The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-09
NUMBER 10.
OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

Boston bicyclers are about to build q
100000 club house.
Pennsylvania enters the new year With
four living OK Governors.
President Cleveland has contributed Slto
to the Grant monument fund.
Hendricks monumental association as
been organized in indianapolis.
Eight men were killed by the explosion
of the boiler of the City Oil Mills, Noble.
-Four hundred and forty-eight persons
called upon the President New Years Eve.
The Barataria Canning Factory ut Biloxi,
Miss, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Five hundred yards of the sea wall at San
Francisco recently sank almost to the wa
ter's level.
colored man was burned at the stake
for the murder and outrage of white girl
at Garristown, Ala.
James A. Harris, the orange king at
Citra, Fla, has sold his crop of oranges ON
the trees for $4,000.
oranges, the largest number ever knewu to
be taken from one tree.
Crestline, O., servant girl gave birth
to an illegitimate child unattended and
threw it it into a red hot stove.
Mr.. Pulitzer, of the New York World,
gave cash presents, aggregating $4,000, to
employees in St. Louis and New York.
An Orlando, CAL, man made wager to
smoke ninety cigars in two hours and lost
only on the ninetieth one, which sickened
him.
st. Louis has established hydropho-
bia farm where animals will be inoculated
and patients treated after NJ. Pasteur's
plan.
Three colored children who we're locked
up in cabin at Nashville. Tenn, while
their parents went to church, were roasted
to cinders.
The physicians of Sanford, Fla, have
signed an agreement not to visit any pa
tient who will not pay his bill on the first
of each month.
A baby camel, weighing forty five pounds
was added to Wallace's circus on board of
the steamer Charles Morgan en- route to
winter quarters at Peru, Ind.
A farmer of Saville, Pa, acting on the
advice Of Gypsy, buried 500 at the foot
of tree, and discovered both money and
Gypsy missing the next day.
The Sheriff of Monroe, Ga, last week at
tached the animals in circus for a debt
and is now puzzled what to do with the wild
beasts which were quietly handed over to
him.
Tuthill King, Chicago millionaire,
eighty years of age, whose wife, with whom
he had lived fifty years: died three months
ago, has married handsome widow of
forty.
One of the prisoners in the Jail at Gurleys-
vile, Tenn, was robbed and murdered, his
body being burned to crisp along with the
building, which was see afire to coxer the
| crime.
FOREIGN.
/ Parliament will meet on the 21st instant.
An alliance has been completed between
Russia and Bulgaria. :.
NJ. Pasteur has seventy three cases of
hydrophobia in hand.
Nine. Patti is to be paid $4,000 for six
appeara ances in Madrid.
The cost of King Milan's dagger and bui-
let-proof case was $3.50.
Queen Christina of Spain has taken the
oath of office as regent.
A conspiracy to establish Republic in
Spain has been discovered.
Jules NJ. Grevy has been reelected Presi-
dent of the renc Republic.
London Truth sent toys to 1900 poer
children from its Christmas fund.
Typhus fever and smallpox are raging
among the servian troops ancamped at
Niscte.
The Gear is about to reiDs.ate Prince
Alexander to his former rank in the Rus
sian army.
The schcre to cornect hlarseilles with
the Rhone by canal, which was abandoned
in 1881, rs been revived.
Pasteur has undertaken at his own cost
to cnre eleven persons bitten by a mad wolf
in village III Western Russia.
The marriage of the infanta Ea'siia has
been postponed until Feb. q, on account
VI 1Of hiHk hl1OAsu.
Ten persons were drowned Mt Rouen in
consequence of collision between n steam
er and ferryboat in the harbor.
At charity fair in Berlin the Crown
Princess of Germany sold sausages at $35
piece and sponge cake, 81 slice.
The Roman correspondent of the Catho-
lie Mirror cables that no new cardinals will
be created in the December Con.istory.
The troops at Prot are suffering severely
from the intense cold, and thirty eoldiers
on an average are reported frozen daily.
The Queen of Roumania, who has Eeen
married seventeen years, ia expecting tie
birth of her first child to occur next month.
The remains of Prince Ferdinand OF
Saxe-Cobur2, father of the King of Portu-
GAL have been inferred Mt Lisbon with i'm
posing ceremonies.
Hon. William E. Gladstone, Premier of
England. received 400 congratulatory let
ters on the occasion Of his aeventy-six
birthday, December %.
Dudley Francis North, the Earl of Gull
ford, was thrown from his horse while
hunting, and has died from the injuries
received by his fall.
A protocol binding the Servians to evac-
nate Pirot, and extending the armiatice to
March !, has been signed by the Buiga-
rian and Servian delegates.
Emperor Francis Joseph is negotiating
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