The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-02-06
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Two Dollars Year.
puB GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.

OUR GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
DOMESTIC.
! died during last year.
About 50O, 600 boxes Of oranges, wortl
100000, were destroyed by the freeze.
Four people were burned to death within
three days in Natchez, during the freeze.
In Butte, CAL, the newspapers rivalry i.
80 strong that the county printing is dont
for nothing.
Ten thousand barrels of apples, shipped
from New York, we're sold in Liverpool Al
a profit Of $4,000.
An attempt is being made in Chicago tc
enforce the law requiring the closing OF
liqnpr saloons at midnight.
Devoreaux Hall, the Boys Orphan Asylum
Mt Natchez, lost $4,000 head of remarkably
fine cabbage by the late freeze.
The county poor house at Jackson, Mich,
gas almost entirely destroyed by fire, five
inmates perishing in the flames.
man was sentenced in Boston. few
days ago, to the House Of Correction for
the eighteenth time in twenty years.
The New York coast from Seabright to
Manasquan is piled with loose corn FROM
the wreck of the schooner Mary Farr.
The steamship Crystal arrived in New
York, January p, having run 1000 miles
in ten days with her entire hold on fire.
A New York railroad company has paid
$500 to the owner of violin which was
damaged on one of the company's trains.
SKI children who were sleeping in the
room of house that was destroyed by fire
in Columbia county, Ark, were burned to
death.
A six-mule team and driver went over In
dependence Pass, Colorado. falling and slid
ing thousand feet. Tho driver escaped
uninjured.
A Terre Haute, Ind, woman died Of ner-
vous shock, caused by drinking water from
A cistern in which was fonnd the body of a
lady friend.
Twenty one clergymen of Portland, Me-,
have signed petition to the Mayor of that
city, praying that all the licecses to skating
rinks be revoked.
CThe Countess of Rochfoucauld and the
Countess of Bethune appear on the real
estate assessment rolls in New Orleans
for 500, 900 each.
The Postmaster General has declined to
accede to the request of the Postmaster a,
Baltimore to allow Sunday morning let
ter delivery by carriers.
A little New York girl seeing a train over
taking her, lay down outside the track and
sacrificed her leg to save her life. She was
awarded 10000 damages.
Andrew B. McCreary, California mill
ionaire, has purchased Colonel Robert G.
Ingersoll's residence, in Washington. to-
gether with the household furniture, for
$4,000.
While seven men were being hoisted to
the surface in the Solferino mine, near
Neuvadasville, Col, falling rock knocked
one of them from the bucket distance of
700 feet.
> Gov. Hughes Of Arkansas has pardoned
eighteen colored men who were convicted
of rioting in Howard county in 1883 and
sentenced to the penitentiary for terms of
five, ten and fifteen years.
Hoodlums attempted to burn the town of
Tarentum, Pa, and after setting fire to the
principal stores, cut the ropes of two of the
alarm bells, broke the principal pumps and
carried off the fire buckets and tubs
A gentleman at. linpinnastpiaceda vial
of the miraculous water from Knock.
Ireland, uncorked in tumbler half filled
with water and exposed it for day and
night outside his window during the recent
cold spell. The liquid around the bottle
froze solid, while the Knock water re-
manned i'll fluid state.