the end of the world or May IS, 1856.
A citizen of Saratoga married one woIn-
an three times, and divorced ker us often
Harry A. Garfield, son of tie late Presi-
dent. is teaching schoolin Concord, N. II.
Boston gambling houses are protected by
a thick, boIted door, at whicl, watcLman
always stands. z-,.t
lieutenant and sixteen soldiers of the
regular army are still keeping guard over
Gartield's grave. ss.s.ysH II. tlt
There are more species of birds .nestinr
III Central Park, New York, than on any.
area of its size in the warid.3.st IL
a New York man adyertssas troches for
dogs which arc guaranteeito sweetcn the
breath of poodles and pags.
Saratoga il to hage-aR ice palace on tie
Lake, and two CT three tohogsan slides so
as to make it g winter resort. '.ts "''.tT
| IN Iowa jadge has decided that man
is in duty bound to tell his wife whore ho
spends the evenings when hs is away from
home.
Abram Curtis, the WALKING skeleton, /"
recently died at Weston, ". Va. Hs was
fifty years old, and weighed but forty
| pounds.
! New Bedford, Mass, carpenters shingIea
one side Of the roof of n house before. tfley
discovered they we're working on the wrong
building.
! recently married couple in Newark,
New Jersey, will make their wedding tour
on wheels, the bride On a tricycle. aud the
groom & bicycle. .s1s. III,
A Washington Judge has decided that or
gan grinders are entitled to pay for their
| labor and passing around a hat uftor a
performance issnot begging. G.sss 4s
| fishing rod that registers the precise
number and weight Of the fishes caught
has been invented. This precludes tho pos.
sibllity of any more fish stories. .ss szs
Mrs. E;nma NJ. Markley, the heaviest
woman in the country, died recently in
Philadelphia. She was known to the smuse-
meat public as Nine Victoria, snd weighed
go pounds. ssuss.sssazgs =
| A Buffalo, N. Y, woman caught rat
which had killed her canary bird and kept
| it there six days without food or drink, till
it died Of starvation, prodding 1t during
| that time with red hot knitting needles aid
| administering vitriol and red pepper pills.