The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-01-31
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OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
Robert Browning, the peet, aged 10, is
about to remarry.
Miss Eva Mackay aud Prince Colonna
will be married in Paris, Feb. IL.
A Georgia Negro recently attempted to
pawn his marriage license for $25.
A Hartford, Conn.,, man is coming
money by grinding oyster shells for chick
ell food.
The Fort Orange club of Albany, N. Y,
gave Gov. Cleveland magnificent recep-
ton, January 81.
Thousands of bushels of oysters were
frozen and destroyed during the recent cold
snap in New York.
A new railway bridge across the N1s-
sissippi, to cost 81 600, 600, is to be built At
North McGregor, Ia.
An ex-pitcher of the Mutual Base Bali
Club of jackson, Mich, is now Judge Of
the Supreme Court in that State.
Two handsome silk American flags, made
out of American grown silk, have been pre-
sented to Congress by the Women's Indus
trial Association.
Mrs. Mary A. Matthews, wife of Stanley
Matthews, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, died at Waeh-
ington, January 20.
Lord Garmoyle. who was mulcted for
$4,000 in the breach of promise case in
which Miss Fortescue, the actress, was COM
plainant, is now in New York.
James Emmitt, rich and eccentric old
Democrat of Waverly, o., has fred salute
every morning since the election and will
continue doing so until March 4.
At the recent annual sale of pews of Mr.
Talmage's Tabernacle in Brooklyn the
amonnt realized was $2,067. The total
collection taken up throughout the year was
SsOOo.
A convict in the Philadelphia penitentiary
where the system of solitary confinement
is in vogue, writes Scriptural texts on the
backs of immense cockroaches which wan
der from cell to cell.
woman at Exeter, Eng, having fallen
from the quay into the river, gave birth to
a child while clinging to boat moored in
mids and screaming for assistance.
The newly born infant rose to the surface
of.the water and was rescued.
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FOREIGN. 'a@szA#
Fourteen persons we're killed by an ava
lanche at Irvrea, Italy. s
Emperor William has entirely recovered
from his recent illness. l-ss@s
The Khedive will open the Cotton Expo
sition at Cairo. February 1. e4@
| Sir Moses Montefore is again so i'll as TO
cause alarm among his friends. ~
Famine is prevailing in the provinces
of Archangel and Vologda, Spain.
Mr.. Tennyson has accepted the presiden-
cy of the British Chess Association. l's-sssss
Italy and England will hereafter cooper
ate in TIE Mediterranean and Red Seas.
prinoa HA,ryenf Rat4Anhn-u will be made
Knight of the Garter on his wedding day.
The Sultan of Turkey has bought in Lon
| don tricycle. for the use of the ladies of his
| harem.
! Earthquake shocks have been fe.s again
| at Malaga, Loga, Velez and Almunecar,
Spain.
| The iron-cIad Principe Amadeo, which
was escorting the Assab expedition, is
ashore at Port Said.
! Lord Tennyson is writing poem con-
| N;4k1 nm
reaching his majority.
Many more villages in Italy are reported
devastated by avaianches and the havoc
and slaughter we're appalling.
Connie Gilchrist, the English actress,
has received from a former admirer, a
we'll known Duke, 4 marriage present OF
$4,000.
Photographs of Prince Henry of Batten-
burg, the betrothed of Princess Beatrice
are being sold in London by the tens OF
| thousands.
Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish
Empire, sent by the Sultan with presents fol
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales
has arrived in London.
Earl Cairns, father of Lord Garmoyle
has sent to Miss Forteseue elO00, to covel
expenses in her trial against Lord Gar
moyle for breach of promise.
The Chinese government readily acqui
escad in the treaty between Corca and ia
pan, the indemnity to be paid Japan b,
Corea being reduced to 100000.
A scarlet card is furnished by the Eng
lish postal authorities, which, when dis
played in the window, insures call from
the postman for parcels to be sent by mail
Among the many British officers killed il
the desperate pitched battle of Jan. u, be
tween the English forces under Gen. Stew
art and the rebels of Egypt, was Capt
Burnaby, author of the famous s Ride t.
khiva."
An attempt was made in London, Janu
ary 81, to blow up the Houses Of Parlia
ment and the London Tower. Great dam
age was done to the buildings and a mum
Der of persons injured, among them severa
ladies and children.
A subscription list for contributions t.
the pedestal of the BarthoIdi statue has beel
=, put up in the United States Consulate
: General in Berlin in accordance with al
order by President Arthur, contribution
being limited to 81.
WAE NOTES.
: | The Chinese squadron has ascended Il
r Iangste-kiang.
Gen. WolseIey has sent reinforcement
g from korti to Gen. Stewart, and is himsel
: about to press forward.
q Gen. Earle's column, thoroughly provif